Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-98.236.142.46-20130112225001/@comment-2170890-20130113232457

Cadance was never supposed to be an alicorn, and in both the original script, and Lauren's fanfiction she was a unicorn. She was changed to an alicorn to appease our difficult to please fanbase (cituation needed) as whenever we create an alicorn OC it tends to get hated on, mostly due to looking over powered, but if it's not royal pony it get more hate - insisting only royal ponies can be alicorns, and I think Hasbro took that to mean that all royal ponies are alicorns, so they made Cadance one. Which ultimately served no real purpose as some unicorns are capable of levitating.

Cadance, along with her then future husband were introduced to us halfway-ish during Season 1, but never appeared in the show, so there is a chance that Lauren toyed with using them, but had no idea how to, and just went with her old fanfiction (which had two differerent named ponies and was more about them). Shining Armor wasn't related to anypony that we'd know at that point, hence why Twilight sudenly got a brother.