Talk:Princess Cadance/@comment-5729231-20130813082943/@comment-10390252-20140401163307

It all seems to feed into the fanon assumption that Twilight was in Celestia's sights possibly from birth. Who knows by what means Celestia managed to persuade Nightlight and Twilight Velvet to take on Cadence as a foalsitter for their daughter?

FWIW, I suspect that the 'other alicorns' we've seen reguarly are, in fact, demi-alicorns - unicorns with minimally-functional wings or pegasi with minimally-functional horns, the occasional result of the breeding of a unicorn and pegasi together. They're rare but not unheard of so it was relatively simple for Cadence to present herself as a demi-alicorn (probably primarily-unicorn).