Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games/@comment-7345250-20150927162625/@comment-10390252-20150927183244

It's called 'a moment of clarity'. In that moment, she didn't want the reward Cinch offered; she wanted it so little that she didn't even have to think about it. I'm not sure that she ever did. The version I saw showed that, even before the Tri-Event Relay, Twilight was having second thoughts. Then Fluttershy and AJ reach out to her and I thikn that only made things clearer to her.

Before the transformation,we see that her first motive seems to be acceptance - Her peers wanted her to do this and that massively influenced her thinking. After the transformation, she just wanted what Sunset was offering - an end to the nightmare and sisterhood.

Regarding the form of Midnight, I think that you're wrong in assuming that it was in any way guided by Twilight herself. Magic in EqG seems to be somewhat quasi-sentient in its own right. It seems to take certain forms by its inherit nature. So, I dont't think that the similarities between Midnight Sparkle and Demon Sunset are coincidental. This seems to be the 'default' form for 'evil magical humanoid'.

This may actually be a holdover of something to do with Equestrian magic. It soo seems to have default forms and expressions depending on its alignment and purpose.