Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-10390252-20150102091749/@comment-10390252-20150102100635

@GamerBoi42,

Well, let's look at Fluttershy for example. She can apparently understand the needs of animals on a conscious level and communicate with them. She also has the ability to apparently lock-up creatures' decsion-making processes with her Stare. We know that this is magic associated with her Special Talent but what specifically is it? Does it have other applications that she has never explored and knows nothing about? Could she, for example, put a whole army to flight by projecting fear into them? Could she calm an injured pony by projecting reassurance? Could she find a hurt friend by homing in on their fear and pain?

Pinkie Pie is an extreme example and I think that the Pie Family Focus episode might actually be the one that explores the background and basis of her reality-warping. I suspect that Granny Pie also had these abilities and that there may be many 'Reality Witches' in her ancestral line.