Talk:Prince Blueblood/@comment-70.248.67.189-20111228022251/@comment-1872333-20120128233650

Alicorns are a special race and I think that all of them live for a very long time. Then again, we have only seen the sister princesses so far so we don't really have another frame of reference. Princess Cadence is also an alicorn and she's supposed to show up in season 2, and since she is marrying Shining Armor (a vanilla unicorn) at the end of the season, maybe we'll get some insight as to how the whole immortality thing works.

It would be surprisingly mature of the show to tackle the issue of immortality blues with Princess Cadence. Maybe she's afraid of getting married because she doesn't want to deal with the heartbreak of outliving her mortal husband, and she finally comes to terms with it and decides she'd rather be happy for a short time than not at all? That would be a deep subject to handle in a kids show though, so I'm not sure if they will.

I do want them to address how Celestia can be a thousand years old and still look like she's in her 20s though, because immortality isn't exactly common in Equestria!