Talk:The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2/@comment-1746153-20151129152236/@comment-4531340-20151130091645

Considering, overall, just how dark the rest of this two-parter was, it wouldn't actually surprise me.

And you'd be surprised at how the pain never really goes away: you can try and suppress it deep within yourself, but it surfaces in unexpected ways, when you least expect it (which I know from personal experience). Having said that, now I kind of think that trying to suppress it all those years growing up made Starlight snap just a little and so she created Our Town, and then she really snapped when the Mane Six took that from her.

Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps, deep down, she knew all along that she could have tried following Sunburst, especially once she got her cutie mark, or tried making other friends, opened herself up to it again, but didn't want to admit it to herself (admitting one's weakness to oneself is quite difficult) - and it was only when it was Twilight telling it to her that she was able to come back to her senses and realize what a fool she'd been.

Now I've made myself like her redemption even more