Talk:Princess Cadance/@comment-112.201.214.191-20120429093638/@comment-370525-20120430192132

Not necessarily. As with Prince Blueblood, she could be anywhere on a family tree that's 52 generations long. I like to think that Celestia either adopted or ceremonially married the childless Prince of Canterlot after her old palace was destroyed in the fight with NMM. He died without heir, so the princehood passed to his brother, whose son was therefore Celestia's nephew.

Don't think too hard about the wings. They don't make any dang sense. Small-but-nonzero chance of a pony expressing two phenotypes? Mutation due to generations living in close proximity to Celestia's magic? Deliberate experimentation? Pick whatever makes you more comfortable. I doubt it will ever be explained, any more than Pound and Pumpkin Cake's genetics were.