Talk:Simple Ways/@comment-24403679-20140204023328/@comment-10390252-20140204130341

@BalanceBrony,

I have an amendment to this. Whilst the member of the Mane Six has an epiphany involving their element, this has happened to several of them before in the series. What seems to lead them to receive a key is their effectively teaching that virtue to another pony, usually by example. It is then that student who gives them the key (albeit unknowingly).

In some ways, the receiving of their keys marks the central character's progress from student of friendship to teacher of friendship.