Talk:Ponies names/@comment-76.174.236.146-20120402080752

Something I'm having trouble understanding here...

How old, roughly, are the characters supposed to be? In rough human equivalencies?

There are so many inconsistencies.

Rainbow Dash and even Fluttershy could fly in "Cutie Mark Chronicles." Yet Scootaloo is the same size and by the way they act, about the same age, as they were at the time and still can't fly.

I'd put (based on maturity) the CMC and their contemporaries at human ages 7-9 or so. Yet in Twilight's cutaway/flashback in "Lesson Zero," she fears she'll be sent back to Magic Kindergarten, which suggests she's around 4 or 5 human years. Yet again, she's the same size and design as the CMC there, but can already use magic to a degree, which (correct me if I've missed it), Sweetie Belle has yet to do.

Another set of inconsistencies: how old are the Mane Six and their contemporaries? It seems that Cheerilee and Big Mac are a bit older than the Mane Six, but still relatively young adults, maybe equivalent to human ages 22-25.

So how old would that make the Mane Six, assuming they're a few years younger? Late teenagers? Younger Young Adults? They all live independently, so they have to be at least out of childhood, but that doesn't leave a whole lot of a gap between them and Cheerilee/Big Mac's age, yet it's pretty much a given that they're older, given that Big Mac definitely has an older-wiser-big-brother dynamic with AJ.

Anyone want to weigh in on this?