Talk:Prince Blueblood/@comment-14049581-20131123174630/@comment-10390252-20131215190740

I think that Blueblood's title is only nominal and doesn't have any real power attached. My head canon is that he's the distant descendent of Princess Platinum but that the Unicorn monarchy long ago ceded its powers to the alicorn Princesses (either willingly or in the face of some oncoming doom like Discord's rise) and they were never returned because... well, ponies just got used to having the alicorns ruling over them.

In any case, Blueblood has such a... wonderful... personality that I think the guard have a standing order to execute him if he should somehow get to the top of the line-of-succession list.