Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-10390252-20160120135501/@comment-5837525-20160121000506

The possibilities of this idea intrigue me. Consider this:

Shining Armor and Cadance's foal is an Earth pony. They groom the foal to one day succeed them, but the foal would rather spend his/her days being a common pony and having fun. During a visit to Ponyville, the foal befriends Pound and Pumpkin, and he/she has so much fun being him/herself that she wants to stay. Cadance and Shining Armor decide it best for their foal to choose his/her own path and allows it. The foal shacks up with "Auntie Twilight" and "Uncle Spike" in the Castle of Friendship and, with Pound and Pumpkin, essentially forms the second generation of Cutie Mark Crusaders.

I am a hopeless sucker for this kind of narrative.