Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-5926076-20130219202319/@comment-5513888-20130219234709

1)you mean to tell me Twilight, a librarian, not an alicorn princess, could just assume the throne? That may work on paper, but lets face it, do you think the nobles would be willing to bow to a librarian? They wouldn't; they're too rich in hubris. As a princess now, her title establishes her superiority over the nobles, so if she were to assume the Throne after Celestia, not only will she be accepted as a figure of superior authority, she would have been acknowledged as a superior figure even before Celestia stepped down.

2) even the responsibility over a country cannot quench the fires of a passion. Even as a princess, I doubt Twilight will cease to study magic.

3) writing these has made be realize: maybe Celestia isn't planning to make Twilight rule necessarily soon, rather she's doing this so the Canterlot Elite will accept her as ruler in the future. That way, when Celestia steps down, the Nobles would be aware and acknowledge the existence of a suitable heir. (As oppose to her stepping in out of nowhere, I'd imagine this would anger the nobles, and anger towards a ruler usually ends in riots, civil war, coups, or even revolution, or the attempt of these). Basically, she is now heir to the throne, although she may not need to take up the mantle necessarily now.