Talk:Flurry Heart/@comment-10390252-20170104093649

Speculation:

We know from the the Baby Cakes that ponies can be born with the racial characteristics of distant ancestors. I'm wondering if either or both the Crystal Imperial Family (Cadance's family) or the Twinkles (Shining Armour and Twilight Sparkle's family) have a few members of the alicorn tribe in their bloodline. That might actually explain a lot - All of their family have the potential for alicornhood but must be particularly powerful and unique to attain to it. However, in Flurry Heart, the power of recessive genes led to a child born an alicorn.

So, no special destiny, just lucky genes.