Talk:Elements of Harmony/@comment-5194003-20120702041417

Essentially, what I find when it comes to the element of Magic and the controversy concerning whether its buy-out for the writers or not is that, in the end, the idea of the person that unifies everypony in one group is very hard to pick out in any one description. Also, if you have that one person in your group, you'll likely have a hard time figuring out why they also tend to attract everyone to themselves. Twilight is the same way. She is essentially the center of the group in terms of connections overall, which is even characterized in the way that her symbol is a star, and while a star has five points, it has one center. In this way, she plays the role of unification. And as described in the actual title, Friendship is Magic. Therefore, in reverse, Magic is Friendship, and therefore it is safe to conclude that if you were to give Twilight an actual trait element, it would likely have to be Unity or Friendship.