Talk:Princess Celestia/@comment-5413804-20121209193854/@comment-4531340-20121209220329

There's a third option: she has great faith in her subjects to be self-sufficient. Hell, she attempted to stop Queen Chrysalis, and no doubt would've been successful, had Shining Armor's love for Cadance not been so strong, and had Chrysalis not absorbed so much of it by that point. I mean, from Chrysalis's dialogue, even she was shocked that she was able to beat Celestia.