Talk:Elements of Harmony/@comment-4899875-20120629084849

I think that the writers gave Twilight Sparkle the element of "magic" because she has no personality. Well, to be more accurate, her personality is very tough to describe, because she doesn't really lean towards anything the way the others do. She's like Francine was in early episodes of American Dad!: she's level-headed, reasonable, and down-to-earth. You actually almost never see characters like that as most of them are insane or obsessive in some way. Now you could argue that she's studious, but the writers can't make the 6th element be the element of books. So what are they to do? She's a great person, but she doesn't have a single trait that isn't shared by one or all of the others, one that's unique to Twilight Sparkle, and since she's pretty evened-out, they had pretty much written themselves into a corner. I find it funny that all the other elements of harmony are named after character traits and Twilight Sparkle's element is named after a thing. Maybe in this case, "magic" is synonymous with happiness or love?