Talk:A Rockhoof and a Hard Place/@comment-1031724-20180825013346

So wait. Twilight can turn ponies to stone now? Without the Elements? Well, she IS a powerful alicorn.

We're not sure whether he'd be conscious as a statue if caused by alicorn magic. Discord was conscious as a statue from the Elements, and from Celestia's scream (and nothing else that can be taken seriously) it's implied the princesses were conscious as statues from the Obsidian Orbs, but Twilight wasn't conscious as a statue from the cockatrice.