Talk:Capper/@comment-27578467-20171017070838/@comment-4531340-20171019001856

I can definitely see where you're coming from, in both cases, but I also disagree about both cases.

In the case of The Perfect Pear, I feel that the world that was established of Equestria over the course of the show is such that such a conflict is believable (I mean, they all have the respective fruit permanently branded on their flanks - we don't have that in real life).

In the case of Capper, I see him as, basically, the Nick Wilde archetype: con artist who, deep down, wants to change for the better, but doesn't know how until he's shown some kindness from an unexpected source. Sure, there are quite a few specific differences, and Nick (as a whole) is far more fleshed out than Capper, but it's still believable enough to me that Rarity's small act of kindness would be enough to convince him to change, provided it's what he had wanted to do all along - and he just didn't know how to go about it. (Bonus points for Capper being an anthropomorphic fox at one point during development) I should clarify that I really like them both, just I like Nick more because, again, he feels like a more fleshed out, deep character.