Talk:Royal guards/@comment-99.182.205.108-20121021030016/@comment-5450224-20121113234045

Well, maybe it's just that it's a really viable career choice? It doesn't sound like it's all that dangerous since nothing bad ever happens in Equestria that can't be solved with friendship and friendship powered magic. Maybe they just get paid to stand around looking moderately intimidating. I'd take that job any day. And maybe earth ponies are better suited for naval positions? That's an interesting theory, though. Although I don't see why Equestria needs such a large standing military given how little they seem to fight. Maybe they're fighting a war overseas with the Griffons?

I think there's a similar theory for the earlier Pokemon games too, since Red (Ash), Blue (Gary), Gold, and Silver (don't know their show names) don't seem to have fathers and nearly every male character in the game's either sort of old or a kid. And Lt. Surge pretty heavily implies that there was a war really recently, so people suspect that the war's either going on now or it's over and there were a ton of casualties. Also that the big emphasis on Pokemon battling and raising is sort of a distraction for those who stayed behind from the war.