Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-11461452-20170124220339/@comment-24245960-20170124224638

I agree that becoming another Alicorn Princess should not be her destiny. From a writing standpoint, they've already done that with Twilight and to do so again would just be redundant and unoriginal.

If I were writing the story (so call this a "head canon" if you must) I would use the facts that magical time and interdimensional travel have already been established as canon and begin to hint to the viewer that Starlight's true ultimate destiny is to travel into Equestria's past and actually be Star Swirl. (The "Bearded" part was added to of course hide the fact that she was a time-traveling mare from the future.)

Of course, my more acceptable theory is simply that Starlight is a direct descendant of the great wizard, explaining her power and hinting that she has yet more power still to be discovered.