Talk:Earth ponies/@comment-4066758-20150917152929/@comment-26970431-20170625013312

As long as the character has a good backstory and has good writing and a reason for why they are who they are, then it's fine. It's still perfectly possible for an Alicorn OC to not be a "Mary Sue", just as it's perfectly possible for an Earth Pony to be a "Mary Sue".