Why Kuviren and Startrix are literally the same ship in different fonts: a brief exploration bc I'm once again bored while staying at my grandma's
(Alternatively: Are you seriously comparing the complex and borderline toxic character development arc chock full of trauma and healing that is Kuviren to a colourful pony show meant for 7 year olds? Yes, yes I am)
Let's play a game. I'm going to describe the characters in a ship and you'll have to guess which ship I'm talking about:
On one hand you have the ex-dictator who took her childhood trauma and turned it into a political ideation. Absolutely convinced she's doing the right thing and that anyone who opposes her should be crushed. Repressing all feelings to the max. At the culmination of her arc she near damn tears the whole fucking world apart before being saved by the main character after a tearful discussion of said childhood trauma that was turned into a political ideation.
On the other you have an absolute cringefail girlfailure. Feels like she's the worst so always acts like she's the best and will continue walking around with an artificially inflated ego until it literally blows up in her face. So caught up in her own goals and issues she doesn't realise she's hurting the people who care about her. Reckless to a fault and very quick to make decisions on a whim with no regard for possible consequences.
Both of them are absolute menaces to society who absolutely should not have been allowed to meet because the two of them as a duo can and will destroy the world if they so choose. And yet, they're both each other's first real friend and somehow, them being together balances each of them out. They're both key elements to the other's road to redemption. They always stick together despite countless arguments in which they can seriously hurt each other, because ultimately they're better together and are both very, very glad they've met.
If you can't figure out whether I'm talking about Kuviren or Startrix it's because that was a trick question, all of those things apply to both ships. Which just proves that I have not matured emotionally at all since I was 10 and watched Season 6 of MLP while it was airing, and my taste in ships will simply never change
Thank you for your attention