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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Okay, I just noticed that there are pegasii actually controlling the weather. Literally, they are moving clouds around to make it rain and things like that. That is so neat!

So can all horses do that? If I were to fly up there, could I kick the clouds away or make them shoot lightning? Because that would be the coolest thing.

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[elementofloyalty]

Nope, it's purely a pegasus thing. Unicorns change the seasons, earth ponies tend to the crops and the animals, and pegasi are weatherponies.

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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Unicorns control the seasons? Are you serious? Like the actual seasons?

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[elementofloyalty]

Believe me, it was just as weird discovering that it DOESN'T work that way on OTHER worlds.

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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

How could they possibly control the seasons? I mean that's based on so many other things! Why would they need to control the seasons?

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[elementofloyalty]

Magic. Though here in Ponyville we wrap up winter by hoof, it's an old tradition.

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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

How does that even work?

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[elementofloyalty]

The pegasi clear the clouds and bring back the birds, while the earth ponies clear the snow and plant the seeds. A mixed team wakes up the animals and gets them moving, and other jobs get assigned as needed.

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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

So the birds can't find their own way back?

Okay, wait, are you just messing around with me? That sounds like something you'd make up to mess with someone's head.

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[elementofloyalty]

Not messing with you. It's entirely true. I know that's not how it works on other worlds, I've BEEN to them. But it's how Equestria works.

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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

So basically, unicorns and pegasii control the world. And without them nature just wouldn't happen or whatever?

That's pretty messed up.

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[elementofloyalty]

More messed up than a late frost killing a bunch of crops, meaning people don't have enough to eat?

More messed up than a sudden storm flooding people's houses and ruining their stuff?

More messed up than a rainless summer causing a drought, drying up the streams and withering plants?

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[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Okay, you kind of have a point there.

Except for the fact that the universe is supposed to be chaotic and life isn't supposed to be easy.