And neither of them had friends.

Trixie was a stripper part time to pay for student loans.

And the rest is history.

Twi had no friends because she was a workaholic, and Trixie because, well, she's Trixie.

edited 2nd May '13 9:02:06 AM by edvedd

Trixie was a history tutor?

edited 2nd May '13 9:02:11 AM by KylerThatch

@ Syd

It's all uni work. The job starts at the end of June. I'll have a month of proper free time before that, but it's only after all these assignments.

@ Princess

It's a concept that a group of us have developed together. I actually don't have much interest in it anymore. I just want it done.

A surprisingly good one.

edited 2nd May '13 9:02:37 AM by edvedd

Headcanon accepted.

All this new info for Trixie!

I know that feeling. All too well.

Trixie: tutor and student by day, stripper by night. Also, her stripper name was Lulamoon.

edited 2nd May '13 9:05:16 AM by PrincessGwenevere

She liked to mesh both jobs together on the weekends.

I'm thinking Trixie was so self-absorbed she never even looked twice at Twilight all that time.

So like that one episode of Monty Python.

edited 2nd May '13 9:07:53 AM by edvedd

Estuans interius, ira vehementi, estuans interius, ira vehementi, CELESTIA!

edited 2nd May '13 9:08:04 AM by Blissey1

@Ed: Hopefully no voting madness :V (We're getting protests about the overload of imported "talent", so I dunno which is worse :V)

Politics over here is spectacularly dirty sometimes. We're trying to let the other guys have a chance to govern for once.

edited 2nd May '13 9:09:03 AM by edvedd

@Blissy: * insert Ominous Latin Chanting here*

@Freeman: I just have this mental image of Trixie hanging from a strippers pole and reading a textbook to some young foal.

edited 2nd May '13 9:11:12 AM by PrincessGwenevere

I dunno, I could see Trixie as one of those people who's really popular in school, but who fall flat when they get into the "Real world" because they coasted on charisma. Like Trixie was popular in her class, but after graduation she had to start over. Her whole act might be her trying to win back her previous popularity.

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we're going in even deeper than usual.

Wait wait wait...might Trixie be from a rich family like Twilight's?

@ JT

Headcannoned. She just reeks self absorbed alpha bitch.

edited 2nd May '13 9:12:40 AM by ApplelightLimited

We're not even halfway there yet. Cool your jets.

@JT: Silliness aside, this is pretty much my headcannon. I also like to picture her from a wealthy family, but she's been cut off from her family's cash. Most likely her parents were trying to teach her to be more responsible with her money, and not use it as a means to get ahead in life.

I figure Trixie and Twilight were in different classes, and perhaps different graduation/entry years altogether, since she didn't recognize Twilight in Boast Busters.

Trixie double-majored in Stage Magic and Glamour.

Yeah. I assumed that Trixie would be from a different class or year altogether. And honestly, her being from the school isn't suprising to me.

Would Celestia's school have a Performing Arts program? I feel like Trixie would fit there. And Twilight would probably be too buried in her studies to see/ participate in anything related to the arts.

In the next Halloween episode, Twilight and Trixie will bond over Trixie's ability to actually comprehend Twilight's costume.

@Apple: Actually, Trixie doesn't strike me as having any of the hallmarks of the truly self-absorbed. Interestingly, she appears to have more of an inferiority complex than anything else. It's actually fairly common for those with inferiority complexes to appear to have a superiority complex - they feel the need to fool everyone into believing that their great. Sometimes to try and fool themselves into believing it as well, sometimes just as a facade, putting on a front they feel people will like. The opinions of others are tied to their sense of self-worth, in that case.

The interesting thing about Trixie is that while she pumps herself full of glamour on-stage, she actively resists attentions off stage. She very nearly shoves Snips and Snails away when they try and show their admiration, and pretty much sequesters herself in her carriage. She doesn't make much of an effort to socialize, much less aggrandize herself as someone truly self-absorbed might.

Her behaviour, on-stage and with the Alicorn Amulet, makes me think at one point she was picked on pretty severely... it's easy for the abused to come to associate strength with the ability to do harm to others, and weakness the lack of ability(or desire). Put in this context, she may have come to associate strong magic with the ability to show up others, to lord it over them or straight up humiliate them.

When Trixie helps out Twilight's show, she doesn't make much effort to make herself known to anyone BUT Twilight. She still has elements of showmareship, yeah, but she's clearly not showing off. She's actually a decent pony, just... a showmare. On her own, I don't think much of her behaviour would have developed naturally. So I don't think she's terribly self-absorbed. I think that she may have, at one point, believed she SHOULD have been better at magic. Perhaps because she was a mediocre student at best, perhaps because she was bullied... perhaps she comes from a line of powerful unicorns, and is simply not as good as the rest of her family. Whatever the cause, I don't believe she's as self-absorbed as all that.

@Enlong: They could have crossed paths, but Trixie would probably not have noticed her.

Nice analysis.

edited 2nd May '13 9:27:22 AM by edvedd