Back to the perennial debate!
Twilight's a grad student, Pinkie works full-time (or what passes for full-time for Pinkie) at Sugarcube Corner, and Rarity owns the Carousel Boutique (and given that Sweetie Belle's nowhere to be seen during "Suited for Success", among other things, it seems likely that she does not live with Rarity - ergo, Rarity doesn't live with her parents, it's not just that we don't see them.) Even Dash is employed by the Weather Service.
I'd place them all around twenty or so.
edited 30th Sep '11 10:03:52 AM by RedSavant
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Well, yes, obviously. But you'll agree with me a twentysome adult (even with kids) has a very different life from a fiftysome one (even with kids), yes?
Fluttershy doesn't seem to have a
job, per se, but she seems to spend much of her time looking after the animals aound her house. Not sure where she gets an income, but...
And I'm not sure if Twilight's a grad student (and her stay in Ponyville is classified by her college as "studying abroad"), or if she got her degree some time ago and is now just working as a scholar.
edited 30th Sep '11 10:06:52 AM by Enlong
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The mane cast are probably considered adults, but yeah a show with say, Mr. and Mrs. Cake as the main characters would be totally different. And honestly, a sitcom about them and how they deal with Pinkie and her shenanigans would be awesome.
Since Fluttershy keeps chickens, she might be more or less self-sufficient. Then again, I'm not sure how a horse would live off chickens anyway.
Mmm...
chicken...
They
do eat eggs, though. Or at least things made with them.
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Because ponies in show eat only food what RL horses eat.
They are like the others. Strange, hideous, resisting, fighting. Only these were not like the others. They did not die.
Ponies in Equestria eat flowers, I don't think Fluttershy is any trouble as long as she keeps a good garden
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They have a bakery; they must use eggs.
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Just what I was going to say. Cakes require eggs, after all.
And yeah, I forgot that Fluttershy can just grow her own grass and flowers. But what about when she wants to buy non-essentials?
I mean, that house had to come from somewhere, for one thing.
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I don't think finding food is a problem in Equestria. It just doesn't strike me as a thing that would happen, especially given Celestia's evident concern for her subjects. Anyway, Ponyville doesn't lack for food that isn't meat-based, so I don't think there's any reason to worry about how Fluttershy keeps herself fed. If anything, she probably provides the chickens with a place to live so she can harvest eggs every now and then - no meat involved.
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I suppose she can sell eggs to buy other things, too.
"what?": You can make herbivores eat meat. It's the whole reason the mad cow disease happened in the first place. And there was an ancestor of Man who had flowers as its main diet. It was somewhere between Australopithecus and Homo Erectus, but I don't remember where exactly, I read that on a paper ten years ago.
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However, get their diet wrong and they die. Horribly so.
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