9k:RD/ Equestria is fake (Q55,37)
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- MLP:FiM is a superstructural fantasy world / Equestria is fake — it is an autonomous living dream terraformed by Ponies as opposed to a world created through physics
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- superstructural fantasy world / (9k)
- Where do Ponies go when they die? (MLP:FiM) -> this seems like a silly question but it becomes much more interesting in light of MLP G4 being a superstructural fantasy world. before you can answer the question of what supernatural elements exist in the superstructural fantasy world, you first have to acknowledge that if you were the kind of person to act out skits with pony toys the characters are still there after the skit ends even if they died in the story for some reason. so in concept any of the characters in any generation of My Little Pony go by very similar rules to actors in any stage play; the characters have voice actors, or they have merchandise, and either way those people or objects outlive the character in the teleplay. what is the "soul" of an animated pony then? is it the toy? is the box or shelf of ponies outside the narrative the actual location of the pony afterlife? their body, strictly speaking, is the vector image drawn on the box or animated on screen, which can "die" within the story. the G4 show or perhaps comic book is the superstructural fantasy world where the ponies are 'alive'. so, when the characters die, they logically leave the show or comic book and turn into something else which is material, since the characters are all imaginary things and their entire world was fabricated by designers; if every part of them is created in a non-supernatural way then their animating force within the fake world has to correspond to something mundane too.
you could say the thing that brings ponies to life is animators. or that real-world labor is the animating force of their world. certainly that would lead to some really weird and interesting mythology when you throw a rebooted Starlight Glimmer into the mix that is having to like, reunite the ponies with their real god they have all slandered and forgotten or whatnot. but I don't think it's an open-and-shut question.
gosh there is a very weird and interesting overlap between MLP and Deltarune when you really think about it. Deltarune has a fantastical prophecy which is somewhat forced onto it and MLP simply doesn't have that and fully commits to being a slice-of-life story but the MLP world is just as fake as Deltarune.