>>7755 >I've played it various ways. It seems the show writers were certainly thinking they live more than a hundred years. I have thought about it too from various angles and swayed back and forth over the years. Part of me thinks them living at least a little longer would make sense in a lot of areas, from the timing of certain flashbacks to how multiple, albeit, usually magically inclined seem to have pretty lengthy lifespans. If the world is magic and magic grants longevity then it would be a no brainier to have it apply on a smaller scale to some of the regular ponies as well.
Though it also creates some issues. In particular, if ponies can live too much longer then a hundred it makes everypony forgetting about Nightmare Moon make even less sense.
>I know that the CB universe asserts ponies live to be about 300 or so, which would be in keeping with the changes seen in that episode though CB lore is much older, as I recall, than the original Conversion Bureau Funny enough, whenever I think of a fic that has that in play I recall a dark Rarity serial killer fic about her and the ramifications for her family, in particular Sweetie Belle, with SB having her own foal fully grown up and going through the same process and the author was saying after, what, 40+ years the mane 6 were just starting to enter middle age. Don't know why I associate it with that one but I do.
>universe asserts ponies live to be about 300 or so “Yes,” replied the old lady, “they must also die, and their term oflife is even shorter than ours. We sometimes live to three hundredyears, but when we cease to exist here we only become the foam onthe surface of the water, and we have not even a grave down hereof those we love. We have not immortal souls, we shall never liveagain; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off,we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have asoul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned todust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glitteringstars. As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of theearth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which weshall never see.” Original Little Mermaid. Just a coincidence no doubt but it does bring to mind a possible interesting thematic element with that. and kind of horrifying and sad
> This way you can have those issues come up without needing to go to space. True. Though by the time I would be through with it I could see myself getting focused solely on those aspects and completely separated from the prompt.
