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Convention-Exclusive Bonus Card WIP: Skeleanor

She’ll be in Series 4, and so will Stellar Flare

And she’ll have a brand new card then

But both Skeleanor and Stellar Flare will be Bonus Cards for con-goers for now, too! :D

Yes, I did find a way to give a skeleton boobs.

By giving her a tunic with built in boobs.

Art by Luminous Dazzle

A few months ago, I wrote an essay about consciousness, free will, and sapience in relation to the Mean Six.  It prompted a pretty great discussion from everypony here.

Today I want to do a different spin on that topic and talk about everypony’s favorite NPC, Skeleanor.  Seriously, she may just be a giant cardboard cut out, but who can deny that her longing comes from a genuine soul - that her desire to love and be loved in return is as real as yours or mine? I won’t waste time picking apart definitions of consciousness like I did in the previous essay because a world where Skeleanor has no soul is, quite frankly, too bleak to contemplate.

Her sapience, like her awesomeness, is self-evident.  Rather than ask these sorts of questions, I want to examine the logical implications of Skeleanor’s consciousness.

She appeared before Spike and Big Mac entirely because of an O&O scenario created by Discord.  One cannot help but wonder: Can Discord create life?

It seems unlikely.  Life, in its own way, is the creation of order out of chaos.  We are all made of incredibly complex systems, which are made out of incredibly complex organs, which are made of complex tissues, and cells, and so on and so forth.  Even our chemical building blocks are significantly more sophisticated than compounds found in inanimate matter.

All of this biology stuff serves one function – to stave off entropy.  A living thing is a cluster of matter attempting to impose order upon itself - a being engaged in constant warfare with chaos on a personal level, a cellular level, and even a chemical level.

Now Skeleanor is, of course, a card, and therefore, does not have the same biological advantages or constraints, but her consciousness is still a life form – a sophisticated system of consciousness, which a being of Chaos (like Discord) could not possibly have created.

So where did she come from?

Logically, one can only conclude that Skeleanor is a being from another dimension - that she was summoned by Discord, not created by him.  (His magic has always been characterized as interdimensional after all).  However, her existence as a playing card begs another question: Does she come from a two dimensional flatland?  Or is that card merely a screen for the projection of her consciousness?

If the latter is the case, does that mean that there is a three-dimensional Skeleanor somewhere out there, splitting her consciousness across two realms, having sudden visions of the flesh world?

One can speculate for hours about such things, but there is one singular point that I’m building up to here.  Skeletonia is real.  We must find out where this skeleton homeland is, and figure out how to visit all of the cool pony skeletons.  We need to make friends with them.

Ponies like Skeleanor need to know that they are loved. Discuss.

-Sprocket

Obligatory skeleton falling apart joke

Skeleanor the Decomposer comes out in a MONTH!!! You can pre-order it where ever books are sold or request a copy from your library! If you do, fill out this form and I'll mail you a bookmark and two bookplates! Thank you for your support!! xoxoxo