User blog comment:Dorkpool/There's Always Something Worse/@comment-26128821-20150428134712/@comment-25428589-20150429053453

(BEGIN RANT WHICH PROVES I KNOW WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT MLP) I actually quite liked Lil Miss Rarity, certainly more than I liked Cupcakes (To be clear here, since there are a couple of versions of the pasta, I'm talking about the version Spinpasta host).

Cupcakes, when compared to LMR, is pretty unrealistic IMO. While there is evidence in the series that Pinkie may be psychotic (see Party of One, season 1, episode 25), this is only once, and it happens due to an event which (for her) is extremely traumatic - her friends don't seem to want to be around her anymore. In Cupcakes, there's no real reason for her to enjoy causing other ponies pain. However weird, Pinkie's actions always seem to have some sort of motivation in the series, however in Cupcakes, she just does it because HAHA THE CHARACTER THAT LAUGHS ALL THE TIME IS CRAZY LOL.

Futhermore, Pinkie is clearly shown to actually care about the other characters, a lot more than say, Rainbow Dash, who is caring, but can often be insensitive. We see this in the episode Griffon the Brush Off (season 1, episode 5). While Rainbow Dash wants to prank Fluttershy, Pinkie stops her own fun (pranking ponies) because she thinks it will upset Fluttershy so much. This is completely contrary to Cupcakes, where Pinkie continues to have her "fun" (by torturing Rainbow Dash) even though RD is clearly in pain.

Although there's no real reason for Rarity to be a masochist in LMR, and there's certainly no evidence towards her being one in the series, all pastas require some suspension of disbelief and, once you look past that, the story is significantly more realistic. The characters react as they actually would in each scenario. Twilight, for example, tries to be kind to her friend Rarity, while still protecting Spike from her bad influence, and does so in a way that is very "Twilight".

Additionally, Rarity actually has some (kinda twisted)motive for instigating the entire thing (which she does by torturing Opalescence). Throughout the entirety of the series, we see Rarity is attacked by her cat. We also see that she often has explosive, angry, or dramatic outbursts in response to little things. To further clarify, she also gets pretty jealous of Fluttershy, as we see in Green Isn't Your Color (season 1, episode 20). Fluttershy is the only one who Opal actually likes, so is it too much of a stretch to think that, after getting scratched by Opal one too many times, Rarity snapped, jealous of Fluttershy's rapport with the animal, and decided to attack it?

Obviously this doesn't explain Rarity's blatant masochism, which isn't really explained with any actual evidence, but I think that can be looked past when you see how much more sense the rest of the characters and their motivations make in LMR than in Cupcakes.

Also, wow, that was long.