So I guess it was a hat. Anyway now is a good as time as any to state way I don't think she is a evil monster.
-She look for for for her people, and put herself behind Enemy Lines instead of having one of her subject play the role of Princess Cadence. I doubt the pony would give them love if they ask nicely, they where freaking out over a zebra
-Protects the hive with a Powerful Chair, which while make the landscape around it arid, stops even Discord's Magic
-Trader that help the enemy infiltrate the Hive
-Get her Chair broken, usurped, and her Subject get mutated and turned against her (even though they where all for what she was doing a few minutes ago) and the only one to offer her friendship was the one who cause her to lose it all (I Know I would be upset if Someone broke my chair and turns my family against me)
-Even those some of the Changlings did not reform right away no of them go looking for her (got to wonder how she got her hat back)
-Goes a little crazy all alone
-Join a team that only going to be Sacrificial Lambs in the end anyway
-Even though the Rainbow didn't feel the need to do it, a Firing squad still feels the need to punish her farther
Some may say I am reading to deep into it, but I say "WAKE UP SHEEPLE!"
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