@Itsthinking
 
I think at that point they might as well go totally screwed up George Lucas style and say that all ponies have “Magi-chlorians” in their bloodstream. Princess Celestia uses her magical powers to see how much of a reaction she gets from those microscopic entities inside the pony’s body and turns them into a princess.

That is clearly Blueblood and Luna’s illegitimate bastard love-child… The wings were merely a result of genetic mutation. That is the last known picture of him before he was assassinated by Canterlot Intelligence Agency special forces… Luna never appeared in season 1 after episode 2 because her pregnancy was being covered up, and Celestia would only agree to allow her back into power if the child was destroyed! >:O

I, for one, welcome our glorious alicorn rulers.
 
Hmm. This makes me wonder whether Celestia and Luna got all pissy about Sombra was because he ruled ponies WITHOUT BEING AN ALICORN!!!
 
Nah, probably not.
 
BUT WHAT IF! Male unicorns that become rulers remain unicorns. Females sprout wings, and become alicorns. Rather, alicorn-hood is an X-linked recessive trait that is also fatal to male unicorns, so that they are never born.
 
Or, perhaps as the picture suggests, male royal unicorns are born with wings, however, they lose them at puberty, due to the new hormones causing wing-loss.
 
Or, it’s magic, I ain’t gotta explain shit.
 
Also, that foal looks too much like Blueblood.

@Itsthinking
 
actually he is some hybrid between a lion and a carp

@Background Pony  
I think the best thing this does is confirm a pantheon of alicorns that rule over their respective areas. Kind of reminds me of the mythos of Olympus.

Pft, aquastria, bwaahahahahahahaha, this is even funnier than equestria!  
Lord they are gonna kill me someday with these names.  
I love whoever named it.
 
 
@And Brother I Hurt People  
Its probably because of that notion that alicorns are rare and special, and as soon as they start popin up everywhere it fells less true.
 
Sincerely, I’m fine with pretty much anything as long as there’s an actual explanation behind it, and knowing how alicorns are made, we are probably gonna be seeing more of them around.

@Background Pony  
You’d want to be an Equestrian princess and you know it.
 
 
@And Brother I Hurt People  
We don’t know he’s an alicorn. That’s Prince Leon, who was in those awful German comics. The pony in the story is King Leo, and apparently kings don’t have to be actual alicorns.
 
Oh, and this isn’t canon to the show.

See, I feel like this would be better if he wasn’t an alicorn. Maybe I’m just being unfair, though.

Pfft, that looks like a colt and guys can’t be alicorns. All little girls want to be princesses when they grow up and any little girl that says otherwise is wrong in Hasbro’s eyes. Because all little girls want to be princesses, Hasbro has made them special by all princesses being alicorns, hence only mares can become alicorns because all alicorns are princesses.

sounds interesting.

I can really feel the love the ponies are getting in this….and spike

Princess skyla is very mad.