Terminal Rex
Going Indognito mode..
I've always liked the idea that starlight was mentored and subtly mind screwed by a malignant entity (perhaps Grogar?) who tried to turn her into a sleeper agent becuase he/she recognized her power and wanted her to destabilize equestria so it could come in and finish the job.
This creature would have ensured that she grew up believing what it wanted her to believe and that she had the power to pull her plans off by secretly increasing her power or tutoring her itself under differant guises.
It wouldn't be straight up brainwasing but a more subliminal kind of Indoctrination that would give the show a plausible excuse as to why starlight wouldn't remember this secret mentor who steered the course of almost her whole life.
I dunno. Anythings a better excuse for her Assholery and her instability then what we got and if not like her, it would at least make it easier to sympathise with her.
This creature would have ensured that she grew up believing what it wanted her to believe and that she had the power to pull her plans off by secretly increasing her power or tutoring her itself under differant guises.
It wouldn't be straight up brainwasing but a more subliminal kind of Indoctrination that would give the show a plausible excuse as to why starlight wouldn't remember this secret mentor who steered the course of almost her whole life.
I dunno. Anythings a better excuse for her Assholery and her instability then what we got and if not like her, it would at least make it easier to sympathise with her.