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> regarding thrill-seeking, such as taking rides on rollercoasters, which I also cannot abide, and so I suspect (but still cannot fully comprehend) that it has something to do with people deriving pleasure from adrenaline.
I can relate to this , though I also enjoy comfy spooks and sometimes eerie or haunting things, especially in my adult years, I usually liked sitting out from stuff like that, rollercoasters, the most childish, G rated transformation into a vampire, etc.

>At the very least he seems somewhat less significant than he might later seem to be.
As I mentioned (briefly at the bottom here:>>12728) you could run with this on books of obscure history (and I see I accidentally posted an two screencaps that had part of the post, lol).

>I don't know much about really any music generally, but I was wondering if that was something like a ZZ Top reference?
There a band out of Texas, but really more in my mind associated with southern rock and blues(ish) this country. I am not the most knowledgeable on them though.

> This is fairly over the top, especially compared to what we've seen before. And what we've seen before, to be clear, whilst not a lot, is definitely not this stridently gothic figure, and furthermore we've seen her in daylight before pretty much all of Ponyville.
Would she be over the top compared to Nightmare Moon though? How much spooky factor would a good Princess Luna have? I do agree that a non-spooky Princess Luna in her old form has some appeal! Old Luna versus New Luna I prefer both Lunas.

>Then we get Luna's Royal Canterlot Voice, and I can't really think of a best faith interpretation.
I think you are overthinking this (but that is fun! I do it too). I disagree on the basis of it being a an element we know little on, would she need announcers? Maybe she prefers doing it herself? Spur of the moment flight? It's an element we don't have a strong set rule on established. Though I think I can raise a good argument against it: Nightmare Moon didn't use it, and Nightmare Moon was trying to intimidate!