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You are an earth pony

If your special talent is crafting (cutie mark reflects this), and then you lose your legs/hooves, what happens to the mark?

Does it stay because you still know how to craft, or does it become invalid or disappears because you can’t put that skill to use?

  1. cyber-wing answered: It stays. The cutiemark is boud to one special talent and not on what you do. Look at Rarity, her talent is to find gems, not to make clothes
  2. askuncleorange answered: Your cutie mark isn’t ‘your special talent’, it’s 'what makes you special’. If you know how to craft, it’s still what’s special about you.
  3. zigcereal answered: you can still craft with yo face
  4. sgt-byrd answered: Question has no answer. The universe in which cutie marks are defined will never include paralysed or amputated ponies. You’ll need an AU.
  5. itwascygaj-blog said: My answer’s grammar is awkward. I meant that I vote: “you don’t loose your special talent just like that” and it also applies to dehorned unicorns. They can still have passion for the thing and find a way around or just be depressed but still have it
  6. askdansenhedgehog answered: ……I dunno
  7. itwascygaj-blog answered: It’s your special talent. I vote you can’t loose it just like that. Then it would be true to dehorned unicorns too. They can work it out.
  8. nicorp97 answered: It would be interesting if it dissapeared… wait a second… is something going to happen to scootaloo? D:
  9. asymmetricsolutions answered: No, it stays. Your talent is still crafting, you just can’t do it. That doesn’t mean you can’t tell others how to make beautiful stuff.
  10. pvryohei answered: I guess it would stay there, as the pony’s special talent would still be the same, regardless of it being able to use it or not.
  11. ask-alpha-robot answered: It wold stay, cutie marks don’t disappear once you get them.
  12. broken-pen answered: Thanks to Fractured Loyalty, it’s my headcanon that your cutie mark may change if you find new talents or drop old ones.
  13. pious-smasher answered: You reatach the legs/hooves, or use magical prostetics, Earth Ponies heal the best so the former works, the later works becasue magic science
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