>>36780622Tricky business. If memory recollects, 441 is in Brazil or something, I'm not sure they have very good health care over there.
I'm no shrink, but it seems to me that his trigger to start devaluing himself goes off when he feels backed into a corner about his convictions. It's a bit of a coping mechanism, because it's easier to call yourself a piece of shit than it is to acknowledge you need to change your habits. It's sort of a weird part of human nature that so many people would rather die than change, it's evolved into us from an age when survival was so difficult that changing how you survived up until now was pretty likely to get you eaten or starve to death from the increased energy required in changing habits.
The trouble with that coping mechanism is, sooner or later, you come to believe the lie. Yes, it is definitely a lie, as any statement that is so counter-intuitive to one's self-image runs parallel to truth found in more beneficial behaviors. If you think being a human being is such a waste of skin, try a few generations reincarnated as a tapeworm.
Anyway, as pertains to Sunset Shimmer dominating the cliques in Equestria Girls, the
how of it is of secondary concern. She had effectively conquered Equestria High as a villain when Twilight made her visit, and this allowed Twilight to be the hero come to save the dark land, so to speak. You could say it's impossible Sunset Shimmer could have done that, seeing how she was a unicorn in a strange land, but why would you? It's plenty possible, I could think of a half-dozen ways off the top of my head.
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