G4 fans may remember a lot of fan interpretations of younger Celestia portray her as having pure-pink hair, based on the opening storybook scene where she is portrayed as having pink hair:
In the comics, the first issue of
Legends of Magic features this Celestia:
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login...and in the new issue, a three-page preview shows that Celestia gains her colors over time:
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Neat, and although it's not show canon, it's something! I think the other theory was that Celestia gained the colors when she used the elements of harmony on Nightmare Moon, and it was sudden instead of gradual. Anyone else have any thoughts? I think she looks like Trix yogurt. Mm, Trix...