Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1031724-20161022235234/@comment-366087-20161212122359

Good try. I just watched that scene again.

What was happening was Twilight's fear of losing control almost allowed her to slip into her previous transformation of "Midnight Sparkle". The others. seeing the black wings sprout then gave her supportive encouragement, with the only one mentioning "Midnight Sparkle" being Sunset ("You are not midnight Sparkle!") since Sunset knew what it was like to allow darkness to overwhelm oneself as well as having already talked Twilight down from her prior Midnight form.

The words of the others does not really support that they "heard" Midnight but were just general words of support ("You are in charge!" "You are a light, Darling! A force for good!" "Yeah! You can kick the darkness' butt!" "We're here for you, Twilight!" "And we'll be here no matter what!" "We believe in you!") in reaction to Twilight appearing to lose control as she feared, but managed to get under control.

Bottom line, "Midnight" did NOT manifest and nothing suggests that "she" is anything more than a non-realized manifestation of an inner fear.