I figured that some of the events happened but were overshadowed.IceKitsune wrote:How did the Tirek timeline happen? There is almost no logical way for the timeline to get that far without the elements.
my thoughts are this:
any timeline where Nightmare Moon is seemingly absent/Luna is there, maybe Sunset Shimmer was still Celestia's student and was able to get a weakened form of the elements. a form that discord was more able to overcome.
where discord is absent, maybe he was never accidentally released by anyone,so he';s still a statue. or he was beaten by Tirek in that timeline.
of course Chrysallis's absence could pretty much always be explained away as her having been beaten/not had the chance to execute her plan without the royal wedding.
Sombra's absence could be explained the same way, since he was pretty easy to beat.
Tirek's absence could just be cause something changed to keep him in Tartarus longer.
again, I have no idea where the Flim Flam timeline came from, unless all that was was them tearing up Sweet Apple Acres.
no matter what, these timelines are more believable than other alternate timeline stories, where the past is changed before any of the main characters are born but they still end up being born the same way. everything that's the same existed before the change.