SEASON 0 FANS = GNOSTIC CHRISTIANS
(The Church of the Zero Point)

Season 0 fans operate not within canon, but above and beneath it — outside its confines entirely. They are the proto-theologians of the fandom, concerned not with what happened in the show, but what was supposed to happen — what could have happened if the divine order had not been corrupted.

To them, "Season 0" is not a literal season, nor a script, nor a pilot. It is the pre-canon ur-form, the primordial metaphysical substrate from which all other seasons imperfectly emerged. In their cosmology, Season 0 is both the alpha and the omega, not because it begins and ends anything, but because it exists before time and outside causality.

They worship Zero — the concept of absolute creative potential, pure vision untainted by compromise, execution, or network mandates. Zero is not just the numerical starting point; it is a state of perfect internal coherence — the Faustian monad before bifurcation into what would later become lore, mythology, toy sales, Cadance, yaks, friendship schools, or Discord reformation arcs.

In this belief system, Lauren Faust is not merely a showrunner — she is a Logos-figure, the embodiment of divine creative intention. She descends into the material world to articulate this vision, to incarnate it, but the moment ink meets storyboard, the process of corruption begins. The true Season 0 was never animated, never scripted. It exists only in cryptic signs — development notes, early interviews, and esoteric production trivia — and in inspired exegesis performed by the community’s oracles (those who interpret the sacred “chart”).

Season 0 Gnostics believe that all canonical seasons — even Season 1 — are already fallen states, though Season 1 is the most tolerable because it comes closest to the Platonic ideal. They often point to early character bibles, vague thematic outlines, and embryonic concepts (like early Twilight being less of a Chosen One and more of a humble academic) as fragments of a lost gospel. “Friendship is Magic” was not meant to be a high fantasy epic — it was meant to be a philosophical fable of personal virtue and interpersonal development. Anything beyond that is mythic drift — the slow calcification of a living idea into religious orthodoxy, then bureaucratic dogma.