#G4 Racing

[meteor752]

Honestly the story of mlp must be very weird from the pov of a random guy in ponyville, like one day a new antisocial librarian moves into town, and like a year later that librarian ascends into godhood and becomes the new ruler of the entire world

[shyhandart]

We should be so lucky to get Asks from you! I love the pink pony with three legs you uploaded a while ago, you did a great job with her.

Could I get an Octavia? She's my favourite, no surprise. If that's not okay, please draw the pink pony again! I love her mane.

Im so glad you like her!! I'll definitely draw sweetpea more.

Im not super into Octavia but i think shes cute. She gave me very square and sturdy energy for some reason whilst also being rather elegant. I found that combo odd as i typically associate elegance with smoother, flowing shapes. But she spoke to me and who was i to disagree

[ponku-po]

Windigo - MelodyLibris

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[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

Not anything physical, that's for sure.

[pcktknife]

idgaf what lauren faust say earth pony pinkie>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>pegasus pinkie FOREVER

[dapper-lil-arts]

Someone else asked if there was a penguin nazi in g1 and I wanted to clarify that

Yes yes there was

sure I'll add that to my list of beliefs

[stabby-pal]

[aramintamour]

went on a nostalgia trip and revisited mlp, so let me just dump my hc that these are all East Asian coded characters here ♡ 🎀

[vaugarde]

The gay tension between Izzy Moonbow and Sunny Starscout in the g5 comics

[ara270904]

I took Shining Armor's horn off. I chose that image specifically because he looks silly and I love him.

I made him an earth pony because I thought what if I removed shining's horn? So I found an image and then edited it to remove the horn and ta-da!

I think I've seen several alicorn shining armor but I think I've never seen a Shining Armor being pegasus or earth pony.

It's an interesting idea in my opinion, How would being an Earth pony affect Shining and his family? Would he have the same cutie mark? Despite everything, he would become a Royal Guard? A captain?

The wedding would change a lot because there would be no magic barrier because there is no magic. The thing about the dark crystals on the horn is not a problem either, because again there is no horn.

And that's the best part some parts of Shining is his magic, what would happen if you take it away? Excellent character that he could be.

[g4zdtechtv]

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And the one that started it all.

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[heilos]

Living Harmony AU relevant character sheets/info: Harmony aka the "Tree of Harmony" Stygian Shadow Lock Starswirl the Bearded Somnambula is the next pillar up on the list with an updated design, courtesy of my buddy Ori, and a fresh character sheet from me. Her and Mistmane are the two pillars that ended up getting a species swap with their rewritten backstories for this AU. Bat ponies were super underutilized in the MLP G4 show and the idea of Somnambula and her town being mostly made up of Egyptian fruit bat ponies was super fun to think about. Listed below is some character and story context for these sketches provided by my myself and Ori like usual. Hope you enjoy!

Pillar of Aspiration

Bat pony from ancient Neighgypt

Comes from a village made up of mostly bat ponies with some of the other standard pony races sprinkled in and a healthy population of anubis style diamond dogs

Not a princess, but the equivalent of high nobility in her culture. Had cash to burn and was very generous in giving her wealth to the less fortunate in her village be it money, food, clothing etc...

Was also an advisor to the Pharaoh and Prince Hisan

Her village was trapped in a collective dream by a huge mythical Sphinx that hails from the dream realm. It would have turned Somnambula’s ponies into dreamless husks had she not broken free and solved the Sphinx’s riddles, which were the basis of its magic.

Somnambula’s artifact, the Sphinx’s Crescent Moon, is a trinket she stole straight from the Sphinx’s headpiece. Affixing it to her tiara, it allows her free travel between the dreaming and physical realms. Though, spending so much time in the Dream Realm as a mortal pony has its consequences…

Gained a weird aura about her after breaking the Sphinx’s spell. A small radius around her is folded into dream space, which makes it difficult to perceive her normally. She’s essentially a friendly cognitohazard. Take a good look, because you won’t be able to recall her face later. Lucid dreamers can see past this effect.

Has a somewhat eerie quality to her that she likes to play up. Dispenses philosophical queries just to mess with ponies such as: “Perhaps I am merely a fruit bat dreaming that she is a pony” or “Perhaps this is a dream, you don’t know!”

Has sharp teeth, but they’re meant for biting into fruits. Sometimes will joke about "gobbling" someone up if they get too close

Sleeps like a regular bat by hanging upside down. The bottom of bat pony hooves can grip many different surfaces for this purpose

Firmly believes in making your dreams into reality

Ancient Equestrians would call upon her name for protection in their dreams

Dream walked so Princess Luna could dream run

Somnambula is Luna's favorite pillar and legend

Is celebrated with a statue of her in the center of the town “Somnambula” in modern Equestria. However it incorrectly depicts her as a pegasus pony instead of a bat pony due to wibbly wobbly history record keeping and/or the strange dream like effect that surrounds her

Somnambula’s Weather Abjuration (The Crystalling Part 2 - 16:26) is a spell named after her, though she herself had no hoof in its creation. It’s very likely that this weather ward was made after the perception of Somnambula shifted into her being a pegasus

Somnambula redesign by Orin331

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

Protect bad dragons

[pink-pone]

dragony looore, for anyone who's curious (me and like 1 person??)

in my version of MLP g4, the Gingerverse, there are multiple hybrid pony races: canine ponies, feline ponies, and mentioned above, dragonies. so far, their lore is mainly in my head, but very slowly and randomly, i plan to elaborate on it!! so uhhhhhh enjoy? happy to answer any questions but i totally get that this interests me and probably me alone lol, so no worries there

[holyghostflo]

Ok, it's been a quite a while since I've done one of these, so buckle up. I've got a big one for you to today:

Izzy Moonbow's sparkle sense.

Now, my opinion on G5 as a whole is... not great. The generation had a whole lotta interesting ideas that were either executed poorly or never really explored.

In the case of Izzy's talent for seeing sparkle, after the movie, it's mentioned very little and rarely with any real story or character intent. (Not saying all traits of a character must do this. Some can be charming and lovable without having much of a point. This isn't one of those cases.)

-but I like stories, and I like Izzy, so let me cook for a sec.

The first time Izzy ever mentioned "Sparkle" was with Sunny on their way to Zephyr Heights.

"You know, your Sparkle? Yours is... lavender."

Two things:

One, the more obvious point: Sparkle might be alluding to Twilight Sparkle, the literal pony embodiment of magic.

Two, Izzy notes that Sunny's Sparkle is a specific color, meaning that, whatever she's seeing isn't just a sparkly something... it's a COLORFUL sparkly something.

Now, let's rewind back to G4 for a bit.

What's sparkly, colorful, and magically comes from ponies?

That's right. Their magical Aura.

Izzy can see the literal magical aura of other ponies, regardless of their race. (As opposed to G4, where it was only clear what color unicorns and Alicorns magical aura was because.... well, yeah.)

This could've been EXTREMELY interesting.

How, you may ask?

Allow me to demonstrate.

In G4, the color of a pony's Aura usually followed a rule: It had to match either their eyes or their cuite mark.

Twilight's aura was hot pink/fushia, which matched her cutie mark.

Rarity's aura was a crystal blue, which matched both her eyes AND her cutie mark.

Other examples include, but are not limited to:

Sweetie Belle - light green = her eyes

Celestia - sulight yellow = her cutie mark

Shining Armor - hot pink/fushia - his cutie mark

Lyra Heartstrings - golden yellow = her eyes + cutie mark

Starlight Glimmer - cyan = cutie mark

-and so on, and so forth.

Now, going back to Izzy, she told Sunny her Sparkle was the color lavender.

Notice how that doesn't really seem to follow the rule.

However, doesnt that specific color remind you of anypony?

Sunny's magic being the color of Twilight Sparkle had SO many implications.

Was she physically related to Twilight Sparkle in some way?

Was the color just a neat little hint that Sunny was basically the next in line to fill Twilight's shoes?

Plot concepts, people. Plot concepts!

Having a pony who can see the magic emanating off of other ponies is tremendous for telling us things about other characters and their possible role in the story.

-AND G5 DID NOTHING WITH THIS.