#ShiningDence

[cloudroots]

Name: Princess Maiden Bloom

aka Princess Mia Figlia Sboccia, Maiden, Mai(pronounced May), Bloomy

Pronouns: She/her

Parents: Princess Cadence and Guard Prince Shining Armor

Siblings: Scarlet Heart

Bio:

-Her bio is spoilers-

Might update later

A lot of what I would put as her bio is spoilers for Scarlet’s story, since their stories are linked together as siblings.

She tries her best to be the best princess she can be for her people.

Cutiemark: Blue sharp tall crystals breaking through a crack of a polished rock. Different kinds of flowers are beneath the crystals and rock. Flowers include calla lilies, delphiniums, many roses and a main yellow rose. There’s also gold leaf framing the mark at the bottom.

This cutiemark represents her talent in using flower language to keep her kingdom and those she loves safe. It also represents her connection to princesshood and the Crystal Empire.

You also get a close look of her Cutiemark, because I spent way too long on it, and her royal attire

[kindheart525]

Name: Crystal Princess Flurry Heart  Nicknames: Flurry, Xx_Darkness_xX, Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way Parents: Shining Armor and Crystal Empress Cadence  Siblings: Swift Valor, Indigo Sprint, Veuve en Deuil, Amour Étreinte Future Partner: Luster Dawn Future Children: Solar Sapphos  Personality: No one feels pain as deeply as Flurry Heart does. No one suffers like she does. She is different. She is alone. Flurry is convinced that nobody understands her pain of having her family torn apart, but really she is grossly overreacting over her parents’ amicable divorce. She is extremely selfish and insecure, acting like nobody else’s problems are as bad as hers. She naively thinks that with enough effort, her parents will get back together, but really she is the only one who hasn’t moved on. Her only comforts, in her view, are her girlfriend Luster Dawn and her rock band, but even they are getting sick of this act. They prefer the well-read and emotionally articulate filly they knew to this mare. Cutie Mark: A black snowflake. 

[carouselunique]

Designed a proper Flurry Heart after making the April Fools version! Since the Crystal Empire is in the frozen north, I gave her fancy winter wear!

[raspberry-and-friends]

Name: Princess Cadance Pie

Gender: Cisgender Female (She/Her)

Sexuality: Pansexual-Polyamorous

Partner(s): Captain Shining Armor Sparkle [PAST—DECEASED], Cheesecake Pie (MtF Cheese Sandwich) and Captain Sediment Pie (FtM Maud Pie) [CURRENT]

Children: Princess Flurry Heart Cake (25), Kindred Spirit Pie, Olive Branch Pie, and Tough Cookie Pie (all 18)

Headcanons and disclaimers below the cut 👇👇

🩷 Has an ongoing open relationship with her spouses, Cheesecake and Sediment. Though she isn’t currently dating anyone outside her marriage at the moment, Cadance has previously had flings with ponies such as Scarlet Heart, Ms. Peachbottom, Fleur De Lis, Royal Pin, and Donut Joe. The throuple is well-known for being the most genuine, compassionate, kind-hearted bunch in all of Equestria, and have bushels of love to go around : )

🩷 When she and her partners finally agreed on having children together, Cadance decided on a spell that would combine all three of their genes into one foal. Cheesecake happily volunteered to carry the baby, buuut... something went wrong. Instead of changeling all her magic into one carrier, Cadance made a mistake in the incantation and all three of them ended up pregnant. Eventually, she gave birth to her and Sediment’s child (Olive Branch), Sediment gave birth to her and Cheesecake’s child (Tough Cookie), and Cheesecake gave birth to her and Cadance’s child (Kindred Spirit).

🩷 Has a biiit of a nasty sweet tooth. Cheesecake learned that the hard way, after walking in on her wife devouring her wife’s secret candy stash one evening. This resulted in a lengthy lecture about “not touching Cheese’s Special Sweet Stash”, much to Cadance’s embarrassment.

🩷 Is permanently crystal-ized, and switches between liking her extra shine and absolutely despising it. “I can’t fly anywhere outside the Crystal Empire without practically blinding everypony I meet!”

***DISCLAIMER: In this AU, The princesses DIDN’T hand off their powers to Twilight, and still remain the primary rulers of Equestria during the course of this story. The illustrations and writing (the latter of which has since been revised to fix previously missed grammatical errors and to more closely align with my current headcanons) were done back in 2020-2021 and posted to my now-inactive DeviantArt account. The signature ‘Hun’ reflects the name I went by at the time, Hunter.***

[fluffyplushiez]

A new reference for one of my shiningdance kids! Flower Power is a rap/pop singer

Read more about her here

[sunshine-sparkle]

Quick sketchy Even Beat, my ShiningDence next gen.

[cerenemuxse]

muxse's ship list

Thomas and Friends / The Railway Series

Edward x James - #a dozen years | #ttte edward x james

Thomas x Ryan x Ashima - #vibrant skies | #ttte thomas x ryan x ashima

Gordon x Rebecca - #opposite cardinals | #ttte gordon x rebecca

Flying Scotsman x City of Truro - #stolen records | #ttte city of truro x flying scotsman

Henry x Hiro - #ttte henry x hiro

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Edward x Emily

Edward x Emily x James

Thomas x Ryan

Thomas x Ashima

Ryan x Ashima

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP G4)

Rainbow Dash x Soarin - #clippercrash | #soarindash

Fluttershy x Discord - #fluttercord

Rarity x Applejack - #rarijack

Twilight Sparkle x Flash Sentry - #twiflash

Starlight Glimmer x Sunburst - #starburst

Yona x Sanbar - #yonabar

Shining Armor x Princess Cadance - #shiningdance

Big Mac x Sugar Belle - #sugarmac

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Twilight Sparkle x Rainbow Dash

Starlight Glimmer x Trixie

Rarity x Fancypants

Octavia x Vinyl Scratch

Hellaverse (Hazbin Hotel + Helluva Boss)

Blitzo x Stolas - #mixed low signals | #stolitz

Asmodeus x Fizzarolli - #circus showstoppers | #fizzmodeus

Misc.

Po x Tigress (KFP) - #china teapots | #kfp tipo

Queen Poppy x Branch (Trolls) - #broppy

[cosmicriff]

Flaminn, Linda/Bob, Cadance/Shining, Cleo/Fridah

Flaminn

If they wanted to they could make it work now that they're more mature. They were so perfect for each other

BobLin

Shiningdance

Khalopatra

I actually haven't watched the new season yet but I love them from what I've seen

[perenlop]

top of my head abt this hc universe/nextgen hmmm

-honestly probably stopping strict canon at season 4 bc i have no clue what starlight is up to and im probably gonna keep her a villain lol. picking and choosing whats canon tho like the student six and flurry heart. oh also school of friendship isnt canon lmao the student six are just friends

-stealing this from drake but twilight and discord become really good friends and work on magic together. they may never quite see eye to eye bc their magic contrasts one another (harmony vs chaos) but they see past that and really mesh well together

-on that note discord doesnt have kids at all lol hes not interested in romance or kids or any family nonsense. so in this nextgen hes more of an uncle thats a bad influence

-sombra probably gets revived and redeemed purely for the rarity descendant hc deal

-cmc get different cutie marks although apple bloom’s basically has the same concept where she helps ponies find their talents. also story of the blanks is canon bc fuck it

-planned kiddos i have is at least one rarijack kid that i doodled on a whim, i imagine they have a big family actually but i do not have ideas for them so idk. idk if im that committed to this.

-pinkiedash has 3 kids, two older pegasus twins (blueberry drizzle who ive drawn and sugar rush who i havent drawn) and kinda troola-roola? except shes really g3 rarity except i obviously cant have her be a unicorn w that name. cmon just LOOK at her, thats a pinkiedash baby. yes ik she showed up in g4. fame and misfortune isnt canon here tho so

-fluttershy single no kids queen bc despite this kinda being the point of nextgens i did not feel comfortable giving everyone a babies ever after treatment like thats the expected life path you have to follow. like ik nextgens arent saying you suck if you dont have kids, i love nextgens a lot but idk.

-twiset has two kids, luster dawn since she looks like a twiset baby and an alicorn kid “nightfall glisten”. bc flurry should have a born alicorn cousin to mentor i think. oh also shiningdance also has more kids idk i have not thought abt them

thats kinda it rn. how do people make nextgens of all the supporting characters tbh, no shame i just dont know how u keep up with them sjfjfjf

oh yeah i said i was contemplating a mlp nextgen. well. idk abt that rn chief sorry

[cloudroots]

Cloudverse // Babyboy baby

Prev // Next

Back at it again with a monthly post :D

I wanted to show a little more of Scarlet’s life before I actually get into his arc, because it starts when he’s starting school and I thought going from being born directly to school was strange to me.

Because of this, you all get some cute family fluff :)

Went a little over board with this, but it’s cute so whatever. I put some closeups of my favorites at the end as well.

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Cadence and Shining love being parents, and they absolutely adore their little bundle of joy, Scarlet Heart. Of course being parents, especially new parents isn’t always fun or easy, but that doesn’t stop them from taking a million of pictures with their baby boy.

Above shows a bunch of the moments the family has shared with each other. And even though not much are happening I will give some short explanations for them:

The first one is an example of baby Scarlet Heart. I wanted to show how he would look with his colored lines and to show off his mane. His mane is eternally messy and won’t look the same from moment to moment.

A sweet bonding moment between Shining Armor and Scarlet.

Cadence learned quickly that babies like to grab and pull on hair. After a few times of Scarlet pulling on her scalp, she decides to change up her mane style to keep it out of the way. Shining does the same.

One night when Scarlet had the hardest time falling asleep. Shining stayed up with him while looking over some important papers relating to the empire. Scarlet finally falls asleep on his father’s lap.

A temper tantrum of the prince

Cadence made the cutest onesie, and it suits her son perfectly for the winter months.

Shining finds out the hard way how messy young foals can be.

Cadence has a lot of experience with entertaining foals, here she puts her stories and games to good use.

Little doodle of Scarlet to fill some empty space

Scarlet being cute looking at some bugs

Cadence looking at her family with love as they cuddle together for the night. Scarlet has a better time staying asleep when near his parents, so they do this quite a bit.

Another empty space filler

How the prince looks right before the next part. He’s around five here, excited to start school and meet new ponies :D

I loved putting all these cute scenes together! I hope you all enjoyed them too.

I got Shining's chair from here

[gelidponies]

Flurry matured quite a bit in her older years and styled her mane to suit her demeanor a bit more. Her role in the whole scheme of things is organization and paperwork, handling the elites of Canterlot and the nonsense bureaucracy that comes with it. She's incredibly intelligent and observant, with a great memory to boot. All the years of Twilights tutoring paid off. With her mothers influence she also became silver tongued, using her knowledge of ponies to get things done.  Cheese only matured somewhat, with the guidance of her tutor and lifelong friend Flurry they grow up to be a Hacktivist. Somepony who gains unauthorized access to computer files or networks in order to further social or political ends. She's a big bleeding heart and willing to anything for what they think is right. However, she also tends to be a bit of an airhead and can take unneeded risks...their accuracy rate not distracting from the point. Either way, the pair of them adore eachother to no end. Cheese being the only pony who can crack through her Princess' icy exterior. What with her games and stupid puns and pranking ponies she doesn't like.  She goes by Princess Heart or Flurrence depending, while her mentees real name is Raspberry Confetti Creme, Lil Cheese being her online alias.

[carouselunique]

Attempt #2 at Redesigning Honeycrisp!

Crackships are dumb, maybe I should just retire Honeycrisp and replace her with the far superior and brand tested universally beloved Flurry Heart!

Making ocs is cringe anyway, sticking to canon is what gets you popular!

[raspberry-and-friends]

“Eek! I ship it!”

Name: Princess Flurry Heart Cake

Nickname(s): Flurry, Mommy/Fluffy (Buttercream), Lovebug (Pumpkin)

Species: Alicorn (an exact 50/50 unicorn and Pegasus mix, hence the unicorn hooves and pegasus tail)

Gender: Cisgender female (she/her)

Sexuality: Pansexual

Age: 25

Parents: Princess Cadence Pie and Captain Shining Armor Sparkle [DECEASED], Captain Sediment Pie (FtM Maud Pie) and Cheesecake Pie (MtF Cheese Sandwich) (stepparents)

Sibling(s): Kindred Spirit Pie, Olive Branch Pie, Tough Cookie Pie (younger triplet siblings)

Partner(s): Pumpkin Cake

Children: Princess Bedazzled Buttercream Cake

Headcanons and disclaimers below the cut 👇👇

Personality: Extroverted, sappy, optimistic, a hopeless romantic, and almost always knows exactly what somepony needs to make them feel better (“How did you know hyacinths were my favorite flower? You seem like a hyacinth kind of pony”).

Fatal Flaws: Nosy, obnoxious, clingy, has an accidental habit of interrupting ponies, and still has difficulty controlling her magic sometimes (when you possess the abilities of a full-grown alicorn as an infant, it’s not exactly easy to master them).

Oh, and she’s also cured… but we’ll get to that part soon enough ; )

Special Talent: Matchmaking

Cutie Mark Story: After her father, Shining Armor, passed away in battle when she was just a toddler, Flurry Heart was determined to find her grieving mother a new partner. Candance, once cheerful and full of life, had become a depressed shut-in who refused to speak to anyone outside the castle walls.

One day, the clever young filly hired a court jester—a cheerful party pony named Cheesecake—to entertain the sullen mare, and the two hit it off immediately. Cheesecake and her stallionfriend, Sediment Pie, both worked in the crystal empire as an entertainer and guards-pony respectively. All three of their personalities intwined perfectly, with just the right amount of playfulness and hardworking spirit to get the job done.

This is precisely why nopony was surprised when they finally made their relationship public. Sediment became the leader of the crystal guard, while Cheese worked as the head party planner of the empire.

And where was Flurry in all of this? Writing the invitations to their future wedding of course! All while being one of the youngest ponies in her family to get her cutie mark.

Base by SelenaEde

***DISCLAIMER: In this AU, The princesses DIDN’T hand off their powers to Twilight, and still remain the primary rulers of Equestria during the course of this story. The illustrations and writing (the latter of which has since been revised to fix previously missed grammatical errors and to more closely align with my current headcanons) were done back in 2020-2021 and posted to my now-inactive DeviantArt account. The signature ‘Hun’ reflects the name I went by at the time, Hunter.***

[fluffyplushiez]

A new reference for one of my shiningdance kids! Indigo Agate is a peacekeeper!

See more about him here

[sunshine-sparkle]

The Crystal Empire’s royal family: Princess Cadence, Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, and Even Beat.

Flurry is, of course, an alicorn and younger brother Beat is a Pegasus.

Made using this picrew: https://picrew.me/image_maker/94097?fbclid=IwAR0jXnarQY_eQQ2_uCQq14pl4pCZd1QU6UHShzKy2p2Y1sa4NZAUdu6vn2g

[lionmom-svenomverse]

Concept art for my ShiningDance family! More info/HCs on each below the cut!

💙 Captain/Queen Consort Shining Armor - Husband of Queen Mi Amore Cadenza “Cadance”. Ruler of the Crystal Empire. Captain of the Royal Guard. Older brother of Princess Twilight Sparkle and King Consort Spike Sparkle. Trans Bi Polyamorous Stallion (He/him). Unicorn (more specifically, a lunacorn). Descendant of Clover the Clever and Starswirl the Bearded.

💙 Queen Mi Amore Cadenza “Cadance” - Wife of Captain/Queen Consort Shining Armor. Ruler of the Crystal Empire. Princess of Love. Trans Pan Polyamorous Mare (She/her). Royal Alicorn. Descendant of Princess Amore and (possibly) G3 Star Catcher.

💙 Princess Flurry Heart - Eldest child of Shining Armor and Cadance. Crown Princess of the Crystal Empire. Genderfluid Pan Mare (Any pronouns). Royal Alicorn (with lunacorn attributes). Likes hanging out with her cousins and being a good older sister. Has winter-aligned magic, can conjure blizzards at will. A member of the Royal Guard. Special talent probably has something to do with her winter magic idk just yet. Playful but serious when she needs to be.

💙 Prince Sweet Brier Rose Quartz - 2nd child. Agender Aro/Ace Stallion (Any pronouns). 31 y/o. Pegasus. Likes flowers, calligraphy, playing the violin and nature documentaries. Special talent is fencing. Named after a type of rose, as well as the iconic gemstone. Based the green in their hair on Clover the Clever. Looks very intimidating but is a sweetheart and a gentle giant. Wanted to make him Aro/Ace because I think having one of Cadance’s kids be Aro/Ace is a cute concept, and also because MiyaTheGoldenFlower making Flurry Aro/Ace in her verse gave me the idea :]

💙 Prince Concord Beaunoir - 3rd child. Trans Aro/Pan Stallion (He/him). 29 y/o. Unicorn (with lunacorn attributes). Likes alcohol, attention, playing the guitar, wooing anyone he comes across and needle felting. Special talent is wine making. Named after a type of grape as well as a type of wine. Likes attention but doesn’t desire a romantic partner. A cocky bastard but genuinely kind at heart.

💙 Princex Apollo L’Amour Sparkle - 4th child. Nonbinary Demi/Poly Pony (They/them). 26 y/o. Pegasus (with lunacorn attributes). Likes comic books, tabletop roleplaying, coffee, shounen anime and sci-fi literature. Special talent not yet decided. Named after the Greek god of the sun as well as 2 different cultivars of strawberries. Also named after their resemblance to their aunt, Princess Twilight Sparkle. Fairly shy and knowledgeable just like Twi, yet nowhere near as anxious. They’re just chillin!

💙 Princess Ruby Raspberry Chocolate - 5th child, twin sister of Eros. Trans Lesbian Mare (She/her). 22 y/o. Earth pony (with lunacorn attributes). Likes sweets, botany, stained glass art, cartoons and chick flicks. Special talent not yet decided (maybe something along the lines of food?). Partially named after the newest type of chocolate, and shares part of her name with Ruby Roman Rainier, son of Mica (Marble) Pie and Cherry Jubilee. Very excitable; loves everyone and everything. Surprisingly not as self-conscious about being the only Earth Pony in the family as you might think. Has a lot of love in her heart. The brains to Eros’ brawn.

💙 Prince Eros Eversweet Pomegranate - 5th child, twin brother of Ruby. Cis Gay Stallion (He/him). 22 y/o. Common Alicorn (with lunacorn attributes). Likes helping others find love, fairy tales, pie, crocheting and birdwatching. Special talent is matchmaking. Named after the Greek god of love/a cultivar of strawberry and a cultivar of pomegranate. Very calm and relaxed, but quick to anger if you hurt his loved ones. Regardless, he’s a sweet guy and is friends with pretty much everyone. I had a lot of fun designing everyone!! I took a lot of inspiration from other MLP/MLP NG artists but also came up with some ideas myself. I first saw the heart-shaped horn concept from @/fastserve, the Royal Alicorn HC from @/lieutenantcactus, and the concept of lunacorns (or moonicorns) from @/Lopoddity. Ngl I was a bit intimidated when it came to designing the other 5 ShiningDance kids because I wanted to make them look good, but I'm really happy with how they came out! I personally don’t mind straying into more common NG design tropes because at the end of the day we’re all just making kids for candy-colored horses, so it’s supposed to be a lil self-indulgent, but I did try to make something different. Can’t say I’ve seen a lot of ShiningDance kids with green hair! But yeah. Just a reminder that their designs could change whenever I get to making their actual refs (and I’m still only on S4, so I still have 5 seasons worth of lore/character stuff to eventually take into account), but for now I’m having fun doing these headshots. The next design choice to tackle will be their cutiemarks, which I know I’m gonna struggle with, but we'll get there when we get there