#star swirl the bearded

[moonypears-blog]

"Mr Cedric, do you think we're best friends in every universe?"

"Why of course, Alice."

"Potentially, my princess,"

[theknucklehead]

Here are the many costumes that the ponies wear on Nightmare Night (Equestria's Halloween)

Twilight Sparkle - Star Swirl the Bearded/a gladiator

Pinkie Pie - a chicken/80s Rollerblader

Rainbow Dash - a Shafowbolt/an astronaut

Applejack - a scarecrow/a lion

Rarity - a mermaid

Fluttershy - a masquerade dress (without the mask) and then later Flutterbat

Spike - a dragon/a two-headed dragon

The Cutie Mark Crusaders - the bride of Frankenstein, a vampire, and a wolf

A platypus, a Wonderbolt, and a Victoria era ballgown

And finally a bonus:

Derpy - paper bags/Princess Twilight

[majachee]

Cooking smth up...

[mylittlestims]

aroace dark academia starswirl the bearded?

AroAce Starswirl Stimboard with dark academia for Anon

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[my-little-pony-theories]

MLP:FIM Theory: Green Element of Harmony

A theory created by DRWolf001, suggesting that there is a hidden 7th Element of Harmony that is Scorpan/Spike's.

Watch his videos before reading this.

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Scorpan's Past

Canon: Tirek and his younger brother Scorpan first traveled to Equestria in the hopes of conquering it. Scorpan fell in love with the ponies and they're way of life, and became friends with Star Swirl swirl the Bearded.

Speculation: Scorpan finds Spike's dragon egg by itself just on the outskirts of the pony nation, and he decides to keep it.

Reasoning: Scorpan finding Spike and bringing him to the ponies is a reference to their G1 counterparts, where a similar thing took place.

Canon: In Princess Celestia's narration, she says Scorpan went back to his homeland after Tirek's imprisonment.

Speculation: Instead of him immediately leaving after Tirek's imprisonment, in actuality he stayed in Equestria for some years.

After Stygian brought the Pillars together to defeat the Sirens, Scorpan became friends with them too.

Canon: When Stygian turned into the Pony of Shadows, the Pillars create the seed that would grow into the Tree of Harmony by fusing their magic into it.

Speculation: Scorpan was the one who inspired Star Swirl the Bearded to create the Seed. During the spell, Scorpan was in the room with the Pillars, so his magic unintentionally was added to the spell.

After the Pillars sacrifice themselves to defeat the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan decides to go back home.

Where did his element go?

Speculation: Before Celestia and Luna used the Elements to defeat Discord, Scorpan had returned to Equestria to see if the Tree had grown. He finds the Elements and removes the branch containing his Element. The branch he took is turned into the Staff of Sacanas after he removed the gem within it.

Reasoning: This is based on an unused concept for the movie, which would've shown that Scorpan was the original owner of the Staff of Sacanas before the Storm King stole it from him, and that the Staff was made from a branch of the Tree of Harmony.

Because his Element wasn't originally a part of the spell, the other 6 Elements work completely fine without it. However, with the combined power of all 7 Elements, they can do much more.

Scorpan and Spike

The Mane Six each share elements with the Pillars of Equestria. Spike and Scorpan are not only connected by the past, but share similarities with each other as well:

Scorpan was Star Swirl's first and closest friend, and Spike is Twilight's first and closest (non-blood related) friend.

Scorpan is the only non-pony member of his group of friends, and Spike is the same.

Scorpan is friendly to ponies, appreciates their way of life, and enjoys living with them, just like Spike.

Castle of Friendship

The Castle of Friendship was formed from the Chest of Harmony, which served as the seed that planted it. The Chest itself was a sprout from the Tree of Harmony.

When the Castle formed, it created a 7th chair for Spike, which it technically didn't need to do if he wasn't connected to the Tree of Harmony in the same way the Mane 6 ponies were. Spike's chair is closer to Twilight's.

Although, it's possible that since the Tree is somewhat self aware, it knew Spike was Twilight's assistant/best friend, and lived in the Castle as well, so that's why it created a 7th chair for him, closer to Twilight's.

Unknown Green Element of Harmony

Throughout the franchise, when images of the Elements of Harmony are shown both within the show or other material, sometimes a green element is shown, usually in the place of a different Element:

It could simply be an error.

However, there are some cases where the green element is shown with the other 6 Elements:

Each Element's color represents a part of the character's design that shares the same color:

Magenta: Twilight's cutie mark color

Orange: Applejack's coat color

Red: Part of Rainbow's mane and cutie mark color

Purple: Rarity's mane color

Pink: Fluttershy's mane and cutie mark color

Blue: Pinkie's eye and cutie mark color

Green: Spike's eye and spine color

Element Chart

Star Swirl the Bearded = Sorcery | Twilight Sparkle = Magic

Rockhoof = Strength | Applejack = Honesty

Flash Magnus = Bravery | Rainbow Dash = Loyalty

Mistmane = Beauty | Rarity = Generosity

Mage Meadowbrooke = Healing | Fluttershy = Kindness

Somnambula = Hope | Pinkie Pie = Laughter

Scorpan = Respect | Spike = Acceptance

BTW, Sunset Shimmer's Element is Empathy!

? = ? | Sunset Shimmer = Empathy

Stygian is meant to be Starlight Glimmer's parallel, so those two aren't Elements.

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There is a lot of glaring evidence here to suggest that this theory could be true. So much so, it makes me wonder if it's actually what they were foreshadowing and building up to... until Hasbro had them do the School of Friendship storyline instead.

The storyline for Season 8 would've been completely different, it instead being a continuation of setting up the Pillars in Season 7.

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

A younger Scorpan and Star Swirl.

Headcanons about Scorpan:

Scorpan was Star Swirl's first real friend!

Despite being bigger than them (and most ponies) Scorpan is younger than the Pillars.

After Tirek's imprisonment, Scorpan had returned home to tell his parents the news. But after that, he had returned to Equestria. By the time Scorpan came back, Stygian had already brought the Pillars together to defeat the Sirens, so Scorpan wasn't around for that. Scorpan reunited with Star Swirl and became friends with the other Pillars.

Scorpan helped the Pillars create the seed that would become the Tree of Harmony, but asked Star Swirl not to record his involvement (for unknown reasons).

After the Pillars sacrificed themselves to defeat the Pony of Shadows, Scorpan returned to his homeland once again.

Scorpan had found Spike's egg by itself in the middle of nowhere, and decided to take it with him. Scorpan decided to give it to Star Swirl, who gave it to Celestia and Luna. This is a reference to Generation 1 obviously.

The same way the Mane 6 got their elements from the Pillars, Spike got his element from Scorpan.

Scorpan's friendship with Stygian is similar to Spike's friendship with Starlight Glimmer.

Years after the Tree of Harmony grew, Scorpan returned to Equestria to take a branch from the Tree, and created the Staff of Sacanas.

[mlpoutofcontext]

[snowyllama-art]

[cartoon-angerr]

My favorite old fictional men with beards 💚 (i have gone insane)

Starswirl…

…and Discord!

These two are literally so amazing I love them so so so much okay like RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH me when friendship is magic

[littlecowmoo]

Made some human au of the pillars

[hallow-graves]

ponies AUTISM BLAST

[character-tournaments]

MLP Tourney: Round 1- Match 11/26

[parrpitched]

Star Swirl is my forgetful artist. He's, over the years he's been alive, has let his studies control his life. Not out of anything other than pure passion of the craft. Constantly goaded to eat by those who care for him most, he only eats when it's most optimal for work.  

I also imagine him being much more Scrooge-like than his show counterpart. He's more uptight and by-the-book than even Twilight in the early seasons. If it's not in his nature to do it, he won't. __________________ Interested in seeing these posts ahead of time? Check out my patreon for early access to posts and comic pages a month in advance!  Patreon Link here!  Check out my comic, The Special Talent Initiative; An MLP Reimagining, here! Do not repost/trace/copy my artwork without my permission!

[andresin-commissionsopen]

Star Swirl has the oldest PonXbox known in Equestria.

Yes, this wasn't even the tenth time.

[my-little-pony-theories]

Sounds about right ✅

In the show, the Pillars of Equestria poured some of their magic together to create the seed that would grow into the Tree.

In the season 10 comics...

Ok...

This is Star Swirl's response:

Ok.

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

I really think G5 should've been a PREQUEL to G4, instead of a sequel. It could've been about the pillars, or Celestia and Luna as kids, or the founders of Equestria, etc.

That's actually a really great idea. G5 being in the same universe as G4 was most likely a last minute decision made by Hasbro in order to get G4 fans to care about G5, which would explain a few things.

But if they really wanted to do that, why not make it a prequel that doesn't completely destroy the established world, and make everything blander by having it take place in a modern society with smartphones and social media? Lol

The prequel G5 could've shown any number of things:

The founders of Equestria bringing the three pony kinds together and creating Equestria. 

The Pillars of Equestria, who were brought together by Stygian to defeat the Sirens. It could've focused on their adventures. 

Celestia and Luna as kids. It could've shown their backstory and how they became separated from the other alicorns. Starswirl finds them and takes them in, training them to be the rulers of Equestria. 

Luna's descent into Nightmare Moon over the course of the show.

The backstory behind Alicorns and where they came from. BTW, they gave away where Alicorns come from in a THROWAWAY LINE in G5.

They could've adapted some of the Fiendship is Magic issues that showed how certain villains came to be (Tirek, Chrysalis, Sombra). Some other villain backstories too, how they rose to power, and their defeats.

Princess Cadence and Spike's origins. Their parents, how they became separated from them, and them being found and brought to Equestria. 

I could go on, honestly. But you get the point.

Hasbro doesn't actually own all of the rights to G4, they share it with Discovery Family. So whenever G5 shows or talks about something from G4, Hasbro has to pay royalties to Discovery Family…

So instead of having the prequel G5 be exclusively on a streaming service, or YouTube Kids, they could've just… made the show on Discovery Family, the same as G4. That way they don't have to pay extra money for no reason…

Whatever 😅 I'll stop b**ching