#MLPA:TLP

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Fine, I haven’t posted anything recently, so I’ll post some of the mlp:fis rewrite or au thing I did since I’ve had it for a while.

Just to first preface, my rewrite was basically to bring all the species and driving villains or storylines to be present at the beginning of the story. Just to tie it all together and make it not look like all the final aspects of the show were not thrown together. And I made some of the mane main six into some of those species, to further tie in our species and them coming together as a plot point derived from the beginning, not just added to the end to keep the show running and sell more toys. My fixation on this has died out a little while ago as my brain is rotting with Merlin right now. So I’ll explain how far I got with my concept, and as the story goes along I will show each character as they are introduced. This is all sketches, ruff drafts and concepts, but I enjoyed making it and I hope some of you will enjoy reading it and seeing my take on these redesigns. Some ponies will have two designs, to show how they may change during the story duration, or how they true selves, if hidden, will be revealed and accepted by everycreature. Also most in not all creatures have Cuite Marks now. Because I said so.

Without further ado, my take on My Little Pony Adventures: The Lost Pillars

So, this au begins with Twilight, of course researching Nightmare Moon. Coming to the conclusion that her return will be soon. Not as soon as before, but giving a longer time to build up to this. Celestial will tell her this is a childish thought, and remind her to return to her studies of Starswirl the Bearded and his mysterious companions. Not much is written about them and Twilight had been researching to try and find any information on the ponies. They were vaguely depicted in legends, but there truly was not much research. Celestial deems it best to send Twilight on a quest across the lands to dig up more information. Twilight agrees, to also use this as an excuse to research Nightmare Moon further, and now to defeat her. (Spike is included in this, he is just more baby like. And Twlight would instead be mother like to him. I just hadn’t drawn him as I had more focus on the mane six.)

On her search, Twilight will find a rather odd Pegasus going by the name Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash had asked for her help, trying to find out where the next Wonderbolt’s competition was. She’d been asking around, but people avoided her like the pledge. Something was just off about it. But Twilight, being to wrapped up in her research, didn’t notice these strange features about her, (how her tail resembled one of a unicorn’s and not a pegasus. Her hooves closer to earth pony’s, the small beard only carried by unicorns.) Rainbow now like a torn in her side got attached to the only pony who would help her. One of which had confessed her next stop was Griffenstone. Rainbow decides to tagalong, claiming she had a friend there. (Later it is revealed Rainbow Dash is a changeling, and one of the first to transform through giving love. She loved the wonderbolts, and flying. Having snuck into flying schools, doing the first sonic rainboom was when it happened. Changlings weren’t known to have cutie marks, but in giving love they are given one in this au)

Getting to Griffinstone, we encountered Pinkie Pie. The happiest Griffin Twilight and Rainbow had ever seen. Rainbow splits off for a bit to hang out with her old friend, Gilda. Pinkie would bounce between Twilight, asking about ponies since she’d never left her hometown before, and Rainbow, doing the same but seeing Gilda and Rainbow pull pranks, she would occasionally join in. Both would shoo her back and fore until Gilda hurts her feelings, and Twilight finally burst in frustration over being able to find none of Griffinstone’s legends. That’s when Pinkie is perky once more, since she knew everything about the children’s stories, and even where the library and everything was. This is the moment Twilight finds out the Six Pillars aren’t ponies at all. They were different species. But because there was such a divide among all the creatures, of course Pony legends wouldn’t know another of other creatures. Now Twilight knew she had to go to all the creature’s lands to find out their legends and figure out where all of them truly came from. Rainbow having her falling out with Gilda and following Twilight once more, since eventually Twilight was headed to where the next Wonderbolt event would be hosted to update Celestial on her findings. Pinkie now tagging along as she wanted to party and have fun with every creature and see new sites.

Hope you enjoyed my rambling first half of this story. How do you like it? Thought, opinions? I know, forced diversity on the mane six, but that isn’t uncommon. Thank you for reading and the next part will be on shortly!