#theres no way she wouldnt be his favorite pony

[omnipotentfool]

Rising up from the grave because I was talking about Batman ships in my GC and my friend thought that Twiddler was Twilight Sparkle x Riddler. This is arguably the funniest outcome.

[mbat]

every day i wonder what happened during the design process of equestria girls for them to all come out the way they did. i can see where the skirts thing came from cause they wanted them to be undeniably girly i guess or whatever but. every other weird decision is just confusing

like fluttershys whole outfit, the shortish skirt but especially the tank top. maybe its meant to indicate that shes outdoors a lot with animals, but it completely betrays her shyness and tendency to try and hide herself

they kinda messed up big mac and shining armor? mostly shining armor. his jaw could slice metal. why he look like that

also i only realized while looking at the characters that. okay i was just going to say 'lol cheerilees hair is stupid its like 1 foot taller than her head, why didnt they just give her normal bangs wtf' and i still mean that but then i realized... they swapped her mane and fur colors for her human counterpart ??? so now her usually darker coat and light hair became dark hair and light skin ??

which leads me to the point about the skin colors being weird. like. i dont like how they lightened them up, i dont like how aj and big mac have human skin colors (i have to assume maybe they thought for them that the colors looked bad, or possibly even close to caricature territory, especially with big mac), and the way they outright lightened up the colors of at least 2 normally darker ponies? like i said, cheerilee, but also

luna. even back when i first saw the movie and adored it, i DID NOT like the princesses designs. how did they fuck up some of the best characters in the show, especially the ones that are the prettiest (imo).

i would say that of the 3, cadence is the most okay design (i know we dont see her in the first movie just roll with me here). its clearly her, she looks like her and has her vibe (visually), all around not bad. not necessarily my favorite, theres still something slightly off? but it doesnt rub me the wrong way

celestia... i dont like her vibe. who is she. shes light pink and she has hair spikeys that are meant to look like a crown but just made it look like she didnt brush her hair properly. she has celestias hair but her face does not read like celestia to me. she looks like an imposter. where is my mother

and finally. the pinnacle of the issues with the designs. luna.

WHO IS SHE. THAT OUTFIT? NOT LUNA. THAT HAIR? YOU WOULDVE BEEN BETTER OFF JUST DOING A GRADIENT. OR PUTTING IN LITTLE STAR HAIR CLIPS. THAT FACE? THATS SOMEONES WINE MOM WHO SINGS EXTRA LOUD AT CHURCH. same critique about the hair spikeys as before. AND THE SKIN??? HELLO??? THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT GOT TURNED INTO PRINCESS OF MIDDAY. WHY.

the design of the show vs the movies is, i guess now literally, night and day. pony luna is so inspired and pretty and meant to invoke such regality, its very clear what her theme is, and she very much sticks out amongst the others, both in shape and details!

but the human version feels generic, she could easily be a background character (and she basically was), she feels unfinished, the colors on their own arent the worst but moreso feel insulting when compared to the original (i like the addition of pink/pinkish purple to the palette, but not so much to luna as a character. it just isnt her imo), she doesnt even look like an authority figure aside from obviously looking older than the other characters, let alone being someone meant to be somewhat equivalent to royalty. also again she was a minor character here but its like... her pony version has such a stone strong personality, both when shes freshly back from the moon and later on when shes more grounded and princess-like. human luna is just... generic teacher person. did human luna even ever experience significant isolation and feeling completely unseen by everyone she cared about? doubt it.

and yeah, they significantly lightened her skin ?? why ?? theres literally no reason to do that? she wouldnt look like a caricature unless you somehow chose the wrong colors (how possibly would you), and its not exactly impossible to draw characters with darker skin, again her pony form literally has a dark coat !! but also plenty of people have redesigned her human form to have the right skin color and they look great!! and in general obviously theres plenty of characters with dark skin, like... what was the reason they did that. it just feels gross.

dont cross me when it comes to luna dude i love her so much

anyway yeah its been over 10 years since EG first aired and i loved it back then and i still love it but i think a lot more about character designs now. mlp g4 is known for having these really pleasant and well put together designs with lovely colors (for the most part), its so weird how that gets easily messed up, like in g5, but also still in g4 itself(in the spinoffs and the main show lol)? wish i had the motivation to redesign them all lol, i probably will someday. please go look at redesigns theyre very lovely

[baylardo]

i just copy paste for Knowledge uwu 

heCKIGN head canons af amen IVE NEVER DONE THESE HONESTLY I WAS BORED AND NEVER TALK ABOUT THESE BUT NOW IM FEELING INVESTED

jacki hates it bUT I HAVE SHIPPED PIPSQUEAK AND LUNA SINCE BIRTH HECK ALL OF U i think their Plausible dynamic is so Complex and gucci I LOVE IT it wasn't like luna Raised Him or anything they wouldnt be in each others lives a lot while pip was a kid but luna always had this like,,,,, gratitude for him from That One Time AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WOULD HIT OFF IMMEDIATELY EITHER IT WAS KINDA THIS GRADUAL THING THAT HAPPENED they'd probs talk A Lot on walks, pip might have joined the royal guard maybe???? luna would highkey crush on him but kinda be really subtle and distant around him Shed Never Be The One To Initiate Anything Between Them i imagine shed be pretty hesitant to suggest Anything with pip bc its WEIRD when ur DATING A PRINCESS THEIR RELATIONSHIP IMPORTANTLY WOULD BE KEPT A SECRET BASICALLY THE WHOLE TIME, there wouldn't be much use of making it public anyway celestia would be against the relationship but support her sister nonetheless probably due to her own experience with similar matters they'd probs talk about aging and immortality, but pip would insist on leaving it be and basically dealing with it when they got there luna basically Always has this worried look on her when their being intimate but she loves him amen, eventually she feels the feels and loosens up a bit im definitely wanting to kill him off in a large battle or something because suffering is my kink and then she may or may not have a kid of his afterwords RIDICULED

UUUUUH SCORPAN AND TWILIGHT IS SO HECKGING CUTE TO ME I LOVE IT SO MUCH i first really saw the ship presented to me from Dunefilly on DA i hecking love A LOT OF HER SHIPS amen amen i feel like scorpan would return to equestria after hearing of starswirl's reappearance along with the other ancient elements along the way he'd stay many places and hear of stories involving a particular band of ponies infamous for spreading the power of friendship across the land; he'd delve more into it the more he learned, eventually it became the sole purpose of his journey to ponyville underneath being reunited with his close friend thats what that one doodle is anyway of that first interaction he'd have with twilight upon his arrival not long after he meets with starswirl with twilight taking him to him, though scorpan almost immediately points out the tension between the two ponies, specifically pointing out star swirl's degrading attitude toward the alicorn which had toned down a bit though not by much eventually in the reunion scorpan would probably stand up for twilight after starswirl bashing her rookie mistakes too many times, kinda like what starlight did but with a little more personal research to back up the claim on a lighter note the two would spend a lot of time relaying information to each other from their contrasting travels, etc etc i always felt like twilight needed an equal of sorts in a partner that wouldn't necessarily lean toward argument and rather socratic debate lmao also from what the comic shows of him when he was younger i feel like he'd really grow in confidence over the years and grow a capability to help others in that regard

celestia and YOUNG STARSWIRL would Totally be a fling starswirls so busy-minded and serious all the time, obviously has no friends basically LIKE TWILIGHT ORIGINALLY i imagine celestias a total flirt with stallions in general but i love the idea of her trying Literally Everything to get deadpan starswirl to SMIRK he's a little heartless though and celestias lonely so it works it'd be a long-term fling since theyre around each other so often though after he disappeared and then later reappeared many years later what little interest there was in the relationship was lost between both of them by the time they met up again celestia would gladly rekindle the flame though THERES REALLY NOTHING SENTIMENTAL TO THEM THOUGH i feel like dislestia as a ship is REALLY OVERDONE but man is she a ho for GRAY COLOR SCHEMED MEN, i love it bUT I WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS even in her personality like,,,, she too is constantly busy so i dont think shed have time for anything outside of the occasional one night stand

quibble pants and rainbow dash are so cute to mEEEEE RD seemed really fitting with a Not Sporty Guy plus she's the element of [Loyalty] so dang she committed to this corny guy quibbles really supportive of his gf and goes to whatever events he can without Dying it took him a while to believe shed saved the world multiple times probably this is impORTANT

AND LASTLY BECAUSE I SELF INDULGE CHERRY JUBILEE IS MY FAVORITE HORSE SO I GOTTA SHIP HER I KNOW SHE HAS A COMIC WHERE I THINK SHE GETS ENGAGED AT THE END I FORGET???? implying That Doesnt Work Out I LOOOOOOVE the idea of her and troubleshoes being a thing they seem really Streetcar Named Desire to me but NOT HECKIGN INSANE just like a really ditzy girl who's pretty and a big guy to protect her and help in her cherry orchards amen