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Designing a Character - Princess Ancora


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We are here at last, wow it really took me time work has been a blast and many other things came in the way but we are finally here the entry for the fourth of the corners, the first one to be considered as a defender of the realm and actually the leader of the corners. Princess Ancora, example of justice and banner of hope for Equestria.

 

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To start, yes she is an alicorn so you can start your witch hunt, bring the pitchforks and the torches I am ready for this, and why am ready for this well because she needs to be "close" to perfect. Why and alicorn? well to start because as you can see all other tribes of the pony kind have a representative withing the corners, Pegasus, Unicorns and Earth Ponies have their own hero and all of them were selected by this warrior princess. With this I try to bring balance to the "group of heroes" keeping an equilibrium with the tribes within the corners and what they mean to my idealization of the Equestria of the past.

 

I analyzed the alicornian characters on the show, you'll see they are there to be examples of perfection and virtue, even Twilight is growing to become like that, just like her Ancora is becoming something bigger guided by Celestia the difference is the time and situation of the world for Ancora are way more dark and terrible than the almost Utopian Equestria we know from the show.

 

 

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Working her desing was hard, considering she has to be something close to a warrior and a princess she had to show the beauty of the alicorn standard but also determination and discipline. All to fit with her personality, CM and role on the fic. Her name, Ancora, its a synonym for hope in Latin, this also flowing the "trend" of the princesses names at the series. Celestia, Luna Cadenza, are words in Latin, Spanish and Italian all of them Romance Languages so I chose Ancora to fit this into the style of the princesses. Also its an important symbolism for the character and the reason Celestia named her the defender of the east, Basically Ancora brings hope from the east with each one Celesta's suns from where it rise from.

 

 

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The whole deal between Ancora and Celestia is the main topic with this princess. While the younger one sees her as a mother and more Celestia has in Ancora a balm to heal the pain her heart feels because of the recent banishment of her younger sister. They both use one another to find happiness something that could end in terrible ways for them and all of Equestria.

 

 

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Well there she is, the last of the corners, As always you are more than welcome leave your comments . Next Blog will be of they as a group and will have some amazing artwork I manage to develop with some of the best artist in the fandom .

 

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That is some fantastic art, you got there.

 

Thanks, it was developed by To-Nio and Eosphorite from DA please support them =D

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