Rain Crow

Another plus to removing the gradient would be less time and effort drawing the mark. Removing the leaves would also make it smaller.

I think what may be odd about it is that it has shading. All the ponies in the show have flat, unshaded cutie marks (of course, it might just be Flash). I'd suggest getting rid of the gradient and orange marks in the center of the big flower, and making the central flower a bit smaller.

That would be appreciated. I've sketched out the idea in Excel as sort of a chart. I could PM it to you.

Well, I've been further devolping th idea and it looks more like this now - Blossomforth moves to Ponyville, already knowing about the princesses. She moves into the house near Lyra and Octavia's studio. She learns that the princesses are expanding their kingdoms into each other's territory and beginning to squabble. After the six ponies (Lyra, Bon Bon, Octavia, Derpy and Blossomforth) confront Twilight, she admits that the subjects are becoming unnaturally greedy and wanting their kingdom to be bigger. Three elements (Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy staying behind) and three background ponies (excluding Octavia, Bon Bon, and Derpy) go in search of Celestia and Luna, whom Twilight claimed left Equestria after making the Elements princesses, and ask for their help. It is revealed Twilight exiled her because she was possessed by a spirit of greed and jealousy. The greed turns out to be a spell spread by Evil!Celestia out of spite. Celestia claims that the greed will only leave Ponyville if the princesses horns and/or wings are cut off in front of their subjects. When they arrive back in Equestria, Ponyville and the kingdoms have been torn apart by the greedy populace.The six background ponies hunt down the princesses one by one and cut off their horns and wings. The population's sadness and rage burns out the greed spell and they turn on the six background ponies. The BG ponies and princesses then flee. The princesses and BG ponies hide in a reclusive part of a mountain and plan to excorsize the greed spirit. The BG ponies that stayed behind tell about the greed demon, Abraxa. She used to move the various celestial in the sky, but when Celestia came about, she was overcome with greed and jealousy, and possessed her. She has waited a long time to strike. Abraxa ups and leaves when the ponies try to excorsize her, claiming she will return.

I've been planning my first fanfic for a while. The basic plotline goes something like this - Blossomforth arrives in Ponyville after a long absence. She learns that the Elements of Harmony have been made Princesses, and their kingdoms are slowly enroaching on Ponyville, each princess fighting for land (except Dash, who took over Cloudsdale). Princesses Celestia and Luna were banished once Twilight learned to raise the sun and moon. Her old house has been demolished to bring in a music studio. Octavia and Lyra teach and live there, along with the signifigant others, Bon Bon and Vynil Scratch. Derpy, who lives next door and gives swimming lessons, takes her in. Derpy explains that Princess Twilight is saying her house needs to be demolished in order to expand New Canterlot down the mountain. Meanwhile, Lyra is reasearching humans through a magic mirror-portal. She realizes that Twilight is taking humans from their "natural habitat" and pressing into manufacturing goods for ponies. Bon Bon stumbles into Applejack's kingdom and learns that she is doing the same thing. Blossomforth, Lyra, Bon Bon, Derpy, Octavia and Vinyl then hatch a plan to assassinate the six princesses and free the humans, taking their places as the elements of harmony. Right now, it's the barest of ideas. I've wanted a co-writer to mentor me and help flesh it out, as this (if I write it) will be my first fic. If you're interested, PM me.

It's been a long time since I've been on a forum. I'm still familiar with the etiquitte and such. I hope you'll love and tolerate me.