Lightning Bliss

Yup first pony movie I saw was Firefly's Big Adventure or the other title some might know as "Escape from Midnight Castle" along with several others like MLP Attack of the Smooze. I had hundreds of the orginal pony dolls that I sadly lost in a housefire, or sold in a garage sale or school sale. Ya it sucks... I wish I could have kept one of them. One of my favorites that I"m sure I could probably get was this one: But one of my favorites was a rare Fluttery Pony that I sadly can't find

@@Kay Dreamer, I cannot begin to tell you what a ride it's been to improve on my character's sheet. It's like I had all these ideas, but was too scared to implement them? Reason being that I thought her 'back story' which is sord of based off mine, was too emotional or dark...And alot of people view those types of OCs as "oh she's just wants to look sad so everyone will rally with her and make her feel important." so I toned on talking about her back story and orgins till finally I kinda got a break from someone who viewed my OC. Saying dont' be afraid to add in her flaws or emotional upbringing cause thats part of an OC's developement, it explains why they are the pony they are today. So ya she's come along way in the past couple weeks of improvement. I feel like there's still more I could work on, like the connection she had with her father, to her mother. She has 5 other siblings too, (based off my real family) but that's so many characters I couldn't just up and fully develope windixi, so I figured focus on her relationship with her parents. For the most part it was good, but mixed. You have her strong, emotionaless father who believed in order to survive in the world was to be strong and brave and not let other ponies get you down, despite your flaws or phsycial appearence. He didn't believe in excuses for her not doing well in school cause she was being bullied. He pushed her to do 110% better then everypony else and then some. Then you have her mother who is a very emotional, care giving pegasus, who is a nurse (like my mom), and has a talent for supporting and caring for her children. She tells my OC its ok to cry and be sad, but no matter what happends, there is always a silver lining. If Blissy cried, she was always there to hold her, unlike her father. She wasn't scared to cry in front of her mother, but as for her father...she felt if she did, she would dissapoint him dearly. The result of these two different emotions resulted in her parents divorcing. Her father taking it the worst cause he likes to be in control of everything around him. Bliss stayed with him along with her two brothers up till he had a heart attack on the job during a thunder storm agenda. Was a major blow, but she moved to Appleloosa with her mother and step father (paint mustang earth pony). Even though her father died, his strength, words and self dissaproving behavior is always with her. She always strides to do good with what she does in life, but when it comes to her self esteem she's very week. Now that she's an alicorn its only played havoc on her self esteem more. She's expected to show up to all royal events, but she's stayed firm in just taking on a low ranked role as a diplomate. In a way she has 'accepted' what she is, but denies taking on all challenges that an average Princess would take, like Twilight and Cadence. This of course has resulted in her and Celestia not getting along well. Celestia finds her behavior childish and ignorant, where as Bliss sees her as pushy and expecting too much of her when she feels like she's just adjusting to being a married mare, learning MAGIC, and having to go to diplomatic meetings with gryphons and dragons and having NO experience in any negotiations. (Luckily her love and talent to keep peace with everypony, and natural means of speaking to keep everypony together, has benefitted in in meetings of peace treaties.) Ya...so complex and I could go on and on but I don't want to bore anypony.

@@Kay Dreamer, I appreciate that! It's funny really, I do defend my OC as I don't think she falls under the 'guidelines' i made for myself and for others if they care, but I always assumed there were better alicorn OCs out there, I've still yet to really 'meet' one though because I always find an issue with ones back story or some design flaw. Most of the time (though nice Rpers and people in general), that happen to be alicorns, just are for the sake of it. Saying things like they were blessed by Celestia for doing something amazing or contributing some form of benefit to society and were 'given' the alicorn blessing, while others were simply born into it somehow. I hate those alicorn backstories though because they feel lazy to me, not thought out. Which ticks me off cause I planned my OC's ascention for MONTHS!

@@Denim&Venom, While design is important you got to remember that its what 'traits' you write about them that also contributes of whether they make a Mary Sue or not. Design at the end of the day is based on opinion, but there are those types of alicorn OCs that may have a great setup writing wise, but a HORRIBLE design lol. That said, in my personal opinion your design is 'ok'. I say 'ok' because I've learned (too late) with my OC, that solid black colors tend to get lost in scenery, same thing with white. Sometimes its better to have an off set of white or black, like Rarity. She's not fully white, its a tinted white. I would avoid graidents like the plague, since I only know one alicorn in the show that has graidents, Cadence. I'm sure she's a pain for the animators but apparently she's worth it if she's liked. Point is I'd avoid graidents but that doesn't mean they won't work.. So I really have nothing bad to say about your OC colorwise, other then things 'i personally would avoid' but that doesn't mean he/she isn't bad. However we still don't know your backstory on her. So I personally can't give a fair opinion on your OC. @@Kay Dreamer, And thanks on the feedback on her, but I have no intention of changing the 'flaws' you don't like about it her and here's why: - No one has seen a pony design like this, or more like you don't see something like this every day right? I wanted her to be different even before she was an alicorn, not just a cliche pony with normal tributes. I never was normal in society by well if not my looks then my hobbies, and so it played into her backstory. Remember when I first created Lightning Bliss, she was orginally a pegasus, and feeling the need to share my personality and boldness of being unique, she has the large ears and tail. However all of this helps her to relate to other creatures in Equestria. She has it easier talking to gryphons and dragons then other ponies and alicorns for that matter. Kinda like I was more comfortable talking to people 5-10yrs younger then me then people my own age. - I know it's far fetched and out there, but I've always had a gryphon/dragon like tail in any main character OC I created, I guess you could say its a personality habit accessory I could never give up. - The rainbow color scheme though ya defiently from the side color bars of "Flash" are exactly the colors of ROY. G. BIV. with the exception of that pink color at the end. I wanted the 'exact' colors of the rainbow and I didn't want to mimic the colors of Rainbow Dash. As you said RD has a distinct color scheme and I didn't want to leach off it. Heck alot of my OC's hair and mane design was inspired by RD. - At the end of the day, her large ears were a total accident, but an accident I thought was SIMPLY ADOABLE yet could easily be ridiculed along with her tail. Part of her backstory involved being outcasted by her classmates for her differences (much like I was in school, I was a year older then everyone, I had hearing issues, I didn't speak as well, and I drew monsters for fun. In a world where boys like blue and girls like pink, it was weird to see a girl drawing monsters and dragons.) As a result her dad would push her to try harder in school and to be at her best in life if not in looks knowing she was being picked on. This along with her mother's caring nature evolved her into a pony that while she is confident and does her best at everything she does, she still has self esteem issues especially when it comes to her ears and tail. Now that she's an alicorn, she feels that only made it worse. I did my best to work her phsyical traits into why she is the way she is. So meh, thats my opinion.

@@Pinkamena-Pills, Well her design still is my creation, I'm not changing it just cause others say 'it's too much'. If I can animate it, and I CAN! lol, then she's not that bad. Really the bad things I get about my OC, are that 1. she's an alicorn (derp) and 2. she's an alicorn that means she's OP or had a lazy back story yadda yadda. I'm one of those where I like to be cannon if I can, which means I had to follow some rules, but still keeping true to my ponysona. Needless to say the problem with some OCs is knowing when to 'take away' as someone said. I was the opposite of that apparently... I had a hard time 'adding to' my character in regards to her abilities and quirks. Think I got her down though.

@@Pinkamena-Pills, Don't you just love it when two different opinions collide yet we can still love and tolerate?

@@Pinkamena-Pills, - First off my OC isn't covered with marks, rainbow higlights everywhere, a wavy mane, and catering to the same look as Princess Luna. She has rainbow 'highlights' to her mane and tail only, white in color and black in the rest. Simple and done - Secondly, if you don't know how to animate then you clearly don't know what i mean when I say "keep the character simple" in color schemes. The image stated above, has so many color schemes going for it, that any well paid animator would go nuts over trying ot keep the colors consistent and matching, not just in the mane and tail but the entire body. - Thirdly, when I use the term 'lazy' in that OC's design, I mean litterally the person didn't take the time to come up with color designs that would actually be appealing to the in general audience of the fandom, let alone their own ponysona. Any artist person can make a pony and throw rainbow artwork all over it and call it 'pretty'. It doesn't always mean that its so to others. - Fourthly, while I agree that it shouldn't matter what others think of your OC, because it is your own at the end of the day, that is quite correct. Why would I post this though? Simple, because it's to help those that are making OCs that DO worry about how others view their creations, can help to avoid what most of the fandom community hate the most to avoid the drama. That way they can have fun in RPs without getting kicked out, believe me i heard the stories. You cannot deny there are a lot of alicorn haters out there, and there are alot of alicorn OCs that are poorly created or unorginal and are simply made to win the attention of others. My OC got a good fair judgement in the past few weeks, and looks like once again by someone else tonight. I respect your opinion though and will not proceed to tell you, you are wrong. But I ain't saying you're right either, because I also have my own opinion. And as some say, opinions are like buttholes, sometimes they stink! LOL I love that Yes this goes for my opinion too, it probably is stinky to you *giggles*