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C'mon, we're already late to the first round! We're not even involved in the first round, mom! I know, but that doesn't mean we can't try to sway the vote. OK, so what're you thinking? I mean we got a guy who I'm pretty sure played sports through at least college, a Royal Guard, a super strong rock farmer, yeah, these all definitely look like good choices for a buckball tea- Nah, Zecora's gotta be our number one priority. Uhhhhhhhh, Zecora? Um... why? Amethyst, Amethyst, Amethyst, haven't you seen where they're competing? They're in the Everfree Forest! Who else do you know who actually lives in the Everfree Forest... besides, ya know, cute critters and really scary monsters and plants? Well I guess that's kind of a good point. But we should still definitely get at least one of these guys- Oh, don't forget Ms. Melody, nothing wrong with classing up the group a bit. Good thinking, honey! What in Equestria does 'classing up' the group have to do with putting together a solid buckball team??? Don't worry sweetie, there's three spots, so we should be able to get at least one of those stallions on there. Let's see, how about- Oh, oh, oh, oh! Don't forget Gummy! Oh my goodness, that is SUCH a good idea, muffin! Howwwwwwwwwww??? How in the slightest is filling the third spot with a baby alligator, without any teeth I might add, a good idea? Pffffftttttttt, good one, Star. Excuse me? Dinky's right, ya know. Clearly you just don't understand what an X-factor a baby alligator can be on a buckball team. They're full of all kinds of surprises. Really? Because all I've ever seen him do is walk around, gnaw on Pinkie's mane and tail, and stare vacantly at Celestia-only-knows what. Dad, seriously, help me out here. Well ya know, Amethyst, as crazy as it sounds, I think they might just be onto something. I've seen my fair share of crazy things, and let me tell you, there's something uncanny about that Gummy. Definitely a 'more-to-him-than-meets-the-eye' kind of deal. ...Ya know what, why do I even bother trying to be the sane one? If it helps at all, Star, I'm just as confused and skeptical as you are. Not that that'd change anything, after all, I couldn't even stop Derpy from raiding my fridge while we still shared the same cottage. Not really, but thanks for trying, Carrot. Thanks for trying. Did you get all that, everypony, oh, I'm sorry, every 'moo-ham'? Vote for Zecora, Octavia, and Gummy for the first round! Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! GO TEAM GATOR-RIFFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

GAH, MUFFIN MOUNTAIN! Wait... this isn't the majestic peaks of the Muffin Mountain. But... this isn't Ponyville either. What the hay... MOM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE??? Oh, Amethyst, there you are! And what am I doing here, we live together you silly filly. Well, yeah, but... nevermind, what are you doing HERE! In case you haven't noticed, this isn't our house. Yeah, looks kinda more like a creepy old temple of some kind. Oh, and it's in the middle of the jungle. Oh and there's eight other ponies with us. Wh- AH!!! Where the buck did you all come from? Amethyst Star, watch your language! Oh geeze, sorry, it's just... who the hay is all here? Vinyl, the prince of the Crystal Empire, Photo Finish, a whole bunch of ponies I don't even know and, *gasp* OH MY GOSH, IT'S DARING DO! Oh yeah, it is Daring Do. Mom, how the hay do you know who Daring Do is? You don't read those books! Oh horsefeathers... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, let's just say your father's Hearts and Hooves Day present last year was me dressing up as her for... reasons that will remain unspoken, and I will leave it at that. ... ... Well great, now I can't ever enjoy Daring Do ever again, thank you sooooooooooooooooo much! Yeah to be honest, I didn't need to know that either. The body pillows with me on them have been bad enough. Oh sweet Celestia, it's really you, THE Daring Do! But wait, you're not real... you're a fictional character. Uhhhhhhhh... yup, that's right, totally a fictional character! Who the hay are all you ponies anyway and what the hay is going on here? It appears we've all gone and stumbled somehow into a strange pocket dimension of some kind with hundreds of other ponies scattered across dozens of different regions, yet we're all still capable of hearing, seeing, and interacting with one another. It's really fascinating stuff! Oh my goodness, Doctor, sweetie, is that you? It sure is, Derpy! You doing alright, honey? Yeah! Well, as well as I can in the middle of the jungle with our daughter, Vinyl, and a bunch of other ponies I don't know, including a fictional character. Where are you? I'm... how do I put this? I appear to be in the Dream Realm. But how's that possible? I thought we'd just determined that this is a dream. I'm not sure that's what it is. Not entirely at least. There's definitely dream magic at work here, but something else as well. Is Dinky with you? No, she's... right below me somehow, but in Trottingham. Trottingham's beneath the Dream Realm? No, it's... nevermind, this is all very confusing even for me. Dinky dear, you alright? Oh yeah daddy, I'm great! Dinky, there you are! Hi mommy! Are you OK, muffin? Oh yeah! Miss Fluttershy's here, and my friend Sunny, and a really pretty pony who's really nice, and a super lucky pony, and a pony who talks like dad but a lot more seriously, and a really big and old pony with a beard, and a hipster that keeps annoying Miss Fluttershy, and a pony that keeps talking about killing zombies, raiders, and nuclear apocalypse, and for some reason a really mean cat lady. Well... she certainly seems to be making friends. Sorry sweetie, I missed most of that. There's this poor little blind filly I'm trying to help direct, and the presence of a monstrous living nightmare and what I'm pretty sure are evil versions of Celestia and Rarity... for some reason... is not making that easy! Carrot's here though, so that... kinda makes it better. Oooooo, Carrot's there! HI CARROT! Derpy, is that you? What the hay is going on? One minute I'm in the middle of a great dream about getting the best shiatsu massage from Aloe and Lotus, the next minute I'm surrounded by my neighbors, some ponies I don't know, a Saddle Arabian, and a bunch of nightmarish entities, AND FOR SOME REASON EVERYPONY IS CALLING ME GOLDEN!?!?! Well that was your first given name at birth. YES! But nopony is supposed to know that! IT WAS MY NAME FOR ALL OF FIVE MINUTES BEFORE MY PARENTS CHANGED IT TO CARROT TOP, GAH!!! Don't worry everypony, we'll figure out what's going on. We just need to get a handle on things. Oh, I already know what's going on. Everyone: YOU DO?!?????!?!?!?!?!? Mhm! Mister Discord was here earlier apologizing to Miss Fluttershy. Said something about somehow having more cider than even he could handle and crossing over the Dream Realm with his Chaos Realm and the only way everypony was gonna be able to get out is if we all set buckball teams and play each other for some reason, which is all going to be determined by voting from these weird things he call 'moo-hams' in another dimension entirely that have little sausages where their hooves should be, and they all somehow know about all of this going on and are dictating these events as we speak. At least I think that's what he said. Everyone: Hey mommy, can I go play with the nice nuclear apocalypse pony? She said she could teach me how to blow a raider's head clean off from 200 yards away! Go ahead, muffin. Yay!!! Well, this is certainly a pickle we're in, isn't it? A pickle, dad? Try more like an existential crisis from Tartarus!!! Now calm down, everypony. It seems pretty straightforward to me. All we have to do is help the moo-hams determine who the best ponies are for representing us in the buckball tournament, and as soon as everything's over with, we'll be out of here. Piece of cake. Huh... ya know when you put it like that, this almost starts to make some kind of sense. Almost. Thanks Miss Daring Do. For a fictional character, you sure are nice! I'm gonna have to start reading your books! I agree with the pathetically puny pegasus!!! This tournament is our best chance to escape to the real world! That sounds positively fabulous, darling (not to mention, deliciously wicked). With that said, I think it's obvious who should represent our little group. Oh, so you're talking now, huh ladies? And who just might that be? Heheheheheh, simple, the three godlike beings standing before you, of course! I, the great Daybreaker, this lovely creature called Nightmare Rarity, and the almighty Tantabus will easily crush any competition standing in our way!!! Even mere mortals such as yourselves should be able to understand that! Yeah, I think I'll take a hard pass on that. Same. No kidding. Y-y-yeah, what... what they said. Big... giant... scary ponies and nightmare monster thingy. OK everypony, you know what to do! We gotta look out for each other and somehow find a way to get the best ponies possible as deep into this tournament as we can! And uh, hey, moo-hams? If you're actually real and are listening, we could really use your help getting the, ya know, good ponies further along in this thing. So if it's not too much trouble, we'd really appreciate if you gave us as many votes as possible and not, ya know, some of these terrifying monsters and villains and... weird cat ladies that seem to be stuck with us. LET'S DO THIS! Seriously? This is really our plan? We're really going through with this, mom? Yup! We sure are sweeti- oh wait, hang on, I knew I was forgetting something! If this is a dream and chaos realm, then I should be able to- AHA, GOT IT! Got what? My suit of course! Now I'm ready for anything. C'mon Amethyst, into the fray, FOR EQUESTRIA AND THE MUFFINS!!! HYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! WHERE IN THE HAY DID YOU FIND YOUR BATSUIT IN THE MIDDLE OF A JUNGLE, AND WHERE THE BUCK DID BANE COME FROM?????? Your mom's the Batmare? Um... noooooooooooooo- wait, how has a fictional character heard of the Batmare? Ummmmmmmmmmm... dream magic and chaos magic, I don't make the rules! This is going to be the most surreal experience of my life, isn't it? COME AT ME EVERYPONY! HAVE A TASTE OF JUSTICE, I GOT PLENTY FOR ALL OF YA! GO GET 'EM HONEY, YOU GOT THIS! ALLONS Y!!! Yes, yes it is... Stay tuned for the ongoing adventures of the Hooves Family - Derpy Hooves, Doctor Whooves, Amethyst Star, and of course Dinky Doo, + Carrot Top... and a shitload of other ponies along with them, as they make their way through the whacky, wild, wonderful ride that will be the 2018 MLP Forums World Cup!!! Until next time, everypony, this is Batbrony signing off. I'M OFF!!! *cue dramatic exit*

Good evening, everypony, and once again a very Merry Christmas to you all! I hope everypony has had a splendid holiday today and a wonderful time celebrating with anyone they can, be it family or friends! I've been meaning to do this for some time now, but I figured now's as good of a time as any considering the holiday season is all about spending time with those we love, and in turn getting to share that love with as many people as we can. While my beloved girlfriend and I have not gotten to celebrate the holiday yet, we will thankfully get to celebrate New Year's Eve together next weekend, and exchange some Christmas present with each other then. With her birthday being last month at the end of November, and our one year anniversary coming up this Valentine's Day, I wanted to get her a special little something as a way of continuously welcoming her in the brony fandom and pony family. While we're still in the middle of Season 1 of MLP, it's been a special part of our relationship from the get go; my darling was totally cool with the entire concept of the show when I shared with her that I liked it, and thinks that some of the fan art produced in it is incredible, plus she knows how important my pony people are to me at this point. She was even nice enough to go to the MLP Movie with me, which was simply a blast of a time together and something that was very special for the both of us to share in! So, for her birthday I commissioned my great friend Sapphfyr to design an OC for her just like he did for me a couple years ago in this cute little guy, Silver Lining. Working with her and getting input from her about her personality, they came up with an OC that is simply perfect for her! So without further ado, everypony, let me introduce you all to my girlfriend's very own pony OC, Topaz Blossom! Isn't she just the CUTEST!!! Topaz Blossom, as you can see, is a unicorn. We haven't exactly come up with just what for sure her profession is, but it's most likely something tailoring-related since my girlfriend works in dress and bridal gown store and most closely relates to Rarity (so yes @Jeric you can add her to your ranks of Rarity lovers ). The cutie mark is a very personal symbol for her; it's a symbol of the Christian Holy Trinity, but done up in the style of a Claddagh symbol/ring. My girlfriend has quite a bit of Irish heritage, and the symbol for her stands for both her faith and heritage, representing love, loyalty, and friendship. It felt most appropriate for her to utilize this as her cutie mark, and I couldn't agree more! Now that we've both got OCs too, Lord willing I'll be able to get some fan art of the two of our OCs together, which is something I've long hoped to do with any significant other. Any artists who wish to use these characters yourself, please contact me first, but I shouldn't have any issues for the most part (especially if someone just wants to make some cute are of the two of them together, I will certainly never say no to that! ). I probably won't be RPing with my OC (and likewise my girlfriend probably won't be RPing with her OC) any time soon, these two will be more reflective of where we are in real life than any kind of fanon we come up with them beyond personality traits and maybe some small backstory. But yeah, just wanted to introduce you all to her, hopefully sometime in the future I'll even get her to join the forums, even if she won't be super active. Oh, and before I go, I just have to share this gorgeous piece as well that my friend mirroredsea was too kind enough to put together for my girlfriend and I for her birthday as well! It would have been of our OCs but hers wasn't designed yet, and we both adore Pear Butter and Bright McIntosh, so asking him for a piece of those two felt right and I couldn't have been happier with how it turned out! Merry Christmas everypony, I hope you had a blessed holiday and that your final days of 2017 are wonderful as we prepare to ring in the New Year! That's all I've got for you everypony, until next time this is Batbrony signing off. I'm off!!! *cue dramatic exit*

I didn't try this, but whatever happened, I'm able to see the brohoof images now on my posts, at least in this thread. Thank you to whoever did something, if anyone did! It's a Christmas Eve miracle! No wait... even better...

In the wake of the latest update, a most peculiar issue has popped up. I can still brohoof/react to people's posts, and I see their brohoof count. But for some bizarre reason, I cannot see any brohoofs or other reactions to my own posts/status updates (I get notified when they happen, I simply can't see them). Any advice or solutions for rectifying this?

OK everyone, that is a wrap! Elley-Ray extends her thank you's to everyone who asked questions and participated and wants everyone to know that she had a great time getting to interact with all of us. We hope this was a truly enjoyable and special event for you all, and thank you to everyone who partook so that our very special guest had some great questions to answer. Happy Holidays, everyone, hope this was a fun and enjoyable addition to your festivities!!! I will get some other comments made by Ms. Hennessy up later that weren't directly tied into her responses to questions but were still really great nonetheless, but right now I have to grab some dinner, later everyone! She's not around anymore to answer, A.V., but I believe based on her responses that Season 7 would be her favorite simply by virtue of the fact that this was the first season she got to be a part of the show itself, which has been very special and meaningful for her. Hi MegaSean45, as I said above, Elley is not around any longer, but she did confirm earlier in our conversation that she is indeed still with the show and doing voice work, at the very least as Mistmane and some of her other characters like some of the Changelings they have her voicing, and she would love to do more roles on the show in the future, like that of a villain even. Thanks for asking!

Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I think that those qualities they have are timeless and that their age wouldn't change anything. I think that their core energy is what comprises the Elements, and that's what matters most. Mistmane and the other Legends, for instance, their qualities are as much a part of their core values and those haven't changed at any point in their lives. They already have all the magic, so even if they were half their ages, I think they would be all the same." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "That is AWESOME! I think that is so awesome. One, I love stallions. But to combine all the elements? That is like odd. That is like something so powerful, huge, Techno Universal, I love it. Would it have light shine out of it's eyes? Would it have certain... how would you tell it was comprised of all the elements? What would it look like? What do you think it would look like, Techno Universal? I think that is the best thing ever. I think that Hasbro should give the fandom some role in writing for the show, to a certain extent. Unfortunately the second that new and better writers start getting hired by the show, inevitably, someone else is gonna lose their job, so that's one reason Hasbro is hesitant to bring in new people, especially from outside the industry. I would love to see that. We can use stories that are happening right now in the real world to create great storylines and episodes, stories about how people come together and share ideas and their belief systems. You're allowed to write whatever you want, so I think we should use it as a powerful platform." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "Fan theories are all based in truth to some extent, so whatever you believe about the story you see, it's your truth. So what do you believe about her? Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I would so be a deer if I got the chance! I post animals of all kinds on my Twitter and would love to play any kind of animal in the show. The closest I've come to playing a deer is when I got to play a bison and a moose. I'm going to three, possibly four conventions next year, not allowed to say which ones yet, but yes, I am going to conventions next year." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I love you Woohoo, you are not asking too many questions! I can sing very much so, I've been nominated seven times for Best Actress for the Dora Mavor Moore awards, which are like a Canadian version of the Tony Awards. I'm more of a character-singer than an operatic singer, and in most animation series you have to sing. As a character singer, I sing more in character than utilizing vocal talent."

Elley-Ray Hennessy: "That question is hard for the same reasons that the favorite characters question was. I love every story, I love stories and going to the movies and just being able to watch them unfold. I tend to like the ones I was in the most since they meant something to me, but I think all of the episodes have a great message. Some are sillier, more fun than others, some are quirky and outrageous - like when Rarity was the punk rocker - and I love when the writers switch things up and make things different. The Season 7 finale was great for me and seeing what the writers did with it. Some of the finales are better than others, and I thought the Season 7 finale was pretty great. I love how all of the Pillars are so different and have all of their different strengths and backgrounds." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify what you mean by fan theories? What are some of the ones about Celestia?"

Elley-Ray Hennessy: "Tabitha. We were all in studio for all of the MLP episodes we did and all the shows we've done together in Toronto. There are so many great voice actors and they are all so spectacular, I don't want to leave anybody out. But I love my friend, and she is devious and funny, so when you record with her she plays games that make everyone laugh and keeps the energy high for everybody. She also always brings cookies and treats for everybody when we record, which makes the sessions even better." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I would have the letters 'L-O-V-E in a circle and wings projecting from the V going around the circle. I believe that words have energy, and it would look like a pretty eye with wings. What would your cutie mark be, Sunset Rose?" Elley-Ray Hennessy: "Honestly I can't pick. That's like asking what my favorite color is. I even like the villains, I just love all of the characters. I love Rarity because of Tabitha being my bestie, but I love Derpy and I love Luna too, I love Andrea's characters, I love Cathy Weseluck's characters, all of them. So I'd have to put my favorite character as 'all of the above. The brony fandom, I think, is phenomenal. I love them, I keep saying they are my people and that I have found them. They're all my people! This fandom, it's the world I want to live in."

Elley-Ray Hennessy: "It was for awhile a wild, unexplained universe for me. Like I said earlier I mostly knew about the show because of my BFF Tabitha, and I would see the response she'd get from the fans, and that just made me want to be a part of this crazy, huge universe and the pony fandom. It's incredible and unlike anything I've ever seen, and I've been doing this work for 37 years. Never seen anything like the MLP fandom. It's like a comet hit and everyone exploded into sparkle dust and friendship, and I love that anyone can be in this fandom and be whoever they are and no one is disrespected. I've always been outside the box when it comes to what I put on, so I love that you can be a big Army guy, muscle-bound, over 300 pounds and wear a tutu and unicorn horns and no one bats an eye." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "From the beginning in 2010. Started out with me just supporting Tabitha, but then I realized that I loved the show so much, and it's great seeing how much the show has changed since it began." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I love all of the ponies so much because they're so different and such great friends. I have such a hard time picking one, but Twilight Sparkle, for sure, definitely my favorite princess. Ya know what's so funny? I have on my audition board playing a villain on MLP, because I've already played a great hero and legend on MLP in Mistmane, and now I want to play a female villain and find the heart of her, see her get reformed." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "Thank you so much for that, bless you, that's very nice of you to say and I feel that giving back is so important to make you guys understand that you guys are a part of us and this show as much as any of us who work on it are. I'm giving this time because you're giving me the time. Voice over work requires being a good storyteller. We tend to read lines nicely, but not so much with an emotional response. Find a mentor, a teacher, a coach. Work with them on it. Go get an agent. If you want to change the vibration of the planet, the joy is in the risk taken in the play. If you want to be an Olympian, you gotta work every day. You're gonna fall down, you'll not always be perfect. You gotta do it because you love playing the game. You love watching the game. But you know what? Coach will say get on the field. You'll be scared auditioning, so once you start doing it, it doesn't matter how you do, if you fumble, you do it because you care. You gotta be disciplined. Pro golfers hit 2000 balls/day for 2 years to start to be a pro. Do it every day, do it at home. Voice memos, do it on your phone, doesn't matter what the character is, just do it! I teach to hundreds of students all over the world. They're all full. The students want to be storytellers. Go to university for four years, they tell you your're never gonna voice. Did that help? No. Don't just sit back in your apt. Ask someone. Tabitha St. Germain is unlike anyone I know. She's the most generous and talented person I know on the planet. Everything about her makes me a better person. It's a total celebration to know her. Her and I did a lot of theater shows. Stage shows, animated series here in Toronto. She's on the West coast, I'm in the middle of the country, and it's a huge country, 6-hour flight but I get out there and we see each other all the time." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "These are the things you should send to Hasbro, tell them this is a great idea that they should do! That is a phenomenal idea, but VAs and such, we don't have any control over that. Hasbro needs to hear that straight from the fans and community, and I absolutely think that they should do an episode where the show ponies meet lots of the fans OCs. I think that is such a great idea, I would literally contact Hasbro and tell them they should do this. It would just be so awesome to see the fans and show coming together in a way like that. I love that idea, Techno Universal, get on that! As far as I'm concerned, the ponies already exist alongside the humans in the fandom, and how it operates. The way in which it has inspired so many in the fandom, that's the utopia made real already. Look at how big the fandom is, how much the movie grossed. People don't realize how big it is, and how many people are invested in this show. As for your third question, why not? I think anything is possible, and that would be insane. She'd be like the hoof-goddess, some kind of combination of all of their elements. I could see her being like a Galadriel."

Ms. Hennessy, you've had all sorts of acting roles in a variety of mediums throughout your career. What originally inspired you to become a voice actress? Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I was always involved in storytelling when I was young, and went to theater school at the University of Windsor for Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. Told me to never do film or television because I was too tall, etc. Told me I would never do voice work either because I have a raspy bottom-end to my voice. When I graduated, I got invited to the Shop Festival in Canada, one of its major theaters, and my first big animation series was in the Alf Animated Series. Just worked consistently in film, television, and theater ever since, and have even directed and cast series. I've done close to 300 theater productions and over a hundred films and television series. Never let anyone define who you are, your authentic hero lives in its ability to communicate with the world, and storytelling is the best form of communication in the world, I think. If you're true to form and yourself, your world and fandom will react in kind and respond positively. Our world is so quick to judge. We've developed some attitude chips in us. I think we have to fight very very hard to love our fellows. It's very difficult for us. To reach beyond the veil to say you're supported, you're here. There's so many wonderful storytellers in us, and so many in mlp. There's a reason the show is so successful. It's not just because people have the voices. It's what they're telling. It's about coming together, supporting each other." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "My day is spectacular! I always try to find the good in every situation. I choose to be happy, and thriving, and successful, and love to share my joy with others. So I just want to say Woohoo, I hope your day is going great too!" Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I put My Little Pony on my mission board, my bucket list, and wanted to be on the show. I spend a lot of time in Vancouver, and after I got an agent there, I put it on my mission board because I'm best friends with Tabitha St. Germain and learned about it from her. I eventually got an option for the show, it was almost fate. Since I have a raspier voice I usually do Changeling voices, but the voice director loved me and I got a callback audition and got Mistmane. It was incredible for me that Mistmane was introduced by my best friend's character, Rarity, and the character is close to my heart because of what she gives up for those close to her. I hope to have an ongoing contribution to the show, and you have definitely not seen the end of Mistmane, but I am also looking forward to doing other characters in the show. Thank you very much for that question, Sunset Rose." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "Mistmane. And I have done thousands, but it was a dream of mine to be on the show, and when I got on the show was magical enough. But what the character stands for, to me, is so vital to me, and I am so, so proud to be a part of the show. I love the message, I love the character, and I love the fandom and all of the fan art, paintings, sculptures, etc., that they produce. It makes me proud knowing I can affect a group of people like that through one of my characters, and it makes me feel like I'm a part of something quite profound actually. Some roles stick with you longer than others, but you love them for all kinds of different reasons no matter what because they're an expression of yours." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "I have ideas all the time, Tabitha and I are always coming up with stuff for fun because there's so many ideas that you can come up with and bring to the table. You can bring limitless ideas to the table. I've got this idea where the aliens meet the animals meet the humans meet the gods. They all meet on the same level. You take the soul of the extraordinary thing. They all meet on the same level. My students have an exercise where they all do inanimate objects. Rake, chair, door. And they put a name on it. And these, if you could see the phenomenal characters my students have created. They all have personality. They're alive. (like beauty and the beast)It could be a pear, tree trunk, shoe... it might have human features, you created, there's something phenomenal in that. You don't want to be involved in gender, age, sex, colour. It includes everything and everyone. It's all the same, it's just energy." Elley-Ray Hennessy: "This makes me cry. You get really involved in her. I got really involved in her. She went to magic school, came back powerful, it broke her heart to see her friend turn to the dark side. She had to save her friend, to save everybody. You have to fight for light ,beauty, love. When I voiced it you transcend yourself in a weird way. This character is what we all want to become. Selfless, faithful, etc. I hope in my heart I try to do that in my life. So there are lessons. The beautiful thing about voicing these characters is they're archtypical. She's a legend, mother theresa, she did something great. When you voice a character like that, it changes you. It makes you aware of what you're required to do."

Good afternoon, everypony, and welcome to MLP Forums and Poniverse's latest Community Guest Q&A! Please join me in welcoming Elley-Ray Hennessy, the voice of Mistmane and a couple of other minor characters in MLP:FiM this past season. In addition to her work on MLP:FiM, Ms. Hennessy has 79 total acting credits to her name garnered from over 30 years of voiceover, television, film, and theatre acting, including in shows like Goosebumps, Babar, and Redwall, and films such as It Takes Two and Phantom of the Megaplex. This marks the first time that MLP Forums and Poniverse have ever had an actual member of MLP:FiM's voice cast as a guest, and we could not be more excited to have her joining us! First things first, I must clarify how this Q&A will be unfolding, so PLEASE read this carefully. Ms. Hennessy will not be answering questions in the thread herself; instead, I and a few other staffers will be relaying questions to her and the answers she gives us in a Skype conversation to this thread. If you see that I have quoted you in this thread, it is because I am answering your questions with her replies via my own profile. Rest assured, Elley-Ray herself is coming up with any responses we post, and you should feel free to ask as many questions as you want as we always do in these Q&A events. So please, ask away, but just keep your eye out for me to be the one quoting you any time one of your questions is answered. Just a couple more things before we begin. Seeing as Ms. Hennesy is an actual employee of both DHX and Hasbro on account of her work with the show, we have to lay some ground rules similar to when we've hosted guests like Ward Jenkins. While you should feel free to ask whatever you want within reason, keep in mind that many questions, especially those that pertain to her work on the show, may be ones that Ms. Hennessy is unable to answer on account of confidentiality agreements with the studio and her employers. We want to have a great time with our first VA guest, not get her in any trouble with her employers or act like obnoxious or self-entitled hosts. If you'd like to learn more about her, you can visit her own website here, her IMDB page here, and her Twitter page here. That's all I've got for ya'll this afternoon, everypony, so without further, ask questions of Ms. Hennessy to your heart's content! I'll start with a fairly simple and basic question to get the ball rolling: Ms. Hennessy, you've had all sorts of acting roles in a variety of mediums throughout your career. What originally inspired you to become a voice actress?

It was super easy after I offered to make her a totally boss friendship bracelet. Now if you'll excuse me... (1) Yes I do (2) That only happened once (3) I THOUGHT WE SWORE WE'D NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN, YELLOW, WTH??? Pretending? Huzzah, hope to see you there, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel! Oh stop, you making me blush. No seriously, stop, all of you, this love thing is weird and- OH GOSH, WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING, GET AWAY YOU MANIACS!!!