Widdershins

So Maud is a type of rock now? Did this whole breakdown of her personality over on the fan club thread for her, but in short: She feels the entirety of the farm is her responsibility & what with her sisters either ditching the farm or being incapable she's kind of stuck being loyal to some mudhole that's pegged the sisters to their personality types due to having to deal with the monotony & dread of such a backwoods farm.

Well, there's the sad clown shtick. What, like the Marx brothers or the Three Stooges, they work because you're there to watch the reactions of the "normal" people around them to the chaos they stir up. Then again, that does suit Troubleshoes to a tee...

Well, take Celestia for example. Admittedly, she rather is quite a Mary Sue in her own way. The only times she does fail is so it can advance the drama of the denouement & give Twilight something more to do. But that same infallibility is just as much of a curse too. What'll happen if you win that game of Canasta against the leader of the free world, eh? I headcannon that poor Tia hasn't had a date in several decades because who'd have enough gall to go on a blind date with a god? Not to mention the shady stallions that might have their ambitions in the wrong place. Suppose the old adage is true, a good writer can make anything work. I'm thinking that the opposite of a mary sue would be someone who can't do anything right. A character who screws up so bad it beggars your belief that anyone could be that dumb unless they were trying to forward the story. The sort to cast a spell over the whole of Ponyville, effectively ruin everypony's day and all because he just thought it would be fun or its what he thought you asked him to do. But my question still stands. Where's the point where you go too far off the other end & make your character not just oafish, but hateful? Like how PonyLiver mentioned the term Butt Monkey. That whiny dolt of a side character in some anime that lets the violent criminal go because it offered him candy, or for a better example that one time Pinkie Pie got all up in Fluttershy's face about her social insecurities. Fandom was in agreement that was far too harsh, But still somehow entirely in her character to be that indirectly inconsiderate. And that's exactly how Widder would. He's stolen the leg out from under a blind-drunk gryphon, not out of hatred but because he didn't think twice how that might incite a burning hatred of him. He would just as likely burn your house down, because he thought at the time, that cleaning and reducing it all to ash amounted to the same ends. Phenomenal cosmic power! Itty-bitty Brain!

So, since we're on the topic, it seems like, of edges... A follow-up, semi-related question to boot! Is it considered Edgy if I'm making my character into essentially Deadpool? Though granted, I am doing this despite not having any direct contact with anything Deadpool related. Which somehow seems very in-spirit for Deadpooling. Basically! I'm aiming for as inane as possible! More on the psychopath half then the homicidal part! Insufferable, but not mean or deadly!

Rabbit-eared pegusai?!!? Squee! That just sounds ADORABLE!!! Guess that answers your first question! But for your second, hmm... Well, one could say that no one really cares enough about silly ol' bland, earth ponies enough to put enough effort into giving them long-lost civilizations, BUT one could argue that donkeys, cows, goats, yaks & zebras are all variants on the form. There's a certain special brand of mystique to a race in your show that is already part of the "real world's" mythology. As the unicorns are already the elite, richer class and somehow linked to alicorn royalty and a city capitol all to themselves it is entirely possibly most writers assume they're already played out. Whatayya gonna do with a forgotten race of unicorns anyway? Make them more intelligent & magical? Then we'd be getting into Kingdom of the Crystal Skull territory of unbelievability there! Think why its been pegusai specifically these two examples, is because they're an agile, athletic, angelic & near fairy like race as it is. Fantastical enough to give credence to them being some forgotten race of magicalness but still as much of an animal to not give a reader too much whiplash. Like if they were alicorns. Don't think you could mention alicorns without getting several thousand in the fandom's hackles raised! Though I would like to see the writers bite the bullet & introduce alicorn backstory that's basically just "Nah, just another race. Nothin' godlike at all. Y'all just hired Celly & Woona because ya thought they was pretty."

Give?!!? ...But...then I'd have less! Well, granted...it is undeniably a hoard, you taking a few out of it would hardly dent it. I-If you h-happen to take a liking to it maybe...then sure. Maybe, like, a part of me going to live with you...kinda gives me a bit of a fuzzy feeling. Guess it sure does it better then sitting on shelves in my room then, heh...

Personally, I'm all for it. In any method. See, what I think people have an issue with, is separating alicorns from...ugh, "princesshood." That...that whole princess thing is a whole nother can of worms... You can be a princess of something, but not be an alicorn. We're used to seeing them as members of royalty, but it stands to reason that with as much land as Equestria covers and only two, maybe three, alicorns being about for the longest time that not every place is going to be ruled by an actual alicorn. Blueblood makes a fine example, he clearly views himself just as royal as his great, great (yadda) aunt & with the airheaded and easily swayed ways the upper crust of Canterlot seems like you could claim a relation to either of the royal sisters & get a barony or title of your own. You can be an alicorn, but not a princess. Sure, you may have the capability of both magic & flight, but that doesn't grant immediate godhood, does it? That makes you a pony that can do three things instead of just one. A dog, with enough will & training, can run just as well on two legs as it can on four. That, and our newest alicorn (and this may sound like a bit of a mean jab, but...) doesn't exactly have a kingdom & subjects, does she? "Friendship" isn't something that can change the fate of worlds is it? (Granted, neither is love in my opinion, but I just can't work up enough hatred against a pink horse.) I fully expect to hear Twilight haggling with a vendor & the vendor coming back with "Well, you can come back when your the Princess of Fair Trade n' Puttin' Bread on ma Table!" When it comes down to it, Alicorns are at best a species of their own and at worst, mutants. It's when the creator gives them a sense of entitlement & superiority over other options is when you get the sense they're doing it to spite you. Any character needs enough flaws to be believable and...well, mortal. Their moments where they just give up & walk away. Heh, but maybe I'm just a fan of a certain brush-tailed rainbow alicorn. ...That having been said, the few times I have seen an overblown Godicorn, its always been so blatant and "Lookitme!" it has always struck me that the creator was intentionally playing up to a audience. And I just can't fault theatrics!

Well, Widdershins obviously adores the royal sisters, as he sees them both as sisters & a mother to him. In a sort of Spike to Twilight sorta deal. But, your question rather got me thinking... Gallimaufry rather admires ponydom as a whole. Or, perhaps more specifically, the Main Six. He's always admired the race for the quality that's rather blatantly lacking in itself, the capability to cooperate. Being born permanently affixed to within a few feet of your entire family can sort of make it incredibly easy to get on each others nerves. Its almost inconceivable to it that you can do what Twilight & her friends do, is to not only accept the negative but balance it out with what positives you can see in them. Mauf spends so much of its time snarking, backbiting or arguing with its other heads for getting in each others' ways that it barely gets any moments of calm or quiet. Suppose it is rather cheap to say it admires the quality of friendship, but the whole of ponydom & the Six are essentially the incarnation of such a quality that is foreign to a species & being that is built around being ruled by committee. Sort of poetic in a way...or then again, I may be half-asleep right now as it is nearly midnight...

You know, GLAD you asked, Honeycube! It's just the most weirdest thing never! You'd think that I, as an awesome, pan-dimensional, semi-corporeal Dahkoneh- Basically some sort of a God-Thing! Would be immune to flower pollen! Happens every time I roll around in the stuff! Just Poof! Imma alicorn! Not a very good one either! Just some bland, white powerless allycorn stallion! Think gettin' a horn would help me what with the working of my magic, but guess that's part of being the Spirrrrit of Confusion! ...Least the unruly pink hair helps it be a little bit more original. Can't think of why it'd decide to set me in something so blandly stable as a white magic horse with pink hair. ..... ......And if you get the double reference I'm aiming for here....you can win my undying affection & loyalty.