Widdershins

Ah-ha-ha! AH-HA-HAAA! Fhew...gimmie a moment....the concept alone made me cackle myself into hysterics. Haaa...I can only imagine! Practically have full running bits playing in my mind about how it'd go down for each of my rather chaotic personas. Twilight & her friends & likely most of Ponyville already have their hooves full with trying to put up with Discord. Can you imagine mixing another draconequus into the mix? One that has even less of a grasp on what his powers do or enough sanity to learn that maybe ponies don't like being played with like croquet mallets! Oh, I don't plan on Widdershins livin' it up with the main characters no, but they would certainly have to keep an eye on his attempts to "help." I can totally see him meeting first, and shacking up with the Flower Fillies of Rose, Daisy & Lilly and Three's Company-style shenanigans ensuing! He overhears the three complaining about the lack of eligible stallions in Ponyville so he immediately leaps to the best solution of turning eeeverypony else in Ponyville into stallions! Hoh! The antics! I can see Ambie's story running like a romantic comedy. His awkwardness around mares & pretty much everything would keep you constantly tensed up about which canonical character he'd wind up with because you could tell from the story's tone that's where these rom-coms always wind up as! Constantly pinging between each of the mares, equally accidently insulting one on one day then being sweet & caring the next scene. There has GOT to be a few fanfics out there of RD getting mistaken for a stallion... As for the hydra (Yes, I have a hydra character. I am nothing if not original in my characters!) it practically writes itself! I can see Blither being found in town hall asking for help tracking down his siblings; before they can do too much harm like they usually do. Eventually winding up accidently triggering the reassembling part of the spell that holds Gallimaufry together & thereby blowing half of town hall off & leaving a near 30-foot self-enraged hydra in the middle of a town of easily demolished huts. Then it'd be up to the main six to wrangle each of the six heads in their own ways before Mauf tramples flat half the town. Though I can just as easily see Gallimaufry coming into town on Nightmare Night in an effort to fit into pony society (both metaphorically & literally) and wind up by the end of the night serving as a tilt-a-whirl ride for the little fillies & colts. And yes, I suppose I did take the cheap way out & paired each of my characters with not only the whole main cast but the entire town, but if you don't involve eeeeveryone then how are you going to have a right, rip-snortin' tale? Suppose the only thing that's keeping me from doing such fanfickery is resources & my little habit of jumping onto my next big idea before I've fully funded the last eighteen OCs. I'm like the Tessla of fanfiction!

Well, she has always been the sort to calmly asses a situation...and take a joke. She got slimed at the gala & only welcomed it as a means to liven up the party, so I somehow doubt "strange alien beings" are something she hasn't gotten used to. When your immortal you kind of stop getting surprised by things, besides she doesn't strike me as the type of mare to buck when spooked. If she ever does get spooked! Though, having been the unquestionable leader of the free world for several millennia I do somewhat doubt she's used to any being being rash enough to slap her flank or much less even attempt to flirt with her. My vote is for Humorous!

Got music rattlin' around the Ol' Skullcase tonight! Two songs I've found that fit Chrysalis/changelings in general: That one about "Gimmie all your lovin' and all your hugs & kisses too!" Also Bad Romance. Come to think about it, there's an awful lot of rock songs about bad lovin' gon' wrong that fit these bughorses! Onna side note! We gotten any information on whether getting your love sucked out actually kills a pony? Could you say, willingly submit to being a host to a changeling and that marriage could supply enough love for them to go on? Does this whole process really necessitate those evil looking Coma Cocoons? Because if I could just work up a good wad of love & just spew it out at will; don't think I'd mind living with Ol' Queen Kissakiss here. Anyhoo! Think i'm all done here, just gonna dance on outta here! Coma, coma, coma, Coma co-co-CocooOOOooon! Black, blue & greeeEEEEeeen! *Fades off into the distance* If lovin' was easy then you'd probably doooo it bet-TER! Blue, black & greeeen! Coma, coma, coma, coma, coma......

Forget who I heard this notion from, but I'm beginning to think of the term "Blank Flank" as a derogatory slur. Specially since cutie marks seem to be a symbol for coming of age & a social milestone for a fillies life. Which brings me to my next question. I get that Stallion=Man & Mare=Woman, but I don't get the other terms for younger ages. Does filly mean all young ponies or just the girls? Think Colt=Boy but I've heard young adult males around their twenties be called colts before too. And what's foals mean? Baby? Because it sounds kind of awkward when Nightmare Moon goes about saying "Hah! You babies!" Thanks for helping, and if you do answer me here, make sure you hit the quote button too because there's like, a 30% chance of me finding this thread again.

Does that a challenge?!!? Boopy, I got a talent in complicating answers! First off, let me say i've spent an awful lot of time thinking about this, and no, that doesn't mean in a bad way. If you knew me, I do that for everything. First off, it is mostly an aesthetic thing of course. Legs are a major part of the anatomy of most land mammals. Each full leg on a human is like, a third their weight, if I remember correctly and I usually don't. So it stands to reason that an article of clothing that can cover half the length of said legs which in turn are half the length of the body and can do so whilst adding some decorative pattern or a more vibrant color to break up a usually straight color motif that the creature usually has.(especially in ponies who tend to be monochromatic apart from their manes) This also draws the eye to the more out-of-place element & sticks into the proverbial mind more to give you more to attach feelings or a sense of beauty to. In the case of the more armored ponies that have their weird, little metal half-boot thingies it serves much the same point as those infamous plate-mail bikinis that are so common in RPG fantasy games. Draws the eye (*cough*) to what little is armored, so we see more armor then is there, and we get the idea of "this here's a fighter" without cluttering up the design with too much actual armor. When the original creator of this thread mentioned that they didn't like socks, that stands to reason. If it sticks out too much, like how most alicorns can tend to be, it can serve as too glaring of a highlight and engender a level of distain. Second point! Horses have long been synonymous with health & virility. Had MLP picked any other type of animal, like say, badgers or armadillos that we don't associate qualities to, we might not have so much of the....uh...."deviantart side" of things to this fandom. That being said, horses are well known for their legs. If you were to associate any article of clothing to an animal, it would naturally gravitate towards the idea of what you could use the most of on it. More legs, more socks! Same way how a good amount of the times I've looked up Hydras, they're usually shown adorning multiple styles of elaborate headgear. But I digress. When you think of something that's naturally good at running like horses are, you would be drawn more towards things that accentuate their strongest quality. Given that the show's ponies are depicted less realistically to be softer & more cartoonish this endears us more to them. And when your a small kid or some lonely shut-in with no other frame of reference to the outside world & this is one of the few outlets for your emotions, its not hard to understand how emotions can lead to levels of physical attractiveness. Much in the same way we fawn over anime characters. Putting socks on a pony draws attention to their fluffiness & their legs. Drawing attention to their legs, draws attention to their thighs which clicks in our minds as "Hey! That's also a thing my species has!" and further draws us closer to assuming these beings we perceive as sentient, thinking creatures are something as real to us as an actual real life friend. Though yes. Admittedly goofiness does come into play too. Much the same way of putting a holiday sweater on your Chihuahua. In short, socks in this fandom sort of serves as a lightening rod for our emotions. Don't we see the princess as the important ones for all the gold tiaras & bracelets that they wear? ....Jeez, think I just made a three thousand letter dissertation on the appeal of socks on fictional equines. Where is my life?...

Ah, so Mak'gorah rules then? Well now, weapons & magic are usually included under natural abilities, strength versus magic & whatnot. Would be completely fair to crush your opponent in a giant stone fist, if that's what your magic is prone to do. And yes, If you get that reference, I am bringing that up out of spite. But I do get your point My Good Being! Me? I'm more of a pacifist, or barring that I tend to just try subduing or dodging until my opponent gets tired out or annoyed to the point they can't even focus anymore. Lot more fun that way. Though even without her magic I'm sure Celestia could still trample me into dust! Good thing I can take a hit; I'm built like a sack of flour. Lessen you knock me unconscious, I'll keep popping back up until you get done!

Hrmm, we have seen them change into rocks before...Expression of Shock! Maybe he's been a changeling all along!! No. No wait, I actually like changelings.

Of course, if we're going by pure amount of evil...think there is one diabolical villain we're not accounting for... Angel Bunny!

Wugh. That animation is atrocious. I could swear that's uncanny levels of claymation animation there. And the way they keep blind-siding you with sudden reaction shots from the cast its so very clearly begging for attention & a piece of the MLP pie. Thing is, they most likely have/will get it! Major points on actually having male main characters! I can tell there is some level of heart put into unlike the knock-off movies that spawn in Netflix everytime Disney or Pixar put out a new hit movie. If I was flipping channels & meandered across this, I'd give it a shot. Love the cute Lil' bat & evil magic mirror demony thing that will clearly be recurring baddies! That's something MLP can't hack, an episode-to-episode threat! Hey, if this world needs any bungling, oafish villains, I ain't doin' nothin'!

Well, technically...two out of my three personas are functionally immortal. The third, being closer to actually being a pony is younger then me, but not by much. Always felt that not too much can happen in life until your past teenage years. When your a kid your more likely to let things pass or make the rash decisions you have to live with the rest of your life. I like to give a looot of room for things to happen to my characters, give the implication that there still is some room for untold adventures in there somewhere. But then again, maybe we can blame Doctor Who for getting me intrigued by the idea of what immortality can do to warp a mind. My Draconequus is immortal because...well, long story short is, he left home, got lost & spent the rest of his life trying to get back. Spend your life focusing on the past too much, and you won't be able to have a future or present. My pony is somewhat younger because I wanted him as more of a starting point. If Widdershins was a story told looking backwards, Ambie was to be a look forward at what he still had to meet. And...well...for the third one...Well, Hydras just age slower. A polychephalic creature is bound to be convoluted & I'm good at being needlessly complicated!!!

Totally agree on getting the Grundles of Grundletown back with a Danny DeVito cameo! Loved their incessant need to sing & rhyme despite Grundle being a good third of their vocabulary. Would like Scorpan back too, if only has a harbringer of doom & a mystic/exposition dump like Rafiki from Lion King. But more so then those, I want Katrina back. Just slightly under the humanoid level of acceptability what with her being an anthropomorphized cat lady. Loved her story arc as a villain in so short a showing, she was basically enslaving the smaller, weaker species of the Bushwoolies (those things were walking snack cakes to me anyhow)into making her an elixir of immortality, but when push came to shove & she was left clawing the edge of a pit sloping into basically a meatgrinder & they gave her the option of reforming or death. That look in her eyes of "Sure! Sure! Whatever!! I'll be good! Didn't think evil would end in this!" Can't think of the name, but heard of some huge crystalline giant that the ponies back then just straight up murdered into diamond dust. Man, cartoons those days didn't know how to pull punches, lol!

Thank you! There we go! I know peeps gotta ship them together to create the fandom's best odd couple, and that's all well and awkwardly awesome, but they're just too different in my opinion. We saw from the Slice of Life episode they divvy their house down to a bi-colored line down the half of it. That's a sign of having to live with someone you love, but only juuust tolerate, lol! Speaking of Vinyl, I like to think she actually is mute. Doesn't come up often as a problem as she's such open friends with most that they know her well enough to know what she'd say before she says it. Though more often then not, even if she cared to talk, most ponies like Pinkie and Octavia would interrupt her to finish her sentences for her like they do with Big Mac. While she can do sign language (though really, how does that work with hooves?) she gets by with tremendously good lip reading (which is why she always has her earphones cranked as high as they can go, she doesn't NEED to hear you) and expressing herself though her music. As for other background ponies! I have my own little backstories to the Flower Fillies! Rose inherited her last name of Luck, from her father's talent & favored pastime of being a halfway decent poker player. While his gambling was never bad enough to cause them serious harm, it always strained the family finances. When Rose grew up, she swore to start up her own flower shop like her mother did with her two college friends, Daisy & Lilly. Though her history with money has led her to be a bit miserly and a critical tomboy of a mare. She's also been Foalhood friends with Doctor (Just Doctor. His parents had very, very high hopes for him when they named him.) and off & on again love interests, though she can barely stand his antics and constant unproved theories of wild inventions like time travel. Daisy is the more laid-back, understanding and flirtatious of the three and has been friends with Rose the longest. She really only went along with the idea of the flower shop because she wanted to distance herself from the fame & royalty of her rich family and didn't really have any plans after college anyway. While Rose has the more athletic build, Daisy has the more homely & rounded figure, shes into yoga & frequent failed attempts at dieting. I also ship her with Amethyst Star. I'm not sure why. Her last name? Duke. While the three have hit upon their own synchronized act of playing the damsel in distress in order to appeal more to stallions in a world of matriarchal society, heroic mares and a very low male population; for the rather anemic and frail Lily, its rather more of a reality. Lily's last name is Liver because she was born into a family renown for their expertise in butchering meat for the more predatory species of Equestria. As such, she's prone to being more jumpy & skittish over the littlest of things & tends to hole up in her room with her manga. (manga is totally cannon in Equestria! I can see Fluttershy leading a little comic book club out of her cottage once a month with Lily & other mares about town!) Despite her fear over little things like moths, bunny stampedes, broken flowers and milk, among other things, she's actually pretty good with horror movies & other intentionally scary things as she's gotten quite used to the more graphic things one runs across in comic book media. I can see her being a tad more accepting of a certain oddball of a Draconequus I have in the works...

Well, Lyra is a favorite of mine, sure. Love how she can work a rare color for ponies like green without it being too obvious as is want for background ponies. Then there's the three-way tie of the Flower Fillies Rose, Daisy & Lilly. But my absolute favorite? Caramel! Maybe its that plain, but sweet look of his what with his long, but boyish mane or those puppy-dog eyes of momentary sadness that his face flashes to on that fateful day he gets scolded for once again forgetting the seeds for Winter-Wrap-Up; but he's just the cutest, most approachable stallion in Ponyville in my opinion! Come what may, regardless of what our genders may be, if I was in Ponyville I'd be on him in like, nothing! And I'm sure this has nothing to do with his name also being my favorite flavor! Like to think he also has a twin sister too, that goes a way in explaining him being one of the biggest placeholder models. She even shares the same first name as him too, he'd be Caramel Flan and she'd be Caramel Torte! That's....that might still need work...lol

Crushed a planet. What? You want detail? ..... Well, too bad, your getting it anyway! See, I mention over on his page on the rp character list that he won't talk about demons. Worst thing he's done, and what he'll never admit to if I can help it. In one of his later attempts to create a portal to get back to Equestria, Widdershins summoned a demon to help him get back. You know demons and how they promise things...Well, what the demon wanted in return was a whole planetsworth of souls to eat. Basically, to be let loose and rule his own realm, which Widdershins agreed to in a moment of insanity. As the carnage ensued, Widder kind of came to his senses that the demon wouldn't stop there and lured the demon to an abandoned, hopefully lifeless, planetoid. Once the demon landed, Widdershins summoned his Million-Mile Pancake, wrapped the planetoid and the demon in it & just kept squeezing until there wasn't anything left. The demon's essence crushed out of existence and sent through the interdimensional portal it had supposedly summoned as per its "agreement" with Widdershins, and left to attach itself to the first being it could find and reform itself to a state it could manage. Oh, and the demons name? .....Thrakerzod. Let's see, and to a lesser extent, my other "main" OCs. There's my Hydra-sona. And yes, I have a hydra. Give me creativity or give me death!!! Anyhoo! He pretty much demolished a small fishing town. Didn't intend kill anypony, but he did trample a few elderly & foals who didn't run fast enough in the chaos that usually follows a near-thirty-foot lizard walking into a small, medieval village. Town is still abandoned to this day and shredded beyond recognition from it (my hydra) having lived among its ruins for a good 7 to 9 years. It may have crushed a few aspiring monster hunters, but its fights have usually ended with it having to regenerate from being cut almost entirely in half. And to a much lesser extent, my ponysona, Ambie. Well....hrm....He once outright assaulted a waiter for trying to serve him baked fish. He's very touchy about his fishy friends. Oh! That's right too, almost forgot! I do have a sort of head-only story of this one time when he was just a colt & wasn't aware of or knew how to use his changeling powers & accidentally got scared & sucked all the fear out of another colt that started picking on him. Leaving that stallion, to this day, incapable of feeling fear. Which...is more harmful then you'd think. But that's an entirely separate OC I have yet to work on!