Merrypaws

Let's play a little thought game. Let's assume for a moment that becoming an alicorn is something that is possible to any pony, earth, unicorn and pegasus alike. They only must reach either a high enough level of ability in their special skill, great level of magical power, or very deep of insight and wisdom, whichever happens first. Which of your OCs would be most likely to accomplish this feat, and by which method?

Took the words out of my mouth.

I think all options are problematic to some degree. Reforms are very much up to par with the show's general theme of friendship and harmony, but I think it gets unrealistic at certain point. Not everyone is willing/able to change. Death/destruction after a long and hard battle against a truly despicable opponent can be very satisfying for the audience, but then again, it means you're then short a bad guy. A good villain must also be a well developed character, and if one needs to come up with a new villain every time there is need for one, any writer will eventually run out of ideas. On the flipside, if the villain is simply made to be a one hit wonder, then they usually aren't all that deep and faceted, so their death hardly has as much impact on the audience. (Case in point, Sombra). Imprisonment seems like a good middle ground between the two previous options, but these days most people who follow any mass media are genre-savvy enough to know that it's basically a setup for "oh no, (name) has escaped and is out for revenge!"

Hmmm... Cotton Patch would probably become unable to color-match. Very inconvenient for her quilt-making. Maybe this would come with a physical symptom of her eyes constantly changing color. And Greg the changeling.... would uncontrollably change into whatever pony he happens to be facing at the moment. Magenta Dream (sheesh, I haven't drawn her in ages) would be seeing stars - literally. Like little sparkles that constantly hover around her head, obstructing her sight. Filigree... She's a dragon-pony hybrid, though she physically takes more after the pony side. Maybe she would become more dragon like? Sage usually has three heads, each with a distinct personality, so poison joke could change that into one head that switches between all the personalities at random.

I don't really have any ships that I'm seriously into in this show. There are some that I like, like Spike/Rarity and Discord/Celestia, but I don't really make a mental note of every time my favorite pair has a moment or something similar.

I play games to have fun, not to win. If I liked a character enough I would play as them, even if I came in last every time, as long as I was having good time while I was at it.

I'm thinking Rarity and Applejack might actually be close to even. Rarity obviously has more liquid assets, that is, actual money, but Applejack probably owns a good deal of the land and other property going with the Sweet Apple Acres. So if you take the total value of everything they have, they're both most likely well off.

It might be simply a shout-out to the G1 series, since the seaponies played a key part in it several times. And like GrimGrimoire already said, they're something new that hasn't been seen in the FIM series, so it would be something to pique the audience's curiosity with.

Disregarding the sheer atrocity that are the recent cartoon-based films, I'm just sitting here wondering how it would even be possible to make a live-action movie of MLP, especially the FIM incarnation. If you wanted the characters to even distantly resemble the show, they would have to be CGI, and same for most of the locations and scenery too... what would there be left to film for real?

I don't hate Pinkie by any means, but she is my least favorite of the mane 6. She's simply too much at times. She doesn't show as much of the subtler emotions as the rest of the herd, so she doesn't really foster the kinda sense of sympathy one needs to connect with someone. I generally like her random interjections when she's not the main character of the episode, but when everything is focused on her, she tends to come off as just... shallow and too hyper to notice it. Sometimes I feel like the writers don't really know what to do with her when she gets more than two lines in a row. Like the episode about the train trip to the big baking contest, when they tried to figure out who had taken a bite out of the cake. Pinkie's 'deductions' were so far out that it gave me more second-hand embarrassment than giggles.

I came up with Greg the changeling and his pony-love, Cotton Patch soon after the changelings were first introduced. And now, Thorax.

I sailed this ship from the beginning, and I never even in my wildest dreams expected it to become canon. Yarrr! This be a pirate ship! It be following no law but its own!

I've had plenty of OCs over the years, and yes, I have noticed a change. Early on, they were all very bland, cut out stereotypes. Princesses that were pretty and feminine, wolves that were brave, wild and strong, etc. As time went on and I learned more about character design and storytelling, I started enjoy characters with more variety. I developed a liking for interracial or even inter-species friendships and couples, just cause I enjoyed thinking of ways they might interact when the physical forms don't match. Now days, I think a lot about my character's families and background, things that might never come up in their story but still affect them. As far as relationships go, I seem to recall that in my childhood a lot of my characters were always alone. Then I hit the pre-teens, and suddenly everyone needed a romance. Now, I'm moving towards more variety in that aspect as well. Some of my characters are self-sufficient, some are in a relationship, and some even are married with kids. Basically, I think it boils down to that over time I've learned to create believable characters of different types.

Is it actually stated somewhere what age they are? I'm not trying to smoke you out, I genuinely don't know if it's been confirmed.

Basically, anything. Some of them might play to certain stereotype, like Applejack with her southern belle charm, but there really is no definite proof that any of them correspond with one ethnic group or another. For all we know, AJ could be hispanic (for example), only she's been raised in an area where people talk certain way and act certain way, so she of course grows up to follow that model.