The shipping without ever being cannon isnt really anything wrong if anything the fact that it isnt cannon is what makes creating these stories FUN. its just an expression of passion also have you ever heard OF ALTERNATE TIMELINES? Maybe a certain ship isnt cannon IN THIS TIMELINE but in another timeline it could be... Besides my alicorn oc may be about as powerful as discord in a doctor strange kinda way but he rarely uses that power and tbh relies more on his technological genious to solve things... Also in terms of being by default royalty my character has an origin story that actually makes sense... This is a fanfic i am writing condensed down as far as i could get it.. Celestia finishing her daily duties, goes to her bedchamber to see a bright green white light outside... Turns out its a UFO from another solar system, celestia discovers the little alicorn colt it beamed down(no older than 1 year old) tia decides to give parenting a try so she raises the colt(named Strange Quark) as her own... Long story short he achieves great power advances equestria's tech by about 400 thousand years moves to ponyville just wanting a normal life, discovers the grid(from TRON) loses his right eye saving the grid and gets a robot eye... A few years later is on survey mission and stumbles across chrysalis and a new hive by accident, promptly falls in love with chrysalis and warms her heart, after mission ends strange quark gets lonely and the shit hits the fan so the rulers of equestria get strange quark and chrysalis back together, she moves in with him in ponyville while her changelings live with thorax, strange quark adopts 2 changeling fillies(one about 14 and the other about 3) proposes to chryssi a year later as the season 8 finale goes down... Cozy glow gets her ass whooped by strange quark, chryssi and strange quark get happily married and have 2 foals of their own... Thats all i have for now... If you want i can post a link to the still incomplete fanfic on fimfiction... Just a heads up though my story at many points has a looser almost improvised on the fly feel comparable to rick and mory's interdimensional cable so it is quite random at points