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Not my OC! Dual Core is the OC of SuperSpyro3000, who let me use him for pony drawing practice, and the first pony I’ve drawn since 2012!
 
While my skills towards drawing ponies, specifically, have withered over time, they wound up being bolstered by everything else I’d learned in the intervening five years about color theory, shading, proportions, and good posing! I wasn’t expecting this to turn out NEARLY as well as it did, to be honest. I guess drawing ponies is kinda like riding a bicycle!
 
I really fell in love with this guy while drawing him, so here’s his Biography:
 
Dual Core was born with two horns, but unlike other two-horned creatures with magic, he developed two internal sources of magic instead of just one. Thus, he eventually gained two cutie marks, on the matching side to each horn. One side marks an affinity for flora, and the other, an eye for art.
 
Despite having double the horns and technically double the magic, he doesn’t have double the power of your typical Unicorn. If he so much as tries to use both horns at once (or, more likely, if he gets startled while using magic and both go off at once,) well, let’s just say bad things happen. Most of Dual Core’s magical skill boils down to the simple spells, like levitation. It doesn’t help that he was born into a small-town community with no real magic users.
 
But where di he come from? Well, in this story, Unicorns with the dual-horn mutation were once more prevalent, but for some reason unrecorded by history, they just up and vanished. Wiped out? Gone into hiding? Sailed away to a far-off land? ’Tis a mystery…
 
Still, some families carry traces of the Twonicorn bloodline. As far as anyone can tell, Dual Core is the first true Twonicorn to emerge in hundreds, if not thousands, of years; even so, the main reason he is looked at differently is more to do with his rumored powers, where he came from, and what in the world caused him to stir up such a destructive ruckus in Ponyville.
 
Lemme know what you think of the piece and feel more than free to share any constructive criticism! (Can anyone give me some tips or resources for drawing hooves at an angle?)

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@David Murphy
 
Welp, after chatting with SuperSpy about it, turns out you were entirely correct! I’d misunderstood. Per the creator, ‘Twonicorn’ is, in fact, the colloquial term for a dual-horned Unicorn. Unlike other two-horned creatures with magic, Twonicorns develop two internal sources of magic instead of just one.
 
Unicorns with the dual-horn mutation were once more prevalent, but for some reason unrecorded by history, they just up and vanished. Wiped out? Gone into hiding? Sailed away to a far-off land? ’Tis a mystery…
 
Still, some families carry traces of the Twonicorn bloodline. As far as anyone can tell, Dual Core is the first true Twonicorn to emerge in hundreds, if not thousands, of years; even so, the main reason he is looked at differently is more to do with his rumored powers, where he came from, and what in the world caused him to stir up such a destructive ruckus in Ponyville.
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@David Murphy
 
I can see where you’re coming from, but let me add some context: I talked with the creator about this character while I was drawing him. I mentioned that I have a few OCs of my own with deformities (Ex., Oracle, the unicorn who was born without a horn and thereby no way to properly channel his magic. They’re colloquially called ‘Gibbets’ but they’re still Unicorns.)
 
I’d suggested that maybe Dual-Core here is a chimera–you know, like how when both twins in the womb kinda absorb one another and you get a single person with two sets of DNA? Which would explain the two horns, two different sets of magic, and different cutie marks! He said that was a neat idea, but Dual Core here (in his fic) is something called a Twonicorn.
 
So far in the story, they’re mentioned to be an ancient race that supposedly died out long ago, but they reliably have two horns, two sets of magic, and if trained to use them in tandem, have access to a more powerful form of magic. Where they went and how Dual Core came to be from Unicorn parents is currently a mystery.
 
(I am gonna ask him later if he doesn’t mind me using the chimera idea myself with some design changes to how that presetns itself. I know he doesn’t own the idea but since he’s the one that gave it to me, it’s just polite.)
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I don’t think having a deformity/recessive trait (ie multiple horns) by itself constitutes an original species. A species is original if its existence is limited to the context of the art, or otherwise has not been previously discovered or used by by anyone aside from yourself. The unicorn’s species name literally means one horn, but having more than one does not cause the creature to stop being a unicorn. It would be a bit like if a human was born with extra toes, and his/her community stopped treating them as if they were human.