full disclosure: my ng revolves more around the ’parents’ bcs I care about the canon chars more then my Ocs so most of the content is based around happiness for them and thus everyone gets shipped//shot
That’s perfectly alright. I like what you did with the pairings and it’s a nice twist to see the canon characters get more focus with a Next Gen since a lot of them are very OC focused.
I’m trying to find the perfect balance of giving both the parents and the children focus myself. It’s not easy but it’s a fun challenge.
Speaking of balance, I do want to find the right balance of cute happy moments and sadness/drama. I don’t want to risk things being boring by having everything be perfect (conflict is often necessary to tell a story). But at the same time, I don’t want to risk going too far on the opposite end by making things too sad for people to enjoy and by making everyone a complete unlikable jerk or anything like that. I feel quite a lot of Next Gens fall way too heavy on one or the other.
I’m the type of person who likes darkness, drama, adventure, jerk characters, and a good feels trip but I’m also the type of person who also likes comedy, happiness, nice characters, and overall wholesomeness too. So it might be best to have a variety of that sort of stuff to prevent making things too stale and one dimensional.
Hurt/Comfort Fics and the
Earn Your Happy Ending trope appeal to me for this very reason. Life can often get hard but ultimately it’s nice to have
love, empathy, and optimism save the day in the end.
I honestly don’t have many single parents but I wanted to depict a few of them myself since it’s nice to show different types of families. At the moment, I only have four single parents, each single for their own reasons. I’ll get to them later in another post.
I’m thinking about shadow 5 headcanons rn and re-discovering them as faves again, we love turning underdeveloped characters into Ocs XD
Also the washouts are a good topic, I want to use them soooo baddd but I’m not sold on ships for em yet ~
I actually had Indigo Zap as a possible partner for Double diamond but went a different way soo now I’m also back to square one XD
Do you have specific Hcs for the shadow 5s pony breeds :V ? aside Indigo obv
I love taking background and other minor characters and making pseudo-OCs out of them. I’ve done that before a lot for other fandoms as well. It’s fun.
I didn’t have any specific headcanons for them really. But for now, I do have some general ideas of what I want them to be. Icey had the idea of making Indigo Zap a Bat Pony and Sour Sweet as a Changeling (with a Unicorn disguise) and I loved those ideas so much that I feel like possibly incorporating those ideas for mine as well.
As for the other three, I do have my own ideas for them that are different from his picks. I picked unicorn for Sugar Coat. Classical unicorns are usually depicted as delicate, feminine, and elegant creatures and since Sugar Coat likes ballet dancing, it seemed like a good fit. Her unofficial cutie mark is a stick of lit dynamite (which kind of reminds me of Tempest Shadow) and she kind of reminds me of a bit a nerdy type of character (I think it’s mostly the glasses but the scene with her at the lab helped with that too) so those are other reasons why I chose unicorn for her.
Many fans usually depict Lemon Zest as an Earth Pony (due to her being Pinkie Pie’s mirror in the special and her name) or as a Unicorn (because her headphones and love of music probably makes lots of fans think of Vinyl Scratch). But I like the idea of making her a Pegasus. Mostly due to her chipper personality and because I can easily picture her flying around with those headphones on.
As for Sunny Flare, hers was a bit harder pick at first. Her name and unofficial cutie mark have a sun theme going on and that’s usually something associated with unicorns. But her cooler color scheme and the fact that the unofficial cutie mark is weather themed, she seems like a perfect pick for a pegasus to me. So I’m ultimately picking a pegasus for her.
Unfortunately, that means I have no Earth Ponies for my Shadow 5. But since I had the idea of them dressing up as the Shadow Bolts, it makes sense that most of them would be fliers. As for Sugar Coat, she can maybe use magic to help herself fly (either by making magic wings or by levitating).
I think when it comes to dull colors it depends very much on balancing saturation and brightness, a lot of people end with dull colors even with colorful parents just bcs they mix the colors too simply (ending with lots of nasty browns n grays fuff)
That sounds about right. It’s sometimes easy to get really bleh colors when mixing the parents two colors together. Though sometimes you can get surprising results from doing that so it’s fun to experiment with that too. My rule is if mixing the colors looks bad, then don’t use it but if it looks appealing, then try it.
Andd Maudwich is good content !! It was a fave of mine for a long time bcs shipping PinkieMaud is forbidden but I love their dynamic oops don’t @ me
I don’t like incest ships but I can’t blame you for loving Pinkie and Maud’s dynamic. Their personalities bounce off each other very well in the show and I feel a lot of Pinkie’s best moments in the show were in episodes where she interacts with Maud.
I was actually going to go for the popular CheesePie ship but then I saw the movie and fell in love with shipping Pinkie with the birb.
They (Maud and Cheese) have super cute potential for autumn colored offspring !
I can only imagine that it takes a while for Skystar to figure out how to coexist with baking utensils without making an absolute mess of herself and her surroundings pfpt
These are both great ideas. Thank you so much.
I love being asked questions about my NG so when I’m curious about smn elses I ask questions right away huee
Do you have any ideas for Gabby yet?
Gummy having to split from Pinkie is so heartbreaking gosh TTcTT But I see ur reasoning for it
I got the idea from Egophiliac. She’s one of my favorite artists in the fandom. She was one of the first fanartists I was exposed to and her art is one of the reasons why I joined here (some of her art can only be seen here and not on her Tumblr or DeviantArt).
The comic was so cute and touching that I decided to do something similar for my Next Gen but with some differences here and there. Another difference I had in mind was the idea of them finding out that Gummy is actually a Cragadile which was inspired by
this picture (and its comments). Not to mention it just felt rather fitting given the family’s rock theme.
And on the topic of MarbleMac, it’s cool if you just don’t care about her but I gotta ask if you got plans for Sugar Belle :O ?
Good question. I actually had the plan of shipping her with Party Favor.