Background Pony #4410
@Stotter
I actually agree, and I go maybe a little further.
Most of the characters in the show, most of the time–I’m certainly not saying it’s everybody or universal, but it seems to be the vast majority of them–seem to act like, well, nine-year-old girls. Some of them–Twilight Sparkle, for example–seem to be very intelligent (well, most of the time, until the scriptwriters hand her the Idiot Ball), very precocious nine-year-old girls, but still nine-year-old girls. And in this group Pinkie strikes me as being even more childlike than most. Not childish, necessarily, but childlike.
Maybe the characters are supposed to be young adults, and we’ve seen marriage and children (well, foals) featured on the show, but they act pretty much like the show’s intended audience, for the most part.
It’s even in the way most of the characters are drawn. Look at the round faces, the stubby limbs. They even have the bodily proportions of–well, when I squint, toddlers. They have neotenous features and they’re adorable, with exceptions.
Celestia and Luna are tall, with long legs and long necks, long flowing manes and tails, and if the normal “little ponies” look like children, the Princesses are drawn in a manner that makes them look very much like adults. I don’t speak for the character designers but I suspect this is intentional. They’re the grown-ups, the ones in charge, and everybody else obeys them without much questioning or resistance. And that seems to be the way it’s supposed to be, in Magic Pastel Hoers Land.
Anyway. Pinkie Pie is a cutie pie (though for all we know that could be another member of the Pie family), but not one I feel comfortable trying to sexualize. My perception of her is that she’s too much of an adorable bouncy seven-year-old. Celestia and Luna, yeah. I can sexualize them (rowr!) but not most of the little ones.
I actually agree, and I go maybe a little further.
Most of the characters in the show, most of the time–I’m certainly not saying it’s everybody or universal, but it seems to be the vast majority of them–seem to act like, well, nine-year-old girls. Some of them–Twilight Sparkle, for example–seem to be very intelligent (well, most of the time, until the scriptwriters hand her the Idiot Ball), very precocious nine-year-old girls, but still nine-year-old girls. And in this group Pinkie strikes me as being even more childlike than most. Not childish, necessarily, but childlike.
Maybe the characters are supposed to be young adults, and we’ve seen marriage and children (well, foals) featured on the show, but they act pretty much like the show’s intended audience, for the most part.
It’s even in the way most of the characters are drawn. Look at the round faces, the stubby limbs. They even have the bodily proportions of–well, when I squint, toddlers. They have neotenous features and they’re adorable, with exceptions.
Celestia and Luna are tall, with long legs and long necks, long flowing manes and tails, and if the normal “little ponies” look like children, the Princesses are drawn in a manner that makes them look very much like adults. I don’t speak for the character designers but I suspect this is intentional. They’re the grown-ups, the ones in charge, and everybody else obeys them without much questioning or resistance. And that seems to be the way it’s supposed to be, in Magic Pastel Hoers Land.
Anyway. Pinkie Pie is a cutie pie (though for all we know that could be another member of the Pie family), but not one I feel comfortable trying to sexualize. My perception of her is that she’s too much of an adorable bouncy seven-year-old. Celestia and Luna, yeah. I can sexualize them (rowr!) but not most of the little ones.
