Two background ponies have a harrowing realization that they are indeed background ponies.
Imagine meeting someone else that has everything identical to you besides color; the identity crises it would cause!
Well, yes, but actually no. You just have same mane styles and normal pony bodies, that isn’t so different from the real world. You have very different personalities, different cutie marks etc.
Same goes for many other ponies like Colgate, Lyra, Roseluck… while it may be tempting to just call yourselves recolors, the truth isn’t quite like that.
Fun fact: One of the cut scenes from “Slice of Life” would have been basically this, with one pony saying “Well, one of us is going to have to change.”
Same goes for many other ponies like Colgate, Lyra, Roseluck… while it may be tempting to just call yourselves recolors, the truth isn’t quite like that.