On Second Thought

My Partner loves spamming little Autism creatures in chat and I had to counter with a 20 minute speed draw.

Have only written publicly for a year and already am finding all sorts of phenomenons lol

Twilight never learned to make friends in Azzy's AU, becoming Princess of Magic and Knowledge but keeping her antisocial personality. Remaining an introvert for an extra four years before the story started and she was forced into a teaching position at a very different "School of Harmony". All the students have been content to leave her alone in her study after classes... except one who's always finding new ways to drag her into schemes like raising the dead, dismantling reverse-cyborgs, and worst of all - Social interaction!

A day late for Twilight Day but I still had to do something! I haven't actually done a work without an OC somewhere yet either.

Old account, new at engagement

How do you get started with actually interacting with people on this website, aside from just looking at other people's posts?

My brain's wandering around some contrived Meta level plot or other around my poor Azure Star and why they are probably fundamentally incapable of fitting into the wider Multiverse (including broader Fandom) because of what they are rather than who, and discovering that their entire "multiversal presence" is limited to like… a handful of variants of herself always in universes that have something kind of fundamentally wrong with them, at least compared to the "ideal" (IE Original) universe she discovers exists out there.

Just considering how it'd feel to find out you're just so fundamentally "weird" and "wrong" because of your origins that you've effectively been branded an outcast from all "proper" realities that exist and pushed out to only show up in the dregs, and what that must do to your self esteem

Was honestly thinking of playing with this in my dumb little AU thing, looking into the specific wording of the spell, with a very different Unicorn messing with the very same spell to try to finish their own ascension.

I thought it would be cute if that exact wording was turned around, and since they stubbornly hoard the elements trying to master them alone instead of sharing them, the spell would instead of swapping marks of their friends turns them into a Mark black-hole. In their quest to find fulfillment alone they'd turn themselves into a problem that keep accidentally "stealing" the destinies and Marks of those they get close too, until they're truly "singled out alone".

Undoing that and learning to actually share responsibility and power with others is the actual test of course, but its a different lesson for a different pony interpreted from the same spell.

Omfg I'm watching MLP "Magical Mystery Cure" and I had a thought

The spell twilight proforms, the one Starswirl The Bearded wrote it was

"the mark of ones destiny singled out alone, fulfilled."

The spell isn't about the elements, it's about Twilight. Celestial magic isn't what turns her into an alicorn. It's the spell. It's Twilights magic. It's her Destiny.

Switching the elements and finding the counter spell is just a test.

Chroma Shell! Changeling Queenling and first bug-horse student at Azzy's school, recruited after helping take down her mom. She adores Romance novels and Manga, and has already started to help with shipping students with each other. She'll be a true Skittlebug before she knows it

Help back up

It's no use! Seems like she's too eepy and lazy today to get up. No amount of banana derived anti-matter will refuel her enough this evening. Maybe tomorrow.

More Practice Art, a 3 hour speed-draw