Ponies of the Rim: Rimworld Mod #2

>Ponies of the Rim
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=3223243284
A mod for Rimworld that adds ponies to the game.
Highlights include full compatability with Biotech and all DLC: cross-breed with human-likes and recruit ponies with fire-breathing genes. Fulfill your Anon in Equestria fantasy and raise a family of foals with your waifu. Then watch them starve, catch on fire, or be mowed down by mechanoids - or are you a bad enough dude to protect your family?

Other reccommended mods:
>Pawnkind Race Diversification
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=2828866565
Remove the nohooves! With this mod you can make a pony-only world.

>Kijin Race
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=2884551646
This mod includes a researchable tech that makes every plant drop hay when harvested, even cutting trees. Also includes some cute weeb architecture (and big-titted demon women but you can ignore them or remove with PRD above).

>Interaction Bubbles
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=1516158345
See what your ponies have to say to each other.

>Speak Up
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=2502518544
Same as above, adds even more cute banter.

>Gloomy Furniture
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=3231428653
Cute furniture for your ponies.

Post screenshots and discuss.
Dwarf Fortress and other colony games with pony mods also welcome.

>>41061344
Previous Thread

News of the Rim

>when will 1.1 be ready for launch?

Dev says:
>Probably in the next week, since I need to draw a lot of stuff still
>I've fixed (almost) all previously reported bugs, but there definitely will be more bugs with all of the new stuff
>But after the update I will be finally working on batponies and other races
>I want to redraw all vanilla apparel before the release

I really love how they look with hats on.<br>Especially that dumbass yellow sombrero.

>>41088590
i called the faction-region-settlement whatever Equestralia because everything here wants to kill and eat you

Dev says:

DJeck12 — Today at 12:46 PM
This event is bugged and I don't have time to fix it, so it will not be released in 1.1 update
Its supposed to check for for the Prophet role, but it requires leader role instead
DJeck12 — Today at 12:49 PM
So the moral guide should be as a spectator to give that 20% boost
There are very few mods that added their own rituals and roles, so I don't have many references on how to do that
DJeck12 — Today at 1:00 PM
So the new role will just have prisoner-recruiting ability in the release, but the +20% to social is a very strong buff by itself

>>41088612
Made my noble a proper palace for meditation and reflection

>>41089082
I love her with that cute little beret and the glasses

>>41089945
it is the way of high-time-investment game threads

Been a while since I checked on my mares. I’ll post some if the thread is alive later tonight.

>>41089945
Sorry, was dead for a moment. I'll be back soon too

>>41089945
I'm mastering Dwarf Fortress. I have nothing to show.

>>41091080
As long as my relentless samefagging isn't getting on anyone's nerves I will keep the threads going

>>41091329
Unironically post your fortress and ask any questions you may have because I also love fort
It's really easy to mod too
I did a raw-file mod to make unicorns easier to tame and train <s>and milkable</s>
You basically just find the animal code file and copy the text from the regular horse but make sure it's edited to be unicorns

>>41091821
>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedf<wbr>iles/filedetails/?id=2906176996
And here's the g4 races mod for Dorf Fort compatable with the steam version
It's decent but slightly uggo

>>41090521
Last time I played I allowed for a human female to join my colony. I fed and cared for her for a week before she recovered from whatever bullshit she was going through. She then had a mental breakdown from a drug withdrawal and tried to kill Anon's pregnant wife while she was sleeping. <s>She was jealous because she knew she could never compete with mare.</s> Anon shot her dead.

>>41091973
Now I come back on, get Night hospitalized and as soon as she recovers from her bruising, she goes into labor. She just gave birth to 2 (two) pegasi colts on her birthday. I take back what I said last thread about her teats not going back to being petite anytime soon. These little fuckers are milking her dry.

>>41068505
>hope you can make it. Sounds rough.
Sorry to leave on a cliffhanger, but yeah we made it through just fine and wildlife returned to the area pretty quickly. We just had to spend like 2 weeks mostly indoors huddled around the fireplace. The difficulty has definitely been picking up a lot lately, though. The storyteller thought it would be fun to send raid after raid of mechs for an entire week.
>being paralyzed and likely left for dead by your family has traumatized her in a way to make her want to mitigate the shortcomings of her assigned meatsuit and even surpass it's limits to never feel like that again.
Damn, I had never thought about it that way. I won't turn her into JC Denton, but I'll let the poor filly have a couple augments when I get that tech, just to keep her happy.
>At this rate, I wonder if Night would accept her into a herd as more of a concubine if she begged - seeing as she's probably so alone and demoralized. Would definitely spitroast her with my wife using a strapon. Then pamper her in aftercare while assuring her that I intend to get her pregnant too.
Kek, you REALLY want me to herd my colony mares. Just for you, I'll try it. I had to change my ideology to allow for free love and for men to be allowed to have multiple spouses. The chance for them to romance each other is pretty low right now, but we'll see.

>>41091973
>>41091978
These are the kinds of player stories I love to tune in for

I keep telling myself THIS time I'll do a difficult run where I let pawns die and I never do, I always puss out

>>41092227
Try commitment mode, that's what it's for.

>>41092333
I'm too much of a raging pussy to see my favorite pawn in pain

>>41093627
We will be getting alicorns, changelings, and batponies in a future update!

>>41091329
dwarf fortress sucks dogshit
horrid UI, steam version has tranny dating game publishers behind it (foxkit or whatever publishing), have to mod the shit out of basegame to even have fun, no proper tileset replacements that are decent, barely any tutorials since "le niche 20 year old game"

dwarf fortress is just for the horrifically autistic. Really surprised that nobody is going to compete with them for a better colony sim, since Rimworld clearly hates the player owning a successful colony.

>>41094423
kill yourself immediately + no one asked
us autists deserve a game made specifically for our depth of interest and focus, cope

>>41094426
>you zill enjoy a horribly designed UI that is not user friendly, and a "dedicated developer" who can't into making a settings menu.

>>41094435
if you weren't yourself autistically committed to cutting your nose off to spite your face you'd have realized by now that the steam version has a better UI and the tutorials you're bitching about missing

>>41094444
>>41094435
"it was made by troons" is the most retarded reason not to use a piece of software anyways. there's a reason coder socks is a meme. i guarantee you're daily using an integral piece of software that uses code that was made by a trains.

man the fuck up and play dwarf fortress or admit you're too stupid to follow a simple flowchart

>>41094382
>No crystal ponies
Everyone always forgets the rock horses...

>>41094650
That's a good point, I'll bring it up in the discord as a suggestion

Thamks for keeping my thread alive guise, loaf u

>Rocketman
>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedf<wbr>iles/filedetails/?id=2479389928

Going to be trying this mod out and see if it unfucks my slowdown as it's recommended in the /vg/ thread. Will report with results but I trust our brothers over there that it will work.

>>41095275
It's pretty damn good, but keep in mind that there's only so much it can do. Automatically clearing out the cached pawns (yes the game keeps a record of basically all pawns you encounter, even after they're dead) is a godsend for longer games

>>41095297
>accidentally posted a micrometer of cartoon nipple
better safe than sorry

>THIS time i will play like a BIG BOY
>mechanoid cluster
>everyone dies
>alt f4 the game without saving
EVERY TIME

Wtf the speed boost from the sanguophage building is op

>>41095464
>The sanguophage is down for a quarter of the year
It's balanced

>>41095297
>Plap us
In a world with mares, women are getting increasingly desperate. It’s pathetic.

>>41095771
>Anon, stop lusting over those sweaty mares and plap me!
>Don't plap the horses, plap ME!
>Don't you walk away from me!!

>>41089945
Haven't gotten a new colony up in a while. Will definitely try out this mod when I do.

>>41088523
What hoof or leg prosthetics can I install on a pony nugget with two destroyed thighs? It turns out prosthetic human arms can be attached to destroyed shoulders, but nothing works for destroyed thighs. I tried to peer into xmls, but I don't seem to understand what I'm looking at. In Defs/Bodies/Bodies_Pony.xml the body plan of a pony goes like Torso -> { Pony_Thigh -> { Pony_RearLeg -> {Pony_RearHoof, ...}}, Shoulder -> {Pony_FrontLeg -> {Pony_FrontHoof, ...}}, ...}. In the original game in Core/Defs/Bodies/Bodies_Humanlike.x<wbr>ml humans have Torso -> { Leg -> {...}, Shoulder -> {Clavicle, Arm -> {...}}, ...}. Therefore, Pony_Thighs are isomorphic to human Legs, and not, let's say, human Pelvises. In the original game in Hediffs_BodyParts/Prosthetic.xml the "appliedOnFixedBodyParts" for leg prostheses is Leg and the "appliedOnFixedBodyParts" for arm prostheses is Shoulder - both are root entities of extremities. But in PotR we only have hoof prosthetics that isomorphic to artificial hands and feets because they are appliedOnFixedBodyParts-d on Pony_FrontHoof and Pony_RearHoof, and a patch in Patches/Core/Hediffs_BodyParts.xml that allows to to install human legs on Pony_FrontLeg and Pony_RearLeg - that is to say, second level entities of extremities. Is it by design? Is it a bug that I can install install human arms on pony shoulders?
I don't feel like going the "just harvest her lungs out lmao" route or, even worse, cheating this time. Is there a separate mod for artificial pony thighs? Or should I make my own mod? Ididn't play it, but apparently in Expanded Prosthetics and Organ Engineering artificial pelvises for humans are meant to be created and installed separately from legs. My colony is a bit low on components and I have absolutely no idea how to make mods for this game but if it's the right and most rimworldish thing to do then I may do that anyway.
A bit of backstory for context. I play on naked brutality and recruit raiders who come after me. It was easy and fun until it wasn't. This mad motherfucker of a mare showed up on my doorstep at the end of a particularly long and difficult winter. She had no fighting skills whatsoever but enough determination to keep trying to kill my initial colonist with two limbs missing. I kinda respect that, you know? Actually, now that I think about it, she may have been just too high to notice the loss. But my initial colonist is just the kind of a dude to decide to respect her determination nonetheless. And she has two flames of passion for medicine - he respects that too, being something of a mad doctor himself. Now she lays in the prison with major go juice withdrawal and exactly zero in mood but she can't even throw a tantrum because no legs. But the real kicker is her name. I'm not making it up, that's how she was generated.

>>41097690
>Is it a bug that I can install install human arms on pony shoulders?
Yes, the dev is working on the body part distribution and says that EPOE should/will work with bionic hooves etc in future updates where they fiddle with it more
>her name
Now THAT'S funny.

>"if the thigh is destroyed, I'm unable to give them a replacement limb. I need to remove the hedif in devmode, have it turn into destroyed leg, just so I can give them a replacement."
This is the reported bug and how the reporting person is working around it for now

>"It's an issue with HAR, which assumes that all humanoid aliens must be bipedal"

The unstable branch is also available for playtesting but I'm unsure if they've pushed the fix to this bug to it yet
>https://github.com/DJeck12/Ponies-<wbr>of-the-Rim/tree/unstable

so do you guys lean towards more free-range construction or settle for commieblock apartments so you don't have to worry too much about space?

>>41098782
Depends on how difficult I'm running my game
Easy mode means there's plenty of resource, and time, to make stone blocks to turn into luxury homes that have lawns and flowers
Hard mode means their asses are living in a bunker and everything vill be sqvare

>>41098782
I build mountain bunkers, so I have residential wings that branch off of the throne room, while my resident noble gets a suite, they don't end up looking like commie blocks because I have to accommodate bathrooms and secondary bedrooms for any children that are had.

Looks like these threads are on their way out, so one last thank you to the anon that made this art of my favorite rimworld mare. And thank you OP for bringing this mod to my attention. It's been fun.

>>41091337
For now, it's a fort with dwarves that are enhanced by a cheater mod.

When I tried to create a colony with ponies, I chose a bad place without water, trees and plants, so ponies died of thirst.

>>41100959
>I chose a bad place without water, trees and plants
Appleoosa was a fluke Anon, they needed earth pony cheats for it to work

>>41101515
Ohh, so that's what screwing up like that is like?

>>41101510
That place was not like Appleoosa, but like Ashland in Morrowind.

I tried making snow ponies, but sadly due to furskin gene, the color of hair and body are the same and not much I could do about it.

Remember to never install JecsTools and, if possible, don't use HugsLib either (most of the HugsLib mods have non-hugslib variants).
Those two frameworks alone can grind your game to a halt. Jecs is extremely outdated and a resource hog, hugs is up to date but still wastes resources on framework calls.
The only mod worth hugslib is SoS2, and you can patch the hugslib dependency out with Rimpy.

>>41103013
Man, I've been using both and now I hear about this twenty hours into a new colony? Fuck me.

>>41095275
Also use Performance Fish. Any of the Garbage Collector (GC) mods as well, for manual worldpawn cleanup is good too.

>>41103017
Trust me anon, it's not worth it. I rescued a 30h colony by deleting jecs alone.
Almost no modern mod uses jecs anyway, so you can delete it with no risk. Try and find versions of mods without hugs, as well.
I know my shit modwise, ask if you need help.
I'd also suggest against installing the vanilla expanded series of mods, as they featurebloat really hard (do you really need like 10 new plants and 10 new cooking mechanisms for cooking expanded?, sure let me make legendary cheese(???)) and that shit tanks performance, but not nearly enough as jecs alone does. <s>You can have vanilla expanded as a treat if you use the picker mod to manually select what you wanna keep and what you wanna disable. I for one don't enjoy VE, but you do you.</s>
Allow tool is also a performance hog, just flatout remove it, so is achtung, if you have it poorly set up, but it can be "fixed" a bit.
Most importantly, uninstall any mod that subdivides roles into smaller ones, cause those eat a fuckton of performance since all pawns (ALL PAWNS) now check and call for a lot more roles than they did before, and this shit grows with the number of pawns, which gets large during raids.
As a rule of thumb, if it adds pawn complexity (not to be confused with mechanical complexity), it will be a performance consumer, it is up to you to decide if this one or the other is worth that performance loss.
Dubs performance analyzer is your friend here.

>>41103040
>I'd also suggest against installing the vanilla expanded series of mods
Yeah, I already knew about this one, it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it, but reddit consistently does. It looks like I can wipe Jecs without any trouble, but some of my list relies on hugs, like elite bionics framework, medical system expansion 2 and xenobionic patcher, less importantly perhaps is <s>rimjobworld</s> which is a resource hog of its own.

In case you need it.<br>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi<wbr>les/filedetails/?id=3253035586

>>41103310
This is for horses or for mlp ponies?

>>41102282
Snowmare!

>>41104111
why are most of those snowmares not even snowmare coloured?

>>41104111
>This is for horses or for mlp ponies?
Horses. I think RJW has settings that'd allow you to milk ponies, if that's what you need.

>>41104152
I think they are, but who cares? They are very cute.

>>41104263
Use the <s>milkable colonists</s> mod to allow <s>milking your pawns</s>.
You can dose <s>Lact-X</s> to enable temporary <s>lactation</s>, or <s>Lact-X Max</s> (expensive to make but you can sometimes get some in raids or exotic trades) to enable permanent <s>lactation</s>.
The <s>Milk</s> produced works like the regular animal kind, and can be used in anything that requires <s>milk</s>, like the <s>comically large cheese cube</s> from the mod with the same name.

>>41104801
You forgot to mention it needs patching to work with modded races.

>>41104533
well, they are ponies. being cute is sort of the default.

>>41104801
ALL HAIL THE GREAT MOTHER CHEESE!

>>41098782
Depends on the colony and scenario, but I like free range initially and if I get a big colony going, they get commieblocks. I always have problems with space and bloat.

>>41107457
once, when I was running out of room (and more importantly, metal), I split off the colony into a second outpost.
Chugs a bit swapping between them unfortunately, but with the launch pods I at least don't have to worry about the main camp running out of stuff anytime soon.

Thanks for keeping the thread alive while I had IRL shit going on guise
I'm going to look into trimming my modlist down and optimizing for speed so I'll report soon(tm)
I might even look into That Mod

>>41105816
I assume he's using the xeno patcher mod if he's using the pony mods. Thing just works. I have like 10 ayylien races that all just work.

>>41108274
>optimizing for speed so I'll report soon(tm)
I would like to see it.


YrE, but!

Anonymous

You reach Equestria, but it's right as the Independence Day Aliens show up
YrE at the start of a Noah-level flood
YrE but Daybreaker refuses to lower the sun
YrE but all of the above are true
pic not rel, I'm bored as hell.

>>41089045
rape Daybreaker and die in flood. I haven't watch independence day, so get zapped my aliens too or something haha

>>41089045
>YrE but Daybreaker refuses to lower the sun
I get to live on a fucking sick tidally locked world AND there's Daybreaker? Sign me up!

>Storm clouds block the sun, countering Daybreaker
>Aliens burrow a hole in the planet with their laser and the flood waters rush in, countering the flood
So how does Daybreaker counter the aliens?

>>41091635
Idk anon how could a being with full control over a star counter something 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 a star's mass.

>>41092596
How does she counter the ayys without also killing all her little pony slaves in the process?

>>41091635
>>41092596
>>41092855
Rock always win. Rock smash everything!

>>41092879
OH NO NO NO NO
OUR RESPONSE, SUNSISTERS?


"Can't you fucking read, Anon? You're not welcome at this establishment"

I'm not a faggot! You're a faggot, faggot!

>>41088896
Fine, I'll take my bits to Filly Funzone

>>41089137
bullshit. if it were, he'd drop subtle hints on Oney Plays. If anything, Psychicpebbles drops more pony dogwhistles

>>41089619
he sings the fucking smile song all the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if Cory draws porn of the show too


>>41089084
I'm glad my wife understands nature and the circle of life!

>>41089084
Do you think she hears them scream and slowly suffocate to live or just slams the fishes down to instant kill

they died of natural causes first, then their floots picked up their bodies and gave them to the otters. When floots dies, the ponies will give her one of those sky burials where they put her on a raised platform for birds to pick at until only her bones remain. It’s the circle of life

>>41089297
>otters
They're clearly ferrets.

>>41089284
She farts in the water and kills them like Shrek. The smell is so rancid they die.

>>41089084
>first slide
I never realized how happy the fish looked to see Fluttershy.
Imagine what's going through their mind as they are being eaten alive.

>>41089084
she collects volunteers who have a hard vore fetish

>>41089556
>Only the two eager to see he are slaughtered
>The red-eyed skeptic survives
Grim.

>>41089860
>he doesn’t

Memes aside, after rewatching Shrek I’ve realized that it’s not even a meme, Shrek is literally the perfect alpha male. He embodies every single trait that women want. He’s threatening. He’s funny. He’s huge and strong. He doesn’t take shit from anyone. He has massive amounts of confidence, and takes charge in all situations. He’s a man of action. Shrek gets the job done. He doesn’t play games with women (e.g. carrying Fiona when she refused to walk with him). If you want to practice sex by having it with a human female before you go to Equestria, then the best way to attract one is unironically to act like Shrek.

>>41089956
I'm going to Shrek your balls

Fluttershy would have no issue with a human spearing a pony through its chest, skinning it and eating it right? Its just nature right?

>>41089956
>literally fucks up an CEO of the company because he feels like it
Shrek knows no bounds.

>>41090217
Only ponies are allowed to kill.

>>41089860
Ew no, I used to like Fionna though.


Derpy wanted to give you a hug, but she doesn't know what went wrong.<br>Will you help her Anon?

>>41089278
Just another reason why internal hugs are better.

>>41089321
Go get eaten then.
See if I care.


I want to pour a can of red paint on Rarity

>>41089458
I want to pump a fat load all over her tits.


What are some old fan theories you liked, that turned out not to be true? I was POSITIVE that Flurry Heart was a Changeling queen nymph. Pic rel seemed to confirm it, and baby-replacing is literally the No. 1 thing changelings are known for in old fairytales. Plus that would explain WHY she came out as an "Alicorn". The nymph kid just doesn't know how to properly disguise yet.

The real Flurry Heart would be a Pegasus or something and she would be stolen by Chrysalis the moment she was born, and raised to hate her biological parents and all of Ponykind. Meanwhile, Chrysalis would meet up with the Changeling nymph when she was a teenager and reveal everything to her and try to get her to betray Shiny and Candy.

>>41089159
Derpy has been Rainbow Dash's schizophrenic hallucination this entire time. I just made that up though.

>>41089159
inconsequential but i for sure thought they were going to go down the separated parents route with diamond tiara

>>41089159
Rainbow Dash just learns differently.

>>41089661
>Best filly is best mare's daughter
I suppose it's only natural.

>>41089159
Scoots is an orphan and lives in the treehouse.
For 9 seasons we had no other reason to believe otherwise

>>41090026
And after the 9th it was still better to believe it than accept her godawful parents.

>>41090349
The main problem with the parents is that they make too much sense.

Ponies are selfish. They, each one, have a mandate from god slapped on their ass to do as they will. The core instinct of every pony is to focus on their own tiny hobby. They don't need to know silly little things like who the elements of harmony are. That focus is how they survive.

The world of equis is filled to the brim with dangers equal to our most twisted fears. There are fly-spiders. Somewhere in the forest there's a ruin with artifacts that would force the world into sweltering heat for 100 years. It is specifically good and useful that ponies should be sticking their nose into these issues, but most ponies are weak cowards not suited to the task. It is good that ponies have people dealing with these kinds of things, basically required.

Ponies are survivors. Despite their terror, their bodies are strong and require only plants. They prefer sugar, may have some kind of issue with keeping their calorie count high, but they can do it. Running away is a legitimate strategy.

The cmc, overall, are just kind of allowed to do as they wish. Rarity just disappeared for days when she got her cutie mark and fluttershy quit school to go live in a forest. Aj, a filly with no mark, also just walked from home to new York alone. Applebloom put up a good fight against the chimera. As soon as a pony is a filly/colt, they are way more capable than a human would be at that age, despite being just as naive for most of their lives. The cake twins both whipped out magic abilities soon after birth, as did flurry heart.

Aj's parents, despite almost certainly being dead, may have died while off on adventure together. It couldn't have been natural causes that took them both at the same time, and ponies don't have car accidents to deal with. Perhapse a random monster attack? That's the only other real option I can see right now. Rarity's parents kind of did the same thing, and three data pointes make a pattern.

In a world world like that, with a species like that, it makes sense that scoot's parents might just go do adventure things without her, and generally that children would be taken care of by whoever volunteered, or by nobody.

>>41090617
thunderlane rumble
forgot about them, but that's yet another case of missing parents and also sibling-as-parent

>>41089159
Flurry Heart is destined to defeat Chrysalis in mortal combat and take over her place as Queen of the Hive.

>>41090026
>lives in the treehouse
We see she has an own room in flight to the finish (S3)
Absolutely no sign of her parents regardless until that fever dream episode
My guess is Faust intended for her to be orphaned but it was deemed too dark by Hasbro
Instead of rewriting anything, they just left it out completely
Scootaloo had such massive potential that was never but touched on in all of her episodes
Sleepless in Ponyville kinda tackled it and then we never saw anything meaningful of that sisterly attitude again between Scoot and RD
Her inability to fly was also only mentioned once in FttF and for the rest of the show seemingly unbothered by it
The Washouts was OK, but it came too late and felt worthless at that point
A crippled orphaned filly was just too much for a kid's show I guess

>>41090026
You can't just post this without the ending
That's brutal

>>41089159
>What are some old fan theories you liked, that turned out not to be true?

The elements of harmony was created by celestia

Chrysalis was the lost princess the crystal ponies were referring to

Rarity is sweetie belle's mom

the wonderbolts being a group of elite flyers

>>41090889
>the wonderbolts being a group of elite flyers
are they not?

>>41090734
The only examples of a pony parent parenting their child pony once that pony reached foal-age instead of baby-age are diamond tiarra, who has a bad relationship, and the pie family, who are united in isolation and labor.

Anyone remember any other time a parent appeared to have custody of their foal-age offspring?

>>41091499
Depends on how much proof of custody you're asking for, but Zippoorwhil's, Big Mac's, Rainbow Dash's, Sky Stinger's and Vapor Trail's, and various background foals comes to mind.

>>41091641
The appearance of custody, is how much proof of custody.

The point being discussed is how common being raised by non-parents is, so that's the information that's in demand right now.

>zippoorwhil
what?
https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Transcr<wbr>ipts/Filli_Vanilli
Nightjar: And we were wondering if you would consider performing at my daughter Zipporwhill's cute-ceañera.
There we go. That's what we're after. He's a father and not a brother preforming any kind of parenting. We could argue he's just in town for the day or that he's speaking non-literally, but that isn't supported. He has the appearance of a parent parenting as opposed to a non-parent parenting.

>rainbow dash's
..??? Rainbow doesn't have a kid?

>big mac
Given the confusion with rainbow, I'm gonna have to ask you specifically what you mean here despite thinking I know. What kid. Even just what do they look like? Same with rainbow's kid.

>vapor trail
https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Transcr<wbr>ipts/Top_Bolt
Vapor Trail: [narrating] ...Sky grew up with a lot of siblings. It was tough. He was always trying to get his parents' attention. Meanwhile, I was an only child who hated all the attention I got from mine.
Very direct, a case of two families with parents raising foals.

>background foals
Your example is derpy's kid so I'm doing to need more specifics than that.

Ok see I know that's fanon but there's also no reason to think that the mare covering the foal's ears is their parent instead of an aunt or sibling, other than assuming. It does look like a parent, but it looks just as much like another family member.

Unless there is extra info I'm forgetting.

>>41091753
Rainbow and Mac were foals at one point.
https://twibooru.org/1646517
https://twibooru.org/1980794
I included background ponies because your question seemed more like a general concern with the way the world as a whole is portrayed, and I think it's safe to assume most of those examples are meant to portray parenting by parents unless otherwise noted.
Berry Punch used to be called overly protective parent pony.
https://twibooru.org/1864477?q=over<wbr>ly+protective+parent+pony
Adding Blueberry Curls and Plaid Stripes to the list.
https://twibooru.org/758218

>>41091915
>called overly protective parent pony.
By the fandom or in the credits?

>rainbow
Definitely. All signs point towards her parents being devoted and present to a somewhat silly degree, though I didn't realize or remember they were in the stands in this scene while she was confirmed a filly.

>mac
This is indeed what I asked for. It's an instance of a parent interacting with their child-aged child.

Normally this would be enough, but we have enough extra information about episodes where they are mysteriously absent that more is needed for this one than "they stood next to eachother once". They could be exactly like scootaloo's parents. Remember that scoots parents come and go

>I think it's safe to assume most of those examples are meant to portray parenting by parents unless otherwise noted.
Question: Is it perhaps in the nature of ponies to often have their children raised by non-parents?
Response: Well, if we assume that all the ponies taking care of these foals are their parents, no.

See the problem? In regular conversation, that would be a reasonable assumption. Specifically when that's the topic, not so much. At that point, your evidence that the ponies family structure resembles our own is that you consider us to be "normal".

I'm also starting to think that most of the parents who do stick around are some what obsessed with their kids. It's definitely the case for plaid stripes and rainbow, and maybe with zippoorwhil.

Ponies are constantly expelling flatulence during conversations, walking animations or even battles.

>>41090799
>we never saw anything meaningful of that sisterly attitude again between Scoot and RD
Yeah because RD is a cunt.
Imagine if RB adopted Scoots instead of being a lazy peganigger

>>41090799
>too dark by Hasbro

What's wrong with being an orphan?

Well, uhm, lack of parents!

This must be some Portal 2 level reasoning.

>>41091915
missed one
>bluebery curls
I ended up looking at filly-blueberry curls who appears in the cheese sandwich episode for like 3 frames. Not relevant.

She appears next to the foal in "made in manehattan" and calls the foal "sugar" but nothing points to her being the mother and not the sister, that I saw.

>>41092790
We could have gotten SADkino, instead we got MEH

>>41092790
Orphans suck, no one actually wants to raise anther man's brat.
People are adopting dogs from the shelter at 20x the rate of adopting an orphan.

>>41091499
Rarity’s parents (Sweetie Belle only occasionally visits for multiple days)
Fluttershy’s parents, at least for Zephyr.
Shining was probably raised by his parents until he joined the Guard, but who knows what the exact situation with Twilight was. The show kinda makes it seem like Twilight moved out early.
For the most part it’s very vague whether the M6 (other than AJ) stayed with their family until they were adults or if they left sometime after getting their cutie marks.

>>41092781
Pretty sure just the fandom called her that.
>See the problem?
Not really. I keep writer intent in mind because I'm not interested in proving ponies are alien beings. It's like stating I believe pegasi lay eggs, and then asking anons to provide examples of live childbirth. Of course nobody can provide that, but it doesn't make it any less a silly headcanon. You see abandonment in any scene parents happen to be offscreen in the case of the Apples, and you've already begun calling the good examples of pony parenting an exception to the norm, so what's the point in giving examples again?

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>>41092870
Checked wiki
https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._and<wbr>_Mrs._Shy
Only 1 episode mentioned with them in it might feature zephyr as a foal.

Oh wait you mean that he moved in as an adult. I mean, it's notable I guess. That's what you meant, right?

>sweetie visits for multipel days
In "sisterhooves social" a scene that makes no sense happens.
Sweetie is, in the morning, standing in rarity's kitchen and burning food. Rarity does not ask how sweetie got there and just kind of accepts it. Rarity is then surprised that her parents are sitting nearby, shocked by them but not by sweetie. The parents say that sweetie will be staying with rarity while the parents go on vacation. Sweetie says she's going to get "her stuff from dad's wagon" meaning that they had to travel here by wagon.

We can explain the wagon by saying that it is filled with vacation equipment, so it doesn't nessisarraly mean that the parents live far away, or close.

Rarity considers it basically normal that sweetie invaded her home before rarity even woke up in the morning, but not that her parents did the same. She does not assume, on seeing sweetie, that the parents must be nearby. She is distressed at the idea that her parents are going to be gone for a week. Sweetie can just move between the houses unannounced, but also has to move in and get her stuff. Is this normal or isn't it? The signals are really mixed.

In "babs seed" we see a house with Sweetie's dad fishing outside of it. It's really heavily implied that it's his house, and sweetie seems to have a pink room with a bed inside of that house. This is extra weird, because rarity was already inside of the carousel boutique when she didn't even have a cutiemark yet, which means either her family had two different properties in ponyville or she moved out and rented the place as a broke filly despite having a house to live in already. The only reason to do that is to start her business, which means a pre-mark filly may have been selling fashion garments to pay a mortgage in a small rural town while still going to school.

I did not find anything indicating she stays at her parents house for multiple days at most. She gets a lot of screentime. It is hard to find this. They definitly take care of her at least some portion of the time greater than scootaloo's parents, though rarity seems to carry a lot of the weight.

>shining, probably
Best we get on that is the sibling competition shown in "sparkle's seven"

>>41092931
We see 3 newborn ponies, 2 of which had wings, and all of which were not in a shell within moments of being born.

If pegasi are born in eggs, that would mean that the cake twins were born from 1 egg and 1 non-egg and that they hatch almost the instant they are laid.

If pegasi lay eggs then that means that if rainbow dash gave birth to an earth pony, said earth pony would be born inside an egg.

If pegasi only lay eggs when a pagasis is birthing a pegasis and not during any other combination, that's really fucking weird but possible. There simply isn't even a single instance shown so much as hinting at that possibility.

See, you can analyze this. Your absurd example actually works just fine and is not absurd.

Meanwhile we see... I'm not counting them yet foal-adult relationships and minimum 1 involves parent's who behave like scotaloo's. The data exists for this if we collect it.

>you've already begun calling the good examples of pony parenting an exception to the norm
No?
Cease this belly aching. Engage in vices. Return when you're not hungry.
I'm now gonna go reread all my comments searching for the bit where I say this.

>>41092931
Searched through. Only found this:

>In a world world like that, with a species like that, it makes sense that scoot's parents might just go do adventure things without her, and generally that children would be taken care of by whoever volunteered, or by nobody.
Which is a statement that the idea make sense, not that the idea is true and that anything else is an exception.

Step one to (almost) any experiment is to create a hypothesis, and I've done no more than that, pretty sure.

>>41092957
>Zephyr moving back in
Of course that’s part of what I meant but given how babied he is it’s hard to argue he wasn’t always taken care of by them.

>Everything about Sweetie Belle
That all makes perfect sense if they live in the same town. Sweetie Belle probably visits fairly often, after all the sisters are very close, and their parents probably don’t visit as much. Besides, if I woke up to the smell of smoke and found my sister cooking food my first reaction would be more about the immediate threat of something burning than my sister being there and I only see her once every few years (and actively hate her.) Actually, Rarity acts upset that Sweetie is staying with her for multiple days which implies that’s not the norm and therefore
>Sweetie can just move between the houses unannounced
Is completely refuted. It’s one thing to be surprised by a sibling that you see regularly burning food, it’s another for them to stay for several days.

The wagon thing is probably supposed to be analogous to a car if I had to guess. It’s probably just a pontification of (Anglo) North American norms, like most things in the show. Rarity living in the boutique as a filly is probably just a a money/effort saving measure, which is what half of season one’s weirdness is. If you really wanted an explanation then you could say her parents owned the property as either their then home or as a store before giving it to Rarity for her own uses.

A lot of what your using to imply that parents don’t raise their children in Equestria is just things that you wouldn’t include in a show because the audience is supposed to fill in the blanks with their own experiences. I don’t think we see Rainbow once get paid for being on the weather team but we’re supposed to assume she does because it’s her job and she has bits and those things are connected in the real world. The show assumes you understand normal human behavior and that you’ll apply it to what you see. This isn’t some high concept world building sci-fi story, it’s a show for children and kids generally aren’t interested in repeatedly being show mundane, casual parent-child relations. If one of the M6 were a mother we probably see a lot of that but they’re sisters at most so those are the relationships we see instead.

Overall I’m wondering why you’re pushing this headcanon so hard when the only proof you have is one bad episode with a particularly terrible set of parents and a lack of episodes about characters that I’m willing to bet 90% of the target audience don’t know the names of. It’s strange and the way you question normal human interactions is weird too. Are you autistic? I don’t mean it as in insult, but my only other guess is you were raised away from your family (orphan or boarding school) or are just trying really hard to push your idea. You’re saying ponies are supposed to be aliens when they’re supposed to be humans in vaguely pony skin. It’s fun to write about but clearly not what was intended.

>>41093015
>If you really wanted an explanation then you could say her parents owned the property
This is actually what I think is the case. I said it may be the case.
>which means either her family had two different properties in ponyville or

Given basically only this as your lead in, you spend the whole rest of the post chiding me for assuming and pushing a particular conclusion. I feel like I should respond to any of that but there's kind of little point because I simply haven't done any of that shit. That's twice in a row now.
I was told I'm calling "good pony parenting" "an exception to the norm" and when I point out that nothing like that has been said the conversation simply moves on to the next strange unsupported accusation. You could do this all day. There's an infinite number of empty accusations you could throw, which anyone can throw at any time. I'm mortal.

If you're going to say I'm saying some shit and then simply accuse harder when slapped down, all I can say is "didn't say/do that"

> you’re pushing this headcanon so hard
didn't
>A lot of what your using to imply that parents don’t raise their children in Equestria
In most of these posted I'm not doing that. That argument was given in the first post.

>Author's intent
It's only in the story if they put it in the story. I can just say they intended my interpretation instead of yours.

>I don’t think we see Rainbow once get paid
Actually interesting
We see rainbow has money. We know exactly what she does with her time. She either gets paid for this job, gets paid for doing heroics and tricks as an entertainer, or gets paid off screen. The third option is unsupported. The second option is counter to what we see, in that nobody is throwing bits while they praise her. The first option involves information we have while not contradicting other information we have. Please apply this example structure to future interpretations of information and do not simply send an infinite number of absurd examples at me to try to prove that we can't analyze things ever when we actually can, unless you actually do something with the two responses already given or at least take note of them.

calm down you two, you both were bringing up really interesting ideas and were making one of the only good threads on the board right now, don’t ruin it by fighting

>>41092972
I'm fully aware my egg headcanon works exactly the way you analyzed it. I think it's a fun one, but it doesn't make me believe it's any less against the grain. Also, a reminder that you've been replying to multiple anons.
>I'm also starting to think that most of the parents who do stick around are some what obsessed with their kids
This is what heavily implies good pony parents are an oddity in order to fit your theory.

>>41093110
I was wondering. That's why I said "the conversation simply moves on" instead of "you moved on".

Rock and a hard place with that response, and either way I've got two people throwing the same kind of stuff at me for the same reasons.

Big shrug.

>>41093110
Or maybe most pony parents are very devoted.

>>41089159
Scootaloo and Flash Sentry are siblings.

>>41093075
>calm down you two
He’s arguing with at least two, if not three people. Also, nobody is fighting. We’re arguing whether or not a head canon stands up or not, which is how things become fanon. This is the best result for these kinds of threads. Obviously it’ll be different if people start calling each other nigger or something.

>>41093059
I’m not chiding you, I’m just giving reasons for why it makes far more sense for ponies to have stereotypical western family structures. I didn’t question your motives and after this post I now am convinced you’re just trying to push you argument more than actually see reason.
>If you're going to say I'm saying some shit and then simply accuse harder when slapped down
You never “slapped” me down.
>That argument was given in the first post.
Hence the argument.

>Please apply this example structure to future interpretations of information and do not simply send an infinite number of absurd examples at me to try to prove that we can't analyze things ever when we actually can, unless you actually do something with the two responses already given or at least take note of them.
I have posted actual examples from the show contradicting your argument. You can analyze things all you want but remember that this is a child’s show to sell toys, which affects what is going to be shown on screen. As for your example structure you want me to use, I won’t because you haven’t actually argued against my evidence, just my argument.

>>41093117
>Big shrug
Stop trying to act like you’re above this when you’re fighting tooth and nail over this and talking down to people like a keyboard warrior. Your logic and argument is flawed and you’re not as smart as you seem to think you are. Deal with it and before you accuse me of ad hominem I’d like to remind you that you’ve done the very same thing to other anons. I’m just showing you why and how it’s clear you’re arguing in bad faith.

>>41093123
That’s a strange one. Why do/did you think that?

>>41093149
>I won’t because you haven’t actually argued against my evidence, just my argument.
Why would I do this?

A child and their father are in a forest. The father tells a story of how the first lightning strike came to be. He says that two gods were arguing about their skill at throwing. The first god, god of matter, threw a rock. The second god, god of energy, struck the rock from the heavens. As evidence, the father points to a nearby rock and says "see, there is the first rock to be thrown and struck with lightning"

The child says that is absurd, that the gods would have finished their fight after the first lightning strike. The father says the child has not argued against his evidence, only his argument, and points to the very real rock.

The rock sure is real. There are mares standing next to foals. Why would I say otherwise?

>hense the argument
taking this seriously, that would mean that "what you're using to imply that parents don't raise their children's in equestria" refers to things stated in the first post.

>A lot of what your using to imply that parents don’t raise their children in Equestria is just things that you wouldn’t include in a show because the audience is supposed to fill in the blanks with their own experiences.
ok so
>ponies are selfish/cm's exist
nope this isn't what you were talking about
>fly-spiders and strange artifacts have to be taken care of
not really related to our experiences. The dangers are specifically of a different kind and level. It's pure flowing fantasy.
>They can live on grass if they have to
I don't think most human experience thinks of that as normal. Human experience here is more like starving thief children depicted in fiction featuring poor countries. Ponies specifically don't have to deal with that, are not as bad off when left alone.

>A ton of examples of foals behaving in ways that don't match human childeren
I don't see what human-centeric assumptions are supposed to get the average and through this without noticing a difference.

>parents missing
I mean rarity's parents just running off is somewhat normal but AJ's parents both going out at the same time is weird in equestria's case and in any world without cars. A human might assume they got mugged to death but that doesn't work here.

And that's everything, so I'm not sure what human-centric assumptions are supposed to counter the arguments given in the first post.

>>41093149
>That’s a strange one. Why do/did you think that?
It's probably silly, but it's their cutie marks.

>>41093149
>talking down to people like a keyboard warrior.
you called me an orphan and doubted my mental capabilities based on it, asked me if I was autistic, offered these as the only two options.

Oh no I talked down to you in response how rude of me wow wow glimmer

Edit:
or are just trying really hard to push your idea
Mother FUCKER fuck

Anyway, no matter how nice the preceding parts are the topic is still explaining a mental deficiency. Even if explored with total detached intellectual curiosity, it would be intellectual curiosity as to how I'm so dumb.
So you got talked down to a bit.

>>41093203
>you called me an orphan and doubted my mental capabilities based on it, asked me if I was autistic, offered these as the only two options.
No I didn’t. I asked you if you were based on a the way you were arguing. Calm down, stop projecting, reread, and take a break. Once again, you started it before I even asked those questions. And once again you refuse to address the arguments. This is your last (You) so if you really can’t handle yourself go ahead and add this argument to your win collection.

>>41093192
Huh. I never really noticed how many ponies have shields for their CM.

>>41089159
I really was hoping G5 will be set in the past, it kinda sounded like the story of the three pony tribes.

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>>41093231
>And once again you refuse to address the arguments.
I went point-for-point through my post to address any potential argument you could have been talking about. I bent over backwards and made assumptions to figure out what kind of argument I was supposed to be responding to.

So what argument am I supposed to be countering, here?

>you started it before I asked those questions
???
Scroooooling up

>41092957
Alright, lets see.
...
No I don't talk about you at any point in this in any way positive or negative, not so much as a joke

...

>41092781
... are you littearlly mad because I tried to explain to you that using the assumption that the argument is correct to prove the argument is correct is bad form? Is that what you mean by "started it"?

Was that rude? Was that me being unable to handle myself?

I don't know what rudeness you're saying "started it" and I don't know what argument I haven't addressed. Specify what you're talking about when you talk.

>>41089159
I really like the story L-Train made for Sombra, Luna, and Celestia. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtBqT<wbr>FsiLxM&pp=ygUVZmFsbCBvZiBhbiBlbXBpc<wbr>mUgbWxw It includes shipfagging but it’s written well considering it’s a song.

>>41093240
I mean, they kinda did return to tribal times.

I pretended not to remember a few foals so that other people would have something to suggest, and will now add them to the list. Nobody guessed any of the ones I had in mind.

Alright so list so far

>Confirmed very involved confirmed parents:
Rainbow+parents.
Of note, rainbow just moved to ponyville after getting her mark. AJ sees rainbow blaze a trail directly to ponyville, which is as such implied to be how rainbow moved. This was unplanned and her parents didn't and/or couldn't stop her. Was seen near her parents as a filly 1 time, but their characterization indicates great investment and involvement.

Pie sisters+parents.
3 out of 4 kids remained on the farm in the middle of nowhere working until adulthood. Pinkie just left at some point after she got her mark and moved in with the cakes. Parents almost certainly present near constantly, at home.

Zippoorwhil+dad.
Dad has 1 appearance where he's arranging a cutecenera for her. While it's technically possible he was just around for the occasion, he only has the one showing with nothing directly contradicting it and zippoorwhil doesn't show up often enough for that to be odd.

Big mac and his wife+child.
Live at home and have a kid in the epilogue. AJ also lives there.

Pinkie+cheese+child.
Pinkie at least lives around town still. Cheese wandered when he was younger. Pinkie mentioned that finding a babysitter for her kid is hard. The last we see of lil'cheese pinkie dumps him on the adult caketwins and then hops on the back of giant Gummy with her husband. It's unclear exactly what's happening but most strongly implied that pinkie sticks around. Cheese sandwich could do anything we don't know anything except that he was around for one scene and smiled.

Sweetie+parents.
She has a bedroom in their house. We only see them a few times and the only thing they do with sweetie is drop her off before vacation. They are delusional about sweetie's cooking, showing a connection that reminds me of rainbow's parents. I still want to know why anon said (Sweetie Belle only occasionally visits for multiple days) and if he meant that sweetie visits the parents or that sweetie visits the sister. Expresses a silly degree of freedom on occasion, as the cmc do. We see rarity taking care of her very often and even making fluttershy babysit for her. Rarity also enabled her 5th birthday while no parents were seen, but that confirms little.

Sky Stringer and Vapor Trail families.
A happy pair of houses dumping as much love and attention on their kids as they can as fast as they can. Of note, vapor and rainbow both wanted to avoid their over-excited and affectionate parents and so tried to get involved in the conflicts of others. I don't think this pattern explains what probably happened to zephyr, but it is a pattern.

Diamond+mom
Only really seen once sharing zero emotional connection with diamond until that fact turned into an active conflict. Still, she is definitely involved. No clue what she does all day most days, how involved she actually is, but she's there and she does care in some form and lives in the same house.

Diamond+dad
Quite possibly the best relationship so far. In the first appearance, he does a "what my dad does for work" presentation at diamond's school and at the end of the episode he's trying to teach her about the production of the products their family sells. He looks fucking good and I don't think he's as far out there as the other good involved parents. He also lives in town and must be home often enough, though he must be a busy man. Diamond may be really thirsty for his attention and doesn't actually understand his values, which implies things may not be so perfect. I hope she wasn't only and just using him as a status symbol. Diamond's parent-relationships seem very human-normal.

plaid stripes+dad
One episode. He's definitely delusionally doting as a father. What little content there is doesn't state that he is or isn't around often, but all we see is him being around and there's no reason to assume that isn't normal. Given little content, they belong in this category

Sunburst+parents
The moment he gets his cutie mark he runs outside and tells mom and some stallion. They were available for the scene, little other information exists, and at least one is his mom. He is immediately shipped to Canterlot, which means he doesn't really contact anyone at home much after that point. Somehow, his mom is still writing him letters by the time we see him in the crystal empire. She's very devoted and he's pretty avoidant about it

Starilght+dad
... I just noticed that the curtains in her cult houses look like shitty versions of the curtains in her foalhood home. ANYWAY. We see her room for like 3 frames in "The parent map" and it's covered in "metal" stuff. Her dad says it's just how she left it, meaning she stayed around long enough to be dark and brooding and cringe. The house he's living in has the same curtains, bookshelf, table, and layout, so it's the same house, so that's his house, which means filly starlight lived in his house for awhile after sunburst left, and also before sunburst left probably. He's involved and doting and she may not have left until after she was an adult for all we know. Her large boot-things in her room seem to indicate she was a full grown mare before she left

>Unknown involvement confirmed parent
Apples+parents. Strangely off-screen on multiple occasions. Only one confirmed contact with 1 kid, 1 time, short. AJ misses them and seems to be inspired by them, but that doesn't confirm they were around often. For most of the show, they have the excuse of being dead. Granny ended up in charge of the kids one way or another by the time of the show. Aj just walked to manehattan alone. Somehow they died together

Zephyr+parents. Never seen or spoken of directly near parents or any authority as a colt. He is allowed to move in when he wants to, which implies that his parents are willing to be very invested, but he also has a habit of coming and going, which could have started very early in life. We don't actually know anything, but I would suggest he's the one being "absent", instead of his parents. Not quite a doting relationship.

Fluttershy+parents. Never seen near parents as filly. Moves into the woods when she gets her mark. She may have lived in a stable home with her parents before then but we don't know.

Rarity. We see her once as a filly and she's living in a house other than her parent's residence. That's all we've got. There is no other adult mentioned, but the parents do have a house in the same town. We don't know how often they are around, or what they do.

Twilight/shining+parents.
They seem to have lived in the same house at some point but the events where we see them in the same house are events spike was alive to see, which means twilight had been taken under celestia's wing and her older brother was almost certainly also in already in training. Since our one example was under such circumstances, it's hard to tell what the hell we're looking at. The parents were definitely "involved" but potentially at a greater distance than others and using a different definition than others.

>Confirmed involved confirmed non-parents:
Thunderlane and rumble, Marks and Recreation, specifically brothers, no sign of other relevant adults, many sightings together.

Rarity, but covered already

>Little confirmed
Bab seed.
Lived in manehattan. She is entrusted to applejack, probably on a temporary basis. She says she will tell her sister about her experiences when she leaves ponyville. I think that's all we know.

BerryPunch
Pulls a foal back into the house with her. Had a fanon name. Who could say

Random background ponies
Kind of hard to make statements on ponies who haven't even been specifically identified. What evidence could possibly be relevant?

blueberry curls+foal
She calls him "sugar" or something and he begs her for permission to stay and see a play in the manehattan park. She could be a babysitter for all we know.

Barley and Pickle Barrel, the foals from the rainbow roadtrip movie
Despite having lots of screen time, no hint of any kind of authority figure is made. This is slightly more notable than a background foal or a foal from cheeralee's class not showing a parent, both because they have so much consecutive screen time and because the put on an excellent performance in front of the whole town and nobody comes up to them after. Meanwhile, lots of town members mention them

>Confirmed heavily uninvolved confirmed parents
Scootaloo+parents. Confirmed cared for loosely by other relatives. Parents visit sometimes and, while visiting, behave like they have always run her life. They act like they've been engaged and interested the whole time

So, only scootaloo's parents are fully confirmed to have behaved like scootaloo's parents, which was to be expected. On the other hand, confirmed direct and simple relationships like the ones we understand are fairly rare. Most foal-authority relationships have details we would consider strange. Yes, I know earth and humans are actually complicated and shit happens. That's why we're dealing in data, so we can make statements about tendencies.

As an aside, we have stunningly little information on most of the school foals.

Anyway
There are 31 foal-authority relationships we have information on, plus sky singer's siblings. Diamond got counted twice and random didn't get counted due to lack of information.

We've got
3/31 skamps with no direct authority seen (rarity, barley, pickle)
2/31 foal with unknown adult (blueberry's foal, berrypunch foal)
3/31 foal only confirmed with sibling or such (babs, rumble, applebloom)
20/31 foals that spend time with parents (shining, twilight, big mac, starlight, sunburst, plaid, diamond, diamond, skystinger, Vapor, Sweetie, lil'cheese, bigmac's kid, zippoorwhil, inkie, blinkie, pinkie, maud, rainbow, Scootaloo)
3/31 foals that probably lived with parents at some point(fluttershy, zephyr, AJ)

Which is a lot of foals that never have any definite parent, but also scootaloo made it into the largest category of ponies that do spend time with a parent.

8 of them have confirmed long distance unsupervised outings without any kind of permission(rarity, applebloom, scootaloo, rainbow, AJ, fluttershy, pinkie, Sweetie, and sort of babs but not really so she doesn't count and also probably maud to visit pinkie)

10 of them are confirmed move out on at least a semi permanent basis while still a foal(rarity, babs, shining, twilight, sunburst, pinkie, rainbow, scootaloo, fluttershy, AJ)

Among those who don't qualify for these categories, we simply don't know the deal or details on 6 of them (barly pickle, blueberry, berrypunch, starlight, maud, zephyr)

This leaves us with 12/31 foals who meaningfully didn't show signs of just going wherever they want whenever they want (rumble, bigmac, plaid, diamond, diamond again, skystinger, vapor, lil'cheese, bigMac's kid, zippoorwhil, inkie, blinkie). Among these, 2 show up for no time at all in the final, 2 live in the middle of nowhere, 1 is a duplicate, 2 are one-off minor characters, and vapor did involve herself with her boyfriend partially as part of an attempt to get away from her parents, leaving just (rumble, bigmac, diamond, skystinger). Rumble's with his brother and we've got like 2 seconds of content on big mac with his dad, so it's really 2/31 foals who are confirmed "normal".

Basically, every single relationship and kid has details we would find strange. They aren't all as odd and strained as scootaloo's parents. Those are still probably the worst. It's a continuum with scoota-parents at one end and... I actually can't pick an example for the most normal pony parents.

Something I want to point out that people forget is that the idea that 'teenagers are children' is a post world War two concept and still wasn't completely a social norm until the nineties. It wasn't unusual for teens (particularly 15-16+) to have real jobs and sometimes live on their own back in the old days, especially the era the show seems rooted in. Its while older people called teens 'young adults'. Lauren and the other show staff would be old enough to know and remember this. Even children were slightly more independent then than they are now, though not to the extent of a teen.

>>41094229
It's not the rarity family. It's not the Flutters family.
Not rainbow or twiggles or the pies or the apples. It's not the foals with their siblings or starlight or sunburst. It's not zippoor's or plaid's.

The most normal by pony standards are lil'cheese, big mac's kid, and sky stinger. Diamond's normal by our standards, but strange in this world.

So it's a continuum between Sky Stinger's family and Scotaloo's family, best charactarised not in these raw numbers but instead in the full description of how many foals and adults meet and interact.

Remember, AJ mommy-ed applebloom until applebloom ran into the swamp and fought a chimera to prove herself. Rarity babied sweetie until sweetie avoided her. Scotaloo's own parents came to visit and immediately drowned her in affection and expected obedience.

There's a tendency for foals to leave and a tendency to send them away. I can't say there's a tendancy for adults to leave and visit only because the adults aren't on screen much. The cakes and the pies seem not to move, but also have cutie marks that compel them to stay in one place. That's probably what it really comes down to. We see Sweetie's dad fishing in "bab seed". His mark is footballs and he's wearing a floral pattern shirt. He does recreation. If a ponie's mark is telling them to go, they go, and they come back when they are good and finished. No value in society is so important that a pony would ignore it's calling or deny that calling to another, thus they have a different attitude to the world and travel than we do. In their world, it literally isn't right to stop a child from moving to manehattan on a whim, or to stop two parents from going out into the world to do some good for a year.

Notice that scootaloo's parents actually violated this value when they tried to force scotaloo to go with them, and got shut down. Their bad, thoughtless, and selfish even by these hypothetical pony standards, it turns out, just for different reasons.

That seems like a good conclusion.

>>41094278
Lauran said applebloom was supposed to be like a 12 year old and the first result off google says twilight is 18. These numbers are both almost certainly wrong, but the point is that foals are coded very young. Based on how the cmc act sometimes, very very young.

>>41089159
I liked when a g3 toyset made Cheerilee as Scootaloo's mom a thing.
>>41093123
They'd actually make a really cute pair of punished souls. Bad luck must run in the family.

>>41090799
They also touched upon it in Parental Glideance episode:
 Scootaloo: Ya know, some ponies would dream of having parents like that.
 Rainbow Dash: Yeah, right! Name one!
 Scootaloo: [sighs] Me. Growing up, I never thought I'd be the best at anything, because nopony ever told me. But your parents told you over and over again. Look! Best bath taker ever. Best carrot eater under three. Greatest napper of all time!
 Rainbow Dash: [scoffs] I am pretty good at napping. I can fall asleep anywhere. [snores] Huh?
 Scootaloo: For your entire life, your parents gave you the confidence to believe in yourself.

>>41094298
in g3, earth pony Cheerilee (not to be confused with unicorn Cheerilee) is her older sister.

>>41090799
>Scootaloo had such massive potential that was never but touched on in all of her episodes
>Sleepless in Ponyville kinda tackled it and then we never saw anything meaningful of that sisterly attitude again between Scoot and RD
I got so fucking pissed at Newbie Dash. Rainbow regressing as a character and doing retarded shit due to her fragile ego is one thing but abusing the adoration Scoots has for her in order to get her involved in a selfish scheme that could have seriously injured someone is horrendous and the episode doesn't even seem to recognize how awful that was since she never even apologizes to Scoots. Fucking colossal waste of what could have been a great sis dynamic.

>>41094305
I confused Cheerilee for "Mom Cheerilee" from that playset, who I guess is supposed to be both Cheerilee and Scootaloo's mom. The sister idea is still neat.

>>41089159
How the FUCK do you steal a child as they are being born? And why would you expect the kid who is raised by them not to side with them?

If anything the would reveal the real flurry and expose the other as a fake, but it’s unlikely they would join them.

How would you make sure this kid doesn’t expose themselves though either

It would be better if the changeling they replaced her with was just either a regular one or maybe a child, but and that plot could definitely work, but it has more holes than a changeling the way you presented it

>>41094404
I totally forgot about the “sister Cheerlie” thing. I remember that being borderline LyraXBonbon fanon level back during season 2.

>>41094555
"Scootaloo is adopted by X ship" was a common trope, including Lyra x Bon Bon.

scootaloo not being able to fly because she was being raised by an earth pony is much less depressing than her not being able to fly because she's a halfbreed

>>41094564
>having an earth pony dump truck is depressing.

>>41094290
I want to mention sandbar lives with his parents and has a young sibling and I want to mention petunia paleo as another kid living with both parents

Im replying to this specifically because it made me think

Aj KNEW the chimaera was out there, but how? Just some kind of alert for ponies to be aware of it in that area and Aj had to go through there several times? It’s season 2-4 so it’s possible, If it was known that they escaped from Tartarus though (probably when Cerberus left his post in “it’s about time” along with Tirek and the bug bear) then why didn’t anybody notice tirek was free till even later? Clearly S.M.I.L.E got to them eventually, after being reactivated because all of them are back in there by season 8

Just struck me as slightly strange but I guess it wasn’t impossible..

>>41089159
"The stars will aid in her escape"
A bunch of people used to wonder what this means, but I think the implication is that the spell that banished Luna was broken by the literal orientation of the stars changing over the years.

>>41094602
>I want to mention sandbar lives with his parents and has a young sibling
What episode? Wiki doesn't seem to mention family members. Are these game-only characters?

>petunion paleo
3 appearances.
In "the fault in our marks" her parents call the cmc to explain her spooky bone-based buttmark. All live in same house.
In "shadow play 1" the filly is working on a remote island under a professor as an archeologist.
"The last crusade" is just the filly alone.

Seems to fit pretty well.

>>41094670
>What episode? Wiki doesn't seem to mention family members. Are these game-only characters?
nta but i remember it being the episode where the s6 have to stay behind for hearthswarming

>>41094684
https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Transcr<wbr>ipts/The_Hearth%27s_Warming_Club
Sandbar: I'd still rather spend it with my family at home. Oh! That reminds me! I have the best holiday story ever! It's called...
-snip-
Sandbar: [voiceover] Just before we went to bed, my mom, my dad, and my sister all put our Hearth's Warming Dolls up on the mantel, just like we do every year.

Well there we go, then. Kind of odd that they receive no mention or appearance elsewhere, but not that odd in each indevidual context other than getting his permission slip signed that one time. Parents home on the regular, siblings present, active participation, and not that far away, I think.

>>41094541
>How would you make sure this kid doesn’t expose themselves though either
Pheromones nigga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO1<wbr>WccH2_YM

>>41090617
sometimes it feels like parents legitimately don't care about their kids

Cheese Sandwich: travels off as a colt with no hint of parents caring
Tempest: leaves home after fillies not wanting to play with her anymore again no hint of parents caring
Cozy: possibly left home no hint of parents caring
Scootaloo: even with the disaster that is s9, parents pawn her off to aunts come back and want to move scoots without considering that hey she actually has a life in ponyville

>>41094623
Machinations of Celestia. It took 1000 years for her to arrange it
>>41094747
not much different than Pokemon

>>41094747
fucking forgot to mention cozy even though I thought of her and she's basically the show pointing out this exact pattern and making a statement on it
dammit

>>41094747
even with sweetie belle, it seems her parents just pawned her off on to rarity so they could go on vacation and it seems like for the rest of the show's running she is constantly staying at rarity's place

>>41094541
>How the FUCK do you steal a child as they are being born?
In mythology that's exactly what Changelings do. The faerie folk steal into your house in the middle of the night and take your baby, and in its place leave a thing that will look like your baby for a few days, just long enough that it's too late to get yours back.

 (It's why so many Irish girls were named Shannon (warrior) or Kelly (the burly) -- the faeries only wanted to steal the most beautiful ones, so if you had a pretty little baby girl you wanted them to overhear you calling your baby a big ugly bruiser so they'd move on.)

>>41090813
It has an ending? I've never seen it, just this image as it is now

>>41094907
Not "in the middle of the night", "as they are being born".

Flurry heart had too many appendages and was the wrong shape the moment she was born, meaning that her strange shape would only be explained by being a "nymph kid just doesn't know how to properly disguise yet" if she was switched out as she was born.

Basically the wetnurse would have to preform sleight of hoof.

>>41094623
There was also that theory that the stars were trapped star ponies from G1.

>>41094278
This.
Young ponies do have both more independence and more respect than human children have ever had, but not to any sort of absurd degree.

>>41094907
>>41094966
Maybe Cadance and Shining were just too retarded to be suspicious when their unicorn daughter suddenly sprouted wings overnight.


If you were the size of an ant, would you go for a swim?

>>41088836
If I wanted to crawl around a garbage heap, I'd become one of your mom's pubic lice.

>>41088836
>Sale
I wish the articulated models would go on sale, rather than these cheap ones.

>>41088836
lol the before and after chocolate meme but irl for the clearance price on g% crap
Bravo hasbro
The person who made that meme lost their job also HAHAHA

>>41088836
ants are black. black cant swim.

>>41088947
Can confirm
t. Fag who loved to drown ants as a kid
<s>Althout they always just floated and never died, but never swimmed anywhere either</s>

>>41088836
Why is this image such a high resolution?

>>41088836
They don't even hang these for display anymore, just thrown into a box and chucked at the checkout

>>41089640
the pic is 3961x4444, that is an absurd fucking resolution. What would anyone have to buy a phone with a motherfucking 4K cam??
>Verification not required.

>>41089647
4k camera is pretty common for any major phone brand, it's really nothing special.

>>41089647
I can't always upload phone pics to /k/ because my camera resolution is too high. Phone cameras being 4k is not that new.

>>41089667
>>41089676
Damn, I guess I made a fool of myself. I've had the same phone since I was 16 :/

>>41089686
You aren't missing much desu. Miniaturization is just kinda nuts.

>>41088836
Were there any Izzies in there? I don't see any.

>>41089686
>I've had the same phone since I was 16
How old are you now...? 30?

>>41090330
It's strange, I'd expect the box to be full of Hitches, not Sunnies.

>>41088836
Why swim? Pipp is already on the top

>>41090439
no, I just got an android with a shit camera when I was 16

>>41088836
>their hair isn't even brushable
this makes me actually sad inside

>>41090907
You're meant to brush it <s>with your cock</s>

ISleepNow

>>41088836
>sale
>'why do the garbage bins say 'sale'?'

Anonymous

>>41088840
Or canonical Izzy, of course.

>>41088836
That sounds like a line from Ruler Of Everything.


They tried to warn us, but we didn't notice until now.

>>41089758
>MA Larson is an anagram for Anal Roms
Bros, MA Larson is the one killing emulators for Nintendo...

>>41089720
thought I was in /v/ for a second there


Looking for the Ponies the Anthology april fools video where they made edits of Nanalan instead of MLP.

>>41089740
what the fuck is an april fools

>>41089740
what the fuck is the Anthology

>>41089747
weird Canadian kids show
>>41089773
American holiday


>>41089336
>"When are you due?"
"I don't know. When are you getting an update?"

>>41089701
"I don't know, When are you becoming a good ruler?"

>>41089774
We got the best Twilight here so no worries about ruling.
Unicorn > Alicorn

>>41089336
Oleander > Twilight
Twifags won't be able to stomach this


>Poof! Princess Celestia appears before you in a puff of white smoke.
>She says she can take you to Equestria, but only if you possess an IQ below 75

What's your strategy? pic unrelated btw

>>41089810
Ask for a magical lobotomy. My intelligence has brought me nothing but pain.

>>41089810
lots of cough syrup until I've lowered my apparent iq enough

use YouTube shorts and watch true crime vids or something suitably gay like that

>>41089854
even when I’m completely flaccid I still want to put it inside her

>>41089810
> I'll tell her no
> As she poofs away, I grab her tail so I get teleported to Equestria with her
> smart.png

>>41089869
>it doesn’t work
>however, it was a stupid enough maneuver to prove that you’re dumb enough to enter Equestria
>however, this means grabbing her tail was a smart move, thus raising your IQ and immediately kicking you out

>>41089884
>Stuck in a superposition of being both dumb enough and too smart for Equestria simultaneously

>>41089894
>pony 22
If you want to leave earth you're too smart to enter equestria

>>41089810
>Equestria on a low INT run
Great, only glimmer and crayolayy niggers get to be there

>>41089976
close your eyes, anon. Do it now.

<s> wait hangon fuck then you can’t read the instructions. Open them. Ok I think you might’ve done that already to read the prior instructions. Anyways read the whole thing, then do the instructions. Close your eyes, and imagine you’re in Equestria. Congratulations you made it! You can’t know for sure if you’re not until you open your eyes so just don’t open them. You made it! Enjoy the cute mares, if you can find them. Yell out as loud as you can so they come running to find you. </s>

>>41089869
>portal closes on your arm
>your hand gets cut off and travels to equestria
>you're now still on earth but with one hand less

>>41090266
>anon's hand gets auctioned off in equestria
>a mad scientist pony reverse engineers it
>a couple years later founds a company that mass produces hand prostheses for ponies to put on hooves for massively increased dexterousness when it is needed

>>41090266
> be hand in equestria
> embued with magic to move on your own
> crawl around like the thing
> rape

>>41090277
>Hand prostheses become so useful that they are almost permanently on everypony's hooves at all times
>Cybernetic hand prostheses are developed, followed by fully bio-incorporated prostheses for both the front and back legs
>Meanwhile in the real world, Anon commits suicide by drinking a mix of lead and ethanol
>Lowers his IQ to the point that the remnant of Celestia's spell detects this and sends him into Equestria
>Vomits in ecstatic retardation as he finally arrives in Equestria
>Looks at the end of a pony's leg
>No hooves

>>41090278
Sounds like a bedtime story mommy mares would tell her kids to scare them so they'll behave
>beware of The Hand in Ponyville

>>41089810
“I’m sorry princess I’m just too smart for that. I won’t stoop so low as to pretend to be a retard”
>poof’d into equestrian immediately
It’s foolproof. Stupid people always try to pretend to be smart!

>>41089810
>I don't understand the question, Princess Celestia. I DID have breakfast yesterday.


This could not get made today

It could it would just be more irony poisoned and have more quips thrown in.

>>41089872
There's a guy Lindyman who talks about the "Vulgar Wave", I think Max G was riding the last bit of that https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com<wbr>/p/vulgar-wave


any /mlp/ anons watch this pony movie that came out today?

>>41089546
lol are you a social media intern?

>>41089546
>this is a real movie
Honestly I can't tell the difference anymore between the AIslop parodies that 4chan churns out and the real slop that Pixar churns out.

>>41089546
>This is what G^ will look like in 2028

>>41089546
I watched the trailer. That's the most that I will watch of this movie.

>>41089546
This looks even worse than g5

>>41089546
Not until someone sets up a stream I guess

>>41089546
Imagine if an mlp rip-off is better than G5

>>41089546
Is this another PPG trannycorn scenario? Because I feel it is.

>>41089606
damn that means it better than g4

>>41089546
I'd sooner shit in my hands and clap.

>>41089546
Do you just post a movie and not include a link to download? on 4chin?

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi637060<wbr>633/?playlistId=tt10442352&ref_=tt_<wbr>ov_vi
it has more hooves on the movie!
will find a way to rip of netflix

>>41089546
Marketing team probably hold on to the possibility that bronies would watch it

>>41089792
If only there was some bay with pirates...

>>41089917
whoa, they are fast for a random movie!

>>41089792
Kimcartoon has it, just got added and I'm actually gonna go watch it now and see if it's good or not

>>41089546
I've had enough of the poster.

Just watched it. It was meh. Feels like a first or second draft script. Plot is moved on by contrivances only. Voice acting is lacking. Animation is pretty good. And a few visual gags made me chuckle. That's about it.

>>41090027
Not really. Don't expect that mlp feeling.

>>41090019
I personally enjoyed it, the message is a pretty generic "stay true to yourself" film but I still found it to be much more enjoyable then other recent films I've watched. Good in the first half, the ending not so much. The film takes a stance against popular people in the music industry by portraying them as all as hiding behind a fake appearance. Thelma signs a contract in the movie and is taken to a studio that literally has "sell out" in the name, and an actual AI machine at the studio writes a generic pop song that she has to sing, which is supposed to be seen as a bad thing in comparison to the real songs Thelma actually has written in a notebook. The world's also quite interesting because they show animals and humans co-existing. Every single animal talks in this movie including the insects, and you always see other animals doing human jobs. It's not the best movie but I see it as a step above G5, and the movie alone is worth watching for the good animation it has and all the songs which I assume are originals. That's as much I think I can say without spoiling the plot of the movie

>>41090019
How would you compare or rank it based on MLP standards

>>41090154
>It's not the best movie but I see it as a step above G5
With those visuals? Not a chance.

>the movie alone is worth watching for the good animation
Good animation is worthless when the characters look like crap.

>>41089546
The texture makes me feel queasy

>>41089546
>Thelma
stopped paying attention there

>>41089546
This looks like it was generated by the ai

Give me a (You) if someone going to host it on cytube. Don't really want to spend my hard earned scheckels on it.

I want to see anyone to defend CG graphics again.

>>41089546
Literally /mlp/ con online 2023 mascot but pink

>>41090532
Could have started with a better name, yeah.

>>41090545
it'll be on pony.tube in a month earlier if the russians get a hold of it

>>41090532
>>41090594
u just don't get it, they're doing black magick, it's a gematraic iteration of THELEMA (θέλημα) meaning WILL, also the name of Aleister Crowley's "religion" that has the concept of True Will, your divine purpose, that's what the name is from I'm sure. I say we should burn it at the stake

>>41091233
No idea what you just meant, but I wholeheartedly agree.

>>41091233
33 check
>>41092301
Pic related type of people wrote the story.


What would happen if ponies existed in the plants vs zombies universe?

>>41089935
Spent wayy to much time on this

>>41090144
Would each pea shot be a different color or are they all the same but multicolored?

>>41090153
Probably a repeating series of colors, start with red and ends with purple

>>41089935
>The zombies are EqG variants

>>41090160
With decreasing cooldowns between each consecutive shot


Everyone knows that OP is a semen gargling faggot


poni?

>>41090704
I feel so betrayed right now I could shit my pants any second


Who else would immediately fall to this?

>>41090120
Well even without the typical anons weakness to female horses, that's magic hypnosis shit. So literally everyone.

>>41090120
I would literally cum if Twinkleshine looked at me like that. With or without magic bullshit.

>>41090120
>"Shipmaster! They outnumber us three-to-one!"

2024-05-18 03_03_07-Shipmaster! They outnumber us 3 to 1! - YouTube.png

why was this mind control portrayed as bad in the first place, NOONE dislikes a pony orgy.

>>41090293
>”Then it is a fair fight. Fuck them at will!”

>>41090120
Link to whatever fan thing this is from? Looks like that one animation channel where the ponies never talk

>"Stop falling for me, I'm not even trying to do anything, human"

>>41090461
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u5-ZA<wbr>RZMZNU&feature=youtu.be

lust.

>>41090120
>lewding Sea Swirl
>by throwing her into an orgy
>against her will

>>41091039
Uh, Twilight. You didn't go back and fix the ponies who got lust-ed. You kinda just left the room. Twilight?! Those ponies are being raped right now and they don't even realize it, aren't you gonna go snap them out of it? ...TWILIGHT???

>>41090120
Oh hey, time to jerk off. Nice.

>>41090120
I would. I want to fuck a pony right in the pussy.

>>41090120
I didn't jerk off to it, I swear.

>>41093692
Is she cute and deserves mane brushies? Or is she sexy and deserves back massages?


Which pony would be your bestie? Strictly platonic. As in someone you could just hang with and do cool stuff with. Someone who could third wheel with you and you waifu comfortably.

>>41090183
suprisingly enough fluttershy
i want her animals to live in the best conditions possible so i would go over and help her out whenever i can
maybe even applejack too, she might need a hand for errands or something since she seems capable of doing all the actual farmwork on her own
i would get a little autistic with rarity about designs since i idealize about cosplay but never actually do it
twilight i would also get autistic with assuming she wasn't researching something blantantly pointless and gay
IDK about pinkie, she seems nice but maybe its just the current mood im in right now and the fact i have a room temp IQ and cannot think beyond my current moods but i just have zero interest in party planning
rainbow might get on my nerves, idk if i wanna be friends with her she seems annoying

Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and maybe Pinkie Pie

>>41090183
Twi or Flutters. Twilight would be the most interesting to talk to. But a shared love of animals would make hanging out with Flutters pretty nice, too.

Rarity and I would be super besties and would gossip and talk shit about Canterlot high society all the time. Her and Twilight would probably get along well too since Rarity both resents and wants to be part of that Canterlot socialite culture that Twi is born into.

Pinkie Pie. I think I'd be too self-conscious to associate with such talented and actualized ponies like all the others—I couldn't even name three interesting things about myself, even if I tried, lol. I feel like Pinkie in particular would be the most delighted to meet me where I'm at: she's chill like that. I'm also a very facetious person, so we'd definitely be on the same wavelength more often than not, lol.

>>41090183
Probably Twilight, Fluttershy, or Spike if he counts. The rest would find me extremely unappealing.

Ponk because i would appreciate her positivity and cheerfulness

>>41090183
i choose spike because why not

>>41090183
Probably Pinkie since I'm pretty good at improvisational comedy and riffing off of anything.
Maybe Twilight but I think we'd just encourage each other's autism too much.

>>41090183
Which one of them could thirdwheel with trixie and i? Fuckkk... maybe Pinkie??? Id cheat on Trixie with Pinkie tho. Maybe Twi???

>>41090183
maybe fluttershy and twilight, perhaps pinkie if she isn't her later seasons self

>>41090183
Probably Flutters. I’m a bit of a quiet homebody and I think she’s the most likely to let me sit with her without saying anything for long periods of time.

>>41090183
Applejack due to most chill and least drama.

>>41090183
AJ, I'd like to work and hang out with her
She is my waifu too

>>41090183
Pinkie. I could just hug her for hours.

>>41090183
Twilight. Talking about nerd shit would be fun with someone like her.

>>41090183
None, because I would have a non-platonic relationship with all of them.

>>41090183
Out of the M6? Rarity is my least favorite of them but we'd probably get along the best. I appreciate aristocratic elitism and design principles regarding various aesthetics. We have the most in common between our worldviews and hobbies, so we could probably hold a conversation together for much longer than the rest of them. I don't really have a lot else in common with the others. I love mother nature but its more on the gestalt foresty side than the animal-loving thing that Flutters has going on. I read a fuck ton but would probably avoid Twilight due to her royalty.
Out of the picture? Spike and I could be bros. Capeshit comics have the potential to be cool.

>>41094493
Whatever character Sunset used to have got rainbow-lasered. I'd get along well with her ambitious self as an opportunistic henchman, but she's just so empty after getting friendship mindraped.

>>41090183
Rainbow Dash, we’d feed into each other’s need to have someone to one up.

My waifu is RD, inexplicably, but I think my bestie would be Zecora. I would vibe well with her chill attitude and I think her craft and culture is very fascinating. I also bet she's a really good cook. Being friends with her would help keep me mentally sharp, physically active, and perhaps even "spiritually" healthy too. Rainbow's contribution to my life is probably more in "pushing my extremes", which is great too, but I don't really care about being top of my class, just balanced - I like to think that I would help her find that balance for herself, too.

>>41091398
You know the answer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-<wbr>RHk6yR8Q