Today's Inner Conflict: I Want To Relentlessly Lore-dump To People On The Internet But Don't Know If

I think Opaline was kinda supposed to come across as a pathetic villain to be honest.

She really acts like a washed-up celebrity that still walks around like they're hot shit, unable to accept that their peak is far behind them.

Cool, you successfully divided all races in Equestria and forced Twilight to vanquish all magic to stop you, all for what? Nothing.

No one knows who the hell you are anymore and your magic is near obsolete.

You have so little magic that you can barely pick up stuff with your horn without issue. Which is just fucking embarrassing.. you're an alicorn about the same age as Celestia and without dragon fire your magical abilities can be outdone by a common unicorn.

Fucking wow, bitch.

And deepdown she knows it too. I saw that little hesitant look on her face when Misty told her off; saying she felt bad for her.

Opaline's barely a villain. She's just a lonely, bitter, angry, old mare that takes her feelings of ineptitude out on those that are weaker than she is.

As soon as her power was taken away it threw her into a tizzy and she chased it to her demise. Because without it she's nothing and she knew it.

That's why she was so confused about how Sunny could be happy without being in her alicorn form all the time. Because that's how much worth she sees in those without power.

Including herself.

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

Not exactly a great artist, but I'm trying my hand at it. First upload to Tumblr

Local Swashbuckler/thief/thespian/weirdly flirty bully/master of the Gatekeep-Gaslight-Girlboss, Sheer Force

What's a horse without Friends. Of course Dusky has to get a costume ready for the fall too!

I missed Monday because of Stress. Have Night Crawler as compensation.

I'd like to make a point that *specifically* because of your cute art of them, (Horse) Celestia accepting she should have done it long ago and adopting Sunset after she is dragged (kicking and screaming if need be) back to the proper universe by her would-be-sibling has become something of an "inevitable future plot point" in my silly little Trauma Horse Adventure AU.

MOM FIGHTS

Azure's mane looks good from approximately one side. The other is... complicated

Driving myself mad with recent developments in my silly collaborative Pony story that I long to ramble about. I'm not even building up towards Toxic Yuri at this rate, this is going to be nuclear accident that scars the planet for centuries to come Yuri by the end of it. I'm ready to infodump about my gay little tire fire for hours at any who'd listen.

Dangerous Dreams

Tagged Mature for spoilers and problematic subject matter