Welcome to the My Little SolarPonies, Friendship is Gravity, aka SolarPonies, master post!! This Au is a “what if” the solarball character were ponies, or any species, from the show: My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic.
Currently, here you can find all the concepts and in the future, hopefully, finished artwork for my Au!
As I develop this Au, this post will be updated either with new art or helpful tidbits about the Au.
So this is JUST for my own interpretation for this Au, not set in stone rules everyone has to follow.
Species
Stars
- Stars are incredibly powerful so they get the most powerful creatures like alicorns, changeling monarchs (either reformed or not), centaurs, draconeqi, etc.
- Stars’ cutie marks change has their system changes over time
Brown Dwarfs
- Since brown dwarfs are failed stars, they get to be powerful creatures
- Small-ish Dragons
- Kirin monarchs
- Alicorns with extremely small horns and/or wings
- Unicorns with curved horns
- Only stars or failed stars have curved horns
- Regular planets have straight horns
Planets, moons, and dwarf planets
- This mostly depends on the system
- The planets tend to look similar to their star
- So if the star is an Alicorn or a Changeling monarch, the planets and moons will be pony/pony-like and/or changelings
- Draconeqi have planets/moons that often reflect their parts; this could be griffons, hippogriffs, reindeer, ponies/pony-like, etc
- Centaurs tend to have the more beastal creatures: buffalo, yaks, minotaurs, goats, etc (mainly horned creatures)
- Our system consists of ponies and changelings due to Sol being an Alicorn
Humans
- Since humans are in the sol system, they are either pony-like or ponies
- Most seen are ponies, zebra, donkeys, mules, reindeer.
Magic
- Magic is just simply gravity.
- Can conjure items, like books or even weapons.
- Weapons are spectral
- Magic color is unique to the creature and is visible when using magic
- Creatures with horn(s), their magic shows on the horn(s)
- Non horn havers, their magic shows on their hooves/claws and they often will use gestures with their magic, but it is not necessary especially if running
- Eyes also glow when magic is being used
- Even the rogues
- Same color as horns/hooves/claws
- The glow is shown often as irises with no pupil, however, with stronger magic like those of stars, the entire eye glows
- Earth’s right eye does NOT glow
- The stronger the being is at magic/gravity, the stronger the glow
Planets & Moons of the Solar System
- All planets have the sun’s symbol as well as their own for cutie marks.
- Some have extra, like Earth having a plant and Jupiter having the asteroid belt
- Rockies on left, giants on right, and dwarfs underneath
- Planets, including dwarf planets, that have rings are around their neck rather than head
- Rocky planets are Earth Ponies while the Giants are Unicorns
- The moons can be a full grown Pegasus or an infant (or toddler)/foal(child/teen); however, some are bat ponies/foal.
- Grown vs foal depends on mental age but also size
- Most of the child-like moons are foals
- Rare occasions they are infants/toddlers
- Most, if not all, of the small and/or irregular moons are bat ponies/foals.
- A few of the larger irregular moons are Pegasus foals
- Most notably Proteus and Neried due to their size (irl Proteus is actually larger than Mimas)
- Moons that are irregular in shape and under 300km in diameter, are bat ponies/foals
- The background little ones that have no face/voice are almost all foals with a few of the more tiny ones being infants
- Moons’ cutie marks always have their planet’s symbol incorporated or are just that
- Dwarf Planets are Changelings
- To make things easier; Unlike the actual show, changelings do not need love to survive. Most have a pony form that they keep to, but that is up to preference.
- Within the Solar System, captured changelings (moons like Triton) often take on a Pegasus or bat pony form as their main form
- Also unlike the show, they have cutie marks. Mostly it’s just the sun’s symbol and the dwarf planet symbol
An eternal dance amongst the stars with you is my greatest adventure.
I’m so mad!
Not really…
But I’m so mad!
These two didn’t have “official” designs yet. I was working on Deimos when suddenly I was POSSESSED by these two and I HAD to draw them dancing and could NOT continue until I did. Don’t worry I’m still working on designing all the characters. I just got sidetracked by these two love birds and their eternal dance.
This came out a LOT better than expected. Except Charon’s wings. I despise drawing wings. I can NEVER get the perspective right 😭 It is still a work in progress since no color yet, but yea!
And that dot next to Pluto… I have NO idea what that is. It was on the paper when I started drawing and no amount of erasing got rid of it. I’ve been joking that it’s one of their smaller moons.
Drawing this while listening to Epic III (“They Danced…”) from Hadestown was top tier btw (I want this to be my first dance at my wedding so bad. Unfortunately I am single..)
Also they are like five seconds away from properly kissing, I just didn’t want to draw it lmao.
And her we go Jupi- JACK???? What are you doing here??? You’re not Jupiter!
So I got sidetracked.
Again.
Jupiter is being worked on, but I was watching TikTok and Jack read out a comment that said “you are goat Jack” and my brain RAN with it!!
So now Jack is in the SolarPonies Au. As a goat. Honestly not sure how I feel about this lol. No head study like the others because it was a quick drawing I did.
Oh my god. I feel so stupid/silly. I’ve been updating my insta and Bluesky with my SolarPonies. And it took til Mars to realize I tagged ALL of them as the Sun…
All of them.
They’re all apparently the Sun now.
I’ve fixed all the insta posts but can’t with Bluesky so. Those are just staying that way. Future posts will be tagged correctly tho.
The babies! I love them. It took so long to maintain motivation to draw these cuties but I’m so glad I did ❤️
Coloring wise is going to be more difficult than originally planned.
Due to many of the solar system being lighter in color, mainly the moons, it does not translate well with my white paper. It does however show up better on my more tan paper!
So once I’m done drawing all the characters, I’m going to go back and trace them onto the tan paper to color them.
Up next is Jupiter!
Also, Phobos is a little too long but that’s fine. I’m still trying to figure out drawing foals.
An eternal dance amongst the stars with you is my greatest adventure.
I’m so mad!
Not really…
But I’m so mad!
These two didn’t have “official” designs yet. I was working on Deimos when suddenly I was POSSESSED by these two and I HAD to draw them dancing and could NOT continue until I did. Don’t worry I’m still working on designing all the characters. I just got sidetracked by these two love birds and their eternal dance.
This came out a LOT better than expected. Except Charon’s wings. I despise drawing wings. I can NEVER get the perspective right 😭 It is still a work in progress since no color yet, but yea!
And that dot next to Pluto… I have NO idea what that is. It was on the paper when I started drawing and no amount of erasing got rid of it. I’ve been joking that it’s one of their smaller moons.
Drawing this while listening to Epic III (“They Danced…”) from Hadestown was top tier btw (I want this to be my first dance at my wedding so bad. Unfortunately I am single..)
Also they are like five seconds away from properly kissing, I just didn’t want to draw it lmao.
So I’ve been watching Avatar the Last Airbender while designing the SolarPonies concepts.
And now my brain is thinking of Atla au headcannons for SolarBalls.
Soooooo, here they are!
The sun is a fire bender. Obviously.
I think Earth is the Avatar, but I think specifically he was originally a fire bender due to how in early formation the Earth was molten rock.
Luna is a water bender, due to how the moon affects the tides.
They’re still brothers. I imagine it’s like a Mako and Bolin situation.
Mars gives big earth bender vibes, idk why.
Mercury is an air bender. Speedy boi.
I think it’d be funny if Venus is a non-bender, but if he were a bender, then possibly fire bending.
Jupiter and maybe Saturn would also be air benders, but I could see Jupiter as potentially a non bender. (Edit: now that I think about it, Jupiter could also be a fire bender because: lightning)
Both Uranus and Neptune are water benders.
Planet X would either also be a water bender or a non bender.
Pluto and Charon would be non benders, and maybe also the other dwarf planets and their moons. (I will never forgive SolarBalls for not showing all the dwarf planet moons. None of them small by any means, except maybe Pluto and Charon’s moons with Styx and Kerberos as the exceptions, but even they are barely smaller then/the same size as Phobos and Deimos.)
I also like the thought that all the planets are benders while the dwarf planets are non benders. Up until Pluto’s dwarf planet status reveal, they all thought he was a late bloomer. (A reeeaaly late bloomer lmao)
The other moons would probably either match their parent planet in terms of bending or be unique to themselves, like the icy ones being water benders, others being earth/fire benders, or a few being non benders.
I’m not gonna put too much more thought into this au, but feel free to add on more/share your thoughts! Honestly I probably wasn’t even original in any of these thoughts Imao.
So I think I made his head/nose too big. But thankfully, and I forgot to mention this on the other ponies, these are all just concepts for the characters. None of them are supposed to be finalized designs.
Because honestly, Mars’ hair could work for Earth and Earth’s hair could work for Mars.
The nose scar is supposed to represent that one trench I cannot remember the name of. It’s on the actual planet asset in the show.
Up next is both Phobos and Deimos!
Also! I do have new colored pencils now! I just have yet to test them on the paper I’ve been using. Once Phobos and Deimos are done and the colored pencils work well, then I’ll go back and color the others.
And another thing! There is now a master post for this Au. That will be linked Here.
