Bad Ending Nextgen AU

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This Au is intended to explore the trauma and tradgedies that may occur if MLP was a more rated R series, in an AU where villains win. The main story takes place after the worst of the catastrophe but the Mane 6's stories do contain triggering subject matter and as this blog is pretty unstructured it will come up. Please see the bottom warning for a list of extreme subject matter we will be touching on and blacklist accordingly if you wish to follow us!

Our Main 6 designs and ships for this AU are Twilight x Sombra

Rarity x Chrysalis

Applejack x Cosmos

Rainbowdash x Nightmare Moon

Fluttershy x Discord

Pinkie Pie x Pony of shadows

Story and designs for Twilight, Rarity and Applejack, are done by @rainbow-lava

Story and designs for Rainbowdash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie are done by @contaminated-cryptid

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"Don't talk to my sister like that!"

For the first time, Spectra had actually witnessed her mothers abuse towards her sister, normally Nightmare Moon was so careful to keep up appearances in front of her favorite daughter, but the dark of the gardens had hidden her. She knew her mom was mean sometimes but...she thought her sister was just exaggerating, I mean she never even saw mother NEAR Aurora. Mother had always been so kind to Spectra but...clearly her sister didn't get the same treatment. Mother was better at hiding things than she thought.. For the first time in their lives, the gap between them bridged. One act of bravery proving to Aurora that maybe her sister wasn't destined to be bad after all. Art by @rainbow-lava

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OK, so the pony of shadows was...boring in cannon. We got next to no information about him. So we said fuck it, and we're re writing it a ton of stuff.

In our AU The Pony of Shadows is The Umbrum king, We kinda made every "vague evil shadowy" species Umbrum to simplify the story and make Sombras lore a bit more relevant. (Luna to Nightmare Moon is also also an umbrum possession, though her alicorn magic and strong will keeps her from being completely drowned out like stigeon.) So the Umbrum King possesses Stigeon thinking he's just as powerful as Starswirl, (and wants to use steal that power and a physical body.) Despite Stigeon's lack of magic power, his body channeled it incredibly. He was the perfect host for the Umbrum kings magic. He was nearly unstoppable as he began wreaking havoc on equestria but he was sealed away in limbo by Starswirl and the others. He is released by twilight, the act that gains her dark alicorn transformation. I will make a sepperate post about the umbrum specifically, and the actual detailed story for him, or this will be WAY too long lol. Went from having nothing, then I read sombras comics, so we are vaguely going off/inspired by that lore if you haven't read the comics. Umbrum - wiki page

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Trying to work on pinkie pie's lore, ive kinda been focused on RD and Fluttershy cuz their partners have more actual solid lore.

But im not gonna lie, im kinda rewriting the pony of shadows' lore from scratch.

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Anyway, for now enjoy a doodle.

Pinkies first daughter. Black liquorice.

Pinkie never used to like the candy. But after what she had gone through, even that seemed like the sweetest of treats in these dark days.

She looked at her daughter. A bittersweet moment, a beautiful girl born from the worst of circumstances. But she was a glimmer of something nice. A small ray of hope.

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Going back to the drawing board in trying to make discord and fluttershys kids.

But i finally have personalities and timelines worked out?

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Litterally uploading this right before bed cuz i JUST finished lining him but WIP of fluttershy and discords oldest kid Eros. Expect some posts about their family and my own interpretation of draconeques lore sometime tomorrow ;3

More design rambles below

So without going into lore details yet Eros is a draconeques of love.

Still working on colours for him but i want to use this idea from an early concept sketch where he has heart shaped leopard spots

Obvious rabbit and leopard elements but for his wings i specifically wanted to take inspiration form lovebirds, cuz you know, love

And was like "oh maybe i can make his general patterning after a lovebird

Then google hit me with "bitch which one"

(3rd row up from the bottom 2nd from the left tho)

Anyway, i kinda just googled "animals that symbolize love, and as yeah, not as many results as i was expecting. So i kinda just went with what i thought was cute.

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Ok so, i made this, and i sat back, and yeah, thats sure a fluttershy kid.

So uhhh, redo, scrappin most of this

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Litterally uploading this right before bed cuz i JUST finished lining him but WIP of fluttershy and discords oldest kid Eros. Expect some posts about their family and my own interpretation of draconeques lore sometime tomorrow ;3

More design rambles below

So without going into lore details yet Eros is a draconeques of love.

Still working on colours for him but i want to use this idea from an early concept sketch where he has heart shaped leopard spots

Obvious rabbit and leopard elements but for his wings i specifically wanted to take inspiration form lovebirds, cuz you know, love

And was like "oh maybe i can make his general patterning after a lovebird

Then google hit me with "bitch which one"

(3rd row up from the bottom 2nd from the left tho)

Anyway, i kinda just googled "animals that symbolize love, and as yeah, not as many results as i was expecting. So i kinda just went with what i thought was cute.

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Ignore her lack of a proper lore post yet, but i did this drawing of Rainbow and Luna/NMM's youngest daughter Spectra.

I wanted to show off her horn and how when she uses powerful magic, the excess power overflow makes her hair flow more like Lunas.

(Also took me a hot minute to try and figure out how to keep her hairstyle recognizable but flowy. Harder than it seems with pigtails.)

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Pinkie Pie/Pony of Shadows

A lot of Pinkie Pie's lore is still up in the air because I've been struggling to come up with ideas on how I want to characterize the pony of shadows. Especially since we have so little actual on screen screentime with him as a villain before he is reformed back into stygian. So I decided to make him into a parasite victim similar to nightmare moon.

I want him to be the most evil of my 3 villain characters. He only really cares about pinkie pie for his goal of obtaining a male heir he can possess when his current host, stygian, dies.

The darkness that possesses stygian is a parasite similar to Nightmare moon, a being of evil and darkness that prey's on the emotionally weak. Stygian being a mere unicorn didn't stand a chance, but Luna manages to remain remnants of her own personality and desires with her alicorn power, but there is nothing left of stygian, only the parasite. And as a being of pure darkness its favorite thing is seeing others suffer in the darkness. He was happy to side with sombra, as an Equestria run by villains was already his paradise. I'm still struggling on design for him though. Pinkie is normally in "depressed mode" now. She stays quiet and does her best to raise her growing family of girls, doing her best to keep them safe in this horrible world. The pony of shadows enjoys the suffering of others, and thus he isnt opposed to torturing pinkie pie for fun. His children, even if born the wrong gender (in his eyes) are spared this suffering (most of the time) only because they share his genes. He occasionally directs his twisted mind onto his kids as well, especially if they in any way upset him or get in the way, but pinkie does her best to take the brunt of it. Sometimes when he goes too far, her mind breaks and she poofs and colours again, excitable, smiling, violent...relentless. Her urge to make others happy distorted by the pony of shadows version of happiness, the need to please him to end her own suffering making her violent with a smile. :)

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Rainbowdash and Nightmare Moon's family story/dynamics

This is all still a WIP, i havent settled on details yet, but, this is for our AU's versions of NMM and RD, as well as their kids. The eldest, Aurora. The youngest, Spectra. Despite Spectra's looks she is an alicorn as well, but due to her powerful magic her horn is tightly curled on her head and hidden. Spectra and Aurora will get their own posts most likely but this is more about RD and NMM.

Rainbows special talent is inspiring others, the sonic rainboom being her unique power. It inspires her friends to get their own cutie marks.

She is the element of Loyalty, inspiring loyalty in others.

Cutiemark: She gets her cutiemark as she performs the sonic rainboom like normal. She realizes just how fast she is, and the cheering of ponies/determination it inspires in those around her help her gain her cutie mark.

After saving the world a couple times, twilight and friends had developed a bit of a reputation as heros, and definitely the princesses favor. Luna had a special mission she was going on (idk what yet) and it required a stong flyer. She personally requested rainbow acompany her.

They end up getting stranded together for a while and trauma bond, luna admitting she asked rainbow because she thought she was pretty and thought the mission wouldnt be that bad, but while they're both on deaths door the truth comes out.

They kiss, get saved. The feelings never really went away even if they both moved on and tried to pretend it didnt happen. They did stay friends via letters though.

When luna is forcefully turned into nightmare moon by sombra (using his nightmare magic to corrupt her mind, using her to take down celestia) rainbow is devastated. Nightmare moon demands possession of rainbow when asked about allying with sombra, the remnants of luna motivating her.

As for their home life afterwards.

Nightmare moon is abusive selfish and vile, using rainbow like a slave despite claiming not to be able to live without her.

Every now and then when she goes too far, or if they get lucky and shes in a good mood, rainbow sees glimpses of lunas old self. When she sobbs over rainbows slowly fading consciousness after a bad night, apologizing and trying to fix the wounds she inflicted. Rainbow never had it in her to fight back against her. these were the worst years of her life. Too loyal to fight back or leave the one she loved.

When the kids were born rainbow stopped laying down and taking it.

When Aurora was born, rainbow realized that she DID have a piece of the real luna now. Aurora gave her hope, both as a way to make ANYTHING good out of their situation, but also, her sheer resemblence to lunas sister. At first she thought it would help bring out luna again, but nightmare moon hated her. The first time NMM tried to harm Aurora is the first time rainbow sets aside her own loyalty and love for luna and actually fights back. From then on she uses anything she can to keep her kids safe. Sometimes shes able to calm nightmare moon, those are the good days. Other days she can at least offer her own suffering in their place.

Rainbow hopes Aurora can follow in Celestias footsteps and save them.

Spectra is very loud and loves to be the center of attention. When she was younger and more naive, she used to be jealous anytime Aurora got attention, even negative attention. Shes since realized how much NMM favours her and how horribly she treats her sister and RD and feels too guilty for how she acted towards her sister to bring it up.

Aurora desperately wants to be all RD believes she can be, but she was never that great at magic, and the pressure to save the entire world when theres seemingly no hope in doing so weighs on her mind heavily. But she loves the stories she hears from rainbow about the REAL Luna and desperately wants to try and help save her. She just cant figure out how.

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Magic Lore

Every pony has a unique type of magic- their own ‘shape’ per se. Their cutie mark physically manifests that shape, their talent being the magic built directly into them. This is what determines what spells a pony can do or how good they are in their own way. A pony who’s talent is ‘magic’(ex. Twi or starlight) can do ANY spell within their magical capabilities given they know how to cast it and have enough magic stored to do so. Every pony has a unique power that they can do- something specific to them that gave them their cutie mark after they did it the first time.

All ponies generate magic over time. This rate is different depending on the pony, similar to how some people regain stamina faster than others. Every pony has a ‘store’ of magic that they draw upon to do spells. This includes unicorn spells, earth ponies enhancing plant growth or improving soil fertility, pegasi flight, cloud control(including cloudwalking) and using one’s cutie mark ability.

Each spell’s required magic is different, with some(ex. Cloudwalking) taking very little and some(ex. High-level unicorn spells) taking a lot. Every pony’s ‘store’ is different, but it can be improved over time, similar to a muscle, within a limit. Once a pony’s magic store is full, the newly generated magic discharges naturally through their hooves, horn or wings.

If a pony’s magic store completely depletes, they can no longer cast spells. This means that a magically exhausted pegasi can fall from the clouds, as they no longer have the magic to power their cloudwalking or flight, although it’s very rare for a normal pegasi. A pony can also be ‘overcharged’ with magic if their magic is generating too fast for it to discharge safely, leading to their magic becoming ‘forceful’ and painful as it searches for a path to get out and builds up. This can cause small magic ‘explosions’ around the hooves, wings and/or horn of the afflicted pony. This is most common in powerful, young unicorns who haven’t yet developed and grown their magic store, but can also be a result of overactive magic generation(like prism petals) or a stunted magic store.