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Who was Sunny’s brother in AA? 🤔

Oh yeah, we never did publicly answer that lol

I don't even remember if I gave him a proper name, all I knew was I wanted Prim's Dad to be an egocentric asshole who only cared about himself and was basically the black sheep of a black sheep family.

Man, I remember I designed him but beyond that I forget if I had anything actually planned for him. I guess he just ended up being a throw-away background detail in the long run.

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Do you ship Cinch x Neighsay?

I mean, they were married in Aria's Archives and even had a kid together with Sunny Flare!

Though I headcanon that a lot of the love for the marriage has faded over the years and that while they may have been passionate when younger they are career focused individuals who take their work as priority over their marriage.

They stay married because what else are they going to do? But also for the sake of their reputations. Even if Neighsay has his sugar baby on the side lol

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So Aria and Sonata they genuinely loved and cared for but im curious did u ever considered giving adagio and actual lover or was she only interested for the kids

Well, I know the lore was that Adagio focused and cared mostly about expanding the herd and being the mother figure of the group, but she probably had a boy or two that she cared for genuinely.

Though of course in the past the focus was on getting away with their anonymity so even if she liked a fella she would move on.

Though if Aria's Archives had continued, there were plans for possibly having Adagio get a committed husband with human Sombra. Would've been some fun stories to come out of that!

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Before Aria's Archives even existed, I basically drew up these comic pages as a 'proof of concept' of what I wanted AA to be like, and also I had a big ol' brain worm for how fun a Pinkie x Aria ship would be like

As I said in my last post tho, the person 'running' Pinkie's blog said no and so I had to scrap the whole idea, but let me tell you it would've been fun the way I had Aria tease Pinkie like this. Could've led to fun shenanigans.

And we probably still could've done the whole Aria and Sunset being exs thing too, that could've led to fun interactions and situations. But yeah, if this had been AA, I imagine it would've gone off in a WILDLY different direction.

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Continuing the tradition of when Adge and I first became friends and she literally immediately abandoned me for a cruise, we have the exciting continuation with Adge going on her annual cruise trip now!

Except now we’ve become bestest friends. Which means she can’t trust me with her things while she is gone. The poor fool :3c

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Few questions:

Why in motherly scootaloo did you have scootaloo forgive sandy so easily? While she didn't lose her kid, I'd be FURIOUS at sandy for even trying to do that and then trying to adopt me if I were scoots.

What happened to the ask aria blog? Tried finding it but I couldn't see it.

Heard you tried your hand at an original project involving a princess from another world. How did that go for you? Do you still do original stuff?

Question 1: Uh, that was really early into the story when Sandy was going to put the baby up for adoption, and it was because Scootaloo was a teen? Teenagers 19/20 times aren't mature enough to be parents and even if they are they usually need an existing parent to raise it. Sandy was doing the responsible thing and Scootaloo was kind of sad about it but ultimately in the end she kept the baby so uh… Not really much to stay mad about. Just cause you'd be furious doesn't mean everyone would be. Question 2: I just got tired of making it. I love Aria still, I love the Dazzlings, and Equestria Girls is still my all time favorite show, but the show ended and I was ready to move on to other things. At that point I'd been creating comics for literally 7-8 years in a row and while it was fun, the returns were fairly minimal for the amount of effort put in. I don't regret it, I still love those stories, but I needed something more financially stable and creatively fulfilling, hence why we made Repurpose and are still working on making more projects going forward.

Question 3: Did I have my hand in making "Fate of the Lost Princess"?? I was the ONLY one working on it roflmao. From writing to art to distribution, that was all me baybeeeeee. I was on a roll with it but then I hit a huge art block and I just never got back into it and kind of ended up re-evaluating everything about my artistic process and what I wanted to do going forward. Yes I do still do original stuff, again look at Repurpose or Haven University, and one day I want to go back to Tina's story, but it'll likely be in a different appearance than it was when I started it.

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I remember you said that if you ever continued AA, it was going to have a soft reboot. Don’t know if that’s gonna happen now (lol), but what exactly did your idea of a reboot entailed if you don’t mind me asking?

It'd basically just be cleaning up a lot of extraneous details so it'd be easier for people to just pick up and read

I love collabing with friends for sure, but doing so can make the narrative and enjoyment of the story very messy and hard to follow. Plus there were a lot of arbitrary 'rules' I had to follow based on friends of friends who basically never ended up doing anything with their stories lol

I love Adge and would love to keep collabing with her for sure, but I'd def keep things a lot more self contained so I could do essentially whatever I wanted with the story and make it easier to follow. That'd be about it really, most of what's there would stay.

Aria and Sunset's relationship would still be hella complicated, the sirens would still be immortals, and most of what happened would still be around. I mean, come on, you couldn't have an AA story without Dolly in it after all.