Here is the seventh member of the Swap Six! Our ever faithful dragon companion to Minuette - Cinders! Now our mane group is truly complete!
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Here is the seventh member of the Swap Six! Our ever faithful dragon companion to Minuette - Cinders! Now our mane group is truly complete!
Minuette: I asked Ditzy if she would deliver my letters last time Cinders sent my letter to Celestia off- (it ended up landing in her pancakes a week early, which explained the confusing letter I received about watching out for parasprites...) but Ditzy said she has a 'no Canterlot' delivery rule for some reason.
More incentive for Cinders to master her time flame I guess!
Cinders: I'll get it eventually, quit nagging me!
Minuette: Teenagers am I right?
I have a question about Cinders, the dragon, is she also a background character from the show? Or you made her yourself?
She’s real! She was one of the background dragons Ember had heating up the dragon eggs! Her color scheme spoke to me and I decided to make her the Spike stand-in, over a more conventional choice like Ember, Mina or the like.
You probably don't care for the ship (that's totally okay), but I am curious to ask anyway. What would be your opinion on the ship Minuette x Twilight? Since Twilight is sort of in Sunset's position in this au, would Minuette and Twilight have a sunlight dynamic? Just thought I might inquire.
I can definitely see it, and I wouldn’t mind seeing content of my Minuette x Twilight in a Sunlight way in fact I love me some fan ships please do. I can’t say whether or not I’d do that ship canonically - (esp. since with the exception of Ditzy/Blueblood cause they already have a kid together and I’m doing a story for them I wanna keep the ships a very fan led experience - hell you can even ship Ditzy too if you want as long as you’re aware that in story she’s going to be involved with Blueblood so any ship you do would be a poly ship on her side) but considering what this AU is I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say they’ll have somewhat of a Sunlight dynamic even if things play out differently.
It especially comes into play when you realize that in this AU the band of unicorns were all childhood friends (even if Twilight wasn’t much of a good friend or even a friend Minuette was at least very fond of her when she was around) and while Twilight was always too into her studies and Minuette ended up being similarly caught up in her own studies by adulthood Minuette was always friendly to Twilight when their paths crossed and Spike and Cinders are quite friendly as well.
So while Twilight suddenly sees her as the villain and probably even forgot they knew each other as young fillies, Minuette thinks quite highly of Twilight and if you wanted to, you could totally assume she has had a small crush on her. She was probably honored to be considered by Celestia to be worthy of being a faithful student because she knows how talented and smart Twilight is.
Which makes the inevitable confrontation to come even more of a tragic test of Minuette’s development because she wouldn’t have seen this coming.
Also what’s a good name for them as a pair anyway?
Charcoal, Cinders, and Scalio as adults
"How do you do, fellow dragons?"