#epitome dusk

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the AU startrix family has been completely redesigned all together! my art style really went off on this one i think.

i wanted to have some more fun with colors so i went a little adventurous, especially on starlight’s palette. i’ll get into more details below the cut

i really like her 60s(?) sort of hair style she had in her debut, so i wanted to bring that back. i also wanted to make her body type a bit more squatty, so she’s probably around pinkie’s height, maybe a tiny bit taller. i wanted her to give off mom vibes idk. i had a lot of fun on her colors, i wanted to do something original with it and i think it worked out? i like her canon cutie mark a lot so i just kept it and changed the color scheme to match. ALSO i made her eyes match her teal streaks because then her and trixie’s eyes match each other like pinkiedash and i love that <3

trixie is still MtF so i wanted to give her a thicker snout than other mares, i liked the sort of look i went for in her old redesign so i kept her colors similar. her mane having those shorter hairs flying away is a slight callback to one of my ponytown skins of her that has feathers in her mane. i kept her cutie mark the same except for colors like starlight, but i DID change the magic swirly shape.

the twins are mostly the same from when i last drew them aside from very slight color changes to be more vibrant. they’re cutie tooties! i don’t know where the yellow comes from genetically, but let’s just say their family trees have some yellow ponies in the past or something. jinx is so small, i love him.

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Next gen AU character roster!! This is mostly just an attempt to practice formatting posts and figure out how to use this app um ANYWAY

(heads up, this won’t be extremely in depth about lore or backstories, just simple introductions!)

This is the main roster in a row next to each other, along with their ages. Some of the art here is older than others… I’ll explain them in some more detail.

This here is Amber Gleam and her sister, Comet Trail! Long story short, Amber’s ‘real’ name is Cicada, and she is actually an adopted changeling, raised by Princess Twilight and later on her stepdad, Sunburst. Comet is her younger sister. Comet is competing with their cousin, Flurry Heart for royal guard status. I’ll talk more about Flurry later. Amber has been raised in the shadows for most of her life to hide her identity, which has led to issues socializing as well as a harsh reputation among the public as opposed to her sister.

Racing Heart isn’t actually the offspring of any canon characters, but she is an old OC that I love too much to remove, so she’s a part of my AU because she can. She’s a hopeless romantic lesbian who constantly crushes on all kinds of characters, but her eye is primarily set on Cotton Bow, who I’ll talk about next. I accidentally made her with lesbian colors back in 5th grade… I didn’t even know the word lesbian… wow…

Cotton Bow is the daughter of Mayor Diamond Tiara and Pipsqueak. She is best friends with Amber and they both bond over the issues that come from being the daughters of well known political figures and just wanting to be average, normal ponies. Although, Cotton doesn’t know about Cicada’s secret. Cotton’s special talent is knitting/crocheting (to her parents’ dismay) and she’s an introvert who doesn’t want to follow her family’s legacy.

Koi Concord is the son of Discord and Fluttershy. He has some powers from his father but they mainly remain limited to nature. He obtained his mother’s ability to speak to animals, but his favorites are sea creatures. He spends majority of his time swimming in rivers and creeks with little fishy friends, and keeps to himself for the most part. (Amber doesn’t like him very much as she deems his introversion as a waste of his ability to coexist with ponies as a mix breed/foreign species unbothered, unlike her who has to stay a secret)

Marigold Peaberry! The daughter of Rarity and Joe, she actually was really difficult to make a solid design for because I made her before picking her parents and then I had to redesign her to make her look related… it was a whole mess. She still doesn’t really have any personality or official role in the story.

Now we’re getting into old art territory… Startrix have 2 kids! Epitome Dusk and her brother Jinx Nightfall. Jinx is magically disabled and cannot use his horn without causing any accidents.This made his family incredibly heartbroken, but they all love him nonetheless. I imagine that these two hang out with Concord the most, since he’s the youngest of my next gen main characters.

Now time for Flurry! In my next gen AU, they are actually nonbinary and are dating Luster Dawn! I had a little bit of a poll/vote among my friends over if Luster should have been with Flutty or Comet and Flurry won! They don’t have a large role.

You might be wondering why that purple one at the end of the roster hasn’t appeared, and that’s because they aren’t canon. at least, I haven’t decided if they should be or not. Sunrise is a next gen for pinkiedash, but they’re merely a design concept for now. I’ll probably answer any questions people have about these guys if i have any answers. i doubt i’ll be getting any for a WHILE.

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the grump and goofball character dynamic currently has me in a chokehold and i’m physically incapable of thinking up anything else apparently????

so anyway i’m redesigning Epitome and Jinx (as well as both starlight and trixie later probably) they’re silly

they’re twins now instead of Epitome being older.