#oc: paper plane

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SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS YEAR🎉‼️

come attack me if you want to, no pressure :}

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✏️ Paper Plane, Element of Patience ✏️

Paper Plane (she/her) is one of the main characters in my oc Mane 6, the master post for which can be seen here!

Paper Plane is actually my oldest mlp oc, with her first design made in 2016. She’s changed a lot since then, obviously, but she’ll always hold a special place in my heart. The Paper Plane you see here is a low-energy unicorn, very casual about the life-altering Element she’s been chosen to represent. She’s pretty lukewarm about the whole “evil villains are coming and we have to stop that” thing, which drives Equius up a wall… at least, at first.

That’s a basic summary, but there’s much more information about her under the cut, if you’re interested. :}

(Family tree icons courtesy of UnicornGutz)

Paper Plane is a freelance commissions artist, as her cutie mark entails. She lives in Ponyville with her younger sister, Puppy Love, who she shares an incredibly close bond with. Although she once lived in Canterlot, she has since moved to Ponyville to afford housing for them. Her relationship with her parents is… complicated, but to make a long story short, she’s determined to make it on her own.

She has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and sarcastically dry in conversations and transactions (which is admittedly true), but she still gets a good amount of requests from ponies who want themselves, or characters of their own, drawn. Art doesn’t make her a whole lot of money, and dealing with rude customers is an uphill battle on the best of days, but she’s passionate enough about it that she doesn’t really care. Still, though, she has to do a lot of it to make sure she and her sister are comfortable.

Paper Plane is very assertive and stands up to others easily, but make no mistake: she’s a strangely good listener and very calm with how she handles non-business conversation, even if socializing isn’t her favorite. She is self-preserving and never gives what she can’t spare, but despite seeming dismissive and even just flat-out unobservant at times, she’s surprisingly generous with her time and very attentive when it comes to listening.

A little fun fact about her to close off the description- she’s very talented at magic. Being an artist formerly residing in Canterlot, she temporarily studied under the Ruler of the Painting Domain, Chroma. To be an artist was to harness every ounce of magic possible for the sake of creative expression, and oh boy did she. Of course, at the current moment she doesn’t really use it for much besides drawing and holding coffee mugs, but it’s… there, I guess.

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Here’s a bit of a rapid-fire one: say hello to the main characters of my oc Mane 6 universe!

How about that old art (circa 2023), hey?

I plan to slowly redraw their refs and post about them in more detail individually, but in order to do that, I’ll have to introduce their world! Mostly because it’s not the same as my nextgen world.

I will be including a majority of their basic lore and their names/elements below!

(SPOILERS FOR MLP S9)

They live in Equestria’s future, one thousand years past the end of Twilight Sparkle’s reign. As time went on, new alicorn rulers took the place of the old. The seven rulers represent the arts: Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Architecture, Cinema, Music, and Theatre. They are not royalty so much as they are demigods, even partially built out of the concepts they embody. They are not physically equine, but they do resemble horses, and they have personalities, feel emotion, and make mistakes. It’s just a bit uncanny to think of them as living.

But under their rule, Equestria itself has experienced a creative renaissance. With so many more voices contributing to the arts, Equestria and beyond has flourished with possibilities. Creatures live in relative harmony, and icy barriers have been all but broken down. It’s a perfect Equestria.

Almost.

What few realize after so many years is that a certain statue containing three of Equestria’s greatest adversaries wore down enough to allow their escape, and they’ve been building their forces in the shadows. A growing army of rogue changelings, a slow rekindling of magical power, and the overwhelming anger from a filly left to rot make for quite the looming threat.

The Elements are also not quite the same. Much like when they transferred from The Pillars to the Mane 6, the current ponies represent similar but different ideals to those from the past. From left to right, we have:

- Limelight (he/him), the Element of Courage, formerly Loyalty and Bravery.

- Patchwork (she/her), the Element of Compassion, formerly Kindness and Healing.

- High Voltage (they/them) (low center), the Element of Perseverance, formerly Laughter and Hope.

- Equius (he/him), the Element of Alchemy, formerly Magic and Sorcery.

- Paper Plane (she/her), the Element of Patience, formerly Generosity and Beauty.

- Wisteria (she/her), the Element of Justice, formerly Honesty and Strength.

(This is also under the pretense that each culture has their own Elements, like in the comics, and that these are just the Equestrian ones.)

What lies beneath these six chosen ponies that made them worthy of the Elements? Will these six equines be able to fight the powers that be? Will they even be able to get along with each other?

They better. Friendship is Magic, after all.