#stardust nova

[stoukadraws]

Heyy sorry for not being very active- but here are some doodles of my ocs i did that i like (╯▽╰ ) more to come?? if any of you are interested that is

[loodile-blog]

So I was thinking how the Elements of Harmony might look and how they might change for each of the Mane6 for this AU(link to AU below for context). It took some time to consider how their personality changes their element( i.e. Ivory is similar but not exactly like Apple Jack). So with consideration of "Unity is Alchemy" and assuming Stardust is still the primary driver of the elements, I bring you the Elements of Harmony[Ultimare Edition]:

Ink Blot - Empathy

Sparkling Cider - Hospitality

Ivory - Integrity

Cottontail - Joy

Prism Wing - Devotion

Stardust Nova - Alchemy

Although I took time into figuring out the names for these elements, I'm not married to them just yet and would like to know your thoughts and maybe others.

Also, check out the Ultimare AU for context and generally awesome posts.

http://ultimareuniverse.tumblr.com/

@ultimareuniverse

[stoukadraws]

I was practicing my shading since I wasn’t very confident with it, but I’m pretty happy with these results (╯▽╰ )

[ask-the-cosmic-duo]

A Visit to the Doctor, Part 4

"Where do we start, Purple?" Stellar was eager to get things going. The sooner she understood and had control over this power, the better.

"Typically you'd have to be near death. Closer to embracing oblivion, closer you are to nothingness, something like that," Stardust stated with a half-hearted shrug. She then added, "And I don't exactly want to get you there."

Stellar nodded. "Yeah, that's... that's not gonna work without causing obvious problems." She yet again recalled what happened before, though. "It does seem to come out in response to strong negative emotions, though... Both in Aurora's world, and just now. You saw it, right?"

The hooded mare nodded at Stella's question. "Indeed I did... somewhat, at least."

This was starting to help get the cosmic unicorn's brain juices flowing. "Then what can we do to trigger that again, for the sake of getting some hooves-on experience?"

"Sadly, absolutely no clue." Stardust admits after a moment of thinking.

Thankfully, Stellar was starting to get ideas of her own. "I have one idea... but I'm not sure how we'd do it." She looked in the direction of her home, the Astral Mansion. "I have a Simulation Chamber back home. I've told you about it before, right? It lets me simulate stuff, hence the name." She looked back to her friends. "Maybe I could simulate a stressful situation. One that'll elicit a strong emotional response. The problem would be convincing my brain that it's real enough for it to work."

"You could attempt to face off against me. I would know not to hold back in a simulation." The pink-furred mare stated, after another moment of thought as she tapped her chin.

Stellar nodded. "It's a pretty realistic simulation, but… fair point. Hopefully, it can handle the full extent of our powers, too." She seemed a little concerned, however. "I've… yet to test it with either of my two new states, and I don't even know what you're capable of."

"If I get it my way, you'll keep guessing," The mare simply responded, then nodded to herself and gave a bit of a cheeky grin, instead of her usual neutral expression.

"Fair enough." Stellar blepped, not seeming to mind too much. If one didn't know any better, they'd think there were zero brain cells between those eyes. "Well, let's head to my home! Doc, you gonna be alright?"

"Dear, when am I not?" Turner chuckled. "I’ll probably be traveling through spacetime soon, and picking on the Multiverse Council once again."

"Heh, sounds about right." The star-maned mare booped the Doctor, who reflexively scrunched his snoot. "Just don't get into too much trouble, okay? I can only bail you out so many times."

Stardust nodded, and seemingly disappeared into a puff of (admittedly odd looking) smoke… Hmm. That's a new one. Maybe just her masking her teleportation? Who knows?

Stella looked over when she realized she was gone. "Huh. That's… a weird teleport. Welp!" She giggled, and then galloped away to her mansion. "Thanks, Doc!"

The Doctor waved to her. "You're welcome, Stellar!"

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//Late again... College is harsh.

//Stella's portrait is by @ask-gadzooks.

//The image of the Doctor is cropped. Full picture is by @arcanethunder.

//The image of G1 Twilight, used to represent Stardust, is cropped. Full image is by (at)mulepaws on Twitter.

[ask-the-cosmic-duo]

A Visit to the Doctor, Part 3

Stella hadn't noticed before, but she had been enveloped in void energy. For how long, she had no idea.

"Wait… what happened? Why am I darker?"

The pink mare shrugged non-commitally. It seemed she wassn't exactly concerned

Stella looked at Purple, then the Doctor. "Seriously, did something happen to me while I wasn't paying attention?"

"Your unstable form appeared." He sounded almost inquisitive. "Very interesting…"

"This… implies she is usually stable." Stardust said with a sigh, after a moment of thinking to herself.

"Ah, funny joke." The Doctor didn't sound that amused, though. "But I believe she has some stability."

"Yeah, it feels… weird. Like, I can still feel. Mostly anger earlier, and fear right now, but I also felt… relieved when I saw Purple was nearby. In the Abyssal State, I don't think I would've felt that." Stella stopped to think.

After a moment, she shrugged. "Also she's not entirely wrong. I'm not okay, I just don't like telling others about my problems. Not exactly their business. And besides, I don't want to trouble other ponies with all that."

Turner nodded, understanding. "To be fair, I don’t think a lot of ponies can understand…"

"They are creatures of light," The Nobody stated with another non-commital shrug. "Mostly innocent. I don't hold it against them. Ponies in general, I mean."

"That's just how it be, I guess." Stella blepped. "Still, I'm not entirely sure what happened… It reminds me of something that happened a little while back. I don't think I noticed at the time, but… I think I dipped into a similar state when I saw an old friend being corrupted by the void."

She thought about that for a moment. Another Doctor Whooves, if she remembered correctly. She didn't realize before, but it must've been a very long time since they last met prior to that event, as she didn't recognize him at all. And yet, their bond remained, if her dipping into that form was any indication.

"How peculiar…" The Doctor began to do some thinking of his own. Very quickly, Stella's Nobody, Night Star, came to mind. "Has your Nobody been able to do anything remotely spectacular in her feats like you? Or has she been completely free of this void?"

"Honestly… I have no idea." The cosmic unicorn hummed to herself, trying to recall any instances of Nighty's strength. "The only thing I can think of is that she was just as strong as I was during our first encounter in the last timeline, maybe even stronger. Only reason I beat her the second time around was because I switched things up. The new Night, though? I haven't actually seen her fight…"

The Doctor nodded. "Maybe keep an eye on her, both of you. If the Organization is still around, they’ll go after Night next, especially now since your power is on the rise, and there’s a possibility for Night to be a weapon again."

Stardust let out a seemingly excited chuckle. "If you think for a second I'm not going after my former employers' throats, even before you asking, you'd be wrong." She sounded almost too excited.

Stella couldn't help giggling at her excitement, especially since Nobodies aren't supposed to be able to feel. "The way you say that, you make me wonder if you were the Roxas-equivalent before Night was. How many Roxases have they gone through, then…?"

“More interesting conversations for another time," Turner replied simply.

The pink mare gave a small exhale and nodded in affirmation of the Doctor's statement "Likely so. As you said, though, for another time."

"Alright, I guess." Stella shrugged, making a mental note to ask about that later. "Then, uh… where do we start, Purple?"

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//fucking christ i'm late. Sorry! There's still one more part, then we move to the next scene!

//Stella's portrait is by @ask-gadzooks.

//The image of the Doctor is cropped. Full picture is by @arcanethunder.

//The image of G1 Twilight, used to represent Stardust, is cropped. Full image is by (at)mulepaws on Twitter.

[ask-the-cosmic-duo]

A Visit to the Doctor, Part 2

True to form as Stella said, the pink nobody's presence is sensed, vaguely, as if she's masking it… She watched until needed, though looking closely, it may be possible to spot her transparent form lurking atop a nearby tree…

In this weird state, Stella was more aware than normal. After a few moments, she spotted Purple, pointing at her like a dork. "Pink mare!"

The half-transparent mare kneeling on a branch merely faces Stella, tilting her head, but doesn't say anything, merely continuing to watch. As to why she's half transparent? Magic, likely, an enchanted ring or band, probably.

"Oh," says Time Turner, following Stella's gaze to the mystery pony's location, "hello there Purple. What is the reason you are cloaked in shadow?”

"Watching and waiting to see how this plays out," The Nobody responds. "Though it seems you both have a sharp eye to spot me, despite my enchantments... A shame, really. I'd have preferred to stay hidden." She hopped out of the tree, landing deftly on the ground.

Stella seemed to not have noticed the state she was in right now, as she shrugged in response to Purple's apparent disappointment. "Well, I'm kinda stuck, and I need help. Doc is saying I can't control the void without merging Nighty back into me, but I don't wanna do that." She looked to the side, clearly not very happy about that. "She deserves to live just as much as anypony else."

Stardust raised an eyebrow beneath her hood. While it wasn't quite visible due to said hood, one could still feel it in the air, so to speak. "And you didn't think to ask one of the two Nobodies you're friends with?" She asks in a monotone voice. "The ponies made out of something very similar to void... stuff?"

"I- ..." Stella sighed. "Just call it void magic or something, I dunno. I wasn't sure if you'd be familiar with actually using that power, I guess..." She shook her head, trying to focus herself. "Are you? I really hope you are. I have no idea if Nighty knows anything, and... I'm hesitant to tell her about the alternative."

"... I'm made of something similar, if not the exact same thing. Nobodies are born from nothing, after all... In a sense, at least."

"Oh. Right." She was pretty sure the two energies were at least similar. "Then... do you think you can help?"

"I can at least attempt to, that much I can do." Stardust was pretty casual about the whole thing, not really caring one way or the other. Well, aside from Stella being her friend for a long time.

"Mmm." She turned back to the Doctor. "Think this'll work, Doc?"

"I don’t see why not," the Doctor said with a nod. "Go ahead, Purple."

The white-maned mare nodded back, taking the enchanted band off of her forehoof. She was now properly visible instead of being almost see-through, facing Stella to ask, "So what do you... exactly know of nothingness, if that makes sense?"

"Uhh..." The cosmic unicorn thought about that for a moment. She knew a bit about the void, perhaps without realizing at the time, because she apparently utilized its power to create much of her dimensional tech. But nothingness? She wasn't sure she knew much of anything about that.

"I'm not sure... All I know as fact is what you said, that nothingness and the void are at the very least similar, so any knowledge I have of it is based on that."

Stardust listened, and nodded. "Well, if you've ever been near death, and felt... something, you've probably felt, for lack of a term, nothingness."

"Weird... So that's what that was?" She continued thinking. Nothingness... The closer you are to death, the closer you are to nothingness? Perhaps she was more familiar with it than she realized. Especially when, several times before, she's...

"Interesting." She finally looked down at her hooves, only to realize something was... different.

//Yep, the thing finally finished a day or two ago, and this is getting released an entire day before the end of the poll, almost exactly. Weird how things work out, huh?

//Yeah, there's gonna be a third part. Depending on how long it ends up being, there might also be a fourth. Then, uh... probably another pause, as I need to play out what happens next. Sorry!

//Image of the Doctor is cropped. Full picture is by @arcanethunder.

//Yes, I found it, and I edited the last part to have the credit as well.

//Image of Stardust/G1 Twilight is cropped. Full image is by (at)mulepaws on Twitter.

//I'd link their Tumblr, but it doesn't seem like the blog belongs to them anymore? Either that, or they just don't post art there, but I'm confused either way.

[ovuducks]

Fanart of Stardust Nova and Prism Wing, sidenart’s characters. Love theirs personalities, clothes, haircuts, everything napigkngaipnepg.

[analog-mart]

All the Ponies but in an icon form

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