My Little Pony XXXI: The Great and Powerful XXXie!

[Mando Knight]

This is something that's been bugging me for a while now. Since when did Derpy have daughters? Or is this a fan thing I'm still behind on?

The little grey unicorn, aka "Dinky," has been Derpy's daughter in fanon for as long as I can remember due to their near-identical color schemes. Last episode spoilers...

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The pink unicorn is confirmed to be the sister of a little grey unicorn that uses Dinky's model and color scheme, as they enter the sisterhooves race together. Thus, fanon-at-large has brought the pink one into the family. Name varies depending on whom you ask, as she's been a character for less than a week.

[Grif]

This is something that's been bugging me for a while now. Since when did Derpy have daughters? Or is this a fan thing I'm still behind on?

It's a fan thing. It apparently started when the fans needed a family to attach Derpy to. Dinky seemed to be the choice, though everypony conveniently forgets the horn.

[Deadly]

The little grey unicorn, aka "Dinky," has been Derpy's daughter in fanon for as long as I can remember due to their near-identical color schemes. Last episode spoilers...

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The pink unicorn is confirmed to be the sister of a little grey unicorn that uses Dinky's model and color scheme, as they enter the sisterhooves race together. Thus, fanon-at-large has brought the pink one into the family. Name varies depending on whom you ask, as she's been a character for less than a week.

Dinky is actually a light purple rather than gray. At least in most appearances, I think. Background ponies aren't always totally consistent, I guess.

Episode 5

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And the unicorn she's with has been showing up several times in season 1 as a background pony. She was leader of the animal team in winter wrap up, for example, and she was also the one who was with Lyra in Canterlot when she waves at Twilight in S1E1. Her fan name, according to the MLP wiki, is Sparkler.

[Nameless]

Ah, well that makes sense I suppose. (appart from the whole horn issue, but I guess we still haven't seen Derpy's man-thing).
Maybe it's Celestias un-named unicorn garde. Oh, so many funniez going through my mind.

[Zevox]

This is something that's been bugging me for a while now. Since when did Derpy have daughters? Or is this a fan thing I'm still behind on?

Well, everything about Derpy is a fan thing, so yeah. Anyway, Dinky is a unicorn filly with a near-identical color scheme to Derpy, so when she first appeared fans decided to make her Derpy's daughter. Much adorable fan art later and that became entrenched fanon. Then last episode

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Dinky is seen in the Sisterhooves Social race with another character, meaning they're either sisters or she was playing a surrogate sister role similar to how Applejack was going to compete with Sweetie Belle. Apparently some fans have chosen the former and brought her into the family. And since it's adorable, I for one am quite happy with that.

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[Bayonet Priest]

It's a fan thing. It apparently started when the fans needed a family to attach Derpy to. Dinky seemed to be the choice, though everypony conveniently forgets the horn.

Nopony I know forgets the horn. It just means Dinky's father was a unicorn. I'm pretty sure Word of Faust has said that the various pony races can interbreed.

[Zevox]

Nopony I know forgets the horn. It just means Dinky's father was a unicorn.

Or that there's some sort of dominant/recessive genes thing going on with unicorns and pegasi, and what you get can be semi-random depending on if you have ponies of other types in your family history.

Or Dinky could always be adopted too.

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[Deadly]

Quick, before my muse dies again, I need pirate names for the mane 6 plus Derpy and Dinky!

[Zevox]

Quick, before my muse dies again, I need pirate names for the mane 6 plus Derpy and Dinky!

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Yeah I don't really have anything else to contribute, sorry. That was just too perfect of an excuse to post that.

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[Mando Knight]

Feel free to use their normal names. They're unique enough that unless you get some clever nickname, they'd stick. Most famous pirates actually used their actual names.

[InkwellPony]

Woah.

This thread moves fast. I go to sleep for a few hours and pages sprout. I'm a little bit scared now...

That said, someone asked for a link to pony gaming. I'm not trawling back to find who, so I'll just leave this here, OK?

This is nothing compaired to how this thread used to move. The IRC channel we have has really slowed this thread down (Thank Celestia). There was times when we'd go through half a thread through a single evening if we got particularly frisky.

[Fortuna]

Um.

Good thing it's slowed down.

[Deadly]

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Yeah I don't really have anything else to contribute, sorry. That was just too perfect of an excuse to post that.

Zevox

Nice!

Sadly, Pinkie was the subject of mutiny by Rainbow Dash, so she's no longer captain.

Feel free to use their normal names. They're unique enough that unless you get some clever nickname, they'd stick. Most famous pirates actually used their actual names.

Something like Pinkie Pie the .... something, maybe. Or X Rarity, replace X with something clever. So titles, rather than names?

[Bayonet Priest]

Um.

Good thing it's slowed down.

Yeah, I remember going to my classes one morning and coming back a few hours later to find 9 pages had gone by.

Edit: @Deadly: Yeah, all I've got is Applejack Sparrow.

[Trixie]

Something like Pinkie Pie the .... something, maybe. Or X Rarity, replace X with something clever. So titles, rather than names?

Pirarity?

[Gamerlord]

Something like Pinkie Pie the .... something, maybe. Or X Rarity, replace X with something clever. So titles, rather than names?

How about "Desparity" for Rarity?

[Deadly]

Edit: @Deadly: Yeah, all I've got is Applejack Sparrow.

Hmm, that's a fairly obvious choice, yeah. I was thinking of Apple Blackjack, Black Applejack, Applejack the Black or something along those lines.

Pirarity?

How about "Desparity" for Rarity?

Hmm, or similarly: Pinkie Pierate... so punny

Perhaps too much like nicknames than titles, though

[Draconi Redfir]

Or that there's some sort of dominant/recessive genes thing going on with unicorns and pegasi, and what you get can be semi-random depending on if you have ponies of other types in your family history.

This works.

[otakuryoga]

pancreas saving warning...extreme wet mane cuteness contained below

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and... Luna in a box---and it ISNT sad!!

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[SlyGuyMcFly]

Quick, before my muse dies again, I need pirate names for the mane 6 plus Derpy and Dinky!

Rainbowbeard.

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Twilight Sparrrrkle.

[Kurgan]

Quick, before my muse dies again, I need pirate names for the mane 6 plus Derpy and Dinky!

Yaharrity.

FluttARRRshy, Scourge of the X Seas.

Leap'n'Dash, the Dashing Rogue.

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Powderkeg Sparker!

[Gaelbert]

As ANOTHER note for BroNYcon. I am going to be doing a hotel room. I am paying the full price, Friday and Saturday night. And I am welcoming as many ponies as I can fit FOR FREE. Right now I have seven ponies in the room, and I can at least fit three more. So if rooming space is keeping you from coming in January, don’t let it. You are more than welcome to crash with me, even if it is floor space.

*eyes bank account*
*checks cost of plane ticket*

If I only eat oats and grits for the next two months...

I'll get back to you on that.

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This is one of the most adorable pictures I have ever seen. And being a brony, I've seen a lot of adorable pictures.

I feel like I'm forgetting something. Did somepony ask me a question that I didn't answer? Maybe I overlooked a dreampony question or something?

[Strife Warzeal]

I have a few questions to ask that have been buzzing around my head the past few days about ponies in general and wanted the thread's opinions on them.

1. What is Celestia's power level as far as unicorn magic goes? (someone get the joke out of the way) Personally I feel her power is directly related to the sun as all special talent linked magic is and therefore she may not be as powerful as people make her out to be.

2. Why do the ponies have the term 'fillyfooler' as the word for lesbian? It seems too negative of a word and people are just grabbing what they've seen in our world as the norm for them. Ponies don't share what made same-sex relationship such a taboo for humans, would say more but I think it would end up violating forum rules. Fillyfooler and coltcuddler just sound too derogative for the setting.

3. Pertains to the leaked song:

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I'm really curious what's going on where pinkie is singing a song that to me amounts to helping a pony in a depressed mood.

Side note, am I the only one that can see Pinkie going into a child's ward in a hospital to sing it to them and just brighten their day?

Twixie picture, just because:

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[Gamerlord]

I have a few questions to ask that have been buzzing around my head the past few days about ponies in general and wanted the thread's opinions on them.

1. What is Celestia's power level as far as unicorn magic goes? (someone get the joke out of the way) Personally I feel her power is directly related to the sun as all special talent linked magic is and therefore she may not be as powerful as people make her out to be.

2. Why do the ponies have the term 'fillyfooler' as the word for lesbian? It seems too negative of a word and people are just grabbing what they've seen in our world as the norm for them. Ponies don't share what made same-sex relationship such a taboo for humans, would say more but I think it would end up violating forum rules. Fillyfooler and coltcuddler just sound too derogative for the setting.

3. Pertains to the leaked song:

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I'm really curious what's going on where pinkie is singing a song that to me amounts to helping a pony in a depressed mood.

Side note, am I the only one that can see Pinkie going into a child's ward in a hospital to sing it to them and just brighten their day?

Twixie picture, just because:

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With pleasure.

[Deadly]

Rainbowbeard.

Edit@V:

Twilight Sparrrrkle.

Damn, that's too good to pass up. Thanks ^^

Yaharrity.

FluttARRRshy, Scourge of the X Seas.

Leap'n'Dash, the Dashing Rogue.

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Oh oh oh!

Powderkeg Sparker!

Not bad either.

So far I think I've settled on Rainbowbeard, Scourge of the Seven Seas (or does Equestria have more or less seas?) and Apple Blackjack.

Still open to suggestions on the others. The more ideas I can mix and match, the better

I feel like I'm forgetting something. Did somepony ask me a question that I didn't answer? Maybe I overlooked a dreampony question or something?

I don't think you ever got to my dreampony.

[Kurgan]

I have a few questions to ask that have been buzzing around my head the past few days about ponies in general and wanted the thread's opinions on them.

1. What is Celestia's power level as far as unicorn magic goes? (someone get the joke out of the way) Personally I feel her power is directly related to the sun as all special talent linked magic is and therefore she may not be as powerful as people make her out to be.

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Thank god for google image search.

That said, I'd say "stronger than any given unicorn, but not strong enough to want to take a dragon on on her own. Going with the reference, I'd say somewhere around Vegeta when the main characters first encounter him, while everyone else is the Z Team.

2. Why do the ponies have the term 'fillyfooler' as the word for lesbian? It seems too negative of a word and people are just grabbing what they've seen in our world as the norm for them. Ponies don't share what made same-sex relationship such a taboo for humans, would say more but I think it would end up violating forum rules. Fillyfooler and coltcuddler just sound too derogative for the setting.

Yeah, that term really makes me instantly thing "pedophile", you know, since filly is a pony child...

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I'm really curious what's going on where pinkie is singing a song that to me amounts to helping a pony in a depressed mood.

Side note, am I the only one that can see Pinkie going into a child's ward in a hospital to sing it to them and just brighten their day?

Didn't listen to the song, cannot comment.

[Callos_DeTerran]

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Thank god for google image search.

That said, I'd say "stronger than any given unicorn, but not strong enough to want to take a dragon on on her own. Going with the reference, I'd say somewhere around Vegeta when the main characters first encounter him, while everyone else is the Z Team.

I gotta point out, I never got the whole 'Celestia is a physical god' thing either...I mean she's got a spell to move the sun, which is also her special gift...that's not exactly indicative that she can do OTHER stuff beyond what any generic unicorn could do with their magic.

[Deadly]

1. What is Celestia's power level as far as unicorn magic goes? (someone get the joke out of the way) Personally I feel her power is directly related to the sun as all special talent linked magic is and therefore she may not be as powerful as people make her out to be.

Well, in the season 2 opener she says that the chamber holding the elements is protected by a spell only she can break. This suggests that she is, or at least thinks she is the most powerful one around, in at least some ways. It is even possible that she is right, and that Discord never broke her spell but simply lurked and waited until she opened the vault and then stole the elements from the box just before she opened it.

She also appears to dispel Twilight's Want It, Need It spell on all the ponies of Ponyville, suggesting that she's at least able to overcome Twilight's magic, or some of it anyway. Since she's her teacher, and if nothing else at least a 1000 years old, it's not unfair to assume she's more powerful and knowledgeable than Twilight, who she described as having more raw abilities than any unicorn she had ever come across (whether that includes herself is unknown, of course)

Luna appears to command quite a lot of power, judging from her seemingly effortless displays of stormy powers in episode 4. And I'd say it's likely that Celestia is at least as powerful as Luna, most likely more given her greater age and 1000 years advantage (unless she's been slacking off).

Also, her special talent may be more than just raising the sun and also include the ruling of Equestria, in which case her power would probably be quite high.

Not sure what conclusion to draw, other than: I think it's fair to assume that she's the most powerful unicorn around, possibly the most powerful ever. Maybe Twilight has the potential to surpass her, given a few centuries, but for now and the foreseeable future I think her position is uncontested.

[Bayonet Priest]

DerpyDash

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No reason, just cute.

[Zevox]

I gotta point out, I never got the whole 'Celestia is a physical god' thing either...I mean she's got a spell to move the sun, which is also her special gift...that's not exactly indicative that she can do OTHER stuff beyond what any generic unicorn could do with their magic.

While I agree that making her out to be a god is more than I'd ever do, there is good reason to believe that she's quite powerful as far as magic goes, as Deadly points out above. Besides all that he said, she is Twilight's teacher, so she has to be pretty good at magic or else she wouldn't be able to do that.

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