Line #82 Webcomic/JuniorGala


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3	''[[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/gallery/53466219/Junior-Gala-Comic Junior Gala]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' webcomic created by [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/ Kaemantis]] (otherwise known as [[AnimalMotifs "Frog"]] for her ponysona), who receives help from her wife [[https://bizerbit.deviantart.com/ Bizerbit]] on world-building and lore. It's notable for being set in an AlternateUniverse where certain aspects of characters, lore, and events have changed. Although the comic is ongoing, Kaemantis has also submitted various works on her ''Website/DeviantArt'' page that provide more information on the JG 'verse. You can read the first page of the comic [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/JUNIOR-GALA-p-1-Fun-518441484 here.]]
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5	'''Take note:''' This page refers not only to the comic pages released so far, but also the AlternateUniverse it's set in.
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9	!!''Junior Gala'' provides examples of:
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11	* AbusiveParents: Babs and Trixie both suffered this. Diamond Tiara's stepmother is emotionally abusive.
12	* {{Acrofatic}}: The portly Truffle Shuffle seems to have no trouble keeping up with athletic Scootaloo.
13	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: PlayedWith in general. Since ponies are drawn in anthro form, some are given more attractive features. Meanwhile, non-pony characters are drawn more realistically, making some look "uglier."
14	* AdaptationalJerkass: Apple Bloom here ''rarely'' smiles and is a lot colder in general (though her devotion to her friends and family still remains).
15	** It's not as obvious but as a teen, Scootaloo goes around as a pseudo-gang leader, punishing "bullies" for their actions...[[ReformedBully except some of them actually grew up and regret what they did]]; since one of those ex-bullies is Silver Spoon, Sweetie Belle's girlfriend, Scoots ends up straining her friendship with Sweetie.
16	* AffectionateNickname: Twist loves calling Babs, "Babthie." Babs in turn calls her "Squeaker". And they both end up calling adoptive daughter Pepper Peppy and Baby Bird.
17	* AgeLift: Plenty of this. Babs is roughly 5 years older than the CMC. AJ and Rarity are a few years younger than the other Manes. The Cake twins are lifted to the CMC's age. And Plaid Stripes was promoted to adulthood.
18	** Inverted for Tootsie Flute who is made years younger than the CMC instead of their agemate.
19	* AllGaysLoveTheatre: Sweetie and Silver adore showtunes.
20	* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Zesty's wife Foto Finish is amused by the fact their daughter Minolta looks like them. Thing is, Minolta is ''adopted'' and actually being related to them is a genetic impossibility.
21	* TheAtoner: Babs, eventually. Also Sunset Shimmer.
22	* AuthorAvatar: In-universe, Frog (and to a lesser extent Chuuko, Sensei and Boots) for Kae.
23	* BattleButler: Sticker Shock for the Silvers.
24	* BigBrotherInstinct: [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/JUNIOR-GALA-p-15-Accusatory-606370220 Claude doesn't take kindly to any sort of mistreatment towards his sister.]]
25	** BigSisterInstinct: Rarity and AJ are among the adults looking for the kids in the woods as is Silver Strings/Octavia, beloved big sister to Silver Spoon.
26	* BigLittleBrother: Royal Pain to his adoptive Hippocampus sister Arpeggio Dapple, who due to BizarreAlienBiology, ages much slower than him and resembles a dainty filly well into his adulthood.
27	* BullyAndWimpPairing: Babs and Twist.
28	* CarnivoreConfusion: Averted. The Hippocampi are obligate carnivores and don't pretend to be otherwise, even in pony form.
29	* CastFullOfGay: Homosexual coupling is unremarkable in pony society.
30	* ChekhovsGun: Two words. [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/JUNIOR-GALA-p-5-Useful-527880324 Cayenne.]] [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/JUNIOR-GALA-p-26-Meat-Head-686076892 Pepper.]]
31	* ClashingCousins: Babs regularly terrorizes Apple Bloom and her friends, in fact, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment it’s the first thing we see her doing in the comic.]]
32	* CoolBigSis: Rarity for Sweetie, AJ for Apple Bloom, Octavia for Silver Spoon
33	** CoolBigBro: [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/BBBFF-561047001 Claude for Trissie]]
34	** CoolAunt: Minolta is this for Toots. But since they're closer in age, she's arguably more like the above. Sonata and Aria are this to the Riot and Snowshine.
35	* CoolOldLady: Foto Finish and Zesty Gourmand. Toots certainly thinks so, ''especially'' in the case of the latter.
36	* CoolUncle: Dandy for Minolta, Claude for Twist. Sweetie Belle ends up a Cool Aunt to the youngest of the Rarijack brood, mostly because she can spoil her rotten.
37	* CurseCutShort: Rainbow Dash in one panel of the comic, since [[ThinkOfTheChildren Scootaloo and Truffle are in the same room.]]
38	* DisappearedDad: Twist was abandoned by her father Briar; Babs and her father Troubleshoes don't know about each other until she's in her 20s.
39	* EccentricMentor: Vinyl Scratch for Silver Spoon.
40	* EmbarrassingFirstName and EmbarrassingMiddleName: Barbara Millicent Seed.
41	* EnfantTerrible: Young Sunset Shimmer earned her infamy by mutating into a demon and trying to kill Celestia.
42	* EyeScream: Tempest Shadow, Foto Finish, Noteworthy and Sticker Shock all took damage to an eye.
43	* FaceOfAThug: Claude may be a PerpetualFrowner, but he really has a soft spot deep inside
44	* FantasticRacism: And plenty of it; for example ponies look down upon mules, whether or not they like to admit it. Furthermore any creature, sentient or otherwise, that has no nation is considered an animal.
45	* GoodParents: You can bet that any parent who genuinely cares about their kid is like this.
46	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Mules don't really fare well in pony society (see FantasticRacism).
47	* HappilyAdopted: Scootaloo by Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, Lyra by Fred and Concerto, Starlight Glimmer by Chrysalis, the Shadow Five by Sunset Shimmer. Adagio and Sunset also have Snowshine, a Hippocampus filly that by all accounts, should be long dead.
48	** In the next gen, Babs and Twist adopt a Pegasus filly named Sweet Pepper and a Unicorn colt named Candy Striper who [[HandicappedBadass happens to have had his horn torn off during the birthing process]], Apple Bloom has Arpeggio Dapple, a Hippocampus daughter as well as stepson Royal Pain and Sweetie and Silver Spoon have Silver Bones, a young griffin.
49	* HandicappedBadass: Everyone under EyeScream counts as does Snowshine, who is not only crippled but also albino and Candy Striper who is genetically a Unicorn but had his horn torn off during the birthing process meaning he can't use his magic.
50	* HatesBeingNicknamed: DON'T refer to Alesta Grandeur as Zesty Gourmand. [[IfItsYouItsOkay She does however enjoy being called "Chef" by granddaughter Tootsie]].
51	* HeroicBastard: Royal Pain is the result of Diamond sleeping with an unknown stallion; despite this, he's a total sweetheart and one of the nicest characters in JG.
52	** Heroic might be a stretch but the Riot, Adagio's daughters who chose to come live peacefully (so to speak) with her instead of fighting to the death as is normal for Hippocampi (consisting of Duet Cascade, Madrigal Glory/[[AffectionateNickname "Mads"]], Toccata Daze/[[AffectionateNickname "Toca"]], Allegrezza Allure/[[AffectionateNickname "Grits"]] and Messa di Voce Grace/[[AffectionateNickname Messa]] and viewable [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/Adagio-s-Riot-676492711 here]]), have never met their biological fathers and never will.
53	* HiddenDepths: Silver Spoon is an amazing pianist, Diamond Tiara is a stellar vocalist and Babs is kind to animals, especially cats.
54	* HomosexualReproduction: While many of the same-sex couples adopt their children, Twilight can perform an egg-splicing spell that produces only daughters.
55	* KickTheDog: Briar blames his wife and sickly daughter for the loss of his dream project. This is despite the fact they had ''nothing'' to do with it and that the latter has no control over her condition.
56	* LightningBruiser: Babs, as shown [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/JUNIOR-GALA-p-26-Meat-Head-686076892 here.]]
57	* LonelyRichKid: Silver Spoon, whose best friends are her much older sister and the Battle Butler.
58	* LoveRedeems: Twist may have helped Babs to try to be a better pony in her adult life. Similarly, Sunset both romantically and platonically helps redeem the Sirens.
59	* LovingBully: Diamond Tiara is this for Apple Bloom ‘’full stop.’’
60	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The rambunctious Scoots and the meek Truffle during their childhood.
61	* MoralityPet:
62	** [[LoveInterest Twist]] is this to her [[AffectionateNickname "Babthie"]]. She is later joined by their adoptive kids Pepper and Candy.
63	** Sunset becomes this to the Dazzlings.
64	* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Silver Strings/Octavia is either called "Octavia", most of the cast, or "Strings", by Silver Spoon. Her niece Silver Belle is really only known as "Bee" (both due to being a recessive Pegasus and for her affinity with things like wasps and bees).
65	* ParentalAbandonment: Young Sweetie's parents leave her alone for large swaths of time, ultimately leading Rarity to obtain custody of her sister. Also played with in Foto Finish's raising of Bonbon.
66	* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: It’s {{Justified}} here, since Minolta was adopted by Foto Finish when her biological daughter was already an adult with her own child, so there’s a bigger age gap between them.
67	* PromotedToLoveInterest: One thing you'll notice is that ''a lot'' of the couples here didn't even interact in the show! That being said, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Kae still manages to make them work.]]
68	* PromotedToParent: Plaid and Saffron for Northern Song, AJ and Rarity for Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, Trissie (Twist's mother) for Babs.
69	* PuppyLove: Several relationships start early, such as Sweetie with Silver Spoon and Scootaloo with Truffle Shuffle.
70	* RaceLift: Since there are only a total of three alicorns in the JG 'verse, Cadance and Flurry Heart are Pegasi here instead.
71	* RealMenWearPink: Sticker Shock can cook. Pipsqueak and Dinky's son Prettydig openly loves flowers and gardening and enjoys looking feminine despite being a cis male (albeit homosexual).
72	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ''A lot'' of ponies here are made relatives. Aside from the usual relations given by {{Fanon}} (such as Derpy and Dinky), there's also...
73	** Octavia and Silver Spoon, who are made sisters.
74	** Foto Finish and Bonbon, who are made mother and daughter.
75	* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Diamond Tiara and Spoiled Rich go from biological daughter and mother to only being related by Spoiled's marriage to Filthy Rich.
76	* RenaissanceMan: Master chef, restaurateur, food critic and polyglot Zesty Gourmand.
77	%% * ShipTease
78	* SpoiledBrat: Diamond Tiara.
79	* StrongFamilyResemblance:
80	** [[https://mustlovefrogs.deviantart.com/art/FutureSight-Luca-OC-591876635 Apparently, the 'fro is a very strong family trait in Truffle's family]]
81	** You'll also notice this between some {{Original Character}}s who are related to canon characters.
82	* TearsOfFear: Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon, a lot.
83	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: A lot of this. Most notably AJ and Rarity, Plaid and Saffron, and Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara.
84	* {{Tsundere}}: Diamond Tiara for Apple Bloom, of the very much "tsun tsun" variety.
85	* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Averted as Bee keeps a herd of rats as pets, her talent involves things like wasp and rat whispering and her brother is based on a vulture but was the most precious kit.
86	* ZipMeUp: A FurryReminder variant happens in the next gen with Pepper asking Bee, Silver Belle daughter, to preen her wings, which Frog has confirmed is the Pegasus equivalent of this trope.

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