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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
@Sereg: I think a lot of that is fairly minor and wouldn't be an issue.
As I said, I've been in (non-romantic) relationships with RD-like people before (one of which married my dad, who's even more Twilighty than I am).
It convinced me to never date anyone like that ever. It was an experience filled with pain and trauma. And me being mentally warped. You know, I once asked them to hurt me? That's how messed up I was. I was equating "being in pain" with "being loved".
I preferred being at school, where bullies are, to being at home.
I was miserable.
@Sereg: As much as I like it, I can see Twinkie not working all that well - levels of overall energy are just too different, and I don't think Pinkie's overall neediness would mesh that well with Twilight's need for personal time.
But I don't think it's bad enough that it should be considered an anti ship. After all, Pinkie is sensitive enough to her friends and wants them to be happy enough that she'd likely at least try to understand Twilight's needs and learn to give her distance. The trouble is mostly on Pinkie's side of the field, and frankly she has stuff she needs to work through before she'll be ready for a romantic relationship anyways.
There's also something you ought to consider: Sometimes people will find partners with whom they have some incompatible features because they want to change those features. And not in the other person, but in themselves.
Sometimes people develop behaviours more because of their environment than their actual personality, and they don't always like those things about themselves. So they look for someone, or desire someone with whom those features don't work, so they have a reason to cast them aside. I should know, it's been one of the major driving forces in my relationship. I am, or was at least, a crusty fucking bastard. I work in an industry where negativity is commonplace, and positivity is frequently looked down upon. In order to deal with that you develop a bit of a shell, so you can at least act the part. But being with someone who's genuinely pleasant and nice gives me a place where I don't have to be like that, and in fact shouldn't be like that. I genuinely appreciate having the change for him.
Dash could easily work in a similar way with Twilight. All evidence points towards her showboating being a way of getting people to stay with her. She doesn't want to be alone, so she tries to be the best to ensure people will stick around. But if she's in a dedicated relationship, where she has true insurance Twilight isn't going to leave, she doesn't have to be that brash and competitive. She can let out more of her natural nerdiness, since she doesn't have to worry about scaring Twilight away with it. She can relax, and tone things down, and she might actually get along well with Twilight when she's mellowed out that way.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Actually I don't think I am. It was in one of the linked images.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI'm truly sorry to hear that, Sereg, but just because those were your experiences with a relationship involving personalities like RD and Twilight doesn't mean that's the only or even the most likely way such relationships will always work out. I certainly understand why you would dislike the pairing based on your experiences, and you're certainly within your rights not to enjoy it, it's simply not accurate to say that a relationship between the two could only end in misery.
While I think that any mane six ship could work if developed correctly, I agree that Twinkie would be one of the more difficult ones.
@Sereg: Well I don't really know the RD like people you did, so I can't really comment on that, I'd like to point out that its the underlying aspects of their characters that make me think they would work out, not the superficial "is athletic and competitive" sort of details. There are a lot of ways someone could appear to be similar to RD but actually be a huge asshole. I mean, just look at Gilda.
The only reason I suggested Twinkie is that the nickname sounds cool. I don't think it would actually work.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayTo be honest the majority of them just don't seem interested in a relationship.
Rarity's the only one who's ever shown interest in dating, and most of the time it's a very idealized version of it. Come down to it, I'm not sure she'd really be interested in a proper relationship until she gets her career where she wants it to be. Granted she's close, but still.
Let's just say there's a reason I tend to keep my shippng exclusive to background ponies. I mean, aside from that fact that I don't have to be concerned with getting their personalities and voices right and I can customize the scenario. Even if people sometimes ''still'' think that two characters with nio canon personalities are wrong for one another.
edited 2nd Apr '14 3:30:01 PM by kegisak
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Thanks guys.
Though ... you can understand my mistrust of such claims then, right?
I've been too burned to be willing to encourage a relationship that's got hurdles from the start.
Especially when one side is likely to be domineering.
This is why I go for the more Fluttershy-ish types (Well, I would, if I'd ever been fortunate enough to meet any). Gentle and comforting. That's what I want.
Sereg- to a degree, I can sympathize. My dad isn't outright abusive, but he certainly has anger issues. :/
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Anyway... pardon the derail, but I just finished a desktop setup that I want to share with you all. I call it "Simple Shimmer." http://imgur.com/a/hOSqz#7
It's a combination of a Sunset Shimmer pic from derpibooru (Dark- it's a picture of SS wearing a fancy green dress and... shoes/hoof paint, looks very nice with her fur and mane color, matches her eyes), some Rainmeter skins showing the time, date, battery status and the music currently playing on iTunes, and a dock of applications I use regularly. What do you guys think?
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/@Big: Honestly, I don't really know what they'd want in a relationship. I was about to start describing what I think they'd be looking for, and it ended up just being a bunch of traits similar to themselves, like "AJ would want someone who's a hard worker and appreciates family." Yeah, that's basically useless. Given how little they've talked about relationships AJ could have a griffon fetish for all I know.
On a completely different note. I am uncertain if I agree with this or not.
Though I am surprised that it doesn't seem to have gotten as much attention as the other April fools video.

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