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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
One of the IDW arcs is a bizarro-verse with evil Celestia and good Sombra. Spoilers below:
Our Celestia has been making frequent trips to see Alternate Sombra over the last thousand years, especially after Luna got banished. It causes a few temporal problems, a lot of princess angst, and...ends badly, to put it charitably. Actually, I think this is the first official story arc in the franchise to end on a bad note.
edited 9th Jul '14 2:06:31 PM by Pykrete
Hey, I'm totally willing to call it canon as long as they don't pull a Marvel and/or DC and turn the series into a clusterfuck of alternate realities. I like when stories aren't afraid to end sour every once in a while, and a couple of the one-off gags throughout can easily be brought back later to twist the Manes' perspective back at home (Alternate Trixie and Chrysalis are apparently both high-ranking good guys, and the next arc seems to be about Trixie). Plus, what happens to Alternate Sombra makes him a considerably more compelling villain than the original.
edited 9th Jul '14 2:13:26 PM by Pykrete
^^^ That's a common misconception. It's actually AJ.
^ It's out there. I've got a nice anthro one of him and Little Strongheart in my derpi faves.
edited 9th Jul '14 2:16:10 PM by Wryte
I've seen a bit of Braeburn X Rainbow Dash.
Oddly.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Yeah, Earth and Sky had some Ship Tease between Braeburn and Dash. She's too focused on her career to think about romance for the moment, but she leaves open the possibility of getting with him sometime in the future.
Part of me thinks it was the sheer irony of it that spawned the ship in the first place. I'm certainly no stranger to shipping ponies for reasons other than actual in-show hints.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.To be fair, this fandom's fixation with Rainbow Dash isn't all about the lesbians. It's about shipping her with everything. Ev-ery-thing.
Jeeze, that took longer than expected. I was also doing chores in that time, but still.
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Braeburn seems like the welcoming type. I doubt ponies really need to stalk him.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.