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Did I really forget to... *Checks last post* Yup. Totally forgot too. Terribly sorry about the miscommunication, but I had implemented the necessary tweaks by my last post. See, I was trying to paraphrase the changes, but I guess I never really said I made them. Whoops.

Celestia is probably the most experienced. She did kinda have a thousand year head start on Luna, a thousand+three seasons on Twilight, and who knows how many years on Cadence. So, if not by longevity alone, Celestia is best princess.

Hmm... 5/5. What can I say, I'm a sucker for simplicity? Your sig is fairly concise, and I'm loving the Daring Do.

I would have said 4/5, but then I noticed the eye patch. So, my final answer is 5.1/5. Because eye patches are cool.

I believe I've mentioned my favorite as Applejack earlier, and I still stand by that. She's the most down to earth pony (pun only slightly intended) and I still maintain she has the moral high ground in the show. I mean, she's the only pony who ever sent a letter about how she already knew the episodes lesson and she's often playing sort of a role model. That has to count for something, right? Okay, adament opinion aside, my second favorite would probably be... let's see... Oh! I know! Octavia! Such elegance, such refined taste, such wonder! How does she hold that bow with only one hoof, or better yet, how can she even hold the strings? The world may never know... nor care! She's just that extravagant!

This is pretty much the most inspirational song I know. <<< All my feelings!

Oh, I love JonTron, RageNineteen always makes me laugh, Brentalfloss' with lyrics are among my favorite video game related songs, and those four are probably at the top of the list. Of them, RageNineteen is my overall favorite. I just like his style of humor, and he updates frequently enough for very few people to complain. EDIT: Three. I meant favorite three.

"An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure" -Genghis Khan

So, everyone else has a fan theory, I though I'd make my own. Well, I think its my own. For all I know I'm stumbling onto something obvious or previously talked over, but enough talk, let's go back a thousand years or so: First off, everyone remembers Hearth's Warming Eve, right? That's the centerpiece of the theory. I propose that the the events of the pony civil war (that's what I'm calling the events pre-Hearth's warming treaty) took place directly after King Sombra's take over of the Crystal Empire. That's why they aren't involved, they were enslaved and cut off from other civilizations, and they were forgotten because Pony Christmas overshadowed the whole event. Anyways, the Crystal Heart is capable of spreading love. Fact. Also fact, when King Sombra returned, the area outside of the Crystal Empire's force field was a blizzardy wasteland. Moar facts: Windigos, creatures fueled by hate, cause blizzardy wastelands. I should think that the jolly old Kings takeover and subsequent tainting, or blocking, or whatever of the Heart stopped the love from being spread, causing sort of an emotional backlash across Equestria. In other words, without any love, the ponies started hating and what's easier to hate than differences? Cue Pony Civil War. Now, Celestia and Luna come in. They arrive and promptly kick King Sombra's posterior into banishment, and he banishes the Crystal Empire. This get's rid of his influence, and stops the spread of hate long enough for the more sensible ponies to arrange a treaty and banish the Windigos Sombra brought around, purposefully or not. This, as the first actual unification of the three races, probably built the Elements of Harmony to represent their unification. However, it was not to last as the chaos of war (well, strong disliking really), hostile takeovers, love becoming hatred, and the rise and fall of the blizzardy wasteland was probably hectic enough to get a certain chaos loving draconequus' attention. Discord comes along and threatens the new stability with his own rule, but the princesses came around in suit, collected the elements and with the power of friendship banish Discord to a life as a pigeon roost. I like to think this event was what got the two sisters coronated as the official rulers of Equestria. I also like to think there was no outside influence involved in turning Luna into Nightmare Moon, because a princess, and a kind one at that, succumbing to jealousy and falling that far makes the whole story just a little more tragic, and it makes her redemption a little more touching. I apologize in advance for using words like blizzardy and moar (no I don't). Oh, and feel free to poke holes or add to this as need be. I'm sure I'm missing something, so anything anyone could provide to iron out any details would be very much appreciated.

I like you, if not just for your title. Classy. Welcome to Canterlot! Us newbies gotta stick together, you know.

A very fair point, and one that I won't argue. I have a feeling it won't get me very far. So, hows about this: Rather than the previous idea, Nadir was inspired by the night and turned his talent of applied optimism towards it to achieve a sense of fulfillment It shows how his talent (passion) aids in his endeavor by truly driving him forwards, plus until he legitimately turned his attention upwards to the sky and thus his future career, it blends picking a career based of a talent with just a smidgen of 'choose your own destiny' carried over by the last idea. Zat work okay?

Well, having just heard of this now, and not being privy to all the hype, I can say it was... okay. Loved the animation, and plenty of the voicework was well done for a fan project, but I agree with pretty much everyone else that the story was where it sort of fell apart at the seems. Otherwise, it was pretty good, and the CN crossover was interesting to watch. ^^^ This pretty much sums up my opinions quite nicely. I wish it was better than it was, but it was still enjoyable.

Oh, I guess that works rather nicely. Hooray for two for one specials!

Holy digital bombardment Batman! I can't say I was expecting quite so many greetings! Actually, the Lazor Collection reference is just happy coincidence. I just thought "Greetings Mortals" works as an excellent attention grabber. Also, The welcome video is a nice touch. Oh, and I just realized I left a 'lent' out of my Great Old One thingy. It was supposed to be an acronym for Google, but I guess its just Googe

Well, thinking is one of the few things I'm good at, so glad I could give you food for thought. Also, loving the pun in your signature.

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria Name: Mercurial Sun; though he goes by 'Sunny' Sex: Male Age: Stallion Species: Earth Pony Eye colour: Sort of a foresty green, not unlike that of a pine tree Coat: His coat is sort of a pale blue in colour. Its not terribly obvious though, and one might even mistake him for having a white coat at first. The blue is really just a tint, and a bit understated at that. Because his coat is rather short, and because he rather absent-mindedly brushes himself off every so often, his coat is actually rather prim. Not terribly fancy, just... prim. He could easily live among village folk better than high class Canterlot society. Mane/Tail: Both his mane and his tail are a straw blonde in colour, sort of like hay. Unlike his coat, he neglects his mane quite noticeably. Its not that he doesn't care, he just never remembers to make enough time to groom it, so it ends up giving him sort of an erratic look. Thankfully he keeps it short enough so its not too much of a problem, and when he does need to fix it up he makes certain its as prim as his coat. He just usually doesn't do... well... anything with it. Physique: To say Sunny is an athlete would be a lie. To say he's relatively weak would be more on the money. He doesn't do a lot of lifting, and he doesn't do a lot of running. What he does do is act a bit overactive, which keeps him sort of fit. Fit enough to appear more average than lanky, though he clearly isn't in prime physical condition. Residence: Canterlot Occupation: Astronomer. So, he gazes up, pokes his nose into telescopes, charts stars, makes theories as to how anypony could live on the moon for a thousand years, and all that jazz. Cutie Mark: A standard eight-pointed sun wearing a top hat, because he's at the 'top' of his profession! No, but seriously he knows what his mark means. To say it refers more to his profession than his personality would be a bit inaccurate. Rather, the sun shows his bright personality and sunny disposition, whereas the hat represents a few things. It represents his sort of random personality, and it also shows how he can go from bright and sunny to rather aloof and distant at the 'drop of a hat'. It even represents his fairly decent position in high society, seeing as how he was born into it. As for his profession, its quite apparent that the sun represents the sky and by extension his occupation, but the hat represents the theatrics he brings to it. Coupled with the optimism and bright passion that is his talent, its easy to see how one could be so inspired by something, and nothing inspires Sunny more than the night sky. When you love something that much, its easy to bring it to life with a mixture of flair and pride. History: ​Mercurial Sun was born to a relatively high class Canterlot family who made a living as rather theatrical stage magicians. Only problem is, both of them were Earth Ponies: They relied mainly on slight of hand and they were never seen without their trademark hats on. No one ever thought to ask if they weren't unicorns, and if they did the pair would reply it was all about disbelief - not actual magic. This confused little Sunny, and the nonplussed foal grew up always wondering why so many people never questioned his folks. Regardless, their show was a considerable success or at least enough to afford the cozy Canterlot high society life style for the three of them. They even enrolled their child in a rather selective school. It was at this school where Sunny got his cutie mark, and he was even the first one in his class. It all happened on his first day, in fact. He stood up at the head of the class, and the teacher introduced him then invited him to speak a few words about himself. So, he talked. And talked, and talked, and talked. Strange thing was, even as a foal he was hyper-active and passionate to enthrall and entire class of foals for the better part of ten minutes. At the end of his borderline youthful rant, he took a deep breath and said "And, that's it." He then calmly took his seat, and his mark was just there when he sat. That speech was really the first time he just allowed his personality to gush out, because he was asked to, and he was honest. He spoke with passion and optimism unusual for a foal, but passion that could guide him for a life time, provided he could keep it in check when need be. So from there, Sunny just kind of lived his childhood. He learned, was a grade A student, had a decent social life, nothing funky really happened until after his school days. Well, on the day of his graduation, anyways. Somehow, he had managed to go through school with out figuring what in Equestria he would do for a living, and even though he was the first in his class to earn his cutie mark, he was the last to figure out what to do with it. He knew what it meant, the sunny disposition and everything, but he was still working out how he could apply it in life. One night, he even couldn't sleep he was so deep in thought. So, he went outside and was immediately awed. He knew what the night sky was supposed to look like, but he was usually asleep by the time the stars truly shown. Having never seen it, he never could have known how truly wondrous the skies could be, and right there he knew what he was going to do Astronomy. Why not? There were so many stars, nopony could have charted them all. Hay, a hundred probably couldn't do it, but Sunny? Well, he liked to think it was possible for him to do it all. No matter how many stars in the sky there were, he would chart them all. Well, the ones that hadn't already been studied, anyways. In fact, he could practically taste the sense of fulfillment as he named the last star in the sky. Wishful thinking of a foal who just found out how to use his talent perhaps, but it wasn't like he could give up after that. Fast forward several years, and Sunny graduated with the necessary credentials to become an astronomer. Now, he lives in Canterlot gazing upwards every night, and every week he goes out on expeditions to spots where he can better view the sky. All this achieved because an inspired foal knew that the sky was the limit. Heck, he even finally learned why his parents were so successful It wasn't that they weren't magic, its that they were so inspired by their theatrics it become a sort of magic in it of itself. Character Summary: Mercurial Sun is a rather curious pony. He lives in a perpetual flux between zero and overactive, and he somehow manages to always be ecstatic regardless of which one. One minute he might bouncing off the walls and speaking as overly-dramatic as a bad actor, and the next he could be standing still and speaking borderline monotone as he observes something. Either way, its easy to tell he never stops paying attention to things, and whether one admires that or is perturbed by that doesn't matter to Sunny. He always reasoned that if a pony didn't like him, he shouldn't make any attempts to sway the pony's opinion. As someone who respects a certain stubbornness, he himself often sets a goal and doesn't stop until he sees it through. Well, that or until something else comes up that takes priority. He never really sets minor things over big things. Regardless of how hyper he his, one thing Sunny always is would be lighthearted. He's always one to crack a bad pun, or make a rather upbeat observation. To him, if a bright side doesn't exist, he has a flashlight prepared. Really, the only thing he struggles with that he's aware of is balancing himself. He does try wholeheartedly to contain himself. A good public appearance is everything in Canterlot, and the key to that is the one thing he lacks - composure. He'll try to maintain a normal facade, but its just that. A facade. It doesn't take much to set him off to either extreme.

Well now, you're certainly a fast one. That bodes well for site activity. Oh, and thank you!