Equestria's Royal Family

A nextgen AU where Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer become the new Sun and Moon princesses of Equestria. They have two children named Nova Dawn and Dusk Eclipse and a ton of other friends in Equestria, the Crystal Empire, the Mirror World and beyond!

Send a letter to any character in the AU using the ask box!

Currently updates 3 times a month.

THE RULES:

All questions must written like a letter so that it includes the addressee. Signing your name at the end is optional, though.

Example:

i.e. "Dear [NAME], Question question question?"

!Not a RP blog. More of a webcomic!

Won't accept questions from canon characters/canon fankids. Ocs are fine.

~Other Links~

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Practice doodles / Figuring out how to draw my own DIscord design. Love this skrunkly old chaotic noodle man.

Flash's job as a guard is a too physically demanding to have dealt with carrying Solar or Starry, so that was left to me. Please don't ask for more detail than that though.

-Sunburst Sentry

Right, nevermind then! If anypony asks: We definitely never lost the alicorn amulet to a cat thief with an arm for a tail and she definitely doesn't like to hide around the Castle here for fun.

-Nova Dawn

Rarity can have herself a butch diamond dog gf... as a treat!

It was either going to be another branch on the polycule or divorcees and frankly I don't have any other divorced couples in the AU really so I might as well.

Technically, this blog was made before the introduction of Mudbriar and never had plans to include him. Adding him into the family tree and giving Glam Rock a moss-obsessed cousin was more of a recent decision when I was making those family trees.

She's been under my wing since she was a filly but she's still pretty new to building friendships.

-Princess Twilight Sparkle

Solar and Chriki. They're not "friends" per say. As a knight, Solar takes her job of watching out for potential threats very seriously, and just so happens to stick close to Chriki as a result. Chriki does their best to tolerate it.

Student Six Princessmoms Future Designs!

Mostly the same as they are in canon with the exception of Gallus and Smolder getting unique looks. Was very disappointed to see Smolder didn't grow any taller. Here's a sum up of how their lives are going currently.

Silverstream Cousin to Princess Skystar. Silverstream eventually became the first hippogriff member of the Wonderbolts and now lives in Cloudsdale, though she regularly visits Ponyville to her her old classmates.

Gallus Lived briefly with Starlight and Trixie until he graduated from the School of Friendship. Shortly after, he moved to Canterlot and joined up with the Royal Guard, now acts as a Captain.

Smolder Learned the "sending flame" magic from Spike and now acts as Ponyville's own mail-sending dragon after Spike moved to Canterlot. Getting important message quickly across Equestria. She currently lives with Ocellus and a nicely decorated cave near the School of Friendship.

Ocellus Replaces Cheerilee as the teacher of the Ponyville Schoolhouse after she retires. She also acts as a tutor at the School of Friendship on the side.

Yona Yona now runs the Carousel Boutique for Rarity with some help from her husband Sandbar. The two eventually had a son together, who they named Olar.

Sandbar Married Yona and together had a son named Olar. Sandbar also opened a community greenhouse that houses fauna crops from other creature's homelands, initially started as a way to grow Yona's favorite type of spring grass for her.

Bonus Armored Gallus and two extra siblings~

Ahh the pressures of princesshood...

ahhhh. I've read some of the popular creepypastas back in the fandom's prime but I don't think any hooked me enough for me to consider any my "favorite" one. Sorry!

I do love to see creepy/gruesome interpretations of a cute show like MLP sometimes but I can be REALLY picky about them since it's so very easy to go over the edge and just become silly.

Thank you for sharing your interests with me though! ^^ Let it be known- whenever I'm not drawing cute ponies or ship fanart. I'm probably making gruesome monster art. Warning for light gore and horror under the cut vvv

So, why did Sunset decide to move back to Equestria after high school? Like, considering how close she was with her human world friends and the hobbies she gained there, why did she decide to give all that up? And does she make any effort to still visit or keep some contact with the Rainbooms?

I've gotten a lot of this question sent in, some have been pretty rudely worded too (saying she "abandoned" her friends in the human world. Asking if she even "bothered" to keep in contact. Etc ) It really deters me from answering stuff like that. So quick side note here but please please try to stay polite, guys and don't spam the same question over and over either. 🙏

Sunset and I had been visiting each other regularly since the ordeal with the Dazzlings, going on dates in the Mirror World and Equestria. Somewhere along that time we just got closer until we finally got together after an accidental premature confession from Sunset. We had a long-distant relationship until Sunset graduated from Canterlot High and returned to Equestria afterwards.

-Princess Twilight Sparkle

I didn't have a clear plan for any overarching story when I originally made the blog, I kinda just enjoyed the process of designing a cool OC or fankid and giving them a space to interact with. The ask blog format was just a unique way to explore those characters a bit. At some point I did start having ideas of giving these characters (mainly Nova, Dusk and Chriki) their own, more dramatic storylines but it felt like it was missing something so I didn't do it originally.

I took a long hiatus from the internet, afterwards the FiM show had it's final season and knowing how everything ends I think gave me the room to brainstorm around that to build my own post-series plotline. Even if my Twilight doesn't look like the canon design, I do try and make my AU as close to canon-compliant as possible. It's kinda the only reason I made Appledash and Cheespie canon here (had to draw the line at Flutter-cord though.. sorry guys, it's still a NoTP for me!)

Coming up with cool stories and ideas is easy mostly, but it's the coherrently-writing-it-down and scripting that gives me more trouble. I really am more of a visual person than I am a writer but having a script is a necessary evil, I'm afraid. lol

Cover Art made for the Chriki playlist! A bunch of songs I personally associate with the character, not necessarily the type of music Chriki would listen to. Frankly I think Chriki would prefer some Noise Music. Here's a link if you'd like a listen! CHRIKI'S SPOTIFY PLAYLIST