#heartistry

Shutter Ghost: I guess you could say that. Good thing I like ghosts!

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Had a lot of fun using reference pictures for realistic poses for this one! Refs and steps below the cut :D

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Inuyasha: Me? I'm not really into anypony right now. Relationships...

Inuyasha: Relationships don't tend to end well when I'm involved. After what happened to Kikyo... Maybe this is what's best for everypony...

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Wild Children 43

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Thanks for the ask, @ask-gadzooks !

For the last time, Timber took off, rummaged around the room for the correct seed, and returned to plant the final seed.

Heartistry: So what kind of crazy plant knowledge do you have for us this time?

Timber: Actually, this is just a common fern. You can find these everywhere- Ponyville, Trottingham, Appleloosa, and even some parts of the Frozen North.

Heartistry: Oh... Well then.

With the final seed planted, watered, and sprouted, the puzzle was complete... or at least it seemed so.

Keira: Do you think we did it?

Heartistry: Wouldn't have something have clicked or something like that?

Moon Dancer: What if we actually did get it wrong and need to try again? I just hope we can try again...

As if driven by instinct, Timber trotted up to the plants and started to use his magic on one of the plants. As if time sped up in that instant, the first plant sped its growth and soon a full grown common fern was filling the pot to the point where roots were erupting from the sides.

Timber: Uh... guys?

Every pony turned around to see what Timber had done, a mixed reaction from the group.

Moon Dancer: Did you really just break that?!

Timber: No! I swear! I just went to use my magic on it to move it and this happened!

Okay, so in the Daedalverse, we get Alicorns two ways: being born between two non-ascended Alicorns, or for a pony to Ascend by magical means. (So you can guess who wasn't born an alicorn in the Daedalverse.)

In both cases, power from the spirit of an Alicorn that no longer has a physical form would go into the new alicorn.

For a born Alicorn, it would like the alicorn of the past would be reborn and live another life. Since there's only two female born alicorns left, it's unlikely that the Daedalverse will have more of this kind.

An ascended alicorn on the other hand, would only have the powers based around that alicorn. As they're more balanced than regular ponies as all four elements flow through their magic, they'll have a longer lifespan than the average pony- but not a Centuries long one like born Alicorns. Like a human living to be 110 instead of 85.

BUT back to the subject of Heartistry- she's not an alicorn, but a Pegacorn (unicorn+pegasus). It's honestly like 99.5% unlikely that she'd be born with both a horn and wings- much more likely to be born either a unicorn or a pegasus. Likely scientist ponies would've hassled her parents to study more about her.

She'd likely have higher affinities with both wind and fire, but I don't think she'd be able to use both her wings and her horn had she been born in the Daedalverse. But if she had an alicorn ancestor somewhere in her family tree, maybe that alicorn from the spirit realm blessed her a little bit?