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DuneFilly — A Princess's Brother

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Description "Guess who!" 

Two tiny paws covered Jinx's eyes, a series of bright giggles erupting behind him. Great, just when I wanted to take a nap. This little brat's gonna be the death of me. He suppressed a growl and gruffly spoke, shoving the smaller draconequus off of him where she was perched on his horns.

"Well, I'll be a princess's brother, it's sweet little Serenity!" he said, not even making the effort to sound glad to see her. The little princess fell into another fit of giggles, making Jinx roll his eyes in annoyance. One more giggle and I swear I'll explode, he thought. Ren managed to climb onto Jinx's back, to which he growled his disapproval- not that she noticed, of course.

"Aw, how'dya know it was me? Oh well, hi Jinxie! Papa told me you're gonna stay with us for the whoooole weekend! We can do so much fun stuff, like go for ice cream, play tag, have a tea party, and blow bubbles and plan a garden party and-" Jinx let his step-sister babble on and on while she jumped on his back, trying to ignore her the best he could without snapping.

It was going to be a long weekend, indeed.
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After Starswirl, the second most requested character to be featured in my next few Harmonyverse pieces was m'boy Jinxie, and also, closely followed after, Serenity, so here we have them both!

While Jinx remained a secret for many years from the public, he was not necessarily kept a secret from the royal families for long. Once Discord entered a much more intimate relationship with Celestia, he confessed that he was already a father- to which Tia was surprised at first, but became supportive nonetheless, and encouraged Discord to have a closer relationship with his son. By the time Jinx and Serenity finally met, he had become a moody and distant pre-teen, much to Discord's worry. Weekend visits became a much more often practice for Jinx, which he soon began to dread and even hate. He was still kept hidden, and felt forced to interact with Discord's family when he himself was, he felt, cast away. His relationship with Serenity is one of an annoyed older brother and a hyperactive but adoring little sister, unaware of her brother's ire. Jinx doesn't necessarily hate Ren, but has a strong resentment for how she gets to live her life, feeling that she took everything he could have had- a royal title, a privileged life, but most importantly, freedom to be seen in public and the open love of their father, though he would never admit the last part. Discord worries about this often, only hoping the two can get along if they spent more time together, and hoping to bring his son closer to him- something Jinx doesn't want at all. Celestia is more acutely aware of Jinx's feelings, and tries to reach out to the young draconequus, only to be curtly dismissed by him every time, his politeness only going so far with the princess. Celestia keeps this to herself, however, not wanting to add extra stress on Discord. Jinx tries to stay from the family as much as he can when spending his weekends in Canterlot, but a certain little princess always keeps a look out for him no matter what.

If the pose looks familiar, and I hope it does, you'd be right to guess it's based on the scene in The Lion King where Scar and Simba are interacting! Scar calls himself a"monkey's uncle" in that scene, so I thought it'd be a nice nod to incorporate something like it in the title, hehe. While the malicious intentions aren't there in their relationship, the way Scar is around Simba is very close to how Jinx acts around Serenity. I had so much fun drawing little Ren- she came out so cute, I think! Jinx doesn't look all that young here, though, which I'm kind of bummed about, but I suppose I'll just have to practice some more. I really enjoy working with these two and how their relationship evolves, so, until next time, enjoy, guys!



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Comments: 14

Melani-Nexus [2017-08-23 11:47:23 +0000 UTC]

Before I finished the text I could see the simarities with the lion king, and it's so fun and cute!  Poor Jinxie, feeling misplaced and cast aside... Surprisingly our ng have a similar plot ocurring with my characters, and they're also connected to Discord.  oh boi. Tho the ships are different, and the events / reactions also are. Anyways, I think lil Serenity is so cute, and I love her older bro a lot.      

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DuneFilly In reply to Melani-Nexus [2017-08-24 06:26:48 +0000 UTC]

Hooray, I'm glad it came across!
Yeah, Jinx's childhood wasn't very easy, poor boy. Oh, nice! I'd love to hear about your character- listening to similar ideas is always super fun because of mutual intrests, hehe.
Hehe, glad to hear it.

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xXpaintpatter2005Xx In reply to DuneFilly [2017-08-30 17:15:42 +0000 UTC]

Gets shot by the cute gun

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Melani-Nexus In reply to DuneFilly [2017-08-24 09:52:16 +0000 UTC]

*Snort* Poor Jinx looks so done everytime I look at the pic.  

And yee, I can imagine he has some grudges to hold after everything that happened thus far. After all I know what it's like to have a missing father. =3= Discord ya dingus dat's not nice of you. xD
Back to headcanon area, I'll not dump an entire fleet of story here since it's better if I post it with pics like you.  
But I can say that Discord had a short relationship with Tia in our verse, leading to a baby that was not very pleased with the fact that their parents were not together anymore... But his half sister had two loving mothers always there for her, a full family. *jealousy intensifies in him* 
I have one story pic with that but well xD the lineart might be slightly outdated and there are many key story parts missing. Anyways, rambled a lil', sorry.    

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DuneFilly In reply to Melani-Nexus [2017-08-26 05:32:21 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, that's about right, yeah- Jinx is definitely annoyed, hehe.
Ah, I see! It's cool to hear that we both have similar characters, though! Maybe we should draw them together sometime, hehe. And no worries! I love listening about other people's stories!

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Melani-Nexus In reply to DuneFilly [2017-08-26 10:18:36 +0000 UTC]

... *Le gasp* That's perfect, thanks for the idea. xD 
And would be my pleasure to draw with ya whenever you feel like it! Just hit me with a message on Discord or here.    And I like listening to stories too! It's really awesome.    

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DuneFilly In reply to Melani-Nexus [2017-08-30 04:11:30 +0000 UTC]

Yessss, as soon as I'm more free with time, we should definitely do a collab if you're interested! Either way, I'll hit you up on either media, hehe.

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Melani-Nexus In reply to DuneFilly [2017-08-30 10:17:55 +0000 UTC]

Sure thing!   

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LezzyBugO3O [2017-08-23 02:46:25 +0000 UTC]

XD I was just about say that too! That Serenity looks a bit like Simba being on top of Scar when he says 'A monkey's uncle'

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DuneFilly In reply to LezzyBugO3O [2017-08-23 04:29:37 +0000 UTC]

Haha, glad the pose came across as familiar!

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Scarlet-Mirages [2017-08-23 01:25:41 +0000 UTC]

They should probably come out with the secret its not fair that Jinx should be hidden away. Poor fluffy blue draconeques bab.

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DuneFilly In reply to Scarlet-Mirages [2017-08-23 01:39:30 +0000 UTC]

True, but paranoia got the better of Discord- it's not always so simple, I suppose.

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Scarlet-Mirages In reply to DuneFilly [2017-08-23 01:41:23 +0000 UTC]

I know but i still feel so bad for him maybe Celestia can talk him into it.

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DuneFilly In reply to Scarlet-Mirages [2017-08-23 01:56:24 +0000 UTC]

Celestia definitely tries, but Jinx has his mind set already at this point. 

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