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Description Ever since entering her new position as a member of royalty, Twilight has been bothered by a recurring nightmare with a highly disturbing theme. Night after night, no matter where she dreams… her dream self must also wear underwear. Boys underwear. Tighty-whities, if you will. And it’s always met with the derision and teasing of the general dream public. As if the new princess weren’t stressed out enough as it is, she’s now having to deal with these strange nightmares that prevent her from getting a good night’s sleep.

Another wonderfully creative piece commissioned by . We bounced around a few ideas before we were able to come up with this artsy kind of time transition piece showing scenes from Twily’s horrifying nightmare. It was really fun coming up with this 'day to night' transition in the foreground. Before I shaded it and added the two windows, it looked like Twilight and her clones were all having similar dreams. I think the time transition is pretty clear now... at least I sure hope it is. It'd be silly if it looked like she was chilling with a couple clone pones.

I made sure to use a few odd things in each of the dream scenes so that you'd be able to tell our purple princess was dreaming them rather than reliving things she actually did. In the left panel, we got some of those adorable shadow fillies that Twilight hallucinated up back in Lesson Zero. In the center panel, I went and did the audience up in a slight different artstyle… it’s kinda based on the shadow filly look and those really cute simplified ponies that Mr. Poniator makes , plus some other little quirky things from me. In the last panel, I dropped in a friendly Chrysalis so that the scene would seem a bit sillier when Twilight woke up and thought about it all.

Also, on a small note, this piece takes place in the same fancanon universe as that piece with Rainbow Dash’s wardrobe malfunction on the train. In this take on the FiM universe, when other ponies are accepted into the ranks of royalty, they don’t turn into alicorns, so Twilight and Cadance both stay as unicorns. Now, Cadeance is actually a bit of an odd story… in the show, Twilight refers to her as a unicorn, but in one of the books that are considered official canon, her backstory claims that she was born as a Pegasus. Additionally, her name has been spelled two different ways in the show and in promotional materials, so it’s hard to tell if it’s Cadence or Cadance. I think “Cadance” is the official spelling now, though I still routinely fall back on “Cadence” as it looks better and flows off the tongue easier (the mind's tongue? Whenever I read it, I like seeing the 'e' instead of the extra 'a'. I'm probably autistic).

Wait, where was I going with this?

Oh! Yes, alright… so, Twilight not having wings in this piece even though she’s been crowned as a princess already is purely intentional and part of the original commission request. Hope her lack of wings didn’t scare anybody too badly.

Enough rambling, yes? You guys take a look at these pones and enjoy. Keep it classy, ponefriends.
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Comments: 86

SuperMario10088 [2022-06-09 22:53:17 +0000 UTC]

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chucky1989 [2019-08-18 21:06:51 +0000 UTC]

Ok but... WTF

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StarlightStarshine [2018-04-23 16:07:10 +0000 UTC]

B-but Twilight....

You don't normally wear clothes

Applejack confirmed that in The Best Night Ever episode...

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Hubfanlover678 [2017-10-09 18:17:51 +0000 UTC]

For the second I thought it was a diaper...

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TamaHeart1 In reply to Hubfanlover678 [2022-11-14 04:54:31 +0000 UTC]

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Hubfanlover678 In reply to TamaHeart1 [2022-11-14 11:56:52 +0000 UTC]

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TamaHeart1 In reply to Hubfanlover678 [2022-11-15 05:03:54 +0000 UTC]

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DarkWarrior126 [2017-08-22 07:34:46 +0000 UTC]

Let me try and start an rp with this...
-The night had come once again, and Twilight Sparkle settled in her cozy bed-
Twilight:"Ah finally! Nothing like a good night's sleep after a long day..."
-She dozed off, and dreamed that she was trotting through Canterlot-

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sonic-cody [2016-10-13 00:09:15 +0000 UTC]

But twilight You don't wear clothes let alone underwear 

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cassandrayellow36 [2016-10-04 23:27:59 +0000 UTC]

Ooh! I just thought they're diapers! Oops. lol

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HarveyWho [2016-05-21 04:03:44 +0000 UTC]

In her underwear? Dude, she doesn't normally wear clothes.

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AgentLaffey119 [2016-04-04 01:40:18 +0000 UTC]

Normally when I have nightmares about myself being naked everyone is just saying to me "Who the f**k care if you are naked?! Its not the end of the world dude!". lol!

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Commander-Ludwig [2015-09-29 20:44:58 +0000 UTC]

Luna...

What have you been doing

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ALFurrix [2015-09-18 01:47:13 +0000 UTC]

Is it weird that I never had this kind of nightmare before.

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MLP-OC-Creators-Wiki [2015-04-19 02:49:13 +0000 UTC]

Not that guy sleeping in the audience's fetish.

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Austin7613 [2015-03-27 21:53:51 +0000 UTC]

I look at minor details in pictures.  Does Chrysalis have a barret(However you spell it) in her hair?

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ZeloTag [2015-01-23 18:37:19 +0000 UTC]

beg ya pardon but we dont normal wear clothes.

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DinoDiggerMC2 [2014-07-08 15:44:39 +0000 UTC]

Flash: Let me guess, that dream again?
Twilight: Witch one?
Flash: The underwear one.
Twilight: Ok it was that one, I thought you were talking about my recurring Tierek nightmare.
Tierek: Who said anything about it being a nightmare?
Flash: Discord, we know it's you.
Discord: Great, now I can't troll anyone.

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alexwarlorn [2014-07-01 06:05:59 +0000 UTC]

Princess Luna, is likely watching this. 

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SugarCookie310 In reply to alexwarlorn [2014-08-21 23:43:08 +0000 UTC]

Thy Princess of the night shall help. Thus we don't know about any of these nightmares... O_O

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Hatchetstein4Real [2014-06-29 04:30:20 +0000 UTC]

I believe she'll be so tired that she'll pasted out just after the alarm goes out.

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MusicAndMovies1993 [2014-06-24 05:13:55 +0000 UTC]

Bryan: Just be glad you didn't have my nightmare.

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AspiePie [2014-05-31 16:32:33 +0000 UTC]

Oh FUCKING LORDY LORD!

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Loth-Eth [2014-04-21 03:56:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm autistic too. But I'm high funtioning autistic.

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AspiePie In reply to Loth-Eth [2014-05-31 16:33:20 +0000 UTC]

I am AUTISTIC TOO! I WUB BEING THIS WAY!

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Loth-Eth In reply to AspiePie [2014-05-31 17:22:19 +0000 UTC]

Cool.

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AspiePie In reply to Loth-Eth [2014-06-01 19:39:51 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I know... How do you stem? I pace  back and forth!

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Loth-Eth In reply to AspiePie [2014-06-02 00:07:00 +0000 UTC]

I dunno

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AspiePie In reply to Loth-Eth [2014-06-02 14:33:28 +0000 UTC]

You don't know what you do to self-stimulate?

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Loth-Eth In reply to AspiePie [2014-06-02 17:03:15 +0000 UTC]

Not really

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AspiePie In reply to Loth-Eth [2014-06-02 17:18:19 +0000 UTC]

You aren't Autistic are you?

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Loth-Eth In reply to AspiePie [2014-06-02 17:21:34 +0000 UTC]

Yes. I am autistic

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AspiePie In reply to Loth-Eth [2014-06-02 17:34:49 +0000 UTC]

Then what do you mean you don't self-stem?

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Artphantom46 In reply to Loth-Eth [2014-05-03 03:43:28 +0000 UTC]

I'm autistic too and I'm just starting to watch Friendship is Magic.

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Loth-Eth In reply to Artphantom46 [2014-05-03 15:29:03 +0000 UTC]

That's great man.

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lightyearpig [2014-03-30 20:22:56 +0000 UTC]

I'd be more surprised if she were in womens knickers.

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JayParts1116 [2014-03-15 01:31:07 +0000 UTC]

Quite the embarrassing nightmare,must suck big time having to go through that for an entire night.

Twilight: Just please...STOP IT...stop laughing at me,please.

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streetgals9000 [2013-12-18 03:11:28 +0000 UTC]

Poor Twilight, She's having the most embarrasing... but weird nightmare of her life.   

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TheTapir [2013-12-16 20:14:11 +0000 UTC]

Lol this is too funny!

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DuplexFields [2013-12-02 07:34:29 +0000 UTC]

Back when Lauren was still answering questions about the show, before the bitterness in her heart made her into Dontwannatalkaboutit Faust, she had said she wanted Cadance to be a pegasus.  I had been surprised by that, because like everyone else, I assumed Cadance had been a unicorn before she got Hasbro'd.  However, a year later, I went searching for the comment and it had disappeared; probably because Hasbro warned her not to split the fandom between Faust's True Vision and McCarthy's Pragmatic Kludge.  I still clearly remembered having been startled by the pegasus-not-unicorn Cadance, but I was one of only two people who remembered it that way.


Fast forward to the release of Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell.  The Cadance pegasus backstory had become fandom news, and I was glad the author had kept true to Lauren's vision.


As to Twilight calling Cadance a unicorn, she only did so once: "How many unicorns do you know who can spread love wherever they go?"  That's a hard quote to accept for someone trying to justify the pegasus-born Cadance, but easily explained both out-of-universe and in-universe.


OOU: the word alicorn wasn't well known to show staff at the time the episode was written, which was just about the time the fandom was taking off.  (At least a year of lag; it aired spring 2012, meaning it was written around spring 2011, before the Wired.com article, and probably recorded by the VAs in late 2011.)  Keep in mind that in the very first episode's cold open, Luna and Celestia moved the heavens with their "unicorn magic."  The word Alicorn was first heard during S3's Magic Duel, but it was the "Unicharm" in the script all the way through production per the episode's wiki page .


IU: the "unicorn magic" of Celestia and Luna was a line in a book read by Twilight.  Additionally, Cadance attended Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns (see: Crystal Heart Spell book), and had been an alicorn the entire time she'd foalsat Twilight.  Young Twilight could easily have thought of her as a unicorn first and a pegasus second, and in her excitement spoken of Cadance as she thought of her.

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beaglel4 [2013-11-13 09:24:26 +0000 UTC]

Ah, the pony nudity conundrum. Why is being nude and averagely-sufficiently clothed not as "bad" as smaller clothing, such as undergarments or a lacy saddle?

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DuplexFields In reply to beaglel4 [2013-12-02 07:36:21 +0000 UTC]

When a pony moves her tail and simultaneously moves at least one of her rear legs, certain things might be more visible than they otherwise would be.  Hence Rarity's talk of standards while dressing for the Gala; the girls might be seen in compromising conditions while getting into their dresses.

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SolidSanchez [2013-11-08 17:26:52 +0000 UTC]

Where is Luna when you need her? XD

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alexwarlorn In reply to SolidSanchez [2014-07-01 06:04:48 +0000 UTC]

Princess Luna, "Trying this new invention called a cam-corder." 

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LightningStarMLP [2013-10-24 08:27:16 +0000 UTC]

*looks at the top right* oh, hiya, chrysa chrissy :3

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CheezSnax [2013-10-18 20:49:19 +0000 UTC]

ha chrysalis

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TraLaLayla [2013-10-14 19:41:33 +0000 UTC]

always naked, its a nightmare to wear underwear

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GreenLinzerd [2013-10-14 19:25:07 +0000 UTC]

Cadence is also a real word. Cadance isn't.

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Isabelle-llubaly [2013-10-04 21:36:40 +0000 UTC]

Poor Twilight...  

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Hubfanlover678 In reply to Isabelle-llubaly [2017-11-11 13:30:28 +0000 UTC]

 Stop laughing at my underwear! It's not funny!!

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