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"Look, Mom! I can levitate three at once! Ooh, hang on, I bet I can juggle them with magic!" Pan moved her paws to juggle the apples in a way that would likely end in a splattered mess-"Let's not overexert ourselves." Twilight reminded Pandora gently, chuckling. Despite herself, she couldn't quite suppress her smile, radiating with maternal pride. "...You've impressed me today, Panny. I know you'll make your father and I very proud someday." She enveloped her daughter in her wing, and Pan snuggled close, always eager for her mother's approval.
Moondancer scowled to himself, and focused on properly levitating his apple.
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Moondancer, Trixie's son, is proficient in the magical arts, despite his young age. For this reason, Twilight Sparkle picks him out to take and train on a personal apprentice, along with her daughter Pandora. Pan and Moony start out as friends, but Moondancer can't help but feel jealous increasingly often. He is a direct descendant of Starswirl, after all. It should be him impressing Princess Twilight with magic...
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... kawaii desu
adorable
as all
creation
*favorites*
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That is one bitter looking little colt hahaha. Nicely done, I like Panny's pleased little grin and the magic effects on both.
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Now this is very cute, very nicely done.
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Actually imagine Moondancer having a crush on teen Pandora
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Moony is becoming Next Gen Sunset Shimmer! XDD
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hey lop XD
do you think you could do a shadow and highlights tutorial? i am getting a little stuck with mine it would be awesome if you did. anyways i love this picture moony looks cute trying to focus on his work, and pan quick and eager, do you think when they are like middle age that maybe moony out shines pan maybe once? it would be so weird to see pan jelly. XD.
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omg, everything with moondancer is just so good, i really like him.
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I don't think Moondancer quite realizes what being a direct descendant of Starswirl would entail... I mean, it's been at least a thousand years since Starswirl was personally relevant so I doubt that he'd be alive today were he a truly direct descendant of Starswirl.
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You figure the average age of someone having kids, give or take an "accidental" incident of "fucking" around at a young age to those who have a strong sense of patience and "right time" to be about 25 years of age, in a thousand year time span that's only 40 generations. Easily mappable on any genealogy chart for a family so interested in their line as Trixie and Moondancer are.
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... That's not direct. I am a direct descendant of my father. My nephew is an indirect descendant of my father. At best he could be an indirect descendant of Starswirl. (Assuming Starswirl is neither a time traveler or a lich/immortal/ageless being.
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Okaaaayyyy. Star3catcher went for the kill shot earlier, but when it comes to genealogy lineal descendency, legally speaking, a blood relative in the direct line of descent- the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, ect, of a person. To say someone is the direct descendant of another is to say that the ancestor sired or birthed a line of children, repeating until the present. I am a direct descendant of my great, great, great great grandfather and grandmother
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Everyone alive today is a result of an astoundingly long direct descendence from someone. New human beings do not just pop into existence out of nowhere in order begin new bloodlines. One of the most impressive examples is the Mitochondrial Eve , who is the most recent woman from whom all living humans today descend, in an unbroken line, on their mother’s side, and through the mothers of those mothers, and so on, back until all lines converge on one woman, who is estimated to have lived approximately 100,000–200,000 years ago.
A thousand years is nothing.
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Direct=son/daughter
grandchild=indirect
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No, "direct" refers to any relative who is part of the unbroken chain of parents and children that eventually brought you into existence. Grandparents are considered direct ancestors, as were their parents, their parents, their parents, and their parents, and so on (hence why it is also called, "lineal descent"). Indirect ancestors, or "collateral descent," are things like aunts, uncles, or distant cousins, because even though you're in the same family, you do not exist as a direct result of their eggs and sperm (barring incest anyway). Anyone who is part of the straight, uninterrupted line of parent to child is "direct," it not merely barred to your actual parents.
For example, the current Queen Elizabeth II is directly descended from Queen Victoria on her father's side, as she is her great-great-grandmother. Victoria gave birth to a son, who gave birth to a son, who gave birth to a son, who gave birth to Elizabeth. Elizabeth herself gave birth to a son, who gave birth to a son, who gave birth to a son: The royal baby of Will and Kate, Prince George of Cambridge. Ergo, the baby Prince George (as well as his sister Princess Charlotte) is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of whom the Victorian age is named after - he is her direct descendant. However, he is not a direct descendant of Princess Beatrice, Victoria's youngest daughter, because she was the sister of his great-great-great-great-grandfather, and did not directly contribute to his existence. Princess Beatrice is his collateral ancestor.
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Somebody doesn't know what the word "Direct" means.
If I plug my Gamecube controller into an extension cable and then plug that into my Gamecube is the controller directly connected to the system?
Spoilers: It's not.
The same is true in this situation. I am not directly descended from my grandparents, my parents on the other hand are.
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I don't know if you've noticed this, but genealogy is not the same thing as video game technology.
And yes, this is in fact what "direct descent" means, whether you personally feel the word fits or not.
Google - "direct descendant definition"
"A lineal descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent - the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person."
dictionary.law.com/default.asp…
"a person who is in direct line to an ancestor, such as child, grandchild, great-grandchild and on forever. A lineal descendant is distinguished from a "collateral" descendant, which would be from the line of a brother, sister, aunt or uncle."
definitions.uslegal.com/d/desc…
"A lineal descendant is a direct descendant of a person. A person in direct line of blood relationship following downwards from an individual concerned, starting from his children, grand children and great grand children, are called lineal descendants of an individual."
legal-dictionary.thefreedictio…
"The direct line of descent involves persons who are directly descended from the same ancestor, such as father and son, or grandfather and grandson."
english.stackexchange.com/ques…
"A direct descendent is someone who can trace their lineage by "child" relationships all the way back to the desired ancestor. A non-direct descendent has to go through a "cousin" or a "by marriage" or some other non-child relationship in order to find the desired ancestor."
www.ehow.com/info_8204511_dire…
"Direct descendants, or lineal descendants, are the biological children and grandchildren of an ancestor. For example, you are a direct descendant of your mother, your grandmother, your great-grandmother, and on and on. Collateral descendants are not part of your direct line; they are relatives descended from a sibling of an ancestor -- such as uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews and cousins."
www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionar…
"Descendants in an unbroken line with another, typically deceased individual."
ancestry.org/ancestors-and-col…
"An ancestor is a person who another person is directly descended from. While the true definition of an ancestor includes parents and grandparents, in genealogy, ancestors are typically great grandparents and earlier.
Ancestors are either maternal (those on your mother’s side) or paternal (those on your father’s side), and are doubled during each generation. Each person has eight great grandparents, 16 2nd great-grandparents, 32 3rd great grandparents, 64 4th great grandparents, 128 5th great grandparents, and so on. Just researching your ancestors can keep you busy for a lifetime."
So yeah. You're dead wrong.
But no, go ahead and bring your Gamecube comparison to the legal inheritance departments and professional genealogical societies. I'm sure they'll be so interested.
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You're still going on about this?
Google search "Define Direct": i.imgur.com/AO7HDOT.png
You are wrong. So are professional genealogists too apparently. Government being wrong about stuff is no surprise though.
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>"You're still going on about this?"
Oh look, it's part 2 of the Internet Rules of Losing Panic, "Trying to present the fact that people are replying to you at in all in a negative light, esp. in the hopes that they will stop replying so that you can have the last word." Always good to see it in action.
Nice job ignoring literally everything I posted too. "B-But Google said direct means this!" Google also makes a clear differentiation between "direct" and 'direct descendant," but what? When Google doesn't confirm your preconceived biases, that's when it doesn't count anymore? "I only listen to sources that I can twist into sounding like maybe they say I'm right." I (and Google) provided you with NINE TOTAL SOURCES explaining to you how a "direct descendant" is defined, it has made painfully clear countless times that the definition is not beholden to what you personally feel like the word "direct" should and shouldn't refer to.
>9 sources that define "direct descendant," all defined by people who actually work in departments that have to do with accurately referencing and sourcing genetics and inheritance by standards that have been on the books literally thousands of years.
>One single Google search that only defines "direct" and NOT "direct descendant," invoked to attempt to prove something that directly contradicts Google's search result on "direct descendant" postimg.org/image/yvo6n0jjp/ Because you apparently think holding Google to the standard of, "Accurate when it agrees with me, inaccurate when it does not" is supposed to be anything but irrational and idiotic.
Oh gee, I wonder which one sounds more reliable.
I like this. I like this level of narcissism and sheer arrogance that you hold. You know for a fact that you're not going to find one single definition out there that says that your definition of "direct descendant" is correct, but you're just going to dismiss every single one of them as wrong because God forbid you ever be mistaken about something for once in your life. If reality doesn't conform to GamerGoddessDin's opinions, then fuck reality. Clearly you are the one who in charge of dictating language and phrases to the entirety of the rest of the world.
That I have to say, is pretty damn pathetic.
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If he is still around, he is probably a lich.
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my oc's reaction to this (as a filly =3 (OMG SHIPPING TIME XD)) (eh summer and moon would be a cute couple actually)
Summer: -hobbles in with her golden wings up and smiles- good job moony!! maybe we can do a trick once with your magic and my flying!!
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Yes, Moondancer, you are a direct descendant of Star Swirl the Bearded.
But Pandora is the daughter of the Element of Magic and the Embodiment of Chaos. Two magically inclined beings.
It's pretty hard to compete with that.
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And Twilight is also a descendant of Starswirl (so Pandora is too) while Discord was mentored by Starswirl himself.
Tough noodles, Moon.
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I thought Twilight was a direct descendent of Clover the Clever?
Starswirl the Bearded's apprentice?
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lopoddity.deviantart.com/art/H…
She is; Starswirl and Clover got together and had seven sons, which is where the descendants came from.
lopoddity.deviantart.com/art/T…
Where it's mentioned that Discord was mentored by Starswirl.
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oooohhhhhh!!!!
so I was right and wrong!
any info on the other five sons?
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Tough Noodle-monster indeed. XD
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And that's the last time Twilight was proud of Pandora!
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D'awww! Don't be grumpy, li'l babbu! One day you will have the floofiest feet in all of Equestria! No one can take that from you!
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It is official. Hands are superior to horns.
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cheer up, Moony.
Panny is the child of Princess Twilight & Discord, two of the most magically-imbued beings in Equestria. So, of course she'd be a natural.
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How long do these usually take for you to draw?
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daww so cute!
GOOOOO PANNY!!!
I kinda hoped momma Maud would've taught Mooney to relax a bit...
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Moondancer is so cute and angsty!
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This is amazing! But where are penny's horns?
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Her horns won't grow in until she's a teenager.
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