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Published: 2016-10-29 17:04:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1441; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 0
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Description Smokescreen Lulamoon

Age: 22
Parents: Discord and Trixie Lulamoon
Step-parent: Princess Luna
Occupation: Performer/Prankster
Nicknames: Smoke, Screeny-Weeny (by Trixie), The Eclipse Twins (with Azure), Mirror Grace (when cross-dressing)

Personality:

A natural-born showman, Smokescreen prides himself in his “performer’s heritage,” referring to the fact that he’s the son of a showmare. The young draconequus claims that he was born to perform, so he jumps at any opportunity to put on a show, whether or not the timing is appropriate, and like his mother, Smokescreen feels the need to announce whenever he and his sister enter a room. Occasionally, he’ll cross-dress as his sister or his alter-ego, Mirror Grace, just for the sake of messing with others.

As the spawn of Discord, Smokescreen’s chaotic tendencies manifest in his aptitude at pranks. When he’s not performing, Smokescreen finds enjoyment in pulling practical jokes across the Crystal Empire, and during his younger days, this got him visits to the principal’s office, visits that only got more frequent once his sister, Azure Deimos, transferred from Canterlot. These visits, however, are only a formality as the principal actually enjoys the twins’ pranks and their visits have become so commonplace that they have their own chairs set aside for them.

Despite his pride in the art of pranking, Smokescreen strictly abides by what he calls The Prankster’s Code. Some of the stipulations include “never use a victim’s personal fears,” “never exploit a victim’s past traumas,” and perhaps the most important one, “NEVER prank Dad!”

Smokescreen currently works as the opening act for his mother’s shows alongside Azure, and they’ve had successful solo shows in Las Pegasus, Manehattan, and Canterlot. Sometimes, he can’t help flirting with some of the groupies.


Relationships:

Smokescreen and Azure dub themselves as “The Eclipse Twins.” While the two siblings have the same father (Discord), Smokescreen was mothered by Trixie Lulamoon while Azure was mothered by Luna. The twins were born eight minutes apart (Azure being the oldest) and spent the first few months after their birth living in Canterlot until Trixie found a permanent performing gig in the Crystal Empire.

Despite the distance between Smokescreen and his sister, they still remained close as Azure had the ability to enter his dreams. He also has a great respect for Azzy’s pranking skills and believes she’s the better prankster, but he wishes that she followed the Code. Smoke loves his sister dearly and believes that while he can carry a show on his own, it’s nothing compared to what they can pull off together. To him, performing feels incomplete without Azure, and sometimes he can get very protective of her.

Smokescreen has always looked up to his mother, Trixie, and he hopes to one day be as great of a performer as her. His trademark jacket was hoof-stitched by Trixie, and while it took a few years for him to grow into it, Smokescreen wears the jacket with pride and is rarely seen without it on. Call him a momma’s boy if you want, but it won’t stop this draconequus from loving his great and powerful mother.

Discord is immensely proud of his son embracing his chaotic nature. While he’s not so keen on the Prankster’s Code (save for that last rule about never pranking him), seeing his little Smoke Puff spread his own brand of chaos brings tears to his eyes makes him very proud, no tears involved. Discord would sometimes invite him to tea at Fluttershy’s, but Smokescreen was more of a coffee drinker, like his mother.

Smokescreen has a good relationship with his stepmother Luna, and he looks forward to whenever she visits the Crystal Empire.

Smoke was Chitin’s first friend in school, and they’ve remained close ever since. He’s made it his “mission” to get him and Flurry Heart together, mainly because he wants their union to be The Eclipse Twins’ first wedding gig. Sometimes he’ll cross-dress into Mirror Grace if Chitin ever needs to practice his approach.

Jade Charna tends to bring out the flirt in Smokescreen, as they often playfully tease each other. They insist that they’re just friends, though.



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Comments: 8

GJ301 [2016-12-03 04:30:49 +0000 UTC]

Overall

Vision

Originality

Technique

Impact


One of my favorite components of this piece is the chest. It's much like Fancy Pants and Shining Armor's chests, in that it protrudes, thus symbolizing his stature. His chest has just as much as personality behind it as his facial expression, which looks just as smug as his parents'. As for the technique, I really enjoy the line work. It's very nice and consistent, just like the line work in most of your other pieces. You also did a great job at giving the character's physical appearance detail, like how you make his hair look wavy, or his tail and back legs look scaly.

Now this isn't really a problem for me, but something I think would have worked is that you give the background a certain color so that it matches Smokescreen's personality. You could have made it purple to represent arrogance, or gold to resemble narcissism. Again, it's not a criticism. It's just something I thought would be cool. Some actual criticisms I have are that he should be given a few more scales, and that his wings could be a pinch closer towards his shoulders, but those are just little things.

Overall, this piece looks fantastic! It well outlined, neatly colored, and it serves as a great introduction to a character I can't wait to see you draw more of! Overall, it is great and powerful! Keep up the amazing work, SketchyChangeling!

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AdeanTheDraconequus [2018-05-12 16:33:27 +0000 UTC]

Good Draconequus oc, not big into the Next Gen MLP stuff but love Draconequui because of Discord and my oc avatar is a Draconequus named Stormy Nights that I based the most after myself because of my personality while I made a pony oc for my older sister and pony OCs for my friends, good work on 
Smokscreen.

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rosefang16 [2016-11-19 20:09:45 +0000 UTC]

love him

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FrostTheHobidon [2016-10-29 21:51:39 +0000 UTC]

cool

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Vamptigergal [2016-10-29 19:12:50 +0000 UTC]

With this name I can see him being good friend with Smokescreen of TFPrime and causes trouble...also all the gambling and smoking.. why does my mind do this to me...

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rosefang16 In reply to Vamptigergal [2016-11-20 13:50:31 +0000 UTC]

I ask myself the same question with my mind friend your not alone

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Vamptigergal In reply to rosefang16 [2016-11-21 01:58:58 +0000 UTC]

okay, good to know that I'm not alone in this.

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rosefang16 In reply to Vamptigergal [2016-11-21 02:23:35 +0000 UTC]

oh believe me sweetie you ain't

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