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Well here she is! Meet Megan, the original human in Equestria!
This here is my design for both the “younger” and “older” versions of Megan that will be appearing in the comic series I have planned, based on this wonderful fanfiction. www.fimfiction.net/story/71660…
I feel like my ability to illustrate human expressions leaves a bit to be desired. This is still a learning curve for me. Expect me to improve as the comic progresses. (Humans are also MUCH harder to draw than ponies, I’m now remembering...)
This is one of three human character sheets that I will be producing before getting into the comic proper. I have two more ones like this on the way; one for Danny and one for Molly. It shouldn’t be “too” much longer... I originally told myself that I would have all three done before posting them, but I just don’t have that kind of patience it seems.
It has always been my passion to “ground” these kinds of fantasy scenarios with a sense of physical plausibility. Hence, my mild attempts at making the pony just a little bit more anatomically accurate, and perhaps a little more similar to the original G1 style.
I expect I’ll get a few complaints about the size and weight that I chose for the standard pony. Many people seem to think of the G4 ponies as being the size of large dogs, and maybe weighing no more than a human, if even that much. My thoughts on the matter were that the ponies NEED to be large enough for a nearly grown human to be able to ride them (Both older Megan and Danny do so in the story), so the ponies’ shoulders (withers) needed to be as high as an adult human’s waist, in order for it to seem like they can be realistically ridden. This makes them about the size of a Shetland pony (look them up), which weigh in at about 450 lbs. Since I figure these fantasy ponies have a somewhat lighter and more gracile build than the more heavy-set Shetland ponies of the real world, and since a third of them are pegasi and need to be able to FLY, I arbitrarily shaved about 150 lbs off that. Hence, the choice of 300 lbs. That’s for female ponies. Perhaps male Equestrian ponies would actually weigh 450lbs, like a Shetland pony....
I also referenced an actual stature and weight percentile growth chart, to ensure that my choices for height and weight for both younger and older versions of Megan were realistic, and what could be considered healthy. The one I used for Megan and Molly, obviously, was the chart tailored for girls. sta.sh/027l7a1guola I referenced a boys’ growth chart for Danny. sta.sh/0153am30wfx6
Anyway, I hope you like what you see so far. Any and all constructive criticism is always welcome.
Human Character sheets:
Megan - You are here.
Danny - starbat.deviantart.com/art/Dan…
Molly - starbat.deviantart.com/art/Mol…
All generations of My Little Pony are the intellectual property of Hasbro.
My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic, and its style of illustration, are the creations of Lauren Faust.
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Its really got me thinking. The horse shoes the locket the elements of harmony from G4. Such a large realm of story telling possibilities I may just write one myself. It would most likely be small but...so many ideas. I may have to re-watch the older shows and see what else I can spot for inspiration.
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Do that. There are lots of creative ways to synthesize the two "universes", as our author has shown.
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I'm starting to see where you intend to take things in your story, and I await patiently.
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Thanks.
...You will have to be fairly patient. XD;;
I fully intend to see this through, but I also have to find a healthy balance with "real world" priorities. (yuck)
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I know all to well what happens if you don't pay attention to the important stuff in the real world.
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Megan is BADASS. If a talking pegasus asked me to come to her world, I'd go the safe route and decline, go home, and start taking meds again. Not Megan though, she just took one look, hopped onto Firefly's back and said "Hells yeah, let's DO this!" This girl is responsible for the downfall of SEVERAL villains, some of whom DIED as a result of her actions, all because they threatened her loved ones. That is BADASS.
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Have you seen the special? Megan didn't just hop on and said lets do this. Firefly had to convince Megan that she was more than what she is. I just love that scene,
Firefly "Your brave"
Megan "No I am not"
Firefly "You can fight"
Megan "No I cant"
Firefly "My friends would just love you"
Megan" No they WOONT" as they fly off.
It show Megan had a lack of confidence in herself, and she over came and would be the heroine that we all know and love. She just needed a little push is all. Megan is underrated as one of the FIRST female heroines for a tv show though. They mention She-Ra or even Jem or Penny. But no mention of Megan lol.
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I think that Megan should have a few scars on her arms and legs. I mean defending the ponies would bound to lead to injuries.
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I have seen the entire TV show, which I enjoy. And Megan was only in 1 fight. Vs Zeb the Zebra. Lets say it did not turn out great. Megan was taking out with 1 punch. I have the snapshot in my gallery if you like to see it. Megan normally beat villains far more powerful than herself, not with strength, but with smarts and cleverness. She had to be, no way is she going to beat up some one like Grogar lol
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In all fairness, Megan would usually defend the ponies in non-physical ways.
And anytime she found herself at the business end of a confrontation, she usually ended up captured along with the ponies themselves......
Anyway, the point is that I think she'd have more scars just from ranch work, and they would probably be minor and heal without leaving a mark.
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Megan's rifle stance seems awkward. I think her right foot should be perpendicular to her left so she can catch herself when she fires.
Otherwise, I love what you're putting out. Now the Deej just needs to finish the story for us
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Oh really? I'm not a marksman, so I did not think of this.
I guess I will have to research these things better in the future.
Thanks.
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images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__c… Here's a rifle you could model off of for future works.
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Thanks. I already have a similar picture that I've been using, but this one is seems to be a more rustic and old-fashioned design. So, perhaps Ill use this then.
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yer welcome. What the pic doesnt show is the side where you reload the bullets into the rifle. It's like putting a screw into a hole youve already screwed, but round.
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If Hasbro wrote it like that, I would voluntarily watch the G1 series.
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Nice, it reminds me of another one called The Elements of Harmony and the SAvior of Worlds
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Another good G1 crossover story is History Repeats. I'm eagerly following that one too.
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Also a good story, but Megan is considerably older in that one.
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Don't be so hard on yourself, Megan. You can't compare the progress of two years to 5,000. Just look at how far humans have come in 5,000 years. Though, I am in the camp that her being the ponies' den mother was a bad idea.
I pictured Megan perhaps being slightly smaller than average at 13. I had her at 150cm/45kg (4'11"/99lbs) with the idea she's built like a horse jockey who tend to be slightly shorter and lighter than average. Though, that's just my assumptions about her.
The size of the pony is actually around the size I picture them being.
As for the style, Megan looks good in this. I also like the adjustments you made to the silly outfit she wore in the show.
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The outfit she wore is quite girly as I remembered, but the first episode is a lot better and now hers is more up to date, easily reminds me of but only more cowgirl-like.
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Thanks for your feedback.
Yes, my thoughts on Megan's build were that she was a rancher first, and a horseback rider second. To cope with the physical labor entailed in such a profession, I figured her slightly taller than average (for a girl), and that that would be reflected in her height at ages 13 and 18.
Oh yes, that ridiculous jumpsuit they put her in for most of the original series needed some re-thinking. I hope she now looks at least a little more like a horseback rider. XD;
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I read through the fan fiction you're basing it on. Man does Megan run a horse ranch the hard way. I spent a summer working on a horse ranch as a groundskeeper. The horses were almost always outside, and I'm talking Michigan here. In fact, most of the stalls were used to store equipment with a couple of sick bays for a sick or injured horse to recover. Most of the heavy labor was also done using the tractors. The manual work was mostly tedious like getting rocks out of the pastures or trimming back the woods. Though, we weren't allowed to do anything with the horses themselves.
It was a good read. It could have gotten by with a little less angst, but it kept me interested all the way through the latest chapter. I wonder if they're going to update soon.
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Yes, it's a great story. There's supposed to be a new chapter any day now, according to the author's blog...
I agree about Megan's angst. Mostly, it makes for some pretty good drama, but there are also moments where I wished the author would tone it down just a bit.
Fortunately, as I adapt it into the comic, it will be my prerogative to make such subtle changes.
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Things were also a little mirthless after Megan read the ponies the riot act in the flashbacks. I really can't see Wind Whistler becoming a tinpot dictator. I mean, for all her talk of reason, she was being unreasonable and narrow-minded. She would have been more communicative and less dictatorial. I know the author wanted to set up how the ponies were shown in Hearth's Warming Eve, but I really can't see G1 ponies falling that far in the course of a few months. I don't even see them turning into this within a generation. After sticking together through thick and through thin, I don't see these ponies turning on each other just because they have to work for a living.
I wish the author had played with the dysfunction a little. Maybe have Wind Whistler considering making the pegasi who weren't cutting it as soldiers into weather managers since they needed predictable weather (and pegasi were presented as much as stewards of the weather as warriors) for their new crops or scouts to find new resources and keep an eye out for threats. Really, that's the reaction I would expect from her than screaming "insubordination" at ponies.
Come to think of it, Wind Whistler could be the Lenin to another ponies' Stalin. Lenin was misguided but truly believed in the cause. Stalin was a gangster who used the Communist system to assume control of Russia and run it like the thug he was.
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Until recently, Wind Whistler gets killed by her own once best friend. It was horrible and made me cry, not just being best friend, but also have a developing foal inside her. At least Megan killed her for the right reason, otherwise we will have a dictator and Canterlot would not have existed, gladly I'm sure Megan will meet Celestia, the current successor to Majesty.
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I'm not sure how much Wind Whistler's presence would have changed things. Hurricane was really what she had become only stupid.
I read that part, and then wrote an alternate ending where Wind Whistler survives (Megan gets her with a spade instead of a pickaxe) and realizes just how bat crap crazy she had been. I also tried to piece things together more. I feel like the the author just killed Wind Whistler as a reason for Megan's (overdone) angst. I think it really does a disservice to both characters and everything he had been building up. In my alternative I try to tie everything together and I think I made everything fit.
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Ouch, I bet that Spade is one hell of a knockout and then gets seriously injured. I'm pretty sure a point blank by Megan's shotgun is something she will be scared of and I'm sure Megan mention that Wind has a foal developing inside.
Oh, you got a point on Hurricane. I think the ponies seem misunderstood when it comes to splitting the division not to live like tribes, but work in different areas they specialize. Which is something I prefer if they would do that, live together in harmony so that the winter forces will not overcome them. But yeah, sadly, Megan mentioned of many of them perished from the cold and starvation.
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It's enough to knock Wind Whistler unconscious for a couple of minutes and Megan actually did get her gun with the intent to shoot Wind Whistler. You can see my version on my FIMFiction account.
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Never mind, read it, but I expected more actually. What I'm expecting is she gets a good swing, didn't change her mind for being power-hungry until when she spot the shotgun pointing at head shot, Wind Whistler is scared, she learn a lot more on the error of her ways, Megan is skeptical until she decides to point towards her belly where there is a child developing inside her, Whistler scream that is her baby, do not harm it. Heart Throb for once is surprised to see the scene and I'm sure even Molly feel the same. Now that is what I call a proper interrogation, same case I remember Wreck-it Ralph when he gave Sour Bill a lengthy taste till it becomes a finished candy before spitting out. Until when you mention the part of cold blood, I find that quite scary when Megan also too become the monster when the prey also becomes the hunter, or a cornered animal unleashes everything it has left till either it'll win the fight or die trying.
HEY! What about Danny? He'll get trapped back in there.
But overall, this is a nice quality chapter you wrote. However, I got the feeling it'll end here as I'm not so sure if you're going to write a new Ponyland story with Wind Whistler being alive and in Ponyville or Canterlot. Davidson's approach is quite tough and I wonder if you can cope with the challenge like what you did with the story. But I'm confident you'll do it well.
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It wasn't meant to be an interrogation. I think Wind Whistler didn't want power just to have it. She believed she was the only one who keep them on the path to love and tolerance only to turn on her friend. This was a wake up call for her as she realized how she had been conducting herself was not only counterproductive or completely against her real convictions. I then delved into the idea this was all a web spun by Twilight to make sure pony society was fertile ground for the one who would call on her powers. Wind Whistler had had all the pieces, but was too obsessed with making her perfect society to realize what she had.
I might see what I can do with he does in the end. I actually got an idea from how Magog was supposed to return the ponies to paradise. Wind Whistler, now believing democracy is the best way for ponies to run their society returns to Equestria and begins a movement to limit the powers of the princesses and form a Parliament of Ponies. Equestrian society as we know it would come to an end as ponies gain a voice in the destiny of their nation instead of looking to the alicorns to make all the decisions.
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I suppose that whack from the spade is one hell of a metal slap and prefer it that way rather than being killed and story got someone died.
So yes, she should know that nothing is perfect and trying to achieve the whole love & tolerate objective just ain't gonna work that way.
Oh, if you decide a different path than Davidson's, sure, why not, it'll become an alternate reality but the problem is, it won't be that simple to take down a graceful ruler like Celestia. If she's doing well without resulting anyone getting killed just like real world regime kings would do like in Syria & Libya, surely ponies find it no problem and going to the path of democracy wouldn't be necessary, and besides, she's now a widow with 2 kids if she head home to Equestria.
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Oh, didn't expect that. And will read them. Have an account but actually never used it. So umm.... not sure how to comment back since I'll be busy reading it.
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Well, I can understand the points your making. Certainly, the original creators/writers of the show would never had done with Wind Whistler what our author has done.
But this is how I justify it.
In the episode Crunch the Rock Dog, Wind Whistler's perspective as the ever-logical voice of reason is established. But more subtly (I think, anyway), is a certain frustration demonstrated in her, where she can't relate to the other ponies on the level that she may wish to, and that she may feel restricted or unappreciated by ponies who only "follow their feelings, and live by their passions".
She was the one who gave Megan the idea to get the ponies organized, and it makes sense that she would be eager, in her own way, to use the opportunity to create a new society where logic and reason was the rule of the day. She might feel more at home in such a world, and so creating such a world became HER passion. When you realize this, it then makes sense that Wind Whistler would become somewhat blinded by her own passion, and start to act irrationally herself, like she did when she started acting like a dictator.
She wasn't "just" working to circumvent rules and regulations being violated. She was acting out, in her own irrational way, against ponies who would threaten the new logical philosophy. For all her talk about logic and reason, there is a certain beautiful irony in her being emotional in her attempts to bring it about.
And in all fairness, when Megan implores her to be more "reasonable", she listens. If all she cared about were rules, and power for herself, she might have contested Megan on that point. But instead, she relents.
But that's me, and how I interpret this whole situation, and why I'm pretty much okay with it. Yes, it would have been nice if we'd seen this more fleshed out by the author, but the story is already so big, with so many characters to cover.
As for the ponies falling apart within one generation... I honestly don't see that happening so far. I see them going through growing pains, and the twinkle eye ponies have gone off to do their own thing, but I see nothing preventing them from going through several generations before coming to the point in history described in the Hearth's Warming Eve episode.
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See where you're coming from. Though, I think the pegasi wouldn't make Wind Whistler their commander BECAUSE they wouldn't want to live in Wind Whistler land. Also, Crunch the Rock also established (to me) Wind Whistler is a very sensitive pony under all that logic and reason. She was really hurt in the start of that episode. But the greatest falls come to the most unsuspecting persons in the most unsuspecting ways.
And my problem is how things seemed too negative now that the ponies were working for a living. All the descriptions of Dream Valley were training, Wind Whistler ruling with an iron hoof. Maybe it's because we're seeing it from the perspective to the two in the group who didn't want to see things change. This was just a skimming of history.
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Well, it seems we're basically in agreement regarding Wind Whistler. She is logical, but underneath, just as emotional as anyone else if you know what buttons to push.
And yeah, I feel like the negativity we're given, after the "new order" was adopted, was mainly experienced from the point of view of Surprise and Danny, who were simply the characters whose personalities were most incompatible with "working" for a living. Masquerade was just kind of caught in the crossfire when Wind Whistler got out of hand.
The rest of the vision we're given is of ponies working hard but basically prevailing at their new tasks. The pegasi train to fight and defend the territory with the help of the troggles, the Earth ponies learn rock farming from the dell dwellers, and the unicorns refine their magical abilities under the tutelage of the Moochick (and they are presumably have some measure of fun along the way). There's no reason why I can't illustrate that scenario in a positive light, to balance out the negativity we get in other areas.
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i like this, specially because i think megan underrate their relation with the ponies, i think that megan was more important for the ponies that she think and she need know it, for example all the lesson that she give to the ponies surely was inherited by these ponies untill the G4, and surely the mane 6 know about megan by the lyra's research, if youre interested y draw megan too, but in a more magical term:
temus.deviantart.com/art/idea-…
tell me what do you think.
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Not bad. You've got a real "magical girl" thing going on, like Sailor Moon, or something. Good job. ^_^
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well, you must accpet the idea that megan have too in common with the magical girl genre, like the magical item, the rainbow of light for example.
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True, true.
I wonder if the author is going to cover how the pegasi learn to control the weather. Perhaps after she's cooled down, Wind Whistler decided to expand the pegasi's duties beyond purely militaristic and had the less combat inclined take weather crafting lessons from the Weather Witch.
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That's already been covered. The princess ponies made it possible for the pegasi to undergo a trial to learn to control weather. It was right before the scene where the twinkle eye ponies take off.
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I read through the chapter again. Everything makes sense now. So, Megan prevented the ponies from learning how to fight the windegoes. Nice job breaking it, hero.
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Megan had to learn her lesson about letting the ponies solve their own problems, for their own good.
At least they managed to learn to control weather.
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Ah. I must not have been paying that much attention at that point. I kind of sat down and just read through the whole thing at once, so I might have been unconsciously skimming by the end.
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OOOOH! This is GOOOOOD! And that little trinket, The Rainbow Of Light. It's going to work wonders for a certain future project of mine.
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Thank you.
Oh Interesting...
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Don't mention it, pal!
Oh yes! So I thank you for better establishing Megan in these deviations. In a way, you're helping me out greatly!
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