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NOTE: Please don't flood the comments with 'this is how they should have looked', because I have an important announcement; I don't want to talk about what's been done wrong by your standards and I don't care. I'm really sorry to say that I just don't want to discuss things like that. So, would you kindly keep those to yourself?Adagio Dazzle Alone: starryoak.deviantart.com/art/A…
Sonata Dusk Alone: starryoak.deviantart.com/art/S…
Aria Blaze Alone: starryoak.deviantart.com/art/A…
Aaaahhh, my favorite MLP villains~ The Sirens. Well, uh, mostly Adagio. And I kind of hate Sonata Dusk, so it's more just 'the group that contains my favorite villain' than my absolute favorite. Although I genuinely love their dynamics together, individually, I love Adagio, hate Sonata, and feel ambivalent about Aria.
I designed each to represent a form of idealized beauty, not necessarily for us, but for ponies. As with information, this will be explained in their individual shots rather than the collective.
Each of the three have shared traits for Sirens; they have two fins on their heads, covering their ear-holes and their gills. They're sharp and pointy. Touch them at your doom. They also have one (or in Aria's case, two) mane fins, where their mane is attached. They have two antennae that function as bangs (or just plain antennas for Sonata). They have spikes covering their arms, some with webbing and some for plain old stabbing. Aria lacks a set of spikes that Sonata and Adagio have, partly due to her having two mane-fins, partly due to my oversight. They have two sets of fin sails on their fish tail, or one long unbroken one. They have spots over their hooves that match their eyeshadow/markings. Their gems are akin to cutie marks, each unique and related to what their 'cutie marks' were in EQG. Their hooves are pointed and have a secondary thumb point to grip prey. The Sirens in their true forms have a secondary option for consuming magic; eating the creature that produces the magic. This is only in desperate situations, since they can't get any more magic out of a corpse, while someone under their spell is able to feed them almost indefinitely (although in small amounts). This also explains the spiked ridges on their arms and elsewhere.
All of their design choices specifically can be found on their individual pages, but here's some stuff about the Sirens as a whole; they represent the id, ego, and superego (not in that order), and are three former Water Sprites . Water Sprites are weak creatures, but spirits of water nonetheless. They're unable to survive without ocean water, and require guides; Kelpies. Kelpies are quite a bit larger than their charges, and have the ability to hypnotize others with their voice, but they live exclusively to ferry and care for the Water Sprites. One day, three small sprites saw that the Kelpies had the power greater than they, they began to scheme and plot, stealing the magic of their wards/servants and leaving them empty shells, growing into something entirely new... but they found themselves with powers and hypnotizing others... but something was empty. They had to keep feeding, the gems of crystallized magic embedded in their chest need to be recharged continuously, or they would die. They found that as they stole the magic out of hate and fear, that was what their magic could cause.... and so they ended up growing in power until they surfaced in Equestria, and got shoved into a portal by Starswirl The Bearded. Who apparently takes the Patrick method of getting rid of his problems, but that's neither here nor there.
Heavily inspired by 's style, especially with the tails and stuff. But I tried to make my own thing and shit.
Rules of the style?:
Unicorns all have cloven hooves with trailing fetlocks and tails unless they're a halfbreed, in which case, they can be born with a standard tail and hooves. They can also be born with chest and tail feathers if they're part pegasus
Alicorns have both tail feathers and unicorn tails and hooves, as well as earth pony strength.
Pegasi have feathers instead of fetlocks and have feathers on their chest and shoulders instead of fur. Feathers are the color of their mane. Halfbreeds can have feathered tails or chest feathers too or even non feathered chests and/or hooves (But all pegasi (halfbreed or not) have tail feathers.)
Hooves are the color of their eyes and horseshoes match their cutie mark's main color. Cutie Markless ponies have grey horseshoes. Not silver (which contains blue) but just plain grey.
Ponies with unshorn fetlocks in canon (like Big Macintosh) keep their hoof colors from canon, but are rare exceptions to the rule.
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Comments: 63
StarryOak In reply to devildog452 [2020-03-17 20:13:22 +0000 UTC]
Adagio Dazzle is yellow with orange hair, Sonata Dusk is sky blue with blue and dark blue hair, and Aria Blaze is pink with purple and green hair.
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devildog452 In reply to StarryOak [2020-03-18 14:02:06 +0000 UTC]
OK. And when they transformed in rainbow rocks, what was the color of there wings?
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StarryOak In reply to devildog452 [2020-03-18 21:20:57 +0000 UTC]
Aria Blaze had green wings and Adagio Dazzle and Sonata Dusk have pink wings
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devildog452 In reply to StarryOak [2020-03-19 03:31:17 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! Sorry to bother you.
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devildog452 In reply to StarryOak [2020-03-20 13:01:19 +0000 UTC]
I'll let you go then. And thanks again.
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aqdrobert [2018-02-13 00:43:54 +0000 UTC]
Sonata: Foolish mortals! All shall bring me tacos EVERY day!
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kittylaughs [2017-10-08 15:36:21 +0000 UTC]
I agree with you on Sonata, shes my fave but she needs to be more evil.
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GoodVibesGorgeous [2017-04-29 05:40:45 +0000 UTC]
They look absolutely gorgeous! I really like your style, good job.
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MasekKluson [2016-08-04 14:58:09 +0000 UTC]
Spike: If you, Aria and Sonata, are willing to learn, I wanted to teach you three, everything I know about the Magic of Friendship.
Adagio: How do we start?
Spike: All you three have to do, is make a friend. And, you got plenty of them right here.
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Fandom-Crockpot In reply to StarryOak [2016-07-21 18:46:53 +0000 UTC]
Yep, that's good old Sonata for us!
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PurfectPrincessGirl [2015-10-11 04:35:47 +0000 UTC]
All of these are freakin' GORGEOUS. You really captured each of their personalities perfectly in the designs, and the colors are just WOW~
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StarryOak In reply to PurfectPrincessGirl [2015-10-11 05:03:17 +0000 UTC]
I just feel hypocritical accepting congratulations when I've disputed criticisms
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PurfectPrincessGirl In reply to StarryOak [2015-10-11 18:47:08 +0000 UTC]
Aw, well...I wouldn't feel too bad it
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StarryOak In reply to WubcakeVA [2015-10-10 04:25:55 +0000 UTC]
The problem is, I enjoy how it looks. So it's not exactly going to change. I appreciate that you wrote it out and explained it, but even though you say it needs to be something, it does; it needs to be something that I enjoy and feel personally proud of. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I also want to point out that the colors are all present in the characters current designs. In the show; I didn't make up any of them. Each of the separate pictures points out exactly where each color is lifted from. And while normally it would be true that they need to blend in with the ocean... That would be entirely detrimental to their main objective; to stand out. The Sirens are supposed to be flashy and attention seeking, because that's what feeds them. They need to be eye catching, so their colors make sense to be bright and such. As well as the fact that the Sirens are not ordinary creatures, they're anomalies with magic. They're not a race, there are only three of them in existence.
I'm really sorry that I have to say this, because I understand what you're saying, but... I'm not drawing this in a way that I don't want to because someone else doesn't feel like it works. I know what you're saying about 'it's my style' being a cop out... But it's true; I draw how I want to draw. There's nothing wrong with drawing something in the way that you like, even if others don't. I'm not going to change it, because I know that I'm satisfied with it, and that's good enough for me. I hope you equally don't think I'm rude for saying this, but I'm not the person who's going to change my art for others. I've had enough run ins in my other fandoms and works with people telling me how to draw or what to do, or what I should be writing that I've just reached a point of standing my ground about my art, even when people send me threats and steal my art and stalk me and freak me out.
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StarryOak In reply to WubcakeVA [2015-10-10 07:44:04 +0000 UTC]
I'm sorry for inferring that you were telling me to change what I'm doing. I just have had so many people telling me that, I just assumed because of the prior experiences of having people harass me for writing a story without their favorite pairings and reviewed by rewriting my words, then when I wasn't writing fast enough, yell at me for that, multiple times. I've had people demand me draw more things in a series, it's just so hard to tell for me.
I wrote a long reply because you made a long comment. I don't feel comfortable just leaving a short answer to something that someone else put a lot of effort in to typing. I also generally tend to be long when I am explaining things
I understand criticism. I know it is definitely a weak point of mine. I'm not good at handling it, and my emotional instability makes it hard for me. It didn't exactly shake me up, really. It has happened, I'm usually bad at it, but I was genuinely calm. but I know I'm prone to reacting poorly to criticism. Most of the time, it's going to be me giving a long post. Sometimes I cry. And as I write this, I automatically starts second guessing myself as trying to wring sympathy about it.
And.... You know, I get criticism being important. That every artist should try to improve, and I am trying, although I disagree on your views on the colors, that's valid. It might be bad. But at the end of the day, I think that... Gah, I sound like a cop out'ing emotionally manipulative jerk... I've always seen it as a persons right to draw how they want. If the person doesn't want to improve, and keep doing the same, if it makes that person happy, it's ok. Because it's not harming them. It would be nice and better for them if they did, but if that's not what the person wants to do, there's nothing to do to stop them, and at least they're doing what they honestly enjoy. But I do want to improve. Looking back at my first pony drawing , I think I have. And I'm hoping to continue. But I'm still going to draw what I feel is what I want. That doesn't mean not accepting criticism, but that I'm not going to let my anxiety disorder tell me that I'm a terrible person and that I'm just trying to guilt trip myself out of true introspection, when I know it's the truth, and that typing this is digging the hole even deeper and I'm an emotionally manipulative, self centered person refusing to improve because I'm just too damn stubborn and everyone is right about me and... That's why I don't accept criticism well, because I end up looping; if I think about it too hard, I start spiraling.
I'm sorry that I can't fully agree with your criticism. But I'm not mad at you. I write a lot of this towards me more than the person I'm talking to, I've done it before.
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AmrasFelagund [2015-10-09 00:08:48 +0000 UTC]
Very nice work on this trio! I really dig the logistics of each design choice to differentiate them from being simple recolours of one another, each one being indicative of some form of angelic beauty to each of the three pony races. And trust me, I've never fallen into the camp of shoving ill-fit leather pants onto Sonata; she's just too gleeful in what she and her fellow Sirens are doing to not be a villain through and through.
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SuperSkrill In reply to AmrasFelagund [2017-07-25 01:10:54 +0000 UTC]
How would she even wear pants?
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HuskyRBTorchick [2015-10-08 23:30:57 +0000 UTC]
Out of honesty, these are better then the ones from the movie . That's how much I love this
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StarryOak In reply to HuskyRBTorchick [2015-10-08 23:37:25 +0000 UTC]
Ok, I want to state first that I really, really appreciate the complement, but...
there's a giant honking headlined bolded largest font possible sign that says almost literally 'don't say that exact thing'
just... how did you miss the intention there?
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StarryOak In reply to HuskyRBTorchick [2015-10-09 00:22:29 +0000 UTC]
how did you miss it, though?
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HuskyRBTorchick In reply to StarryOak [2015-10-09 01:26:19 +0000 UTC]
I have hard time reading so I sometimes miss information which is why I have trouble understanding
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MothyCake [2015-10-08 23:08:06 +0000 UTC]
They are absolutely stunning~!
I may have to draw them one day. c:
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MothyCake In reply to StarryOak [2015-10-10 23:50:22 +0000 UTC]
I do have a question, though. Why do you dislike Sonata?
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StarryOak In reply to MothyCake [2015-10-11 02:09:11 +0000 UTC]
Because her fans are ridiculously forgiving of her awful behavior simply because she's rock stupid and cute, that she HAS to be less evil, as if cute dumb people are exclusive to good guys, for one. That she's the only one worthy of redemption to most. That even compared to the other Sirens, even Aria, who isn't even actually explicitly named, she's about as complex as cardboard? That the other two actually seem like they have agency in their actions and seem like they have a goal, instead of leeching off of Adagio and Aria and being utterly useless to them and showing no actual skill or reason they keep her around? The fact that she almost gets them exposed multiple times, being so incompetent that they'd rather have her be asleep and not paying attention because otherwise she's annoying or a drain on their resources or credibility? That her fans are ridiculously forgiving of her because she's the most conventionally adorable rather than actually thinking about her actions as an individual as representative of her morality, they assume that because she isn't as vocally abusive as the others or intelligent that she must be good? Because clearly, someone can't be adorable and evil at the same time?
I've seriously seen people argue her as being 'less evil' just because she's cute and that genuinely pisses me off, especially that damned double standard about it. I guess it's more the mindset of people that like her.
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MothyCake In reply to StarryOak [2015-10-11 02:10:48 +0000 UTC]
Oh, I love Sonata, but, I know she's evil. She may be dumb and adorable, but, that doesn't change she's evil. O :
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StarryOak In reply to MothyCake [2015-10-11 02:43:38 +0000 UTC]
U= thank you you have redeemed a hole in my heart
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MothyCake In reply to StarryOak [2015-10-11 02:45:11 +0000 UTC]
Well, even if a character is stupid, they're still evil. That shouldn't change no matter what.
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