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Well, there's someconnotations you can draw off. Twilight Sparkle comes from Canterlot and was presumably born and descended from there, and that city is clearly an analogue of fantasyish wizards-and-royalty tropes, in which black people generally don't appear because they're based off european history. We can even see a sort of in-universe racial imbalance in canterlot in the first episode, where all the ponies we see there are unicorns. Ponyville, on the other hand, appears to be more melting-pot-ish, and so ponies from there could be of any colour. So that's one somewhat reasonable point in favour of Twilight being "white".
On the other side of things, you can try base skin tone off cultural links. Pegasi, for example, are originally from greek mythology, so you could say "human" pegasi should be grecian. Similarly, unicorns are a european myth, so again white - unless you recall "the lion and the unicorn", which would place unicorns in the same locale as lions and therefore make them black. Earth ponies, on the other hand, would be closely related to real horses, which originally come from... uh. Well, it's hard to tell, but somewhere around africa-asia. I'm not sure.
And then there's just sun exposure. Unicorns are weaker and perform indoorsy crafts and jobs, so they'd be paler. Earth ponies work outside more, so they'd be darker. Celestia would be black because she's the sun, Luna pale because she's the moon, et cetera et cetera.
So whatevs, really. |
