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!GISlf30tBk 08/11/11(Thu)06:58 No.28607510>>28607364
So, let's relate this back to ponies, then. You can put any one of the ponies from the show in almost any situation and, if you're a good enough writer/artist/whatever, you can absolutely ask the character to interact with that situation and see what happens. The characters will interact with any context, because the tone of the show is more of an "everyday occurances" sort of show - a slice of life, if we could perhaps use an anime analogy.
Let's just take a very basic idea, like, I don't know, skateboards. Nobody cares what Blossom would do when encountered with a skateboard - she would probably just ignore it or ride it. Both scenarios are boring. It doesn't lend itself to a picture, and it doesn't lend itself to a story. Let's take Twilight Sparkle, now (arguably a somewhat similar character), and ask her to ride a skateboard. What would she do? Well, we've already seen that she's not very good with ice skates.
For a picture, we might imagine her slowly rolling the skateboard down the road, then reaching an incline and suddenly shooting down it, mane trailing behind her as she yells out for help, or something like that. For a fan fiction, we could just expand this idea. Maybe Twilight spends a week studying skateboards, proper safety protocol, watching skateboarding pros, before finally trying it out herself and having everybody laugh at her when she still can't do it. Then more stuff happens... etc etc.
Who knows if any of these are GOOD ideas, but there's a lot of material here you can work with - and I feel like modern cartoons (and even a lot of old cartoons that I hold very dear to my heart) just don't have that sort of exploitability in their characters. You could literally take the ponies to other worlds, and it would be incredibly interesting to find out what they'd do there.
At least I think maybe that's why these guys won't shut up about ponies!!! |