Faptacular: Ya know I often find the biggest fail in pony OCs is the cutie mark. Oftentimes they’re completely nonsensical for a pony to have or are meta to the point where just at first glance I immediately think, “Well I’d never believe this pony could live in Equestria.”
Case in point this one: Why would a pony have a clawed paw print? A paw print, yes if the pony may be an animal trainer or vet or something but not a clawed one.
Source aside I’m guessing this is someone’s fursona fully ponified but they still couldn’t help trying to tie it right back to their original design.
AnonV3: @Faptacular: Shut up. First, overthink much? Second, Applebloom got a fucking LION TAMER CUTIE MARK. Admittedly, it was due to Heart's Wish or whatever that flower was but still, the fact she got one implies heavily that it exists. I can totally see this being a vet cutie mark. Maybe ...
He? I'ma go with he. Maybe he specializes in carnivores like, oh, cats? Maybe he's an ACTUAL lion tamer? Maybe he's some gloomy, emo-ass antihero that hunts the 'evil creatures of teh Eberfree so taht the ponys of Ponyvil cin sleep peavcefully @ nite' or somesuch tripe. His only comfort, his only solace is in the civilized arms of Rarity. Their love cannot be, yet they still try. He, the ... fuck, uhh, 'dark scion of the wild lands' and she, the epitome of grace and sophistication. They cannot, must not be. And yet ...
Fuck if I know. I can't believe I typed that shit up. Anyway, shut up. You're wrong.
Anonymous1: Would have been nice to ask the artist if you could upload this. The cutie-mark symbolizes her occupation. She searches for Dinosaur bones, it's a dino-foot print.
Anonymous2: @Anonymous: Well then it's way too cryptic, Hasbro is never this subtle about designing the cutie marks. If they were to design her CM it would be something more simple, like a dino skull or a fossilized bone.
And the heart is redundant. As if the fossil cutie mark alone is not enough to imply she made the dino research her life purpose, she had to show that she also loves it.. which just kind of goes without saying. This isn't Care Bears, hearts don't get slapped on nearly every mark for no reason.
People thought Doctor Whooves is a time traveler, or a very punctual pony who is never late and is always on time. Turned out his real specialty is just making hourglasses. Simple as that, exactly what it shows on his flank. Don't overanalyse cutie marks, and for that matter, don't make your cutie marks look like a friggin' puzzle. The simpler the better.
Anonymous3: @moximoore: I take it by 'Fan characters' you mean the FAN-NAMED background ponies?
This is not a background pony
I personally don't really mind this because he doesn't look ridiculous and isn't being dominant
But dat cutie mark is ridiculous
Anonymous4(2): @Anonymous: I think what moxi wanted to say is that this character is not the author's self ponification but rather a character on its own created by him/her (not a background pony from the show). Which still makes it an OC, but it is much better than a self insert OC and such characters are more interesting.
Anonymous6(2): @Anonymous: Well, Cheerilee is a result of unfortunate transition between generations. In Gen 3 Cheerilee was not originally a teacher, in G4 she is one of the older gen characters who got repurposed. They didn't change much about her but gave her a more specific role of a teacher, so they had to pull the new description for her CM out of their ass but originally Hasbro designed her with a different idea in mind. If she was designed with education theme from the start she'd have something more appropriate, like a square academic cap or a book.
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Case in point this one: Why would a pony have a clawed paw print? A paw print, yes if the pony may be an animal trainer or vet or something but not a clawed one.
Source aside I’m guessing this is someone’s fursona fully ponified but they still couldn’t help trying to tie it right back to their original design.
He? I'ma go with he. Maybe he specializes in carnivores like, oh, cats? Maybe he's an ACTUAL lion tamer? Maybe he's some gloomy, emo-ass antihero that hunts the 'evil creatures of teh Eberfree so taht the ponys of Ponyvil cin sleep peavcefully @ nite' or somesuch tripe. His only comfort, his only solace is in the civilized arms of Rarity. Their love cannot be, yet they still try. He, the ... fuck, uhh, 'dark scion of the wild lands' and she, the epitome of grace and sophistication. They cannot, must not be. And yet ...
Fuck if I know. I can't believe I typed that shit up. Anyway, shut up. You're wrong.
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This guy yours or something? I don't see why you got so pissed off otherwise.
@moximoore: And the difference between the two is?
And the heart is redundant. As if the fossil cutie mark alone is not enough to imply she made the dino research her life purpose, she had to show that she also loves it.. which just kind of goes without saying. This isn't Care Bears, hearts don't get slapped on nearly every mark for no reason.
People thought Doctor Whooves is a time traveler, or a very punctual pony who is never late and is always on time. Turned out his real specialty is just making hourglasses. Simple as that, exactly what it shows on his flank. Don't overanalyse cutie marks, and for that matter, don't make your cutie marks look like a friggin' puzzle. The simpler the better.
This is not a background pony
I personally don't really mind this because he doesn't look ridiculous and isn't being dominant
But dat cutie mark is ridiculous
+cutie mark change
+63
+grown up
+pony, rather than unicorn
=bootleg OC