## Sunday, June 24, 2012

### Children of the Night, The Foals

Here are the character charts for the children that are going to follow Luna through the skies.
Six fillies, six colts, a total of four of every kind (Pegasi, Unicorn and Earth ponies).
Fly-By-Night is a design provided by our good friend Trish Forstner, which ponysona happens to be Gari as well.
Now, let's add some fun to this: Some of them are 100% pulled out of my designing hat, but most of them are directly inpired in an existing pony or a famous cartoon horse, are you able to tell the refereces?
Even if they don't have much screentime, for the challenge of character design I have each one of them a distict personality, hopefully, if I did my work correctly, you can get a good hint of it just by looking at the charts.
On a side note, just as an anecdote. I considered including Wildfire in COTN as a surprise in the project, but after becoming an official canon character, that would have been an anachrony (meaning that it would be an element that cannot belong to the time period in which the events unfold). So, I developed Maggie instead, and I must say, I am very happy with her. She is a pegasus with a very particular coat, and a slight obsession over shining things.

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1. Draegwolf June 24, 2012 12:41 PM

   They're all so cute! I really like the design for Candlelight and Magpie. =3

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   1. Spiritto June 24, 2012 12:43 PM

      Thanks Rush!
      I guess it is very easy to guess what is the inspiration for Candlelight. ;)
      Maggie is one of my favorites as well.

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2. Spirit Storm June 24, 2012 1:46 PM

   *Jaw Drops*......The designs are amazing! So jealous! XD
   Also now I must worryy that " Spirit Storm" will be drowned in the awesomness and cuteness that is " Spirit" !
   Can't wit to see your amaing product!!

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   1. Spiritto June 24, 2012 1:48 PM

      Thank you very much! I am very glad you like the foals.
      Your design would be great for a wild pony though.
      IS there any foal that you like in particular?:)

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3. Kein June 24, 2012 2:01 PM

   Well, there is already some contradiction with the show's story, so I don't think adding Wild Fire foal would hurt much :3
   Could be fun.

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4. cupcakegirl June 24, 2012 6:34 PM

   Oh my goodness, Magpie's design. <3 She is so cute. I wish I could design OCs like that. XD But yeah, they are all amazing! Good job. XD

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5. Olivier &#39;LuaPineapple&#39; Hamel June 24, 2012 7:08 PM

   Trotamondo estas la plej bona poneo!

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6. Jose Guillermo June 24, 2012 7:42 PM

   Very cute characters there Spiritto.
   Was very surprise to see one called Trotamundos, I like him! =)

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   1. Spiritto June 24, 2012 11:19 PM

      Thanks Foxy!
      Why the surprise? you are the second one that mentions that. :)

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7. Capt.Jack.Hergow June 24, 2012 9:58 PM

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8. Capt.Jack.Hergow June 24, 2012 10:07 PM

   Je suis de Belgique. je suis fan de votre projet d'animation et par vos poneys. j'attends avec impatience l'animation final. Je suis un Bronies pirate ;)
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   I'm from Belgium. I'm a fan of your animation project and your ponies. I look forward to final animation. I am a pirate;) Bronies
   www.facebook.com/JackHergow

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   1. Spiritto June 24, 2012 11:20 PM

      Bonsoir!
      Excuse mon français écrit, je me debrouille meilleur en parlant. Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire! On compte finir le video bientôt.
      C'est un travail bien dur, mais ça vaut le coup.

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9. Cassie Blade June 24, 2012 10:47 PM

   I'm kinda surprised that Nightshade isn't a foal version of Nightshade from G1.

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   1. Spiritto June 24, 2012 11:10 PM

      I didn't thought that anyone would bring up that one. Yes, I thought about that, but I didn't liked the G1 design. Instead, I picked the name and gave him an eerie look, based on the Hanna Barbera Wildfire.

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   2. Cassie Blade June 25, 2012 2:35 PM

      hehe, I am a master of obscure knowledge. Plus I always kinda liked Nightsade, was an interesting idea and concept with him. I can't really fault the g1 design as he was meant to look like the musican Prince.

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10. Photon June 26, 2012 10:01 PM

    Interesting designs, you made them all?

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11. Jordan June 27, 2012 1:40 AM

    Is her name Maggie or Magpie? Your post text and picture text conflict. Also, I think the only name here that has been used as an official pony name in the past (Generations 1, 3, and 4) is Moondancer.

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    1. Spiritto June 27, 2012 8:22 AM

       Her actual name is Magpie, but everybody calls her Maggie.
       Just like We call Pinkie Pie "Pinkie", or AppleJack "AJ". Or more in the brony fandom, "Lulu" for Luna and "Tia " for Celestia. :)

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12. Sumec June 28, 2012 2:02 AM

    Moondancer is mentioned to be throwing a party that Twilight ends up rejecting an invitation to in episode one of the series. I guess there's no reason why another pony couldn't have also been named that at some point, and you never actually see her.
    But you know, you mentioned concerns over anachronism and such.

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13. Drgnwolf June 29, 2012 3:06 PM

    These are the cutest Fillies and Colts I've seen in the fandom.
    I would pick Magpie and Wind Whisper as my favorites.
    Hats off to you!.....If.. I had a hat that is... xD

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