The first individual artwork of my take on the children of the Mane Six.

Here we have Rainbow Dash and her son Tempest. RD is older, of course, so her hairstyle has been altered as is the hair of all the pictures of the Mane Six and their kids.

Like the rest of my fan children, Tempest’s design was based on his mother alone. He does have a father but who that dad is remains unknown. I chose to keep it a mystery and to avoid shipping wars (to the best of my ability).

YES….this is shipping neutral. No, Tempest’s design is not based off Soarin’s. I wanted Tempest to be blue but dark blue was too dark, so I made him lighter. I didn’t want him to be an RD clone, so I avoided a rainbow mane (but kept the spectrum look). Yes, he wants to be a Wonderbolt like his mom wanted to be. That’s not shipping evidence.

All I wanted was to make a kid for RD and the rest of the Mane Six. There will always be opinions and theories, but the point of my art and fanfic is to focus on the children without obsessing over shipping.