Notes on the design/character:

-Galaxy Guard started out as “Dawn Twinkle”, a Twilight NG who was based on G3 Twilight Twinkle. She was a Mary Sue alicorn who often wore a cloak to hide her wings because “she wanted to be normal”.

-I changed her name and design later because I didn’t want to feel like I was copying the franchise’s characters instead of making my own.

-Dawn Twinkle was designed to be father-ambiguous because I wanted to avoid shipping and the conflicts that came with it. Once I started over with her design, I made her a FlashLight foal because it was the most popular option available.

-The orange alicorn was named “Sentinel Shield”, but I was asked to change it to “avoid confusion” with someone else’s OC.

-After a friend opened my eyes to how pony designs should really work (starting with Paint Swirl), I changed Galaxy to a pink pegasus.

-Galaxy used to be an extremely dull character with a boring backstory until I decided to kill Flash. However, she didn’t start being a major bitch about it until I made CheeriTwi canon, and until I gave Turquoise Edge a bigger role in the story.