DeviantArt (August 16, 2023 at 5:57:26 PM UTC)

Bad End AU: More than just a spare.
“So I'm a rusty horseshoe hanging up

Over somebody's old barn door

And I'll be hanging there forever

Just wishing the horse had one leg more

And maybe I can't be the perfect one

And maybe I err on the side of fun

But horseshoes need a chance to run somewhere

This horseshoe is more than just a spare

Someday I'll find my thing

The thing that's all my own

That thing that makes me part of something

Not just all alone

If only all these feelings I have in my heart

Could mean something to someone

How I'd love to play that part

So I'm just a second born sister

Who most of the town ignores

Like a button, like a horseshoe

Like a girl who's bad at metaphors

Maybe I don't have a magic touch

And maybe I don't have a talent as such

Just this heart with much, too much to share

So I'll never be the heir

But I'm more than just the spare”

Baby's first time trying to draw anthro everyone! : D i think it came out pretty good! And i never miss a chance to draw some pretty clothes too haha. The lyrics i used for the mini comic are from the song "More than just a spare" : D

I want to start exploring the characters of the AU a bit more, starting with Astral!, I had just noticed that in her family she is the only one that isn’t an alicorn, making her stand out but be overshadowed at the same time. Not being the heir or an alicorn, she tends to be ignored by most of the elite in favor of her older sister Spectra, this doesn’t make Astral jealous or envious at all in fact the sisters are incredibly close ,both bringing out the best in each other. Astral understands that is her sister duty to be the best princess she can be for their kingdom, and even if she is also a princess she doesn’t have as much responsibilities as her older sister, giving her more freedom.

Astral is incredibly brilliant and curious , making research in both good and dark magic but she tends to bite more than what she can chew, she has a thousand unfinished projects and a thousand more she can’t wait to start on, ranging from figuring out a flying spell that works properly to canalizing the magical powers of other creatures. Astral hopes that one day (night?) after a great discovery she finally will get wings of her own and become an alicorn…just like her mother Twilight did.

Her other “secret” research which relates to alicornhood is more frowned upon by her peers and by her own mother, Nightmare Moon. She knows that both of her mother’s ascended and became alicorns, and at some point her mother Twilight and Lady Mi Amore Cadenza lost their powers in a devastating accident, but the cause isn’t exactly documented, or why Twilight and her friends were so venerated at some point, or were there more alicorns before? Everypony tells her not to worry so much about the past, but she knows there is something missing in there, even if no one believes her.

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