"To be frank with you, I was kinda annoyed with my old mane and tail- I'd worn that same style for literal decades, and felt that it was high time to change it up."

"Besides, now that I'm going to be retiring from being a front line paramedic, and going back to train the next generation of emergency medics, I honestly feel that this new look will be more practical too- less hair to get caught on stuff, you know?"

"Well, enough of my yapping about me and all that, what do you think of my new look- you reckon I've still got it?"

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Hey everyone,

Here I bring you a straight-up restyle of Golden Clarity after I began to dislike her old one. I didn't feel that it really worked with her anymore, so here we are.

Nothing else was changed, apart from resizing her cutie mark- in my AU, cutie marks tend to be a little bigger. There's no in-universe reason for this, it's just a personal preference of mine.

Dear God, she's a cutie pie- hard to believe she has over 30 years of First Responder service on her, right? Heh, I guess that I just like these characters that age well, that still look like a mare half their age.

Oh, and to answer a question that I received from a watcher recently, within my AU, Equestria a population ratio of 60% earth ponies, and roughly 16% each of pegasi and unicorns respectively, with various other species taking up fractions of a percentage point each, making them by FAR the minority. That being said, deer and griffons are the most common non-pony citizens of my version of Equestria.

Remember, Equestria is not the entire world, but it is considered a superpower within the various nations of Equis. The prior figures do not include the tribal species that live within it's borders, or of Equestrian Protectorates- Trotsylvania, the ancestral home of the Thestrals, is one such Protectorate.