It’s not a well-kept secret that in my NextGen AU, Tempest felt lost after the Storm King was defeated and tried to find herself in the beds of many suitors and one-night stands. One such night led to her having Victory Vale, who moved on to become one of the most decorated generals in the Canterlot Royal Guard before being forced to retire.
I’ve never talked about his dad much, but that was less to be mysterious or build up tension and more so because I just couldn’t figure out who would be a suitable gene donor to make little VV. After a while, I decided that I couldn’t really see any of the canon ponies being his father and drew up my own. He takes after his father in looks - they’re practically spitting images of each other - but he has his mother’s colors (sorta).
More to come on his father later whenever I get around to it.
Songbird played as minor of a role as I expected of her in the MLP Movie, but her design is cute, and I like Sia’s Rainbow. And Tempest seems to have won out for the movie’s best original character… and I agree!
I enjoyed the movie overall, though I felt it would’ve done better to trim out a few excess characters in favor of adding more depth to the ones it’d keep. The Storm King in particular was just so shallow - he’s a bad guy, doing bad guy things, because… he’s a bad guy. And I wish we could move Twilight past the “I gotta do it alone; oh wait I should’ve trusted my friends” trope that she’s been pigeonholed into…
It sounds like Hasbro made a decent profit, so here’s hoping we’ll get another one :)
Here’s a real throwback… a reupload of a really old TempLight pice from 2017, but with some very slight color adjustments on Twilight and the addition of extra scars on Tempest I recently included in my headcanons
Even after almost five years this is still one of my personal best works I couldn’t help bring back