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A basic overview of my developing AU’s Celestia and Luna to help when commissioning other artists and such.  
The brilliant pictures were created by http://blazbaros.deviantart.com at my commission =)
 
Other AU references:  
Benevelle, Bishop of Canterlot:

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Cyan Lightning
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@BRT  
I might not wrote that in the best way. But I didn’t mean it was his height directly, I mean that his height is that contribute to his infection or at least make it worse.
 
Just a tips here if the comment was years old, you probably shouldn’t reply to it. It make me feel quite awkward to remember what I was meant when I wrote that.
Background Pony #B665
@Dig Dug  
You know those ranks exist(ed) irl and in loads of other games? why does it have to be fire emblem you reference?
Cyan Lightning
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Chaotic Little Trees - 1000+ images under their artist tag
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
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Non-Fungible Trixie -
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Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab

The Prodigy Unicorn
@BRT  
Okay, it is fantasy, where the physics there pretty different from us, they could use the 5 fundamental force, but reinforced bone with titanium sound much more sense to me, while the Robert Wadlow can get around without his stick, but his height is actually cause him to died at 22 one age, some say he can grow untill 9 feet if he didn’t dead at 22 age, and that’s the reason why there is no Godzilla living in the world, they will collapse in their own weight, the square cube law prevent it.
BRT
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@CyanLightning  
It’s fantasy :p. She grows that big in part because of her magic power, and not because her growth hormones are abnormally high like him (also why she grows slower, and not faster than the body can adapt to, which causes health problems and odd proportions IRL)  
Also Robert Wadlow could get around without crutches and just got by with a small walking stick when he was younger sometimes, again, not so relevant cause this is fantasy anyway…  
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Cyan Lightning
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Chaotic Little Trees - 1000+ images under their artist tag
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Kinship Through Differences - Celebrated the 11th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab

The Prodigy Unicorn
Also how the hay her feet can support her weight, i mean sultan kosen the tallest man alive from turkey, need some kinda stick to support his tall body and he only about 8 feet 3 inch or 251 centimeters.
 
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So either the gravity there about 80% of earth, or her bone is actually made of reinforced titanium or she just need the stick to support her body, just like the sultan kosen.
Cyan Lightning
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Chaotic Little Trees - 1000+ images under their artist tag
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Kinship Through Differences - Celebrated the 11th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab

The Prodigy Unicorn
What the 9 feet or about 274 centimeters and still growing, and here i am my family and my friends sometimes really that impressed about my height, i am 6 feet and 8.5 inch, about 174 centimeter.
Draco_2k

@Antonyourknee  
@BRT  
But it’s for kids!™  
Kids shouldn’t ask questions.™  
Or think too much.™
 
I’m going to guess Faust never came up with a coherent picture of the world before she left, so no one else bothered to do so afterwards either. An odd choice of where to apply one’s laziness considering the world and its characters (and animation) have always been the show’s main - if not only - strengths.
BRT
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@Antonyourknee  
Thing is I don’t really like where the show has been going to be honest.  
If someone were to do that’d I’d probably only like it if it were Faust, the one who I think understands her characters and morals better than the current writers do, but she’s no longer working on it. So I prefer it that it’s left vague, I guess
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A waste of biomatter
@BRT  
I wish the show would work more on expanding the basics of the world. Sure recently they been introduceding a bunch of new species and locations like the breezies,Griffonstone,the swamp ponies and the feuding hillbilly family ect., yet without basic contex such as is the planet even round (the comics are questionable for information at best)or even what equestrias poltical borders are I can’t apprecate how complex these developments are.
 
Sure they have an official map(that still doesn’t show equestrias borders)but due to needing to have one kids can understand,even an amature cartographer would call the official map a colorful attempt at best(no scale,no borders lightly detailed).
 
I guess our best hope is a show writer drawing a more complex if unofficial map that contains all canon materials and locations as well as an expanded perspective that shows the lands beyond equestria.
Draco_2k

@PumpJack  
I like to think of Equestria as a flat-earth world with sun and moon about as big as a country orbiting the disc. Incidentally, this is the only scenario where “Night shall last forever!” would even be possible: parking the sun on one end of the planet would make it eternal day on that half. That or extinguishing the sun altogether, which seems a bit much.
BRT
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@Draco_2k  
Well, regardless of what the show did, they’re not goddesses here, though greater than every other pony. Other unicorns, in mass, can control the sun and moon as well.  
@PumpJack  
I’m sure the writers prefer not to think about it =p. I’ve already mostly decided how this AU will have slightly different laws of physics to reality, with the inclusion of magic as another fundamental force, but I haven’t yet decided exactly how that will effect the whole sun/moon relationship to earth/equestria. I’d have to do some more research first, but arguably it’s not very important :p
PumpJack
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Entirely different discussion, because my brain careens in such random directions.
 
When they raise the sun- is the Equestria universe Geocentric, and they are literally moving it around the earth- or is it Heliocentric, and rotating the earth accordingly?
 
It’s probably the former, but it just such a weird thought to picture- Celestia moving a colossal orb of nuclear fire that millions of times larger than the earth, and many million miles away- and just swinging it around the planet willy-nilly.
Draco_2k

@BRT  
Fie to the rest of the discussion, but I believe the “Celestia equals sun itself” is adopted from Season 1 canon, which very strongly suggested divine shenanigans within the first seconds of the very first episode; partially with Celestia and Luna being heavily reminiscent of the old Sun/Night gods found in probably the majority of world’s religions and mythologies.
 
Season 2 threw the spanner in the lore by way of that one dumb episode, not unlike Granny Smith emerging as the founder of Ponyville (in face of both common sense and Twilight’s throw-away line in Winter Wrap-up) all for the sake of an anvilicious moral.
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@Lucky Shot  
Can’t tell if being sarcastic… or just plain stupid…
 
Not only have I not even given my reasons for them looking how they do, which don’t have to follow the show (they’re not born as normal sisters like you infer without evidence), as this is an AU, but the amount of conclusions you jump to with no information is ridiculous. “she is the sun itself”. Really? what makes her ‘the sun itself’ when other ponies are capable of controlling it as well (Heck, in the show’s canon, discord can control the sun and moon seemingly with much less effort than celestia or luna)
 
The comparison to that pokemon really makes me think this is a troll, given how far fetched that is.
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The reasoning I’m seeing for Celestia being black is insufficient if not racial profiling.
 
  1. Luna has to be black too, because they’re sisters. Ponies obviously don’t follow this rule, but humans who are closely related are going to have vaguely similar skin tones and other recognizable traits. Instead, you’ve effectively made them a mammie and a Marth parody who look about as related to one another as they do to Marvin the Martian but are very fitting in an era where every cartoon show is an Adventure Time ripoff made to appease Tumblr.
     
  2. You didn’t simply “make Celestia black”. You made Celestia a racist caricature; she looks an awful lot like another fat black woman who had to be internationally censored.
     
  3. Saying that Celestia should logically be dark because of her association with the sun is completely ass-backwards: Celestia isn’t a person working in the sun. Celestia is the sun, and the sun is a blinding bright white, which is why pony Celestia is a blinding bright white. She should be lighter than every person in her vicinity because it is they who are darkened by her.
     
  4. Even if that chariot before the horse logic was acceptable (it isn’t), while there is some sense to the theory that darker skin colors were evolved in response to sun exposure, individual people don’t magically turn blacker than anime because of the sun. “Getting a tan” is literally cooking your skin and forcing it to load up on melanin in an attempt to protect itself from the horrific radioactive damage you’re doing to it; that’s why only the parts of your skin that are directly exposed end up darker. You’re darkening like cooked meat because you are cooked meat, and it fades away if the damage ceases just like a fever fades when you’re not sick anymore. Making Celestia dark for this reason is only properly symbolic if she can’t control the sun and is being harmed by its power, which is not the case; she is the sun itself, not the random person being burned by it.
     

 
The fact is that, armed with a heavy barrage of excuses, people will always twist characters into some shallow caricature of a minority in sharp contrast to their correct self so they can lash out at and deny an unfair reality. The irony is that they are damaging the people they’re trying to empower and represent by simplifying them into zoo exhibits, throwing them in everyone’s face and crashing events as though becoming a threat will make their enemies like them, and staying firmly in denial about truths they can’t accept.
 
We choose to call this sad spiral “progressive”.
Draco_2k

Hm, they both look like chocolates rather than something made out of flesh and blood. Ease up on the color saturation and sharp highlights, maybe?
 
@Mackeroth  
My guess it’s because both humans and dark skin are hard to do right - and if you fail, your characters end up at the bottom of uncanny valley, which makes people run away screaming (after leaving a comment, of course). I remember JohnJoseco solved both of these problems with heavy stylization, which worked really well, I think.