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I’m a slut for early concept art

safe2174408 artist:creeate97204 capper dapperpaws1805 captain celaeno1402 queen novo1878 storm king1465 tempest shadow19005 avian309 bird13731 classical hippogriff6404 hippogriff13544 ornithian173 parrot pirates554 pony1602541 storm creature144 unicorn537954 wolf2685 anthro359718 digitigrade anthro3070 g42028929 my little pony: the movie21438 the art of my little pony: the movie215 anthro with ponies3606 armor31193 bow44686 broken horn15929 chest fluff65550 concept art2104 eyepatch3977 female1802750 four eyes234 hat124229 horn190484 lightning4255 madame harpy13 male550739 mare741074 mendax11 pirate3020 pirate hat792 scorpion tail129 simple background596378 tail wrap8313 third eye328 three eyes105 what could have been185 white background161796

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@Background Pony #3A0D
 
To the best of my knowledge, that design is from a stage in development when he was called Mendax (which is the Latin word for “liar”). He supposedly considered his second pair of eyes an unsightly deformity and kept them closed, and there would have been a sub-arc where Rarity helped him accept himself and find beauty even in the parts of him he thought made him a freak, but it was cut due to time constraints – the bit where Rarity sews up his coat would be what was left of that arc in the final cut.
 
That tail of his was also supposed to reveal his true motives while he was doing his con man routine, although I don’t know precisely what that means. I like to think that, as he charmed and dazzled the main characters with his little song number, his tail would have been whispering what he really meant to do.