@Phantom Rider  
400 years of being pursued by a very nasty group of alicorn hunters.

We can rebuild her! We have the technology.
 
So, what happened to her?

@redweasel  
If those scars were ribs, they’d be some very broken ribs… I mean, she did have some very broken ribs, that’s how she got those scars. Along with needing a replacement for her right lung and heart.
 
Who am I kidding? I can’t draw hooves. I even invented my own prehensile hoof anatomy so I could avoid drawing horse hooves (not pictured in this drawing)

@Mackeroth
 
I think I might have been mistaking scars for protruding ribs. not really sure how plunger hooves make them look cuter, but whatever you like.

@redweasel
 
Forget I mentioned ribs, you were right; I was assuming things and completely misunderstanding the anatomy. Those lines under her pectorals represent the serratus anterior muscle, which is often visible in fit and healthy humans and would be suitably well-developed in a pony for the purpose of quadrupedal movement.
 
As for the wings: I draw pony wings with an exaggerated carpus and shrunken humus and ulna. It helps make them look stockier and ‘cuter’, in line with their shorter legs (not that Twilight has particularly short legs here). Her primary feathers would still extend a fair way out from where her wings currently are though, as you’ll see in the completed version.
 
Same thing with the hooves: they’re bigger to be a bit cuter. Not that this post-warzone Twilight is particularly cute, but in general, that’s why I draw them larger than normal horses.
 
This Twilight is a Twilight who’s been going through physically strenuous activities over a long time on meager supplies. She doesn’t have any subcutaneous fat left on her and while her muscles are strong, they haven’t bulked they way they would if she’d been doing, say, gym work. More like a marathon runner than a weight lifter. Very lean and sinewy; probably feels like a brick if you poke her. Yeah, if I was doing this properly most of the muscles wouldn’t have defined sharp edges like they do but instead more gentle shading but I made the mistake of doing my shading on the same layer as my line work. Even if it doesn’t make much sense, I still like how it looks (and of all the egregious anatomies I’ve seen on this site, muscles being well-defined through fur doesn’t even make it onto the top 100)
 
I like to draw ponies standing on two legs because it’s more difficult to do than having them standing on two legs and I’m a sucker for difficult anatomical poses (most of which don’t get posted because I can’t get them right. This is actually the fourth full attempt of me drawing this pose.)

@Mackeroth
 
horses stand on four hooves! it looks weird!
 
having a visible ribcage is a sign of starvation in horses, and frankly humans too. we’re not bred like salukis. if you think someone isn’t fit if their ribs aren’t showing… well I’d have to disagree. fatter people than that live longer, and more muscular people have no visible ribcage. as for missing fur, I think the issue is that terrible conflict between an artist’s desire to show off their carefully planned anatomy, and the reality that most of it would be smoothed out to obscurity by the fatty epidermis, and the fur, even horse fur. plus scars do not grow fur, so large ones should be a lot more obvious, as they form a dimpled break in the fur.
 
one thing about the wings is they’re kind of long… the bony finger of the wing doesn’t extend all along the length of the pinions, so seems like it’d be shorter, with the (nonexistant) feathers fanning out from it.
 
her hooves seem broader than even hooves on real horses.

@redweasel  
Having a visible ribcage is normal on any fit human, or horse for that matter. Nor is she missing all her fur (but I can see how it may look that way. I’ve given her some fur texture for the coloured version). Her featherless wings are disturbing, I do admit (It honestly didn’t occur to me; I guess because I always draw wings last on my pictures, I’m used to staring at featherless wings). The most horrific thing about the picture is the way I’ve tried to graft human muscles onto a quadrupedal form. Well. Okay, the missing arm is the most horrific thing, but the muscular anatomy comes in close second.
 
Wait. Standing on two hooves is horrific? What?

@Mackeroth
 
yeah, the injury’s old, she’s missing all her fur, her wings are featherless sticks, her ribcage is showing, and she is standing on two hooves
 
nothing horrific about that at all.

@TheMasterEraser Maybe. I dunno… The grotesque tag says it’s for blood and gore and things meant to visually horrify you. Most of the things under that tag make me want to use eye-bleach. Maybe I’m misjudging this because it’s my own work but I didn’t mean for this to be horrific. I mean, the injury’s old; Twilight doesn’t appear upset about it since she’s recovered enough to joke about it. If the picture showed her leg being blown off and there was blood everywhere, then I’d use the grotesque tag.

I’d expect at least “grotesque” categorically, even though this is my thing.

@schpeelah  
Hm. Maybe you’re right. I don’t know. Still: better to be safe than sorry, I guess.

 

I’d say so, not because she’s an amputee, but because of the tons of violence she’s clearly talking about here.