WE NEED MORE TWIMAC! · 4:34am Jul 27th, 2020
Yeah the show is over and yeah Big Mac was married off to Sugar Belle, but three factors still keep Twimac viable:
1: MLP:FiM was still intended as a children's show and romance for the main characters was more or less verboten save for hints in the movie and the ending episode.
2: Sugar Belle is such a non-entity compared to other characters that she can easily be ignored.
3: Over the course of the show, plenty of bits of character for the two could have plenty of possibilities in a romantic sense.
So! I call upon you to submit ideas for new stories where Twilight Sparkle and Big Macintosh are a romantic pairing. And just to be fair, I will provide a few prompts myself:
1: In the Pre-Princess Twilight seasons, Big Macintosh and Spike develop a brotherly relationship, much to Twilight's approval and interest. This foreshadows their friendship later on in the series. This gives Big Mac and Twilight excuses to talk and bond at the library over their family history and care for Spike.
2: Using Fanon!Mathematics Whiz Big Macintosh, Twilight stumbles across Big Macintosh explaining a few things about how he manages the farm to Spike.
Twilight is organizing the books in the library nearby, when she overhears Spike and Big Mac talking.
Spike: "Huh! Big Mac, what's this?" Looks in a notebook Big Mac's been carrying around
Big Mac: "Hm? Nothin'."
Spike: "There are a lot of numbers in here... You do the books for the Apple farm, right?"
Big Mac: "Eeyup."
Spike: "But-Why's there a sigma here? I don't think that's for accounting."
Big Mac: "Ah'm workin' out the standard deviation of the year's mean to determine how many cider apples we can harvest. Ah do it every year."
Spike: "Uh huh...?"
Big Mac: "Within one deviation is just 68 percent of the apples we could use fer cider, and within two deviations is 95 percent. We’ve rarely had a harvest year in which we could both harvest and process 95 percent of our good cider apples. Ah'm hoping that with extra help we could make that happen, but that requires me figuring out the same fer our other crops to try and improve our profits. I'm not even gonna try and tell y'all about how hard it is to try and find variance among them. It's not jest these standard deviations, but the overall means as pertainin’ to the total number of individual sites."
Twilight: *Her face turns red as she listens in*
Spike: "Huh! So how do you figure all this out? Do you count all the apples you have?"
Big Mac: "Nope. It'd be too labor intensive with everything else we gotta do to maintain the farm. So instead, ah keep life tables of each apple tree's species, age and size, condition, the average number of apples they produce, the rainfall for that year, and the perceived soil quality. Along with a few other factors. Based on a count of how many apples we actually process, we can arrive at an fairly accurate estimation of how many apples have made it through a growing season."
Spike: "Wow..."
Big Mac: *nods* "This lets me make determine the overall success of each harvest, and compare the tables to determine which factors contributed to the outcome. Then ah can make probability distributions using the data to model ways to improve our production and thus our profits fer next year, as well as determine the stochastic drift. "
Twilight: Is a bit faint from arousal-induced bloodflow going everywhere but her brain.
Spike: *Looks up* "Oh hey Twilight! You okay?"
Twilight: "I-I'm fine!" Hoofs him a bag of bits "Go sleepover at Rarity's! Have fun!"
Spike: "Uh, but Twilight it's-"
Twilight: "NOW!"
Spike: "O-Okay!" He runs off
Big Macintosh: "... Sorry Miss Twilight. Is there a problem? Did ah do somethin' to offend you-?"
Twilight: KER-POUNCE!
3: And in a twist on the episode "The Ticket Master", Celestia sends one extra ticket, and tells Twilight she needs an escort for the Grand Galloping Gala-A male escort. Twilight is frantic. She has no idea who to ask... Until Big Macintosh wanders into the library with some apple fritters from Applejack. And Twilight decides to ask him to go with her. Hilarity ensues.
All possible means of adding more to this pairing and exploring new possibilities with it. The fandom may have slowed down a bit, but that's no excuse for not trying new spins on old ideas.
Wasn't there a fanfic somewhere about BM and Trixie fighting for Twilight's affections?
I would argue that Sugar Belle began as a non-entity. But over the seasons, she got fleshed out enough to earn her happy ending, as well as her place in the Apple family.
Also the only other ship for Mac is quite obviously MacDash and any heathens who defy will be purged with holy fire.
Sugar Belle had that weird creepy dude vying for her attentions so she'd be alright without Big Mac, but you know who wasn't? Marble Pie.
I ship it
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Yeah, I remember that. She ended up with both of them.
TwiMac is still one of my favorite ships. It got better after she became an Alicorn since I really like Nobility/Commoner style ships.
The Ticket master idea could work well.... Cadance's idea I'd think.
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Well, that's just like, your opinion man...
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More than anything else, it would be nice if Twilight could have more straight ships than with her own brother.
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Anyone know where it is?
Yes let's rerelease all the old ships from the beginning like WoW Classic
One of the fics I and a friend are working on is where Sweet Apple Acres has some issues and the crops are gonna go bad, so with Twilight's help Mac sets up a couple of hydroponic places. Working together for a while, they develop feelings for each other, especially with each setback and success,
Gotta get to working on that bit actually.
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I miss the good old days where fans would ship her with Time Turner.
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Same for Mac.
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Yeah. Ooh! That's another way for them to get together-Terrible rumors about them being incestuous.
Think you forgot a couple reasons there:
4. A ship being made "canon" doesn't, or at least shouldn't, have even the slightest impact on whether or not you like, ship or draw/write about a pairing you prefer. At most, it makes any such story or art inherently AU, but not to the degree that it really requires a tag, plus such a tag would be redundant in the same way you don't need to tag EqG stories with "human." Short version: Ship what you want and don't let anyone tell you you shouldn't, whether it's other fans, other shippers or the show itself. Fanfic's inherently separated from the show, so just roll with it.
Also:
5. Even if you disagree with the above point in general, you absolutely have the right to reject a canonical romance if you find it stupid, unappealing, annoying, creepy, poorly executed or in any other way awful. Being a fan, in whatever capacity, does not make you contractually or morally obligated to love, enjoy and accept every single part of the show, large and small. Fans should feel free to take and leave what they want and, if a show romance repels you, you can just leave it. Goodness knows, there are parts of the show, romances and otherwise, that I'm sure as hell not going to incorporate into my writing.
As for more of Twi and Mac? Well, I wouldn't go out of my way for it, but it's a cute pairing with a lot of potential, so I certainly wouldn't mind.
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And 6: ponies can break up. That's a bit harder to stomach for the ones who ended up happily married (such as in this case), but it's what I do to MaudBriar because even Sheldon himself wouldn't accept a universe where Sheldon was happy.
Oh, and 7: Herds are totally an option. Twilight did save Sugar Belle from life as a cultist, after all. Having the princess doing the saving is a bit unorthodox, but it works as well as the trope usually does.
FWIW, this story has TwiMac as one of its main ships: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/384960/twilight-gets-a-puppy