The Inspiriation for my Ponysona · 10:13pm Jul 27th, 2015
As you can see, I have a thestral Alicorn Ponysona with no cutie mark. The inspiration behind this is that I was messing around in Train Simulator 2015 and a rare glitch happened where I loaded in a 7F 2-8-0 tender engine and on the tender where either the Letters *SDJR* or the British Railways Crest would have been was blank and the cabside, which housed the number was also blank.
But the one thing about the engine was that despite this goof, it still managed a train of 12 BR MK I coaches and a fifteen wagon goods over the Falmouth line, as well as some minor shunting at Truro and Falmouth.
I wrote this all down and basically decided to go with the strange design of a Thestral Alicorn, as per a joke someone cracked about me being a very magical bat.
As for no Cutie Mark: I wanted this to be very special in that he is multitalented and no Cutie Mark thus far can't really show that talent. It's odd, but once again, I was inspired by Railways and one thing they did in the US-If an engine was owned by more than one road, then they often times scraped the name of the company off the tender and left it blank.
I hope that answers questions for you.
Cutie Marks don't just show talent. They also can show what a pony's destiny is or what makes them special (or any combination).
3274898 Ah, okay. But his destiny-Jack of all trades, master of none. I thought it best represented by being a blank Flank.
3274918 Why not a symbol of Jack of All Trades?
3274927 mainly because at the time "if you read the blog" I was messing around with a steam engine called the 7F 2-8-0 and the glitch mentioned above inspired that.
3274938 Oh yeah - I forgot already.
3274981 yeah. That was the inspiration that caused me to create the character. That and at the Time I was reading an Article on Sodor's number 5, James, who was written as an experimental 2-6-0 from his traditional form of an 0-6-0 as all L&YR 28. besides, I wanted my ponysona to be an experimental pony type anyway.
3275002 You might as well be speaking Chinese instead of all that train lingo because I don't know what any of it means.
3275010 Don't worry about that. I was explaining where the inspiration came from.