How To Write Twilight Sparkle · 3:58am Jan 13th, 2019
"Oh Tumbleweed!" you cry.
"So, um, just saying, we may have devoted a too-large percentage of our waking hours to the consumption and discussion of a children's cartoon and the various fanfictions thereof. BUT, obviously, you have spent even MORE time on this, given the fact that you are BEST AT PONIES, so please, tell us, finally, for your two-hundreth FiMFiction blog, how do you write Twilight Sparkle, the most important character in our lives in the show?"
WELL LET ME TELL YOU.
Step 1: Drink drinks. MAGICAL drinks. Which is ... like, cocktails, I guess? Only I'm lazy right now so I'm just doing whiskey-cokes 'cause that's all I got 'cause I'm snowed in right now. It's that, or I break into the Vodquila (which is to say, mixed vodka/tequila), which seems a bad idea.
Step 2: Watch this:
CLIFFS NOTES: Twilight Sparkle is the beardy dude on the flying-V.
I guess Starlight Glimmer is on electric cello or something?
You may say Octavia is on electric cello but that is why YOU ARE NOT BEST AT PONIES.
Step 3:
You know, I'm not sure if there is a step 3?
Actually, no. THERE IS A SECRET STEP THREE. Which is to say, watch THIS:
Because Twilight Sparkle will absolutely misuse time travel magics to tell herself she will be super rad in the future.
Rainbow Dash is Ninja Brian.
This has been my 200th blog post.
HEED MY WISE WORDS OF WISDOM.
Nice.
Twilight is a wonderful study in contradictions.
She's humble, unless she thinks she is right, at which point she becomes The Most Right Creature In Equestria.
If something goes wrong that she's involved in, she has to take the blame, unless it is *really* something she did wrong, at which point she'll try to get out from under it.
She is one of the most informed ponies on the planet, but she will waver between needing to do more research and leaping into a decision without critical information. Look up the term Intellectual Yet Idiot concept (IYI).
And she's cute, but unapproachable. (although that's about 99% Hasbro, since Word From Big Jim says they even had a polite post-date kiss on the cheek between Twi and a date nixed due to Word From Above.)
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Yeah, well. Everyone knows Flash Sentry's in love with Special Agent Golden Harvest. Or at least they SHOULD.
My headcanon is the best canon.
4996430 To be honest, Estee writes one cracker of a Twilight, and her Flash Sentry's no slouch either. The Bounce Test gives us a pony who seems to be a walking disaster, with emphasis on the seems.
Stuck on Step One... which is probably for the best. If I did it wrong, it's too late for me.
Save yourselves.
And that was where you lost me.
Twilight is one of those characters who I know well enough that I don't need help writing her. I need help writing other characters so they feel less like her. That headspace is easy for me to occupy, since my default state is already so close to it. Still, excellent pointers for getting into a Sparkly mindset.