Notes for Chapter 14 of "Giving Yourself Advice" · 5:17pm Mar 26th, 2022
Here are the notes for Chapter 14 of "On the Fine Art of Giving Yourself Advice", The Bank of Nowhere:
Tortoise John, Mr. Merrimack and Angelique
These three characters are taken from Rango without changes.
University of Panthera
In the comics, Panthera is the capital of Abyssinia, the kingdom of the talking cats. It’s where Capper comes from.
Mustangia
This is the town that Ms. Peachbottom comes from in the episode “Games Ponies Play”. Since my story is set before Appleoosa was founded, I picked Mustangia to be the closest Western pony town to Nowhere.
The strips beside the staircase
The machinery in the Mayor’s wheelchair is able to engage with some gears and tracks behind those strips, allowing the Mayor to be lifted up- or downstairs.
“The people need to believe in something.”
I believe I shall have another drink.
Pushkin the tailor
The tailor in Rango is unnamed in the film, but officially called Mr. Black. His goggles only have two lenses and he’s actually a black widow spider instead of a tarantula. Pushkin is the name of a snapping turtle vendor from My Little Pony The Movie.
“The wicked Princess Celestia”
And here I start nudging the plot of my Rango knockoff in a more Equestrian direction.
The umbra
This is a race of living shadows from the comics. They seduced Luna into becoming Nightmare Moon, they can be destroyed by the light of the Crystal Heart, and they created the half-pony, half-umbra Sombra for the purpose of destroying that Crystal Heart.
