Name: Coin Flip (Shadow Consumption) [Tumbling Bit]
Age at start of 6+1: 16
Hair color: Dark Blue
Mane color: Light Yellow
Eye color: Scarlet
Cutie Mark: Spinning Coin between three stars in a triangle
Special Talent: Luck Manipulation

Name: Golden Sparkle (Birth Name) [Coruscating Flicker]
Age at start of 6+1: 10
Hair color: Muted Gold
Mane color: Royal Blue/Bottle Green
Eye color: Scarlet
Cutie Mark: Not Yet Earned
Special Talent: Not Yet Discovered

(Note: I've decided that my essays are written from a Doylist POV rather than a Watsonian POV. Basically, its from MY POV rather than from Coin Flips)

On Cutie Marks.

The term "cutie mark" refers to the marking on the rump of a pony. Since MLP is targetted towards girls (although FiM has gained quite the large periphery audience), the name sounds cutesy. I'm fine with that. Coin Flip would probably call it a rump marking, because he's (most of the time) a stallion.

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There's a saying in writing "Take from one source, it's plagiarism. Take from ten sources, it's theft. Take from thirty sources, it's considered a tribute. Take from a hundred sources, it's considered worldbuilding." Sometimes, when reading a fic, I find an idea I like. This post will be comprised of ideas I like, where I found them and who wrote the stories the idea came from.

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