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So,

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My Little Pony OCs are pretty cool, huh?

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I mean, think about it:

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you get to create and design your very own pony,
 or other type of creature, within Equestria.

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You can make them any color you want.

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You can put items of clothing
and cool little accessories on them.

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You can spend four months straight
 crafting a two-hundred-thousand word novel

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 about their backstory.

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And, most importantly, you can imagine them living 
in the peaceful and harmonious land of Equestria.

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(Where, a catastrophic, world-ending event 
 almost happens, like, every other two months,

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but hey, that's beside the point.)

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What I'm trying to say is that My Little Pony OCs 
or "ponysonas" are pretty neat.

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There's even a decent chance that you,
the one watching this video,

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have created at least one of them for yourself.

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Heck, even I have one that I made back in early 2021.

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He's a cool little giant blueberry
with a purple hoodie. I love him very much.

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That being said though, despite the differences
that the countless number of MLP OCs have,
He's a cool little giant blueberry
with a purple hoodie. I love him very much.

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That being said though, despite the differences
that the countless number of MLP OCs have,

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They all still have one small thing in common:

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that being the fact that they are not canon
to the actual universe and lore of Equestria.

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[Ding!]

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But wait. Hold on a minute.

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I actually just lied to you.

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Though the vast majority of MLP OCs
and sonas aren't canon,

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there actually exists
a very small subset of them that are.

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As in they actually officially appeared
in MLP: Friendship is Magic itself.

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So naturally, I'm going to spend
the rest of this video

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taking a look at all of the notable examples of this
that I could find,

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and try my best to explain
who exactly created them

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and how did they even make their way into the show
in the first place.

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And, just so you know,
 with the exception of one,

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I'm only going to talk about the OCs
that appear in specifically MLP:FIM itself.

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This is mainly because the people who draw
the official MLP comics

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REALLY enjoy putting their random OCs
in the background sometimes.

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This video would be, like, three hours long
if I tried to talk about all of those,

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so I'm just going to skip them and focus on the show.

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So, with that caveat having been said,

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let's begin taking a look at the history
of canon My Little Pony OCs.

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So...

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the first ever OC that managed
to make its way into the show

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was a background pony named Holly Dash.

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She first appeared during a single shot
all the way back in season one episode two,

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and she would make her second and ultimately
final appearance eight episodes later

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in "Swarm of the Century",

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where she can briefly be seen
running away from some parasprites.

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Holly Dash as an original character, though,

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was created by an animator
and visual effects artist

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that actually worked on the MLP:FIM show itself:

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Holly Giesbrecht.

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According to some comments
that she made on DeviantArt

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Holly Dash originated from when she
and a few other animators working on the show

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decided to use some of the pony assets
that they had access to

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 to design their own original ponies for fun.

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She also said that the name "Holly Dash" was
from a nickname that she was given by her coworkers

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due to her dyed air being somewhat similar
to Rainbow Dash's hair in the show.

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How exactly Holly Dash ended up in the show
isn't entirely known.

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But, according to Giesbrecht, she created her
while being under Hasbro's contract

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which meant that, legally speaking,
Hasbro fully owned her OC.

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So I believe what most likely happened
was that some animators working on the show

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tried to put Holly Dash
into the background of a few episodes

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while they were still in production,
but she was eventually noticed by a few higher-ups.

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Rather than telling them to remove her though,
they instead just... let her stay there, I guess.

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Anyways, according to Giesbrecht
in a DeviantArt reply,

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Holly Dash stopped appearing in episodes
after "Swarm of the Century"

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"mostly because she wasn't supposed
to be there at all."

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After those episodes aired,

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Hasbro would actually use Holly Dash
for a few pieces of merchandise

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and she would also make a few small cameos
in the official comics by IDW a few years later.

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As for Holly Giesbrecht herself though,

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she seemingly stopped working on MLP:FIM
sometime during 2013,

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but has apparently been doing pretty well
as a freelance artist and animator ever since then.

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Also, one more thing...

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You know how I said that Holly Dash was created
during the production of season one of FIM?

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Yeah, that most likely means that she was one of,
if not possibly the first ever,

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MLP Gen. 4 OC to ever be created. Period.

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It's pretty interesting to think about how this,
and one other pony later in the video,

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were quite literally created before
any episodes of the show even aired.

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Alright then,

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so now... to the next one.

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The second OC to ever be in the show
was another female pegasus,

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this time called Wild Fire.

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She first appeared in the season two finale
 "A Canterlot Wedding"

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in that one flashback where Cadance
shows off her love magic

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 by making Wild Fire and her partner
suddenly stop arguing.

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(Which, by the way, that lowkey kinda has
some weird implications if you think about it...

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...but that's beside the point I guess.)

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Anyways, she would also make a few other
smaller background appearances:

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firstly in the season three episode "Wonderbolts Academy"

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and lastly in the season six episode "Top Bolt".

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Wild Fire the OC though, much like Holly Dash,

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was created by a person
who worked on the show itself:

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this time it was Sabrina Alberghetti,
a storyboard artist.

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From what I can gather,

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Sabrina made Wild Fire sometime during 2011
while season two was still in production.

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According to Sabrina
in a few DeviantArt journal posts

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her OC made it into the first part
of the Canterlot Wedding two-parter

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when she noticed, when looking at
a revised version of the storyboard,

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that the pony who was originally going to be the one
arguing with the stallion in the flashback,

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a pony called Meadow Flower,
looked quite similar to Wild Fire;

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so, she decided to half-jokingly suggest
to the art director of the episode, Ridd Sorensen,

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that they replace Meadow Flower
with Wild Fire in the scene,

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which he surprisingly approved of.

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And in season three, Wild Fire would be added
to the Wonderbolts Academy episode

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apparently after the co-director
of this season James "Wootie"

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needed a few extra background pony designs
to fill in some crowd shots,

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so he asked Sabrina if they could use Wild Fire.

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Something interesting that I noticed here, though,

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is that in "Wonderbolts Academy"
Wild Fire's hair and tail styles

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were actually changed to look more like Derpy's:

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This was apparently because
several other show staff members

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tried and failed to put
their OCs into other episodes

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and DHX didn't want to upset Hasbro by adding in
 too many "non-approved pony designs".

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Anyways, in terms of appearances outside of FIM,

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Wild Fire would be featured
in two MLP collectable cards

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and also be seen a few times in the MLP comics.

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As for Sabrina Alberghetti herself though,

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she continued doing her storyboarding job at DHX
for Friendship is Magic up until around 2015,

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when she announced on Twitter that she
would be moving on from the show after season six.

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And that's pretty much everything about Wild Fire.

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It's just a pretty interesting case
of another show staff member's original pony

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getting put into the show.

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The circumstances of this next pony
are a bit more unique when compared to the last two.

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Instead of a pony OC that was directly created
by a crew member working on the show itself,

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this is one that was created by a kid
of someone who worked on the show.

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So this is Midnight Strike.

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She is another female pegasus
and was created by the daughter

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of the previously mentioned art director Ridd Sorensen.

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And well, lo and behold,

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 in the episode "Wonderbolts Academy"
she briefly appears in one scene

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as a Wonderbolt cadet flying through a hoop
in the background.

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That's right: Ridd Sorensen
used his position on the show

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to pull some strings, I guess,

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and managed to get his daughter's pony
into an actual episode.

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From what I can tell,

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Ridd Sorensen's daughter
designed Midnight Strike sometime during 2011.

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In this forum post that she made on a virtual
pet adoption website in December of 2011,

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she actually gave some more specific details
on Midnight Strike as an original character:

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her cutie mark is a lightning cloud,

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she is a teenager,

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her special talent is being "fast",

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she was born and raised in Cloudsdale,
but eventually moved to Ponyville

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and her personality is described as
being friendly and a bit silly.

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In addition to this,
there's this other note that says:

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"my dad is art director of the show,
so my pony's gonna be an extra!"

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Something else related to this
that I found kinda amusing

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is how shortly after the "Wonderbolts Academy"
episode first aired in December of 2012,

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Ridd Sorensen made this tweet announcing
that the name of the OC was Midnight Strike.

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And by the wording of the post,

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it almost seems like his daughter
told him to make that tweet

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so the MLP fandom wouldn't coin
their own name for her pony

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which, if that is what happened, that's honestly
both quite funny and wholesome at the same time.

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Anyways, there isn't much else to say
about Midnight Strike.

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This is just a pretty funny case of a crew member

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somehow successfully putting
their kid's OC into the show.

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So, this next pony in the history of canon MLP OCs
is called Peachy Pitt.

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She is a female unicorn that seems
to be a banner vendor living in Ponyville

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and she appeared in two total episodes,

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though the more notable appearance out of the two
was in the season 4 episode from 2014 "Pinkie Pride",

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wherein, thanks to Tabitha St. Germain,
she actually has a brief speaking role

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 talking to Pinkie during the "Pinkie the Party Planner" song.

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And, as you may have already guessed,

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Peachy Pitt is also yet another OC
that was created by somebody who worked on the show.

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This time it was an animator working at
Studio B Productions,

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 AKA DHX Vancouver,

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called Erica Pitt,
 AKA DHX Vancouver,

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called Erica Pitt,

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who did some work on the show
from May to December of 2010.

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According to an interview on a brony podcast

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that Erica answered some questions on
in October of 2011,

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much like how Holly Dash was created,
she originally designed Peachy Pitt

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by recolouring some of the stock pony assets
that she had access to,

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which also means that Peachy Pitt
is the other contender

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for possibly being the first ever Gen.4 pony OC,
which is cool to think about.

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What's kind of funny in hindsight is that
she also said that she and several other animators

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were explicitly told by few higher-ups not to add
their OCs as background ponies in the show.

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Another kind of funny thing that she mentions here

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is that, apparently, a T-shirt
with an image of Peachy Pitt imprinted onto it

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was worn at the Studio B Productions studio

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as an inside joke between herself
and some of the other animators.

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And, before you ask,

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 no, I unfortunately couldn't find any photos of it,
but I sure wish that I did.

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One more interesting thing that I found that's
worth bringing up about the history of Peachy Pitt

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was that sometime between July and August of 2011

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a brony by the name of Cliff
decided to write a letter addressed to Erica Pitt,

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basically just thanking her
for all of the work that she did on the show.

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Once she received it, instead of maybe ignoring it
or just writing a simple letter back,

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Erica decided to go a few steps above that

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 by sending him
an entire framed autographed image of Peachy Pitt,

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which you are currently seeing
in the video playing right now.

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The writing on it is a bit hard to read
because the image quality is, like... 144p,

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but it more or less personally thanks Cliff
for being a fan of the show,

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and says that Peachy Pitt
appreciates all of her fans.

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This is pretty funny,
because it's certainly not every day that you see

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an MLP crew member sending someone
an entire framed image of their pony OC.

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I like to image that this guy
still has it up hanging on a wall in his house...

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...or something...

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Anyways, as to how exactly
Peachy Pitt even got into the show itself

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well, truthfully, I don't know.

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both of the episodes where she can be seen

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were produced years
after Erica pitt had already left the show,

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so my best guess is that maybe some
veteran crew members remembered Peachy Pitt...

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...or something...

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and decided she would look good
as a vendor pony, or whatever,

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though that is only speculation,
so take it with a grain of salt.

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As for how Erica Pitt herself is doing,

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she worked on a few other Flash animated cartoons
for a few more years up until 2013,

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when she apparently decided to begin
focus working in the videogame industry instead,

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and ever since at least 2016 she's been employed
at the game development company

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 Klei Entertainment.
and ever since at least 2016 she's been employed
at the game development company

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 Klei Entertainment.

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And also, one more thing:

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this is sorta unrelated, but Peachy Pitt is probably
my personal favourite pony on this entire list

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like, this is literally S-tier pony design.

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I hereby give this horse
the Tobby Stamp of Approval.

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Anyways, let's now take a look
at the next pony on the list.

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This next OC is named Stellar Eclipse.

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For some context,

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he was the very first of the four total OCs
that appeared in MLP G4

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as a result of Hasbro and DHX working
with the Make-A-Wish foundation.

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If you are unaware
what the Make-A-Wish foundation is,

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in short it's basically a non-profit organization
that aims to fulfill the wishes

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of terminally and/or otherwise critically ill
children between the ages of 2½ and 18.

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Stellar Eclipse's creator, who I will just refer to
as Stellar for the sake of his privacy,

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was born with a rare genetic disease
called spinal muscular atrophy type 3.

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And so,

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around the time that the fourth season of
MLP: Friendship is Magic was being produced in 2013,

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the Make-A-Wish foundation, who had recently
started working with Stellar and his family,

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approached Hasbro and DHX in order to fulfill
something that he had wished for.

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And as you already know,

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that something was his pony OC, Stellar Eclipse,
appearing in an episode of the show.

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The episode where he can be seen is in season four,
episode twenty-two "Trade Ya!".

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He appears in it when Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy
try to get him to trade them a lamp,

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and also when they find out that he's waiting in line for an oat burger at a food truck.

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What's especially cool
about his appearance in this episode

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is that they didn't just get a random guy
to voice his pony or whatever:

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DHX actually gave Stellar himself
the opportunity to voice his OC

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which is, honestly, really awesome.

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In addition to this,

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Stellar Eclipse is also one of the very few ponies
within Generation 4
In addition to this,

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Stellar Eclipse is also one of the very few ponies
within Generation 4

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that is depicted as having a physical disability.

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That being said,

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in terms of Stellar Eclipse's
appearance in official MLP media,

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that's pretty much all that there is to say.

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However, he can also be seen on the cover
of an MLP comic released in 2016,

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which is cool to see.

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Now, as for Stellar himself,
he seems to be doing quite fine nowadays.

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As a matter of fact,

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I would say that he's actually the most
still active creator of an OC in this entire video,

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as in he still actively participates
in the MLP fandom on a regular basis to this very day.

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He has a Twitter account and also a Twitch channel

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where he occasionally streams some games
with friends while using a pony Vtuber model.

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And while his style of content
probably won't be enjoyed by everybody,

00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.500
from what I've seen though,
he's a legitimately entertaining guy,

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and certainly doesn't deserve to just be known
for the time that his pony OC appeared in the show.

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So, if you'd like to, you can go ahead
and check out his Twitch channel and whatnot.

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Anyways though, let's now talk about two pony OCs
that were originally from the IDW comics

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but then made it into the show itself.

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So,

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meet Bittersweet and Leadwing.

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They are the OCs of the IDW Publishing
MLP comic writer Kevin Cook

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 and artist Andy Price respectively.

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Like I said, they actually initially originated
from the MLP comics,

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which makes sense
given the people who created them.

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They first appeared in the very first issue
of the MLP: Friendship is Magic comic

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released all the way back in 2012.

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However, they wouldn't actually appear in the show
until the season five episode "Princess Spike"

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where they can be seen acting as delegates
from a place in Equestria.

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The two of them also made a few other
small cameos in the show after Princess Spike:

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Bittersweet can be seen in the background
of a scene in the episode "Made in Manehattan"

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and they can both be also seen in the crowd
at Starlight Glimmer's graduation ceremony

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in the season seven episode "Celestial Advice".

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As to how exactly Katie Cook and Andy Price's OCs
got into the show in the first place,

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well... I'm not 100% sure how,
but I believe it's probably safe to say

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that their positions working on the MLP comics
definitely had something to do with it.

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Despite Hasbro at this point
having a well-established rule in place

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for show staff not to add their OCs into the show,

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I imagine that adding Bittersweet and Leadwing

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 might have been a little easier
for them to convince Hasbro to allow, I guess,

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because Katie Cook and Andy Price themselves
never worked at DHX;

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they only ever worked for IDW Publishing.

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Aside from the fact

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they both also make a bunch
of random miscellaneous cameos in the MLP comics,

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there isn't really much else to say about them.

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Two small things that I will mention, however,

00:20:06.136 --> 00:20:08.970
is that according to Katie Cook on Twitter

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Bittersweet is apparently
supposed to be from "DeTrot".

00:20:13.390 --> 00:20:15.360
And in July of 2012,

00:20:15.360 --> 00:20:21.000
 she also made this Tweet with this photo attached
featuring Bittersweet.

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It isn't too relevant,
but I just thought it was funny.

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Well then, with all that having been said,

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let's now talk about a bit of a more *unique* pony OC.

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So, at the end of the season five episode of MLP:FIM
"Canterlot Boutique"

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this pony right here enters
the Canterlot Carousel,

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asking about a dress
right before the episode ends.

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Shortly after the episode was released,
she was dubbed Whoa Nellie by the fandom

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though this name is wholly unofficial

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as she's referred to as
"Incidental Pony" in the credits.

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(And, by the way, this is sort of unrelated,

00:21:03.950 --> 00:21:10.080
but I decided to spend, like, two hours
tracking down the origin of the Whoa Nellie name

00:21:10.080 --> 00:21:15.240
and the earliest mention of it that I could find
was from a Derpibooru comment

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posted a few hours after the episode first aired.

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Anyways, if you ever watched
the Canterlot Boutique episode,

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you probably thought the inclusion of this pony
was just a small gag

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 put at the end for fun, or whatever.

00:21:30.300 --> 00:21:31.930
And while that is true,

00:21:31.930 --> 00:21:37.760
what you probably didn't know however
is that Whoa Nellie is, technically speaking,

00:21:37.760 --> 00:21:42.800
a pony OC that was created by a person
named Chermaine Verhagan,

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an artist who worked at DHX as a character
and prop designer for the show

00:21:47.840 --> 00:21:50.030
 during seasons five and six.

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According to QnA panels held
during a few different My Little Pony conventions

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Charmaine apparently had a habit
of sometimes drawing random ponies

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she created with unique or distinctive designs
during her breaks for fun.

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and one of those ponies she created one day
was, of course, none other than Whoa Nellie.

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As far as I can tell, Whoa Nellie seemed
to almost become somewhat of an inside joke

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between some of the people
working on the show at the time.

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As was explained by a few show staff
being asked about Whoa Nellie at QnAs,

00:22:25.080 --> 00:22:30.270
she apparently got into the show
as a result of two other character designers,

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Kora Kosicka and Rebecca Dart,
finding out about Whoa Nellie

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and submitting her to Hasbro for their approval,

00:22:37.150 --> 00:22:40.480
 fully expecting for her design
to be rejected by them.

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But, in a funny twist of fate,

00:22:42.890 --> 00:22:49.020
to their surprise Hasbro actually approved
Whoa Nellie to appear in episodes of the show.

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So, that's how she ended up in Canterlot Boutique.

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That being said, she also made
a few small appearances in some other episodes,

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like in "Tanks for the Memories", where
a photograph of her can be seen inside of a locker,

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and in the episode "Made in Manehattan",
where she can be seen printed on a newspaper.

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There isn't a whole lot else to say about her,

00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:16.640
but one kinda interesting thing that is
worth mentioning before I talk about the next OC

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is that, according to the previously mentioned
staff QnAs,

00:23:20.610 --> 00:23:25.430
during season five's production,
they would often internally refer to Whoa Nellie

00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:31.420
as the "Love Yourself pony", due to her cutie mark
literally being a depiction of a star

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with herself in the middle of it,
which is cool to see and think about.

00:23:38.900 --> 00:23:39.650
So,

00:23:39.650 --> 00:23:44.260
this next pony OC was the second
out of four total OCs

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that appeared in the show as a result of
the previously mentioned Make-A-Wish Foundation.

00:23:50.220 --> 00:23:52.440
She is called Angel Wings,

00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:58.200
and she is a pegasus that appeared
throughout the season six episode "Top Bolt"

00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:02.510
as one of the newly accepted trainees
at the Wonderbolts Academy,

00:24:02.510 --> 00:24:09.340
most notably when she talked to Twilight Sparkle
and Rainbow Dash a few times in the episode.

00:24:09.570 --> 00:24:14.350
And what's even more cool is that,
much like with the creator of Stellar Eclipse,

00:24:14.350 --> 00:24:18.480
the creator of Angel Wings
also got to voice their OC here.

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And, speaking of them,

00:24:20.150 --> 00:24:23.910
Angel Wings was created
by a person called Lex Heule

00:24:23.910 --> 00:24:27.970
who, as a result of being born
with a congenital heart disease,

00:24:27.970 --> 00:24:32.600
got approached by the Make-A-Wish Foundation
sometime in 2015

00:24:32.600 --> 00:24:36.480
and, as you already know,
they would use their granted wish to them

00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:39.310
to voice a pony in MLP:FIM,

00:24:39.310 --> 00:24:43.080
which is eventually how Angel Wings
made it into the show.

00:24:43.340 --> 00:24:45.280
According to what I could find

00:24:45.280 --> 00:24:51.540
Lex had first created Angel Wings
sometime around 2014-early 2015

00:24:51.540 --> 00:24:58.020
and they apparently initially used generalzoi's
pony creator flash game on DeviantArt

00:24:58.020 --> 00:24:59.070
to design her.

00:24:59.070 --> 00:25:01.340
Which is... pretty interesting to think about:

00:25:01.340 --> 00:25:05.330
especially when you consider
that the design of the bracelets

00:25:05.330 --> 00:25:10.160
that can be seen on Angel Wings's front hooves
are quite literally taken

00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.580
straight from generalzoi's pony creator itself.

00:25:13.790 --> 00:25:15.970
Anyways, outside of the show,

00:25:15.970 --> 00:25:19.880
Angel Wings also briefly appeared
in some other MLP stuff

00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:21.710
like in the comics,

00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:23.330
the Gameloft game,

00:25:23.330 --> 00:25:25.620
and also a collectable card.

00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:29.580
But, as to how Angel Wings's creator
is doing nowadays,

00:25:29.580 --> 00:25:34.290
well, they don't have much of
an active online presence from the looks of it

00:25:34.290 --> 00:25:38.400
but, according to their Twitter at least,
they seem to be doing fine.

00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:44.400
There isn't much else to say about Angel Wings now,
so why don't we now take a look

00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:47.760
at the next pony OC that appeared in the show.

00:25:50.930 --> 00:25:51.610
So,

00:25:51.610 --> 00:25:56.880
this upcoming pony is yet again another OC
that got into the show

00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.640
because of the Make-A-Wish foundation.

00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.740
So, in the season seven episode
"Fame and Misfortune"

00:26:03.740 --> 00:26:07.280
during this one scene where
a bunch of out of town ponies

00:26:07.280 --> 00:26:12.910
are trying to get Twilight Sparkle's attention
after the friendship journal in the episode

00:26:12.910 --> 00:26:13.990
was published,

00:26:13.990 --> 00:26:16.010
the OC can be seen.

00:26:16.010 --> 00:26:20.200
To be specific,
he's this blue unicorn pony right here

00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:22.740
 that's wearing a cap on his head.

00:26:22.740 --> 00:26:26.660
You're probably now wondering
what his name is, right?

00:26:26.660 --> 00:26:29.670
Well, you see, uh, that's the thing...

00:26:29.670 --> 00:26:31.770
...he doesn't have a name

00:26:31.770 --> 00:26:35.160
or, at least, doesn't have one that I could find.

00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:41.110
The credits of the episode
do technically refer to him as "Out of Town Pony"

00:26:41.110 --> 00:26:44.400
but that doesn't quite roll off the toungue, does it?

00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.230
And, despite an hour or two of searching,

00:26:47.230 --> 00:26:51.920
I could barely find anything else
about this OC whatsoever.

00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:55.120
It's simply too difficult
to learn anything about him

00:26:55.120 --> 00:26:57.440
 if I don't even know his name.

00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:58.580
As a matter of fact,

00:26:58.580 --> 00:27:03.440
literally the only reason that I know
he isn't just a normal background pony

00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.410
is due to Jim Miller,
a person who worked on the show at this time

00:27:07.410 --> 00:27:14.230
making a reply to a tweet confirming that this pony
was in fact an OC belonging to a kid

00:27:14.230 --> 00:27:16.830
that was from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

00:27:16.830 --> 00:27:18.460
So, as such,

00:27:18.460 --> 00:27:23.710
this OC is easily the most obscure pony
in this entire video.

00:27:23.710 --> 00:27:29.740
I literally had no clue this dude was even an OC
until I was already mostly finished

00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:32.160
writing the script for this video.

00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.200
So, because of the obscurity of this pony,
I don't have much to say about him

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.840
or, for that matter, his creator
that requested he be put into the show.

00:27:41.840 --> 00:27:42.980
And you know what?

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:44.980
Whoever they are, good for them.

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:47.840
They're definitely entitled to their privacy,

00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:52.550
so all that I can say about them
is that I hope they're still doing fine nowadays.

00:27:55.900 --> 00:27:56.650
Anyways,

00:27:56.650 --> 00:28:02.720
with that having been said, this next pony OC
was the fourth and ultimately final pony

00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:07.170
to be added into MLP
because of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

00:28:07.170 --> 00:28:09.680
As mentioned in the beginning of this video,

00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:15.690
I am sort of breaking my own rule of only talking
about ponies who appeared in MLP:FIM here

00:28:15.690 --> 00:28:22.920
because this pony didn't appear in the show,
but rather instead the 2017 My Little Pony movie.

00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:27.400
But hey, it's my video,
I get to bend the rules here, okay?!

00:28:27.650 --> 00:28:30.260
Anyways, meet Code Red.

00:28:30.260 --> 00:28:34.630
He's an orange colored earth pony,
and he briefly appeared in the background

00:28:34.630 --> 00:28:39.050
of one scene in the movie,
at around the 8 minute mark.

00:28:39.050 --> 00:28:43.400
And, in addition to this,
he was also voiced by the person who created him,

00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:44.736
Adam Bengis.

00:28:45.016 --> 00:28:46.720
So, for some context,

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:53.450
sometime around 2016 the Make-A-Wish Foundation
began working with Adam and his family

00:28:53.450 --> 00:28:56.120
due to him having survived leukemia

00:28:56.120 --> 00:28:59.040
and, according to a magazine snippet I found,

00:28:59.040 --> 00:29:04.380
his wish was apparently
to be able to voice a character in an animated movie,

00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:11.110
which he obviously ended up doing through the form
of his own pony OC in the My Little Pony movie,

00:29:11.110 --> 00:29:12.700
which is pretty cool.

00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:16.750
You can see his name in the credits of the movie
and everything.

00:29:16.750 --> 00:29:21.230
With that being said,
there isn't a lot else to say about Code Red,

00:29:21.230 --> 00:29:25.400
because his appearance in the movie
is pretty short and minimal.

00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:30.260
So, as for his creator, Adam,
he seems to be doing pretty well for himself.

00:29:30.260 --> 00:29:33.320
He doesn't have that much of an online presence,

00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:38.570
but he has occasionally posted photos
of himself on hiking trips and whatnot.

00:29:38.570 --> 00:29:42.800
So it's nice to see
that he's still doing fine nowadays.

00:29:45.888 --> 00:29:49.370
With that all having been said
about Core Red though,

00:29:49.370 --> 00:29:56.110
I believe it is now time to move on
to the final two canon pony OCs that I could find.

00:29:56.110 --> 00:29:59.570
Which, due to the circumstances
of how they got into the show

00:29:59.570 --> 00:30:02.330
 being basically exactly the same,

00:30:02.330 --> 00:30:05.470
I'll just be grouping them together
for the sake of it.

00:30:05.470 --> 00:30:09.850
Before I talk abut them though,
there is some needed context.

00:30:09.850 --> 00:30:12.920
So, during September of 2017,

00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.640
a convention officially made and organized
by Hasbro themselves,

00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.160
appropriatedly named HasCon,

00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:25.560
Took place throughout the 8th to the 10th
at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

00:30:25.560 --> 00:30:30.490
It's worth nothing that it wasn't specifically
about My Little Pony or anything,

00:30:30.490 --> 00:30:34.120
it was more like just a massive way
of promoting all types

00:30:34.120 --> 00:30:37.840
of the various different properties
owned by Hasbro.

00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:39.880
However, during this convention,

00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:45.120
a special paid MLP-themed "Mane Event" took place,

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:49.980
where one of the included perks
for people who paid the money to access the event

00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:55.544
was getting a pony OC
created specifically for them by a DHX artist

00:30:55.544 --> 00:30:55.552
after they took a short, MLP-themed
personality quiz.
was getting a pony OC
created specifically for them by a DHX artist

00:30:55.552 --> 00:30:59.810
after they took a short, MLP-themed
personality quiz.

00:30:59.810 --> 00:31:03.920
In addition to this, they would also
be automatically entered into a raffle,

00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:08.730
where two lucky winners would be selected
for their newly-designed OCs

00:31:08.730 --> 00:31:12.430
to actually appear
in an episode of the show itself.

00:31:12.430 --> 00:31:15.980
So, who were the two lucky winners of the raffle?

00:31:15.980 --> 00:31:21.860
Well, the first winner was a guy
that goes by the online user name The Illustrious Q,

00:31:21.860 --> 00:31:26.860
with the pony that was created for him
having been given the name "Trusty Splendor",

00:31:26.860 --> 00:31:30.440
who is an orange-colored pegasus
with a pair of glasses.

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:35.310
He can briefly be seen in the season eight episode
"School Daze - Part 1",

00:31:35.310 --> 00:31:37.620
in a library with Sandbar.

00:31:37.620 --> 00:31:39.750
And, in addition to being in the show,

00:31:39.750 --> 00:31:43.490
Trusty Splendor
also appeared once in the comics.

00:31:43.490 --> 00:31:49.760
As for The Illustrious Q himself, he's actually
a relatively active member of the MLP fandom

00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:52.320
and, according to his Twitter account at least,

00:31:52.320 --> 00:31:56.920
it seems that he's fully embraced Trusty Splendor
as his pony OC,

00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:58.600
which is pretty cool to see.

00:31:59.032 --> 00:32:02.480
Anyways, as for who the winner
of the second raffle was,

00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.064
well, truthfully... I don't know.
I couldn't find much.

00:32:06.064 --> 00:32:06.072
The only thing that I could find
as to who the second winner was
well, truthfully... I don't know.
I couldn't find much.

00:32:06.072 --> 00:32:09.520
The only thing that I could find
as to who the second winner was

00:32:09.520 --> 00:32:15.230
is a comicbook.com article that mentioned
their name was aparently Natalya

00:32:15.230 --> 00:32:17.330
and absolutely nothing else.

00:32:17.330 --> 00:32:22.170
But, if I had to take a guess,
it's probably safe to say that they were just a kid,

00:32:22.170 --> 00:32:26.940
because the pony OC that was designed after them
is also a kid.

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:31.360
And, speaking of that OC,
she's named Rainbow Harmony

00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:35.940
and, as with Trusty Splendor,
appeared in School Daze - Part 1

00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:40.320
near the beginning of the episode,
when she briefly gets some navigational advice

00:32:40.320 --> 00:32:41.960
from Cozy Glow.

00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:45.150
The design of Rainbow Harmony
is pretty neat honestly:

00:32:45.150 --> 00:32:50.130
she has a rainbow-colored mane and tail
which is aside from a few notable examples,

00:32:50.130 --> 00:32:52.890
we don't see a lot in Gen. 4 ponies.

00:32:52.890 --> 00:32:58.230
Aside from that, though, she also appeared
a few times in two MLP comic issues,

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specifically in the MLP: Feats of Friendship series.

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And, well, that's pretty much all that there is to say
about her and Trust Splendor.

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And so,

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that therefore means
that we have officially reached the end

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of the thirteen different my Little Pony OCs,
or sonas, that can be considered as canon in Gen. 4.

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Looking back at all of them now, in hindsight,
in addition to their creators,

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I think it was quite interesting to learn
of all of the different ways and reasons

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that these ponies made their way into the show.

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Whether they were added in by show staff,

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requested to be put in by kids
working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation

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or added in
for whichever other miscellaneous reason,

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there was something inherently very unique
and special about them

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when compared to other MLP OCs.

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This something is primarily the fact that,
for better or for worse,

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they are now forever immortalized
 as being a part of MLP:FIM itself.

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So, with that all having been said...

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thanks for watching
the history of canon My Little Pony OCs.

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Oh, hey!
I hope you enjoyed watching this.

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Anyways, I just want to say that I had a lot of fun
researching stuff for this video.

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It was genuinely pretty intriguing to learn more
about this fairly niche and specific subject.

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So, I hope you got something worthwhile
out of this video,

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and learned a few new things about MLP too.

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Anyhow, while you're here,
you can also check out my socials

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like my Twitter and also my Discord server,

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where a bunch of other, like-minded MLP fanatics
such as myself, hang out sometimes.

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Uh, anyways,
I don't really have anything else to say,

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so, I will see you...

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...whenever I see you.

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[Subtitles by Mister Pino]