Thread 42309265

Let's talk about race swopping. Are there any Ponies you think would work better (or at least be interesting) if they were a different race?

I found the concept of Earth Pony Twilight from those leaks very intriguing. I guess I wouldn't want to to actually retcon Twilight specifically, but I love the concept of a character who is extremely magically gifted, but they're an Earth Pony. I wish Starswirl was revealed to be an Earth Pony with a big magic staff, it'd be cool to have the most legendary magic-user in Equestria to be an Earth Pony.

>>42309265 (OP)
>Are there any Ponies you think would work better (or at least be interesting) if they were a different race?
No.

>>42309265 (OP)
i wouldn't want to change their whole characters or anything but it would be interesting to have an episode or two where the Mane 6's races switch around
>Twilight becomes an Earth Pony and can't do magic, she spends the episode researching the problem but being unable to actually cast the spell to fix it, she has to awkwardly instruct the new unicorns on how to fix it despite them being totally new to magic and her being so used to high-level magic that explaining the baby steps is totally foreign to her
>Rarity becomes a Pegasus and is initially intrigued and excited by the new fashion opportunities that having wings presents, but without her magic she runs into issues actually stitching and making the outfits (could lead to her making a new pegasus-focused fashion line once the problem is resolved)
>Rainbowdash becomes an Earth Pony and has to deal with having no wings and being unable to fly, constantly pesters Twilight to hurry up and fix the issue until she becomes too annoying and is sent away, maybe seeks Pinkie's advice on how to make a flying machine like she had in the Gilda episode
>Fluttershy becomes a unicorn, the magic is super helpful for taking care of pets but over the course of the episode she overuses it and becomes too magically controlling, sorta like the Confidence Minotaur episode except she's doing magic to levitate pets or mind control them
>Pinkie becomes a Pegasus and just has tons of fun flying around the whole episode, is probably too busy to meaningfully help Twilight
>Applejack becomes a Unicorn and is initially against using magic on the farm, eventually comes around and becomes insanely productive BUT something with her spells goes wrong and she ends up accidentally bringing her apple orchard to life or causing some other magic related problem, leads to her getting a greater understanding of why she doesn't want Unicorns on the farm in the first place whilst still accepting that their help can be super useful so long as they don't go overboard

>>42309330
Weird they never did this obvious concept desu

>>42309333
i guess they thought it'd be too similar to the season 3 finale so it'd just be retreading old ground
nice trips btw

>>42309265 (OP)
Trixie makes more sense as an earth pony impersonating a uni

>>42309265 (OP)
>Earth Pony with a big magic staff
That's a kickass idea actually I might steal this for my autism horse words

>>42309341
>i guess they thought it'd be too similar to the season 3 finale
This idea should've been the season 3 finale.

>>42309265 (OP)
Pinkamenacorn, anyone?

>>42309330
>Rainbow Dash kicks open the door to Sugarcube Corner
>her new Earth Pony strength makes it fly off the hinges
>PINKIE! I need all your balloons!

>>42309265 (OP)
Do you think Octavia wishes she was a unicorn?