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This color palette could use some fine tuning, but great eye color.
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42742435/#42757779
The most polished character at the moment is the magic pony: She's a candy maker with a passion for magic, ordering books from wherever she can to study them. She isn't as powerful or well-read as Twilight, but she pushes herself extra hard, and with enough effort and shortcuts, manages to cast spells far beyond her level. She lives in a wizard tower despite it's impractical shape, because she's convinced that living like a wizard will help her learn magic too. She has a habit of popping a candy before tasks that take concentration. In one episode it's revealed that she's been using caffeine pills, and needs to learn that using them too much means she isn't even getting more alert but just normal anymore, and needs to fight off her addiction. After the withdrawal period, she comes to realize she's been popping pills as a ritual rather than out of necessity, and switches to plain regular candy.
>The forest is like an ocean: the deeper you go, the taller trees, less sunlight, and weirder creatures you meet. There's a shamanistic tribe of moose living there, for ponies to meet later in the show.
Like the original intention of the Everfree Forest being an entire continent and a hub area connecting to other realms through its secret passageways.
Unbeknownst to donkeys, at the peak of the mountain far above the clouds, is the last city of mountain goats, living like greek gods in their pantheon. Discovered later in the show, their civilization has been slowly degrading in it's decadence as the goats believe all they need is grapes and theater, but the arrival of ponies changes everything. At first, they view ponies as bemusing primitives, awestruck by their initial impression of the vast marble city, but little things like a shared candy here and a hummed song there start awakening curiosity about the world below the clouds.