Flash Sentry and Princess Twilight Sparkle

We've got to stop bumping into each other like this.
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You know what, I won't come up with a more creative title since it'd probably piss certain people off. Then again, I did say something about "no shipping vectors" or something like that, but personally I thought this scene was too cute and I figured that something like this would piss off (oh my, I sure love using this expression) more people than it would actually be enjoyed, and besides there's nothing that's really so saucy or suggestive in any of their scenes. So that's why this vector exists. To piss off people who hate FlashLight for whatever reason, and for me to not give two yays if it does.



Why? Because Flash Sentry seems like one of the most hated characters in the fandom since Diamond Tiara, for different reasons from different people, usually to do with the writing, his relation to Twilight, or both. I wrote my opinion (where it'd typically fall on deaf ears and be ignored) on the subject here and here. Otherwise, I have a neutral opinion on this pairing (or rather, shipping altogether), which is also why I'm not pulling any jokes that are probably gonna be taken the wrong way by people who take things too seriously. But really, I wouldn't have minded if they at least executed this pairing better in the movie or went deeper into it, for the mayhem that would unfold.

But if you like it, that's nice too .

(If you ask me though, it seems like people will adopt any reason to hate him just to hide their own personal love for Twilight.)

Twilight keeps this pose for the entire duration after he helps her up and walks away, she never looks at anything in particular (certainly not at his butt), and just looks in his general direction.


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Flash Sentry's design was a pain in the ass. At least, it almost seems like they had to combine different parts of the regular stallion and the Big Mac/Guard puppets to make him, at least at this "profile" angle, which is used for walking animations. As a result, part of me says that the back cloth and saddle plate exists solely to conceal the part where his armor wasn't big enough for his flank (which is exposed if you remove those layers in the SVG, since there's a thing about me and naked stallions since I wanted to upload him without his armor alongside; not because he's some high-ranking guard which was some speculation someone pulled out of nowhere), and part of me says they were added because since he's pretty small for a guard, that they needed to embellish him as much as possible. It's also clear they've redone the wing that usually appears on stallions at this angle to cope, though the stroke width seemed to vary from his armor to his torso to his head and ear, so I tried fixing that, too. Fortunately his 3Q puppet looks a lot better.

Twilight wasn't as hard to vector, but not by much. Here I was thinking she'd just be a relatively easy trace since she has no armor or a coronation dress or shoes, but like most mares, the far-off eye always takes longer than I'd like, and it was a mistake to vector the crown last, since it caused quite the z-order adventure between it, her mane, horn, and ear.

Of course, I'm happy enough with the result to upload it as it is, I can only hope others will like it, too .


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Time:

: 6 hours
: 7 hours




SVG file | Reference Screenshots | Flash Sentry Solo, Twilight Sparkle Solo

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