An AU where Twilight Sparkle has been a changeling this entire time. Her parents after having their first child, Shining Armor, are seemingly unable to conceive another child. They'd had no luck trying to conceive Another child themselves, so they started considering adoption. That was quickly decided on when they found an abandoned changeling grub/baby on their doorstep one night. Shining Armor was excited to have a sister, and the parents couldn't say no to him and to this young changeling. The family do extensive research on changelings, they have to keep their new grub Twilight Sparkle safe and healthy right?

Optional additions-

Shining Armor helped Twilight create her pony form by showing the younger toddler her drawings.

Twilight Sparkle does know she's a changeling. What she doesn't know is that she is a royal changeling. One of Chrysalis's hive finding the grub in the newest hatchlings and knowing what their Queen would do tries to find a family that would keep the child safe and alive.

Cadence knows since she was trusted enough to babysit Twilight during childhood.

Canterlot wedding goes very differently for multiple reasons. Shining Armor isn't as easily hypnotized by changeling magic do to being exposed to it throughout his childhood. He sees through Chrysalis's pretty easily. So he's the one to end up down in the Crystal caves instead of Cadence.

Cadance and Shining Armor || The Bride and the Ugly Ass Groom my @skyscrapergods AU || AU Cadance Tag

The bride and the ugly ass groom (he makes her laugh)

Original photo (+ an edit) under cut

Edit: I didn't expect this post to get as many notes as it did. I realized that the original photo I posted was sort of blurry, so I made a higher resolution version :-)

Would love to see your version of the meme going around "The bride and the ugly ass groom"

If you haven't seen it, it is an image of a gorgeous Princess Cadence toy wearing a wedding dress and veil, with a ragged looking, much smaller Shining Armor toy. He's missing quite a bit of his hair, and what remains is spiked up.

A lot of artists have been drawing it in their own style

fine.

idk how i feel about using this water color brush yet hrrrmmmm

Mlp redesign #3

Them the alicorns

I thought it would be cool to give the sisters 6 wings/3 pairs of wings (biblically accurate alicorn) - as they're possibly born as them or just more ancient and powerfull idk

Then the alicorns made by them have only 4 wings/2 pairs

Well, then I changed the canon and now it's an au I guess:

Twilight became an alicorn at the time of the battle with Tirek when the princesses as a last resort gave her their power.

Celestia didn't want to make more alicorns (but she did consider it with Twilight, as she turned out to be quite amusing)

My ass is too lazy to finish this shitpost

the bride and the ugly ass groom

they still love each other very much

the bride and the ugly ass groom 💥

her crystal hooves were surprisingly fun to draw,, time for headcanons,,

- transfem and uses she/her pronouns

- pansexual

- while most alicorns have a classic unicorn tail, cadence doesn't because she was born a pegasus

- shining armor is also trans! she was the first pony he came out to

One last mod fanart from me - this is Mod Jay's Sunset Shimmer and Cadance fusion, Sunset Kiss!! <3

Heavily alternate universe

An AU where Cadence and Sombra are biological siblings. Born in the age of the Crystal Empire at it's peak, Sombra was the first born and Cadence the second born. Cadence doesn't remember much if any of it, being nothing more than an young child.

Sombra however was jealous of her, she was born with their mothers inherent talent in emotion and mind magic. Meaning that she would one day be able to sync up with the Crystal Heart near perfectly just like their mother, meaning that the throne is going to this tiny pink child and not him. He felt cheated. He had worked years to master the few emotions and mind magics he has. Why should the throne go to this tiny little child and not him when he's been working so hard. Why do his parents get to choose who gets the throne. He can't bring himself to hate his little sister, she didn't choose this she was just born into it. And he can't bring himself to hate her when he's the one taking care of her so often, with how busy their parents are in politics.

He eventually rebels against his parents, turning them both to Crystal and shattering them. While he also turns Cadence into Crystal, it is not to shatter her statue. the small amount of bonding they have done had gone to his heart, he would be unable to kill his sister even if he had planned to. Turning Cadence to Crystal was that hopeful part of his mostly darkened heart that someone would be left behind to be able to stop whatever he had become. And when he and the Crystal Empire are banished below the ice of the frozen north, Cadences statue is left behind in the snow. Eventually being found by explorers one fateful day, leading to a family of earth ponies many years down the line being confused about their family heirloom now being a living breathing Pegasus child. Who eventually goes on to ascend into the alicorn of love, and sent back to the very place she was born.

Optional additions-

Their mother is The lost Crystal Princess Amore. Their other parents could be an Umbra from the comics, that seems fun!

I can see Cadence wanting to try and reform him once she finds out she's related to him.

Sombra probably had a freak out internally when seeing Cadence holding the Crystal Heart. Looks so much like their mother, it has to be his sister right? Who else could it be. She's an alicorn now? He's strangely feels proud of her when he gets nearly destroyed by the Crystal Heart

Sombra might have been extremely jealous of Cadence but he didn't really hold his grudges against her specifically. He held them against his parents. In fact his parents were so busy with politics half the time that it was him raising Cadence with the help of staff.

I can see Cadence having strange dreams about the crystal empire and sombra. Her dreams about sombra are usually not nightmares. Except one. Why is this dark unicorn she calls her brother turning her into Crystal, and.... is he crying?

Official redraw of my very first drawing for apr from about a year(?) ago! The og is on the right!

Princess Cadance redesign! 

I’ve always had a love hate relationship with her design, bc I love her colors but they hurt my eyes in a not fun way. but I was stumped how to change them while still keeping her valentine/romantic aesthetic. well I was out super early today and actually took inspiration from the sunrise! it’s fitting anyway, to have a dawn, day, dusk, and night princess! ^^ oh and the flowers on her are morning glories! thought they were fitting and would match her cutie mark!

can't believe i never posted this!!! art trade with @fruitypieq :) it was so fun!!