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"Say, what was that bit about chaos, sweetie?"

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I like to imagine that Night Light and Twilight Velvet are oddballs among the Canterlot elite. They're new money, having met as broke university students, before Velvet's eventual success as the ghostwriter for the Daring Do book series launched them into a whole new tax bracket. They're goofy and eccentric and wonderfully oblivious to the ins and outs of high society, but they're happy as hell and ridiculously proud of their family- which includes a royal guard captain, an actual alicorn empress daughter-in-law, a daughter that used friendship to transcend the shackles of her mortal unicorn body, a dragon grandson, the lord of chaos as a son-in-law, a she-draconequus as a granddaughter, Equestria's first ever naturally-born alicorn, and one overworked heir to the Crystal Empire. They get weird looks on their family outings but who cares! Smile for the camera, everyone!

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SketchyBug

Love your take on Twilight Velvet. She’s my favorite MLP mom! Also the angle and expression of Pan’s face is just fuckin precious.

Jamya

Too cute

Spayce

Thats just precious ♡

Sierra Rosie

LOP THIS IS SO WHOLESOME AAAHHH! Ah shit, you’re really making me rethink making my Twi-parents snobby and bigoted. 😂 also, you draw elder ponies so well??? THE WRINKLE SKILLS ARE REAL

lopoddity

Aw, no, you don't have to. You're not the first I've seen to make Twilight's parents snobs, and that's cuz it's a pretty natural storytelling choice. At the start of the series Twilight is snobby herself and somewhat antisocial, and waaaaay too fixated on maintaining Celestia's approval, like to an unhealthy degree. It's very reasonable that her neurotic tendencies would stem from snotty parents with sky-high expectations. It's made even more alluring as a narrative choice since Twilight's parents are kinda bland in the show. They're just kinda goofy and nice. At first I didn't like them, but they really grew on me! I figure Twilight developed her antisocial nature from her parents being super extroverted and kind of oblivious about their daughter's boundaries. As a new money kid, Twilight was very much out of her depth among the sophisticated and social youth of Canterlot, and frequently bullied and teased for her major social blunders, like not knowing her dessert spoon from her soup spoon. Because of this Twilight retreated into her studies, hyperfixating on her mentor and role model, Princess Celestia. To this day, she's still a teeny bit embarrassed by her parents (who surprisingly get along GREAT with Discord)

D

Pan’s “:3” mouth 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Nimbose

YEEEESSSS I LOVE IT... And Night Light's gold accents are gorgeous!!

SmilesPerHour

This is too precious! I love how protective and adoring Pan is of her grandparents. It’s a ‘peaceful’ side of her that we don’t see too often, but is always a welcome treat to see 😊 ps. I also love the little detail of Night Light having dappled fur on his back, like a nebula of stars, and the headcanon of Twilight Velvet gaining ‘sudden’ success as a hit novelist. It kind of reminds me of Back to The Future, with Marty convincing his younger dad to become a science fiction writer.

Robo87

They absolutely cause gleeful chaos with their granddaughter. Or at least adrenaline junkie Velvet does (she's really a...best sort of terrible influence) and Discord ADORES his parents in laws.

lopoddity

I think Velvet might actually be a bit TOO extreme for Pan. Like you know that one old Spongebob episode where Spongebob gets roped into doing increasingly insane extreme sports with Sandy before she hibernates for winter? I imagine Velvet's kinda like that. "C'mon, Panny, there's still time for us to motorcycle over the industrial meat grinder!" and Pan quietly thinking ".....This mare's trying to kill me."

Robo87

Plot twist: Velvet is the true Lord of chaos

Sierra Rosie

Oh goodness, I so appreciate your insight! It makes sense the way you put it. Sometimes, or I guess a lot of times, I tend to just go with my gut/subconscious without thinking why a story choice makes sense, and then I second guess myself haha so thank you! I feel much more confident with my choices! 🥰 I really really do enjoy your interpretation of them though!! And their effect on Twilight too! Your character building is always so intriguing and fun to read ❤️❤️ Lmao Chaos parents 😂👏

feathermaws

What was their reaction to learning that Twi was going to have a chaos kid?

Dragon Turtle

When the two of them finally got real characterization in "Once Upon a Zeppelin," at first I thought they'd just be clones of Rarity's parents, with their midwestern accents. Then we find out why they even GOT on that cruise... And I just smiled, thinking "Oh you sweet, stupid Summer children."