Damn any one else remember My Little Pony Tales? Ive been rewatching it and honestly im in tears at how angsty the whole thing is, especially these two.Its baffling to me how ‘boy’ oriented the whole thing is even though the ponies are only around age 13. I honestly find the whole series a barrel of laughs with how anti-FIM it is, like Ace decides to lead Bonbon up the garden path and then peace out once he has that damn recipe. The whole show is Cringe, especially where starlight sings a whole goddamned song about changing how she looks and acts just to get it on with ace? yikes. Great moral for all us kiddos watching back in the day. Anyway, I could go on and on about the whole show but the dynamic between Teddy and SweetHeart is especially interesting, like in the episode Blue Ribbon Blues, after all of his less than admirable antics she ends up melting into his hooves again, just because he decided to fix the mess, Like I can’t.
Any way! Im kinda takling this opportunity to draw these two angsty boi’s having a scrap to illustrate in a way how I imagine Earth pony courtship to be like, ya know scrapping over the mare while she observes from a distance, ready to take home the one whos left standing or least battered and bruised. I really want to shoehorn in some of these guys into my next gen just for nostalgias sake so, I imagine Ace’s full name to be ‘Ace Shot’ and Teddy to just be called Teddy in reference to the Teddy boys of the (50s?). Teddy will grow up to be a hair stylist resulting in teasing and ultimatley Teddy getting his hooves dirty scrapping with them. Ace is your average jock who everypony wants a piece of, he knows this and as seen in ‘Lemonade Wars’ uses this to his advantage. He has the stereotypical ’Im gonna be a footballer so I dont need to do school” attitude.