My own idea was to keep a tech level between G4 and G5, and most characters have similar roles. Misty follows a light to a lantern in Sunny's house and discovers that there's something special about it, when Sunny notices her and calls for help at seeing an intruder. Hitch arrests her. Sunny then asks her best friend Izzy if she can check out the lantern, as she is a bit curious about it lighting up. Izzy has no ideas, and agrees to keep this secret. Pipp then asks for more details, being the skilled town gossip she managed to get the info from Izzy right away. She's brushed off. Then Zipp is dragged into it as she is an investigator and finally Sunny tells the pair about her lantern. They cant get it to light up the same way, so Sunny and the others goes to ask Misty what she did. She tries to explain she's just trying to figure out who she is and was never trying to steal, and that magical objects just seem to react to her. But she is unable to get the lantern to light up again. Finally Sunny goes from wanting to keep this under wraps, to exploring it entirely once she realizes this might be a good excuse to bring the lantern to Twilight Sparkle to check out. Misty is mostly believed to be innocent now and part of this mystery, and asked to come along, which Hitch is very hesitant about and allows only if he can keep an eye on her. So our 6 make their journey to Canterlot. Zipp and Pipp are not royals here, Pipp is a professional singer that loves gossip. Zip is a wonderbolt trainee who loves to investigate. Sunny is living a simple happy life selling smoothies and tries to keep her Obsession with Twilight quiet. Izzy is the slightly unhinged creative friend with a lot of optimism, but no idea what to devote her energy to, and Hitch felt fulfilled in his dull position as the sheriff in a town that has no crime. It's really very similar, but the main journey now includes Misty and the 6 go from town to town where the show would give more worldly lore and we see this bright and great future with a mix of so many races, and the advancements in technology. Sunny would learn to open up more and find her inner strength to be a leader, Hitch would slowly learn to trust Misty, and be drawn in by Zipp's exciting stories of solved mysteries. The entire show would be about them becoming better friends until they activate the lantern just outside the castle and start to think that maybe this means they're the new elements of harmony! Someone geets them, takes the lantern, says they'll get their experts to check it out, thanks, bye. And also haha no you're not the elements, and Sunny we already banned you from the castle, sure that was years ago but the ban does not expire. The group is surprised that they did not get to have an audience with Princess Twilight and were dismissed so rudely, and Sunny is embarrassed to bring up that this is not her only time trying to see Twilight. But she was simply an overbearing fan that never did anything wrong back then. Unwilling to let things end like this they all use their own strengths to try and get into the castle, having to work together. Sneaking in with Izzy's idea, Hitch using his authority to get past a checkpoint, Zipp and Pipp find out where they need to go from here, with Sunny keeping everyone up to date and quickly planning their next moves out. Misty is aware that she's not gotten to be helpful yet. The group makes it to a room of artifacts and Sunny can't help but get excited as she recognises things her dad told her about. Misty causes several objects to activate and causes a disruption, blowing their cover, but also grabbing a book that looks familiar to her. The group has to flee before they get in trouble and once out, Misty reads the book. Words appear on the pages as her cutiemark glows, and it tells of the alicorn sealed away. The group is horrified to think that Twilight might actually not even be ruling anymore, that she's been overthrown without the public knowing. Season 2 is the group following the book, finding magic items, magic locations, and activating the spell to unseal the alicorn. Misty is in charge of this and feels she finally has her purpose known. But, when they finally achieve this goal, the alicorn they release looks wrong. They all wonder who is this Princess Opaline? Sorry if that was too long. I think the cast are entirely salvagable, if their characters are given more focus and not left to lose all their character like Sunny, or be given multiple conflicting hobbies and personalities like Zipp. Hitch also never gets ruined by finding an egg. But I want it to be set earlier in time, in which things are going great, but the G4 mane 6 are very busy because things are going so well. Establishing this world as a good one, but still one with challenges feels like a much better world than what G5 gave us, which had nonsense racism problems that have no reason to exist after the events of the battle against the trio of doom. That episode was about every race coming together! Things are not going to fall apart after that. I imagine this as being a series that lasts 3 seasons minimum, with the 3rd one being the group dealing with this evil they have unleashed, how to set it right, and what to do afterwords since they were to blame even if they also were the ones that fixed it. In the end Sunny does meet Twilight, and she tells Sunny that she should jsut think of her as another pony, not as this special figure. And that Sunny needs to let go of this elements of harmony idea. Sunny needs to let go of her obsession, and be the hero of her own story, have her own adventure. Not everything has to tie back to the old mane 6, it can be Sunny's turn to be something brand new. An ironic and meta comment that G5 does not need to be G4 part 2. It is at this point, that I don't have any concrete ideas, but I'd like for season 4 onwards to make good on what Twilight said and from that point on, the G4 cast don't show up again. This is where we'd get more exploration episodes, Misty learns who her dad is, Hitch becomes dragonlord for a single episode and enjoys his ability to force dragons to literally obey every one of his laws and rules. I might introduce Sparky as a spike-tier character who then joins them. Just a whole bunch of normal eps, and ones that keep building the characters up and exploring their backstories and pasts. Season 5 is absolutely too far ahead. But the FEEL of the show would absolutely be something I want to keep as G4 as possible. But to also let the old cast rest after a job well done. So less a Naruto > Shippuden type thing, which would better fit a show starring Luster Dawn. And more a Legend of Korra type sequel... uh, with less awkward shipping and dubious writing. G5 as we got it kind of already is that kind of sequel, but it fails instantly by tearing down what was built up before to synthetically recreate old problems. the G5 we got is SO MUCH WORSE than the worst things Korra did. It doesn't build on G4, despite pretending to. So I hate when people say that it building on G4 was a mistake or the main problem. It was a lie. It never would have been hard to do it right. It would never have been boring to have it take place in a utopia.

wait, i though that's an official character name. Or your OC also has the same name?

@@voltrainferno6360 I have an oc with the same name and they're the child of Fluttershy and Minty in my next gen au :> Discord created them with magic as a gift for Flutters And Minty is the background pony, but my version of her who owns an icecream shop :>

god that'd be great

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