My own top 5:

1) Shining Armor

2) Big Macintosh

3) Braeburn

4) Fancy Pants

5) Blueblood, if only for his design.

Top five ponies?

Well, shit...

1. Pinkie Pie. (Despite being almost my complete opposite.)
2. Princess Luna. (Based on what I thought she was doing during the Changeling invasion, which was beating thousands of changelings to death with her bare hooves and other changelings. While drunk. And stoned.)
3. Fluttershy. (Personal student of Samuel L. Jackson. I needn't say more.)
4. Fancypants. (Spends spare time rescuing orphans from fires, beating up Mecha-Soviets and head-butting evil in the face.)
5. Big Mac. (Gotta respect my fellow pimp. Spends down time at local club. Club can't handle him, so he returns to work.)

edited 18th Nov '12 10:38:48 AM by Steventheman

Top 5 ponies:

1) Rarity (naturally)

2) Pinkie

3) Twilight

4) Trixie

5) Luna

I totally empathise with Pinkie's inability to choose between friends :3

Okay, my top 5 favorite ponys.

1:Tie between RD and Twilight.

2:Four-way tie between Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Lyra.

3:Various other background ponys {Caramel, Bonbon, Vinyl Scratch, Octavia, Derpy}

4:Princess Luna.

5:Fluer De Lis. Dat design, man.

Top 5 male characters (who are somewhat of a minority, aren't they?):

1) Spike

2) Fancy Pants

3) Big Mac

4) Metrosexual Sea Serpent

5) Doctor Whooves

I thought it was fairly average. I think the main problem is that it seems too much like it was just explaining fanon, but there wasn't any real hook to keep reading.

Another thing I found strange was how long Star Swirl kept using those excessively long titles. I expected her to quit by chapter 3. It's a pain to say such long titles, especially when you're using them every other sentence. But she never even really thinks about it.

Fleur pretends by day to be Fancy Pant's trophy girlfriend supermodel, but her real job is as part of the elite superspy cell under the Canterlot Government. Nowadays there aren't many darklords for her to be sent to spy on though, so she has nights off while keeping up her dayjob as a cover.

Top five male characters.

1: Prince Blueblood.
2: Iron Will.
3: King Sombra.
4: Shining Armour.
5: Razorfang.

edited 18th Nov '12 10:45:52 AM by Badwolfwho

Well, that's certainly an intreasting car there.

http://derpibooru.org/155764?scope=scpe7811d43c0f7bc58cb05304fe8ce714a320f737e9

@Marston: Oh wow, a pony-themed itasha

At least it isn't as tasteless as having cute anime girls of questionable age in inappropriately revealing swimwear plastered over the bodywork.

That looks like it was intended to be an advertisement on wheels in the first place, not a car decorated end to end by an extreme pony fan.

Judging from the text near the rear bumper, anyway.

edited 18th Nov '12 10:48:32 AM by KylerThatch

Still not as tasteless as those cars covered in sequins. Yuck.

Sorry, away doing Uni work.

What's happening?

Not very much, just some discussions and a pony itasha.

(Still totally empathizing with Pinkie's inability to choose between friends. I know that feel!)

edited 18th Nov '12 10:53:46 AM by AceOfScarabs

What's an istasha?

Itasha: JPN slang for a car overdecorated with decals, usually of anime characters (like that official Toyota itasha with Miku Hatsune plastered over the hood.)

Ace, maybe you should clone yourself. In fact, you should totally clone yourself.

I think cloning me would be a seriously bad idea

While we're on the topic of clones, I'm kinda curious now: Given that the Pinkie clones were Flanderized versions of herself that were just concerned with having fun and nothing else, what would clones of the rest of the mane 6 be like?

edited 18th Nov '12 11:04:28 AM by marston

I wonder what are the chances of AJ pulling this off in the show? I say about 30 percent.

Applejack: cheap labor.

Twilight Sparkle: Ponyville Department of Magical and Mundane Research and Library Science.

Rainbow Dash: a bar brawl.

I imagine a clone Twilight would be grumpy and miserable all the time and a clone Rainbow would be a complete Jerkass.

Sorry about that. Um, the explaining the fanon wasn't really the purpose. That was Star Swirl's self-discovery.

And Star Swirl using the excessively long titles is something she's done her entire life. The idea of not doing it is somewhat horrifying to her. She did explain why.

Clones of AJ would insist on doing everything, and make more bad wagers

Clones of Dashie would paint the sky in rainbow stripes as they compete to prove the best.

Clones of Twi would hog the library, lol.

Clones of Rarity would turn themselves into a fashion factory, lol, although there might be creative arguments between them.

Clones of Fluttershy? Death by Cuteness Overload ensues.