Apparently not. I'll just call her the Mayor then.

She seems to be the pony version of a couger!

We should call her The Mare.

If her rumored liaisons with Big Mac are to be believed...

edited 9th Nov '11 2:16:41 PM by MousaThe14

It's just the voice. I LOVE her voice

and dem glasses

edited 9th Nov '11 2:17:27 PM by gingerninja666

EDIT: Oh wow, I got epic ninja'd. @Kuro Fox...

If they didn't use certain combinations of race/color/cutie mark over and over, I would agree with you - but where there's continuity, someone will make a story, and where there's a story, there's a soul. I would agree that most fanon has no explicit support, but really, that doesn't mean anything; if you're going to go Doylist to the extent that background ponies are randomized collections of race/color/cutie mark, then you can just as easily go Doylist to the point that Flash file called Twilight Sparkle has no significance in and of itself.

My point is this - the background ponies in each scene are randomly selected, yes, but they represent characters that the fandom has created. Like the Flash file Twilight Sparkle represents the studious, stress-prone girl we all know and love, the file random_pny2 represents Lyra, who is a silly pony who thinks she's a human. This viewpoint may seem naive or overly Watsonian, but I like to treat characters as people - even knowing they're entirely fictional, they deserve respect like anyone else, because they move me to sympathy like anyone else. If you can share someone's laughter or tears and consider them a friend, even for only half an hour a week, I would definitely argue that there's something more to them than their framerate and render smoothness.

That's just me, though.

edited 9th Nov '11 2:18:57 PM by RedSavant

And that sultry, half liddled look in her eyes.....

.....what? What are you all looking at?

edited 9th Nov '11 2:20:53 PM by ApplelightLimited

I've heard the mayor referred to as Mayor Mar. As in, I dunno, Marigold or something. She looks like she could have been named Marigold - if he mane used to be blond, or something. He coat is already sort of gold-ish, albeit without the sheen of gold.

You ain't alone my friend (points to Red and myself)

But the issue comes from how these characters interact. The fandom has a an extensive list of who's going out with who, and which ponies are related to each other. The creators don't care, so the wanton destruction of fanon in this case is both a lot more casual, and a lot more inevitable

edited 9th Nov '11 2:24:02 PM by gingerninja666

The pony love gets creepy sometimes...

The Fanon is more fun than Canon in my opinion.

I never will understand all this horsexuality going around...

Yes, the ponies can have nice and even endearing personalities or voices, I know. Why else do you think Fluttershy is night universally "d'awww" inducing?

But all this "ohgodhotnessiwannabangyou" is weirding me out.

Awwww it's all in good fun. It's not like it distracts us from the episodes themselves. we turn ourselves off when it comes time for that

edited 9th Nov '11 2:26:35 PM by gingerninja666

I wear humanization goggles...it helps a lot.

I say all this in jest...

edited 9th Nov '11 2:28:49 PM by ApplelightLimited

I read those bust size discussions.

I know what horrors can come upon here.

edited 9th Nov '11 2:27:05 PM by TheFreeman

Fanon is fun and all but I prefer a canon episode to any kind of fanfiction anyday.

edited 9th Nov '11 2:29:59 PM by FallenLegend

Btw...

Whipping bears back and forth.◊

Horrors?! pfft prudes.

Okay, I'll stop now.

Again, fanon is something we need to take in stride. We have to enjoy it knowing that it's inevitably going to be destroyed one day

edited 9th Nov '11 2:30:54 PM by gingerninja666

"Fanon detected! Fire the Canon!"

^It's actually very easy to reconstruct plausible explanations if no explicit contradictions are given; look at all the (heartwarming, in truth) Big Brothers Big Sisters explanations that sprang up for Sparkler and Dinky running the Sisterhooves together, after all. Unless there's a parent-teacher conference and Dinky shows up with a mare who isn't Ditzy, for instance, fanon will prove ridiculously resilient in a large majority of the cases, I think.

Well we were imagining them as humans...

OK, I'll stop too.

(...Pinkie's stacked)

edited 9th Nov '11 2:36:36 PM by ApplelightLimited

I ignore and deny any and all fanon and fan-related opinions. I really don't care about another fan's opinions if it isn't canon.

Especially if its looking too deep into something that will never be acknowledged by the creators.

Let us never speak of it again

(So is Fluttershy)

I'm sure the fandom would concoct SOMETHING if that scenario happened

I'm just curious; Am I the only Brony here who's never read a fanfic?