There's so much dating going on in G3 as well.

Les Yay page is up. I wonder if we should do a page for fanon Les Yay as well, although I'm sure that one will fill so full it splits into subpages :V

Me, a pervert? Mmmmmmaybe, but I won't do anything to you without consent ^_~

edited 19th Jan '12 7:50:35 AM by AceOfScarabs

I was gonna mention the Valentine ep, but for some reason it slipped my mind.

Anyway, here's my fanon for how each pony would approach romance:

Applejack - Ironically, I could almost see her being a little like Rarity—a guy would only interest her if he had some sort of advantage to him, and in particular if he was a hard worker. She wouldn't offer herself (or accept offers from) just anypony. I imagine romance isn't even a part of her world most of the time.

Fluttershy - She's already married, to the ground. I actually imagine she's got dozens of stallions who are "interested" (need I explain why?◊) but her reaction to anypony asking her out probably amounts to "EEP!" followed by hiding under the bed, the sofa, the bushes, the nook of a tree or whatever happens to be convenient at the time.

Pinkie Pie - She'd be like a little kid. Any feelings she had would be little more than puppy crushes and their "dates" would be more like games of make-believe. The guy would seriously have to be into Lolicon to put up with her, and it would take awhile for her to get over the children's fairytale view of romance and realize how serious it really is. She seems totally naive about it, judging from her reaction to Spike's "lookin real good!" in Party of One and his admitting a crush in "Green Isn't Your Color."

Rainbow Dash - I can't imagine her approaching anyone herself. To be honest I think romance would just weird her out, and if she ever had feelings for someone she'd fight it off. I could honestly see her running away if one of her best friends turned out to be in love with her.

Rarity - As I said, for her marriage is an opportunity. So I can't see her having a meaningful relationship with much of anyone, or even considering any suitor who isn't at least reasonably well-off (I wonder if she'd at least let Spike live with her though, assuming Twilight let him go for some reason). She would probably be happily married, though (statistically, marriages that are arranged or based on some sort of business proposition are usually more stable than "true love" marriages).

Twilight Sparkle - I couldn't see her seeking out a guy friend. One would have to approach her, and then she'd be totally awkward about it, possibly flipping between either being too awkward and bashful to going hilariously overboard to keep his affection going. And the minute marriage gets brought up, she'd almost be obligated to pass out so her brain could focus all its power on figuring out just how to deal with that.

In short, they're all doomed to live alone... but they'd probably all like it better that way.

That is a rather...sexist...depiction of fluttershy.

Oh noes All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony. All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony. All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony. All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony. All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony. All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony. All work and no party makes Pinkie a dull pony.

edited 19th Jan '12 7:55:59 AM by AceOfScarabs

Largely agree.

Funny you should mention that.

(P.S: P.I is going to say a watch you don't get grabbed by no ghoulies MB! joke too!

edited 19th Jan '12 7:58:50 AM by ApplelightLimited

To be honest, I really don't agree with the interpretations at all. They seem to really simplify love as an emotion, and don't really sync up with how the characters deal with everything else.

Since romance and the mane cast don't gell well together in my head, I have nothing to add

And now that I've finished psychoanalyzing a bunch of cartoon ponies, I think I need to kick off to beddie bye. Guesstimating at this topic's usual rate of progress, I'll see ya'll... 20 pages from now? 40? 80? Oh well.

Oddly enough until Best Night Ever I thought that Rarity had a fairly "fairytale" view of romance. Unless we are all assuming she wanted a Prince purely for status.

Least favorite... Well, I usually don't revisit Griffon the Brush off on my rewatches, so I guess that counts. I have never hated an episode, it's just like less/like more.

To be honest, a lot of girls and guys crush on celebrities or royals. Yes, status does have something to do with it, but that doesn't mean they're all status grabbers.

edited 19th Jan '12 8:04:00 AM by MrAHR

@Ginger: The reason I found Pinkie's flashback interesting is because it wasn't really what you'd expect to happen. With most of the others (AJ, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy), it was fairly obvious where things were going as soon as the flashback started. Pinkie's at least raised the question of "how on earth did she go from rock farm to party?"

As far as the romance thing goes, I think it's pretty much impossible to get a good handle on how the cast would react to it, because we pretty much have zero basis for it. The only pony we've seen even come close to showing romantic interest is Rarity, and that was so fanciful that it's really not all that helpful anyway.

@Moe: I can kinda see where your interpretations are coming from, although I don't think Rarity would be all that opportunistic; I can easily imagine her in a legitimate, not-just-marrying-for-money-or-status relationship if she meets the right stallion. Really, I could imagine all of them getting into a stable relationship, although some would have more trouble than others. It's tough to tell because you can't really apply the way they act in non-romantic situations to how they'd react to romance.

edited 19th Jan '12 8:06:40 AM by JapaneseTeeth

x11

I can't say I agree with those interpretations either. I think they'd all work out pretty well with the exceptions of Pinkie Pie (any confessions would probably go over her head) and Rainbow Dash (too arrogant and based on May the Best Pet Win too picky).

@JT Really, I guessed her's straight away (especially since we knew by that point that a rainbow has to be involved in some way)

sorry, sorry, that segment really bugged me

I'll rock back into the shadows now

edited 19th Jan '12 8:10:02 AM by gingerninja666

Me personally:

AJ would want a practical, hard working, down to earth pony like her. One who was 'smarter' than her but less sensible (or honest) would be cute.

FS would shrink and hide from any advancement...though I can picture her watching a love interest of hers from afar whilst hidden. A pony who's loud and assertive, but just as 'cowardly' as her, would be cute.

RD...pair her with a nerdy type who shares her love of pranks and 'awesomeness'. Pink Boy, Blue Girl away!

Twi...put her with another adorkable book worm type.

edited 19th Jan '12 8:12:28 AM by ApplelightLimited

Least favourite, hmmm.... I don't know if I can really name one. I have three potential contenders that I can gauge from the fact that they tend not to get selected when I go to rewatch old episodes.

• Pinkie Keen - I can't really get into chain slapstick. I cringed pretty hard every time Twi got clobbered. When I watched the first season, I marathonned right up to episode 24 (25 wasn't out yet) in pretty much a week and then proceeded to rewatch more of the season again. Pinkie Keen is one of those ones I just really didn't feel like loading up again. It was probably a couple months before I rewatched it.
• Over A Barrel - I have no idea why I'm adverse to this one. Like others have said, it's not even that bad, I just don't load it up very often. :/
• Mysterious Mare-Do-Well - I have to agree that it was a pretty OOC episode in general. This is the only season 2 episode I haven't double watched. To elaborate, when the Saturday streams are running, I usually hang out for the whole hour and watch the episode twice. This one left me feeling meh enough that I just went back to bed for another half hour.

Morning, did I miss anything fun?

Dear Princess Luna, I thought with all this work I had to do I'd fall behind, but it turns out owning a sketchbook can increase productivity without you realizing it.

Spike Learned to never try to stop the Cutie Mark Crusaders

Anonymous learned that Spike is a badass

Plebisville Insane Asylum learned to never mes with The Pink One

Twilight learned that she needed to hit the gym

Trixie may never learn

And Rainbow Dash learned that she's a little lonely without cool people around

Your faithful follower, Mousa The 14

@CDRW: There's been a number of discussions, I got tired of the Edit War happening over the Radar page, and that led to me making a Les Yay page for FiM and a segue into a discussion first on the Les Yay, then on romance in general, lol.

edited 19th Jan '12 8:22:21 AM by AceOfScarabs

Ah sweet! More answers!

...Pinkie is effin badass.

edited 19th Jan '12 8:22:35 AM by ApplelightLimited

Oh, sounds like that was fun.

Looking at the Les Yay page. It's pretty funny.

edited 19th Jan '12 8:26:52 AM by CDRW

Hahaha, Pinkie you are so Mario

oh yay more mare do well hate, can't get enough of that!

edited 19th Jan '12 8:27:41 AM by RobbieRotten

Somepony, next time you want to send such things to the Moooooon, take Luna back first! She hasn't done anything unforgivable enough to be stuck with them up there!

The subject matter here is... delicate, so to speak.

Dashie is so adorable herennnnnngh

I genuinely LOVE her mane <3

edited 19th Jan '12 8:36:39 AM by AceOfScarabs

Great new pics, Mousa! How many do you have left to do?