Jonny Manz 
I am who I am
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Just a couple quick responses - like I said, I think Sunny will be more prominent again going forward, because they understood her character, and without something big to drive her forward, she’ll instead focus on smaller things to improve life for everypony, because she is still an idealist, an optimist at heart. I think they understood that it would be unnecessary to shove her center stage each time (something that FiM did eventually figure out with Twilight, but not for a while, as for the first couple seasons, it seemed like they would insert her into just about every episode, even if there really wasn’t a need for her there).
There’s also the fact that Sunny has agency (like, what she does, she chooses to do of her own will), while essentially every major thing with Twilight boils down to “because Celestia told her to do so” at its core. (Except the school, but even that is taken from her in the end)
Also, I doubt that they changed anything to focus on Misty because of fan response - I’m pretty sure the scripts were completed a while ago and sent off to Atomic for production, and there is evidence that certain aspects were planned from the beginning (such as ||Alphabittle being Misty’s father|| - his early design makes it *super* obvious, or Opaline, being that her cutie mark appeared in the background in ANG).
But yeah, we should probably end it off here, lest a mod comes and scolds us for talking about things that are tangentially related to the image, at best, in its comments, haha
Just a couple quick responses - like I said, I think Sunny will be more prominent again going forward, because they understood her character, and without something big to drive her forward, she’ll instead focus on smaller things to improve life for everypony, because she is still an idealist, an optimist at heart. I think they understood that it would be unnecessary to shove her center stage each time (something that FiM did eventually figure out with Twilight, but not for a while, as for the first couple seasons, it seemed like they would insert her into just about every episode, even if there really wasn’t a need for her there).
There’s also the fact that Sunny has agency (like, what she does, she chooses to do of her own will), while essentially every major thing with Twilight boils down to “because Celestia told her to do so” at its core. (Except the school, but even that is taken from her in the end)
Also, I doubt that they changed anything to focus on Misty because of fan response - I’m pretty sure the scripts were completed a while ago and sent off to Atomic for production, and there is evidence that certain aspects were planned from the beginning (such as ||Alphabittle being Misty’s father|| - his early design makes it *super* obvious, or Opaline, being that her cutie mark appeared in the background in ANG).
But yeah, we should probably end it off here, lest a mod comes and scolds us for talking about things that are tangentially related to the image, at best, in its comments, haha