@Badumsquish
Oh yeah awesome 👌

@Draco-knight-Blaze
Best part? With Luster Dawn as their daughter, they have a near-perfect triadic color scheme when put together :D

Now don’t These 2 make the most perfect couple

@Dragonpone
Yeah. I think they shot themselves in the foot with the 30 second full redemption montage at the tail of an already busy episode. I don’t know if they wanted to do that or if it was forced on them, but it put them in a rough spot writing that character. Her story was done before it even started, and you can definitely see where they had to force her into episodes: sometimes she was just not there, sometimes she had to be Twilight’s confidant, sometimes Twilight’s pupil, sometimes the team mom, and sometimes she was just sort of there in the background. It’s like they never ultimately found a place for her, and so just randomly assigned roles to her that could have more naturally gone to other established characters because now they were stuck with her. Even her befriending Trixie, which was the most interesting thing they did with her, still had to be about Twilight with Trixie only befriending Starlight to fuck with her, when they could have just had them befriend each other without either of them even knowing Twilight was part of that equation. I think it would have been so much easier if they didn’t redeem Starlight from the outset, and instead treated her as a villainous member of the team who slowly becomes a good guy: think like Dinobot from Beast Wars, Peridot from Steven Universe, Varrick from Legend of Korra, or a more charitable Eric Cartman from South Park. Villains becoming good through their interactions with the heroes is one of my favorite kinds of character, and them skipping that with Starlight and just flipping her switch from evil to good is part of why I dislike her so much XD

What I like too, about Sunburst and Trixie as a couple, is it makes the world seem like a richer place. These are two totally unrelated ponies, both of whom are rather insignificant in the grand scheme of the story, who would have never met each other, and only know each other because of the actions of the main characters. It makes the world seem more alive, like everything else in the world is happening too and it does its own thing while the main characters are influencing it in ways other than just saving the world and learning their lessons :D

@Magician-Horse
>>1376747 :P

@Badumsquish
lol Imagine Sunburst doing the cliche “Watch my magic wand disappear” and surprising Trixie by actually doing it and refusing to explain how.

@Badumsquish
I’d say even the showrunners understood that to a degree; Starlight’s interactions with Trixie are far more natural than interactions with Sunburst. Starlight and Sunburst do interact like two childhood friends with a one-sided devotion who’ve kind of awkwardly drifted apart in the meantime, and Starlight and Trixie interact like two adults who’ve largely settled into their adult personalities and have much more in common.

I’d take Startrix over Trixburst any day, but there you go.

@Dirty Bit
@Magician-Horse
@Dirty Bit
Imagine Sunburst trying to be kinky in a magic trick themed way, and Trixie being turned on but also trying not to laugh XD

@Chopsticks
Nope, and I never will :P

@Dragonpone
@Jaredking779
Honestly, I think it’s bad form to put Starlight with with Sunburst. Think about it: her character arc is basically that of an incel: she lashes out at the world because she felt obligated to have someone she didn’t get, and then learned to be better. If she gets Sunburst in the end, it basically completely undermines and negates her entire fall to villainy and journey back to good by rewarding her with the very thing she felt obligated to have in the first place. It’d be like if in Megamind, they had Roxanne become Tighten’s girlfriend in the end. If she doesn’t get him, it shows that she’s grown beyond the petty thing that made her lash out in the first place :P

@Dragonpone
So Trixie is a better shipper for Sunburst and not Sunburst? I see. I respect your opinion.

Sunburst has better chemistry with Trixie than with Starlight tbh.

@Badumsquish
Now draw Starlight playing matchmaker. (I don’t think you’ve ever drawn Starlight.)

Trixie’s little head shake with each card was cute

@Badumsquish
Oh absolutely, I still love that cute little scene where Trixie and Sunburst showed each other magic tricks, and very clearly respected each other.

Trixie likes to live dangerously, I see

And the crackers

@l3afbutt
@Magician-Horse
@Background Pony #FC7F
@Setsugekka
@Chopsticks
They have a good vibe, when you think about it. They’re both smart characters with weak magic, a competitive edge, and an interest in stage magic. But Sunburst is a book-smart sheltered introverted nice guy, while Trixie is a street-smart swashbuckling extroverted jackass. Sunburst would probably be attracted to Trixie’s adventurous and devil-may-care life, while Trixie would probably be attracted to Sunburst’s stable and reliable life :P

starlight is gonna get jelly

Badumsquish, I didn’t know you shipped TrixBurst (pretty hard too judging by the uploads). A pony of good taste.

@Background Pony #9F91
And she also has a father, who appeared on the show, but not in the comics.

They have a rather weird kind of relationship

Trixie has a mom. She was in the idw comics

Sunburst has a type, and that type is crazy orphaned gypsy hobos. Sorry Starlight…

He’s definitely right about the crazy part.

Hope Sunburst brought the peanut butter

There are very few things sexier than tax evasion.