*takes Shining Armour from the show, gives him a smooch and then
throws him in the garbage* 

i just wanna say that i like this show and i love it just the way it is!! it’s just fun to think about the characters with little tweaks
although with shining armour it’s not really much of a tweak and more of a complete makeover 

so this is my oc, Meteor Shower
he’s based off the Big Brother pony “thundercloud”
i never really understood the idea of twilight being “so close” to her brother when he’d literally never been mentioned before
and even more is like… their relationship is… just really embarrassing to watch ? idk

i have an older brother and i just cringe when i watch the canterlot wedding episode sometimes
(all the scenes with cadence and chrysalis are perfect tho) 

anyway so at first i thought, i gotta change his colours- i made him look more like twilight with the pinks and purples, i wanted them to actually look related- and also he looks very good next to my version of mi amore cadenza (you bet he still has the full name)

then i started thinking, how can i make twilight and shining armour meteor shower’s relationship more organic ? 
so after looking through the big brother ponies i had the idea of having him be like a meteorologist, to keep up with the “night” theme in their family 

meteor shower had an affinity for the sky and weather patterns and when twilight came along, the two of them would study together

i like to imagine they’re just these huge bookworms who just laid around together in libraries and would barely talk, just swapping books
and the whole reason he wasn’t mentioned until the end of season 2 is just because they’re both so socially inept they just barely stayed in touch 

then it also makes him and cadence getting together even cuter because meteor shower is just this big weather nerd with no social status and this princess just falls head over heels for him and fights a changeling queen for him

edit: oh and the episode where they get a baby is ALL ABOUT adoption