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Character Appearance and Traits!
I'm posting this largely to clarify how Dash looks/moves/behaves in the game. Because this game mixes with Live Action, video game, anime, and so on, some people might be unsure just how Dash looks. Well, I'll tell you straight up, she does not look like a realistic pony by any means.
I treat Dash as a three-dimensional cartoon in terms of appearance. Her big eyes, skinny body, lack of visible hooves? It's all there, and this might prove a little jarring to characters from canons besides MLP. How would this look? What can you expect? Well, I'll be covering it below the cut.
This is, in a nutshell, how Rainbow Dash looks in Luceti. Essentially, she looks like a CG character moving around in a realistic plane. I personally don't picture her with individual hairs visible, but she still feels like she has fur and feathers. Might look like a cartoon, but she feels about as organic as a cartoon pony who obeys cartoon physics can get.
So, how about those cartoon physics, anyway?
Well, for one, she doesn't follow the laws of horse anatomy and can just as easily mimic human gestures as horse ones.
She can hold things with her hooves.
And grip them, somehow. This includes doorknobs and mugs of cider.
Parts of her can get very stretchy. A boulder fell on one of her feathers, and instead of the feather getting plucked out when she moved, she got stuck. Also, a broken wing healed in like a week.
Her stretchiness extends to just about every part of her body but is most commonly seen with her front legs, which often operate like noodles more than anything. No, really.
Other than that, her expressions are often exaggerated. She can survive impacts that would break any regular being's bones, not to mention the fact that, as a pegasus, she can stand on, move, and manipulate clouds and weather patterns. Combine that with the fact that she flies at hundreds of miles per hour and leaves rainbow streaks in the air, and she's... hard to miss.
In short, with Rainbow Dash, expect a cartoony appearance, cartoon physics utilizing traditional squash/stretch and slapstick, and remember that, since she doesn't even look like a realistic horse, she'll... basically look odd to anyone who isn't from MLPverse, probably. Or from a world where cartoons are a thing, anyway.
Lastly, she stands at about 4' when on all fours, and she is not a child. :|b My headcanon age for her is nineteen - twenty, so despite looking colorful, big-eyed, and doofy, she has the attitude and mannerisms of a young adult. Cheers!
I treat Dash as a three-dimensional cartoon in terms of appearance. Her big eyes, skinny body, lack of visible hooves? It's all there, and this might prove a little jarring to characters from canons besides MLP. How would this look? What can you expect? Well, I'll be covering it below the cut.
This is, in a nutshell, how Rainbow Dash looks in Luceti. Essentially, she looks like a CG character moving around in a realistic plane. I personally don't picture her with individual hairs visible, but she still feels like she has fur and feathers. Might look like a cartoon, but she feels about as organic as a cartoon pony who obeys cartoon physics can get.
So, how about those cartoon physics, anyway?
Well, for one, she doesn't follow the laws of horse anatomy and can just as easily mimic human gestures as horse ones.
She can hold things with her hooves.
And grip them, somehow. This includes doorknobs and mugs of cider.
Parts of her can get very stretchy. A boulder fell on one of her feathers, and instead of the feather getting plucked out when she moved, she got stuck. Also, a broken wing healed in like a week.
Her stretchiness extends to just about every part of her body but is most commonly seen with her front legs, which often operate like noodles more than anything. No, really.
Other than that, her expressions are often exaggerated. She can survive impacts that would break any regular being's bones, not to mention the fact that, as a pegasus, she can stand on, move, and manipulate clouds and weather patterns. Combine that with the fact that she flies at hundreds of miles per hour and leaves rainbow streaks in the air, and she's... hard to miss.
In short, with Rainbow Dash, expect a cartoony appearance, cartoon physics utilizing traditional squash/stretch and slapstick, and remember that, since she doesn't even look like a realistic horse, she'll... basically look odd to anyone who isn't from MLPverse, probably. Or from a world where cartoons are a thing, anyway.
Lastly, she stands at about 4' when on all fours, and she is not a child. :|b My headcanon age for her is nineteen - twenty, so despite looking colorful, big-eyed, and doofy, she has the attitude and mannerisms of a young adult. Cheers!