Moonswirl is my first ever oc! She is a pegasus from Canterlot, living in Ponyville with her older sister Midnight. She is the youngest of four and the daughter of Princess Artemis, who herself is the spell-born daughter of Princess Luna.
She works as a weatherpony, particularly with cloud management. She often works the night shift with the help of her night vision, a remnant of her bat pony ancestry (her paternal grandmother was one!).
Moonswirl is a very confident and self-assured mare, sometimes even seeming arrogant at times. She has a stubborn streak and is loyal to a fault. She'd do anything to help her friends. As far as family is concerned, she is much more lax, but still loves them dearly. She rarely mentions her royal status (Lady) but is not averse to occasionally using it to get her way. She has a passion for knitting and an interest in dream interpretation.
She travels through time and space with her childhood friends Azalea Blossom and Time Warp as they search for TW's missing parents, Doctor Whooves and Derpy Hooves. On one trip, they bring Midnight along with them as they need her assistance in travelling into Nightmare Moon's dreams. While there, a piece of the Tantabus ends up latching onto Midnight and travelling back to the present with her, eventually festering and assisting her transformation into her Nightmare form.
A good chunk of her story is still in progess and has yet to be written.
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- Cat Ipsum -
Rub my belly hiss swipe at owner's legs sniff catnip and act crazy growl at dogs in my sleep sit on the laptop for hiss at vacuum cleaner i like to spend my days sleeping and eating fishes that my human fished for me.
Head nudges eat my own ears. Hey! you there, with the hands why can't i catch that stupid red dot, shed everywhere shed everywhere stretching attack your ankles chase the red dot, hairball run catnip eat the grass sniff, or roll over and sun my belly curl up and sleep on the freshly laundered towels.
Moonswirl was created in 2013.
I was 9, and she was my first ever original character. She was originally supposed to be me as a pony, my first ponysona before I really knew what 'ponysona' meant.
Gradually, though, she started to grow farther away from me as a person and more towards being her own character. I then created Starry Skribbles (then known as Acryllic Heart) as a replacement and a proper ponysona!
Moonswirl remained as my main character and mascot online. Most if not all my usernames had 'Moonswirl' in it in one way or another!
"The Story of Moonswirl"
Somewhere along the line, I decided I'd give a shot at writing some sort of story for her. What had been intended as a backstory ultimately turned out to be a day-in-the-life story and I never got around to expanding it. For years, I actually thought I had lost the original for good, but when I was cleaning my room I happened to find a printed copy tucked in one of my old sketchbooks! (thank god!) so here it is, complete with the original pony creator images :)
Design Timeline
this isn't a complete timeline with every single design change I've ever made on her, but it covers the major ones, at least!
2013
her very first design! she was a pegasus that became an alicorn, similar to Twilight.
2014
her first major change. Her hair grew longer and her colors brightened. This style lasted quite a while.
2014
she lost the horn!
2015
GREEEEENNNNN!!! i made this change because one stranger on google plus made an offhanded comment that she looked like a mutual's character and i was offended
2015
During 2015 she went back and forth between a few different green designs. they were all relatively similar.
chop chop. got a haircut & stopped brushing her hair as much or something. also changed her name to Moondust Swirl.
2017
SURPRISE!!! she's a changeling now. At this point, i also am starting to drift away from MLP due to peer pressure. This starts what I refer to as the "dark ages" where I barely drew anything for a year or so
2019
Freshman year of high school, I decided to give her a redesign! (she is no longer a changeling)
2020
ahhh, 2020. what a year. this is when I started to venture back to old interests and embrace what I liked instead of hiding it. here is moonswirl as sans. this is also the last design before her current one.
2021
one of the first instances of her current design!
2022
now that's a familiar face!! this is the image I use nowadays for reference when drawing her.
