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Description
Just a small illustration to my headcanon regarding Wheely…
Wheely Bopper was a strange pony with wheels who used to appear in Rainbow Dash’s dreams frequently during her childhood. Together they had all kinds of fun and adventures. Being a product of Rainbow’s imagination the wheeled mare strongly resembled her. As Rainbow grew older Wheely appeared less and less, until eventually she vanished from her dreams completely. Many years later Rainbow still remembers the character fondly. She commissioned Rarity a plushie of Wheely and still hopes that some day she will see her once again.
Wheely Bopper was a strange pony with wheels who used to appear in Rainbow Dash’s dreams frequently during her childhood. Together they had all kinds of fun and adventures. Being a product of Rainbow’s imagination the wheeled mare strongly resembled her. As Rainbow grew older Wheely appeared less and less, until eventually she vanished from her dreams completely. Many years later Rainbow still remembers the character fondly. She commissioned Rarity a plushie of Wheely and still hopes that some day she will see her once again.
Headcanon accepted. That’s a lovely tale :)
I can dig it.
That’s a really nice back story!
Y’know, that’s oddly quite touching. Kinda like a childhood imaginary friend.
A dream. RD asked Rarity for a plush of WB, based on the description she gave her.
At the time I liked to think of WB as manifestation of RD’s subconscious attempt to fill the role of mother figure in her life with an imaginary character during her childhood, she would only have visions of WB in her dreams. She doesn’t dream of her anymore, but she wanted to have a plush as a reminder.
Additionally, the fact that Scootaloo favors a wheeled form of transportation further increases RD’s attachment to the filly by subconsciously triggering associations with her past dream friend.
This isn’t canon or anything, I just thought it would be an interesting spin on WB’s origin. But that’s assuming RD really grew up without a mother, which is probably not true.
What do you plan to do for the next image?
PLEASE DRAW HER CONNECTED TO A BICYCLE PUMP
Pretty much exactly what I had in mind with the substitute for real mother, seeing how she didn’t appear with Rainbow’s dad in the flashback.
It goes even farther than that when RD takes notice of Scootaloo riding scooter all the time, thus subconsciously starting to feel more and more attached to her due to the whole “pony on wheels” parallels. Scootaloo is the new incarnation of Wheelie that RD needs in her life.
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Sure, let’s do that. :D
Pinkie’s imaginary friend is Surprise.
I like that canon.
And I also like the idea of Rainbow making a “children’s series” of books detailing Wheely’s adventures on the side of being a Wonderbolt sorta as tribute to her love of Daring Do.
HNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG
How cute.
And it works.
Alright, added it in the description. Tried to make it shorter but it’s still sort of long, sorry.