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Playing cards was very popular pasttime when I was growing up. I had my favourite face cards and favourite decks, some vintage and rare. The colours and design for those two Queens are based on popular face motif. It was super fun to make.
 
Twilight Sparkle has now two powerful allies and protégés. And who is better suited to gather all unique magical talents under her wing, if not Element of Magic herself?
 
You probably know I wholeheartedly disagree about “Starlight is just copy of Sunset” statement. I see them both as unique, very interesting characters with completely different motivations for turning bad and very different personalities. Most striking difference is how well Sunset handles her friendships now, while Starlight stays socially awkward and deeply introverted.

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Terminal Rex

Going Indognito mode..
@Background Pony #EA29  
Exactly. Almost 2 years after sunsets debut, another evil pony with a suspiciously similar name is introduced with the intention of filling the role that sunset can’t.
 
Sunset proved successful but they couldn’t very well take her out of EQG so a new character was created but with enough differances in idealogy and motivation to be a fresh spin.
 
A prudent move on the behalf of hasbro and the writers.
 
It’s alright dude. Both characters owe their existance to trixie anyway. She was the proto counterpart and the fandoms adoration and fascination with her inspired the writers to start creating official counterparts.
Background Pony #13DF
@Mr grump  
Created to fill in for Sunset? Sunset is a main character and Starlight was only secondary. They don’t have anything in common other than they were both evil unicorns that got reformed.
Terminal Rex

Going Indognito mode..
It’s obvious that starlight was created to fill that sunset shaped hole in the shows lineup that sunset herself is unable to fill due to being on Equestria girls. But you’re right. Since the season 6 premier her character has evolved in a different direction and only superficial similarities remain. They are two sides of the same coin, sharing the same role but with a differant spin.
 
It’s a shame neither one of them can compare to Trixie:)
Background Pony #13DF
I agree. Sunset and Starlight are two completely different characters. I hate how everyone attempts to call Starlight a sunset clone with no second thought or reason. They are both unique in their own ways, even after her reformation. Most people who do compare her to Sunset are just upset because Sunset isn’t going to be in FIM (and personally considering how people react over the littlest things sometimes really makes me feel that idea is just utter chaos waiting to happen), and point fingers at Starlight for being the easy target. And what happens, she’s called a Mary Sue who is shoved in people’s faces and some other stuff that’s pretty dumb.  
Starlight is more of a student who is learning the meaning of friendship.
 
Sunset had the evil scared out of her. After RR she was more of an independent character (even if she ruined three characters lives to get it) and thus is mentoring Human Twilight.