Aurora isn’t very close with her older siblings, aside from Flurry Heart. As children, her relationship with her oldest brother, Luminous Spirit, was outright hostile and the twins usually just stuck with each other. As adults, her and Luminous has entered a sort of truce where they mostly ignore that the other exist. The twins… she loves them, they’re her siblings, but she doesn’t think she knows them well enough to tell if she likes them. Every now and again they drag her into spending time with them; sometimes Diletto convinces her to let him pracise doing makeup, or Felicity tries to get her to teach them how to dance. Often they just tell her that her mane is messy, drag her to one of their rooms, and spend the next hour trying to style it.
 
Aurora supposes the reason is a mix between them not wanting Mom to look at them dissapointed over how they’re not spending time with their little sister, and just that she’s the easiest to convince (..coerce) to agree to these makeover/tutorial sessions-things -Flurry would just teleport away, Luminous would kick their flanks, and Faerie Sky is a foal. So that leaves her.
 
Aurora isn’t very good at understanding other ponies or guessing their intentions.
 
Diletto and Felicity are quite good at paying attention; they know their little sister doesn’t have any friends aside from Disco Inferno who only comes to the empire a few days every couple of months. They are fully aware of how she only spends her time in the castle or in the dance studio she pracises at, and they definently don’t miss how she’s spending less and less time with their parents and Flurry Heart.
 
Now, a lot of this is her own fault -as a child she was a spoiled brat, as a teenager she became an angry, rude and moody pony who actively pushed everyone away. As a young adult, she’s still a bit of a brat, but the twins can’t help but feel like it’s more a habit at this point. She seems to want to be friendly and kind, but isn’t quite sure how to do it? At least, that’s their impression based on how she desperately clings to Disco’s friendship, always trying to make sure his visit goes perfectly and panicking when she think’s she’s hurt him. Or how she always seems to try to befriend any new staff they get… before shoving her hoof in her mouth and insulting them.
 
So the twins figure that as her older siblings, it’s their job to try and help her. She doesn’t realise it, but every make over session is basically them getting her to talk about recent interactions she’s had, while trying to gently steer her towards realising what the other pony was thinking, and giving advice on how to handle future similar situations. They would just try to talk to her outright, but whenever someone mentions how bad she is at social interactions, she just gets really quiet and locks herself in her room.
 
Honestly, considering how much of her attitude they have to deal with, while trying steer the conversation to get her to talk about her problems without her realising, while at the same time acting as basically counselers, they are kinda much better than she deserves. But she’s their little sister, and it seems like for the first time in her life she’s trying to do better. And that’s good enough for them.
 

 
A first look at some of Aurora’s siblings! Diletto and Felicity are about 2 years older than Aurora, who in this image is a very young adult -though looking at them together you wouldn’t guess it considering the twins seemed to use up all the height genes from both Shining and Cadence. Let’s just say Aurora will get carded until she starts to grow grey hairs.
 
Diletto is the one to the left; he’s about one hour older, and is generally kind and sweet, but also boisterous and a bit pushy. His special talent is helping ponies be comfortable in their own skin, if that makes any sense. He deals with everything from make-up, tattoos and fur-dyes, to health problems, to just promoting body positivity. He’s not as good at, say, clothes design as Rarity is, since he’s talent involves a much broader spectrum and isn’t as specialized. So he does a bit of everything; working as a tattoo artist for a few months, then works a personal trainer for a while, holds lectures about health and mental illnesses, taking evening courses at different universities, helps out with various causes, etc. It seems to him that there is always more he can do and learn, so he tries to do everything.
 
He himeslf really likes the punk-aesthetic - always wears his mane in a mowhawk-style, likes to wear makeup and different piercings, and usually covers himself in a type of tattoo’s which is basically magically altering the properties of your fur to be darker or lighter. He can’t settle for one design though, and usually removes them after a month or so, in order to get new ones a bit later. (This is totally not because I can’t be bothered to always remember and draw intricate tattoo designs ) Since’s he’s just relaxing at home here, he’s wearing a lot less accessories then he usually does, only keeping his dock-band and horn-ring -an item which causes the older generation everywhere to gasp and whisper among themselves over how scandalous the new generation is being.
 
Felicity is quieter and gentler, but extremely stubborn and very scary when they’re angry -usually at people hurting others. Their special talent is counseling and helping ponies with mental health issuses. They often collaborate with Diletto on projects to promote healthy lifestyles, bringing the mental health aspect to it while he focuses on physical issues. They’re currently studying psychology, but they’re not sure if they wish to work as a psychologist, therapist, counselor… it seems to them like the’re are things they would like with each proffession and things they would dislike with each.
 
Felicity looks pretty much like the perfect royal; immaculate mane-style, perfectly groomed fur and trimmed hooves, while not being over the top. They don’t do it as much becuase they like to look nice, but rather because having hairs out of place is annoying, and fur laying against the grain is irritating, and don’t get them started on how uncomfortable it is to walk on slightly unblanaced hooves. Still, if was just them, they wouldn’t care enough about it to fix it to this level every day and instead just deal with it most of the time. But luckily, their brother happens to have a talent for things like this -they’ve tried to tell him that it’s okay, and he doesn’t have to help them every day, but he’s having none of it. So it really, really irks them whenever they overhear ponies talking about how stylish they are, while looking down on Diletto for his choice of style.
 

 
And that’s the twins! I didn’t mean for their descriptions to be quite that long… Anyway, I’ve only done three of the ArmorDance kiddos yet, but the theme around all of them is supposed to be something like, different aspects of love? Aurora is about loving doing something, an activity, a passion for something, which in her case is dancing. The twins are about loving and taking care of yourself; divided up into your body and your mind.
 
I tried to make their design match each other, while not being too obvious about it (since they’re not identical). So they both have purple and blue manes and tails, with yellow in their manes. Diletto’s color scheme is darker than Felicity’s though, with grey fur compared to their white. They also both have gradient socks on their fore-legs, and a diamond shape on their forehead.
 
The reason the mane has more colors than the tail, is because that aestheic is something I really like. I saw it first in the toys where, for example Rainbow Dash has a red, yellow and green mane, but a blue and purple tail, and I just found it really appealing. I don’t think too many designs should have it though, and not too many colors - if everypony was like Toola-Roola I think it would be too much, too many designs clashing. So I limited it to one color, and I think it looks good
 
 
And they do all have cutie marks …I just haven’t exactly come up with designs for Diletto’s and Felicity’s I’m satisfied with yet, so I didn’t draw any.