Hitch may have unseen depths to his personality.

Captain Starboard has an unusual fish body that is derived from the ancient fish Coelacanths that have survived for 410 million years until now. They are among the longest-lived fish known, there are examples that were over 100 years old, and these mostly stayed at greater depths of about 500 m or more, and are also nocturnal in that they “sleep” during the day in caves , and then “drives with the currents” to catch their prey at night.

Interesting hypothesis, but what does Hitch’s personality have to do with his eel tail? (by the way, it would be funny if he could give electric shocks)

I believe these are the descendants of transformed “landlubbers” with base pony bodies, who gain their characteristic “subspecies” appearance through transformation magic. We already saw in G4 that such magic had a tendency to reshape the appearance of the new body according to the pony’s personality. So not one of these transformed sea ponies is the same as the other, they may have been born as original sea ponies before they “evolve” as their personalities develop. Have you noticed that Zipp’s fish body resembles a shark? This is due to her personal tendencies. All sea ponies are modeled on existing sea creatures that are chosen to complement their personalities.

Then it might mean that these are not original sea ponies, hippogriffs (we may have seen one in TYT) or kelpies, although Captain Starboard may have kelpie blood, which may indicate a mixture sometime in the past between these and the transformed immigrants . According to Anemone, there are uncharted waters, which together with the other six kingdoms can be places of refuge for the original inhabitants.

There were undoubtedly very interesting times when Twilight ruled, so that land, sea, sky could work together in one unity - which disintegrated after her disappearance. We know that there were probably at least two or three underwater cities, one for hippogriffs and one for kelpies and maybe one for sea ponies in G4. “Sparkling sea” sounds like a new place name in contrast to the other mentioned places in the issue, like the Trench which was probably uncivilized until “recent times”.

From the context it is clear that they are sisters, although they look like two different subspecies

I just hope it’s the queen of the oceans with her daughter and one of her daughter’s name is Destiny (like in the special episode of Tell your Tales when Izzy appeared under the ocean and met him) 😏