Sparkler

This is just testing out a potential OC page and gallery template. I just thought it'd be fancier to link to a webpage instead of an image for a refsheet, lol.


New art / Reference

Old art / designs

This is only here for archival purposes, everything drawn before 2020 isn't canon.

Other's art

Pony VS real Sparkler?

For the sake of being purposely difficult, I split Sparkler into two different characters: Pony Sparkler and the real Sparkler. Why?! Because I think it's funny. Arguably there's four if you count the old designs, but I don't. However, they're both visually identical. The main way to tell them apart is to check the butt, but that's extremely rude and borders on harassment (even if it's not hard to miss). The other is context clues, but paying attention is very hard for most people nowadays. How sad...

Pony Sparkler is an AU and a softer version. The real Sparkler would probably think Pony Sparkle is a big baby and a lesser version. Pony Sparkler also has parents, but the real one doesn't. Pony Sparkler exists in a canon universe and doesn't have the same freedoms being a "non-canon OC" (read further) does. I do think pony Sparkler has the capacity to be like the real Sparkler, though. Depends on who pushes her to that point... Another semi-major difference is age. Pony Sparkler is slightly younger than the real Sparkler. The youngest age that real Sparkler can be is 30, but Pony Sparkler can be somewhere between 25 and 28 at the very least.

The normal version of Sparkler doesn't exist in the same continuity as other OCs (future OC pages will be grouped by continuity because none have nearly as much art), but Sparkler is capable of interacting with any OC, it's just either non-canon or dubiously canon. Does that make sense? Well, it's not your problem if it doesn't. I do "headcanon" that Sparkler would orbit Karla and Mars out of any other OC (Mars would be in the "dubiously canon" camp), otherwise I see Sparkler as more of a catalyst to push characters into situations that wouldn't otherwise happen in-canon. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, too bad OC shit is currently on the backburner...

I toyed with the idea having different versions of Sparkler in other series (Animal Crossing and Them's Fightin' Herds off the top of my head), but I don't really care and I'm not ready for more than one Sparkler to exist. If you put a gun to my head and made me create a third Sparkler, it would probably be a Neopets version.

TL;DR Don't worry about it.

Trivia and info

Sparkler was created in 2011, so of course there's going to be lore attached to an OC that's existed for over a decade.

  • Unlike me, a teenager born in the early 90s, Sparkler is the other way around. A 30-something born in the early 2010s... Interesting.
  • Mane colors were lifted from Chemical Plant Zone.
  • Pony Sparkler's cutie mark is a Memphis design symbol.
  • Pony Sparkler's original name was Ink Stains with a inkblot cutie mark.
  • Previous fursona species from the age of 10 onward: wolf (lol), fox (lol), lion (lol), rat, "ratalope" (like a jackalope but a rat instead of a rabbit)
  • ... But WHY is my fursona now a unicorn and not still a rat or capybara??? *sigh* Well, in 2011, I went batshit insane over a certain unicorn. Of course I had to make one too!!! After I did the first major redesign, I purposely made her coat black instead of blonde to look like an opposite counterpart. (This was before Nightmare Rarity - a funny coincidence.) When I tried to cut ties to the fandom, I ditched the entire ponysona concept but couldn't think of a new name... So I indirectly named her after Rarity too. I used to legit be embarrassed by this association, but I couldn't drop it or make a new character no matter how many times I tried...
  • In 2023, I owned up to Sparkler being literally a result of my first love being a cartoon horse and redesigned Pony Sparkler to ship them. Because nothing I post will ever pale in comparison to the awful shit and people I wish I never met via that fandom in the last decade. I technically drew them together a few times in 2011/2012, but most went unposted. If you want to know more about the ship, you're shit out of luck because I haven't written much down about it :( I'm sorry!!!
  • Another unicorn character that was an inspirational push is Unico.