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Old Ass Art: The Beginning of Pancake
🕑 Added 2020-08-11 02:36:32 +0000 UTCSo I've been moving furniture around and cleaning, and lookie what I found! The very first attempt at Pandora/Cupcake shipping. Sorry it's so rough looking, I can't access my computer at the moment to clean everything up. I reckon these doodles are maybe five or six years old, you can see I was still figuring out how to draw adult Pan, for a while she had more ponyish facial proportions. Back then I figured Cupcake was kinda tsundere and hid her emotions behind a stoic exterior. She became Pandora's minion to be closer to her, because Cupcake had a giant crush on her boss that Pan was comically oblivious to. In the first drawing, the dialogue goes:
Cupcake: I love you, okay?! I love you, but you don't love me, so I've gone and ruined everything! I wrecked our friendship because I was so angry inside, don't you understand?! I'm an awful friend!
Pan: Cupcake.....
so yeah, typically Lop brand melodrama there. Later I figured it'd be more interesting if Pan, the giant overpowered demigod, was hopelessly in love with a plain little earth pony (who is comically oblivious).
In the second doodle, they apparently work things out and have a big dramatic kiss.
Pan: Cupcake?
Cupcake: *dreamily* Mmm?
Pan: *joyful, incredulous* You're smiling! You never smile!
Cupcake: Is that so?
tbh i still like this bit of dialogue. I need me some unaware-that-she's-smiling-like-a-lovestruck-fool Cuppers
Third doodle goes:
Cupcake: Fine. I guess I do love you, you dork. I loved you all along. Happy now?
Pan: Yeah, I am, Cuppy.
We can see here Pan and Cups were getting closer to their canon personalities :)
I also found these:
I think back then I figured Pan would be greatly lusted after by the general populace, being a giant freaky noodle and all. I guess this would've contributed greatly to Cupcake's anxiety and fear of confessing her feelings. That pony being held in her coils seems to be a proto-Bruce. One of my first ideas for Bruce was that he was an artsy hipster who was greatly interested in Pan's exoticness (think Trenderhoof), and Pan was weirded out by his romantic pursuit. Honestly I still think this idea is kinda funny and may tinker around with it still- after all, the only ponies canonically interested in Pan tend to be weirdos, perverts that demand paw pics, and the few friends shes managed to charm.
Comments
Dragon Turtle
Really knocks me back to the past, with Pandora having such huge eyes and narrow muzzle.
SmilesPerHour
I really like how the new romance turned out, with Pandora being smitten with Cupcake instead of the other way around, but at the same time, this version of Cupcake expressing her true feelings is super adorable! They're such a cute pair <3 and I love, love, love how you drew Pandora coiling up around Proto-Bruce. perfect detail of her powerful serpentine body curling up around him, like a boa constrictor.
Heather
Oooh my god this makes me so nostalgic for early Pandoraverse days!!! πππ Look at our baby girls first starting out MY HEART!! Also really loving the "dramatic tears, hair blowing" look for Cuppy here. I imagine this is a favorite melodramatic romantic scene in younger Pandora's fantasies. PROTO BRUCE!! Im seriously imagining now this upper crust little artistic unicorn bored to death with the common plainness of unicorn filled Canterlot (even with a more modern and mixed Equestria he's still mostly surrounded by stuffy, skinny, SAME unicorns) and desperately lusting after....he doesn't know. SOMETHING different and new and exciting and hey maybe our lil uni is in the closet hardcore monster fucker but at the time doesn't understand or can name his desires until he sees Pandora for the first time. What starts as a thunderclap of fasination quickly turns into obsessive lust which Panny might find very flattering at first but quickly gets weirded out by being fetisized so throughly. She eventually STRONGLY discourages him from perusing her in the future buuuut thinking down the line he might meet Chad and the two fall head over heels in love (and carnal lust. He has TENTACALS) much to her displeasure And do I spy a tiny little doodle of Twilight and her chaos noodles?
Amaris
These are such a gem! Thank you for sharing!
Lory
Wee! Pancake origins! But paw pics oh no
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Paw PIcS oh NO
