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Other Steampunk ponies:
Twilight and Pinkie: [link]
Applejack and Rarity: [link]
The Cutie Mark Crusaders: [link]
Derpy and Dinky: [link]
Queen Chrysalis: [link]

Here's a fun fact: Rainbow is the first non-augmented steampunk pony I've drawn. That machine on her back and wings isn't permanently connected to her, she's simply test-flying a new one of Twilight's contraptions while her old pal Fluttershy, the best animal-augmenter in all of Ponyville, cheers her on (and hopes the thing won't explode... again).

I figured in this universe Fluttershy's knack for helping animals would be expressed in helping them recover from major injury, which entails also augmenting them with whichever limb or organ might be missing. So she's more of a mixed mechanic and doctor than simply a caretaker. Of course some animals don't exactly like company when they're in extreme pain so she's seen her share of maulings, hence her lack of one eye and the tough leather-armour under the light, soft shirt she usually wears.

And of course Rainbow's hooves are cracked and unkept... Because she doesn't like ponies touching them! : D

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My little pony; Friendship is Magic is (c) *fyre-flye

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:icondetectiverobomonkey:
*DetectiveRoboMonkey Mar 27, 2013  Student Writer
But then... IT EXPLODED! TWICE!
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*Chickenwhite Mar 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Can you do that? Can you explode twice? D:
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:icondetectiverobomonkey:
*DetectiveRoboMonkey Mar 28, 2013  Student Writer
Maybe. Though I'd bet Pinkie-Pie-bot said that.
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:iconagenttasmania:
This occupies that strange borderland between really cute and really disturbing.
Great quality and the broad subject matter leans to cute, but the implication that's Fluttershy's been repeatedly dismembered provides the disturbing.
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*Chickenwhite Jan 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Fgsfds, thank you! >w< I actually always put in a slightly disturbing element, (mostly subconsciously, I think) probably because my brain can't handle too much cute in one picture ^^''
I do hope Fluttershy's slightly roughed-up past doesn't break the deal for you, but this is just a slightly more violent and realistic universe than the normal MLP >w<
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:iconagenttasmania:
>'Realistic'
>Steampunk.
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*Chickenwhite Jan 29, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
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Yeah, okay, realistic within the confines of the established universe XD;;
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~superpika293 Dec 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Nice work. How did Fluttershy lose her eye?
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*Chickenwhite Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I like to believe it was a particularly agonized bear. The poor thing panicked before she could knock it out for operations.
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~superpika293 Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Okay that makes sense.
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