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Description SPECIAL THANKS TO for donating TWO of her ponies to the Miracleverse for this boy to come together; I merged their designs together to get this nice beautiful boy.
Cutie Mark: starryoak.deviantart.com/art/T…
Welcome to the Miracleverse! AKA, the Disliked Ships AU, but I don't use this as a platform for hate. While the universe is slightly... twisted, they are all options that could have happened in the main TFIMverse. They're a chance to do things with the... standard ships that people have, and using them in new ways, as well as a platform for interesting characters. I want to do some different things with the designs, so I may note the standard designs I tried to avoid with each design. These designs have been done for... an embarrassing amount of time, so expect a lot of the designs at once, I finally decided to upload them. This boy is an Octascratch foal... I finished his sketch approximately on February ‎22. While I didn't design him entirely, and most if not all of the credit should go to Dreamy for the design, I agreed to accept the designs (I'm saying this as if that's some kind of thing I did as a favor instead of being so completely overwhelmed with happiness to be offered designs), mainly due to Rhythm's clear colors related to Vinyl Scratch's older brother, and I just adored both of them. I over-saturated his coat colors to give him a unique color rather than white or grey, and I'm super glad he has no obnoxiously bright colors in him either. Something only worth mentioning in passing, considering no one should care, but it is a fact about his character to mention Temper is intersex, though dominantly male and identifies as male, which is is both a reference to his design being a merge of a brother and sister character, also is why he has naturally thick eyelashes usually indicative of females in MLP, along with the rounded and soft snout.
Tempered Tempo, or just Temper,  (partially due to the other pony in town with tempo in his name) is a music critic with very strict tastes and very, very strict personality. A short fuse, something that fits the shortened nickname he prefers, he speaks very curtly and is incredibly blunt, quick witted, but with a preference to keep his words to a minimum. This has given him a bit of a mysterious personality among Ponyville, or at least, a mystery as to what he thinks about things other than the music he critiques, since he barely speaks and hides under a strict mask of sharp wit. Since his mom is mute, he only had his other mother to speak to, he tends to keep quiet most of the time because only one half of his household was was ever speaking. He's also very good at picking up ponies unspoken visual cues, due to this.
He absolutely hates most of the musicians in Ponyville, having ridiculous standards for what qualifies as 'good', though admittedly, to be fair to him; he has no preferences for what music counts as 'legitimate', rather, having two mothers with such differing tastes, he 'likes' all kind of music. It's just musicians he can't stand. He absolutely despises Hazelnut Hushup's work in particular, and has a massive amount of distaste for her personally as well, though this isn't uncommon, most ponies dislike the immature musician. He just has a tendency to be much louder than most.
His mothers have always lived together since Octavia moved into Ponyville, and have a good friendship, though often communication issues come up due to Vinyl's muteness, they're quite a musical team. Vinyl is a dab hoof at mechanics and has set up her side of the house, still strictly divided, whether out of tradition, convenience or just aesthetics, as a mechanical marvel. Octavia's side is much more down to earth, while Temper himself lives in a new split in their house, in the middle. It's a bit awkward when his mothers are holed up in their own parts of their house, passing messages back and forth through their son, but it works well enough.
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Comments: 19

Viist [2019-06-30 16:35:06 +0000 UTC]

What's his opinion on Tessitura's music? (Sorry for spamming you with questions, I just like re-reading these a lot)

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StarryOak In reply to Viist [2019-07-02 19:49:57 +0000 UTC]

overproduced, overpolished, and overly sexual.

honestly he's right tbh

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CharPonyVA [2017-03-29 18:48:32 +0000 UTC]

I like how he has a saxophone cutie mark!  

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SwordSparks [2017-03-28 05:11:00 +0000 UTC]

Separated parts of the house?

That's...unorthodox for a marriage. I mean, if they even believe in marriage, or they just eloped.

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StarryOak In reply to SwordSparks [2017-03-28 21:38:54 +0000 UTC]

Well, their house was built separated in the show.

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SwordSparks In reply to StarryOak [2017-03-28 23:52:20 +0000 UTC]

And they've not thought about redecorating, or you know...remodeling?

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StarryOak In reply to SwordSparks [2017-03-29 03:12:28 +0000 UTC]

nope

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SwordSparks In reply to StarryOak [2017-03-29 04:53:22 +0000 UTC]

Huh. Well, don't fix what isn't broken.

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Jozilla877 [2017-03-28 01:36:02 +0000 UTC]

I apologize in advance but he looks like he needs to be punched.

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StarryOak In reply to Jozilla877 [2017-03-28 02:27:06 +0000 UTC]

Probably, tbh.

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Uranimated18 [2017-03-27 21:02:52 +0000 UTC]

Impressive

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AmrasFelagund [2017-03-27 20:12:09 +0000 UTC]

Well, this is one of the more imaginative OctaScratch kids I've ever seen. It seems like so many do a merge of both of their manestyles, making their kid look more like a fusion than a kid. I mean, one could argue that there's really no difference, but still.

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StarryOak In reply to AmrasFelagund [2017-03-28 02:37:16 +0000 UTC]

Well, we can still tell the children of most of the parents we've seen are far from fusions of their parents....

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DreamyDelusion [2017-03-27 20:05:53 +0000 UTC]

I was on my phone when you sent the message so I couldn't reply back.

But I love him! You did so well merging the designs and I'm really excited to see where you take the character next.

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StarryOak In reply to DreamyDelusion [2017-03-28 02:36:37 +0000 UTC]

he's most likely to be a bg character but I have plans for everyone.

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BatMuties [2017-03-27 19:38:33 +0000 UTC]

Cool!

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Viist [2017-03-27 19:30:03 +0000 UTC]

He's really lovely! I like his personality a lot

i guess that Hazelnut neither doesn't care much about him or despises him back lmao

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StarryOak In reply to Viist [2017-03-28 02:36:17 +0000 UTC]

mutual hate.

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Viist In reply to StarryOak [2017-03-28 17:07:19 +0000 UTC]

O i see 

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