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@Mugen Kagemaru  
Starbow represents the rainbow part.  
Glory and Rarity have similar designs.  
Starsong and Twilight Sparkle are both purple and have a star shaped cutie mark.  
If you take G5 Twilight in mind, it makes even more sense to have a multiple race swap line.
@Wildcard71
 
Actually, to explain the Pegasus thing, you should’ve put Surprise since it was decided to switch Surprise and Posey’s tribes when making them into Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, respectively.
 
Assuming the Pegasus thing is why Honolu-loo is there.
 
That explained, why are Starbow, Glory and Starsong present?
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@when she felt her wings unfold  
Basically. I like comparing and contrasting the ponies from older gens and newer ones.
What about Twilight Twinkle?
 
I wanted to keep the number of ponies used as small as possible.  
So Twilight Twinkle couldn’t be the choice.
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Thunderzizi
What about Twilight Twinkle?
when she felt her wings unfold
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Goodbye Ponk Pie Hat
To me it’s more of a family tree of colour and personality influences once you get beyond the really direct matches. Some extras:
 
G1’s Tales spinoff:  
  • Patch → Scoots (coat and mane, orphan status, sporty)  
  • tenuous: Patch → Dashie (prankster, sporty)  
  • Bright Eyes → Twily (book smarts and diligence)  
  • Sweetheart → Fluttershy (shy, caring and a bit naïve)
     
    G1’s UK comics:  
  • Lemon Drop → G4 Dashie (competitiveness and emotional forthrightness)  
  • Majesty → Celestia (completely OP protective ruler)  
  • Storm King → Storm King (Arguably. There’ll always be a lot of nominative determinism going on with a name like that.)  
  • Moondancer → Moondancer (direct toy likeness)
     
    G2  
  • er, . A deep dive on MyLittleWiki for the backcards might provide some hints.
     
    G3 animated media:  
  • Rainbow Dash → Rarity (Rainbows, dahling. Rainbows!)  
  • Minty → Pinkie or Muffin-Doofus (cloud cuckoolander, smasher of solstice decorations)  
  • Star Catcher → Celestia (it gets heavily downplayed)  
  • Huge amounts of name recycling that confuses everything.
No connection to g2?
 
It’s hard to find anything - even without a topic line!
 
 
@Edhelistar  
And were’s G3 Fluttershy?
 
I skipped her because I needed a pegasus at tat place.
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And were’s G3 Fluttershy?
No connection to g2?