OOOH I SHIP HER WITH MAH OC!! In all seriousness though, I might’ve done that at least once or twice in side projects or fanfics, but never for an actual project that I wanted to take seriously.

Adding love interests to things was something I feel that Lauren never really put at the forefront of the series when she started coming up with it. It was a trope commonly found in the previous generations of My Little Pony. And for the sake of the story in Journey of the Spark, we wanted to make sure that the inner conflict that Twilight has to face was the heart of the story.