SO! Happy December, folks!

This has been sitting in my to-finish pile ever since the episode aired way back in May, but I was in the middle of “Oh my gosh, Bronycon is in two months I NEED TO FINISH EVERYTHING NOW!!!” so I sketched and inked it up and then promptly dropped it.

I thought since it was December, I should finally finish it. Because of the time shift though, a lot of whatever vision I had in the beginning was lost on me, so this scene redraw might feel like it’s got two different ideas smooshed into it now.

Like everyone else, I flipped when Luna was chosen to represent the Spirit of Christmas/Hearth’s Warming Eve Future and she got her own song to boot. I’ve always loved how in every Christmas Carol interpretation that the role of Christmas Future has never been played down. The spirit is unabashedly death and despair, the hope of rectifying a mislead past being stripped away while Death’s judging finger is pointed at Ebenezer Scrooge, and while they didn’t go as dark as most kids’ interpretation (I mean, Disney’s Christmas Carol showed Uncle Scrooge literally being dragged into an open grave with the fiery depths of hell waiting for him below), they still went a little scary.

I decided to mix this darkness into the scene redraw since while Luna’s Future was definitely dark, it wasn’t spooky or foreboding enough for me. I also tried to push that Luna is the focal point in this scene, so hopefully she draws the most attention here.

Happy Holidays, yo.