One of my favorite changes in sv! Zecora takes the place of Discord as the second villain that the girls will face.c/p from the pony blog:

so like.. 6 years ago? when season 2 and discord were just rumors at the time, and for SOME REASON?? I was sure that it was confirmed that we were going to see why luna became nightmare moon and that whoever discord was, the character had something to do with it. I was completely wrong and it turns out that we still don’t know why. I wanted to reuse that idea here just to give the villains [or at least these two] a sense of unity.



I think at the time I assumed ‘discord’ was the magic that fed on luna’s jealousy and discontent, which is essentially how it would work here. like my other hc [6Dos] , zecora is a herbologist from the times of celestia and luna. she forms a friendship and possibly a relationship with luna as the two are able to bond over feeling shunned and their growing unhappiness of their situations, luna with her jealousy of her sister, and zecora over being scorned by ponies for who she is.



her knowledge of potions and magic and plants is great but one day a potion goes wrong [probably due to the influence of the discontented magic] and backfires on her, turning herself into a cursed form with power over voodoo potions and spells. she creates the everfree forest and goes on a rampage over the kingdom, distorting ponies and at times reality, before celestia and luna stop her with the elements.

turning her friend/girlfriend to stone ends up being one of the final pushes for luna before she turns on her sister and becomes nightmare moon and has to be banished. following sunset and the girls defeat of nightmare moon 1000 years later, the magic whips away unnoticed and eventually awakens zecora sometime later, who has a great time twisting and joking with the girls before turning to ponyville and canterlot.

zecora’s magic is mostly condensed in her caldron, where a poison joke potion allows her to distort reality. the caldron and potion bottles can be summoned at any time. her cloak flows behind her like the princess’s manes and can be used to temporarily hide her or distort her appearance, as she herself is not effected by the poison joke.

she still has it very badly for princess luna, although she’ll be damned if she’s going to admit it

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