I designed Diamond’s hair to be just similar enough to her current one to make it seem like a natural progression. I like how it’s slightly more childish.



I recall taking that into consideration when putting those plates there. I believe my reasoning was that Luna was unknown at this point beyond the Nightmare Night legend, and Nightmare Moon has a different color cutie mark. If no one knew what the cutie mark looked like, I’d imagine Celestia would want some way of keeping it around so she didn’t forget what it looked like. It’s a little unclear to me how the ponies viewed Luna before the events of the series since everyone was scared of NMM. At worst, I don’t think they really knew anything about her. The plates were supposed to imply Diamond being super into princess culture if her speech didn’t already.