Posting this alongside the finished piece to show some of the alternate colors that could’ve been used for “Order of Equestria”.
It’s human Octavia dressed up as Shanoa, in three possible palette swaps. The one in the upper left uses her default pony color scheme. And the middle one uses Shanoa’s original colors in the game, with an alternate color for the glyph marks based on Octavia’s cutie mark color.
I ended up using Shanoa’s colors and making the glyph marks violet but slightly reddish.
Final version: derpibooru.org/117824
Also personality; though Octavia’s isn’t canon, she’s usually depicted as similarly cool/stoic.
Now Shanoa is Octavia, Albus is… I dunno Vynil or Neon and he/she cries:
-OctAAAAAaaaaavvviaaaaaaaaa!…
Are you me?
Which is weird because I played so many.
Also I really dug her character design…and hey! An excuse to have her back and upper arms exposed!
Shanoa has long ebony hair.
Octavia has long ebony hair.
You can figure out the rest.
Probably because Octavia ’s humanized form looks the most like Shanoa.