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Here’s my alternate design for Twist. So I look at her as a filly and, aside from a more bulbous muzzle and an overbite, she really doesn’t have a different body than a normal filly. In fact, she might even be a little bit plumper than Apple Bloom is. So rather than give her such a drastically different scrawny appearance I wanted to keep her body type mostly the same. So to me, bigger muzzle = bigger nose, so I gave her a muzzle a bit like Saffron Masala, and still with a bit of an overbite but not as pronounced as the one she had as a filly. I definitely wanted to keep the curly mane, but I wanted it to look like she was deliberately styling it rather than it just being naturally curly: since Bonnie looked like Twist as a filly, I wanted to make her mane have curls in it like Bonnie’s. She definitely needed the glasses, but I imagined she would get sick of the big dork glasses at some point and go for something that didn’t obscure 90% of her face. I the end, I like that she still looks plain and dorky, but doesn’t look like a girl Snails :P

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Badumsquish
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@Background Pony #DEB6
They just had a lot of characters. Apparently, when Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were reformed, the writers were outright told “their stories are done so don’t use them anymore.” Probably Hasbro didn’t want them to get too laser-focused on characters who were at best incidental, like Twist really only existed to be the friend who would get a cutie mark so Apple Bloom would feel alienated and meet the other two CMCs. After all, we all saw the tragic outcome of the one time the writers WERE allowed to laser-focus on a character, the one who rocks the telly who’s half-Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli, the one who’s one outrageous dude and totally in our face :P
Background Pony #DEB6
With how forgotten and/or neglected sweets ponies with candy based cutie marks have been over the gens (often to the point of doing them dirty, not just in G4), does anyone else feel like Hasbro hates those?
Badumsquish
Generic Messy Hair Anime Anon - Seen and done more than you can imagine
Kalianne - Derpi Supporter
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!

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@WaynePonePone
I think the biggest reason is we have no frame of reference for Frazzle Rock. That’s how she has always looked. With Twist, we know what she used to look like, and there’s a direct comparison. Like the appearance version of a character acting out-of-character :P
@Mr.Myoozik
My biggest thing is that she just looked so drastically different than she did as a filly. No other character thus far has changed that much between foal and adult so it sticks out like a sore thumb: it’d be like if Scootaloo grew up to look like Bulk Biceps or if Babs Seed grew up to look like Fleur De Lis. I’d have been fine with her looking ugly if she even remotely resembled how she looked as a filly :P
@mulbmerl
Indeed :D
@WanderingHolyKnight
It wasn’t even discourse when you think about it. Just, her adult form was shown and it was basically this meme:
It’s like that one comic that tried to retcon Discord into having been good all along. People on the whole just disagreed so strongly that it’s like reached a homeostasis: people rejected it so completely that they just said “nah didn’t happen” and didn’t even care XD
Mr.Myoozik
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Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
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Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.

Music/Charts Enthusiast
I think I’m one of the few people who wasn’t bothered by adult Twist’s design in the finale, mainly because I never gave any thought about it. Now that this is the new discourse, I also like these fan redesigns that make her look more attractive, but I’m still not bothered by how she looks in that episode. Sometimes, not everybody grows up to be beautiful, they maintain that quote on quote “unattractive” look for the rest of their life. Plus, who says that it’s a bad thing? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what matters most is personality rather than appearance. Don’t judge a book by its cover like they say.
Cortancy

Badumsquish is so much more thoughtful than the showrunners. It really bugged me that they didn’t go the ugly duckling route and make her look like Fleur. Even so, this depiction would have been better than that.
Fleur designs said this on ponyville… will of glasses?
Moonlight Bloom
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Artist -

This is so much better than what the show gave us. She’s not grotesquely ugly, but she still isn’t “conventionally attractive”; this preserves that dorky-cute look to her, but without the foalhood awkwardness.
Have my fave.
Background Pony #7191
Badumsquish is so much more thoughtful than the showrunners. It really bugged me that they didn’t go the ugly duckling route and make her look like Fleur. Even so, this depiction would have been better than that.