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Do androids dream of electric sheep?
"Digital pigs are far more superior."
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WOW great job ! this is adorable and so well illustrated 
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...and now twilight is the one inside everyones sleeping mind.
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Aww, so adorable. Sweetie Bot is definitely best robot.
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Her eyes are quite haunting; they are indeed windows to the soul.
Well-done.
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Which Sweetie Belle: the robot, or the biological little sister the robot wishes she was?
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The ones in this picture : )
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The emptiness in the SweetieBot's eyes is haunting because, while it could just be the empty stare of a machine, there's something more behind it. If the top part was all there was to the picture, then it would easily be just a picture of Sweetie Belle under Luna's wing. Putting a SweetieBot underneath with the dim light of stand-by in her eyes creates a sad contrast of the two, letting the viewer see that the puppet dreams of being real in a literal sense. The impact is in realizing that the machine has the capacity to dream at all.
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>the puppet dreams of being real
Sweetie Belle isn't fictional (well, in-universe anyway), so she is, by definition, real. Yes, I know what you were getting at, but still.
Things I'm curious about here/want your speculations on:
1) Can a robot pony get a cutie mark, as Sweetie here clearly hopes (check the far wall there)?
2) How/why did Scoots (they apparently met each other before meeting Apple Bloom) become friends with the creepy robot girl?
3) Think robots are another one of those things They conveniently "forgot" to update Luna on?
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>Sweetie Belle [...](is) real.
Okay, poor word choice; she wishes to be an organic lifeform of the sort that she resembles : P
Now you're asking for stuff that Griffon and Jenny would be better suited to answer, but you did ask for speculation too : )
1) I doubt it, but maybe she's hoping that, if she does something that would earn a cutie mark, then she might become a true pony ("true" in the traditional, puppet-related, "I wanna be a real boy!" sense). Or, she might know she would never gain one and is merely going through the motions to both help her friends gain theirs and to help herself have some way of feeling like a normal pony despite being a robot. I'm assuming that she knows she's a robot in this case. If she doesn't know, then both this comment and the previous comment I wrote are invalid and only the first applies because it's my opinion of how Sweetie Bot's eyes look : )
2) This is going into AU of the FiW AU, lol. Maybe Scoots saw Sweetie sitting off to the side watching their classmates and decided to try cheering her up, or Scoots wanted to know what it was like to be a robot or something. Kids are curious about things that are different and it's only a matter of getting past their fear of the unknown to investigate; some kids get past that fear easier than most of their peers.
3) Nah : ) If Luna is visiting Sweetie Bot's dream, she probably can feel the difference between a biological pony dreaming and a robot pony "dreaming". I imagine that Sweetie was dreaming of being teased or something similar, and Luna came by to investigate. When Luna realizes that the construct has the ability to access the dreamspace, it changes her perception of the idea of constructs being soulless and she offers Sweetie the opportunity to experience a dream where she can be a real filly instead of a robot.
Who knows? Maybe Luna found beings in her time that had Sweetie Bot's dilemma (golems and the like, constructs with magical origins instead of technological ones, unless robots and other "modern" tech run off magic...), so Sweetie wouldn't be much of a shock to her.
This is TL;DR already, but now I'm looking closer at the picture and I noticed this: Luna's tail and mane has the digital pattern instead of her usual stars. Is that really Luna, or has Sweetie coded her own for herself to interact with when she heard stories about Luna visiting the dreams of biological ponies?
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Not tl;dr at all. And look closer at Luna's mane and tail. Pixels are squares, not starbursts. This is the legit Luna.
And if Sweetie thinks she can't get a mark and is just tagging along for moral support...
>hfw she gets an honest to Faust cutie mark
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The blue parts are the sky behind them, I thought, and they do have stars in them. The pink part is her mane, which has the pixel-like squares I'm referring to. And when I say "pixel-like squares" I don't mean the picture is pixelated, I mean there are light-green/blue squares drawn which kind of blends into-- Hmmm...nevermind. This isn't going to be worth it; we'll just both see what we want to : )
>Honest-to-Faust
I missed the "honest to" part. My bad. Also, "honest-to-God" is hyphenated, so that might have something to do with my confusion.
This is starting to go a bit long, so I'm going to bow out of further discussion on this thread. Thanks for the conversation!
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Ah, there it is...I had reversed the background and her mane; it took looking at the picture at a smaller size to realize the mix-up. My apologies.
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It's quite alright.
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>Pixels are squares, not starbursts. This is the legit Luna.
I didn't say they were starbursts in this picture. I said Luna's mane and tail usually have stars in them (meaning, in the show), but here the tail and mane of the dream-Luna have the same pixel-like squares that make up the border of the dream picture, which leads me to believe it is /not/ the real Luna.
>Faust cutie mark
The inkwell from the Fausticorn or a picture of Lauren?
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The blue parts have starbursts in them, not pixels. It's easier to tell with the mane.
Honest to Faust=honest to God.
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Apologies, I accidentally replied to the wrong post. My intended reply to this post is up there somewhere. Check the post dates and you should be able to find it.
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the underlying tones i'm getting from this are pretty sad
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Well what I got out of it was that since Sweetie Belle (or rather, Sweetie Bot) doesn't have a very good relationship with Rarity, who often times ignores or neglects her, she fantasizes about being Luna's sister and having a strong sisterly connection with her in her robot dreams.
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Luna can enter dreams, remember?
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Yeah, I recall. That was just my interpretation.
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I'm saying it seems more likely, from the context, that Luna is actually visiting her.
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Because Luna can invade into other ponies dreams.
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I know, but first of all, invading hibernation codes is advanced even for Luna, and secondly I was referring to the line Sweetie Bot says about Sheep.
So one day you should draw Sweetie Bot meeting Luna and saying "Why have I seen this princess in my dreams?"
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Yes, androids hippoids dream. In particular, Sweetie Belle dreams of being an organic lifeform like her big sister. And Luna? Luna has firsthoof knowledge of Sweetie's fundamental human(?)ity.
I have diabetes now.
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