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Nimaru — Gathering Elements (part 5) - Winter Willow

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Description [Part 1 - Rook ]

[Part 2 - Crabapple ]

[Part 3 - Luau ]

[Part 4 - Rose Petal ]

Part 5 - Winter Willow <==== You are here

[Part 6 - The Garden ]

[Part 7 - The Fall ]


This one took some serious work. About 30 completely new OC ponies in varying degrees of distress. Oh right...

WARNING - This comic is a bit severe. Don't read it if you want to spoil your good mood
Note that I don't intend to get this grim often, just that considering Nightmare Moon collapsed large sections of the castle and who knows what else, it's likely there were some serious injuries.

A few things to note: There's a pegasus in the rafters who looks pretty upset. Her name is Whirley and she's a cameo from this comic: [link]

After reading that heartbreaker, I always wanted to give that poor little pony a hug and now I have

Also, Rose is invisible for the entire duration of this comic. At the end, the pony observing believes that Willow is running away screaming. She also makes a snide comment which is a hint to the political landscape of the time (healing ponies don't think much of "emotional healing").

Lastly, I'm enormously pleased with myself. This turned out very artsy and awesome in parts. It was mostly an accident that I thought of some of the arrangements and effects, but I think they turned out really well!

Oh... lastly, lastly: This was actually supposed to continue beyond this point, but the comic would have been too long and it already took an extraordinary amount of effort to do this much so I'm going to stop here for a bit. The next comic will have Celestia again

IMPORTANT! The thing in the tubs is soiled bandages. That's why they're cleaning them over by the river. They're not organs or some of the other things people keep asking me

ALSO: The pony with the paper in her mouth is looking for a pony with that cutie mark. Before you ask if she ever found her, here's the answer: [link]
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Comments: 441

Lady-Hare [2013-04-14 20:21:16 +0000 UTC]

I really like that you gave them unique personalities Most people would have just kept the mane 6 personnalities, which would not have been interesting at all

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Nimaru In reply to Lady-Hare [2013-04-15 00:39:58 +0000 UTC]

Definitely. I very specifically didn't want carbon copies, they had to be unique while still having their element. Though people get Rose and Willow backwards a lot because of it

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Arte-of-the-wind In reply to ??? [2013-03-25 01:14:11 +0000 UTC]

Hm. I Sorta wanna say that

Rook is Loyalty
Crabapple is Honesty
Luau is Laughter
Rose is Generosity
Winter is Kindness
And Celestia is Magic.

I only think of that based on the yellow boxes, when they talk about the person. And then after typing the above, I relised that the spices of each element matches up with the main six if I'm correct. Although, I have not read the rest of it, so I have no idea if you mentioned who is what element later on. Guess I'll find out in a few! :3

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Nimaru In reply to Arte-of-the-wind [2013-03-25 02:01:45 +0000 UTC]

Yup. The idea is that each of the current elements is a direct descendent of my elements except Celestia to Twilight of course, but that's explained in my "reports" series: [link]

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Arte-of-the-wind In reply to Nimaru [2013-03-25 03:01:22 +0000 UTC]

Yes. After veiwing more of your pictures with the characters, I see that. I am very intrested in reading the Twilight AND Luna reports, however, even though I wish to do that now, Sleep is nessacary. I will read those when I can tommrow. I'm loving more and more of your work, and I hope to see more!

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Dragonhawk21 In reply to ??? [2013-03-22 14:01:24 +0000 UTC]

Whats the pony with the paper slip with the rose on it doing?

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Nimaru In reply to Dragonhawk21 [2013-03-22 16:26:19 +0000 UTC]

It's a cutie mark. She's looking for someone. This someone to be precise: [link]

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Dragonhawk21 In reply to Nimaru [2013-03-22 16:35:28 +0000 UTC]

OHHHH! Well good to see everything turned out fine . You should put that link in the comic description, so the guys left hanging can figure out how she ended up without needing to ask you themselves. Just a suggestion .

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Nimaru In reply to Dragonhawk21 [2013-03-22 22:24:58 +0000 UTC]

Good point!

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Dragonhawk21 In reply to Nimaru [2013-03-22 23:07:26 +0000 UTC]

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X-I-L2048 In reply to ??? [2013-03-19 08:30:20 +0000 UTC]

Man, the first part of this comic just tears at the heartstrings. That mother fruitlessly looking for her daughter with the drawing of her cutie mark gets to me the most, though the poor kids having to wash bloody bandages and breaking down is a close second. You did a great job on all the different OCs and their poses, though; that first pic must have taken FOREVER. O-O

BTW, just how did all these poor ponies get so badly hurt anyway? Did Nightmare Moon do all this? Did they get injured in the crowd of panicking ponies?

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Nimaru In reply to X-I-L2048 [2013-03-19 16:28:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, it totally took forever. And yes, it was the RESULT of NMM (not her specifically). Falling rocks, panic etc.

As for the mother, you did see the end of that right? [link]

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X-I-L2048 In reply to Nimaru [2013-03-20 03:58:42 +0000 UTC]

Gotcha. Poor ponies.

Yeah, I saw it. It's so good to know that those two got a happy ending at least.

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majic-namie [2013-02-22 06:50:57 +0000 UTC]

it would have been great if the new born filly would have been green. if she was then the time fits and she could have been grany smith! the time actually fits!

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Nimaru In reply to majic-namie [2013-02-22 17:48:14 +0000 UTC]

1000 years old? I'm pretty sure granny smith isn't THAT old.

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majic-namie In reply to Nimaru [2013-03-02 07:19:33 +0000 UTC]

think about it in this way. twilight said that ponyville is hundreds of years old and grany smith helped found ponyville. as shown in her flashback when she founded ponyville she was already an adult plus in cartoons people (or in this case ponies) tend to live ridiculously long lives and if in reality my great grandfather can still be alive at 206 years, then a cartoon pony can be 1000. now she did say hundreds of years ago so she might not be 1000 years old but take how long ponyvilles been around add growing room for her to get to the age when she founded ponyville plus the fact that nopony knows how old she is, it could be a possibility for her to be that old so it would have been a fun idea since we dont know how old she and a great joke because of the possibility of that being somewhat cannon.
sorry for the ridiculously long reply!

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sunshine888dino In reply to majic-namie [2013-03-23 18:12:43 +0000 UTC]

wait, you great grandpa is 206? DDAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNGGGG!!!!!!

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majic-namie In reply to sunshine888dino [2013-03-25 16:23:43 +0000 UTC]

yup! its crazy isnt it? but hes 206 and still alive!

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Nimaru In reply to majic-namie [2013-03-02 15:13:08 +0000 UTC]

I always figured that as a sloppy mistake. However, I DO have a reconciliation for it. Say Pony ville was founded hundreds of years ago (1000 in my case), but over time, something happened and the town had to be abandoned. When Granny Smith's family came back through there were no signs of the town anymore, but Celestia knew who she was and thought that returning the land to her family was the perfect answer. Thus it was "re-founded" by Granny Smith.

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majic-namie [2013-02-22 06:43:24 +0000 UTC]

ive always loved this one. in my opinion this is the best most tragicly beutifull of your art

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Nimaru In reply to majic-namie [2013-02-22 17:48:33 +0000 UTC]

It was a huge accomplishment for me. It turned out very much as I hoped it would.

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majic-namie In reply to ??? [2013-02-22 06:38:41 +0000 UTC]

why is that little green pony freaking out about her hooves

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Nimaru In reply to majic-namie [2013-02-22 17:48:47 +0000 UTC]

They're covered in blood from the rags they're washing.

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majic-namie In reply to ??? [2013-02-22 06:36:45 +0000 UTC]

i made a bit of a game of looking for the ponies she helped in the big picture. also i know its impossible but that filly whose mother died looks a LOT like screwball also the pony whose eyes are bandaged looks kinda like derpy plus she has eye issues is she derpys ancestor

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Nimaru In reply to majic-namie [2013-02-22 17:49:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm pretty sure I drew that filly before Screwball, but either way, you eventually run out of color combinations

Regardless, you see her again in the final comic of this series as an adult.

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Flying-Dhole In reply to ??? [2013-01-15 07:39:39 +0000 UTC]

jesus christ that's an undertaker pony oh god my heart

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Nimaru In reply to Flying-Dhole [2013-01-15 23:27:43 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. It got a bit rough in spots I figure.

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ScarlletLover2001 [2013-01-10 09:28:49 +0000 UTC]

the drawing the pony with the art cutie mark loooked like the flower rose was guarding

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Nimaru In reply to ScarlletLover2001 [2013-01-10 15:58:34 +0000 UTC]

It was a flower, but it was intended to be a different kind. The cutiemark of the filly she was looking for.

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ScarlletLover2001 In reply to Nimaru [2013-01-11 07:18:49 +0000 UTC]

Can you please post Willow in the pos where her wings are foleded please! Cause its hard to draw this one

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Nimaru In reply to ScarlletLover2001 [2013-01-11 15:13:34 +0000 UTC]

There are tons of pics with Willow and her wings down. Is that what you meant?

Several scenes here for example: [link]

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ScarlletLover2001 In reply to Nimaru [2013-01-13 12:55:16 +0000 UTC]

Yes thank you!

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ScarlletLover2001 In reply to ??? [2013-01-10 06:28:47 +0000 UTC]

thanks for this comic Nimaru. I'm drawing the part where Witer Willow is carrying the baby... I changed it a little . I'm so exited!!!!!!!! Tganks for the link where it teaches how to draw ponies.

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Nimaru In reply to ScarlletLover2001 [2013-01-10 15:58:51 +0000 UTC]

Have fun

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apricotrabbit [2013-01-05 04:46:56 +0000 UTC]

It's nice to know the colt and filly with purple manes end up with happy endings-ish

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ChibiRubyGloom [2012-12-23 22:41:30 +0000 UTC]

Is the Pegasus with the bandaged eye Derpy?

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Nimaru In reply to ChibiRubyGloom [2012-12-24 18:54:03 +0000 UTC]

Not exactly. That was actually a coincidence, but now I'm thinking of using it.

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5015682 In reply to ??? [2012-12-14 09:26:31 +0000 UTC]

What are those pony doing by the bins, and why is that one pony crying?

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Nimaru In reply to 5015682 [2012-12-14 18:17:55 +0000 UTC]

Which bins and which crying (there's more than one)?

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5015682 In reply to Nimaru [2012-12-15 05:56:56 +0000 UTC]

The ones in the last panel at the bottom, and the yellow pony with the red stuff on her hooves.

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Nimaru In reply to 5015682 [2012-12-15 16:51:41 +0000 UTC]

It's a complex scene I admit. What I was trying to represent there was that the nurse pony is making those young ones help her clean bloody rags by the river. The one with blood on her hooves is kind of freaking out and the other is bawling.

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angel2320 [2012-11-19 14:01:22 +0000 UTC]

is rose a ghost or something? she looks kinda transarent in my opinion

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Nimaru In reply to angel2320 [2012-11-19 16:42:31 +0000 UTC]

It's how I represent her invisibility spell. She's unable to be seen by anyone but Willow.

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angel2320 In reply to Nimaru [2012-11-19 19:12:39 +0000 UTC]

ohhhh! makes sence to me! by the way i think ur work is amazing!!

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Nimaru In reply to angel2320 [2012-11-19 19:41:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! You still have 3 more to go in this series too

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angel2320 In reply to Nimaru [2012-11-19 19:44:28 +0000 UTC]

yes!! i would love to read them!!

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angel2320 [2012-11-19 13:54:59 +0000 UTC]

is rose supposed to be a ghost? she looks kinda tranparent

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TheHylianBatman [2012-11-11 20:10:13 +0000 UTC]

Is it bad that I find this beautiful?

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Nimaru In reply to TheHylianBatman [2012-11-11 22:43:36 +0000 UTC]

It's pretty amazing in many ways. I think it turned out really well artistically.

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TheHylianBatman In reply to Nimaru [2012-11-16 03:50:18 +0000 UTC]

No, all the people dying.
Is it bad that I find all that pain, all that emotion...
beautiful?

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