“Well, back home we had this principle called ‘uncanny valley.’ If you make something perfectly lifelike, it looks okay. If you make it look not lifelike at all, it looks okay. But if you make it look somewhat but not quite lifelike, it’d look repulsive. Twilight and I designed around that; it’s one reason why we have framework over the protective shroud, why there’s no mane but there will be a tail, and so on. Needs to be obviously artificial in some respects.” You look to the three, then. “But I’m not a pony, so I can’t really say. What do you think?”