I think the cutouts for Silverstream’s wrist and fetlock feathers are my favorite detail in this.

Where did this conversation go? lol

@Mildgyth  
Those periods weren’t exactly the days of free movement of peoples.
 
Besides that, just looking at demographics, creatures immigrating as opposed to visiting is an exception to at the very least societal norms. Most of the change in this relatively isolationist world occurred after Twilight showed up in Ponyville.
 
At any rate, the main point is that since the Wonderbolts are technically a part of Equestria’s military, she’d probably have to actually immigrate to Equestria first, at least for practical purposes.
 
Now that I think about it, considering griffins send representatives to Equestria such as delegates and athletes for the games and go to their flight schools/camps, what’s stopping them from already producing the first non-pony Wonderbolt? The answer to that might be on topic here.

@Stotter
 
I personally think that Equestria and its world are not complex enough to have things like that. Their approach to borders seems more like a medieval or early modern one than anything.

@Stotter  
you are thinking WAY too hard about this buddy, it’s a show with magical talking horses and creatures, I’m pretty sure she could become a Wonderbolt as long as she passed some sort of qualifier test, none of this legal stuff you’re talking about

@cheezedoodle  
So your headcanon is that Equestria set up an open borders agreement with its new allies more or less simultaneously alongside becoming allies in the first place.
 
Griffinstone definitely has this kind of relationship with Equestria, having formed it over the course of multiple treaties spanning well over a millennium, but the hippogriffs have an equivalent diplomatic relationship after a song, the downfall of a mutual enemy, and a friendship education opportunity.
 
That level of diplomatic achievement does explain the confidence to put Twilight in charge asap. Apparently she accomplished more in less than a decade than Celestia could in centuries, at least diplomatically. Comparative national security records seem like more or less an even split that eventually favors Twilight.

@Stotter  
I think it’s a pretty big leap to assume Equestria has things like passports and visas, or that the Wonderbolts have entry requirements other than “can fly fast.”
 
Travel seems to be pretty much at-will and legal residency seems to be “where your house is.”

The biggest obstacle to this (besides age since that changes with time) isn’t even that she’s a hippogriff, but that she’s not an Equestrian resident. She’s there presumably on a student visa and living in dorms doesn’t in and of itself effect her legal residency, which is currently on Mount Aris.

20% cooler

@Background Pony #D689
 
I did.

Did anyone else wonder how Spitfire would react to Dash just promoting her without consulting Spitfire first?

Heart attack.

@Background Pony #F893  
Give him goggles and he’s pretty much sorted

Can you do gallus next?

She looks absolutely adorable!

Oof  
Wew lads, what do we got here…

@Fibriel  
… I know that that was not your intention, but the way you phrased that comment almost made it seem like you don’t think that Italians are humans.
 
I mean, if a human being half-Italian is being compared to a hippogriff being half-pony and half-griffon…

@Background Pony #538B  
If you consider 1 hug canon shipping then there are a lot of canon ships between a lot of different characters.

Nice recolor.

@ShiiKra  
What are you talking about? This show shipping is so strong with these two that there no it isn’t already cannon.

@Background Pony #538B  
I mean that ship will never be canon so I guess he can be lucky in a different way.

@Fibriel  
Sure, whatever… have it your own way.

@LaszlVFX
 
Right, and pegasuses live in the sky, so what??
 
A seapony isn’t like a prairie dog (which isn’t a dog at all). It’s half-pony. Heck, a hippogriff is the bebeh of a horse and a griffon, ergo, they’re half-pony the way a human can be half-Italian or w/e.

@Fibriel  
Seaponies and regular ponies are also not the same. Seaponies lives underwater, regular ponies are not.

@LaszlVFX
 
Hippogriffs are also seaponies (including Silverstream.)