Talk:List of non-pony characters/Seaponies and mermares/@comment-32933435-20181019004147

I hate the concept that Hippogryffs/Seaponies are the same.

THEY. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME. THING !

The Hippogryffs are only TEMPORALY "seaponies", but choose to stay as such, for the only reason Hasbro can have two DIFFERENT SPECIES as one. When a changeling chages his/her form, does that mean that said changeling isn't a changeling anymore? NO.

And I don't care about the "but they stayed longer as seaponies and for the youngests it can be difficult to choose another way of life" reason : Hippogryffs forgot WHO THEY REALLY ARE, and by staying transformed as seaponies (because, yes, that's what they are, not real seaponies) is basically cultural appropriation to the real seaponies.

Sorry for sounding awful, but this is my honest opinion.

The only reason we had the "Seaponies" (aka, the Hippogryffs disguised as such) is because it's a reference to the first generation of My Little Pony; same thing with Capper and the Abyssinian race.

On a different note, what is exactly the difference between a mermare, a seapony, and a siren ? Are they different kinds like the unicorns, the pegasi and earth ponies?