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“	After finishing up with Jamsta and Lolisa, I warped to Canterlot High; I met an old, prototypical friend of mine and Christine's, finally...	”
Chris introduces the Equestria Girls world to his comic

Chris takes another franchise hostage.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (often abbreviated to Equestria Girls) is a multimedia franchise, and a spinoff of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Set in a human equivalent of the My Little Pony world, Equestria Girls follows human versions of the main cast in high school. It also serves as one of Chris' forms of escapism from the real world, given his nostalgia for his high school days, and his longing to fraternize with members of the fairer sex.

Background

Not content with just selling exaggerated horses, Equestria Girls is Hasbro's foothold in selling fashion dolls in their My Little Pony franchise. The franchise made its debut in 2013, with the release of the movie of the same name. The film establishes that a human world exists parallel to the pony world of Equestria, where most of the characters are teenagers who attend Canterlot High School; nonetheless, the magical and friendship aspects synonymous with the parent franchise are still present.

For Chris, the sterilzed high school setting most certainly aligns with the idealized Manchester High School days which he so fondly looks back upon. At Manchester High School, Chris had several gal pals, was the water boy/"manager" of the basketball team, and created the OCs, Bionic and Sonichu – the latter of whom would go on to define his life, moving forward.

In the beginning, when My Little Pony announced their first EG movie, Chris was not keen on the concept – worrying that it would attract "High School Pedofile Perverts":

THEY ARE NOT SERIOUS!!! Officially Turning The Ponies HUMAN?!! That is just terrible! WTF are they thinking; they're inviting High School Pedofile Perverts into the fanbase this way. As is the horse enthusiasts were not enough. If they really wanted to bring humans into G4, they would do their best to replicate the G1 Pilot with Megan and her family.

Later, at BronyCon 2019, Chris would ask creator Lauren Faust whether she had planned to use G1 character Megan before EG was conceived.

By October 2013—one month after the television debut of Equestria Girls—Chris had a change of heart, and had become fond of the new high school fantasy drama. Thus, he was partly inspired to create his Lego Manchester High School (as seen in the video, Chris shows off his new Blu-ray copy). No doubt, Chris further retreated into this franchise, when he discovered that his high school gal pals did not consider him a genuine friend, and only interacted with him, as per an arrangement through his father.

On Halloween 2015, Chris shared drawings of his Electric Hedgehog Pokémon family wearing costumes based on the franchise, including Sonichu and Rosechu dressed up as fandom-shipped Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, respectively.

In 2016, Chris purchased at least three Equestria Girls "Minis" figurines, which he used to create the Christine Doll – a custom doll which served as his first EG avatar. Chris regularly carried the doll out in public, including at Cville Pride 2016 where he posed it in an intimate encounter with a Vinyl Scratch doll.

In the comic

As if Chris' My Little Pony fan fiction wasn't confusing enough.

In Sonichu #12-9, Night Star hops through a portal from CWCville to Canterlot High School, where she bumps into her human counterpart. Upon receiving a cutie mark from Star, the "prototypical friend" transforms into a near identical copy of her pony counterpart and is thrust into "mental sync".

Across the campus, Diamond Melody is chatting with Vinyl Scratch and another friend, whom Night Star guides her human counterpart to, as she once had a relationship with the pony version. The human counterpart's story arc ends with her being invited out to the cafe after school.

See also

• My Little Pony
• Vinyl Scratch