MordeTwi

"It all started with some fanart. Then it snowballed into a thing, and here we are."

- MordeTwi DeviantArt group

MordeTwi is the het ship between Mordecai and Twilight Sparkle from the Regular Show and My Little Pony fandoms.

Canon
Mordecai and Twilight Sparkle are the main protagonists of their respective TV shows and as a result, have never met each other. In the eighth episode of Regular Show, “The Unicorns Have Got to Go”, Mordecai has several traumatic experiences involving unicorns, resulting in him hating them.

Both are responsible, kind-hearted animals who are well-educated: Mordecai has a college education, while Twilight Sparkle loves knowledge and reading.

Fanon


The MordeTwi DeviantArt group was founded on October 24, 2011 and has over 4,500 members.

The current founder of the group, cartuneslover16, did a crossover story a few years back that had interactions between Mordecai and Twilight Sparkle. People that read the chapters liked the interaction between them, and a liking to this pairing grew. She did a few artwork for the pair, whether it was to cover a scene from her story, or a different kind of project she was doing that mentioned how much people liked the idea of Mordecai being paired with Twilight.

Many are skeptical of the ship, as the two have never met, have very different personalities, are different species, as well as others. However, fans say that there are much more weirder pairings than MordeTwi, and there is nothing inherently wrong with the ship. It is believed that their different personalities would balance each other out. Mordecai’s incident with unicorns in one episode is sometimes brought into question, but as those unicorns were “frat-boy” unicorns and not at all how Twilight Sparkle acts, it is not a basis for a problem of the ship.

In 2020, bluedog444’s MordeTwi fan art became a viral meme. Internet artists began parodying and/or redrawing the image, eventually leading to the creation of the Redraw MordeTwi Challenge. The original art was made even more popular by those who had seen only the redraws and wanted to search out the one that started it all; sometimes it was referred to as a legend or treasure.

The meme resurfaced a year later, becoming viral once more. The main social media that used this viral meme was TikTok. A variety of creators made fanarts and redraws of the initial bluedog444’s MordeTwi fan art. Some even making new fanarts of the ship. A few creators had even gone as far as creating music videos and animations of the ship. Many claimed that this started off as a joke, but now, they think they may actually ship the pair.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Twilight/Mordecai on FanFiction.Net

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