Characterization and How My Little Pony Perfected It

Recently I got out of my reading slump and it’s been awesome! Different worlds, different stories, different…people…right? Except that hasn’t been the case with many of them at all, in the character sense that is. Matter fact, more and more often I read books riddled with something I like to call… SCS, Same Character Syndrome.

I won’t filibuster anymore, you read the title. Here’s how My Little Pony did characterization right and how you can employ its tactics in your writing to avoid SCS.