Why is Sweetie Belle such a bitch in Post-Crusade? Sorry if I offend. It just seems a little ooc, I guess.

Ahhh I love this question. Mainly because the answer is terrible.

I attribute it to writing evolution. I made the first PC comic as an in-joke between me and a friend and the Sweetie I used there became the base of what she’d become later. My intention was for her to be an inverted and exaggerated form of her canon self.

Back then, the assumption was that Sweetie was airheaded and naive. So I made her more clever and uh, a bit more, suggestive? Deviant, maybe?

After the Desert Sub-arc, I started opting for a harsher Sweetie. Direct and definitely not her bubbly self, essentially. The show progressed as well and I grabbed some of canon Sweetie’s new traits, like her manipulations and always having some sort of plan.

The result is what you see here.

Here’s the terrible part. As for the in-story reason, that’s kinda protected at the moment. I’m saving that for a flashback scene in some time.