Whoever decided to put King with Haru must be prescient. Considering KH's irl career, Haru must be a source of great encouragement until the final day.
King Halo start as the mom figure begins. Taking care of Haru must be a literally test run of the experience and learning to deal with frustrating situations.
Grass being uber weeb and wanting to consume all Japanese traditions and customs even thought she's American. Though, I think Jungle Pocket in the movie hinted that they were doing some street running I think, before she got inspired and moved to actual JRA races.
Her name is supposed to be the first syllable of each word in a phrase/sentence I think.
Stay Gold has a thing for small horse if I remember.
I wonder if that would be a quirk of her irl counterpart. Extremely quiet and can sneak up on you.
Gonna give Seiun Sky a run for her money. Her little trick at the Kikuka Sho irl might not work as well on Shiro. I wonder if Hana might run her in Long races.
Ah Tsuyoshi, a body fit for running but not healthy enough to go the distance.
I wonder if some warhorse heritage gives her body special characteristics. I assume the hypothetical irl horse would have a warhorse and a race horse parent. Warhorse are built for endurance and the race horse built for speed.
Teio is going to be all "SHIROGANE MY RIVAL" because Shirogane is on the same team as Rudolf and stuff isn't she?
Teio is from a earlier generation though. Her Classic run was in 91 while the Golden Generation was in 98.
Stamina sparks and speed sparks with the unique WAR spark that gives guts and stamina instead of the normal URA FINALE spark
Some one is eventually going to give her a grim reaper costume as a joke only for her to wear it during a Halloween themed race.
Two days later Shirogane is still running.
The anime portrays Teio in the same year and races as the Golden Generation
Suzuka unconsciously emulating typical anime highschool protagonist. Truly, the most protagonist Uma of her generation.
While time is wishy washy, the game and other spinoff materials actually do try to line up their events with irl events. The main anime was the only one that deviates that (e.g. Pasa running in the Derby, Spe and Grass tied, Teio and McQueen era happening after Golden gen even tho they are the gen after Oguri).
I can imagine that one. As she waits at the start of a race, maybe faint medieval banners (music?) are present then during the race the sound of swords clashing and arrow-fire along with the occasional cannon occurs and when things get more serious it shifts to a more napoleonic setting with the sound of musket-fire and cannons before a final shift to the world-wars.
That would require her to change her style. So far she has taken to riding the slipstream of the pace setter before cutting tight on the final curve and then outright body blocking those trying to sprint past on the final stretch.
So pace chaser?
The person who would really mood crash if that happen would be Narita Brian. Air Groove gets mood down for missing the joke more than the actual joke itself.
Potentially. It would make her races rather strange to watch from the stands because there will be regularly runners around freaking out for no apparent reason. It might take some time for people to really clue in that it has something to do with her, since for the most part, Shirogane isn't going to do anything too eye-catching by herself.
Shirogane is a similar coloration to Point Flag, but no, that's not why Stay Gold is curious. There's really no confusing Shirogane with a Mejiro.
Horses have a very wide range of vision, so they usually don't seem to have much problem keeping track of each other when running. Deliberately trying to block another horse probably is more of trained thing though, since if a horse doesn't like another horse they probably wouldn't run with them.
Shirogane, for a number of reasons, has a much finer spatial awareness than her classmates, since she has some 3d maneuvering instincts from her past life, and much more experience running in tighter spaces with significantly more hazards to keep track of. This is why she was able to surprise Air Groove and Seiun Sky by cutting close to the rail, because she did it with much less clearance than most runners would be comfortable with. This also means that when trailing another runner she follows them a lot closer than most of them are comfortable with, especially when she lurks in their blind spot.
Given she only has two legs, she can't exactly do what the Icelandic horse does, but her usual running style is very smooth, as opposed to the bounding motion of some runners. This is part of the reason she is slower, and also part of the reason why she her steps are quieter. On the other hand, Shirogane is much faster on all fours than any of her competitors, not that this is likely to ever be relevant.
She's a bit unnerving from a human standpoint too, since she doesn't blink very often, and doesn't fidget, which is part of why her classmates sometimes seem to forget she's there. It just isn't as bad since the lack of ear and tail movements don't bother a human as much.
She'd probably get called a Silver Collector. Maybe 'The Bird of Calamity' because of the number of crashes that happen during her races.
Then there's the inseparable pair of friends: The Wife Doesn't Know and My Wife Knows Everything
She did, but Shirogane wasn't aware of that subculture. Though she might have delivered food to some of those guys before without really realizing what they were up to.
I'd imagine the horse equivalent would be a horse that rarely vocalizes and doesn't make many reflexive movements.
"Is this a glitch? How did I get four stars on this Guts spark?"
That's true for the most part, until she needs to chase down and kill a target, then she can explode forwards faster than expected.
It seems like most of the umas' names are just their names, unless you want to go with their foal names being their personal names. Shirogane took on a racing name since her birth name is too human sounding.
I don't remember being banned from QQ. The mods here are generally more hands off.
Followed by Miss Tallahassee no less.
