Dalton Lampert

(text by Dalton Lampert)

Dalton Lampert, one of the creators behind Caring Slash and Willful Ground's Universe, is one who helped bring its characters to life. As the owner of Caring Slash and his family, Dalton has put a lot of creativity and effort into his characters. This page will tell you everything from becoming a fan of My Little Pony, development of characters, and when Dalton crossed paths with Sylvain Barre.

## Dalton Lampert

### Relatives

Sylvain Barre (friend and co-creator of the characters)

### Affiliation

Creator of Caring Slash, Love Cut, Nice Split, Split Slash, Caring Love, Fleet Hooves, Grace Heart, Sweet Star, Feather Star, Tender Slash, Magnifico, Firefly, Ponyling, Velvet Enchantment

## Starting with My Little Pony

Dalton's introduction to the My Little Pony series was in July of 2014 when he was 14 years old. His first exposure to the series was through fan made YouTube videos but the first of official content was Season 4 Episode 4: "Daring Don't". After watching this episode, the show started to grow on him. Later that year in October, the first of new MLP material he watched was "My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks". He watched various episodes from Season 1 to 4 over the year of 2014 to early 2015 (before Season 5 started) due to having to watch them on cable. This was the start of his MLP journey.

## Caring Slash's creation

### An oc for Dalton

Caring Slash's creation was first done around late November to early to mid December of 2015. Dalton created his OC on the mobile port of Pony Creator. Caring Slash went through a few design changes before Dalton settled on a design he liked. Also, he was not named Caring Slash. Dalton used the term: "My OC."

### Joining DeviantArt

In early 2016, Dalton got inspired by a transformation artist who used Pony Creator on Deviantart to create his own Deviantart account on March 6th of 2016. He posted his character changing into other characters or swapping genders. One week later on March 13th of 2016, Caring's name was decided by a friend of Dalton's on Deviantart.

For 2016, Dalton would mostly post MLP transformations, recreations of characters from the show, and other random things in his life. Dalton also chose Twilight Sparkle to be his love interest. In September of 2016, A friend of Dalton's on Deviantart created a female love interest for him named Angel Heart. In late December of 2016, Dalton started to use a PC version of Pony Creator and slightly updated his OC only changing his tail. Throughout 2017 and 2018, Dalton continued to post MLP and various other content

### Some changes

From 2019 to mid 2021, Dalton took a break from posting MLP content on his Deviantart account. He would leave for a couple of months in mid May of 2020 due to a forced design change on Deviantart which upset a lot of people. He would return on January 3rd of 2021. In mid 2021, he began posting MLP content again on his Deviantart account.

## The friendship with Sylvain Barre

### Meeting Sylvain Barre

Dalton first stumbled upon Sylvain Barre's content in late 2018 to early 2019 with a video of his called: "Fancy Rainbow Dash TF" but Dalton's first ever interaction with Sylvain himself was in June of 2020 with the video "Sunset Shimmer to Arabic Somnambula TF." They talk to each other for the first time. Dalton mentioned how Sylvain inspired him to come back and make transformations and they were posted to his YouTube channel as unlisted videos. Sylvain recognizes Dalton's character and this was the first interaction with one another.

### A shared creativity

The two didn't interact again until December of 2021 when Dalton took a likening to one of the short series Sylvain was doing on his YouTube channel called The Perfect Pony Curse. He liked it so much he did a video where Caring Slash and a friend of his got infected by it and it and also posted a good ending where Caring and his friend escape. Dalton shared this with Sylvain and he liked it. The two interacted again in January of 2022 with Dalton wanting to make a video collaboration together. In May of 2022, the video was released on Sylvain's channel and was called "Starlight's Revenge." Before the release, Caring started appearing in one video before the collaboration was finished. After "Starlight's Revenge", Caring appeared more frequently in Sylvain's videos.

### The birth of a pony family

Around August to September of 2022, Dalton and Sylvain began talking to each other through a messaging app began to think of role playing ideas and other adventures their characters could go on along in videos and then creating lots of new characters together. In October of 2022, Sylvain purposed the idea to have him and Dalton's characters have a family connection by having one of Caring and Willful's kids fall in love with one another to start an even stronger connection with their characters. In 2023, Dalton has made some more MLP transformation videos while Sylvain had stopped and moved all of his content to his Deviantart. Dalton and Sylvain continue to think of roleplay or video ideas while also creating more characters as they go along.