Birthday Bios: Wingspan · 2:33pm May 17th, 2016
Y’know, drawing my concept of Fleetfoot and Night Glider’s father reminds me that it’s their turn for Sugar Belle in Hearth’s Warming is Merry in Our Town. I oughta get back to that story sometime, though I worry it might take getting into the Christmas spirit… when it’s not December.
I say after the third Hearth’s Warming episode of MLP… which premiered in May. Good episode, though I found most of the songs forgettable. Pinkie Pride is still best musical episode.
Anyway, better get back on track.
Wingspan was born in Cloudsdale to a long line of Wonderbolts. Much like ancestors past, he and his sister were very competitive, their main focus always trying to best the other. In youth, they were always behind their classmates (who were always rolling their eyes), and by adulthood, it became a race to see who was Wonderbolt material and who wasn’t.
His sister, Fleet Night, won out in the end, due to being the more responsible of the two while Wingspan was kicked out of the academy for recklessness. Discouraged, the young stallion took the second option of just going to Cloudsdale’s local college.
While working to become a flight coach instead, he ended up getting wing cramps, to which he begrudgingly went to a spa to have them massaged. There, he met and befriended the sweet and helpful Star Catcher, who was apprenticed to be a day spa worker. She taught him how to relax and not be so uptight and in a hurry. After all, slowing down helps one appreciate life, and going too fast might make you miss it. He may have resisted it at first, but he ultimately took that advice and opted to just take moments to breathe.
It took plenty of visits to a place he wasn’t fond of to realize that he may just be in love with her. He took her out on a couple of dates, which soon had her confessing that she found him cute and funny as well. After a few more dates, Wingspan figured that once he graduated, he was going to ask her to marry him.
As they were planning the wedding, Wing’s sister ended up getting killed in an accident, and the wedding was postponed out of grief. It was another year before Wing and Star’s wedding had gone through, and it was a couple more years before Star Catcher bore a pair of twin fillies. While it took a couple of weeks for all three girls to recover from the ordeal, everything turned out okay. Unsure of which filly to name after his sister, Wing split the name and Star added other words, resulting in Fleetfoot and Night Glider.
Wingspan did his half of supporting the family with coaching foals in flight school, while his wife worked at the spa. He has a lot of stories about foals doing silly things and his coworkers having their moments of stupidity.
As the girls were growing up, Wingspan noticed a pattern that was all too familiar. The girls ended up getting competitive with each other, and they argued about who was better. They were always getting in trouble at flight school—the very one that Wingspan worked at, and he was pretty disappointed in them for fighting like that. Seeing as they both wanted to become Wonderbolts, he told them that if they wanted to join that team when they were older, they’d have to act more professional.
He was concerned about the pattern repeating further, with only one of his daughters making in in instead of both. He was often wondering who would be the one to make it—Fleetfoot, who was kind of arrogant and aloof (part of her aloofness was out of embarrassment for her lisp), but the more mature older one who at least tried to look out for her sister and temper herself; or Night Glider, who was fun, friendly, and curious, but was determined not to let anypony see her as a “runt” (she was born as the smaller twin, and she’s still kind of small compared to her sister), thus leading to trouble. Though if there was anything they had in common, they weren’t fond of trips to the beauty salon with Mom. They did both like her massaging their wings, though.
Once the girls hit adulthood, the moment of truth came with their applications to the academy and the resulting mail. Fleetfoot got in, Night Glider did not. Fleetfoot was over the moon and rubbed in in her sister’s face, while said sister was heartbroken, feeling like she was not good enough. Wing and Star were torn over celebrating Fleetfoot being accepted and comforting Night Glider after her failure.
When Fleetfoot left for the academy, Night Glider decided to go and travel, in order to see what else is out there. Wing and Star accepted that, seeing as she was a tough Pegasus and could go out. After giving her food and spare bits, they asked that she find herself a good job and to write them.
The first couple of months had weekly letters from her, telling them what she had been up to and what sights she saw. Then, for some reason, they just stopped. At first, Wingspan tried to assure his wife that she just might’ve run out of paper, and was working in order to get some more. Several more months passed, and Wing himself was concerned. They got the newspaper to send out a missing pony alert for Night Glider, and they asked Fleetfoot if in any of her shows she’d be on the lookout for her sister.
A few years passed, and they were getting ready to accept that their daughter might be dead—only for her overdue letter to arrive in the mail one summer. They were happy to see her good old mouthwriting, though they were shocked to find out about her time in a cult based on equality. Wingspan was upset that she’d give up her cutie mark like that, but Star Catcher made sure to keep him calm, explaining that perhaps her mental state hadn’t been the best.
They informed Fleetfoot about her sister’s whereabouts, and they soon arranged a Hearth’s Warming together. There, at the town, they met Night Glider’s friends and their families (sans Sugar Belle’s family, as she didn’t have much and the one living member wasn’t exactly kind). Wingspan befriended the massive teddy bear of an earth pony Powder Snow and the more reserved and scholarly Quasar Rune. He finds them a bit weird, but he enjoys their company.
But mostly, he’s just happy Night Glider’s safe.
Ah, the pattern of generations. Heredity can be troublesome when your worse nature gets carried on. Still, there was a happy ending to the generations of sibling rivalry... even if one of the siblings is that lisping little...
Ahem. In any case, another great glimpse of your Equestria.