Pinkie's Family Are a Bunch of Quakers · 8:53pm Oct 24th, 2015
A while ago I wrote a post about the T-V distinction, and mentioned how the Quakers used thou instead of you with everyone to be "humble", and because the King James Version of the Bible used it for addressing individuals in the second person. Everyone else found it overly familiar and super-rude because thou had historically been a means of addressing your inferiors, and for their ignorance, the Quakers were mocked, derided, shunned, and sometimes beaten, eventually resulting in them leaving England for America and starting the US on its long, fabled tradition of everyone thinking we're a bunch of jerks.
It turns out Pinkie's mom and dad are totally Quakers. They had always sort of had that Puritanical look to them, and there were indications that Pinkie Pie's family might have been a bunch of joyless fucks awfully traditional, but it seems they really are horse Pilgrims.
And them being rock farmers is probably a joke about the rocky soil of New England. And possibly the Pilgrims being really bad at farming.
On the upside, if the Pies and Apples aren't related, they will be soon:
Apparently all the fun came out at the same time, considering she and Pinkie are apparently twins.
So Pinkie Pie is a yankee!
Wuuuuut!?! Big Mac! What about Cheerilee you big oaf
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That episode did go to substantial lengths to point out that they were just friends.
Wait, they're twins? O.o Goddammit, my friend talks too much during the episodes. D:
3494391 noooo! Abandon ship
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Pinkie Pie said Marble was a few minutes younger than she is, so, yes, they're twins.
Assuming, of course, Pinkie Pie wasn't left on their doorstep by gypsies and they just told her they were twins.
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That or triplets with Limestone. Or quadruplets with Limestone and Maude and Marble.
Poor Quartz
Hey Titty! You don't have to have Granny Smith use a shotgun for the wedding no more! :V This episode introduced the concept of the Choosing Rock, an artifact that decides which ponies love each other very much for them. No hassle. Of course, Rarity has to worry about being squished by a ginormous boulder rather than being riddled with buckshot, but which hides the evidence of a less than beautiful corpse better? It can be like a comet of love, Rarity and Applejack locked in on its crosshairs. Mostly Rarity
Maud assists with the whole getting the rock airborne.
This episode had Appulhoers being aggressive and accidentally a conflict. Glorious!
This episode had Maud recite poetry. GLORIOUS!
This episode had the Pies finding their Hearths Warming Eve presents a la Easter egg hunt... uhh... you know how more often than not, the kids never find them all? So how awkward would it be if you found a Hearth's Warming Eve present from like a couple years ago? Actually, that might be a bit awesome. If you can find the other one for this year, it's like you're getting double the presents
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Isn't it that if a gal has kids when she's older, the chances are higher that she'll have twins? Or triplets? Or even quadruplets? Quartz does seem old. I'd guesstimate a decade, maybe two, younger than Igneous. Yeah, Quartz might've had it super rough. Or, if Titty D's right, the last part might've been smoother cuz the last two were fun :B
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I bet they're Apple gypsies.
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Headcanon'd!
Don't go confusing the Quakers with the Puritans. New England is broken up into such tiny little states because the Puritans couldn't wait ten minutes after escaping religious repression in England (or even worse, being forced to learn Dutch in the Netherlands) to start religiously repressing one another. Penn's colony stayed nice and big and fat partly because the Quakers were actual tolerant egalitarian pacifists.