Zappy was always seen as the mother. She was a green-coated unicorn with dark brown hair drooping over her head and extending down the back of her neck. She was of average height, but that didn't stop her being assertive from time to time. Her cutie mark was that of rainbow coloured coffee in a maroon cup over the same coloured saucer. Zappy never felt any strong feelings towards other females, which made it reasonable to anyone who knew this why she had doubts about the relationship she grew with Red. The mare was strong. However, one thing kept her worried more than ever during this time. Ivory. Ivory was seen at a slightly earlier than normal age getting mixed up emotions about things, like puberty had hit early and his hormones were all over the place. Reddie felt this clearly, she was easy to brush the whole ordeal off; Zappy was persistent to herself that something else was wrong.
It was due to this that the unicorn became more and more annoyed at the lover, overtime their relationship started to feel more and more weak, and weaker it became, until the bonds holding it in place simply wore away. The unicorn wasn't fully brokenhearted, for she felt it coming from months before the climactic finale of the fiasco. The mare simply gave up, hoping to keep the lovers together as friends. One thing led to another, the next minute, Ivory only had one carer, Zappy. Ivory still cared for his "father", he enjoyed the time they had spent, this made it worse for him when the day came that he left. Ivory was distraught and had tantrums whenever he was alone, to let out the building anger.
Zappy was especially careful around the small, blue pegasus. She did her best to comfort him and stay strong when around him, but this didn't stop her from breaking down when out of line of sight, from hugging all the way to being out of the house for day. She once had a child. There was a time when the mare was very eager to be wild and adventurous. This was when she met her match. A stallion unicorn who was quite fond of the lady. Zappy loved him so much, which is what led to her having her baby with the unicorn. They had a beautiful blue-furred colt, similar to Ivory, before times changed. One day, the newly married husband of Zappy simply vanished, soon after so did the colt. Unlike the disappearance of the father however, Zappy knew exactly where the little one went, an orphanage. She simply didn't have the power to look after the blue baby, and so had to let him go. Not soon after, the unicorn had given up on the wild side of life and began to live simply. This is why she wanted to protect the ever-growing Ivory, she was very keen to have a son...Ivory was the one she lost's replacement, even if the young one couldn't fully fill the void created all those years ago.
She enjoyed reading about science-fiction and adventurous stories, tales that she still dreams deep down she could encounter. Alas, never had Zappy felt so weak to try and do anything. The unicorn was under a constant panic that one day she will be unable to look after Ivory, and the previous events of before would unfold before her once more. There was of course one pressing matter to think about though, an earlier date when the two mares were together led to a big problem now that they were separated, the pregnancy. Worse, Zappy had been to get it checked, twins. Three mouths to feed, as if the times were tough enough for the unicorn. At the time it was a miracle, a way to have a family biologically due to newly discovered scientific methods, mare and mare having young. Now, it was beginning to look like the end of days.
At least she was earning a good bit of money, hopefully enough to just survive the events to come for the mare. Zappy made a fair amount of profit from her private coffee business, which started off in the outskirts of Canterlot, where she was raised. There was always an image of a beautifully coloured town from the natural sun that beamed on the city, but she couldn't tell whether or not it was the childish thoughts in her mind blocking away the reality of what the city looked like. She had seen the city through media, but not at the times and sights she recalls to remember as a filly. Since then, the older mare now had a quite successful business in Ponyville, which unfortunately wasn't as well paying as Canterlot, for Ponyville was as it stated, a village...or a town. Her hopes for the business were that one day she could return to Canterlot, but this time in the main city, creating a very successful business of coffee, so she could relax over the money she needs.
Ivory was a hope for the mare, if Ivory could be educated and taught to become a great intellectual hopefully he could save them. She just needed to make sure enough money was able to go around to keep them all afloat. Zappy took Ivory to school like any regular parent, no news was heard about Ivory's education until the parents evening came. The unicorn prayed for weeks prior that there would be a dawn of hope for the soon to be larger family, that Ivory could do well and then finally good news would be present for the household. Hopefully good news would then be the main type of news which reached the ears of Zappy, for she couldn't take much more of the opposite.
Eventually, the unicorn had to go to the event. The matter to decide whether Ivory was on the right track with his education had been decided, and the news was to be told to the single parent. As they arrived at the clearly well-treated school, Zappy couldn't help but panic slightly at the worst possible outcome. They entered the classroom, where the teacher sat, writing in documents based of the previous parents and their meeting - she was unaware of their presence. Zappy felt like this was the chance to leave, give Ivory an excuse like "The teacher was busy" or something pathetic like that which a kid could possibly accept as reasonable reason. Zappy was really afraid to hear the truth. It was with this that Ivory caught the teacher's attention by coughing, of which the teacher grinned in a way which frightened Zappy, as if she was notifying her indirectly that the mare will receive bad news in the most polite way possible. The mother and son sat down and heard what the teacher had to say. The few seconds before the chat began, felt like an eternity for the unicorn.
"Ivory...has a temper...we need to try and get this under control," the teacher spoke in a concerned tone, but changed to keep the hopes up of the mare. "However. His grades, are phenomenal."
With this, the teacher nodded. Zappy, was fulfilled.