Marked Out [S6: "On Your Marks"]
Derpy sighed heavily as she trudged into Time Turner's lab, her tail low and her head bowed.
Time Turner looked up. "Goodness, whatever is the problem?"
Derpy's ears pinned back as she looked up sadly. "Well...it's just...the Cutie Mark Crusaders spent all day running all over Ponyville looking for ponies to help with Cutie Mark problems..."
Time Turner frowned. "Hmm. Oh dear. In this town? I can't imagine they found very many."
Derpy poked at the ground with a hoof. "They never asked me if I needed help," she whined.
"Good heavens," Time Turner said. "Did you particularly want them to ask?"
Wordlessly, Derpy turned her flank to Time Turner and presented the seven bubbles proudly displayed there. "I've never understood my Cutie Mark," she said. "I mean, I do odd jobs and deliver mail, and I like muffins. That's pretty much my whole life. I don't even know why I have bubbles for my Cutie Mark."
"Hmm..." Time Turner's brow furrowed. "That's...curious." He tilted his head. "Well, you could always go ask them to help, right?"
Derpy gasped. "Oh yeah! Thanks, Doc!" She smiled happily and flew back out the door.
* * * * *
Derpy was flying over Ponyville, searching for the Crusaders, when Pinkie Pie waved to her from Sugar Cube Corner. "Hey, Derpy! Wanna try my new recipe for iced strawberry banana muffins?"
Derpy gasped. "Wow! Do I ever!" Licking her lips, she angled down and crashed into the wall just left of Pinkie. "Whoopsie," she giggled sheepishly, trotting into the bakery behind Pinkie.
She promptly forgot all about the Crusaders and finding the meaning behind her Cutie Mark...
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There's something incredibly fun about the dynamic between the two.
I'm not even surprised, yet I can't even get mad.
I've seen many interpretations of the seven bubbles, from optimism to swimming to being a Dragonball. It would certainly be interesting to see the Crusaders try to figure out Best Pony's talent.
7318488 I still say they're wormhole event horizons, and they symbolize her ability to get into and out of various places she really ought not to be able to.
Poor Derpy. We still love her, though.
Classic Derpy. That's why everyone loves her.
She could ask the Crusaders to help Dinky find her mark as well.
Poor Derpy.
I can explain her mark. The seven items represents luck, and her twisted version of it. The bubbles represent fragility and innocence.
My favourite "explanation" for her mark came from a little comic, in which someone asks her - she eats muffins and delivers mail, and what does any of that have to do with bubbles?
In reply to which she gives her best "why-are-you-even-asking" look, and replies "What doesn't that have to do with bubbles?"
7321471 You are a
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/328804/8/silly-pony-stories/breakable-as-bubbles
I've seen one where she's able to make bubbles, and uses one to help a friend experience flight in some way. (You know, other than hot-air ballooning.)
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I like L!Verse's take on her cutie mark. On a personal level.
Her bubbly personality (and a bubbly brain).
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Can you please elaborate on that? "L!Verse" doesn't really explain much for those who don't know about it, nor does it really provide a useful search term.
Uh...wouldn't Time Turner remind her? That is, if he really was interested in the topic, and not just agreeing for agreeing's sake?
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LunaVerse is L!Verse. It's a popular AU.
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I am reminded by this of Professor Steamhead, high school science teacher and steamologist. When asked why he's intimately familiar with time travel technologies, genetic manipulation techniques, the classification systems used in demon summoning, and so on, his response is always some variation of that topic being a necessary prerequisite to the serious study of the one true scientific discipline: the study of steam.
Although being associated with Time Turner at least provides a reasonable if accidental justification: her cutie mark isn't recognizable by those of us who are only familiar with flat representations of three-dimensional shapes. We just think it looks like bubbles.
Her personality