The Analysis of Derpy Hooves (Ditzy Do)

by cheesepuff

First published 29th of December, 2011

A Short explanation about Derpy and why she is the way she is.

This is an analysis of the famous background pony Ditzy Do, or more popularly known as "Derpy Hooves". This document explains why many of her more well known features are the way they are. Everything for how she got her cutie mark, to why she loves muffins are explained.

Main Overview

The Derpy Analysis (Ditzy Do) - By Andrew Esquivel

Gender - Female

Occupation - Mail Mare

Cutie mark picture - Bubbles

Cutie Mark Origin - From a very young age it was clear that Ditzy Do Would become a Mail Mare. Her Desire to travel to places she had never been before was always a fascination with her. However, due to her clumsy nature, many of the packages that she was in charge of arrived to their destination damaged or broken, causing her employment at the Equestia Mail Delivery Service to be jeopardized. In order to keep her job she had to come up with a way to make sure her packages did not get damaged in transit. This issue eventually led Derpy to her greatest achievement - the invention of Bubble Wrap. In short time her invention revolutionized the package delivery industry, and ultimately lead to the reason why she has bubbles on her flank.

Why Derpy loves muffins - When Derpy was just a young filly, she was always one way or another involved with her mothers activities. A common activity for her and her mother involved singing as they worked. Often times, her mother would sing a nursery rhyme called "The muffin mare" (sung in the same way the song we know as "The muffin man"). Lyrics are as shown,

"Do you know the muffin mare, the muffin Mare, the Muffin mare? Do you know the muffin mare, her name is Ditzy Do"

Growing up as a child, this became Derpys favorite song. Now a grown mare, she bakes muffins often to remember her childhood. Now, she now passes on this song and her muffins to her own child - Dinky Do.

Why Derpys eyes are messed up - Derpy was born was a rare, but benign medical condition causing her eyes to lose perspective position of each other. Her eyes are not always 'Derped', but whenever she feels an overwhelming force of any particular emotion (be it good or bad, happy or sad) she loses control of the direction her eyes look toward of either 1 or both eyes. A key thing to note is that this is a physical disability, not a mental disability. Often times this problem gets associated with her clumsy and forgetful nature, but in reality both are separate issues.

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The relationship between Dinky and Ditzy (Ditzy = Derpy hooves) -

It is often times assumed that Dinky is Ditzy's daughter. This is true, and yet not true. In reality, Dinky and Ditzy are in fact sisters. This is why they were both seen at the sister hooves social. However, The story is not as simple as it seems. Dinky and Ditzy's mother passed away soon after Dinky was born, and without a father to step in and help, Ditzy took it upon herself to raise her baby sister. With Dinky being so young, she would never have remember her real mother anyway, so Ditzy figured it would be easier on her little sister to assume that she was her mother, opposed to telling the sad truth to the young filly. However, Ditzy and Dinky did not compete together during the race at the sister hooves social. With Ditzys eye problems, winning would have been and impossibility and she didn't want to let her little sister down. So she asked another pony to step in to give Dinky a fighting chance at winning. However, to maintain the secrete from her younger sister, Ditzy request that no one bring up the subject. As far as Dinky knew, there was just an exception made for them.