My Little Head Canon

This is probably the most well thought-out analysis of pony genetics I’ve seen yet. 

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Seriously, I never thought that people would like this blog at all! I mean, it’s mostly me rambling on about stuff in my head, ha ha! XD

But anyways, thank you very much for your support!! :D

Dragons have two layers of scales: an outer layer of softer scales that have a velvet-like texture, and an inner layer of hard, protective scales. A dragon feels like a flocked hot-water bottle when touched.

Although the inner scales are one of the hardest substances that exist, any rigid material has the possibility of shattering if damaged. The softer scales act as a cushion to protect the armor scales. Baby dragons’ soft-scale layer is thicker than adults’ for extra warmth and protection. 

Dragons molt their scales, much like bird feathers, on a seasonal basis. Molting can be induced prematurely if the dragon is ill or injured.

Dragons that live in colder climates have an additional third layer of scales: these scales have thick, wooly fur on the outer side and fine, silky fur on the inner side to maintain the dragon’s body heat.

Aquatic dragons lack the velveteen texture, and the outer-scales are instead coated in a thin layer of special slime that protects them from parasites and pathogens.

Neither layer of scales has any nerve endings, and so dragons do not feel pain when they are damaged, though damage to the layer of hard-scales leaves them exposed to infection, and further injury.

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Unicorn horns grow continuously, like rodent teeth, and must be carefully maintained to avoid them becoming too large for the pony attached to manage. Larger ponies can obviously handle larger horns better than a smaller pony could. Horn-length is purely aesthetic, and has nothing to do with magical prowess (or lack thereof).

Getting one’s horn filed is almost exactly like having your hair cut or your nails trimmed: completely painless. Since Ponyville has many types of ponies, the spa takes care of horn-maintenance procedures. In unicorn-centric cities like Canterlot, however, there are entire shops dedicated to this, similar to barber shops. Sometimes very young ponies are scared of the process, and so any place that offers horn-filings often keeps a bowl of candies around to pacify little ones.

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I’m sure a number of bronies out there have seen this blind bag toy:

Trixie’s coloring (as much as can be seen in this format) and cutie mark… but that’s not her name? It’s one thing for Hasbro to contradict fan-given names, but it’s a little ridiculous for them to contradict actual canon names. Since this toy came out, I’ve wondered if “Lulamoon” could be Trixie’s surname, and her full name Beatrix Lulamoon. She goes by “Trixie” to sound jazzier, and to fit her stage presence more. She comes from a line of astronomers, a profession she finds boring, but which gave her enough knowledge of celestial bodies to know about the legends of the Ursa Major. Somewhere out there, Trixie has a rather dorky, star-obsessed family, who embarrass her to no end. 

I think it would be really sweet if Scootaloo’s Cutie Mark looked even a little bit like Rainbow Dash’s. Scootaloo idolizes her so much, I feel like it’d be an amazingly adorable episode if there was at least some connection between Dashie and Scootaloo’s Mark.

Scootaloo obviously has considerable skill with that scooter of hers, and she seems to be able to move at a relatively high speed. A lightning bolt-esque Cutie Mark may not be too much of a stretch of the imagination. :)

Okay, so I’d always seen Rarity and Spike’s relationship as being the little kid with a crush on his older sister’s friend, but after watching “The Secret of My Excess”, I may have to totally ship them. They are just too adorable! And the scene at the end of the episode… Omigosh all the feelings! ;_;

This lovely pony made her debut in the season two episode “Sweet and Elite”, she has a number of fan-given names, but I find myself preferring the name Fleur LeBlanc. It has a nice ring to it. :)

She looks so much like a young Celestia, I wonder if she isn’t at least distantly related to the royal family, like Prince Blueblood. 

I’ve seen just about as many personalities for this pony as there are names, there’s a lot of different opinions out there. I tend to see her as a bit like Rarity: she’d love to be with the “in-crowd” and spends a lot of time hanging around (and off of) Fancypants in an effort to become popular. In my head canon, they’re brother and sister, and Fleur is always hoping some of her older brother’s popularity will rub off on her. She’s the shy girl who desperately wants to be accepted by the “cool kids.” 

Fluer’s special ability is learning foreign languages, and her cutie mark appeared when she mastered her first foreign language: French. She’s actually quite the intellectual, and spends a lot of time in the Canterlot library studying whatever catches her fancy. She’s extremely nearsighted, but too embarrassed to wear her glasses in public, leading to her acting rather clumsy at times.

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I’d never given Star Swirl the Bearded much thought, really. But this, this may just become a part of my head canon for him. “Hairy potter” indeed. XD

That being said… I was a little confused when the character was first brought up. I have the G3 Star Swirl toy… and it’s a female pony. :/ The seemingly arbitrary gender-swap makes mores sense with the pun explained, however.

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The show hasn’t really explained much, if anything, about how pony genetics work at the time of this post’s writing. It’s left me with pretty much absolute freedom, as far as making head canon goes.

In my head canon, I’ve pretty much arbitrarily decided that baby ponies take after whichever kind of pony their mother is. (Yeah, yeah, just like in the Pokémon games) I actually had this pretty much in place way before the Sisterhooves Social episode, where Rarity’s mother is a unicorn, but her father is possibly an earth pony.

So… say Fluttershy and Big Macintosh get together. (my pony OTP, don’t kill me…) If they have a baby, he/she would be a pegasus like Fluttershy.

The only reason I put any thought into this in the first place was to help me while I worked on some original ponies, since I was wondering to myself how I should make pony family trees work.

[[EDIT:1/14/12]] Whoa! This was just totally disproved by the “Baby Cakes” episode. Ah well, I’ll leave it up anyways.

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