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ohhh boy,, guess who finally made a crappy sketch on her phone of something she said she would do months agooo?? haaaa...

anywayyy, I got inspired today to try and make this and so I.. did. you can probably recognize those first two as igneous rock and cloudy quartz -- but who's that mysterious stranger? I mean, y'all probably know lmaoo. obviously I didn't come up with this whole idea myself, so I want to give credit to for inspiring this headcanon!

now excuse me while I info dump about this absolute mess of a family for a bit

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igneous rock is a sour and impatient old stallion who's known since he was a colt what his life was supposed to look like. He was raised in his own father's image, married the mare he chose for him to marry, and inherited his farm when he died. there was never a question as to how he was meant to act or what he was meant to do; he was here to run the farm, to be his family's figurehead, and he was content in doing so.

cloudy quartz was similarly raised in this tradition, resigned to her fate of just being the farmer's wife since before she had a cutie mark. she intended to fill her role and agreed to an arranged marriage with the older stallion, though it's not as if she really had any choice. the two married and, a few years later, had their two children as planned. there was never any question between the two of what their purpose as a family was, and the two didn't even try to feign love; their own parents' weren't in love, it was never a question of love.

the two were seemingly content in their life on the surface. they had two beautiful daughters, a successful rock farm -- it was everything they were meant to have since the day they were born. and for a time cloudy was content with her life. igneous was a kind enough stallion, she adored her children, and work on the farm was tough but she knew she was meant to do it. but as time went on she found herself yearning for something more, for a different kind of life and, dare she even think it, to get away from the family she had already built.

igneous had never been a particularly warm partner to cloudy, or even much of a partner at all, which for a long while she didn't mind since she had never really expected anything else. but there was a longing for something more in cloudy's heart that she was desperate to fill, a need for something other than the farm, other than her family.

for awhile she was fine just going to the nearest city every now and then. it was so simple, and it wasn't hurting anyone for her to occasionally go out for a drink or spend a night away from the farm at some seedy motel. every time she would go out, it felt like a weight would be lifted from her shoulders. out there she wasn't a mother, or a farmer's wife, she was just a stranger. she liked being a stranger.

the day that cloudy quartz met hibiscus breeze was the day that things really changed. cloudy had never really thought about what her life would be like if she just left it all behind and ran away, but when she met hibiscus suddenly she was thinking about it. there was something so charming about her that made cloudy want to stay in that bar talking to her for the rest of her life. and just like that, her little trips into the city became a whole hell of a lot more frequent.

it didn't last for long, but the months that cloudy spent with hibiscus were the best months of her life.. and the worst. it felt wrong to keep going back.. to keep seeing her.. to fall in love with her... she had a family, children who depended on her, a husband who would be furious if he ever found out what she had been doing.. but none of that mattered when she was with hibiscus. but of course it would have to stop eventually.

it was such a knee-jerk back into her reality when she found out. of course, of course this would happen. she was pregnant.

she did everything she could to cover it up. she stopped her trips to the city, she acted more affectionate with igneous, she pushed herself to do as much work as possible so that when the inevitable happened she would at least feel like she had tried to atone for what she had done, and she prayed like hell that some miracle would happen and this would all be over.

she was overcome with two emotions when she learned she was having twins; there was a dim light of hope that things would be fine, and an ever present feeling of absolute dread that her secret was going to destroy her life.

there was no hiding it when they were born. of course she was pink. there was no way she wasn't going to be. igneous knew, she could tell, he knew, goddammit. why wouldn't he just speak up and say it.

things were different after that. he never said anything to cloudy about it, he would just ignore her and keep silent, but he wasn't so kind to little pinkie. she got the brunt of his anger while he seemed to just discard cloudy entirely. he had never been a particularly warm father to any of his cildrchi but the hatred for the poor little pink pony was obvious in his every action.

cloudy did her best to love all of her children and raise them better than her parents had raised her, but it was difficult against igneous' own methods. she made sure, though, that pinkie always knew she could leave this all one day. this was not her only place. one day, her sweet little pinkie pie was gonna be free.

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whoops, that was a lot. sorry if it's hard to read or understand?? I wrote it all in one sitting is 12 am pls forgive me.

so yeah... bc I always liked the headcanon that pinkie wasn't 100% a kid of igneous and cloudy. also hibiscus breeze's design is a based on g3 pinkie pie can u tell lmaoo,,

cloudy maybe has a bit of a guilt problem, she really does blame herself for everything wrong in her life and her kids' lives and honestly thinks her getting pregnant was the universe punishing her for being with hibiscus. she does work through it eventually with the help of pinkie though!!