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07/21/11(Thu)14:52 No.27912818
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Derpy's parents were highly competitive pegasi from Cloudsdale. They wanted to raise an heir to their impressive abilities, a successor that would be a future Best Young Flier and more. They were ready to mold their offspring into a machine of pure muscle and skill, to cement their legacy.
Then they had Derpy. They rejected her when they discovered her minor defect would prevent her from fulfilling the dreams they had so carefully laid out. They went full spartan on her, put her in a box and dropped her in the Everfree river. No pony would ever know their had created such an imperfect thing.
Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for Derpy, no creature enters the domain of the Everfree river, let alone one with such SPLENDID golden hair, unnoticed. The river's guardian, a serpent with a penchant for all things fabulous, quickly found the newcomer, and dutifully took her in.
Over the years, he raised the pegasus as his own, teaching her the ways of the river warden, and of fabulosity. She was actually very good at it, earning the bubbly mark of a river guardian as her cutie mark. The serpent grew proud of what she had become, but before long, Derpy started to take flight.
Seeing his young charge take flight for the first time stirred something in the river serpent, and he decided that no creature so graceful and free should be kept within the confines of the Everfree forest. So armed with all the knowledge she had aquired as a student of the oh so stunning guardian of the Everfree river, Derpy set out to find her own kind, being given directions to the nearest supposed pony settlement by the serpent.
Years later, now established, Derpy regulary visits her foster father in the Everfree, bringing him a basket of muffins every so often. A beloved charge of the guardian of the river, she is one of the few ponies no creature in the Everfree will mess with. |
