
| Anonymous #31691 1 year ago |
OK what is the deal with pegasus ponies |
| Anonymous #31696 1 year ago |
They started out as Earth Ponies, but through the use of far too much Red Bull (and possibly Vodka) they grew permanent wings. It came at the cost of giving them occasional derp-fits, though. The exception being Derpy, who didn't stop even after getting her wings. |
| Anonymous #31697 1 year ago |
Aside from being the cutest and awesomest ponies?
They seem to derp a lot. XD |
| Anonymous #31699 1 year ago |
Pegasi aren't the only ponies to derp though. They just seem to do it in easily noticeable spots.
Twilight derps once an episode, during the theme song while she's in her balloon. |
| Anonymous #31705 1 year ago |
...the deeerpiiing. THE DERPIIIING!!! |
| Anonymous #31716 1 year ago |
Considering that we haven't seen any mixed-race couples with kids, it's possible they cannot interbreed.
Perhaps some time in the distant past the Pegasus ponies suffered a terrible calamity that reduced their numbers to at or below ~2500 unrelated breeding pairs, causing normally recessive genes to express themselves on a large scale(relative to the population). Particularly, in this case, walleye and other such syndromes. Or maybe their increased radiation dosage from being at high altitude constantly has slightly damaged their genes overall. basically I'm saying maybe they're all a little derpy. |
| Anonymous #31719 1 year ago |
^ Lauren Faust said on her dA they can interbreed.
Or to use her own words, "I see no reason why they can't mix it up" |
| Anonymous #31728 1 year ago |
oh right. Well, then the radiation thing I guess.
Or oxygen starvation, come to think of it. All those little fillies and colts riding thermals into the stratosphere, then gliding to the ground, over and over... one of 'em is gonna overdo it eventually. Heck, getting that high might even be a rite of passage. |
| Anonymous #31729 1 year ago |
Well, when you have pegasi mixing with unicorns, or earth ponies, it pollutes the entire genetic line, so we have to prevent that from happening by segregation. |
| Anonymous #31749 1 year ago |
No cataclysm or radiation is needed. The vast majority of Pegasi live in places only Pegasi can go, preventing interbreeding. |
| Anonymous #31751 1 year ago |
^ Those racist assholes. |
| Anonymous #31764 1 year ago |
^Wait, what? |
| Anonymous #31792 1 year ago |
^^^ That is to explain the derp. The population reduction or radiation would be necessary from a genetics perspective. Although things like nutritional deficiencies or oxygen starvation brain damage could also do it. |
| Anonymous #32087 1 year ago |
Unicorns tend to have superiority complexes (Rarity, Trixie, and even Twilight Sparkle sometimes), which probably helps keep their bloodline "pure."
Some interbreeding is inevitable, though. Since we don't see ponies with mishmashes of unicorn and pegasus traits, obvious halfbloods must get sent to the glue factory at an early age. Kind of makes you wonder about Fluttershy's weak flying ability. Does her family have any skeletons in the closet that stayed there thanks to her tumble to the Earth? |
| Kriegs #32112 1 year ago |
^ Since the only ponies with all three traits are the God-Empresses, we might assume unicornity/pegasity/terrestriality operates more like a threefold wizard gene: physically, either you're one, or the other, or the other.
But among the main cast, it's not nearly so clear-cut. Everybody has some kind of magical knack or ability. Pinkie Pie is way more magical than Rarity despite being an earth pony, Fluttershy has druid-level animal empathy while being a poor flier, Rainbow Dash is tougher than the average pegasus and Applejack did that slightly-creepy tailokinesis thing. Likewise you can't exactly call Snips or Snails "pure blooded," unless you're seriously scraping the bottom of the blue blood barrel. Either mixed bloodlines are extremely common, or unicorns don't have nearly the monopoly on magic they seem to have. Could be both, in fact. |
| Anonymous #32164 1 year ago |
On the other hand, maybe it's just derpy ponies.
Just saiyan. |
| Anonymous #32319 1 year ago |
Why was Cloudkicker derped in that pic? |
| Anonymous #32324 1 year ago |
So much yay! |
| Anonymous #32348 1 year ago |
^^ she does it in Griffon the Brush-Off |
| JRSpaniel #32646 1 year ago |
Top-right reminds me of the Cup-a-soup video. |
| Anonymous #37823 1 year ago |
I just noticed that Berry Blast is a unicorn but her mom isn't. It's possible she's adopted, but otherwise her mom is either an earth pony or a pegasus, which means that breeding a male unicorn with some other type of female can (at least sometimes) result in unicorn offspring. |
| DarkDeity5 #66408 1 year ago |
Derping...It's contagious. |
| Anonymous #117219 1 year ago |
Anonbro above me, maybe Unicorn genes are dominant over pegasi genes, and pegasi over earth pony or something like that. |
| Anonymous #220658 1 year ago |
what episodes are fluttershy, scootaloo and derpy from? |
| Anonymous #220678 1 year ago |
^okay, i remember where that derpy comes from (feeling pinkie keen, right?), but i don't know what episodes those shots of fluttershy and scootaloo came from. |
| Anonymous #243316 1 year ago |
Fluttershy is from Sonic Rainboom. |
| Anonymous #310566 1 year ago |
Scootaloo is from Stare Master when she says she's staying up all night. |