Here he is. The bully boy turned cop. The character I dislike the most. Teddy.
Teddy started off as your typical elementary school bully, with Sweetheart by his side even at a young age. The rest of Sweatheart's friends never liked or trusted Teddy much, despite occasionally putting aside their differences for Sweetheart's sake. Teddy grew to study law enforcement in university and emerged out the other side as a fully fledged police officer. Suffice to say he's burned all his bridges with childhood friends, save for Ace, who tries to talk sense into him from time to time.
More below.
Remember when Sweetheart and Teddy broke up and Patch was there to comfort her? Sweetheart had told Patch that messing with Teddy wasn't worth it. However, outraged that Sweetheart had been treated this way for so long, Patch later confronted Teddy. One black eye and a few scrapes later, Teddy promised to never go anywhere near Sweetheart again.
After fighting with Patch, word spread of Teddy's injuries and Ace saw fit to try and talk to Teddy in the hopes of convincing him to recognize the harm in his actions and own up to his past wrongdoings. No success. Teddy is just as stubborn and hardheaded as ever, and you can't change ponies that don't want to change themselves.
Introducing: Fleur!! You may recognize her, she was in the show. She just looks a little different now.
When Fleur was young, her friends once said to her “you always side with the girls.” Turns out, that was true in multiple ways! Fleur began her transition after high school with the support of the other girls, who also introduced her to the Ponyland Pride celebration. Her absentee parents were often away on lavish “business trips” and so didn’t learn of her changes until they were well underway. Her parents’ reaction can be summed up as “whatever,” which was fine by Fleur. Today, she’s wife to Ace and mother to their adopted daughter, Paisley. She still gets on with her family’s wealth but isn’t shy to share it.
Growing up, Fleur had begun to feel different partway through elementary school. She dismissed the feelings as merely having strong crushes on the other girls in her class, but as she aged, the feelings she had got more prevalent and confusing. After graduating high school, she contacted Bright Eyes and asked if she could come over to hang out. Bright Eyes was a bit surprised by this as Fleur hadn’t asked to spend time with her since the roller skating contest, when the two were fostering a relationship, as well as two little ponies can. When Fleur came over, she was visibly nervous and after taking a deep breath, told Bright Eyes that she was the smartest pony she knew, so maybe she had the answers she was looking for. As the two lounged about and discussed Fleur’s concerns, Bright Eyes brought up something she had learned during Ponyland Pride. Fleur’s eyes lit up, and the two looked into the topic with great interest, and for Fleur, relief.
Some time later, Fleur had openly begun to embrace who she really was. With encouragement, especially from Patch and Clover, she attended her first Pride event. She met so many different kinds of ponies, some like her, and some not like her at all. And what a wonderful thing it was!
Fleur attended university to study archaeology, making good use of her parents’ enormous collection of books spanning back generations. She hopes to become a museum curator and educator once earning her doctrate, but she chose to take a break partway through the program. During that time, she was contacted by Ace, a childhood friend of hers that she hadn’t seen since high school. The two arranged to meet up, and upon reconnecting, the two of them felt some new feelings bubbling up inside them that they didn’t quite understand at first. In time, their relationship blossomed, progressed, and now they are one of Ponyland’s most beloved families with their daughter Paisley.
Patch is the biggest member of her friend group, in turn the physically strongest. She came out as a lesbian in high school and prides herself in being a bit of a ladykiller. As a career, she works in construction and carpentry, taking on small home repair jobs outside of bigger projects.
Patch is the founder of the “Big Sister Program” at the local foal’s home, where she lived as a young foal before being adopted. The program pairs adult ponies that were adopted themselves with young foals waiting to find their own family. The older ponies act as big siblings and mentors to the young ones, offering support and reassurance to them. Patch was initially paired with a young filly named Paisley, who would go on to be adopted by Patch’s friends, Ace and Fleur. Paisley still looks up to Patch a great deal and considers her a big sister.
In her youth, Patch encountered a UFO while flying in a hot air balloon that she commandeered from her school yard. The UFO was actually a group of glowing, magical ponies with wings. Though Bonbon was with her, Patch was the only one to actually witness and even speak to the flying ponies. Since then she’s dedicated a decent chunk of her free time to finding them again, scanning the night sky with her telescope and even going on excursions around Ponyland, searching for vantage points where she could potentially see them. She’s been written off as a crackpot conspiracy theorist by most, though a few of her friends do see the genuine passion in her eyes when she talks about the incident.
BonBon owns her own bakery in Ponyland called, of course, BonBon’s Bakery! It’s a very successful business and she’s only just begun hiring more bakers to help her out. She was becoming quite overworked being the sole baker, finding it hard to keep up with demand. Her first hired employee was Spinner, the pony that she participated in the rollerskating competition with when they were in elementary school. Though most of her time is still spent at the bakery, she’s managed to finally have some much-earned relief from the pressure of being the only one running the business.
BonBon has become a big advocate of self-love and acceptance since her youth. As a filly, she held dreams of becoming a fashion model; a desire that she was often ashamed of and kept secret from her friends. Growing up and going through high school and college, she began to realize that her dream stemmed from a desire to fit into societies expectations for traditional female beauty. She didn’t really want to be a model, she just saw it as what she should want to be. She was always the rounder member of her friend group, and was often made fun of for her love of food. But, since then she’s come to embrace her body as it is, love herself a lot more, and become a supporter of body acceptance for all types of ponies! Being pansexual, she’s also a lover of all types of bodies!
Also her baking is really really good. BonBon is still baking cookies, girls.
And cinnamon rolls.
