Lunar Forge AU Redesign + Lore
Derpy/Doctor lore - Minor redesigns to Bubble’s wings have since been made since making this art
The Doctor studies in Theoretical Physics and (Theoretical) Arcane
He’s highly sensitive to magic and loved experimenting with magic, alchemy, and building. One of his biggest experiments at a young age was trying to capture the Wind and Clouds create an air balloon without fire
At 8, he caught the eye of Celestia, Sovereign of the Sun and was sponsored to become a student under her- moving all the way from Stalland (Scotland) with his parents to Canterlot to learn
He eventually graduated as a Star Pupil and perused further education for a PHD
Eventually around 38, he works as a Professor in the Iota Gem University (full time) - living in Canterlot during work and living in Ponyville during breaks
The Doctor is a semi-normal pony (no 13+ life regenerations or semi-immortality)
Golden scars litter his body from his multi self-experiments such as turning himself into Pegasus or unicorn
He marries Bubbles and becomes a stepfather to Mercury Stampwing JR.
Bubbles “Ditzy Doo” Stampwing
Lunar Forge AU Ditzy is a bit more competent and put together but still messy, wanting to prove that she can still be useful despite her disabilities
Her family lineage and others of her kind/breed is a near extinct Passenger Pigeon, most families having been slaughtered in war time between the races
Due to their insane homing instincts, her breed work mostly as elite Mailponys for express mail between high ranking members of society such as leaders, generals, and nobles
In her youth, she used to be the fastest flier in her her filly class before a hard crash turned her life for the worse
As she got older however and began to recover and adapt, she learned how to use her disability of being unable to fly straight by instead flying backwards and mastering a skill most Pegasi can not
Bubbles is a single mother, refusing to talk much on the father but she is in contact with them + secret child support pay
After her condition began to stabilise and to avoid other controversies , her family sent her away to live in Ponyville - leaving with more than just her belongings.
She moved to Ponyville at 25 once her condition stabilized and birthed a son just 5 months later. She messaged only her parents and the father.
Her Pegasus child, Mercury, is 6yrs old- making Derpy 31 at the time before S1E16 Sonic Rainboom