#my little pony tales paisley

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I’M STILL HERE

We got the first of the boys! Ace!

Ace really mellowed out as he got older and is basically the ultimate dad-type. He recognized his poor behaviour as a young colt and subsequently apologized to those he hurt. Thankfully, all the girls were fairly understanding. As Patch put it, “you were like, 10 years old dude.” Now, he coaches the school soccer team! The very same team he played for when he was young.

Ace grew up as a bit of a bully, egged on especially by his friend Teddy. As a result, he hurt a lot of feelings, some more emotional than others, and lost a lot of ponies whom he considered to be friends over it. With age he saw Teddy’s belligerence much more clearly, and recognized the same within himself. He began to take steps to change his patterns of behaviour and mend the bridges he broke. Ace is one of the few ponies that knew Teddy in his youth that still talks to him.

After college, he began to rekindle the connection he had with a childhood friend. She had changed a lot since he had last seen her, but ultimately, he ended up falling for her. Fleur is Ace’s wife of 2 years, and together they adopted a filly named Paisley from the care home that Patch was adopted from. Patch still acts as a big sister to Paisley, which is fine by Ace as it’s easy to find someone to watch the kid if need be.

Paisley is exceptional at sports, namely soccer, which Ace is especially proud of. She plays on the soccer team he coaches, and she’s every bit as passionate as Ace was at her age. Maybe even more!

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Introducing the first original character designed for MMLPTales, Paisley! Paisley is quite rough-and-tumble, loves roughhousing and sports, and is very bold.

Paisley was surrendered to the Ponyland Foal's home as a newborn. Nothing is really known about why she ended up there, but she's never really wondered. She's perfectly happy with her parents, Ace and Fleur. She was adopted as a filly after being paired with Patch for the Big Brother/Big Sister program Patch started at the foal's home. Paisley still really looks up to Patch and considers her a big sister!

(a second original character awaits under the cut!)

While excelling in physical activities, Paisley isn't much of an academic. She struggles with writing, math, science... Almost everything that involves numbers or letters. Starlight is her teacher, and has had quite a few talks with Paisley regarding her low grades. Starlight wants to help, but Paisley shuts down, frustrated and angry that she can't seem to get things right, no matter how hard she tries.

However, she does have a natural affinity for building things. She especially loves to learn about historical manufacturing and enjoys looking at design schematics for things like catapults and trebuchets. She's even built a few scale model kits. Her best friend, a donkey named Whirligig, also has a passion for building, and even inventing. Together, Paisley and Whirligig will draw up all kinds of new contraptions, feasible or not, and sometimes even get to the point of building them! Whirligig is a lot better at math and writing that Paisley is, so he'll try to give her help when he sees she needs it. Paisley doesn't like asking for help, though. She's very prideful that way, and when she sees others doing well at something she just can't understand, she blames herself and thinks that she's doing something wrong. Whirli tries his best to sneak in little lessons regarding topics she struggles with here and there without her catching on.

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PATCH! My favourite.

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.