Pandoraverse Headcanon Dump! (Patreon)

Apologies about the silence this week, guys. Work and holiday prep's been keeping me busy. Hoping to pump out new art soon! In the meantime, have some headcanons I've never shared before! Some of these are by the eternally devious Roboheather, naturally~

1.) Wave Rider has always vaguely known that her father Bruce turned into a mare to carry her, but it was a little hard to imagine. Long-term body transfiguration magic is incredibly difficult and rare, especially for a spell to hold long enough for a pregnancy. This is why its way easier for two mares to have a baby than two stallions, a female just needs to change her sex for a short duration to knock up another mare, as opposed to a stallion turning changing his anatomy and staying that way for an entire pregnancy

Anyway, years later, when Bruce and Stormy decide to try for a second foal.......Wavey has her mind BLOWN when papa Stormy comes home one day...as a mare. A grinning, gorgeous mare. Holy shit, Wavey has a MOM. The prettiest mom EVER. I imagine Wave spent a whole day just staring at "mama" Stormy and playing with his pretty, pretty hair. She might've tested out calling Stormy "mum", or "mummy"...Stormy didn't mind at all, even when Bruce tried to tease them about it.

then Stormy got knocked up and super grumpy in the last trimester and Wavey just wished her papa would pop out the baby and go back to being a sweet stallion already

2.) Rarity and Magnolia love getting mud baths together, to the bafflement of Applejack. Neither of them like dirt but they'll PAY good money to sit in it for a few hours? The debate about the difference between "clean dirt and dirty dirt" is a years long family feud. 

Additionally, Magnolia owns a pet pot-bellied pig named Priscilla. Rarity allowed little Maggie to keep it on Applejack's assurances that as the runt of the litter, it wouldn't grow bigger than a chihuahua......

Naturally, Priscilla grew big and fat enough to win the Ponyville blue ribbon time after time. Magnolia adores her big slobbery hog daughter, and Priscilla can often be found helping out in Magnolia's beauty salon, picking out foundations and eating piles of hair clippings.

3.) Rosemary, comparatively, owns a pet jackalope named Diablo.  The little antlered bunny is actually a grandson of Angel Bunny's, and much more helpful than his crotchety old grandbunny. He assists in keeping scatter-brained Rosie focused, and also ensures others don't prey on her kindness. He's bitten Chakra Blossom many times.

Continuing with Rosemary- when she was a little filly, she naturally became enamored with the delightfully dramatic world of professional wrestling, and loyally attended lots of matches with her daddy, Bulk Biceps. However, one night Bulk is too sick to go. Fluttershy, unable to resist Rosie's best puppy-dog eyes, meekly resigns to go in Bulk's place.

And....yeah. It's about everything Flutters feared. Lots of noise and violent moves and wrestlers yelling at each other. Still, she puts on a brave face for Rosie.....and is flabbergasted when a spotlight lands on her. Out of the whole roaring crowd, she's been chosen to go up in a volunteer match! Against the toughest, beefiest wrestler in the league!

(It's all staged, of course.) Fluttershy won't really be hurt, but she doesn't know that. She's quaking on her hooves as her opponent stomps his way into the ring, snorting like a bull. He starts dissing her loudly on the microphone, drumming up support from the fans. He can't believe he's got to fight some tiny quivering chicken. He gets in Fluttershy's face to trashtalk, nearly spraying her with spit- and he says she can have the first punch free. He offers up his jaw.

Red-faced and nearly on the verge of crying, Flutters hears one lone, tiny voice shouting support.....Rosemary.

Fluttershy looks up at her opponent's smug face, takes a deep breath, and decides to pretend he's a bear. A bear with a back-ache, in need of a nice, forceful, spinal re-adjustment.

Rosemary would forever think her mom dropping a professional wrestler five times her size was the coolest thing ever, holy cow! After the match she follows her blushing mother with starry eyes, singing her praises and wowie mommy can you pls teach me how to suplex a man like that??

4.)  In yet another installment of "draconequui are just big cats"....Twilight was very excited for Pandora's very first Hearth's Warming. While she always had countless family and friends to celebrate with there was something very special about the idea of having her own baby this year. It just made everything all the more brighter, and seemed to really bring together her ragtag little Sparkle clan into a real family. She was delighted when her tiny daughter seemed to be fascinated and entertained by all the festivity happening around her....cookies, singing (she even tried to yowl along at one point) and clumsily skittering along with her friends' tiny foals.

Like all cat owners though, Twilight made a horrifying discovery when Discord and Spike finally brought home the Hearth's Warming tree to decorate....yep. Her lil Panny went flipping NUTS over the damn thing. Climbing in the branches, chewing off needles, knocking down shiny balls to chase and getting tangled in the tinsel...at one point she even swallowed an ornament (Twilight panicked while Discord just laughed and ate one too, commenting it "tasted just like chicken"). Needless to say Twilight had to put magical wards on the tree just so it'd survive the season and Pandora's unrelenting attack of it. Still...it went down as one of Twilight's favorite holiday memories. 

5.) As a little kid, Moondancer sometimes referred to himself in the third person, especially if he was feeling dramatic. eg,"The mighty and dazzling Moondancer would like a glass of milk for his graham cracker!!", It's a habit he picked up from Trixie, and as he finds it heinously dorky when she does it, he's tried like mad to erase the habit. Still, it does slip out some times.

6.)  Oddball headcanon! Cupcake came to a surprising realization when the first snowfall of winter hit.....her baby didn't have hooves. His itty widdle paws that she loved so much and would spend hours playing with and poking, where not yet tough enough to go barefoot in snow. Even the thought of her defenseless  bab exposed to the elements horrified her. So she turned to Aunt Fluttershy and got little snow booties you'd put on the feet of tiny dogs. Oddball...well...did not react well to having things on his feet and did that awkward high step oh-god-theres-something-on-my-feet walk and mewled pitifully for help to his mommies. Said mommies were nearly paralyzed with the overwhelming cute and hilarious sight of their son trying to walk with booties, and were no help at all

7.)  Rainbow Dash used to think it was so damn rad when her tiny son learned to fly so early, and would brag to anypony that would listen about how fast he was. This smug pride lasted until one horrible day when she turned her back on Stormy for two seconds, and the colt took off like a bat out of hell. He was gone. For two gut wrenching hours Dash and her friends tore Ponyville up looking for him. Dash was a MESS thinking of all the horrible things that could happen to her baby. When they finally found him safe and happily napping, Dash burst into desperate sobs and clung to her son. From that day on, until he was old enough to listen, his parents took Stormy out on a chest harness and leash. Baby Stormy was most unimpressed by this turn of events

8.)  Bruce was determined to help Wavey learn how to fly. So what if he didn't have wings? He taught Pearlie to fly when she was a fledgling, after all. He borrowed several books on pegasus flight and studied extensively so he could teach her. Stormy pointed out several times that for once HE was the expert on a subject in this house and "relax, babe. I got this.", but Bruce was SET on being part of this process, not realizing that he hurt his husband's feelings by this seeming lack of faith in him. Rosie pointed out to Stormy that it had nothing to do with him, but rather that Bruce probably felt left out in this huge milestone in their daughter's life and wanted to be a part of it as much as possible. After that Stormy humored Bruce and let him "instruct" . When Rider did finally take wing, while Bruce nervously watched below, she was so happy she flew right into his waiting arms and hugged his neck, laughing and screaming excitedly that she could fly and did you see me daddy?!