We're far apart, in every way,

But you're the best part of my day,

And sure as I breathe the air,

I know we are the perfect pair~

I actually really, really love the episode The Perfect Pear. I adore Bright Mac and Pear Butter, their personalities, and their young star-crossed lovers romance, so I don't really have a long rambling headcanon to tack onto their existing story. Soooo... have some notes!

-Pear Butter's mother died during foalbirth. Pear has thus always been drawn to older mares, always seeking out their approval and guidance, always looking for a sort of surrogate mom. She finally finds one in Granny Smith, who protectively snatched Pear under her wing the second Grand Pear stormed out of his daughter's life. The bond between Pear Butter and Granny Smith is forged in iron.

-Pear Butter is really on the dinky side as far as ponies go, nearly as short as a Shetland. Comparatively, Bright Mac is fucking huge, an absolute beast of a draft horse, and one of the strongest ponies to ever live. He passed his sturdy Apple genes onto his children, all of whom, as adults, are much bigger and bulkier than Pear was.

-Ehhhh I tweaked the colors of their designs a little to suit my tastes. I just feel as earth ponies, their colors should be a little "earthier", so both are a little less saturated and a little more warm and golden. Bright Mac's design is partly borrowed from : sta.sh/01cx4bb0z1ac

-Their love was a young, reckless, wild love.....Little Macintosh was born suspiciously soon after the pair's honeymoon. Absolutely none of Bright Mac and Pear Butter's children were planned, but each one was warmly welcomed and completely adored. Had they not met the fate that befell them, they'd likely have produced a whole damned herd of Apple foals.



-While the Apple kids loved and looked up to both their parents, Little Mac was a shy Mama's colt, while Applejack (or "Jackie", as Bright liked to call her), was a rough n' tumble daddy's girl through and through~



-Unfortunately, for all the love they shared, the story of Bright Mac and Pear Butter eventually draws to a very sudden, terrifying end. The memory of their deaths is very painful for their children......there is a good reason Big Macintosh doesn't speak much.

-Pear was devastated when her father left her. She wrote him many letters over the years, detailing her life with Bright Mac, her adventures on the road and in Ponyville, collections of songs and poems, logs of her pregnancies and her worries for the future, snapshots of her grinning foals taking their first steps, gobbling down applesauce, wrestling with their father.....

Grand Pear, in his stubborn fury, refused to open a single one. But he did carefully store them away in a locked box......a box that was finally unlocked a few days after news of his daughter's death reached him. Although fear and refusal to forgive himself kept Grand Pear away, it was ultimately Pear's old letters that encouraged him to finally return to Ponyville, to meet his grandchildren.

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