Sunflower

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March 8, 2022
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North Star

About Sunflower

Reinless

Species

Earth Pony
Age

16
Gender

Mare
Residence

Garden
Hometown

Wide Fields
Occupation

Gardener
Character Images
Physical Description

Sunflower has a pale yellow body and faded green mane from being out in the sun all day

Her hoofsies are a distinctive bright blue with a yellow streak.
Backstory

The story of Sunflower begins with the story of her mother, her friends, and her enemies...

A long time before Sunflower was born, when Rose (large shire horse brown/white fur and mane, blazing blue eyes, red-tinted hooves), Sunflower's mother, was a young mare all the ponies of the Wide Fields (their home) were reigned over, not free like almost all ponies are today.

First there were the humans. Some humans were wise and kind and spared the ponies the whip but many did not. Eventually, Rose's impetuous pegasus friend Fire-feather (blue fur, golden wings, fire red eyes, white hooves) bucked her rider, Louis, and, calling to all her friends (including Rose), sought to break the humans' grip on their reins. Fire-feather was eventually successful and most of the humans were chased off - even the nicer ones. However, some ponies were unhappy after the loss of their humans and some of these disaffected ponies fell prey to new beings - the powerful centaurs.

Fire-feather could only look on in horror as her friends, unused to freedom, were taken in by the manipulative centaurs who - despite pledging kindness at first - made ever greater demands of the ponies and, when these demands were not met, the ponies of the Wide were once more beaten and whipped. Eventually, a few centaurs emerged as more powerful than the rest and laid waste to the fields with their battles, driving off the weaker centaurs and enslaving almost all the free ponies, (even, briefly, Fire-feather herself!), in their bid to destroy one another.

Now in the large river next to the Wide fields, lived a fey and imperious sea-pony-unicorn: Queen Sunset (snow white scales, golden horn and mane, two intersecting red stripes on her golden tail). Queen Sunset and Fire-feather had long been enemies due to an ancient dispute over who was most respected by the ponies of the Wide fields.

Spoiler

Queen Sunset claimed that the ponies of the Wide admired her best because of her command of the seas and her stories of distant lands which she had explored. Fire-feather claimed that the ponies of the Wide were more impressed by her aerial acrobatics and golden feathers as she flew the thermals of the Wide over their heads.

Even though Queen Sunset had often fought with Fire-feather she could not bear to see the reining of her once proud old foe along with the other ponies of the Wide, so she swore to put aside her enmity in order to oppose the centaurs (whose strength and cunning she also feared). Sunset swam down the river and called on ponies young and old, far and wide to help her drive off the mighty centaurs. Many of these ponies were wary of Sunset, who was known as a bit of a trickster. Sunset's many foals came to her aid: foremost of whom was the imposing hippogriff/sea pony Starry Skies (blue scales/fur, white tail with red-tip, large fins with a starry cutie mark). Sunset's friends also came to her aid - foremost of whom was the tough mule Broken Wheel (old, brown fur, orange mane, white hooves with green edge), although this was on the condition that Queen Sunset would persuade her human admirers to leave the poor old mule alone. The free ponies eventually prevailed – taking control of the mainstay of the Wide fields other than the most powerful of the centaurs who controlled the strongest pony of the Wide - Sunflower's mother, Rose.

The centaur who held Rose's reins was called Stain (centaurs always called themselves ugly names). Stain was a cowardly centaur, despite his power, and he eschewed open conflict - preferring to threaten the other centaurs and free ponies with Rose's might from Rose's fields in the Eastern Wide. Eventually one of the foulest centaurs, a youngling called Sewer, whose ruthlessness cowed even Fire-feather, forced the ponies under his control (then most of the ponies of the Wide) to charge Stain in an attempt to capture Rose, whom he coveted more than any other pony in the Wide. A weakened Rose was almost overcome, but once her fighting spirit was roused nopony could contain her and with a mighty below she scattered them all, driving Sewer and the ponies of the Wide back to the Wester Wide, where they were ultimately defeated by Queen Sunset and her allies. At first, Stain was relieved when Sewer was defeated, but as the ponies of the Wide were freed from the centaurs, many of multihued eyes looked East once more and Stain grew nervous. In the large multihued eyes of the Wild ponies was something more threatening to his power than all the false hatred inspired by Sewer, he felt Rose - normally so loyal - stir restlessly in response to those gazes. While Fire-feather and even Sunset had mellowed in their old age, many of the ponies of the Wide, and also some ponies beyond the wide - especially Sunset's foal Starry Skies - began to talk of challenging Stain as free ponies. They agreed, however, that only Rose could achieve this - nopony could force Rose to do anything.

It was around the time of this unrest, when Rose sometimes shared hay with Rust-feather (a large golden pegasus stallion, with white hooves tipped with red) that Sunflower was born to them both. Sunflower had her father's pride and her mother's strength and post parents were enormously proud of her. As little Sunflower grew, she was given little treats by Stain - who saw her qualities and wanted to use his whiles and his power over her mother to take Sunflower away from her father and the other free ponies of the Wide. Sure enough, Stain brought Sunflower into his control and broke her to the rein. Stain was sharp with Sunflower and the poor foal lacked the incredible resilience of the mother and cried a great deal when she was whipped. After one such whipping session Rose finally snapped - in one powerful movement she turned on Stain and chased him away from her foal. The ponies of the Wide were delighted by this and swarmed to congratulate her and her foal.

Sunflower adored the attention of all the free ponies and played happily in the Wide. However, all was not well with Rose. She was so much larger than the other ponies and had lived her life under the rein. She took to wondering away from the Wide and Sunflower, along the pastures of her huge field. It was here that she found a tiny centaur, Nipper. Nipper pretended to be afraid of her at first - he had heard of the news of Stain's rout - and affected gentleness, especially with Sunflower. The other ponies of the Wide were deeply suspicious, but Rose would hear none of it. Sure enough, though, Nipper began to add little restraints to Rose - always claiming they were for her benefit - until these restraints were a rein in all but name. Suitably reined, Nipper abandoned the pretence of gentleness and went after Sunflower - rein in hand - to capture her as Stain had done before him. This time, however, Sunflower's friends in the Wide rallied round her, and Nipper was fought off, snarling - hiding behind Rose's bulk as Stain had before him.

Sunflower is today a proud free pony. She vows never to take the rein and desires nothing more than to break Nipper's hold over her mother, but she is frustrated by the timidity of her friends who still insist that only Rose can break her reins...

Family:

Mother: Rose

Father: Rust Feather

Little Sister: Rose jnr (earth pony foal, pink fur with green mane)

Sister: Woolly (shaggy furred earth pony, blue eyes, yellow face-fur, white woolly body with red ends)

Sister: Cornflower (cornflower blue furred, white maned, black hooved earth pony – best friend of Sunflower)
Key Moments

Capture by the Centaur Stain.

Being freed from Stain by Rose.

The capture of Rose by the centaur Nipper.

Being almost captured by the centaur Nipper and being saved by her friends, the ponies of the Wide.
Personality

Proud, independent, resilient.
Likes

Flowers, freedom, her mom Rose and her dad Rust Feather, her sisters, her friends
Dislikes

Anyone who would make a pony take the rein! Especially Nipper (who holds the reins of her mother, Rose) and Yucky (who holds the reins of her little sister Rose jnr)
Friends

Sunrise, Snowflake, Rose-mane, Scorch, Swanny, Tortoiseshell, Bite-size , Goldenhoof
Rivals

Nipper the Centaur

Topics I Participated In

Ask Sunflower (and the ponies of the Wide)

Started by Sunflower · March 3, 2022

[OOC Thread info, backstory]

"Hello ponies! My name is Sunflower. I'm a gardener and love nothing more than tending to my patch of the Wide fields which I call home and playing with the many other ponies who live in the Wide with me, especially my sister Cornflower. When I was a foal an evil centaur captured me and Cornflower and forced us into reins, but we are free now, and someday soon I hope my mom Rose will be too!"
Cornflower (cornflower blue furred, white maned, black hooved earth pony mare – best friend of Sunflower): "Yes, hello ponies. I am a gardener too and I enjoy visiting my sister's garden, when Yucky - that's the centaur who lives next to me - gives me some peace anyway. I prefer to hide away from him in my field, but Sunflower has her father's temper and doesn't let him bully her even though she lives next to him too."
Woolly (shaggy furred earth pony stallion, blue eyes, yellow face-fur, white woolly body with red ends) "Mmmff mmff! Ack - sorry, my mouth was full of fur... nopony knows why my fur grows so long. Anyway my name is Woolly and I'm Sunflower's neighbour. I don't really know the other ponies of the Wide very well... because, well I'm pretty shy, but I can tell you Sunflower is the warmest friend a pony could ever hope for."
Scorch (white-furred pegasus stallion with red streaks along each wing) "Hey guys! You know, ponies say I'm proud, but little Sunflower here puts me to shame. She may have only just grown into her adult horse-shoes but she's already an example to all the ponies in the Wide! I have heard that even old Fire-feather is impressed... and nothing impresses her. You know, Fire-feather is the pony who freed all the ponies of the Wide in the first place! She's kinda our idol, and if I wasn't so awesome I'd almost be jealous of Sunflower here. Fortunately, I am awesome."
Snowflake (earth pony mare, pure white fur and mane and pale gold eyes) "Hello everypony, I'm Snowflake. I may be little but I'm not a foal - I'm actually older than Sunflower and just as old as Scorch. I live next to Cornflower and often accompany her when she visits her sister Sunflower."
Rose-mane (older-foal, pegasus, yellow fur with red streaked wings, blue ankle-splotches) "Heya ponies, good to see you talking to my gal pal Sunflower. We're the same age and she's loads of fun to be around. She never backs down from a challenge and when she gets the bit between her teeth she can be stubborn as a mule - and I love her all the more for it!"
Swanny (hippogriff/seapony, pure white with blue streak along her back when she is a seapony, and along her wings when she is a hippogriff) "I know what you're thinking, 'what are those things on my claws' right... well I call them skis! Wearing them is like swimming across the ground. Sometimes I ski all the way to Sunflower's field - the Eastern Wide where we live is pretty snowy. In the summer though it blooms - Sunflower's field is covered in yellow and it's like swimming again!"
Tortoiseshell (deep tortoiseshell flecked brown, earth pony colt, cutie mark sports three mountains) "Hey! Hey you! Do you wanna play? Oh you're talking to Sunny? When she's not tending to her garden we play races together! Yesterday, I won this ribbon. It means I won! You can have it if you like? But you'll have to race me first."
Bite-size (green unicorn teen stallion with a red horn and scrawny teen-beard) "Oh, you're talking to Sunny. Most of the ponies of the Wide are lame in my opinion, but she's alright. Just don't bother her or you'll have me to answer to... and I'm pretty tough."
Goldenhoof (small pony-sized brown/white shire horse with one golden hoof) "Ho there! You're talking to the little ponies. Now Sunflower may just be a pony but she has the heart of a proper shire horse, like her mother Rose. Now there's a sad tail. Maybe for another time..."