Plum Pudding

By AmberDust

• December 16, 2014




Age: mane 6 age

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Plum Pudding has a dark brown coat, a purpleish-pink mane, and green eyes. Her mane is rather curly<br />http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3537905/Plum_pudding

Cutie Mark: A sugar plum. She got her cutie mark when she discovered her talent for baking and making candy. There's not much of a story behind it--but she didn't notice her mark until AFTER she cleaned herself up. Her friend StromJumper was the one to point it out.

Personality: Plum pudding is sweet and generous, giving more than she takes. She's a little shy (or at least her silence makes her seem that way), but she likes social gatherings--as long as she's not the centre of attention. She doesn't talk much, but would rather listen and contribute through nods and other such things--to accomplish this, she's developed a sort of tactfulness to shift conversation away from herself. Plum tries to be optimistic, but its hard for her sometimes.<br />Plum is soft-hearted and friendly, modest, and a hardworker. Although she appreciates help, she's more likely to have already finished the job by the time somepony offers.<br />She's somewhat of a romantic. Only somewhat.<br />When she was young, she was easily depressed and very sensitive, believing that, as an Earth pony, she was unspecial and inferior (bullies helped imprint that thought into her mind, despite her friends' best attempts to drive it out). She knows better now.<br />Plum is rather sentimental and nostalgic, despite her sub-stellar childhood. Something about her makes her friends want to protect her from whatever harm comes her way--maybe it's because she's so cute. Maybe it's because she doesn't like standing up for herself. Or maybe, it's because she deserves to be loved. She very much appreciates her friends.

Backstory: Plum Pudding grew up in an orphanage alongside her best friend StormJumper. (This is why Plum had such low self-esteem.) She doesn't know much about her birth parents, and never really asked questions about them.<br />Besides StormJumper, her closest friend was a unicorn by the name of Amber Dust, who didn't live at the orphanage, but visited them frequently and went to school with them.<br />Plum and Storm spent most of their free time with Amber, who seemed like an expert on making them happy and excited about life. Among her friends, Plum Pudding gave more than she could afford to. She really loved her friends, and had a bit of a fear of losing them. (inferiority complex)<br /><br />After Plum was out of the orphanage's care and living with a family, she began getting herself accustomed to the kitchen, learning to bake treats of all kinds for her friends and family. Eventually, much to Plum's dismay, her family moved out of their hometown (Pine Valley, in the mountains North of Ponyville), away from Amber and Storm.<br />When Plum was old enough, her friends had also left their hometown. Plum moved to a small purple house in Ponyville and tried to make her way in life as a baker. So far, she's working from home. Plum has been keeping in contact with her friends via mail, and recently invited Amber Dust, now an explorer, to move into town, stating there were many wonders she could discover...but of course, Plum really just wants her old friends back.