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"Speck, how in the hay can you see the ball through those curtains of yours?"
"Just takes practice!"

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As young colts, Grease Spot and Speckle Heart each felt they simply did not belong. Grease, the eldest son of Applejack and Soarin', never loved working all day on Sweet Apple Acres, instead finding pleasure in tinkering with the farm machinery. Meanwhile, Speckle, with his abusive past and his big build, felt like a big fish in a small pond, especially when his anxiety hit and the big colt shut himself away from the world.

The two colts only felt peace and acceptance when they met. One day after school, Speckle was walking back to Fluttershy's cabin when he noticed a small colt being bullied by older colts. Wanting to help, Speckle ran over, only to then be frozen in fear after confronting the leader bully who looked shockingly like Speckle's abusive father. Suddenly out of no where, a small but sturdy blue colt managed to scare off the bullies, saving both Speckle and the small bullied colt. That moment started a friendship between the blue colt, Grease Spot, and Speckle. Each colt grew to realize that although they were starkly different, Grease with his "cool guy" and brutish attitude and Speckle with his dopey and lovable but anxious personality, the two colts were simply destined to be best friends.

Through their friendship, Grease and Speckle feel a sense of acceptance, safety, and growth: Speckle helps Grease chip away at the insecurities hidden by his "cool guy" facade and listens and accepts the blue stallion's family problems, while Grease helps Speckle better understand his anxieties and to be a rock when situations get too much for the big speckled pony. Both stallions also challenge each other, mostly physically through sports and competition.

No matter what diverging paths the stallions end up taking into adulthood, Grease and Speckle know they will remain best friends their whole lives.

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A fifth picture for my "Next Generation Friends" project where I draw the Mane 6 brood with their closest friends. Here we have two Mane 6 NG friends, Speckle Heart (far left stallion), adopted son of Fluttershy, and Grease Spot (far right stallion), son of Applejack and Soarin'. These two I knew from their first creation would be friends, even if at first the "lovable bear" type and the "cool guy bully to his brother" type does not seem like a likely pair. Grease may be a bully to his brother, but his harshness stems from a deeply misunderstood sibling rivalry between Grease and his brother Macoun Apple. (It'll be explored another day)

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Posted previously at: 2018-02-09T23:05:53 | Posted previously by: Mildgyth