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Felt like doing a bit of backstory/worldbuilding for my next gen universe I tried to have it finished before my raffle ended, and almost made it. Just had to finish writing the description, I'll get on drawing the prizes now

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In equestria there lives a lot of different sapient species: ponies, horses, cows, sheep, goats, donkeys etc. However, due to just how many more ponies there are compared to the other ones, you'll almost only see pony-villages with very few other individuals (such as donkeys), or farm-based villages with pony and cow/sheep/goat mixes. Larger settlements will often be a majority pf ponies, with somewhat large-ish minority groups of other species; such as Manehattan, with its large horse-population, or Cloudsdale which has a large proportion of the equestrian griffon population.This is a bit of a problem actually; almost all settlements has a majority pony-population, so there tends to be some discrimination of the other species.

In the country Zecora grew up in (which I haven't decided on a name for), this wasn't as big of an issue though. Unlike Equstria, where ponies vastly outnumber any other species and literally hold all the highest power in goverment, here the citizens tended to be a lot more even in number between species -sure, there were more zebras than elephants, but not to the point where one species dominates the others. However, due to traditions and people tending to stay close to their own family, most of the smaller villages were only one species, with maybe a few other individuals. So you'd have one Zebra village and one Giraffe village etc. Although, larger and newer settlements would often be a few different species cooperating in about equal numbers. Cities though …cities were hodge-podges.

This is probably because the cities tended to be alongside the coast; when the current most efficient delivery method was to put stuff on a boat, port-towns were Big and very densly populated with all types of people. You'd have people moving to the city from the smaller villages, sailors going in-and-out (and often ending up staying), people traveling there from other countries hoping to start a new life, runaways, traders, thieves… everyone flocked to the coast.


And that's where Zecora grew up as a child, before apprenticing with a potion-maker as a teenager and moving to their village for the duration. Her mom had moved there from the mountains and met her father who worked as a sailor; when Zecora was born, they decided to stay in the city, with her mom now working in a local shop and her father often being away for long stretches of time. Zecora went to a public school, one which had students of just about every sapient species in the planet (or at least, that's how it appeared to Zecora). Just in her class alone, there were four different types of zebra, some horses, a couple of sphinx, a wildebeest, a giraffe, an elephant, griffon, pony, pony-zebra cross and even a diamond dog pup -very rare since they almost never send their pups to school, preferring to keep their education in the pack. Their classrooms looks really strange, with trying to accommodate for different sizes, mobility-levels, and etc.

Honesly, when Zecora left, she found it really strange to adjust to seeing a crowd which only had one or two species in it. It looked so… boring and uniform.

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In this image however, she's still a child, and still in that class. The teacher had taken them on a field trip to visit a nature reserve, where they're guided around by one of the local park-rangers (They tell the school it's to help keep the class safe, but really it's to protect the animals from the kids). The children aren't paying much attention to what he's saying, but at least their teacher seems to have fun. Zecora's just excited to be outside of the city -look at all that space! It begs for someone to race across it, and she and her friend decide that it's their job -here seen seconds before the teacher realises what they're up to, and grounds them.

As an adult, this moment of her first experience with the wide open savannah, the sun on her back, and racing alongside her friend as they try to escape from their teacher, is one of her fondest childhood memories.

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Posted previously at: 2019-03-23T21:31:42 | Posted previously by: Mildgyth