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I've been playing sims for like a week and a half…. gotta get out of the haze of choosing wallpapers and get back into drawing… so I made some cute Dust Bunnies and her mom. That floof and swirls are too satisfying to not draw.


1. Edith the jenny and her daughter Dust Bunny the hinny. Donkeys are usually a bit larger than ponies, and Bunny inherited more from her father's side when it came to stature. She did get her mom's curly mane and dapples though ("And my colors", Edie jokes when she notices that she's starting to grey with age)

I know donkeys don't really have the same patterns or colors as horses… buuuut they also don't talk. And horses usually aren't purple. So I do what I want and gave Edie some dappling and non-traditional donkey colors.


2. Edie was fairly young when she got pregnant with Bunny, just out of secondary school and about to start collage when she noticed something was up. The father was a coltfriend from school; they'd been dating for a few months, when he suddenly broke up with her and left right before graduation. She tried to find him when she found out about the pregnancy, but he and his family appeared to have dropped of the face of the earth. So she decided to eff it and just raise the baby herself. This was her baby and if he wanted to meet it he could have left some kind of information of where he was going or look her up himself.

Her family was very helpful and supportive (though admittedly a bit thrown for a loop at the news) -her younger sister was actually probably more excited to be an aunt than Edie was about being a mom. Edie lived with them for a bit after Bunny was born, postponing her collage plan for a year. Before moving out to a student appartment with Bunny, working on and eventually getting her degree. One of Bunny's first memories is of drawing on some printer paper in a library while Edie was looking for a book she needed.


3. "Oh feathers, I'm breaking her neck, this can't be right"

Baby donkeys are able to stand and wobble-walk just a few hours after birth. Baby ponies are tiny, wrinky balls with strechy neck-skin made for carrying. Baby mules and hinnies vary a lot in appearence and abilities, so carrying via the scruff usually isn't recommended. However, Dust Bunny was carefully examinated by medical professionals who deemed that carrying her was perfectly safe. Edie, who is much more used to babies just walking by themselves behind you, isn't sure she agrees.


4. Edie has long since accepted that her kid is kinda weird. But walking on her hindlegs for a week straight so she can carry her pet skvader Monster in her front-hooves is a new one.


5. So it turns out that owning a skvader is kinda illegal without a permit?? Wild animals aren't pets under equestrian law

A teenage Bunny, wracked with guilt once she realized how much she'd broken the law, decided to turn herself over to the authorities.

Except, you know, she was a young minor when they first got Monster. (Found abandoned in a ditch by a pocher who wasn't able to sell him) So instead Edie was hit in the face by the equestrian legal system and had to pay a hefty fine and do community service at an animal shelter. Meanwhile, Bunny got to take courses and was given a permit to own Monster. Bunny and Edie's relationship got a bit …strained after that. Technically, Edie was in the wrong, ignorance of the law and all, but she still maintains that Bunny is literally doing nothing different with Monster's care before for and after she got the permit so what was the point? Yes, she should have done differently in the start, but there's nothing they can do to change that now.

They've somewhat patched things up since then, but Monster and illegal pet ownership is still an elephant in the room for them. Escpecially after Bunny opens her zoo, which has the goal of educating ponies about the harm of poaching and the exotic pet business. Edie knows that she should have contacted the authorities about Monster, rather than thinking it'd be a good way for Bunny to learn responsibility. But she's stubborn, and the zoo just makes her feel like Bunny thinks badly of her. Bunny doesn't, she really understands why everything happend they way it did, and also feels bad that her mom got punished for what Bunny thinks of as her own choices. It's a mess.

Edie still came to the opening though, and gives monthly donations to the zoo. And Bunny doesn't bring it up unless asked, and tries to focus a lot of the zoo's message towards understanding and spreading information rather than blame. They're …trying with that part. An outside of that aspect, they really do love each other and her mom is probably the first person Bunny runs to when she needs help.

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Posted previously at: 2020-05-12T21:50:54 | Posted previously by: Mildgyth