Due to their faulty programming, fluffy ponies are unable to recognise alicorns as fellow fluffies, deeming them monsters. Mares who gave birth to alicorns reject them out of fear, even going as far as killing them. This behaviour seems to be passed on to their foals who also have an instinctual fear of alicorns. This test aims to see if fluffy ponies can be trained to accept alicorns.
For this test, we are using an alicorn mare dubbed ‘Celestia’. She has beeninjected with a cocktail of hormones which would allow her to produce milk. Afterwards, the mare was introduced to a litter of foals that were born from mares that were kept in pens.
For Celestia, she was given a little of six foals. The purple and white foals were unicorns, the pink and orange foals were earthies and the blue and yellow foals were pegasi.
Now, we observed Celestia.
“Mummah wuv babbehs, babbehs wuv mummah, dwink aww the miwkies, gwow big and stwong~”
As we can see, Celestia began to sing the ‘mummah song’ as she fed the foals. She first started with the pink and purple foals before. After they were full, she removed them from her teats before going to feed the orange and white foals. Celestia appears to have strong maternal instincts as she fed and cared for the foals like they were her own. We will continue to monitor the foal’s behaviour.
After two weeks, the foals have opened their eyes. They began to call out for their mummah who hugs them while licking them affectionately. The foals see their surrogate mother and were at first fearful since she was an alicorn but they appear to recognize her as their caretaker. They soon begin feeding. The yellow foal appears to be the most fearful and needed more coaxing from Celestia.
“Wuv munstah mummah!”
Those were the first words of the pink foal who had developed a darker pink mane and tail fur.
“Nu, mummah nu munstah,” the purple foal said. She had darker purple mane. “Mummah is pwetty pointy wingy mummah!”
“Mummah is nu munstah,” Celestia told them. “Mummah is awicorn.”
“Awicorn…” the foals repeated.
We observe the foals as they play under the watchful eye of Celestia. After they’ve been weaned, we begin feeding them kibble with spaghetti provided as a treat only on Friday nights. The blue pegasus filly had developed a rainbow-coloured mane and was developing smarty syndrome. Fortunately, Celestia was able to teach the possible smarty to be good.
The foals have now grown into adolescents. Now, it was time to test their acceptance of alicorns. Their only exposure to alicorns was their surrogate mother so it was time to introduce them to another alicorn. For this test, we brought in an alicorn filly named ‘Midnight’ due to her black coat and blue mane. She was rejected by her mother but we managed to recover her before she was killed. We have raised Midnight in a saferoom with another surrogate alicorn.
We have named Celestia’s foals:
Pinkiefluff (pink earthie with pink mane)
Applefluff (orange earthie with yellow mane)
Rarifluff (white unicorn with purple mane)
Twifluff (purple unicorn with dark purple mane)
Rainbowfluff (blue pegasus with rainbow-colored mane)
Fluffhyshy (yellow pegasus with pink mane)
“Nyu fwen?” Pinkiefluff asked as she approached midnight. “Fwuffy namesies is Pinkie. Wat you name?”
“Me am Midnight,” Midnight answered.
“Wan pway?” Pinkiefluff asked.
“Pway!” Midnight cheered and joined the other fluffies to play in the saferoom.
This was a successful test. However, we may need to repeat this test several more times. As alicorns are rare, we will use Celestia and later Midnight once she is fully grown. The fillies will be put in the breeding program for further observation to see if their behaviour towards alicorns will remain the same.