lilies don't grow on trees

edit: i knew i was missing something. Polyester Petals' glasses. LOL i will continue to forget drawing the glasses on horses until the end of time

ALRIGHT I’ve done it. Here’s the gaggle of Treehugger x Lily Lace children who have sprouted up all over the Gamiverse. Though really it’s just a reskinning of the old ones, now that I think about it… and one of them is missing from this picture because they wouldn’t be caught dead with their family. Then there’s another one……. But here’s the lineup for now!

Polyester Petals (in her mid to late twenties) is no longer a silly hippie, nor is she the friend of Finesse… they do know each other, as she is now Doll Face’s friend, and Finesse is Doll Face’s sister. Doll Face is also due for a do-over (mostly in the Cutie Mark department) and I think that should almost be all the do-overs in the Gamiverse!

Berry Juice is now Little Lavender (around 10ish years old), complete design and personality overhaul. 

Blue Iris is also complete overhaul, now Kale (full name is Kale Ornaments, aged 18-20), and remains deaf, but is now a cisgenderish male and an earth pony. 

Rutabaga (also aged 18-20, they were born in the same year as Kale)  is the same as ever, although you wouldn’t know it because I have never drawn them. LMAO

Now let’s get into the pictures!

1) Little Lavendar: “Why do you always brush my hair, but not your hair?”

Polyester Petals: “[Full of THC, energy drinks, responsibilities]

I never go outside. Doesn’t really matter how I look.”

I was going to have Little Lavendar say “sounds like a skill issue” after that but I didn’t know where to put it. Polyester Petals is often helping Little Lavendar get ready for school, pick her up, help her with her homework, and so on in between managing her parents’ schedules and answering forgotten letters and sewing together pieces of fabric that her mom needs or working on her own portfolio or making sure the shop is locked and more and more and more…

You see, the TreeLace family is rich. Very rich, much to the chagrin of the rest of Canterlot. But they are also very busy all the time. Altogether, the family runs two farms (minimum), a shop, an animal preserve + education program to go with it, a bit of a refugee camp situation, and the whole fashion line thing not to mention homemade products for the store. 

This leads Polyester Petals to do a lot of micromanaging. And managing. And macromanaging. Really, Polyester Petals does a lot, including raising her siblings and her own parents at times. She is spread extremely thin and is barely holding on by a thread, but when it comes to any schedule that isn’t her own, she’s on top of it. That means waking up at 7AM to comb Lavender's hair and walk her to school every morning even if she just went to bed at 6AM. Granted, it’s not great to be cross-faded around children, but it’s not like her parents are sober, either… And the way Polyester acts is probably normal to Lavender, anyway.

Meanwhile, Little Lavender happy living in her own little world obsessing over pretty dresses and pretty flowers and going to her friends’ birthday parties and doing whatever it is that little girls do. She’s a social butterfly and a total natural at being normal, Polyester is very jealous.

2) Kale: [signing] “You want me to eat all of it…?”

Rutabaga: [nodding vigorously]

Kale and Rutabaga are basically twins, despite having somewhat different parents. They both share a love for mischief and mayhem, although Kale gives away half of their pranks with his extremely loud giggles that he can’t hear. They were not easy on Polyester Petals growing up, but luckily they’ve both moved out to different properties belonging to the TreeLace family by now. 

They’ve always shared a special connection, perhaps due to their “magical aura-syncing birth” (according to Treehugger). Even though Polyester Petals was the first to discover he was deaf due to their parents’ astonishing lack of awareness, this delayed reaction was partially due to Rutabaga always seeming to understand what Kale meant without fail. Teaching him ESL (Equestrian sign language) made their connection stronger, even though the credit for teaching them both goes to Polyester Petals, who was taught it by Dandelion Roar. It consists of a mixture of hoof motions and morse code.

Kale is extremely rambunctious and is always vying to do something, be social, try new things, but he is extremely selective about his company after facing the jerks of Canterlot. Rutabaga is like a silent yet powerful spectator, only speaking when necessary or to completely turn a conversation on its head. They don’t care much for upholding any family image, and have pretty much nothing to do with the family businesses. Rutabaga happily helps on the family farms, meanwhile Kale wants to do something cool instead of being the cashier at their lame crystal shop.

3) Deus ex Maxina is the Orthros that Rainbow Dash sold Fluttershy for in that one episode. After Rainbow Dash happily gets back Fluttershy, Maxina is sent back to the Ancient Beast exhibit to be blatantly abused and shilled off in chains at another event. Hooray…? Or maybe he’s sent to Manehatten with no training whatsoever to live in a cramped home with that one pony? I have a sliiiight feeling that won't exactly work out. The show itself admitted that it was only behaving due to Fluttershy’s supernatural animal domesticating abilities, and even with those it would take months to train it. Not a great look for anyone involved.

I also believe that the dog breeding problems are no better if not worse than what we humans have going on. At best, the Orthros is an energetic hunting dog used by the ponies to kill other monsters that were preying on ponies in the past. At worst, a very mixed temperament/genetically ruined clout device used by rich and/or uneducated ponies.

Whatever it is, Maxina is no stranger to it. He has had a long life in the system being tossed around as a petting zoo attraction, exotic pet, outdoor pet, indoor pet, and so on. A lot of destruction, neglect, and abuse in his wake. 

Treehugger, however, came into contact with Deus ex Machina and was able to communicate with him and understand his needs and let him live out his life not as a toy, but as an animal deserving of care and respect. Nowadays he’s in his golden years and is found in their giant house rather than frolicking around the fields, needing daily assistance in his geriatric age. 

He and Polyester Petals have a tight bond, as they are both often exhausted. He is a mix between a German Shepherd and a Saint Bernard... quite literally. Honestly, Maxina shouldn't be alive after all these years, but he's still up and kicking.

As usual, I will update and overhaul all their toyhouses'...eventually. LOL

Art (c) @stimpower