Are ponies born with cutie marks? (G1)

[Taffeta]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

[PoseyPetals]

@Taffeta, thanks for the link! I'm going to read that magic mirror comic as I'd never heard of that explanation either!! I remember the owner of The Golden Autumn's theory was that baby ponies rolled out of some kind of birthing pool...?

As a kid, I remember just accepting the fact that there were duplicate adult and baby ponies, particularly in the shows and films, but then where is Ember's mother? Who is she? Is it Twilight? Who did Ember become? This is so existentialist! Yeah I need to read that mirror comic ~

But then, tiddleywinks and cuddles are also parentless...and then when an adult pony has an identical child, I feel like the identity/personality of the adult gets all screwed up e.g....Fizzy with a baby? I could never imagine Gusty or Lickety Split with baby ponies either, but in the shows they have them just the same - what also confused me was, if in the MLP movie Baby Lickety Split had a mother lickety split - and I'm sure I spotted her a few times in back - why is Buttons acting so much like a mother? What is mother lickety split doing about her lost child? AND If all the babies belong to the nursery do they not have individual parents? Do they just get collectively raised like bumblebees? I don't know? This is an amusing topic and I love reading everyone else's theories

[Leave a Whisper]

@Taffeta-Thanks! I didn't know anything about the Magic Mirror either. So identical babies are from a mirror. Hard to keep the population going when the boys are racing around the world.

And then individual babies in the show, such as the newborn twins were a result of natural means, which gave them variety in symbols and they did indeed have mothers and really snotty siblings.

As far as the individual babies, perhaps they are orphans? I mean Ponyland is a dangerous place to live. You've got wizards and witches, demons and monsters and all kinds of other creatures out to enslave or destroy you, every week. It's reasonable to believe not all ponies make it and ponies are herd creatures, they will care for orphaned foals like their real life counterparts.

I also just remembered that there is a Magic Message pony named Cuddles, she could be Baby Cuddles mom?

Perhaps Ember was an orphan as well or maybe half Bright Valley pony like Prince-I mean Knight Shade?

[LadyMoondancer]

My baby Cuddles was an orphan boy who was left on the other ponies' doorstep. 

As for G4, I feel like the symbols aren't predestined, but more like . . . when a pony finds something they're good at and accepts it as their special talent, it becomes their special talent.  How zen! 

[DappledHazel]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

That's cute.. But they should have at least given the babies different names.. So like, Firefly's baby is called Baby Firefly... Will Baby Firefly be called that even when she's grown up..? Or will there be two Fireflys? 

[Al-1701]

In the comic, Baby Lickety-Split and FT Baby Lickety-Split are SEPARATE ponies.  They even appeared together in one story with the claim that they're cousins.

[ponyqueen]

Maybe they call the baby ponies "Baby whatever" because of the previously mentioned perilous existence these ponies live. All manners of natural and magical fates could befall a young foal, so parents give a placeholder name until the youth survives to a given age.

In the wild, many prey animals have a 90% mortality rate during the first year of life. Even in human society, babies were not always named upon birth in communities with high infant mortality- they were simply called "Baby Girl" or "Baby Boy". Check out an old cemetery and you can see the tombstones bearing these placeholder names of children that did not thrive and ultimately succumbed at a young age.

[Sunset]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

That's cute.. But they should have at least given the babies different names.. So like, Firefly's baby is called Baby Firefly... Will Baby Firefly be called that even when she's grown up..? Or will there be two Fireflys? 

Maybe "Baby Firfly" isn't an actual name.  Maybe it's the same as calling them "baby Smith" or "baby Jones".  And then later they get their own actuall names.

To be honest, I never actually thought about it much as a child.

[DappledHazel]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

That's cute.. But they should have at least given the babies different names.. So like, Firefly's baby is called Baby Firefly... Will Baby Firefly be called that even when she's grown up..? Or will there be two Fireflys? 

Maybe "Baby Firfly" isn't an actual name.  Maybe it's the same as calling them "baby Smith" or "baby Jones".  And then later they get their own actuall names.

To be honest, I never actually thought about it much as a child.

Okay, that makes sense. 

[LadyMoondancer]

Ah yes . . .

In the comic, Baby Lickety-Split and FT Baby Lickety-Split are SEPARATE ponies.  They even appeared together in one story with the claim that they're cousins.

Ah, yes . . .

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[ponyqueen]

Ah yes . . .

In the comic, Baby Lickety-Split and FT Baby Lickety-Split are SEPARATE ponies.  They even appeared together in one story with the claim that they're cousins.

Ah, yes . . .

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LOL! 

[DappledHazel]

Ah yes . . .

In the comic, Baby Lickety-Split and FT Baby Lickety-Split are SEPARATE ponies.  They even appeared together in one story with the claim that they're cousins.

Ah, yes . . .

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She's Lickety-Split, she's Lickety-Split, you're Lickety-Split, and I'M LICKETY-SPLIT. Are there anymore Lickety-Split's I should know about? Sorry I had too

[Leave a Whisper]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

That's cute.. But they should have at least given the babies different names.. So like, Firefly's baby is called Baby Firefly... Will Baby Firefly be called that even when she's grown up..? Or will there be two Fireflys? 

Maybe "Baby Firfly" isn't an actual name.  Maybe it's the same as calling them "baby Smith" or "baby Jones".  And then later they get their own actuall names.

To be honest, I never actually thought about it much as a child.

Then we shall call them Dr. Jones! Or maybe Firefly the II. I mean a knew a girl who had her mother and grandmother's name.

[DappledHazel]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

That's cute.. But they should have at least given the babies different names.. So like, Firefly's baby is called Baby Firefly... Will Baby Firefly be called that even when she's grown up..? Or will there be two Fireflys? 

Maybe "Baby Firfly" isn't an actual name.  Maybe it's the same as calling them "baby Smith" or "baby Jones".  And then later they get their own actuall names.

To be honest, I never actually thought about it much as a child.

Then we shall call them Dr. Jones! Or maybe Firefly the II. I mean a knew a girl who had her mother and grandmother's name.

Lol. I call my baby Firefly 'baby Dragonfly' 

[KarentheUnicorn]

I didn't know all this theory about the magic mirror and it really makes sense!

The story is actually on my site on this page:
http://www.etherella.com/scrapbook2/mlp_comic.htm
The first story uploaded under 1985, it's a zip file

Dangit Taff, don't you know the only thing right and factual about MLP is whatever came from the USA and whatever is going on with G4 right now!! You can't throw out some UK comic stuff from the 80's and explode everybody's brain cells like that. (grin )