Talk:Bright Mac and Pear Butter/@comment-39571481-20190524114402

Theory time. It is my best guess that Bright Mac and Pear Butter/Buttercup are still alive. True, Kora said that they were...ahem...dead, but they are not the writers of the show! And in the Perfect Pear, when Applejack said, "Wait an apple-pickin' minute! Bright Mac and Buttercup? Those are our parents' name!" She said "are" in place of "were", indicating their parents may still be alive. And in Where The Apple Lies, we only see Big Mac and Applejack as foals. We don't see Apple Bloom. So the parents must have stuck around long enough to have Apple Bloom! An additional theory of mine is that they couldn't take good enough care of three children, so they had to leave, hence Bright Mac giving Applejack his hat and Big Mac his yoke. Or maybe Apple Blight was actually beginning to infect some ponies, and after having Apple Bloom, the parents must've gotten sick after a bad year, and had to leave in hopes of not infecting their children.

No matter what the cause of their leave, I absolutely refuse to believe they're dead. My Little Pony can't be growing to be THAT morbid, can it?