Talk:Apple family/@comment-109.46.92.195-20121214203735/@comment-92.20.187.1-20121222181548

I think that AJ, AB and Big Mac are orphans. it would explain why somepony as young as Apple Bloom doesn't live with her parents. Even in an extended family the mother and father are the first port of call, so to speak.

it does actually make sense for their parents to have passed away and for them not to mention it on the show. In canon because it isn't something the family would want to discuss, and the fact that this is a light-hearted kid's show would explain why the writers wouldn't make any mention of it to their audience.

After all, we can't pretend that there's no such thing as death in mlp. we see a funeral being conducted in hearts and hooves day and in secret of my excess spike is worried that he and rarity "won't make it" as they plummet towards the ground.

if my theory turns out to be correct, I wonder if they will ever mention it, in any way or form, on the show. depending on how it's dealt with it might make a valuable, but obviously saddening, episode.