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Description

Name: Crystal Corolla  
Nickname(s): Kris  
Species/Gender: Earth pony/Male  
Mark/Talent: A rose with a bite taken out of it, surrounded by sparkles. Represents his talent for cuisine involving flowers, expecially candied flowers.  
Personality: He is very flippant with an indifferent attitude regarding things he doesn’t think are important, yet extremely high-strung and a perfectionist when it comes to things he does think is important. Very stubborn. Easily flustered by cute ponies looking at him for too long.  
Important relationships:  
  • Big Macintosh (Father, Adoptive) - Crystal loves his da. Absolutely adores him. He’ll do anything to make Big Mac proud, and will often share his attempts at new recipes with Big Mac before anyone else. Big Mac will in turn take him with to Guys’ Night with Spike, or just spend time with him on the farm.  
  • Sugar Belle (Mother, Bio) - She’s the onle who taught him to bake, and is very supportive of his culinary talents. Crystal actually wishes she was a bit less supportive, as she seems to always butt in to what he’s doing with her opinions or tries to help way too much. Still, he loves her, and she tries to do better when he finally talks with her about this.  
  • Cheerliee (Mother, Bio) - He sometimes gets the feeling she’s a bit dissapointed he isn’t very academically inclined. Still, she tries to not let it show and takes an interest in his hobbies. He loves her, and often goes to her for advice, as she’s the most level headed out of all his parents.  
  • Ambrosia Apple (Big Sister) - There are times when she’s his favourite person in the world; when she helps him with his homework, or they work together in the garden. Then there are times when she’s the worst person to have ever existed; when she lords her status as the big sibling over him or when she gets angry at him for borrowing a book she wasn’t even reading! Though, he supposes that’s what siblings do, and still loves her.
     
    History:  
    (Warning: Features a character dying)  
    After Party Favor left Our Little Town to go travel the world with a strange cheese-themed pony, and Night Glider and Double Diamond had started dating, Sugar Belle felt a bit left out and decided to move all the way to Ponyville to be with her then boyfriend. There she also became good friends with Cheerliee, eventually starting to crush on her. She was still with Big Mac, so she didn’t act on it… until Big Mac revealed that he also fancied the teacher. They asked her out together, and the three of them stared dating.
     
    First they has Crystal’s older sister Amber, but decided to not have any more children after her due to the complications which occured during her birth (she was, to say the least, a big newborn). This lasted for little less than a decade, before their desire for more children won out and they had Crystal -this time with Cheerliee being the sire (via magic) and hoping to therefore avoid having the same type of problems. It worked, and Crystal was born happy, healthy and average sized to a very relieved Sugar.
     
    Crystal was originally assigned female at birth, but was very early in his realisation that he’s a colt. His family is very supportive; the entire Apple clan is very big on family and sticking up for each other, so most either just accepted it or went out of their way to learn more about the subjet to better support him. He was, as preiosuly mentioned, quite young this took place before he even had started school but as he got older he grew to really love and appreciate the Apple family’s unconditional support.
     
    As a child he really loved flowers, and Big Mac eventually built him a small greenhouse where he could grow his own. His favourite thing to do was when all his parents, Ambrosia and him would spend time together in his greenhouse; they would take turns reading adventure books out loud while he and the rest would work with the flowers or just laze around. Even though he now can read by himself, thank-you-very-much, they all still sometimes have nostagia afternoons of reading adventure books among his flowers.
     
    Now, he wasn’t growing flowers just because; for some reason, he was really fixated on making something with them. At first he tried his hoof at bouquets… which he was actually pretty good at! He liked the art of choosing and arranging flowers which would look good together, while also tasting nice together. (Yes, for ponies, bouquets are also for eating -like flowers and chocolates in one.) Still, he felt like there was something missing. So he moved onto cooking and baking with flowers. This seemed even more fun, the added ingedients creating new depth to his creations. Still, it wasn’t quite enough. He tried even more complex recipes, and started mixing and experimenting with ingedients almost willy-nilly. Most of it was successes, as he made new and exciting culinary experiences using flowers. Still, it wasn’t quite right. He was about to give up; this obviously wasn’t making him happy, and he was still too young to get a cutie mark anyway.
     
    But then the unthinkable happened and Granny Smith got sick. Really sick. He desperatly wanted to make her something; Crystal knew that her favourite food was Zap apples… but the harvest was still some days away and they weren’t sure if she’d make it ‘til then. So he grabbed the flowers before anyone could stop him and started to make Granny what would be his best work yet …except, magic is as magic does, and nothing he did worked. The Zap Apple flowers just doesn’t work like normal flowers, and all the recipes failed. So with time running out he made the simplest, most basic recipe with flowers he knew; he candied them. He felt a bit bad about it; it’s the type of food you’d see sold in bags at fares for a half-bit, the kind where you don’t even care if you spill it because it’s just so cheap and easy to get more. Granny deserved better. …But it was the only thing that worked. So he gave them to her and… Granny smiled for the first time in ages.
     
    After she passed he completely stopped making anything with his flowers for a long while. Until one day, a few years later, a toddler who shared a name and looks with his late granny demanded some “thweets!”, and all he had was sugar and flowers… memories, tears and sweets were had, and cutie marks were finally earned. He realised that he didn’t just want to make food, he wanted to make food that made people happy -and if that meant simple, cheap, candied flowers… then candied flowers were perfect.
     
    Currently he still lives on Sweet Apple Acres with his family. He’s just on his last years of mandatory school, and very unsure about what to do next. Cheerliee thinks he should go to a culinary secondary school, Sugar Belle thinks he should get an apprenticeship and Big Mac thinks he should stay and work on the farm. He prefers to listen to his big sis, who says to just do whatever feels right at the moment; there’s no reason he can’t change his mind later on. He still makes and creates different recipes using flowers, but it’s only for his friends and family.
     
    In the future he’s eventually going to open a small candy-store in Ponyville, finally deciding to share his creations with the rest of the world. He’s also still going to grow his own flowers on a plot of land he’ll buy from Sweet Apple Acres (they would have just given it to him, but he insisted on paying for it) He’s mainly going to be working on a commission basis, creating edible art-pieces made with flowers for parties, holidays, weddings and such. Though, he will make sure to always have bags of freshly candied flowers for sale at a half-bit in his shop -unless you’re upset, then they’re free. Don’t worry, it’s okay; they’re cheap and easy to make.
     
     
    Trivia:
     
  • He’s a young teen at the time most of the stories in my nextgen-verse takes place - however, despite me not including the adult version of other characters who are kids at that time (such as Mari or Pyre), here I decided to also include how he looks as an adult. Otherwise I’d either have to not include his kid-version, or have people be confused that his teenage-version is his adult version (since I usually just do baby - kid - adult). Plus, I had the adult version designed and thought I might as well share it ^^
     
  • His mane-style is one of the things he doesn’t care about, and would happily just let it do whatever. However, in the future, as has he starts to sell his flowers, he’ll realise that even if he doesn’t care, his customers does care to be able to see his face. So he has to… yuck, brush it and cut it and keep it out of his eyes. What a waste of time. Still, as a teen he doesn’t have those concerns and will happily see nothing.
     
  • He has a bitter rivalry going on with his cousin Zap Apple over whether zap apples or zap apple flowers are the better crop. He maintains that while the apples bring in more bulk, the flowers offers such a unique taste experience and could be used in so many different treats, that they are worth harvesting. Don’t you see Zap? The flowers’ volume is a lot less, but we can still sell them for so much more! Ugh, so stubborn. (He says, calling the kettle black)
     
  • As an earth pony, he mainly uses his hooves for things like handling the flowers and other ingedients, so keeping them clean is a priority. While he could just wash them before starting work, that just doesn’t seem clean enough to him. So when he opens his shop, he’ll start to always wear shoes of some kind on his front hooves. Usually galoshes, he does live on a farm after all.
     
  • He’s about average height for a colt his age, but he feels really short due to being surrounded by giant Apple genes. He’d never say it, but he kinda wishes Big Mac was his bio parent instead of Cheerliee, just so that he could be a bit taller. Then he feels bad for thinking it, and goes to hug a confused Cheerliee.

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