Minty’s backstory
Minty is the weird unicorn of the family, actually, the only unicorn of the family. She’s quite introvert, but very friendly when you get to know her. She’s bookish, just like Twilight, in contrast with her sister, who is a lot more athletic like Rainbow Dash. The two are very friendly, but also very competitive. Minty used her magic to help Snow, who has difficulty holding things as she misses a part of her front right leg, and Snow helped Minty with her wings to travel around Vanhoover as the city is just too big for a unicorn who can only walk.
Snow Kicker (Art by Wubcake)
Minty’s birthdate is unknown, the earliest records on her comes from the orphanage where she was adopted by a pegasus family along Snow Kicker, a pegasus with a magenta and purple mane, a white coat and blue eyes, as well as a missing front right hoof which seemed to be a birth defect. She was raised in Vanhoover in a family of pegasus, and while being the only unicorn of the entire family, her parents made sure to love her as much as Snow. The two sisters shared a bunk bed with a broken ladder in a small house in the city, Minty took the bottom bed, and Snow took the top one. She was named Minty because of her uncommon mane color, as her adoptive parents were pegasi they didn’t really know what name would be appropriate for a unicorn, so they decided to give her a name that they knew could fit with her.
Filly Minty, posing in front of the Canterlot skyline.
She grew up wondering who were her parents, and started believing she could actually be Celestia’s daughter due to how both had a white coat and green in their manes, thus giving the spark to try to learn magic to become a powerful unicorn and to impress her. However, as she wasn’t very powerful, she decided to keep learning about magic instead. Seeing her always in her books encouraged her parents, who couldn’t help her by themselves as they were not unicorns to make her apply to Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns.
As she entered the school, she was fascinated by what she could learn, and how impressive Canterlot was. Her first year was her best, she was inspired and had great grades, but the second one, the one where they finally asked her to cast spells was harsh, she just wasn’t strong enough to cast any spell, and she got depressed. Her grades fell, and her teachers got worried about her. One day, one of her teachers finally decided to ask her what was going on, and she revealed in tears she started believing she was rejected because her horn was broken. The teacher told her that she didn’t need to be a great conjurer to be a great magician, and that she should prove her talent with magic by writing spells, rather than casting them.
That night she opened her books, she had no clue what kind of spells she could write, and starting writing rough drafts of spells that didn’t do much, but that were quite complex. She was so focussed on them she fell asleep on her books, and woke up the next morning with a strange feeling, something she never had before. She looked at her flank, and found the square root of minus one as her cutie mark, and looked at her writings, where she found the same sign as the solution to one of her calculations. She realized her talent was to write and imagine spells, she didn’t really know for what yet, but she knew it was for the progress of her society.
In the present days she lives in Canterlot in a small apartment, she works as a librarian in the great Canterlot magical archives, and she continues her magical studies. She lives mostly at night, and started getting a passion for the starry nights as she continues to use the telescope she was given by a close friend who knew she would love it. She’s single, and while she doesn’t think that much of a special somepony, she wishes she could find a mare or a stallion who would like to stare at the sky with her.