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More of Claystone Pie! Because, spoilers; the Miracleverse has a story, and spoilers; Claystone is one of the main protagonists, or even the deuteragonist! And that means you have to get to know her a little better! And nope, you can't get out of it ;P. And, since I nicknamed her file 'Haymish and Haywire', what better name for this?
Welcome to the Miracleverse! AKA, the Disliked Ships AU, but I don't use this as a platform for hate. While the universe is slightly... twisted, they are all options that could have happened in the main TFIMverse. They're a chance to do things with the... standard ships that people have, and using them in new ways, as well as a platform for interesting characters. I want to do some different things with the designs, so I may note the standard designs I tried to avoid with each design.
While Miracle is the central character of the Miracleverse, obviously, Claystone may be my favorite personally, so far. This is Claystone Pie, only child of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich. What I did different with her design? Well, for one.... her hair isn't a poofy pinkie design clone. Too many Cheesepie foals look exactly like Pinkie besides colors and superficial differences, or at least are too rooted in the poofball side that ends up making them look like pinkie recolors. I gave her the body model of Cheese, including angles, and instead of using pink and brown and yellow candy colors, I used Pinkie's discorded colors and Pinkie (And Cheese's) siblings in her color scheme instead of Pinkie herself. She wears glasses like her grandmother and wears the poncho her father had as a shawl instead.
Anyway, you all know that... So let's talk mental health. *puts on helmet*. Claystone is... not a stable pony. She inherited the propensity for mental instability from her aunt Marine Sandwich, convicted criminal and currently incarcerated in an asylum for attempting to freeze over a hundred ponies with the intention to use them as ingredients for her food, also currently being interrogated as to whether or not any of her previous dishes were made successfully in a similar manner.... uh..yeah, there's a reason Cheese Sandwich ran away from home.
But no, Claystone's no cannibal (though Marine Sandwich, the jury is quite literally out on whether or not she is), but still was at risk for developing a similar mental illness. This, combined with her mother's own slight (far less severe) instability and anxiety issues, just ended up... not being the best for Claystone here. I don't want to specify any particular mental illness for fear of misrepresenting it, but I do have the specifics of whatever she has down in my head:
  • Claystone hears voices in her head that manifest as auditory hallucinations.
  • She has extreme difficulty differentiating these voices from reality, and they often sound like ponies she knows.
  • She has extreme anxiety about what others think about her and assumes that they think the worst of her.
  • She is extremely emotionally unstable and has trouble controlling her temper, switching moods at the worst of times.
  • She can get violent due to both her emotional instability and the nature of her auditory hallucinations, lashing out at ponies for things they 'said' to her.
  • She obsesses herself with Haymish teachings to the point of qualifying for scrupulosity in an attempt to drown out these issues. It's not working.

So yeah, um... she's got issues. And worse, since she has focused herself so heavily on Haymish texts that she refuses to accept medication or seek out medication, believing (or at least convincing herself) thatall can be healed if she simply has faith and practices her beliefs to the letter. So.... she is quite... unstable.
The first picture is sort of a visual depiction of the voices she hears in her head and what they say; the colors and texts all match up to ponies in her life. From right to left, the faces/voices are; Cheese Sandwich, Pastel Parabola (One of the few ponies who she is friends with and who considers her a friend back) herself/the main voice of loathing, Pinkie Pie, and Maud.
"A disappointment"
"I will never be your friend... Never was."
"You hurt me, why would I love you???"
"Why??"
"Can't you hear them? They all hate you, and you know it. Of course they do, YOU DESERVE IT." 
It's not a happy place when she can't block them out.
The second is simply her when she was younger, and she had less control; having yet to discover her talent or meet her grandparents, she didn't have the (admittedly an emotional crutch that isn't healthy but keeps her mildly more stable) Haymish studies to keep her mind busy.
The third is Claystone just... losing it, smashing her glasses, her hairties lost.... She's screaming at something. The question being whether they're there or not.
oh god I hope she's not offensive I don't want to offend people but also exploring a character with mental instabilities is something I like to do, and I specifically don't want to characterize her with a specific disorder for that reason.

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Tricia-of-Mewni's avatar
PINKAMENA HAS INVADED HER MIND!