I colored a couple of drawings today (okay, three), and I thought I'd write some backstory for one of them. Nothin' fancy, just some thoughts.

Warning - this is not nice, and I am not a nice author. Or a nice anything else, really. :P

'Poison Whip is the first pony in a century to have obtained a cutie mark. She was not proud of what she had had to do to get it.

After the Great Dragon War, almost the whole of ponykind had been enslaved by their cruel new masters, made to work unceasingly at back-breaking labor on very little food. The weakest have long since died; however, here and there are pockets of free ponies, desperately clinging to survival by the thinnest margin.

Poison, desperate to protect her tiny tribe of free ponies, had to become an expert in her namesake; poisons, whether prepared from fruits, leaves, roots, or even animals, are her talent. She has used this talent to obtain food, to drive away dragon patrols; even to dispatch other ponies. There's a lot of blood on her hooves.

Her fondest hope, the only thing that makes her able to get up every morning and claw towards survival in a world that has become hostile to her species, is to drive the dragons back to where they came from and win freedom for her kind.'

P.S., Hi, FA! :3