Cloudy Quartz

**Cloudy Quartz** is a secondary character in The Muffins Saga. She is the mother of Minkie, Inkie, Blinkie and Pinkie Pie and lives on a rock farm with her husband Igneous Rock.

## Appearance

Cloudy Quartz is a female earth pony with a pale coat, muted turquoise hair, and light blue eyes. Her hair is tied up in a neat bun, and she wears beaded glasses and a crosshatched white-black collar adorned with a golden amulet. Her tail is average-length and her cutie mark is three greyish rocks.

## Personality

Cloudy is strictly religious and many of her actions are fueled by her spirituality. She has gone to cruel extremes as a result, such as how she treated her firstborn child Minkie. She believed that said child was some kind of demon or curse due to her rough pregnancy and how Minkie behaved as a filly, therefore she treated her cruelly and locked her away, barely keeping her alive. Her spirituality lead her to abandon and hate her own child.

Due to her spirituality, she also deemed Pinkie's behavior as degenerate, believing food is only for sustenance and not for pleasure, such as when she made sweet treats and threw parties. She also looks down on her mother for having laid back views.

## Biography

### Backstory

Cloudy Quartz was one of three children born to Rosie Quartz and Mudstone and grew up in a very religious community that condemned anything fun. Thus, her parents eventually had a divorce due to Rosie's obnoxious and carefree attitude, and Mudstone got full custody of the kids. Cloudy Quartz was raised with her siblings on her father's rock farm, where they learned to behave as was expected in the community. Rosie still had the right to see her children on the weekends, but Cloudy grew to dislike her antics, and instead looked up to her uptight father.

A few years after Cloudy had gotten married to Igneous Rock and they had moved to their own rock farm, Mudstone died of a stress-induced aneurysm. Rosie also started to visit her children and their families from time to time, which Cloudy didn't like but also didn't object to.

### Main story

At some point, Cloudy became pregnant and gave birth to her first daughter Obsidian 'Minkie' Pie. Cloudy recalls constantly vomiting and feeling weak during the pregnancy and even describes Minkie's birth as the most horrible agony in her life - the total opposite of her later pregnancy with Inkie. Minkie also started exhibiting strange behavior from an early age. Minkie lacked any filter, and when she got mad at her parents, she would say she wished they would die. Minkie would mutilate trees with sharp rocks and, on one occasion, even herself. Cloudy and Igneous began to fear and hate their own daughter, wishing to get rid of her. Cloudy especially started believing Minkie was sent by the devil and was evil. The parents started acting distant towards her, caring for, and communicating with her less.

When Inkie was born, the parents became terrified of the idea of Minkie injuring the newborn, so when she caught the 8-year-old foal playing with her sister, it was the final straw. The parents wanted to get rid of Minkie, but they didn't want to go to hell for killing their daughter, so they drugged Minkie during dinner and locked her away in the family's cellar, where she couldn't hurt anypony and would die on her terms. Cloudy was the only one who visited the cellar every few days or once a week to supply Minkie with little food and to empty her bathroom bucket. The routine was kept for the next 20 years. Inkie was too young to remember Minkie, and her disappearance was explained by her running away, though nopony from the town seemed to care. However, when Rosie, who had seen Cloudy when she was pregnant with Minkie, questioned her daughter on her next visit, Cloudy stated she had a miscarriage and didn't want the topic to ever be discussed near her new foal.

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