Graciela

* Current
* Cub

### Likes

Cooking, knitting, her son, butterflies, science, Grandpa Gruff's stories, cookies, dancing, The Blue Moon Festival, archery, bowling, baseball, sledding, brightly-coloured zinc oxide

### Dislikes

Gavin getting hurt, her dad's feelings being hurt

## Biographical information

### Distinctive features

Resembles her son, headfeathers tied up in a ponytail

### Status

Active

**Graciela** is a middle-aged female Griffon from Griffinstone and the divorced mother of Gavin.

## Personality

Graciela is always nearly portrayed as either absent-minded or a bit air-headed, not understanding the most simple, obvious things. Though she can be absent-minded, she deeply cares about her friends, family, and child, and would never let them down. She is very pretty and down-to-earth.

She is good-natured and helpful, but also insecure, panic-prone and somewhat naive, regularly earning the sarcasm of her adoptive brother Greg. She vents her insecurities and embarrassment on food, and although she always tries to follow a proper diet, she never manages to go through with it.

## Appearance

Graciela looks a lot like her son, as he has inherited his appearance mostly from her. She has tan fur, golden brown feathers, darker colored markings around her eyes and on her chest, bright yellow beak and talons, and her headfeathers are tied up in a ponytail. She also has light blue eyes.

## Background

Like most of the Griffons of the First Pack, Graciela's life before being taken under Gruff's care is unknown. It's also unclear whether she has parents and was simply left in Gruff's care or if she was an orphan that was taken in by the Griffon, though there are some hints indicating that it's the latter.

According to Gruff, before Graciela was potty-trained, she once "made a big mess," which the other children deem as a very funny story, much to Graciela's embarrassment.

As a cub, she was a "pretty early riser", getting up at 4AM. She and the other cubs would go on vacation to a caravan park at Silver Shoals.

She was on her school's swimming team. On her first tournament, Gruff stepped on the other team's feet.

In her young adulthood, she married a Griffon, with whom she had her son, Gavin. At an unknown point in time, the pair divorced, with Graciela taking custody of Gavin.

## Relationships

### **Gavin**

She loves her son and the two have a good relationship, although sometimes, Gavin is the one who ends up acting as the parent.

### **Her ex-husband**

At one point, Graciela met a Griffon with whom she fell in love with and the pair had their son, Gavin, together. But the marriage apparently doesn't work out and the two ultimately got divorced, with Graciela getting custody of Gavin. However, despite being divorced, they get along very well and seem to have an amicable relationship. Although they both felt awkward about seeing each other for the first time in a long while, they eventually decided to be best friends. They still love and care about each other as friends and they both still love and care about not just their son, but the rest of their family as well. He is still involved in his son's life when given the opportunity and also still on good terms with Graciela's side of the family.

### **Grandpa Gruff**

Grandpa Gruff is Graciela's adoptive father. She loves and respects him a lot. She trusts him to help with parenting responsibilities to look after Gavin and is grateful for his help in raising her son and generally being there for her. She also says that she likes it when Gruff does her hair (even though she can do it herself) because it makes her feel special.

### **Gisella**

Graciela was especially close to Gisella, with the two girls being teammates and working together to win several science fairs across Equestria.

## Gallery

The First PackGrandpa Gruff and Young First Pack
## Trivia

* Graciela and her partner are officially divorced. According to Graciela, they refer to their relationship as "better off as friends".
	+ The divorce happened when Gavin was two.
	+ Despite his parents' divorce, Gavin still sees his father often.
* It's implied that she has seismophobia. According to Greg, "she faints even at the sound of the word", although he could just be exaggerating.