Gruff Family

The **Gruff family**, are Grandpa Gruff's family and the titular branch of the family tree in Bees Meliss' *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* fan project of the same name. The family includes the first pack of Griffons he looked after and their descendants, that he also takes care of. The members of this family are not biologically related with each other, but connect due the elder being their custodial grandfather.

### Parents

Main article: Duchess Glynis
    Gruff's adoptive mother is **Duchess Glynis**, the former queen of Griffinstone.

### Siblings

Main article: King Guto
[[File:|thumb|left|]] Gruff's adoptive immediate younger brother is **King Guto**.

Main article: Grandma Gwyneth
    Gruff's second adoptive younger sibling and only sister. At first, Gruff (and to a mild extent Guto) made fun of Gwyneth for not being able to train with them. However, despite this, he and Guto do genuinely care about her, soon showing respect for their younger sister after she tries to take down a pair of moray eels (an event that nearly kills her) and compliment her for it. Subsequently, Gruff and Guto have had a much better relationship with Gwyneth, offering her to train with them, as "it's more fun competing with someone", and generally spending more time together, with the boys becoming very protective of her and Gwyneth being eager to learn from them.

### Children

The **First Pack**, often referred to as **Grandpa Gruff's (older) wards**, are the first group of Griffons to be taken under Grandpa Gruff's custody, aka the parents of his grandchildren. Grandpa Gruff doesn't seem to have processed that they have grown since he first started looking after them, threatening them with time-outs and allowance cuts, and often referring to them as "kids" and "children," despite all of them being adults. Some of them were trusted to him by their own parents (like Gilda's father) while some of them were found around town by him (like Gallus' parents). Some of them were tragically taken during "the accident".

The pack consisted of nearly every young Griffon of that generation, including amongst multiple unnamed Griffons, Grenier (Gustave's father), Gable (Garner's father), Gemul (Gunter's father), Graciela (Gavin's mother), Gemino (Griselda's father), Georg (Greedy/Gimme Moore's father), Gloriane and Gorge (Gerard's parents), Gabriel and Gisella (Gallus' parents), Greg and Gerson (Gabby's adoptive uncles), and Gunnar (Gilda's father).

### Grandchildren

The **Second Pack**, referred to as simply **Grandpa Gruff's grandchildren**, are the descendants of the aforementioned pack. Grandpa Gruff is many things to them; a wise teacher, defensive parent, strict but loving grandfather, an authority figure, quirky master and philosopher. He treats his protégés in a very authoritative way, often snapping at them to listen to him and his co-parenting companion (if there is) and constantly giving them tips. Gruff doesn't seem to have processed that his grandchildren have grown since he first started looking after them, threatening them with time-outs and allowance cuts. Losing the children and love of his life during Arimaspi's attack, his home, and everything he knew and loved traumatized Grandpa Gruff so much that he swore it would never happen again, determined to preserve it. Because of it, he became overly protective of his grandchildren, rarely ever letting any of them go anywhere outside of Griffinstone.