Gilda

* Current
* Cub

### Likes

Playing pranks, sweets, hanging out with Rainbow Dash, flying tricks, baking, Grandpa Gruff's stories

### Dislikes

Losing friendships, getting repeatedly pranked, bullies, frilly dresses

## Biographical information

### Distinctive features

Long bangs, violetish markings around her eyes and on her chest

### Status

Active

**Gilda** is a young adult female Griffon from Griffinstone and Greta's best friend. She's also one of Grandpa Gruff's adoptive grandchildren. She makes a living in Griffinstone selling Griffinscones using Grandpa Gruff's recipe.

## Personality

Gilda thinks that she's cooler than everyone else and is not afraid to show it. She regards others as "lame" compared to her and can be quite vocal about it when not in the company of her friend Rainbow Dash. She seems playful and competitive around Dash but actually she's very rude, violent, bad-tempered, mean-spirited and arrogant with an inflated ego. She doesn't seem to care about others' feelings. When she's calm her voice sounds apathetic and bored and vaguely annoyed with lack of emotion. She's also a liar, hiding her true colors by forcing herself to act friendly towards Rainbow Dash. She seems to dislike ponies and considers them "lame" and annoying.

Gilda also seems to like mean pranks. Unlike Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, she does pranks on others only for her own joy, without caring about the victims. But she can't take the pranks when she is the victim. She doesn't mind stealing things without pay or destroying others objects (like Pinkie's contraption).

When Gilda was younger, she was extremely shy, insecure, and gentle-natured, but she was cruelly picked on by Pegasi bullies before befriending Rainbow Dash. It is likely that this mistreatment was a big part of what caused Gilda to develop her nasty and abrasive nature, and become resentful towards ponies as a result, as she was determined to not be an outcast anymore and stand up for herself more, but failed to realize that there's a big difference between being strong and assertive, and being an overly-aggressive bully.

However, Gilda secretly felt really bad about losing her friendship with Rainbow Dash. This leads her to change her ways, help save Rainbow's life, apologise to her and Pinkie for how she had acted in the past, and reconcile her friendship with them. In fact, it inspired Gilda to spread this message around to as many of her fellow Griffons as she could, so they'd all experience the joys of friendship.

## Relationships

### **Rainbow Dash**

Rainbow Dash and Gilda have been best friends since they met at Junior Speedsters Flight Camp in Cloudsdale when they were little. They wrote to each other for a while but then slowly grew apart. Years later when Gilda visited Ponyville, Rainbow Dash's hometown, after a mess in a party Pinkie Pie hosted in Gilda's honour where the Griffon got repeatedly pranked, Gilda lashed out and called everyone "dweebs" and Pinkie Pie "queen lame-o", only to find out that Rainbow was the one who pulled the pranks at the party for nopony in particular. Their relationship became very strained and the two held grudges after that, but made amends when Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash visited Griffinstone after many circumstances.

### **Grandpa Gruff**

Grandpa Gruff is Gilda's adoptive grandfather and one of her childhood caretakers, along with many other Griffons. Gilda is often annoyed by the rules and chores imposed by her guardian, and tries to avoid them whenever possible. Despite that, Gilda is very attached to her caretaker.

### **Gabby**

Gilda thinks of Gabby as a feather brained energy ball of a little sister. She often gets annoyed by Gabby's high energy but overall enjoys spending time together. The two have a generally good and friendly relationship.

## Gallery

Gilda giving Greta a gift (a box full of Griffinscones)Grandpa Gruff ushering Gilda and Greta out of the house, while their parents are fightingGrandpa Gruff's grandchildren

## Trivia

* According to Grandpa Gruff, Gilda used to have a "swearing problem" when she was younger that he put a stop to once Gallus and Gabby started picking it up.