Derpy is apparently a shipper. Alright, I can live with that.

Derpy: “Hey, you two up for a threesome?”

@Background Pony #BB86  
Always thought that too

@Background Pony #BB86  
Probably not

@Background Pony #BB86  
If that’s seriously what the animator was after, awesome. I wanna believe it.

I can’t be the only seeing that Lyra and Bon Bon were going in for a kiss before Derpy intervened, right?

She’s just checking to see if her shipping is still afloat.

@HighRollerHydra  
fanon headcanon time: Braeburn is the Appaloosan counterpart to Derpy, as far as meta-dramas go. Will no longer speak because some suthnas found him ‘stereotypical’

@Vree  
Braeburn did show up in “Apple Family Reunion”, though he didn’t speak.

Well, for Lyra and Bonbon we have that one animator to thank for who kept putting them together in bg scenes. Derpy was definitely a fandom nod with her Wally thing thorough season 2.
 
So in a sense it was logical to make one of Lyra & BonBon’s bg scenes Derpy-related. L & B already had some notoriority at the time, so in a sense this was a show of popular bg ponies together. But they couldn’t possibly foresee how much more Lyra’s popularity will rise - even rivaling Derpy’s! -, or that the three will stand together in the “background six”.
 
Though when I look back, there weren’t that many other candidates, were there? Colgate & Berry, who still came retain their miny-fandoms. The Flower Trio have sort of fallen to the wayside. Little Strongheart & Braeburn were bound to be forgotten since we were not going back to Appleoosa.

D-Do I ship them!?

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I recently noticed this in Secret to My Excess, and I immediately wondered if this was done on purpose as a nod to the fandom. You know, getting the three most popular background ponies together for a moment.