What makes a mare?

She couldn't even begin to comprehend the new information she had just learned. At first she had though it was some twisted prank, only to realize from staring into the worn and wearied eyes of her parents, that was indeed true. She grit her teeth in anger and banged her hoof on the table before her, causing the half empty cups of tea to leap in the air a few inches before clattering against the worn oak table. "Why?" was all she could say, turning to the mare, her mother. Aurora Skies bit her lip to keep her tears at bay. "We never meant to hurt you" she said, her voice hoarse. Rainbow Dash snarled and slammed the table again, this time causing her cup to fall over. The usual confident Aurora Skies trembled and cowered as she cleaned up the spilt tea. The male in the trio, Strong Back, and father to the Element of Loyalty, sent his daughter a glare. "We understand your angry, but you don't need to make a mess" he said in a stern voice. Rainbow Dash felt tears well up in her eyes which was a sight for her parents to see. Even during infancy and her childhood their daughter rarely cried, preferring to use her ear shattering screams to get attention. "I just want to know why" she said hugging her self.

Strong Back sighed and got up from the table before walking over to his daughter and sitting next to her. "Most parents usually have a name decided for their child before they are born, but with your mother and I having such conflicting personalities, we couldn't agree on a name. We tried desperately to pick out a name for you, but the only thing we could agree on was your middle name, Rainbow Dash" the stallion stopped and sighed while he ran a hoof through his rainbow colored mane. "When the time came to take you home from the, we still didn't have a name so the nurses sent us with some forms to fill out when we finally agreed on a name" Rainbow Dash frowned. "I didn't know you could leave before getting me you know registered or something" Aurora Skies interjected. "Oh you can, Equestria law dictates that all active parents have up to six weeks to decide on a name." Strongback nodded and continued on. "So anyway, after your first week at home, we barely had time to think and take care of your selves, so one night after putting you down for bed we decided to unwind" Rainbow felt her anger deepen. "You were drunk during this? she half asked, half snarled" Aurora gave her daughter a sad smile. "We would have never of done what we had if we were sober".

The cyan Pegasus ruffled her feathers before nodding to continue "So after a bottle of wine and a few or more shots of tequila, your mother and I began to discuss baby names for you, and being drunk, our....common sense and decency went out the window. We began joking around  about the strangest and funniest names we could give you, when after poking fun and joking about your father being... you know, because of his mane, we came up with your name. We spent a good half hour laughing,   before your father suggested we go a head and fill out the forms. And, again, being drunk, I agreed. So we filled them out, signed it then left the house in the dead of night to shoved them in the mail box" Aurora reached for her daughters hoof across the table, gripping it between her own. "We forgot about submitting the forms until a few weeks later when your birth certificate arrived in the mail. We wanted to change your name, but we were poor at the time and name change fees were steep for us. So we decided to call you by your middle name" Rainbow Dash let out a choked sob and let her tears spill from her eyes.

"Do you realize what will happen if any one learns my real name" she whispered. Stongback hugged his daughter. " We know and we are sorry" Aurora got up and joined the hug, where they stayed for a good ten minutes before Rainbow Dash broke away, "I-I gotta go" As she got up to leave she heard a rustle of paler, turning around she saw her mother had a paper between her hooves. "Take it. That's why you came didn't you?" You came to get your birth certificate so you could apply to the Wonderbolt Academy" The young Pegasus stared at it for a moment before accepting the paper. She didn't look back as she ran from her parents cloud house and from Cloudsdale. When she got home, she collapsed on her bed and cried her self to sleep.

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She knew her friends would laugh or think she was pulling a prank, but she needed to tell them. They were her friends, and she needed some pony to lean on. Sighing, she took in the faces of the six faces before her. ''So, you had big news?" spoke up the baby Dragon. Rainbow Dash sighed again, which worried her friends, and reached into her saddle bag and pulling out her birth certificate and placing it on the table before her friends. "My name isn't really Rainbow Dash" she said looking away, not seeing the looks of confusion, horror and laughter appear on the faces of the group. AppkeJack bit her lip in an attempt to quel her laughter. "Let me get this straight Sugarcube, your name is Lesbian Carriagewasher?" All the way in Canterlot, in a hidden room buried deep in the royal castle, Celestia, watching her most trustful student and friends from her room of endless stars and projected monitors, broke down laughing. Hours later, the royal guard would find her there, still laughing.