Trixie Lulamoon and the Alicorn Amethyst

Trixie's parents had died in a cart crash. It was one of the very few questions her aunt Emerald Gleam had answered for her. According to her, the 3 ponies had been travelling home one night, her father pulling the cart after having a few too many kegs of cider. As he pulled them down the road, he wasn't looking where he was going and tripped.

He crashed straight into a post and her parents were killed instantly. She survived with only a star shaped scar just under her horn. Once they had been found, officials brought Trixie to the house of her closest living relatives, who had abused her ever since.

There were many holes in this story that Trixie couldn't quite fill in, but whenever she asked, her aunt and uncle had stubbornly refused to reply.