Meadow Snow loves her adopted unicorn mother, but adopted love is not real love, hell, why does a unicorn even take in a pegasus when you could have a little unicorn filly that you could actually teach something. But, eh, love is love, no matter what shape or form it takes. Both of her parents were struck by lightning as they were having a late night fly one fall evening when she was only five months old, killing them both. When the war started, Meadow's "mom" is killed by a sudden zebra assault, throwing Meadow into such a great grief, she decides to join Princess Cadence's Celestia's army to get some satisfaction from the very ones whom had killed her.