Derpy Hooves grew up believing that her parents were dead. She'd been in the Equestrian Orphanage for the entirety of her fillyhood. She'd grown up being afraid, tired, and bullied. Nopony liked her, and she was soon cast into a life of misery. The cloud of doom that followed her scared away all other ponies. She brought chaos and disaster with her clumsiness. Being avoided was enough to break a pony.

When she got her first job, moved in with her roommate Carrot Top, and met her highschool sweetheart, she got a certain call. It turned her life around, and she was ready to start again. Her parents were alive.