"Oh, why must we give these lighthearted creatures such terrible, dark backstories?"
— CR, in his Let's Play of Story of the Blanks
"But it's so hard!" cried Glory. "So many have been taken from our midst! So much is different from before! Ponyland will never be the same, and this war has made us suffer for five years! Five years! Two of war, and three more for us to dwell on the pain and losses we suffered."