#igneous rock

Meet the Pie Family!

This family is large but I had a blast working on the redesigns! I gave Limestone and Marble a patterned coat inspired by the rocks they are named after, which was a ton of fun to work on. I kept Maud pretty simple. I didn't want to give her anything flashy. I took away her dress but kept the collar because... I don't want to figure out how dresses are supposed to work on horses. I also made her super tall. Next, I re-did my design of Pinkie and leaned more towards a diner's waitress inspo. I did think about drawing her with her hair straight for comparison, but I never really got around to it. I did Igneous and Cloudy last, because I wanted them to look as much like their kids as possible. I don't know how easy it is to tell, but Igneous's hair is an off-pink-grey color and, despite how big he is, he and Pinkie share the same dwarfism gene.

Miss Cloudy Quartz and igneous rock pie

Limestone pie and maud pie

The twins "Pinkie" morganite pie and marble pie

My personal headcanon is. "Miss Cloudy Quartz" is the one who taught Rarity all kinds of things about sewing hehe

And the next-generation pie's kids!!

Lil'cheese/creamy cheese neapolitan and sphen citrus pie (sphene)

I can explain. Metamorphic rocks are formed when a protolith (base rock which is either sedimentary or igneous) is subjected to immense pressure and/or heat. The g1 cartoon had a depiction of liquid energon being formed by compressing different forms of energy. (Weird cartoon logic where you can do that to oil and electricity if it's in a special box). Other cartoons show a more solid crystal like energon instead. I believe shifting tectonic plates (in a universe with transformers) can cause lingering energy in a planetary body to crystallize. I headcanon it's more potent than an artificially created liquid energon once it's refined because of the energy actually used. Probably the reason they do that in Beast Wars, the Unicron Trilogy, Aligned etc.

I think there's an argument for igneous energon but I think that would go into Primus's blood territory and would be hard to explain off of Cybertron.

Animated's trees are just... very different. But the crystals were meant to show up so whatever.