Family Trees Pt. 1, formatted onscreen as Family Trees Pt.1 without the space after "Pt.", is the second episode in Chapter 5 of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark and the sixteenth episode overall.[1] It is the first half of a two-part episode.
Synopsis[]
Is Misty having bad dreams... or visions of the future? The group heads to Bridlewood to see if the Wishing Tree can offer any clues.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Misty having a dream; in it, she is a little filly chasing a bunnycorn through the Bridlewood forest. She wanders into dense fog, discovers a strange door at the base of a giant tree, and gets frightened when a large, shadowy figure appears behind her, causing her to wake up. Unsure if the dream was a memory from her past or a vision of the future, Misty goes to consult her friends.
At the Crystal Brighthouse in Maretime Bay, Misty explains her dream to her friends and reveals she has been having multiple strange dreams lately. Zipp fears that the shadowy figure in Misty's dream is Opaline and that the dream itself is a sign that she will soon launch her attack on Equestria.
Izzy believes the large tree could be Bridlewood's Wishing Tree, even though Misty has no memory of ever living in Bridlewood. The ponies decide to bring Misty to Bridlewood to see if anything there jogs her memory. Hitch decides to bring Sparky with them as he still has not recovered from Opaline stealing his dragonfire.
Upon arriving in Bridlewood, Misty immediately starts taking in the sights and delicacies, some of which seem vaguely familiar to her. Zipp, still worried about Opaline, tries to get Misty to remember more details about her dream – to an increasingly forceful degree – but Sunny tells Zipp to be patient with Misty and not push her too hard.
As the group explores more of Bridlewood, memories from when Misty was little start to flash in her head, like swinging on a swing set at the local playground. Each time Misty experiences these visions, her cutie mark glows. Meanwhile at the Crystal Tea Room, Queen Haven has tea with Alphabittle. She suggests that he expand his tea business in Zephyr Heights, so that they can spend time together more often, but Alphabittle declines, feeling a need to remain in Bridlewood "just in case".
The Mane 6 arrive at the Wishing Tree, which Misty recognizes from her dream, but there is no door. When Misty touches the tree, she has another memory of someone calling out to her in the fog and her being unable to find them. Misty realizes she did live in Bridlewood when she was little, but when she went out to collect glowpaz crystals one day, she got lost in the densely foggy forest and could not find her way back home.
When Misty touches the Wishing Tree again, it reacts to her magic, glowing brightly and sprouting numerous glowing flowers. Small, fairy-like creatures suddenly emerge from the tree; Izzy and Sunny recognize these creatures as the Breezies who have not been seen in Equestria for many years and are excited to interact with ponies again.
The Breezies invite the ponies into the "Night Market", a secret marketplace inside the Wishing Tree that they themselves manage, and encourage the ponies to peruse their items. Hitch searches the Night Market for something to help Sparky feel better. Alphabittle and Queen Haven soon find their way to the Night Market as well.
Misty experiences more flashes of memory; she recalls being in a similar marketplace surrounded by unicorns, but she cannot recall who she was with. One of the Breezies pulls Misty away from her friends and gives her a mysterious key, explaining that it will take her to wherever she most desires but that it can only be used once.
Misty believes the key goes to the door she saw in her dream. However, before she can inquire further, the Breezie who gave her the key has disappeared, and a fog starts to appear around her like the day she got separated from her home years before.
As Alphabittle and Queen Haven peruse the Breezies' wares, Haven notices Alphabittle's cutie mark glowing, which Zipp mentions has also been happening to Misty all day. She attempts to introduce the two, but Misty has mysteriously disappeared. The Mane 5 search all over the Night Market for Misty, but there is no sign of her anywhere.
Characters[]
- Sunny Starscout
- Izzy Moonbow
- Hitch Trailblazer
- Pipp Petals
- Zipp Storm
- Misty Brightdawn
- Sparky Sparkeroni
- Queen Haven
- Alphabittle Blossomforth
- Cloudpuff
- Onyx (no lines)
- Dapple (no lines)
- Upset Unicorn (no lines)
- Opaline Arcana (mentioned)
- Breezies (debut)
Trivia[]
- This is the first part episode.
- The video "Chapter 5 Main Character Clip 3" has been released on the Netflix website. Later, YouTube's Content ID system revealed the episode's title which is entirely from this episode.[1]
- Not counting specials, this is the first episode of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark where Opaline doesn't physically appear.
- This was originally supposed to be the first episode of the sixth chapter.