Babs Seed

<p><strong><span style="color: #ffffff">Babs Seed</span></strong><span style="color: #ffffff"> is a female school-age </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Earth_ponies"><span style="color: #ffffff">Earth</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff"> </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Ponies"><span style="color: #ffffff">pony</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff"> and </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Apple_Bloom"><span style="color: #ffffff">Apple Bloom</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff">'s cousin from </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Manehattan"><span style="color: #ffffff">Manehattan</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff">. She is a former member of the </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Cutie_Mark_Crusaders"><span style="color: #ffffff">Cutie Mark Crusaders</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff">, having gotten a </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Cutie_marks"><span style="color: #ffffff">cutie mark</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff"> of a pair of scissors with apple-shaped handles, as revealed in </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Bloom_%26_Gloom"><span style="color: #ffffff">Bloom &amp; Gloom</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff">, and the founder of the Crusaders' Manehattan branch. She speaks with a heavy </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_English"><span style="color: #ffffff">Bronx accent</span></a><span style="color: #ffffff">.<br><br></span><strong><span>Development</span></strong></p><p>Her name is a play on words of the idiom <em>"bad seed"</em>, which denotes an individual who behaves rudely and often brings misfortune to others.</p><p>On November 27, 2012, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Cindy_Morrow">Cindy Morrow</a>, the writer of the episodes <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/One_Bad_Apple">One Bad Apple</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Apple_Family_Reunion">Apple Family Reunion</a>, was asked, "Please tell me we will see Babs seed again in a future episode/season I mean she's the 4th CMC for ponys[<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sic"><em>sic</em></a>] sake! &amp; adorable" and replied, "We will see Babs seed again in a future episode/season I mean she's the 4th CMC for ponys[<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sic"><em>sic</em></a>] sake! &amp; adorable. Good enough?"<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Babs_Seed#cite_note-3">[3]</a></p><p>On November 29, 2012, prior to a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Merchandise#Magazines">magazine</a><span>​[​specify​]​</span> listing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Aunt_and_Uncle_Orange">Aunt and Uncle Orange</a> as Babs Seed's aunt and uncle,<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Babs_Seed#cite_note-UK_magazine-2">[2]</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Cindy_Morrow">Cindy Morrow</a> was asked if Babs is Aunt and Uncle Orange's daughter and replied, "not that I know of?"<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Babs_Seed#cite_note-4">[4]</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/IDW_comics