..? There should’ve been a link and a thumbnail in that last post. Um. Alright, one more time!
 
>>106327

Oh, neat! For anyone still following this, I just found this pic from a couple of years ago:
 

@YetAnotherBrony  
Ooh, I totally forgot about that, I was just thinking “What would Rarity expect someone to lose an eye to?”, but that just makes it even better!
 
I’m so glad I could help, and I want to read this thing if/when you write it.

@Scrounge  

 
Ooh, I like that. Would explain how/why Derpy appears to be one of the many “socialites” that appear during Rarity’s “The Pony Everypony Should Know”.

Oh, and OP? Mind. Blown.

@Beau Skunky  
Wouldn’t her skull get in the way of you seeing her brain?
 
 
@YetAnotherBrony  
Applejack tells a story of a terrible, terrible accident, while Rarity spins a sordid tale of fame, betrayal, and a life of glamour cut short by a jealous rival who’d do anything to win.

@BarryFromMars
 
Well, YetAnotherBrony reminded me too along with this whole image and comments section eventually doing it…
 
Have I been lost to nothing lately…?

@Beau Skunky
 
You reminded me of a movie I haven’t seen for a long time. I think it was the third in a series. In short, there was a scene where a little girl met a man with an eyepatch on a train. Later on the man scared some bullies away from her by showing his eye socket.

@YetAnotherBrony  
That video reminds me of that guy with a removal fake nose, I saw before. He had a tumor removed from his nasal canal, and lost his nose as a result, but his fake one works surprisingly well.

@Beau Skunky  

 
Why do you think everypony stared? You can’t see her brain, but it was sort of like having a dark red hole in her face, like this WARNING: Slightly Graphic

@YetAnotherBrony  
Y’know, I kinda like that headcanon & story.  
Though, seeing Derpy’s empty eye-socket sounds a bit gross. (Especially, considering how huge their eyeballs are. You could probably see her BRAIN!… OK, I’ll stop being weird.)

I’ve had this headcanon from the beginning! I’ve even written a story where Derpy loses her glass eye (she pulled a very late shift at the post office and may have crashed into a tree due to exhaustion) and is forced to comb her mane over the socket so ponies don’t stare. Fortunately, it’s found the next morning…by Angel, who promptly returns it to Fluttershy…just as Derpy happens to drop by and visit. She puts two and two together and is about to ask, but Derpy tells her anyway. Element of Kindness, she’s not going to laugh or do anything mean like that, right?
 
Suddenly, Rainbow Dash bursts into the cottage, urging them to come quick, Pinkie’s in the hospital! They fly over there to see her in bed, hindleg in a cast, surrounded by the rest of the Mane 6. Seems that the twins somehow got onto a high shelf, and as Pinkie tries to rescue them, the shelf falls on her! But the twins are safe!
 
Suddenly, the room gets quiet and everypony tries not to stare at Derpy. In her haste to get to the hospital, she actually forgot to put her eye back in. And the wind from flying blew her mane back, eye-socket in clear view. She runs out of the room in tears (but not before Pinkie gives her one of the many eyepatches she stored around Ponyville “in case of eyepatch emergencies”), with Fluttershy following close behind to try and calm her down.
 
The remaining five discuss how she lost that eye, each coming up with their own theories in the form of a story.
 
Rainbow Dash thinks Derpy was formerly an adventuring archaeologist like Daring Do or Lara Crop. One adventure ended with her breaking free of her captors, but not before one got a lucky swipe of his knife, blinding Derpy on that side.
 
Pinkie tells about how her great-great-grandmother’s brother obtained infinite wisdom by hanging himself on a tree for nine days then tossing his eye into a well, and other rambling stories.
 
Twilight thinks Derpy may have suffered a disease that attacked her eyes, and about this one book on medical terms, like “enucleation” and “exenteration”. Everypony else feels vaguely ill at her descriptions.
 
I haven’t actually finished it yet, but I’d like suggestions on what Applejack’s and Rarity’s stories would be like (folk tall tale and city-noir, perhaps?).

@yoso  
Honestly, this wasn’t intended as headcanon – I think it just got marked that because I forgot to put “what if” or “maybe” in it. :/
 
Feel free to take it and run with it, though!

Just a potential addition to this headcannon. Perhaps Derpy lost her eye at a young age (perhaps from a diease) and couldn’t afford to see about a new one. So the reason the false eye is ill fitting is because it’s not properly sized (a process I can say, from personal knowledge, is not cheap, easy, or quick) for her eye socket. Just a thought.

@Beau Skunky  
I just saw her as a judge on Law & Order SVU, she doesn’t do a lot but pops up from time to time.

@FancyCat2008  
Good point.
 
@Bexar Bandito  
Dunno. Ironically, I think she did voices for the original ’80s MLP movie pilot.

that reminds me… whatever happened to sandy duncan?

Pony glass eyes must be absolutely gigantic.
 
I’m just saying, it’d be like having a bowling ball in your eyesocket.