Being a teenager, is hard.
Most ponies, can attest to this, yet imagine being the only of your kind in your society.
When attending a prestigious high school, being a dragon, or a griffin, life just gets harder.
Adolescent struggles, as Spike grows up, life becoming a dragging idealism, sadness and woe resulting from the simple fact that ponies fear dragons.
Brutus the griffin, unsure about himself, having always been surrounded by ponies.
He sees himself as more pony than griffin, yet can others do the same?
Scootaloo though, adopted, loved, and a brilliant dancer, she is happy, for the first time in her life, but now has to face the fact that sometimes, other ponies are just mean.
Sweetie Belle, a brilliant singer, struggles to overcome societies decision that she must stick with one genre, and one alone.
Applebloom a simple artist, who wants nothing better than to show ponies what she sees in life, even when they won't let her be herself.
Caduceus, just yearns to heal others, yet he himself is not allowed to exist in the way he truly wants to.