Defending Celestia Part 3

ACCUSATION: That Celestia has allowed a little Pegasus Filly with a crippling disability to remain in that state without using her powers to heal her. (AKA, why has Celestia not healed Scootaloo?)

RESPONSE: Manifold... in 3 basic parts. "healing", "powers", "disability"

1-As has been shown, in "leap of faith", there are a LOT of ponies that have ailments and desire "quick fixes" to be healed. This gives us some background on the medical situation in Equestria. That, or it tells us that most ponies are too impatient to let proper or even magical medicine take it's course. It is also indicative that ponies do NOT line up to Zecora's hut for healing cures. To top the evidence off though, we have "Read it and Weep" where RD managed, according to the X-rays, to suffer a broken bone. Based on the X-ray the doctor was looking over, it appears to be a completely clean break, as in broken-in-half! How long does she have to wait in the hospital for this snapped-in-half bone to heal?

A few days.

My mother, broke her fibula in two places, broke and dislocated a heel-bone and had her entire summer ruined!

That tears it, the only reason why those ponies were lining up to be healed wasn't because they "needed" it, it was because they were too impatient to let magical/natural healing occur.

1-RESULTS: regular hospital healing is MUCH better in Equestria than it is here on Earth.

2-Celestia has never shown nor indicated that she has any form of healing magic of any kind whatsoever. Furthermore, it is indicated in the show that the powers and/or magic of a pony are typically limited to or heavily focused upon their cutie-mark and special talent. Twilight is something of a magical savant, a fact that we tend to overlook... a lot. If anything we should be asking why TWILIGHT isn't healing Scootaloo.

The closest we have seen to healing-magic was either inorganic restorations (See also... EOH VS Chaos-Corrupted-Ponyville, Twilight VS Rarity's... "alterations" to Ponyville, etc.) or magical potions which heal a specific thing.

We also know that the princesses, all four of them, did NOT use their magic to lift a freezing cloud of ice falling on the Equestria games. True, this could be in part to do with the fact that the pegasi were so quick to respond, delaying any necessity for reaction and then Spike was also quick to respond when it became apparent that the pegasi weren't enough. We must also consider that Twilight, though proficient in magic, has trouble doing anything that she isn't practiced in or doesn't have enough power to do. Even Twilight needs to practice.

Let me repeat that, the one unicorn that is THE most proficient with magic, NEEDS to practice regularly in order to do ANY of the many things that she can do with it.

Now, let's look at Celestia, who raises the sun, and also can raise the moon. Other than maybe being able to increase someone's vitamin-D count (look it up) or reducing someone's sunburn, I'm not really seeing anything that screams "medical" with a big sun-tattoo on her flank. The only way she could have medical powers at all would be by gross extension of "the sun" in some way. But if so, then certainly Princess Luna would have something like, say... death powers. If Luna had death-powers, certainly NMM would have them, during which case she would have never simply "defeated" Celestia, but instead would have killed her outright, as well as several other of Equestria's foes. Instead she didn't.

2-RESULTS: Celestia, in all likelihood, doesn't even HAVE any healing powers!

3- (ooooh, I've been saving this one).
As indicated in "it ain't easy being breezy" the pegasi have various forms of flight, being able to hover stationary in the air but move the wind around them. They still need to flap their wings, but cup them and flap them differently than normal. This being a phenomenon happening later in the seasons than previous episodes, it cannot be chalked up to an animation error (seriously, look at some of the S1 animation errors with the wing-flapping, it's hilarious, I recommend "everything wrong with") so it must be intentional. This indicates that the way in which a pegasus flaps their wings does affect the wind. Of note also is that the wind they use blows towards their ventral side (from their back towards their hooves).

When Scootaloo rides her scooter, she does so on two's and thus we see 3 things happening. 1, we see her on the scooter; 2, we see the land and area around Scootaloo & scooter as though moving from ventral to dorsal (hooves side to her back side (note, NOT "back side" as in butt, but back side as in... well, her back!)); 3, we see the AIR moving from her ventral to her dorsal.

This is of note because, if we take aerodynamics into account, that is exactly the reverse that she'd need to fly!

In order to fly, using aerodynamics, they would need to push off the air, pushing the air down while their body moves up, the air is moving to the ventral while the body is moving to the dorsal. But with Scootaloo, she's moving from dorsal to the ventral, the REVERSE of what she'd need to be moving in in order to fly.

As has been demonstrated by Bulk-Biceps, smaller wings indicate a physical inability to fly properly, so size can matter.

In normal physical labor and reactions, as you use a muscle, you tend to improve the strength of that muscle. Thus, if Scootaloo is using her scooter, then she's increasing the DtoV muscles, while not nearly increasing the VtoD muscles. And it's the VtoD muscles she'd need to fly, or at least, to fly upright.

But what about the other ponies making fun of her, why does Pound-cake manage to fly when only a month old?

I believe (and I'll cover this later) that Pound-Cake and Pumpkin-Cake are both... exceptions in this case, this is given further evidence by the fact that Twilight Sparkle, well over a year old, almost FAILED at the magical entrance exam by nearly failing to even open up a dragon's egg, while Pumpkin-Cake was able to PHASE THROUGH MATTER at will!

I remind everypony that PHASING THROUGH MATTER is something that ALICORN TWILIGHT SPARKLE has yet to do, insert herself into a book, yes; phase through matter? NOPE! Consider also that Sweetie-Belle appears older or around the same age as Entrance-Exam-Twilight, and yet barely has any magic at all, yet nopony is calling her out on this.

As evidenced by both Twilight Sparkle's and Sweetie-Belle's development, Scootaloo's development is happening at an acceptable rate, regardless of what DT says.

Now, the piece-de-resistance. Scootaloo is already an amazingly strong flier.

Oh, she can't get into the air, but she can take her scooter across country, over multiple terrain types, carrying herself, her scooter, some rope, and two other fillies, and all this at speeds enough to catch up with a train that started MILES ahead of them. Now, compare this to Rainbow Dash who, as an adult mare, cannot stop a carriage with either her hooves or her wings when it is merely going DOWNHILL!

Scootaloo, as a filly, is demonstrating power in her little wings that, while not quite yet up to par, is definitely comparable, to the wing-strength of RAINBOW DASH!

3-RESULTS: Scootaloo isn't even disabled!

CONCLUSION: This entire argument is a waste of time because Scootaloo isn't even disabled in the traditional sense, rather she's suffering from the backlash of her preferred scooter-bound lifestyle. With proper training (use of air-breaks) and time to grow, her wings and wing-muscles should grow and strengthen properly enough to get her off the ground. And when she does, RD had better hang on to every speed, endurance, and strength record she's ever won for dear life, because they are getting beaten!