Write what you know · 4:51am Nov 3rd, 2017
5120 words.
Chapter coming along nicely, but man I'm going to feel bad about Scootaloo in this story. I mean sure I feel great that I got so much done today.
It's a direction for the character that I've held for quite a while ever since the Cake Twins got introduced. As in why would a seemingly perfectly healthy looking pegasus foal have problems flying while literal babies- both an actual pegasus and a unicorn- could each find ways to fly one via magic and one using literal wings. Also since Bulk Biceps could fly in the show as well which breaks all kinds of physics with lift and weight then its not a problem with pegasi.
As in there had to be a reason why Scootaloo of all ponies has been shown to take multiple seasons to even get off the ground- a few years at least of continuous effort that is just starting to pay off.
So I read far too much into in and came up with her having a disability.
And since I have personal experience I guess sticking with what you know works here. So in a way it's using a general idea of what I know and making it work here.
Reading through the list of stories when I type in disability is almost depressing. "X severs their spine and deals with the crippling depression that being disabled causes. X gets abused cause they are disabled, X realizes they are unlike other ponies and attempts suicide." Like this is why I don't want to touch this and took me years to come to terms with this idea. I mean I hate Flower
Like I get it, its not like most of those things don't happen when someone's disabled, in my own experience a whole mix of that happened. But like here's the thing: It's not like being disabled automatically makes you worse than other people it just makes you different and having to adapt and cope with that reality is hard sometimes. What makes it harder or at least more uncomfortable when people expect you to be mentally handicapped or completely unimportant or a super easy target to ridicule being your disabled.
Like people are still people even if they have a disability. How do I tend to write Ditzy/ Derpy? A well meaning pony that is living a decently normal life, has a daughter and is pretty happy with her life but knows that ponies talk about her behind her back about her weird actions and eyes. That's how I tend to write her. You know like a normal person that has learned to cope with their problems. I mean even I tend to get angry and sad and happy over stuff, its not like I'm always in a depressive haze where I think I am better off dead cause everyone is terrible. That's reducing a person to pure emotion and exaggeration.
And its not like I've not touched on the idea before and this time orphan Scootaloo isn't going to be a thing. One horrible thing at a time and this time she does live with some ponies. I won't tell you who yet but she does have a house and doesn't live in the CMC clubhouse or under a bridge or a cardboard box.
And anyway it wasn't like I was going to avoid using Scootaloo in some way here. She's friends with the rest of the CMC and hangs out with Rainbow Dash a lot. Not using her in some way is missing something.
