More of a character bio than real fanfiction, this entails Scootaloo's family and her life post-canon. Headcanons are brimming. This is an AU of mine that I coined as "Harmonyverse." I decided that I needed to jot down all my headcanons for the real characters, and a drabble spilled out. Take note that my version of Mane Allgood is named Westerly Winds (hc taken with permission from Lopoddity on DA).

Includes Scootaloo (she/her) as a transgender lesbian with a wing disability and unspecified ADHD. Gilded Lily (comic filly, no tag found) x Scoots romance.

Warning! Child neglect/abuse, emotional manipulation, brief use of weed, non-explicit/implied sex, low self-esteem issues, brief alcohol use.

When well-respected naturalist Mane Allgood returns to Ponyville, all she wanted to do was leave her work behind, relax and enjoy some quality time with her foals before starting her new job at Twilight's Academy. Her plans are dashed however, when she hears of a new species of ape found brutalized by poachers. Infuriated by the news, Allgood finds a new purpose in helping this creature get back onto her feet, all the while writing a new paper of course.

This new creature, however, might provide Allgood with something even more substantial than just a new animal to write about and care for.

Thanks to Jinzou and TCC56 for editing this story!

Snap Shutter and Mane Allgood visit their daughter and Holiday and Lofty. When they get there, they find Scootaloo reading a Daring Do book with Rainbow Dash. They get into an argument with Rainbow over whether or not Daring Do is a good depiction of an adventurer's life. Rainbow can't stand it and blurts out Daring's real, and is actually in town for a few days, doing book signings (as A.K Yearling, of course). Mane Allgood and Snap Shutter don't believe her, and Rainbow decides to prove it.