"Happy birthday." Cadence and Luna told Sunny a year later, giving another birthday cake. As well as a present of two life size realistic but plushy stuffed toys of Cadence and Luna in the Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm disguises.
"Thanks." Twilight said, being old enough for a pony to talk, normally only small words, but Twilight was a lot smarter then most fillies her age, even before being reborn.
While Twilight enjoyed the cake from her new spot under the Pipp dolls fluffy wings(which were fluffy enough to be very comfy) with just her head sticking out Luna and Cadence thought about the previous year.
It had been an interesting year for sure. Sunny had finally began talking and they discovered that She remembers her previous life as Twilight. Worse, they discovered when Pipp brought a newspaper home in a panic. In the newspaper they discovered that they were finally noticed to have disappeared. In the article it talked about the surge, and listed the damage including mentioning hatching and growing a baby dragon, much to their shock that Twilight had that power during the surge, even before she was an alicorn, and permanently destroying personal items of Princess Celestia that were in the area, though they did not say what the personal items were. Unfortunately the repairs had finally been finished, and they discovered that both Princess Cadence, and the young filly, Twilight Sparkle she was babysitting were missing, with Celstia now being calm enough to hold daycourt again, and have Twilight's parents inform Celestia, when before she was so busy searching for the culprit of the surge that she could not be informed, and now that she has, people believe that whoever caused the surge kidnapped them, and since Cadence was a princess that was an automatic prison sentence. Especially since Princess Celestia asked for anypony that had information to come forward so that the one responsible could be sent to Tartarus.
Worse Twilight saw the picture of her parents and recognized them, causing Cadence and Luna to find out that at night Sunny dreams of living Twilight's life, and they had to tell her what happened. Unfortunately that also spelled the doom of Twilight, Cadence, and Luna. Twilight was too scared of going to Tartarus, and thus declared that she is Sunny now and forever. Cadence too took the name Pipp permanently, since she was partly to fault for taking her there in the first place and she didn't want to go to Tartarus either. Luna became Zipp permanently in both camaraderie, and due to seeing it a good way to move on from her past.
Of course it wasn't all bad. The Equestrian Royal Guard would be going on random inspections through the towns(but not the Everfree forest, meaning they were safe) to try to catch the one responsible, and in doing so caught the cult who, both knowing how much trouble they were in, and being fanatics cast a mind wipe spell on themselves to prevent any of their information from helping catch any who escape, there weren't any, but it did help hide what happened to Sunny and Love Beat in the village. Sunny also discovered that if she focused she could make her wings and Horn disappear, making her appear to be an ordinary earth pony, unfortunately she is too young to hold the disguise, and thus would just reveal herself at this point. Hopefully soon she would be able to hold the disguise so she could play with other ponies safely.
For now though Pipp, and Zipp were anxiously waiting the next year, the Terrible Two's, and while Sunny has the memories of her past life as Twilight, it is only the memories of that age in the life, and thus she still has the mind of someone just entering those Terrible Twos.
Well, answering the first question, at the time of Twilight and Cadence's accident, she was what, 6 maybe? And when Celestia sent her to Ponyville, she had how much? 16 ? 18? plus? So let's say between 10 and 12, which is where I put the crusaders.
Answering your second question, I really don't like her "official" parents, I would have preferred her to be an orphan and be adopted. I think she has an aunt, I've read it in some stories, I don't know if she's official but I like her. I say both and that she survived the accident with damage to her wings that affects their growth, at the time of the accident she would end up in another place, something like she would end up in a lost cloud, until they found her very far from the accident , so her aunt (if you decide to put her) would think that she also died and would not bother looking for her, so Scootaloo ends up in the orphanage, then she meets Cadence or Luna or Twilight and over time she would become part of the family, having a sister and two moms who love her very much.
Answering the third one, well little kids are VERY curious, the question is if Twilight with her intelligence could resist that curiosity, I don't know, let's say explore the castle or outside the castle or the forest. Also, have you ever brought a pet home without your parents' permission? I've done it a few times, now imagine a super alicorn filly wanting to keep a chimera or timber wolf pup (which is smart enough to know that the little girl could turn it to ashes, so it's docile).
Now, Twilight is still the element of magic? Who will Celestia send to Ponyville so her plans don't fall apart? No doubt this chaos will be enjoying a certain lord of chaos.
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I love that you lean on that side, because that way I think that Cadence will not suffer from losing her love for old age.
1) I belive officialy the CMC are somewhere in the 5-7 years range at the start of the series, pick an age ad twenty then give or take up too tre years and you have the ages for Zipp and Pipp.
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2) Scoots offialy lives whit her two aunts in Ponyville as her parents travel allot as arcolagists or antroplegists (dont know witch). In sesson 7 their is an episode were they come home to Equestria whit plans to sattel down and ask Scoots too move in whit them making her have to chose between her parents and her friends as it would not be in Ponyville. We only see Scootaloos home once when CMC is preping for the Equestria games.
becous we saw so little os Scootaloos home is what lead too all the orphan/foster child theoris.
I say whit how little Scoots parents are in the series and in her life, I say foster care just dont make it bad becous bad that is just an insult to all the workers and foster parents that do their best to give those children a proper home. And if you feel like it include her parents, I'd say lovin but disconected do to how distant thier work is.
3) As they live out in the forest varius dengerus pets is a given, but this is Twilight we are talking about, even if she goes by Sunny now, she will moslikely try to get in to ponyville librery becous "BOOKS".
question 1, I think that around 8 to 9 years old might be a good start for that
question 2, I got no opinion on that
question 3, same as last one
else a Fine up date
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Thanks, that helps. Both the age and what happens to Scootaloo. The Timberwolf pup is a good idea too.
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Dont forget the elements were completely destroyed by crying filly alicorn Sunny during the first year, so no elements. Course Celestia doesn't know that, but considering the requirements she would be looking for, she would decide to use a different plan, and that the elements would not work this time.
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Thanks for the Books idea. That gives me an idea.