Random-Rambling
Speaking of Fluttershy, I wrote this whole big backstory about how she comes from a long line of ace-flyers (her great-grandfather on her mother’s side was one of the original Wonderbolts, you know) and how Fluttershy’s mother’s family are racist and nearly disowned her mother for marrying an earth pony. Fortunately, Fluttershy was born a pegasus and all was well…until Fluttershy’s father got eaten by a dragon, causing Fluttershy’s mother to just snap and force Fluttershy into a brutal flying regimen partially because of the mocking laughter of her mother’s family and partially because of a misguided attempt to save Fluttershy from her father’s fate.
This explains why Fluttershy, despite being a self-described bad flyer, can fly just as fast as Rainbow Dash, but only in emergencies. She’s got a major mental block due to her abusive childhood, but if she could get past that block, she could very well be Wonderbolts material.
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Are we doing depressing-as-balls headcanons now? Ok, I can roll with that.Rainbow Dash and Trixie both are obsessed with attention and proving how awesome they are, because the only time their parents paid any attention to them was hurl emotional abuse and ridicule.Similarly Fluttershy developed a shy, meek personality because being as quiet and unobtrusive as possible was the only way to avoid her father’s drunken wrath.
Speaking of Fluttershy, I wrote this whole big backstory about how she comes from a long line of ace-flyers (her great-grandfather on her mother’s side was one of the original Wonderbolts, you know) and how Fluttershy’s mother’s family are racist and nearly disowned her mother for marrying an earth pony. Fortunately, Fluttershy was born a pegasus and all was well…until Fluttershy’s father got eaten by a dragon, causing Fluttershy’s mother to just snap and force Fluttershy into a brutal flying regimen partially because of the mocking laughter of her mother’s family and partially because of a misguided attempt to save Fluttershy from her father’s fate.
This explains why Fluttershy, despite being a self-described bad flyer, can fly just as fast as Rainbow Dash, but only in emergencies. She’s got a major mental block due to her abusive childhood, but if she could get past that block, she could very well be Wonderbolts material.