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Have you ever camped outdoors in the jungle without a fire? Yeah. Thought so.
Agreed on that one. Murder trumps mere neglect anytime.
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Objectively speaking that’s still not as bad as burning your children
Tangential. It happens. That’s how conversation works. Also, more or less over now.
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And this conversation is completely off-topic for this image.
At the very least I believe we can assume they waited until Scoots was of school age, and that she has regular amounts of money coming in. She is basically Kevin Mcallister if his parents never came home, bopping around a big empty house, ordering lovely cheese pizzas. Only in her case the pigeon lady and old man decided to move in with her? My point is, weep not for little Scoots, her life was not wholly bad. She had familial support as a child should, but not familial presence.
Also, (just literally watched the episode in question) we can see her aunts there prior to her parents being there, and they seem to be a very comfortable part of Scoot’s morning. I think this at least implies that, while they didn’t live there on a regular basis, they must have lived nearly, perhaps in Canterlot, and regularly visited their niece to ensure she was doing okay. The decision to move there permanently seemed to have been prompted by Scoot’s parents having sold the house in preparation for taking Scoot with them now that she is old enough.
We can infer this by the aunt’s ending speech to her brother. She is at least more informed than the parents about Scoots life and accomplishments. She knows Scoots is something of a hero herself.
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Given the difference in production schedules between animation, books, and comics, it’s entirely likely it just didn’t occur to Vogel that it would be timeline-disrupting. Unless the chapter books explicitly refer to events in the show’s past as occurring in the books’ present, it’s easy enough to just assume they happen later.
Gotcha, so once again, the writers didn’t pay attention to the chapter books, and a character’s history is made worse as a result. Presumably that means Scoots was living alone in a big house, but at the very least she did have money to buy groceries and such.
It’s tough, being a latchkey kid. Probably why she fixates on Rainbow so thoroughly.
In the episode they live elsewhere and don’t announce a move to Ponyville until the outro, so any other media representation comes later in the timeline.
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Her aunts did not live in Ponyville until after this episode. “Raised by a village” is a thing you do for orphans, not people who chose their career over their child.
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Except they clearly did. Scoots has a home, aunts who love her but also give her the freedom to do what she wants. Yes, she misses her parents, but that doesn’t mean she has nopony who loves her, it just means she misses that very vital role that they would have played if they were there. We literally know nothing about their backstory. Perhaps they did take her along while she was younger, and then were forced to consider her safety as she got older. There’s no way we can know, but we don’t have to assume the worst because of that.
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Hey, that’s great, except that they’re parents who leave their only child at home for months at a time while they [whatever], which in and of itself means they are simultaneously terrible parents and terrible people, something borne out by essentially every scrap of characterization Scootaloo has demonstrated over the years pertaining to familial relations. What good people would have done is realize that their chosen lifestyle is incompatible with effectively raising a small child, and put her in the permanent legal care of someone capable of providing the level of stability and security a kid needs to develop into a healthy adult.
They didn’t do that.
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You’re assuming an awful lot with nothing to go on. We know her parents are basically adventure types, it’s likely how they afford a nice house in Ponyville, and Scoots was likely not taken along so she can, you know, go to school, see her friends, have a life.
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Can’t argue with that. I, myself, don’t want to have kids.[/spoiler]
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They love and cherish her with postcards once a month, if that. They should both be in prison for child abuse and Scootaloo should have been adopted by Lofty and Holiday several years ago.
If someone doesn’t have the capacity to care for a child the way children deserve to be cared for, that’s great, it’s good to know that about oneself– they should not have children. This is exactly what birth control and adoption are for, realizing before/after the fact that kids are Not Your Thing.
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To be fair, they still love and cherish their child.
Plus, Scoots as two cool lesbian aunts to look after her.
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Would apply to way too many images. HIlarious in hindsight maybe.
Ok so a quick bath/shower in one of equestria’s many waterfalls would be in order first before any cuddling or love transference
Hope you like the smell of stagnant water rotting corpses and moldy wood.
says you… I love her natural form MORE than her disguises and would give freely all the love she could ever need(possibly triggering her metamorphosis)
They were animated pieces of wood, and now they are just sticks. No real feeling left.