Scootasad

"But why is it that this fandom must always use Scootaloo to represent all this childhood tragedy? What is it about her that seems to illicit all these depressing thoughts from us and make us use her as the vehicle to express them? Is it just because her personal life is so vague beyond her interactions with Sweetie and Apple Bloom? Just because we've never seen her parents doesn't mean she's an orphan. We've never seen Rarity's and Sweetie's parents before, yet we don't always assume they don't exist. We've never seen Applejack's or Rainbow Dash's, or Fluttershy's parents, and only Applejack's parents are obviously dead because she lives on a farm that's considered the center of her extended family.

Is it because Scootaloo is vulnerable to disappointment due to her idol worship of Rainbow Dash?

Some bronies love to hate Scootaloo, so we get Scootabuse. Others seem to feel like they need to deepen her character through drama and sadness in order to make her more appealing in a deeply emotional way, hence Scootasad.

I'm not saying that this isn't a deep and moving story that for a lot of bronies really hit close to home. I'm just asking...Why Scootaloo? Not for this story specifically, because in this instance it does make sense because she fit the requirements of the plot. And, in this instance she made the whole situation feel all the more real.

I'm saying this to every Scootasad story. Scootaloo has died tragically multiple times, and in one she had to choose her own afterlife, giving us possibly the most heart-wrenching, bittersweet ending in pony history. She's faced rejection and outright hatred from Rainbow Dash. She's been crippled and made unable to fly in her adulthood by either developmental complications from illness or a childhood injury.

The question I present to you is one which I hope shall produce some long, deep thought. Where does the Scootasad come from?"

I...have no idea how to answer that...I sure as hell can't answer now, my heart is too utterly broken by Scootasad comics. But I want to be able to answer this one day...One day...

Scootaloo, WHY YOU SO SAD???? *bursts into tears*