@Jarkes  
As if this place is any better?

Gotta admit though, the comments in the EQD article managed to stay mostly civil for once. Kind of surprised, considering that usually anything involving Starlight there ends in a dumpster fire of a comments section.

@Background Pony #8509  
When you do really think about it, that does make a lot of sense.

It makes me think about Starlight’s relationship with magic.
 
Latch-key-kids need to learn to take care of themselves because their parents are not around. For Starlight it probably meant relying her overpowered magic for everything. Whenever she had a problem she just magic-ed it away.
 
And absent parents also means absent limits. She could do whatever she wanted without any supervision. Maybe her unintentional abuse of magic is the reason she never had any friends other than Sunburst.

Did we really need to merge the two images since they were technically different (I had a different avatar and display name)?

sooo scootaloo will become a space and time changing super villain as well? XD

I see equestria daily is talking about old tweets again.  
Oh well at least this is only 1 month old

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
There’s so many ponies that would probably have the best interactions. I wonder who else would bond, even if they’ve never met in-show.

Just like bj’s childhood on wolfenstein ii

@Jarkes  
You’re horse-memorable, that’s a good thing right? :D

@Jarkes  
Let’s say you’re horse-notable.

Congrats, Jarkes. ;)

@Charcolt  
I’d love to see an episode where they bond over this. :D

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
Oh, so she’s Scootaloo then…
 
… and now I really wanna see an alternate future where Scootaloo becomes a villain…

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
Ah, I was getting it wrong. XD At least, half wrong.
 
Yeah, I was a latch-key kid myself. Never had a problem with it, personally, but having your child just walk home and open the house up themselves, it’s not exactly a great option for a number of reasons. Most notably, because you’re out of your child’s life for half the day, and when you come home you probably want to sleep for a bit. My mother was like this, and thus my sister and I were left to our own devices. We had a lot of fights, and a lot of violence, but now that I’m an adult I wouldn’t change any of it.
 
Well, perhaps my parents being there for me. That would’ve been nice.

Rumble could be a latch-key-kid, too. That would explain his villainy.

Oh hey, one of my tweets ended up on EQD again.
 
It’s happened at least 5 times now. Does that make me horse-famous?

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
Yeah, it doesn’t mean they where abusive or anything just not around a whole lot. Kinda like Sweetie bell’s parents.

@Silent Wing  
I think it was the opposite. I needed to do a search on this term. A “Latch-Key Kid” is described as someone who comes home from school to an empty house. Her parents were too busy or disinterested to raise her properly.
 
Though I’ve been cautioning myself and others not to take this too literally. I’m hoping we could get some explanation in the show proper.

That’s a bit upsetting, to be honest. She had terrible parents. Keep her safe, but don’t give her any life skills.
 
I wouldn’t change it, though. Glim is cute. Glim is a good one now.

@Background Pony #4310  
That’s because it’s the exact same tweet.

I think that one is pretty similar to this upload.
 

I wonder what’s more cruel; that this was a joke, or that this was real. If it was a joke, then there are two possibilities: 1. her parents never raised her right, or 2. her parents were dead–hence, the joke.

@Background Pony #A07F  
Hey now, we aren’t supposed to be explaining how Starlight’s story makes sense, only how it’s an unsalvageable train wreck.
 
I still think it would’ve been better if they had shown Sunburst as the last and closest of a small group of friends who left or were taken from her group when they got their cutie marks, but otherwise I think your reasoning fits perfectly.

@Background Pony #A07F  
Great post!