@PonyPon
It may not be an
exact match like Starlight to Twilight, but I really don’t think it’s that much of a stretch to say that Tempest is wha Scoots could have been if she took a wrong turn somewhere.
Both have a disability that denies them the typical abilities of their race, and compensate via above-average physical skills. (Compare Tempest kicking around the magical petrifying plot device balls to the scene in “Cutie Pox” where Scootaloo kicks a bowling ball and all hell breaks loose. The big difference is accuracy.) However, they face their problems very differently. Scootaloo’s flightlessness may be a bit of a sore subject at times, but for the most part she takes it in stride and lives her life. Not so Tempest, who grew so obsessed with her broken horn that she cares about nothing else, abandoning both morality and rationality in pursuit of this goal.
Also, they each have a figure to whom they’ve devoted themselves with absolute loyalty. For Scootaloo it’s Rainbow Dash, who proves herself worthy of this devotion, and who looks out for Scootaloo like a sister. Tempest put her trust in the wrong… yeti-thing, and was cast aside rather than recieve the ward she’d devoted her life to. On the one occasion that Scootaloo lost faith in Dash, it was a clear sign that Dash had
yayed up and she scrambled to make things right. When Tempest lost faith in the Storm King, he laughed about it and she wound up killing him.
They also both have duties that involve telling others what to do, but which difer vastly in the tone of thhis message, with Scootaloo and her fellow Crusaders offering advice to those who feel they’ve lost their way in life, while Tempest barks commands and demands as a brutal commander and enforcer.
And it’s quarter of six and I should sleep now. But anyway, those are basically tthe main reasons why I see Tempest as where Scootaloo could have wound up if she’d made a few really bad decisions. Mostly the first two.