Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-7728516-20130504170738/@comment-2170890-20130504211302

Pinkie was Surprise in Lauren's fanfiction, Surprise is a pegasus.

Fluttershy was Posey in Lauren's fanfiction. Posey is an earth pony

Pinkie was an earth pony in G3, so when Lauren couldn't use Surprise, she kept Pinkie as an earth pony.

Fluttershy was an earth pony in G3, but to keep it even Lauren made her Fluttershy a pegasus (maybe she had more freedom on her than Pinkie?)

Pinkie and Fluttershy have the traits of the "wrong" pony types because that side of their character development got left over. To be honest, I like it better this way; Pinkie sudenly appearing in hard to reach places before a pegasus wouldn't have the same affect if she was one herself, and.... this isn't as good a reason, but I like Fluttersy being a pegasus due to a (friend)shipping reason - it makes it more possible for them to have been friends for longer.