Talk:Tree Hugger/@comment-15889853-20150518061144/@comment-10390252-20150518091523

I think that Tree Hugger was written as Fluttershy 'turned up to 11'. The same instinctive understanding of animals and calm nature but turned into a new age-style mellow. In some ways, she's a good example of 'foil/adversary' characters we've seen since season 3 where the writers take a Mane Pony's personality, select one of their characteristics and then create a character with that characteristic displayed to a ridiculous degree (Lightning Dust, Cheese Sandwich and Suri Polomare are other examples).