Talk:Pegasi/@comment-10390252-20140820120355

Since the pony with Rainbow Dash in the flash-back of Games Ponies Play has been identified as her mentor rather than her father in the CCG, I'm more and more convinced of my Spartan model for pegasi youth is correct. Simply put, I don't think that, traditionally, pegasi parents raise their children past fledging. After that, they are assigned to another, accomplished pegasus who is responsbile for training them in flight and the arts of war. The objective of this is to ensure that the youngster develops their strongest alliegance to the wider tribe as a whole rather than to any particular family or clan.

This is known as being 'taken under their wing'. Yes, that is the exact phrase that Scootaloo used about Rainbow Dash. I'm pretty sure that Scootaloo was asking Rainbow Dash to become her mentor in precisely that way.

With pureblood pegasi, the youngling would move in with their mentor and they would become their foster child in any meaningful term of the word. However, I suspect that Scootaloo comes from a mixed family or might even be a throw-back (a foal of non-pegasi parents who has recessive pegasi traits due to a pegasus or two in her recent ancestry). So, I suspect that the whole situation is a bit more awkward and complex for Scootaloo. Whilst I'm sure Rainbow is doing what she can to honour her traditional responsibility for Scootaloo, it is possible that Scoot's parents are, understandably, unwilling to let it go to its traditional normal level.