Talk:A Flurry of Emotions/@comment-27578467-20170503061903/@comment-27578467-20170504014237

This is getting into more subjective territory since individuals may or may not sympathize/relate with different traits that characters exhibit. I for one characterized her with a strong parental patience, as being someone who recognized that children are still learning the basics of social interaction and thus does not begrudge them for every inconsiderate act, such as when Spike runs into her in Secret of My Excess, or when the CMC's get too involved in her romantic life in Hearts and Hooves Day (until the end when they probably deserve it). In The Cutie Pox, instead of insisting everyone return to class, she allows Apple Bloom to showcase her talents and even takes the class on a field trip into town to watch her do her thing; likely Cherilee had stuff written on the chalkboard then with a lesson planned out for the day, but she recognized the value of allowing a child to pursue a creative outlet in which they seem to excel, and of adapting her original plans to accomodate.

I feel like in this case Cherilee may have been at most mildly irked at the prospect of re-writing what was on the board (though considering how much use mouths have for everyday activities this seems pretty standard.... like don't all non-unicorns write with mouths? I'd imagine they're as used to it by now as we are to using hands) but that her aforementioned patience and recognition that Flurry Heart was just cheerfully expressing herself without knowing that she was imposing on others would have more than overcome any frustration.

I realize not everyone may characterize Cherilee like that, but since I do it comes off to me as the writers operating in a different mode than the ones who originally built the characters, which adds to the feeling that I'm watching a different show.