Talk:Dinky Doo/@comment-34865525-20120707011800/@comment-76.250.36.103-20120707134426

I don't see the ponies as having concrete ages, sometimes honestly I think they act like they are 7 or 8 but other times they act like they are 25. I mean, Rarity lives on her own and runs her own business, so there is no way she is less than 18 in human equivalent years! But Twilight sometimes acts like a gradeschooler when around Celestia, and its more like she is 8-10 at those times. I actually LIKE the ponies being able to fit into such a range of age groups because it makes them more appealing to the audience, IMO but that doesn't mean even if Derpy is 40 that she can't have a younger sister. I have also seen fics proposing that Dinky is adopted/not her biological daughter and she takes care of her like a mom only, which is similar to the idea you have, where she plays a caretaker role without actually being a mom. I like all Derpy fics that aren't too gory or too sexual.