scootaloo: ScootaRose

another character for my "my little pony - fable" crossover story: "my little fable"

this picture actually won 1st place in the "cartoon drawing" (16-19 years old) category at the 2011 rock creek fair!! YAY!!!

anyway...

her name is scootarose. she is actually scootaloo, but as briar rose from fable 1

now in this picture here, she is 10 years older than she is in the show. this is because my story will stretch to 10 year's after the beginning of it (just like the fable games).

unfortunately, she never did learn to fly, but she can use her wings to help her move faster and jump farther distances.

she lives on her own in the woods, often scavenging off of the deceased or bartering with any passing traders. she usually prefers to stay away from other ponies. she is often seen as a very tough, and sometimes mean, mare that doesn't want to be remembered or cared for at all, even when she is injured.

she had a very sad childhood, one that she would never want to talk about to anypony.

this is the story of her unfortunate childhood... is is actually part of my "my little fable" story. any feedback, whether is is positive or negative, is highly appreciated:

sketched with my left hand, outlined and coloured with my right hand

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”Its all my fault…” scootaloo kept telling herself. Word had spread quickly throughout ponyville about how rainbow dash had been possessed by a malevolent being, named jack of rainbows, after wearing her mask (click here to find out what happened to rainbow dash --> [link] ). She was devastated at the loss of her hero, and she blamed herself for it.

It had been a few days since that horrendous night, and all she could do was cry her eyes out, day and night. Rainbow dash had been like the big sister she never had. Every time she thought about rainbow, she’d start balling her eyes out again and again. All she wanted was to see rainbow dash again, to hug her hero one last time.
’It’s all my fault…’

Scootaloo looked around her bedroom. The blue walls were covered in pictures of her and rainbow dash together, some of them photographs, some of them drawn by scootaloo herself. Many messages along the lines of “I <3 rainbow dash” were written or scratched into every possible space on the wall that was not occupied by a picture. Everything reminded her of rainbow dash, and would make her cry even more.
’It’s all my fault…’

scootaloo’s parents would come in to her room and try to comfort her from time to time, but it would always end the same, in failure. Her mom was out at Sweet Apple Acres to get some apples for scootaloo, and to bring back her friend applebloom to try to help comfort scootaloo. Scootaloo’s dad was busy in the living room reading the newspaper, a bit annoyed at how she would not stop crying so loudly. He was always annoyed at his daughter’s obsession with rainbow dash.

scootaloo heard a knock at the door. Thinking that it was somehow rainbow dash, she raced out of her bed and headed towards the door, only to stop and hide before she reached the living room when she saw that it was a policecolt. She tried to listen closely to what the policecolt was telling her dad. All she could make out was a single, horrifying remark:
”your wife is dead”

scootaloo froze, almost blacking out, hoping that she misheard what the policecolt said, that her mom was still alive. She was wrong. She overheard the policecolt saying how there had been a mass killing at Sweet Apple Acres, with no survivors. The policecolt gave his condolences and left. Scootaloo came into the living room, with a trail of tears behind her.
”m-mommy…” she said, barely even able to speak anymore. Her dad quickly shot around, tears rapidly building up in his eyes, surprised to see his daughter there.
”scoot, baby, how much of that did you hear?” he said, trying to keep his tears back. Scootaloo didn’t say anything. Instead she rushed towards her dad, locking him in an embrace, and started crying again. Her dad was trying his very best to stay strong for his daughter, but couldn’t hold back his tears anymore, and started crying with her.

After what seemed like an eternity, scootaloo finally spoke, her words drenched by her sobs.
”I-if rainbow d-dash was there, s-she would of s-saved m-m-mommy…” she blurted out, not realizing she said it out loud right away. scootaloo felt that something was wrong as soon as she realized what she said. She looked up at her dad. His face was no longer showing sorrow, but anger instead. Scootaloo squirmed herself out of her dad’s arms, and scooted away from him, scared that she made him mad. She always got scared whenever her dad got angry, especially with her. Scootaloo’s dad stared at her; the fire in his eyes was more than obvious. Scootaloo was absolutely terrified.

”d-d-daddy?” scootaloo whimpered.
“Rainbow dash, rainbow dash, rainbow dash!” he yelled out.
”That’s all I ever heard from you! Just rainbow dash this, and rainbow dash that, and im sick of it!”
”b-but daddy, I-I-i…” scootaloo whimpered, tears roaring down her face.
”You care more about that stupid Pegasus than your own family!!!” her dad continued yelling at her, oblivious to her whimpers. “Even now, your mom is dead, and all you can think about is that bucking rainbow dash!!! You know why your mom was at sweet apple acres? To get some stuff to make you feel better cause of how sad and pathetic you are being over RAINBOW DASH!!!! If you weren’t so bucking obsessed over her, your mom, my WIFE, would still be alive!”
scootaloo couldn’t even stand anymore. She was lying on the floor, scared for her life, with a waterfall of tears coming out. The floor around her was drenched in her tears. She just wanted to disappear…

”I’ve had to put up with you and your obsession for her for years now…” her dad continued.
”…But I’m done. I’m sick of your obsessed, I’m sick of that stupid Pegasus, and I’m sick of you!” he opened the front door. A storm had been roaring outside for hours now. Lightning was striking all over the place, and the rain was coming down like waterfalls. He grabbed scootaloo by her wings and dragged her to the door. He looked deep into scootaloo’s eyes with the anger of a dragon behind his stare. Scootaloo could only look back at her dad, frozen with fear. Scootaloo’s dad spoke his final words to her.
”Get out, you uncaring filly… and NEVER come back!” he screamed. He then picked up scootaloo by her tiny wings, and threw her out into the cold, unforgiving storm that shrouded the night, and slammed the door shut behind her.

”It’s all my fault…” she whimpered. “It’s all my fault, its all my fault, its all my fault!” she screamed.
’Mommy… daddy… r-rainbow…’ she lost everyone. She lost her mom, she lost her dad, and she lost the Pegasus that she loved more than anything else. She had nothing, not even a home now.
”No one wants me, no one loves me… I… I-I’m…” she said to herself.
”Worthless…”

she wanted to go away forever. She just wanted everything to end. She wanted to disappear. And so she ran. She ran away from what used to be her home, away from ponyville, away from the shattered ruins of her life, her trail of tears disguised by the pounding rain.

And so she disappeared, forever. No pony would ever see her again after that night. She didn’t want to be remembered by anypony. She just wanted to be erased from existence.
’No pony will miss me…’ she thought to herself. ‘I’m… I’m just a stupid, worthless filly… and…’ she thought about what happened. How her hero was gone, how her mom was dead, and how her dad cast her out.
’It’s all my fault…’

”It’s all my fault…”

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other "my little fable" characters:

-jack of rainbows (rainbow dash) --> [link]