Here’s some fun fanfic fodder that I’m not sure I have the talent to execute:
You know all the Tempest fan art that has her sporting some sort of prosthetic horn? Well, what if she were to run into one of her childhood friends (the comics have so far only introduced us to one of them, right?) only to find out that said friend had dedicated her life to developing one? Than not only had she not written Tempest off as broken, but had been busting her flank trying to produce the solution which Tempest had been so desperately searching for? Perhaps have Tempest question whether she would still want it at this point (either she might find it unnecessary for what she actually wants to do with her life, or that it would clash with the “badass survivor” persona that she had developed over the years).
Issue 81 of the comic had Scootaloo and Rumble hear the story of Wind Sock, an earth pony who got himself into the Wonderbolts after inventing some glider thing and rescuing one of them (it ends with Rumble using a replica to fly despite a sprained wing, but not the slightest mention that the glider might be useful for the pegasus who would still be unable to fly a week later). Suppose she were to do the painfully obvious thing and get one for herself. Suppose she was thrilled to finally fly with it, but not so thrilled to draw attention to the fact that she can’t fly without it (at this point she may not be as sensitive about her condition as she was at the time of “The Washouts”, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she’d be cool with basically advertising it to random strangers all over the place). Let her learn that if you have some solution for doing what you want to do with your life, you shouldn’t be ashamed if you have to do it somewhat differently from everyone else.