After Twilight took power she sent Scootaloo to live in Seaquestria permanently as an official Equestria ambassador. Scootaloo took the lead in helping seaponies find their purpose, and became the fastest swimmer of all time, even founding The Waterbolts, who became the toast of the sea for their amazing routines. She looked up during a show and saw a rainbow mane in the crowd. She shouted with tearful joy, “Look, Rainbow Dash! I’m the best of the best, just like you!”

@warc9  
True, but it would be more meaningful if her hard work extended to more than just a couple of days in one episode.

@cloudkicker108  
She has worked hard, remember that training session in ftf?

@warc9  
If she ever does fly, I hope it will be with assistance of some kind. Makes for a better story when she has to work hard for dreams rather than it just being handed to her.

@cloudkicker108  
For the moment. I trust that she will grow up to be a great flyer with or without help.

@warc9  
At any rate, Fluttershy has more of an ability to fly than Scootaloo.

@cloudkicker108  
Not well and very slowly.
 
And at least it’s a start for Scootaloo.

@warc9  
She can though. As long as she isn’t frozen in fear and Rainbow isn’t going mach speed, of course.
 
As poor of a flyer as she was, Fluttershy could still fly. The best Scootaloo can do is lift herself up a few feet from the ground for a few seconds.

@cloudkicker108  
Fluttershy can’t do that either, but that doesn’t mean she can’t fly.
 
In fact, fluttershy was a poor flyer when growing up. She might be a less extreme example of Scootaloo.

@warc9  
If you say so

@warc9  
It’s not flying, though. She certainly can’t go circles around Rainbow Dash doing that.
 
If the concept of late bloomers is real and there exists other examples of fillies her age not being able to fly until later in life, her worries and fears shouldn’t nearly that great.
 
Evening to you as well.

@cloudkicker108  
Even so, the initial vertical movement is still, well, movement.
 
As for depression, the effect of being physically exhausted and all the other fears in here head going off like that would trigger depression.
 
 
Anyway, I should be going to bed. Goodnight.
 
>>766827p (deleted)  
“Don’t worry kid, you’ll be a great flyer some day.” _{just writing some cute dialogue for this art.}

@warc9  
Hovering is also defined (and more commonly thought of) as:
 

 
i.e. no movement. If hovering isn’t the right word, then what I mean is still along the lines of that description. She can hold herself in the air, but only for a brief moment, and she can’t move around while doing so.
 
Suspension probably did have an effect, but that shouldn’t lead all the way to full-on depression (she completely ditches her favorite hobby), especially if “late blooming” is actually a thing.

@cloudkicker108  
Hovering is flying according to the dictionary
 

 
And if she can hover, flying is not that far behind.
 
Yeah, DT words really hurt beacuse the suspension was really high.

@Background Pony #AE7E  
That’s hovering, something we’ve known she’s capable of for some time now.
 
@warc9  
By that logic I could say every headcanon out there is true.
 
@Background Pony #EE55  
You do have a point, but DT’s words still hit Scootaloo really, really hard. I mean, it was enough to push her towards even giving up on scootering.

@cloudkicker108  
Probably because the suspension before revelation is always so hard to get through. The longer one waits, the more insecure one feels about herself, especially when she’s waiting for something she’d die for.

@cloudkicker108  
Just beacuse it wasn’t mentioned doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

@cloudkicker108
 
 
@warc9  

@warc9  
The show has never explored or even hinted at the notion of late bloomers in regards to pegasi flying. I mean, if that was actually a known phenomenon, why would Diamond Tiara’s words in “Flight to the finish” affect Scootaloo so badly?

@Background Pony #12AE  
She can do both

No.But she can finally find her true calling as a scooter racer/daredevil

“Should chicken horse fly?”
 

 
YESYESYESYESYESYESYES

Scootaloops.

Also flying is based on magic

@TexasUberAlles  
Or shes just a late bloomer.