Resident snarky dragon

I think it's a pretty reasonable conclusion from the little that we know about dragon lore that all dragons are born without wings, and they grow wings when they mature past a certain age and molt. We can call that a disability as much as we can call a baby bird not having large enough feathers for flight a disability. On the other hand, Diamond Tiara pointed out way back in S4E05 that a pegasus at Scootaloo's age should have been flying long ago. Scootaloo is clearly different from other pegasi in that she lacks the same degree of ability as other pegasi, and this is the relevant distinction between Spike and Scootaloo.As I said before, I would not be too salty if the writer's were to give Scootaloo flight, depending on how it is executed. It is true that some disabilities can be overcome, and it would indeed be triumph for her character to be able to eventually see that.we have had at least two episodes now where a large part of the main lesson learned was "not being able to fly doesn't mean that Scootaloo can't be awesome". If the writer's were to give Scootaloo flight, they risk giving the impression that they think that Scootaloo flying makes her more awesome than her not flying. There are different plot devices they could employ to mitigate this impression, like introducing a new character, but I don't think there is any way to completely avoid reducing some of the poignancy of episodes like S4E05 and S8E20 to people who have historically empathized strongly with Scootaloo's character.