How I See My Little Pony

Chapter 2: Fluttershy

Backstory

Fluttershy Breeze is a tall, lanky Lunar Pegasus from Cloudsdale. Her easily-frightened nature, awkward appearance, and abysmal flying skills often made her the target of bullying in her youth.

One day, Fluttershy's cousin Rainbow Dash challenged some of those bullies to a race in an attempt to make them leave her alone. It... Sorta worked?

During the race, Fluttershy was knocked off a cloud and she fell to the ground. Luckily, she was saved from harm by a group of butterflies.

Fluttershy immediately became enamored by all the different animals that lived so close to the ground, even the sorts of animals most would be frightened of, such as a bear whom she dubbed Harry. And, to her delight, the animals liked her back!

Then a giant exploding rainbow scared off all the animals. Though of course Fluttershy was scared as well, her concern for her new animal friends overrode her fright, leading her to gently coax them out of their hiding places once she was certain the danger had passed.

Helping and interacting with so many animals at once, Fluttershy feels neither overwhelmed nor out of place. In fact, she feels like this is exactly what she's meant to do in her life–!

On the day of the Rainboom, Fluttershy gains her Cutie Mark. And, with it, the ability to better communicate with and understand her beloved animals.

Fluttershy would eventually convince her parents to let her move to the ground in her early or mid teens, citing the height phobia she's gained from falling so many times as a good reason. Her parents, being Ponies and not humans, consider letting their teenaged daughter move to another city mostly filled with Earth Ponies to be an excellent idea.

Rainbow Dash, ever the protective older cousin, moves with Fluttershy. They live together in a run-down old cottage on the border of the Everfree Forest, fixing it up and making a life for themselves. As Fluttershy settles more and more into life on the ground with her animals, Rainbow eventually decides to move into a more actually-made-for-Pegasi house in the nearby village of Ponyville.

Fluttershy led a quiet, calm, peaceful life. With a few bumps — like that overenthusiastic Earth Pony that insisted on being her friend, or discovering she had hypnotic powers, or her special favorite animal Angel Bunny's regular attempts to make her interact with the (loud, pushy, terrifying) villagers. Oh, and Nightmare Night, can't forget that particular reoccurring bump.

But yeah, her life was more-or-less a gentle one.

Until she was nineteen years old and it was the 1,000th Summer Sun and apparently now she's the embodiment of an ancient magical Element????

Actually, her life is still pretty gentle. Whenever it's not being insane.

NOTES

With the change of RD being Fluttershy's cousin's, Zephyr's flirting obviously has been changed as well. Whether I'll change it to something platonic (like trying to impress RD) or just switch the target of his flirting, I'm unsure.

Angel Bunny is softened somewhat in the sense that his rough and demanding nature is used as a way to get Fluttershy out of her shell. He wants to help her face the world, even if he has to pull her kicking and screaming to do it. Even his demands regarding how his salad is made are a way to force her to brave grocery shopping. And if he's actually rude and picky and rough? Well people, and rabbits, are complicated.

Fluttershy once stated that she's a year older than Pinkie Pie. I see Pinkie Pie as eighteen (maybe bordering nineteen) at the beginning of the series, so nineteen for Fluttershy it is!