Scootaloo's parental status in fannon

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There are many who say the fanon of Scootaloo not being with her family (living at an orphanage, or being abandoned or having outright LOST her parents to tragedy), is a trite and cliche trait done purely for the sake of "Look at Scootaloo! Feel sorry for her!"  And more than one person has claimed that I wrote her this way in my fics purely to get sympathy. 

First, I see it as simply something that is there, like Applejack's parents no longer being with her. That isn't played up as "FEEL SORRY FOR APPLEJACK!" on the show. And it is the same thing for me with Scoots.

Second, it has NEVER EVER BEEN about 'feel sorry for Scootaloo' with me. It was about Rainbow Dash becoming the family Scootaloo needed. And that family doesn't have to be about blood. And Scoots finding what she had lost with Dash, and Dash growing up some herself in the process. 

In short, it's not the pain of loss that makes me use this fanon trait: it's the job of Rainbow Dash filling the void in Scoots heart, the joy of them becoming family. 
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comiccon 2013  they said her parents arn't dead