- Base-Breaking Character: Ebony, Scootaloos mother. Due to her alcohol addiction, emotional abuse of Scootaloo in past, and her under handed attempts to cease her daughter upon finding her again, she was reviled by many, even by characters in story. Some loath her for this still, while others felt she, while her actions are inexcusable, is a complex character who fell into bad habits by a nasty situation she was forced into( living in an arranged marriage with an abusive stallion, whose abuse she endured to shield her daughter, albeit she brought on his wrath after embarrassing him one night with her lovers satirical song) This reaction seems to have been an intentional by the author; granted the accusations of a *Romantic Plot Tumor did not help Ebony’s reception.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Scootaloo would end up getting a cooking Cutie Mark in "Bloom and Gloom", albeit in a dream
- Romantic Plot Tumor: The romance between Ebby and Main course overtook alot of the plot in the later half of the story. While Ebby does relate to Scootaloo and the main story, her romance with Main Course ended up taking up a lot of screen time that could have been spent with focusing more on Main’s relationship with Scootaloo and running his restaurant. As well as how he will break the news to his former business partner about wanting to stay in Ponyville.
- Why Would Anyone Take Him Back??: This is basically the reason Ebby and Main Course’s romance was not particularly well received by many. To recap, Ebby is basically a manipulative, alcoholic child abuser who attempted to force her daughter to return to Canterlot with her despite Scootaloo not wanting to do so. She tried to take Scootaloo by force upon finding her, punched Main in the nuts to distract him after first trying to chase Scootaloo when they encounter each other initially , attempted to blackmail him into letting her pay him into giving her Scootaloo. And when that failed she distracted him with a false false fate, and more or less had CPS kidnap her daughter right from her school. All this happened from the second time she met Main onward, barely within a week of Main first meeting her, with their only prior interaction being them talking once in his restaurant before he knew who she was. Yet despite all of that, Main and Ebony still end up pursuing a relationship and having sex not very long after Ebony gives up and finally gives him legal rights to custody of Scootaloo.
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