“So you already know that she didn’t succeed. Me and all those other ponies. And that was it for me. If Equestria couldn’t help me fix things, I had to find my fix outside of Equestria instead. So I saved up, read about the lands outside, and learned to fight once I finished reading about them. And once I was old enough to leave, I never looked back. Honestly, things were better for me out there than here; with so many races running around, and plenty of them with scars of their own, most of them only noticed that I was a pony. But I was still an outsider. I still wasn’t normal.