Dashie

"C'mon, baby girl, don't be shy. Go on and say hello to Missus Flutterbye."

".....*tiny horse squeak*."

"Hehee, awww. Close enough, Dashie."

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me and kilala watched a few old gen 1 mlp movies
they are very entertaining and hilariously fast-paced (seriously a ton of shit goes down in like twenty minutes alone)

i liked feisty Firefly, and I've always liked the fanon that she is Rainbow Dash's mom
fiddled with her design just a bit, gave her dash's eye color

Dashie is about a month old here, i think MLP baby ponies just take a few weeks to start walking/stumbling about
she can't fly yet though, her feathers aren't developed. For now she's covered in fluffy down, like a baby chick, and that makes snuggling and giving her kissies quite irresistible to Firefly

she also can't talk yet, just can make teeny whinnies and squeaks

i think for the first few months of her life, Rainbow was quite shy and quiet and preferred to stick close to mommy. It wasn't until she started really interacting with other kids that she gained her feisty loud-mouth personality.

Firefly did love styling her filly's hair with pretty ribbons and bows while she could get away with it tho
there's definitely a secret family album somewhere filled with photos of smiling baby dash in pretty, frilly dresses

the "missus flutterbye" in the dialogue above is my headcanon-y name for fluttershy's mother.