Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-12 07:51:27 UTC
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@crusader8 Amy Keating Rodgers recieved complaints about Derpy, and upon review of the complaints, felt they had merit and was absolutely mortified by the potential offense of what she'd done, as her own sun (whom Soarin is named after) is quite badly disabled. Following procedure the complaints were escalated to the board, who determined that the complaints had merit and that edits should be made. This, combined with Tabitha St Germains dissapointment that she'd actively portrayed Derpy as the wrong gender (she thought the character was male) lead to her being revoiced and the word "Derpy" being cut from the script. She also confirmed that this when she wrote the original script, she was called Ditzy, and her name was changed late in the writing process as a "tip of the hat" to the fanbase.
