What you want to happen and what actually does are two entirely different things. A character and a person, or pony, in reality are two different things. Nothing is entirely predictable, and because of that, there is life, an unstaged and ongoing experience with no defined sections. Only a start and finish. An example? Inky has many.

He wanted to graduate college as a grown man, but now lays a broken stallion on a stranger's couch. He was in a magical world that begged to be used, but Inky was turned into an Earth pony. The least arcane of the races.

...Well. He'll figure out a way around that last bit.