1. It broke you into shape. A student of the academy had to learn to be punctual and organised, lest they have to run, and risk tripping themselves up on the long robes and potentially destroy the reputation they’d been carefully cultivating.
2. It insidiously incentivised grace. It was, in fact, possible to run while wearing the blueberry. And thus buy yourself time to socialise, study, or slack off. But in order to do so, one would have to either learn to move in a very particular way, so as to control the flaps of their own robes — Or learn to hold their robes while they ran, keeping them from getting in the way of their hooves, but also necessitating the ability of splitting your focus into a telekinesis spell to your back, while running and looking ahead.
My own take on >>1854209 – As me and my friend Ghouleh made a bit of a competition over who could best depict the little description of a foalhood memory from our RP. (who did it better?)
Also my entry to Inktober’s 12th day, not that I’ve posted any of the preceding 11 days anywhere but my own private groups.