Hmm, I’m conflicted as well. I’ve seen this OC before and think she’s adorable, but the amputated leg turns the feeling sour for me.
Before you assume I have a general distaste for a character being an amputee, know that I have a good friend who is missing his left leg and suffers from an incurable disease that is slowly consuming him through it. He loves to shitpost people in real life and on the internet but at his core he is a really good guy and I drove over 50 miles to make sure he had a good birthday surrounded with friends because we never know when it will be his last.
Combined with that feeling, I think my feeling partly stems from the character appearing to be a representative extension of a person in real life instead of a character within the MLP:FiM universe. Even if the universe has shown disabled ponies like in “Trade Ya!” (Season 4, Episode 22), they have never shown ponies with severed limbs. It’s a stark contrast to see.
I’m not sure if that’s the sort of answer you’re looking for but I wanted to be forthright about my thoughts because you asked an honest and legitimate question.
