I'll leave that between LBTFan13 & Ptyra, but why does he have to appear at all. Littlefoot does miss his father and likely SHorty, and Ali, but there is no reason why they have to appear in this rp. Pterano will appear in Ptyra's fanfiction story and that could well be good enough. I see no reason why others feel they have to add to the gm's rp thread, they should just run rp threads of their own. I personally find it annoying that folks add to the gm's rp thread. Like I said it's not an attack on Ptyra, but just my saying how I feel about a recent trend I"ve noticed.
If you folks feel Pterano should appear they why don't you do one, working with Ptyra, and do your own rp thread where the gang does leave the great valley to hunt and find Pterano so Ptyra can speak to him? That sounds like it's own rp thread to me. Same with those red horn guys and Longtail, should have been its own rp thread in my personal openion.