Drop AND HOOVESWEEK???

[pseudacteon_emigre]

Well, it's been a good ride for the sociopathic changeling therapist, but after Chrysalis got dethroned he sort of stalled out and got more and more aimless. As of such, rather than try to brute force it through some rather nasty burnout, I'm gonna drop Hain, likely for good.

All is not lost, though - he's left behind some things. In his office, along with an old, loud Lipizzaner typewriter (containing a rough draft of Eggs Benedict's earlier article and the start of a follow-up), all of his notebooks remain. There's a lot of notebooks - it appears that in addition to his therapy job, Hain spent almost all of his free time in Ponyville taking notes about every single pony. Pretty much every last bit of info he could find about them, just from word of mouth, rumor, and crowd watching.

And it's all gonna be in Hoovesweek's grasp in a week. There's one exception - after he returned to Ponyville, immediately after that deal, he proceeded to destroy his notes on 4G!Rainbow Dash. She and she alone is safe.

For the rest of you? Well, consider this open season to leak potentially scandalous information to Hoovesweek! In addition to what I've noted down in Hain's old "CR chart", if anybody wants to leak something embarassing, worrisome, or disturbing to Hoovesweek that Hain might have noticed in his time here, feel free to reply to this post! Alternately, if you DON'T want Hoovesweek to get any information on your character, please note that here as well and we can handwave that it was either damaged, retrieved by the pony in question, or just of no interest to the scandal sheet.

Yes, this is a direct breach of patient/doctor confidentiality. Hain is evil. We went over that. But at least he won't be doing any more harm than he already has...

Or will he? ....nah, probably not. He's a strong muse and all but not very active.

Comments

[raisethemoon]

Would any of the information Harvey gave him on Pollo have migrated its way into there? I haven't decided I want that getting out or anything, but it would be good to know.

[shyformerassistant]

Tails: You can leak his full name Miles Prower as well as him having been responsible for destroying Town Hall back on Hearts & Hooves Day due to suffering CMFIS.

Coco: You can leak her relationship with Kreutzer and how she's not native to here.

Principal Celestia: Uh there's not much you could leak, but her being a version of Celestia from another world who's a high school principal instead is a-okay.

[superstylishsquid]

Feel free to include the fact that as of the Gala, Alastor is dating two mares: Sassaflash from Cloudsdale and Lyra. And he, Lyra and Fluttershy disappeared to the gardens together at the Gala after Alastor danced with Shy (assuming Lyra and Shy's muns are okay with that part). Alastor won't care, but some people might find it scandalous.

The bloodgoyles can also come up, although he won't be able to provide any examples of them being anything other than mildly creepy.

[pseudacteon_emigre]

I'll leave it to you to decide. There was certainly ENOUGH of it that migrated, given that Harvey's rant is what persuaded him to take up the Eggs Benedict moniker.

[raisethemoon]

Yeah good job making that alter ego totally normal-looking and not terrifying at all, Hain

Also good job making things worse, Harvey

[gigglesnortpriestess]

If there was anything Hain put down on Yukiko, it may have gotten a little singed if she was able to find it. (See 'more than likely burned to a crisp')

As for Adam, he's been keeping to himself and hanging around the Everfree.

[nvcr]

Gwen is probably safe in that I don't think she's done anything interesting enough to warrant scandalous gossip.

Cecil, on the other hand, has General Night Vale Weirdness against him (including the fact that he comes from a world with mass death, torture, and ritual sacrifice being daily occurrences), and the fact that the contents of the cassette his 15-year-old self made (from episode 33) were shown publicly on the scrolls.

[needsteaplz]

Saori is living in the commune with Margulis, yes that red grumpy unicorn that arrived with her, as her roommate. Feel free to jump to the conclusion based on their interactions that they are a couple. They were even spotted many times together in Ponyville and Canterlot including to the Gala.

[foolish_seal]

If everything pertaining to 4G!Rainbow Dash is gone, I take it Minato kinda-sorta-dating her would be gone, as well?

As for other gossip... Pathcy's been recieving grants from the Equestrian Magic Foundation for research, but that could be construed as simply "taking money". Also she can be a bloodthirsty demon with no qualms against killing, if one interaction with Andrew is to be believed.

Captain Celestia has a long and sordid criminal history. She doesn't even try to hide this fact. Other than that, there wouldn't be much other than what there is on the native Celestia.

Minato wouldn't have much, either. Working as both a weather pony and a guard, as well as taking martial arts / weapon lessons from at least four different people, he's often too busy to get up to gossip-worthy shenanigans.

[bluesuit_hoofy]

I don't think Hain ever met Papageno, and anyway there's not a lot there to reveal.

As for Andrew, everything you've got in the CR document is fine to release. I don't know if Hain ever guessed what Donna meant when she mistook Hain's comment about himself being a severed limb from a larger being for a comment about Andrew, but that could be interesting to bring up (as could renewed questions about just what the Andrew/Donna connection is, assuming Terri wouldn't mind).

I've gone back and read their first meeting during the Trueberry event, and Andrew revealed that he's a half-human duplicate of the Doctor (the words "biological accident" came up), and that the Doctor is a centuries-old traveler who's helped some people and killed others. I was sort of hoping Andrew had hinted at the whole I-committed-genocide thing, but that didn't come up in the Trueberry conversation and I can't imagine he would have let slip about that to Hain at any other time. I wish I had kept better track of threads so I'd know how much Hain had on him to spur on the various comments I remember about his blood-drenched handprint, etc. Let me know if there's anything else you think Hain would have figured out; I'm on the fence about whether I'd want Hoovesweek to publish something about Andrew being a mass murderer if that's even an option.

[nvcr]

There is the fact that Gwen danced with several mares at the Gala (and probably flirted with quite a few of the native ones), if that's of any interest. Otherwise, She's talked several times about how she beats people up for a living, so there's that.

Oh, and also: Cecil might have spotted Eggs Benedict doing something suspicious, but not more than "I saw two ponies in the garden having some sort of clandestine meeting". He doesn't know what it was for or what was said.

[angry_jerk]

You can leak everything about Dan. It probably public knowledge and will just make him mad