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[bluesuit_hoofy]

[Andrew looks frazzled -- following a partial soul donation up with a near-immediate dungeon dive might not have been his best move, but he'd really believed he needed to act before anything else could happen. He'd been sort of right, too, going by how much has come to light in the interim. With how thoroughly everyone's lives have been falling apart lately, perhaps it's little wonder nopony thought to make an announcement re: Pollo. In a way, too, it's good to have put several days between them and the event, and it's easier to be sure it really worked.

He squints into the scroll and clears his throat, gaze flicking only briefly to where Pollo sits nearby in the same room.]

Unless you're very very new you're probably aware of the return of the Mechakara personality in recent weeks. What you're probably not aware of is the fact that we've fixed it. Permanently. A team of us stripped Mechakara out the day after the slumber party, and it's only Pollo in there now. Sort of. No more bloodlust, no more flare-ups, nada, zip, zilch, one more crisis averted. Any questions?

[He looks just a tiny bit wild-eyed, as if that's a challenge rather than an invitation. And no, it's not just you, he really didn't explain a bucking thing about it just now.]

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[millionbitpipes]

[Oh hey look it's one of the very few things that could possibly get a response from Harvey right now]

That explained nothing

and what do you mean sort of

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[bluesuit_hoofy]

Well, it's not Mechakara in there, I'll tell you that.





It's complicated.

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[millionbitpipes]

I have nothing but time

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[bluesuit_hoofy]

I'd ask if you could just trust me but I know the answer.

Bertie found a device to access Pollo's soul directly. That's how we stripped Mechakara out; we pulled the entire soul out and put only the good bits back in.

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[millionbitpipes]

Really, it's too much to ask you to tell how you got Mechakara out of someone's head?

So what - [Brief pause as the "sort of" catches up with him.] - you put something else in there didn't you

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[polyturtle]

Um...Andrew? You ok?

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[bluesuit_hoofy]

[Andrew looks like he's barely slept in days, but at the question he cracks a smile. Seems somepony's pleased with himself, if tired.]

I'm brilliant.

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[polyturtle]

...

[Oh dear, he knows that look. Its one he's had before during times of eureka.

He's two seconds from going full psycho from lack of sleep.]

Please go sleep.

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[bluesuit_hoofy]

[He waves a hoof dismissively.] I will, I will -- there are just a few more things left to be settled, that's all.

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[soulofblue]

[Behind Andrew, Pollo slowly and deliberately shakes his head.

He doesn't know where Andrew's been, but he's willing to bet he hasn't slept for days.]

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[polyturtle]

[Yeeeeeah, he figured.]

Any way I can help?

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[soulofblue]

[Shrug. Pollo opens up his own scroll, to talk without leaning right over Andrew.]

I'm not sure what he's been doing, but he'll probably crash soon. Unless he gets some coffee, what?

[punched_by_sisko]

Oh, isn't it wonderful? And here I was starting to think that this place was filled with nothing more than innocent souls!

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[bluesuit_hoofy]

...When did you ditch the chimera look?

[Hey yet another pony mistaking him for Discord.]

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[punched_by_sisko]

[Cue eyerolling... even if it's hard to tell with his Changeling look.]

I am not him. I am Q. Do I have to start putting nametags?

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[bluesuit_hoofy]

[If it's not Discord that must mean this person is actually in changeling form the poor blighter and isn't that just completely normal and okay and not something on which Andrew's going to comment.]

Sorry, your voice -- sounded like him. I take it you know that. [He's going to have to chalk this one up to exhaustion.]

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[mechmadeoflove]

Confirming that. I was present and prevented Mechkara from escaping. Trained my scanners on them with Nephenee as my Anchor.

Mechkara is deader than disco. Long live Pollo.

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[shy_kindness]

[Fluttershy is... shocked.]

...You didn't try to turn Mechakara good?

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[noxequus]

We did, repeated times, to no avail - those in his home world, those in Kon Ran, and those here.

Tell us, Fluttershy. Does your world know of the Fall of Sombra?

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[shy_kindness]

Can you tell me what you did to try...?

Um. Sorry, we don't know that.

[The Flutters have never heard of the origins of King Sombra.]

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[noxequus]

Shown mercy, he took lives. Shown compassion and kindness, he trapped a young woman and his own surrogate son in a basement and tortured them. Finally he was placed under the ward of a second persona, much as Fluttercruel tempered your own flaws... only for that second persona, Pollo, to become a prisoner of his own mind, suffering abuses with which the only escape was repression of memory.

Sometimes, a heart is so black to the core that there is nothing left to be saved. Our only options were to remove Mechakara, or to end the lives of both. It is a choice I labored over for far too long, personally.

[kind_to_all]

[ Fluttershy raises a hoof. ] Y-yes. Are you okay?

[bluesuit_hoofy]

[Didn't she just...? Hang on, no. Different Fluttershy. Probably.]

I'm fine -- why does everypony keep asking that?

[kind_to_all]

Um... pr-probably because we're worried about you? Have you... gotten some sleep?

[bluesuit_hoofy]

I slept! Sometime. I've slept sometime, I'm sure.