the worst offense [visual/locked from Feena]

[crapfully]

[Who's this pony? His face certainly isn't familiar...at least, not without that trademark black mask. But the voice, lower and flatter than it's ever sounded, is definitely Strong Bad's. Yes, apparently that's him, but he won't even look at the scroll directly.]

Lemme make one thing crystal-clear: I never want to hear a word about friendship again. At least not where I'm concerned.

I'm nobody's friend. Been there, tried it...and ended up being the bad guy anyway, so I'm thinking life's trying to tell me to stick to what I know. We're all be much happier pony-people this way, and that's just how it's gonna have to be.

So, uh...I hate you. I guess.

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[Visual]

[ponymechanic]

[Why did he not like the sound of this? Well besides the fact this guy's being all anti-friendship.]

Not very convincing. What did you do?

[crapfully]

You want to hate me? Trust me, I can make that easy.

[He sounds very bitter as he says this.]

Your pal Feena? I was trying to be her friend...and I thought we were having an awesome time. But she fell in love with me, and I didn't. I couldn't. So I hurt her.

[ponymechanic]

[Welp. Looks like you're getting your wish 'cause guess who's now pissed?]

...You did WHAT?!

[Visual]

[twotailedgenius]

What's up? Because you certainly don't sound like you hate us...

[Visual]

[crapfully]

I tried doing things your way. Thought I had it under control. But I hurt one of my best friends, and I can't even blame the creepy wind spirits this time.

[Visual]

[twotailedgenius]

Sometimes it's not easy to keep things under control... and sometimes it's really hard to not end up hurting someone we care about, even when we try our best not to.

Feel like telling me about it?

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[controledfreak]

[Her horn glows and those last five words take a shape. She then causes it to disappear into the nothing.]

Now, that is taken care of.

Explain.

[visual]

[crapfully]

Yggs...

[Okay. He needs to tread very carefully, and he's probably already ruined himself. Again. But it's worth a shot?]

I hurt someone I really like...like I did with you. Again. And there weren't even any wind demons egging me on this time---it was all me, too blind to see I was letting her fall in love with me.

I broke her, and I can't fix it this time.

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[controledfreak]

And you are now facing regret.

I have heard that those that do prefer solitude, but it seems you are continuing communication.

...

Are you strange?

[Visual]

[caneattheseapples]

Life is a bitch, dude, and a pretty dumb one.

Come on. Talk about this shit with me.

[Visual]

[crapfully]

[Ah, his favorite Apple. Looking at her...well, somehow, it comes out.]

You know Feena? Bubbly girl, green hair, smiles at everything?

We've been friends for a while---or at least, that's what I thought was going on. Turned out she's been in love with me, and she asked me out.

And I couldn't take her up on it.

[Visual]

[caneattheseapples]

[She whistles a little, gritting her teeth a little.]

That's some messy shit dude. I know you don't want to hear it this way, but you did the right thing. Isn't that girl fifteen or something?

...I'm not going to say don't feel bad. But, hell...you can't just give up and decide to fence yourself off with this. One of the things about friendships is that...best way I can put it? Friends can hurt friends. It sucks ass, but it happens.

It's going to hurt for a while. But it doesn't mean the friendship is over.

[Visual]

[keaton_mask]

That is by far the most sense you've ever made so far.

[Which is...weird, because it sounds worse than what he tries to get away with.]

But why out yourself?

[Visual]

[crapfully]

Because I don't want anyone else in my way.

Look, uh. You don't want to deal with me right now, so. Go find Feena.

[There's a free hint, dude.]

[Visual]

[keaton_mask]

But that...doesn't make any sense. If you're as bad as you say...

[Then wouldn't he want to hide the fact that he's bad? Put up an act? And then strike when people are vulnerable? That's how bad people work, there is no "getting out of the way" or whatever. That's.. more like doing people a favor.]

What has Feena got to do with any of this?

[He sounds more wary than anything. His expression pretty much reads "What did you do?"]

[visual]

[verygassy]

I barely know you and even I don't buy that.

[Frown.]

If you can explain why you've decided this, that might help.

[visual]

[crapfully]

[There's no hope left for him as a supervillain. Sigh.]

Because I cause mass destruction, even when that's the last thing I want to do. I'm thinking it's a law like...gravity, or always keeping the ones cold.

[visual]

[kuukai]

Yeah, good luck. Th'ponies here won' shut up about it.

[visual]

[crapfully]

I've already heard a few more earfuls in the last hour.

[Oi.]

Don't they know a lost cause when they see one?

[discorderly]

Not that I can't see where you're COMING from - [Look it's been a bad week for Discord] - but if you're going to make a post like THAT on THIS network, I think you deserve what you're going to get.

[crapfully]

[A few pages' worth of friendship speeches later!]

...Point. I have been thoroughly drenched in it.

[visual]

[notgivinguponyou]

I'm not sure you're going to convince a lot of people that way.

[visual]

[crapfully]

Getting people to hate me used to be so easy. I said something offensive, they threw me in the brig, I broke out and continued to be awesome, life was great.

[He sighs.]

Then I had to go do something like care.

Visual

[pikapikapikarin]

This explains a lot of what happened a while ago.

[Oh look, guess whose on the line, Feena's roommate. She looks slightly cross, but there's a hint of understanding to her expression.]

Visual

[crapfully]

...I've really made a wreck this time, right?

[Oh geez. He is picturing it, and it's not pretty.]