How to introduce a villain · 2:44pm May 31st, 2015
This is an except taken from The Weed.
The chapter is coming soon.
Some ponies are known by their reputations. 
“You, you look tired… need a little pick me up? I have stuff that can help you have fun all night long. You can drink all the whiskey you want, dance, have a real nice time, and just keep going,” a skinny looking unicorn said to Tarnished Teapot.
“Huh?” Tarnish replied, giving the unicorn a wary glance.
“Alchemically laced salts, treated with the finest compounds known to zebrakind. Gentle, safe, and effective. Perfectly safe, perfectly legal, absolutely nothing wrong with them at all. If there was, I wouldn’t be able to sell them,” the unicorn said as he smiled, his mustache quivering.
“Hmm.” Tarnish looked at the unicorn. It sounded like a stronger version of coffee. The unicorn’s words had a ring of truth to them. It was illegal to sell illegal things, so it must be okay.
“I’ll give you two doses and a sample shot of something stronger for the low, low price of twelve bits… no, wait, I can’t cheat you like that, ten bits is perfectly fair and good.” The unicorn smiled. “Brother, dear brother, can we afford to take that kind of loss?”
Another unicorn turned and smiled. “I think we can. We’ll make up for it somehow. Right, brother?”
The two unicorns grinned at one another and then turned their million bit smiles upon Tarnished Teapot. One was mustached, the other was not. Both were dressed in well tailored coats.
Tarnished Teapot studied them both. Both of them had apples for cutie marks. Tarnished Teapot’s eyebrow raised. “Both of you are Apples?”
“Why yes we are! Mister Apple and Mister Apple,” the mustachioed unicorn replied.
“There is no name more famous for honesty, integrity, and economical value… our products are so good, they’re guaranteed by our good name as members of the Apple family!” the other said in a show pony's voice as he grinned from ear to ear.
So... is this a suitable introduction for a villain or does it need work? 
Oh boy. There is very little chance of this ending well. A fine introduction for those two.
3111717
Mister Apple and Mister Apple. The good name sells itself... who is this Flim and Flam you speak of?
....KILL THE BLASPHEMOUS HERETICS! GELD THEM AND FEED THE OTHER THEIR OWN BROTHERS SEVERED TESTICLES! MAKE THEM SUFFER AN ETERNITY!!!!
3111756
Woah... easy there. This is a teen rated flick I'm writing.
3111770
Jep. Sounds completely safe and unsuspicious.
And the famous Apple Brothers, named like this they can't have something in common with those varmints Flim and Flam. I mean, they even have apples as cutie marks, they must be Apples.
How can these good ponies be villains, my dear sir?
Oh my goodness what is he going to get himself into now...
3111890
Exactly!
Fuuuuuuuck off film and flam.
Con ponies? Fine, but drug dealers?
Hang em, hang em hiiigh.
Dunno. . .
Flim and Flam have been written quite a few times as shysters and they almost NEVER get away with it.
It would be nice to see that they end up on the wrong end of a deal for a change in a more mortal sense instead of the usual Team Rocket, "We're blasting off again!" motif.