This is the letter that got Charlie Yu his job at Sweet Apple Acres in the first place, when he was previously being supported by payment from the Treasury and his life administered by Twilight Sparkle. It obviously pre-dates An Epistolary Legal Consultation Between Princesses by about half a year.

Dear Princess Celestia,

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Introduction

In the course of writing the story, I went from originally just riffing on the original to doing a serious character study of the Mane Six and Derpy (and, peripherally, of Celestia and Luna). All of them reveal character in their interactions with Yu and with Twilight.

Analysis

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Why do so many Human in Equestria romance stories fail so spectacularly to seem at all plausible?

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Introduction

I hate stories in which the main character is "anonymous" and has neither meaningful background or personality. I have noticed that such tales are usually Humans in Equestria who are almost always male late-teens or early-twenties and have various canon characters inexplicably fall in love with them, usually for the purpose of having at least one highly-explicit love scene with these characters.

I. A Failure of Imagination

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This part of the story struck me as essential and yet logically part of Chapter 2 rather than 3, so I have extended Chapter 2 a bit. For those who don't want to bother re-reading any of Chapter 2, here is the addition in full: it is a letter from Twiight to Luna, in response to the one Luna sent in Chapter 1.

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Dear Princess Luna Selena Nyx,

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Because of my story An Epistolary Legal Consultation Between Princesses, I've been devoting some thought to the consideration of Derpy Hooves and specifically her physical (and mental) handicaps. Here are my conclusions on the matter.

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I originally intended this as a quick one-chapter dark humor piece, but it's been so popular and I've received so many requests to carry it to a conclusion that I'm doing so. With the end of Chapter 2 the Humiliation Conga of Charlie Yu will soon be over, and we are seeing some more serious themes beginning involving the nature of the interaction between freedom of choice and compulsion, both on the part of Charlie Yu and

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