When writing characters like Flicker, I listen to songs like this one to gain a feeling for their character. The music sometimes really does make the character, it makes them come to alive, gives them a voice, personality, it gives them gravity. Every character has music that goes with them, to some extent.

But Murder Ballads works out exceptionally well here for Flicker.

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The Weeping Sister Hospital was a little over nine hundred years old and one of the oldest buildings in Canterlot. It had been named during a time when ponies still remembered Princess Luna, whom ponies believed had died that fateful night when Nightmare Moon had attacked. Over time, over centuries, Princess Luna’s memory faded and it became a great mystery as to why this place of medicine was called ‘The Weeping Sister Hospital.’

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So, I have ideas for cameos in The Mask Makes The Pony.

First and foremost, the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They're older now, much older, and in university at this point in the timeline. Flicker does have something of a cutie mark crisis, as it has become the entirety of his being. I sense potential.

At some point, I think Fluttershy deserves some time. Because, Fluttershy. (I found you a rat, he looks sick, can you help him?)

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http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/poverty-was-a-risk-factor-in-the-1918-flu-pandemic/

I like disease. I've had a few.

For readers of The Mask Makes The Pony:

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Has been released.

That is all.

I am going to go and freak out now.