He needed no further encouragement than that. He gulped down the first treat, as any gentlecolt would when presented with a kindness from the girl that got him his cutie mark and, more importantly, had helped him clear the biggest hurdle to his dreams. "I'll take your word for it, then. But this had better not turn me into a monster. I don't wanna be a t-t-t-terrible snowpony or anything." Me (He) mentally slapped himself. After all his training, he still stuttered, but only for certain words, it drove him crazy sometimes.
Good boys (apostrophe) smell. Big boys sweat good.
9830531 Corrected the first, the second one is as intended. It's kind of a common trope in brainwashing/corruption stories to have the suggestion be along the lines of "Good X do this," which cements in the mind before the victim is made to identify as a good X. It wasn't a reference to the object/noun of a smell in that particular instance.
Thanks for catching it, regardless. The signal boosting was a bust, but at least it was practice in doing something new, right?
Next person who makes a tender tapps clipfic make it tenderbloom
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Corrected the first, the second one is as intended. It's kind of a common trope in brainwashing/corruption stories to have the suggestion be along the lines of "Good X do this," which cements in the mind before the victim is made to identify as a good X. It wasn't a reference to the object/noun of a smell in that particular instance.
Thanks for catching it, regardless. The signal boosting was a bust, but at least it was practice in doing something new, right?