City Scraper really reminds me of Thomas Wraith from The Dresden Files. Also a conflicted character that feeds on lifeforce and is irresistible to the opposite sex when he wants to be.

Nice chapter, it was interesting to see the insight on City's situation and how he apparently can't let himself be attached to anyone because of his 'hunger' and how he risk s overfeeding and put others into a coma, and he is starting to fall into that trap with twilight now. I wonder what is getting him interested in her and how he will explain bedding with other ponies while dating her, or will he actually starve himself for her, or maybe he could risk 'fess up to her about his situation and see where it goes, especially sense Cheerily is in a coma because of him; at the very least he will get an honest response from Twilight of what she thinks of him once the lies are stripped away. Tough call man...

Looking forward to the next chapter.

I left the house, and walked in the opposite direction of where I needed to go. I was a coward. I walked to a nearby park and sat on a bench. I smoked a cigarette. I watched ducks swim in the pond. I watched pegasi fly in the skies overhead, some ferrying snow clouds. Foals watched me with a barely masked curiosity, probably impressed by my suit or curious about my cigarette. Not many ponies smoked in public, so it must have been an oddity to them.

OK, this guy's pretty fucked up if he's that desparate.

I really hope for a happy end for him and Twilight

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Me too. Maybe she can find a way to either cure him of this curse or prevent mares from falling into the same trap that starlight about felt to.

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Maybe she'll be able to endure his "needs"
She is an alicorn after all.

i really like this so far

What's up with all the disliked comments?

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People often troll clop for no good reason.

And in she walked with bags under her eyes, hair all frazzled, a grump on her face that lifted into a pleasant smile the moment she saw me. She was the most adorable mess I’d ever seen.

This...this right here...is Twilight to a T. ALL HAIL THE ADORKABLE PRINCESS!!!

Beyond that, this is an intriguing premise that I have seen before, but not quite in this manner. Looking forward to more.

Starlight actually turned back to her pancakes now, took her eyes off me. I noticed the flick of her tail, irritated. I found myself more curious than I should’ve been, and undid my progress with a few words. “Sounds like you’re jealous to me. You want to be out there with her, I’ll bet.”

I was grilling my head the whole time for who Starlight's marefriend could be, when Trixie's existence suddenly popped back into my head.

For some reason, my bravado, my instinct to forgo morality and act as I pleased, it died around her.

Instead, I only felt happy. That and protective. I wanted to keep her safe.

And in she walked with bags under her eyes, hair all frazzled, a grump on her face that lifted into a pleasant smile the moment she saw me. She was the most adorable mess I’d ever seen.

Well, at least we know that he'll try his absolute best to treat her right.

… and that's a good thing, since ― unless there's a good reason not to ― if he hurts her, I'd be obliged to run him through with a sword.

Also, cute Twilight is cute.

Huh, if he had a number of mares in-the-know, he could rotate through them without too much hardship on anypony's part. But he has to hide his nature to keep from getting lynched by the innocents he fucked, so he can't form those strong relationships he'd need to stop harming others.This guy is like the ideal prostitute. Looks awesome, feels awesome, costs a fucking mint so you can only afford him once a year or so. Nobody gets hurt in anywhere but their pocketbook. And yet it's the prostitutes he's having to use, not the other way around. Kind of sucks.

Thanks for not making him a changeling. That would've been waaaaay too cliché.

Oh as for Cheerilee, my hypothesis is she's one of whatever he is, and she stopped secretly having rampant promiscuous sex for too long, so she ran out of energy to keep going. The cure is to have sex with her until she's well fed enough to regain consciousness. Yep, that's exactly what's going on. Anyone who's gazed upon her supernatural beauty should agree with me on this. I think they should test that hypothesis multiple times, with several stallions, just to be sure.

Starlight would have never gone through with having sex with him. It was clear when she had that moment where she flinched and stepped back her heart and love for her marefriend was preventing it from going any further. Any more and it would have been just him forcing her to to it. Basically clouding her mind to a point she would just do his bidding. Her body would have gonf through the motions, but she truly wouldn’t enjoy it. Love is powerful and true love bonds can’t be broken. It nice to see he was surprised that even with all his allure and attractive nature true love still can see through his deception and cause a potential victim to still have the willpower to fight off his advances.

Perhaps too this is him as well seeing something he truly wants, but is afraid to try for. Maybe that is what happened to Cheerilee too. Perhaps she too had this curse placed upon her as well and eventually after countless victims found out that there is love for her too out there and was just simple afraid to chase after it.

Something has definitely changed in him if he's having so much trouble keeping routine...