Flam · Public Relations

There are three ways/ interpretations that i like to play as Flam, sort of correlating with a general time in his life.  1. being the more canon version, a sort of pathetic cheat, who is very perceptive and persuasive in what he does. Cowardly, and is willing to cheat you out of something for a bit of profit. This usually takes place before twilights coronation, and a little bit after, and in my opinion is the funnest version of him 2. Walt disney/ Robert house. An innovator and idealist, wanting to make a name for himself and his family. He has long outgrown the need for money or fame, looking towards legacy and ego. This version has an enormlus amount of ego, but now he has the merit and ability to back it up moving beyond simple scams, to actual innovative products that can change the world. 3. The corrupt politician, a pony who has taken his time to become powerful and entrenched. Manipulative and sly, his ego has been replaced by a sheen of acute precision and clockwork motions. Flam isnt afraid to get his hands dirty. Isnt afraid to bribe, blackmail or manipulate others to get what he wants and through it he becomes a powerful, legitimate threat that can be feared rather than passed off as a minor villain. His methods are slow methodical, and poses the greatest threat to those around him.  I like this in a way,  playing a character whose arc has already settled, playing into the different parts of his life from a more naive, a bit greedy, but well meaning pony, to a cynical threat to the power structures of equestria as power consumes him. I just though it would be interesting to kind of lay out!

Moondancer died today.  It wasnt much of a suprise. She was only holding on by a thread, being a centurian does that to the regular ponies.  . . . It still hurts though.  But fitting.  My first freind, destined to be the last one alive of all of them.  Applejack,  Pinkie Pie, Rainbow dash,  Rarity, Fluttershy,  And the others.  . . . They had kids sure, but what more could i be to them than just a freind of their now dead parents? They dont know me, and being a princess now, i doubt they would particularly want to.  Royal politics does that.  As the mayors of the different cities start to bicker over funding, they use leverage, an eviction of a freind, or eminent domain on somewhere i used to go.  The mayors used to be different. Kinder, more responsive, but lately they have become more aggressive, angry. Ponyville has gone after cloudsdale for not providing enough rain to help with crops, cloudsdale in kind has provided extra windy days.  Its these little things. Small insignificant slights that are... fracturing the harmony. Ive long since begun to lose these attatchments to these places and ponies. Used against me to try and woo me to their side.  Not that it would matter anyways.  They would die before they could even get to know me.  And i would forget their names just as easy.  There was that blue pony i was freinds with in canterlot a long time ago, but now.... i cant even remember who she was. She was friends with moondancer too. Now everypony os expecting me to host this funeral. To speak at it in one way or another, to a crowd of faces i cant deciper from, even though each of them can be picked out.  I am speaking to a crowd of ponies who i will see the deaths of, who will expect me to host their service just as i did hers.  I ask myself, whats the point of it? Whats the point of crying? I should have known this would happen. That this was the burden celestia bound me to. To be the herald of freindship in a new era.  How can i make a connection with somepony that i know will be gone? Who i know is just a temporary distraction from the fact that really, i am alone.  The sisters abandoned me, and ever since shining armor died, cadance has brought the crystal empire into hiding once again.  And discord.... since what happened to fluttershy... He left equestria. Off to somewhere.  there is nopony o can talk to, and yet i am screaming into something for anyone to help. Truly, what more could i do?  I read some books today.  About a dark magic hidden underneath grogars fortress. I will be headed there tomorrow. Alone.  If there was any way to fix this- this has to be it.