* IdiotBall: Seriously, Blackjack? What made you think that [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace licking]] [[RapeAsBackstory P-21]], [[spoiler: right after [[WhatTheHellHero traumatising him by attempting suicide]]]], was a good idea?
** YMMV since it is consistent with previous and later behavior and part of her "Mask". IdiotBall implies acting out of character.
** The supporting cast gets one in chapter 23. Blackjack, who has been an emotional wreck throughout most of the story even before [[spoiler: gassing Stable 99]] and has displayed suicidal tendencies more than once, is stuck in a rapidly worsening HeroicBSOD. The cast discusses her emotional state, and it's obvious that they realize she's at risk of suicide. Yet they take no preventive measures and frequently leave her alone, unwatched, and fully armed. When she tells Glory, Lacunae and Scotch Tape to go Megamart, they agree, based on nothing more than her unreliable promise that she's okay, and that she'll see them again in a few hours. Keep in mind, this is Morning Glory, the most intelligent pony in the group and the only trained medical expert between them all, who has a vested interest in keeping Blackjack, her lover, alive...and she takes Blackjack at her word that she's perfectly fine and will see her later. [[spoiler: They do meet again, but not before Blackjack's tried to eat her gun.]]
*** And then, at the MASEBS tower, Blackjack suggests that she, P-21 and Rampage split up, leaving her completely alone and with the means to carry out her own death. They agree without question. It's almost as if they wanted her to kill herself.
*** Also YMMV. Glory is well-established as the most naive and trusting of the main cast (which has bitten her in the ass more than once before), and P-21 and Rampage were only a room or two away from BJ in the tower. She had to use a [=StealthBuck=] to get away from them, and there's no indication that they knew she had one. Not to mention that Rampage is [[DeathSeeker suicidal full-time]] and [[spoiler: P-21 is going through a near-terminal BSOD of his own]].

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