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  • In chapter 17, Caramel tries to manipulate Fluttershy into cuddling him on their date by going to a horror movie. Except, because of Fluttershy's Fluffy Tamer tendencies, she's not scared of the movie's monster (a centaur) in the slightest, instead fascinatedly trying to work out how its biology works and sadly concluding that it must be suffering from impacted breathing, chronic joint pain, and potentially fatal bowel torsions. All whilst Caramel stares at her dumbfounded, not understanding how things could have gone so far off plan. The sight is so funny that, In-Universe, Fluttershy's "chaperone", Fleur, has stuffed a hoof into her mouth to keep from laughing aloud.
  • In chapter 42, when a "green pegasus mare" who is starting to look at Caramel in a different light after recent events starts to get jealous of Fleur, the escort very bluntly nips the problem in the bud by flat-out telling her that Caramel is attracted to wings but finds horns a turn-off, probably because he got poked in the eye when he was a young teen and did "Seven Minutes In The Wonderbolts Stable" with a unicorn. Caramel is mortified, but the pegasus is mollified.
    • This is then followed by Caramel demanding to know how Fleur figured all that out, which she explains with equal bluntness. Then she visibly fights the urge to Face Palm and informs Caramel that she is going to work on him to try and break him of his bad dating habits.
  • In a rare break in the bleakness of chapter 43, Fleur leaves Miranda Rights dumbfounded and embarrassed when she uses her Talent to reveal the police chief's deepest, most private sexual fantasies and that she knows exactly how long it's been since Miranda had sex. Also, by putting two and two together, she guesses that Miranda was the one who inadvertently gave Caramel his aversion to dating unicorns.
  • A brief moment of levity in chapter 48 comes when an indignant Fluttershy learns that, rather than being at least 5 years older than her like she believed, Fleur is actually younger than she is. Which prompts Fleur to teasingly explain that she benefits from a mixture of natural height and a deft touch with makeup.
  • The end of chapter 48 manages to be both this and a Tear Jerker at the same time. Knowing that Discord no longer needs to rely on her for knowledge about dating, Harem Fantasy worries that she's going to die. Discord de-animates her book, saying that it's best if she doesn't remember him for a while. We then find a mare who's just given birth at the hospital, and who delivers this final line to her obstetrician at top volume:
    "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'HOW IS THERE ANOTHER FOAL COMING'?!?"
  • Fleur torturing/teaching Caramel about budgeting in the Epilogue.
  • Fleur wondering to herself if and how she should break it to Caramel that his new pegasus girlfriend has a thing for BDSM... and not as the submissive.

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