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finally lined and colored a sketch I had laying around, but since I didn't want to just post it randomly, here are some notes about how Party Favor might have been recruited by Starlight Glimmer. I have some thoughts about what I want to do with Party Favor in my AU, but since those aren't concrete and wouldn't really fit in with the bulk of this headcanon anyways, this is just about Party Favor's (recent) past.

*Party Favor grew up in Las Pegasus and spent a lot of time working in Pegas creating balloon animals for parties, making them fun for thousands of ponies. But the party scene in the city was highly competitive, and over time that competition began to seep into his work. Ponies were delighted by his balloon hats and balloon swords and balloon replicas of Princess Celestia, but Party started feeling the need to do something more. He started to believe that ponies enjoying themselves wasn't good enough — he didn't just want to be a party pony, he wanted to be the party pony.

*That want began to consume him — once he stopped letting his parties be about themselves and started seeing them as a need to uphold his brand and his reputation of quality, once he stopped celebrating the fact that ponies were having fun and started worrying that his next mistake would expose him as an amateur and a fraud, things only went downhill. He realized that he was never going to always be the best, no matter how hard he tried, and it became harder and harder to try his best as he started to hate his parties more and more because he only saw what they weren't instead of what they were.

*This mindset got significantly worse when Party Favor learned of Cheese Sandwich. To see Cheese at work, headlining the greatest parties in Pegas, to see him doing everything Party had dreamed of doing seemingly effortlessly — that was the hardest thing for him to take. It made him hate his silly balloon animals, no matter how happy they had made the little fillies and colts over the years. All he could see, every time he worked, was that he would never be Cheese Sandwich.

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Posted previously at: 2020-07-13T19:54:17 | Posted previously by: icey wicey 1517