< ( you’re safe now )  
< ( I’ll walk you home m’lady )  
< ( wait, why are all your neighbors outside your house with torches and pitchforks? )  
( ohhhh that personal data ) >  
< ( what personal data? )  
( I should… um… go ) >  
< ( why are you running?? )  
( I won’t go back to prison!! ) >

“Nopony exploits Cheerilee but me!”

@FamusJamus
 
Ah, Team America. Good times XD

@Background Pony #0C62  

 
If we’re going by Team America definitions, then he’s a dick that just fucked someone who’s an asshole.

Is this Opposite Day?

@Background Pony #6A38  
Judging by what’s happening in this comic, she might already be damaged.

@Neko Majin C  
I do hope that they don’t get in a relationship because of this, just genuine friendship about caring for each other. A relationship does carry a dark message about how damaged Cheerilee is.

@Dirty Bit  
Sad thing is, that account may be what lead to this. Watch as Zypher dramatizes them by telling them about how their account they made for her caused her pain and misery.

@Neko Majin C
 
There is also the slight, albeit minuscule, chance that Zephyr takes a good hard look at the dirtbag he just chased off, sees a good deal of himself in that guy, and decides he doesn’t like what he’s seen. He might use the encounter as a wake-up call and it could totally change his outlook on life, where he slowly starts to change and develop into an actually fairly decent individual. He may even ask Cheerilee for help with such. She is a teacher after all.
 
Can she teach me how to Dougie?
 
A slim chance, but i don’t think it’s non-existent.

@Neko Majin C
 
While the reasoning’s sound, it’s all up to the artist in the end.

@Dirty Bit  
I hope she does not start looking at him through lonely heart goggles or low self esteem goggles.
 
Just because he had a moment of chivalry does not mean he is a good person. She is being tormented by that jerk OC, then that jerk, Zephyr, comes along and shows a tiny bit of uncharacteristic kindness while she is at what is quite possibly the lowest point in her life. A point at which, after it was over, had Zephyr not come to her rescue, she would have probably gone home and ended her life that night.
 
Doing what he did, Zephyr probably imprinted himself on Cheerilee’s devastated, vulnerable heart as someone who quite literally just saved her life. Albeit from herself and not the guy he got rid of. And now, unfortunately, she probably sees him as a “hero” and a “misunderstood soul” and a “sweet, caring guy” instead of the scumbag and creeper he really is.
 
A moment like this can really mess with a person’s head. Zephyr will probably be kind, sweet, and caring to Cheerilee for a few weeks or months, but, slowly, eventually, his sleazy, scummy, creepy self will emerge and he will end up treating her like, well, like he does with every mare. Except it will probably be worse for her since he will have her coerced consent to touch her. However, Cheerilee will not see it, because she will be in what she believes is “love” with Zephyr, but is actually a form of brainwashing that started to take its effect a few weeks or months prior in panel three of this comic.
 
Of course, Zephyr did not plan this meeting with Cheerilee, it was just a bit of good fortune and a whim on his part and a bit of bad fortune on Cheerilee’s. Zephyr is not going to stop Cheerilee from hugging him while she is at her most vulnerable, because not even the lowest of the low will reject someone that is that close to killing themselves. However, after she is over her initial depression, he will not do the right thing and bow out gracefully, he will continue to get as much undeserved affection from Cheerilee as he possibly can because he has a good thing and he does not want to lose it so he will not let it go. I mean, when will something like the scenario in this comic ever happen again for him? Unless he stages it next time, which will make him a whole different kind of creep.

At least he can do some things right.

@Neko Majin C
 
I feel it’ll be partially that and the fact that Cheerilee has been lonely for a while. I remember when the CMC made her an account on a dating site XD

How did Cheerilee’s life come to this? She’s constantly suffering from the bad things in the world…

Tell me she is not going to fall for him simply because she needed help and he was there.

So he has some redeeming qualities.

At least Zephyr can do more than be a massive dickhead.

So he’s discovered empathy, nice.

He’s not the hero we need, but he’s the hero we deserve.
 
Teehee. He said ‘unleash on your face’.

He may have cheese pick ups but at least he cares for a mare

Normally I can’t stand Zephyr, but I’m really glad he was there. It’s heartbreaking to see Cheerilee abused that way.

Douche vs Scumbag, fight!

The artist really knows how to make characters likable…
 
@Meanlucario
 
Very true.

He’s an a-hole, but not one hundred percent a dick.

Atta boy, Zeph. Stand up for poor Cheerilee.