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Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice

IRL 🎠 stallion
lied about his identidy
Unless there is missing context from a prior episode of this comic, this is a straightforward example of taking advantage of miscommunication. Tax Pirate assumed “Are you the red-tie stallion I’m looking for?” to be a pickup line instead of a literal question. Rape by deception would be if Tax Pirate had known in advance that Cheerilee would be looking for a red stallion at that restaurant and decided to be purposely confusing.
Background Pony #97CF
@Background Pony #17CB
We do have a lot of rapists, yes! And, certain things, such as lying about your identity, pretty much automatically rise to the level of “rape by fraud.” If the thing you are lying about is such that, had they known, they would have likely withheld consent, then it’s rape. If she had known he wasn’t her blind date, she would not have slept with him.
Consider, whoever sets up the blind date may be trusted to some extent or another. While you don’t know who you’re dating, they presumably do. You’re trusting the matchmaking service to set you up with someone who won’t hurt or take advantage of you. Maybe even someone who doesn’t have STIs, or who are already in a relationship. He has had no vetting at all. She has no assurances about anything that she thought she had and that led her to date him.
Background Pony #17CB
@Background Pony #97CF
She still consented, but a fraud case could be argued, since she was looking for something meaningful. If misleading someone to get them to sleep with you was always considered rape… we’d have so many rapists.
Background Pony #17CB
@Invisifat  
Consensual sex under false pretenses isn’t rape, per se, but might still be a crime that can be prosecuted.
Background Pony #17CB
@Scintilla Aquila
 
@Tetrominon  
He at best plundered someone else’s blind date. She expected a stranger, she got one. He proceeded to give her the most special date ever, then he left when he wasn’t wanted. Didn’t even ask for a thank you, and left saying all that mattered was that she had a good time.
 
That’s the kind of date they write fairy tales about.
Scintilla Aquila

Honorary Yak
@Tetrominon  
In the fact that she specifically mentioned a blind date in panel 2. Assuming he wasn’t also on one himself, that should have tipped him off. So I think he knew exactly what he was doing.
Tetrominon
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
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Undesirable
@Farnham  
Is there even any evidence up until she gets the text message that he had any inkling she wasn’t actually just hitting on him? Seriously, where in anything she said or did was he supposed to get the impression that she thought he was someone else entirely?
Background Pony #B6EC
@Farnham  
I’m pretty sure rape is about a lack of consent to sex itself, not about false pretenses in convincing someone to have sex. If rape was a liability based on false pretenses aforehand instead of being just about the act, then a lot of people would have legitimate “rape” claims against other people for a ton of scummy things like lying about being on birth control and ending up with an “oopsie” baby, being used to cheat on someone else, contracting an STI from someone negligently failing to mention they had one, and so forth. But it doesn’t look like courts see it that way.
Background Pony #17CB
@Farnham  
You never know, he might be down to be in a serious relationship. Nopony has really given him a chance. He’s basically Casanova.
Farnham
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@Background Pony #BADA  
Cheerilee is lonely and looking for a serious relationship. Instead of meeting someone for a date to see if they were potentially compatible in that way, ‘Tax Pirate’ misleads her to get his jollies off then disappears out the window leaving her used and once again alone. And I’m pretty sure tricking someone into have sex with you under false pretenses is a type of rape. So yeah, that’s slimy as hell. What a dirt bag.