@Dirty Bit  
No! No! That he actually ISN’T Twilight’s son, but is in fact a failed clone with the potential to destroy the universe!

@Trahzo
 
Long lost twin?

A magical bisexual ninja prince, what’s next to discover about this guy?

@Ms. Harshwhinny Not to mention, it’s the most professional course of action!  
I mean hey if Ms Harshwhinny is endorsing it…

@Ms. Harshwhinny  
“Cmon bro let me kiss you, don’t be gay about it, it’s for SCIENCE!”

@Ms. Harshwhinny  
If sketchy unisex (argh, pun) consent in fiction floats yer boat, cruise on. I’ll be over there hawking SARS masks.

@gorkspewdium  
Yeah but asking to let a pony kiss you for science is less sexy than suddenly going right for makeouts with other dudes shhh come on.

@Ms. Harshwhinny  
My breakdancing is the stuff of suppressed giggles.
 
But yeah: it’s not so much the ‘open-mouth sample’ part as the ‘neglecting to ask or explain beforehand’ bit. That step sorta helps, unless you’re fourth-wall spectating for that sweet enflusterment.

@gorkspewdium  
You must be really fun at parties.

Again: tissue/saliva samples. Backwash from sterile water glasses. Borrowing their used toothbrushes. Lotta surprise snog-free options out there.

@PonyPon  
Okay I chuckled.

@Trickquestion  
With how weird and specific that sounded, you watched a Hentai with that plot, didn’t you.

@Ms. Harshwhinny  

@PonyPon  
Because of fan backlash. The creator of the comic more than likely didn’t want to put up with people that would bitch about him pairing Twilight up with an OC. It was less stress on him to just have Twilight lean on the 4th wall about the issue and keep his identity a secret.

@Trickquestion  
That’s pretty hot.

Within a few more generations, Twilight’s like will just be a family of emotionless floating brains that stick tentacles up people’s butts to download all their memories and biological information.

Who cares who is the father? it was already confirmed is not the cliche and that was all what matters, it can be a pheonix!

@TheMadMan  
Ugh.
 
‘Then why would Twilight be broken up about keeping Top Secret a top secret?’
 
Is the question I would like to counter with, but I have a feeling I won’t gain much headway in this debate with that angle.
 
Let’s just move on.

@PonyPon  
Close enough. Same basic method of retrieve information through personally intrusive means.
 
You mean isolated really damn hard like Sparity was? Odds are that the culture of 170 years in the future will not be the same as it is in the present. More than likely is that he explains the situation afterward is the person questions him on it or that the pony society is much more sexually open than it was.

@TheMadMan  
Well one, that was just for language, not all this.
 
And, really, cultural misunderstanding? He’d have to be isolated really damn hard to not get why this is wrong, at this age, having formulated this method of deep intelligence gathering, and having practiced it extensively.

@Ms. Harshwhinny  
yanno what this means don’t you?  
We need him using the doll from here >>802008  
as bait for one of his playing-hard-to-get subjects. Then they take turns yiffing his double. :v  
Maybe Blueblood, you know royals always have some weird paraphilias!  
Says the guy full of weird paraphilias whose family used to own a fancy manor in southeast Germany.

@PonyPon  
Where’s the fun in just touching someone? Unless you mean touching them in an…intimate way. Oh my.
 
Anyways, it could just be explained as a cultural misunderstanding. Starfire from Teen Titans had to do the same thing to learn things about people.

@CronoM  
Now I really do wanna know who the kid’s dad is, because for all my hatred, I refuse to believe Twilight alone contributed to this thing.
 
I mean, full medical and biological info from lip contact?
 
Who the hell turns a blind eye to that?
 
And, couldn’t he just like, touch them or something? Like a hoofshake?

Almost zero emotional depth or empathy, complete invasion of personal space, absolute invasion of privacy, and he’s done this for who knows how long yet is still confused by it being wrong?
 
Sweet jesus, he actually IS worse then his mother!
 
Add onto to that the cutie mark combined with the ceremony needing a kiss or sex, and it makes him disturbingly close to a freakin’ crossroads demon. And not even a cool kind, just some indecent, asshole librarian.
 
@Marnssj  
Same.