Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-31727837-20180906015253/@comment-31727837-20180910035818

Decided to take your word for it and tone down Fearmaster a notch. What about this?

Jack Jones was an assistant to an adventurous botanist. Jack wanted to become a psychologist, but due to the lack of fundings to go to college, he was forced to take the job just so he can support himself. One day, the botanist went to Equestria and asked Princess Celestia for access to the Poison Jokes in the forests (DON'T YOU DARE ASK HOW I KNOW ALL THAT). When she grants it, he collects as much of it as he can, intending to find a way to use the Poison Jokes for the greater good. Out of curiosity, he combines the Poison Joke with various chemicals he found laying around in the lab (some of them are experimental), eventually leading to the creation of Poison Phobia, a plant which creates a fear gas capable of incapacitating anyone who smells it. This also leads to the accidental murder of the botanist, who was robophobic. When he smelt the gas, he was consumed in fear and accidentally walked out of a window, in which he fell to death. While remorseful, Jack was interested in the plant and used it to discover his phobia, where he discovers that he was phobophobic. Wanting to conquer his newfound fear, he sold a lot of his old friend's equipment to earn enough money to enroll in a university, where he would get a degree in psychology, specializing in phobias. He then creates a nearly infinite supply of Poison Phobias using the large number of Poison Jokes his old botanist friend bought. He then takes up the persona of the Fearmaster and plans to use the power of fear in his enemies for research.