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sailormagic) wrote2012-02-15 06:14 am
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[OOC Information]
Name: Tai
Age: negative infinity
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What characters do you play here already, if any? The insanely differing duo of Ven and Zidane
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[IC Information]
Character Name: Twilight Sparkle
Series: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Gender: Filly (female)
Age: Uncertain - she's old enough to live on her own and hold down her own job, but probably not much older than that. I tend to view her as the pony equivalent of a grad student.
Species: Pony! Unicorn to be specific, but still a pony.
Appearance: Twilight is vaguely pony-shaped, with four legs, a horsey body and head, and a mane and tail. Her coloring is overall purple, with her body being a shade of lavender that almost matches her assistant, Spike, and her mane, tail, and eyes all a deeper, richer shade almost closer to a midnight blue. Her mane and tail are streaked with magenta and hot pink; she keeps them straight and no-nonsense, with bangs cut over her eyes. As a unicorn, she has a horn in the middle of her forehead that - normally - controls her magic; her cutie mark is a large magenta six-pointed star the same color as the streak in her hair surrounded by five smaller white stars. It's a representation of her strength in magic, as that's her special talent, but it's also a very heavy-handed clue as to her role in the Elements of Harmony, even before she knows about them.
Personality: Twilight Sparkle is a unicorn who knows what she wants, knows how to get it, and will let nothing stand in her way. She is determined to be the most accomplished magic user in Equestria, the strongest unicorn, to live up to her full potential as the mightiest of unicorns, after Princess Celestia of course.
And then, she gets what she wants... and finds out it isn't all that she wants anymore.
For most of her life Twilight studied because she liked it, making very few close connections with anyone. She knew ponies by face from her classes and things like that, but the only ones she was close to were her mentor, Princess Celestia (whom she respected and revered even over her own family), and her assistant, Spike, whom she'd helped be born during her exam for magic school. She eventimes often didn't pay that much attention to Spike, although they truly did (and still do) love each other, much as a brother and sister pair would. But Twilight had her head so wrapped up in her studies and becoming Accomplished that she let everything else slide out of importance, and forgot that every pony is not an island unto herself. Thankfully, after being sent to Ponyville to oversee the Summer Sun Celebration, she gets that cleaned out of her head. While her goals haven't changed - she still wants to be the world's best magic user - she now makes time in her life for friendship, even above and beyond Princess Celestia's mandate. She's happier now than she has been in her entire life, and will not give up Ponyville and her friends for anything. Not even an ancient Chaos god can stop her.
For all that she learned her lesson about self-isolation, that doesn't mean her personality is noticably different in any other way. Twilight was, has been, and always will be very concerned with knowledge, actively choosing to live in a library so she can continue her own studies into magic and researching spells with Spike's help at any opportunity. As a member of the Elements of Harmony, she finds several opportunities to use her talents with her friends, whether it's taming an Ursa Minor or handling a dragon or Hydra. Living in Ponyville gives her plenty of time to practice her magic, and she doesn't skimp even with the amount of time she spends doing other things now.
She is, however, skeptical about several things. Twilight doesn't believe in anything that can't be scientifially (or magically) proven, leading her into conflict more than once with Pinkie, though she's somewhat gotten over it. She doesn't have anything against Pinkie, she just has to be able to understand how something happens, and when she can't find any explanation for it, it drives her brain crazy trying to figure it out. It's another facet of her thirst for knowledge, her drive to understand and comprehend. Eventually she just gives up, accepting the fact that she can't explain it, but she's still a little frustrated that she can't.
One thing she isn't is a braggart. Twilight knows how good she is at what she does, but overall she remains modest and unassuming, putting her abilities down to hard work and study thought it's due at least in part to her inborn talent. She also tries to instill this quality in her friends, most noticably Rainbow Dash, with varying degrees of success. She's the moderate one of the group, level-headed (for the most part), thoughtful, considering things from all angles and most willing to switch tactics if something isn't working, though Applejack shares some of the same traits. When Trixie comes through and starts bragging about all her accomplishments, Twilight hides her own abilities because she doesn't want to be seen as a bragger like her, and only steps into the limelight (reluctantly) when Trixie's own magic fails to calm the Ursa Minor and it nearly destroys Ponyville. She's also the only one to not be freaked out by Zecora and is openly dismissive of everyone else's attitudes about the zebra, going to far as to make several sarcastic quips at her friends as they list off the (absolutely normal everyday) activities Zecora performs whenever she comes into town. She's also the first to welcome back Princess Luna when the princess comes to Night Mare Night, and tries to help her make friends and showcase her changed image.
More than any of the rest of the ponies, Twilight is sarcastic. She has no patience for people who don't try - as long as you're actually attempting to do something, she'll help you and praise you when you make progress, but she will not let people stay stuck in something, be it a bad situation or a bad attitude. She has a temper that she can lose in such situations, and her scathing comments are legendary - for a pony, at least. She can get so frustrated with things that she ends up showing traces of the traits she dislikes herself and doesn't recognize it as a problem.
Twilight is also incredibly organized, oftentimes to an obsessive-compulsive level - but oddly, sometimes she forgets all about it. Her lists are legendary, to the point where she will make a checklist of items to use to make a checklist. She also treats reshelving day at the library with almost religious reverence, demanding to be undisturbed and lighting mood candles for the process. While she proved an absolute failure at helping with the Winter Wrap Up in any way that fit in with the three teams, though she honestly tried her best, she was still able to contribute to the process when she realized that none of them even bothered to try and keep things together and every pony more or less did whatever they thought was best. She was able to help them finish Winter Wrap Up on time for the first time in... well, a very long time through getting them all better organized and delegating tasks appropriately, and in the end the Mayor makes her the official organizer for every Wrap Up thereafter. It's not just a compulsion, it's a way of life for her; Mrs. Cake is taken completely aback when Twilight arrives to pick up a dozen cupcakes and insists on redistributing the icing on each so that they all have exactly the same amount, resulting in all of them having just one little dab. However, this has another side to it, as she can get incredibly obsessive about one thing or another, and she sometimes ends up completely forgetting about any mess she's made, books out of place, or anything else. This is most frequently seen when she levitates several books at once looking for one in particular, and when she finds it immediately burying herself in it and letting the rest fall carelessly to the floor.
Her greatest fear shown is being tardy, especially with Princess Celestia. When she comes close to not having a friendship lesson ready to turn in, she goes completely psychotic, running around Ponyville trying to search for any problem to solve with a friend - and when she can't find one, trying to make one with the series' most disturbing creepy grin by enchanting her old Smarty Pants doll with a Need It, Want It spell and accidentally turning all of Ponyville into a ridiculous brawl over the damn thing. (She realized her mistake, but then turned out to not be able to take the spell off.) She has an incredible fear of disappointing her idol, but her obsessive personality (and good imagination, even if she isn't artistic), takes this into insane levels as she imagines the consequences for one late assignment going further and further until she's finally convinced herself that Celestia will remove her from Ponyville and put her in Magic Kindergarden.
A great arc in the FiM canon is how Twilight grows and develops as a pony as she learns more about herself and how a person is supposed to get along in the world. In a way it's the series' core concept, and Twilight shows how you can be smart and sure of yourself while still being a normal person- I mean, pony.
History: Twilight Sparkle was born in Canterlot to the usual mom-and-pop, their only child. Early in her life she attended the Summer Sun Celebration with her parents and watched Princess Celestia raise the sun, inspiring in her a lifelong devotion to magic and learning everything about it. She quickly formed a dream of attending Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and her parents supported her, arranging for her to enter the school. However, she found out she would have to pass an entrance exam before she could join, which she was incredibly nervous about. She was to use her magic to hatch a dragon egg under the eyes of four instructors, and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't manage to accomplish it.
Wilting under their stares, Twilight apologized for wasting their time and prepared to leave, but just then Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom split the sky above Equestria, startling her into a magic overload. Her eyes started to glow and she manifested a purple aura, uncontrollably casting spells. The first one that happened was beneficial, as she hatched Spike's egg, but then her magic went wild, floating the examiners, making Spike grow to full adult size, and turning her parents into potted plants. Princess Celestia has to come in herself and take control of the situation, forcibly locking down Twilight's magic in order to restore order to the chaos. Twilight is at first afraid that Celestia is angry with her, but the Princess reassures her that she's only impressed at her potential, but that she needs extra study in order to learn to control her power. She offers to take Twilight on as her personal student, nearly making the young pony faint with glee, and at her parents' consent she quickly accepts. Her cutie mark appears then, signifying her talent in magic, and she quickly sinks into her life and studies.
Her routine varied little for the next several years: wake up, study, eat, study some more, eat again, study more, and then go to sleep. When Princess Celestia made Spike, the dragon she'd hatched, her assistant, she quickly grew close to him much in the manner of an older sister, but he and the Princess were the only personal attachments she had. Her loyalty to Celestia was unending, topped only by her devotion to her studies. She spent so much time with her nose in books that she eventually forgot how to socialize and live a normal life, though she was on decent enough terms with most ponies around her. She wasn't close to any of them though, more like "nodding acquaintences." Celestia, who apparently had some inkling of what Twilight would have to do in the future with the Elements of Harmony, noticed this and began hatching a plot of her own.
The day before the thousandth year of the Summer Sun Celebration, Twilight was doing research into legends in Equestria when she came across the tale of Nightmare Moon. Alarmed at how the details in the legend were adding up with what was going on right at that second, Twilight quickly wrote to the Princess to warn her, fully confident that the Princess would listen. Instead, the message she got back implied (but did not state) that Twilight was being silly and an alarmist, and the Princess firmly told her she needed to get her head out of the books and learn how to be a social pony again - in short, make some friends. She sent her to Ponyville, where the ceremony would be held that year, to supervise preparations and try and meet new ponies. Meet new ponies she did all right, the five that would shortly become her closest friends - but at first Twilight thought all of them were absolutely insane, since without a doubt every single one of them acted so enthusiastic when they met her (or Spike, in Fluttershy's case) to barely get a word in edgewise and none of them could take a dang hint. Twilight waited for the sun to rise with all of them, dreading it, and indeed her fears came to pass when Nightmare Moon showed up in place of Princess Celestia and the sun didn't rise. She immediately ran back to the library to do more research and prepare to confront Nightmare Moon, but she was followed by Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy, who demanded to know what she did about the situation - and after she told them, insisted on going with her. She tried to disuade them but they wouldn't listen, and the group made their way into the Everfree Forest to the ancient castle of the royal sisters.
Along the way, Nightmare Moon caused several mishaps and problems where each pony's individual talent had an opportunity to shine, except for Twilight herself. It took all six of them to make it to the castle, where Twilight found the five elements waiting and tried to activate them. However, Nightmare Moon came in and stole them, eventually causing them to break. Her friends rushed in to help her when they heard her scream, and the good feeling she got when she realized they were coming to her aid was the "spark" that was needed to activate the elements, broken or not. Each of the six turn out to represent one of the elements, and Twilight herself is the last one, Magic, the one that binds them all together. The six used the elements to defeat Nightmare Moon, driving the dark influences from her and leaving her simply as Princess Luna. Celestia appeared at that point, asking Luna to return and rule Equestria with her once again, and Luna accepted tearfully, having missed her sister over her thousand-year exile. Although grateful that everything turned out well, Twilight became sad at the thought of going back to Canterlot just as she'd made so many good friends, and expressed that sentiment to Princess Celestia. Celestia made a decree that she was to stay in Ponyville to study the Elements of Harmony and the magic of friendship, bringing joy to all six of the friends.
The next year passed very eventfully, with Twilight learning lessons about friendship pretty much every week, learning more about herself and her friends at the same time. Due to their roles as the Elements of Harmony, Princess Celestia would frequently use them as a sort of magical task force, sending them out to take care of dangerous situations near Ponyville and would occasionally visit them in person to see how progress was coming along. She and her friends did nearly everything together, while they still maintained their own lives and interests as they grew steadily closer. They even attended Canterlot's Grand Galloping Gala together, although the night definitely didn't go as planned for any of them. Everything was going along quite swimmingly.
Until the ancient Evil known as Discord broke out of the stone prison that the Princessess had trapped him in when they took over the kingdom and started wreaking havoc everywhere. You know, the usual.
Discord was an old foe of all ponies everywhere with incredible magical powers and strength. He was also batshit crazy and enjoyed it to the hilt. Stealing the Elements of Harmony, he worked his corruptive magic over five of the six, leaving Twilight out, changing their personalities to the complete opposites of what they were in order to break their friendship and leave the Elements of Harmony unusable even if they did find them. Twilight kept the group together, barely, until Rainbow Dash flew off after her own corruption, leading them to lose Discord's game and giving them very few other options. However, Twilight finally worked out the solution to his riddle and dragged the other four back to Ponyville, where Discord had hidden the Elements. Without Rainbow Dash, though, their attempt to use the Elements was doomed to failure, and Twilight fell prey herself to Discord's draining influence. She returned to the library, telling Spike to pack, because they were leaving.
However, Spike had been having a pretty awful day himself, having received letter after letter from Princess Celestia as she sent back all of Twilight's previous letters to her, reminding her of the power of friendship and the lessons she'd learned from all the others. As she read them, her will and determination came back, and she set out to return the others to normal so they could gather together again and defeat Discord once and for all. It took some work, especially getting Rainbow Dash to even stand still long enough to cast the memory spell on her, but eventually Twilight restored all her friends to their normal selves and they went to confront Discord together in spirit and heart. Discord clearly didn't think it would work, giving them an open shot at him - much to his dismay when he realized just how stupid an idea that was. The Elements of Harmony worked perfectly, sealing him back in stone and restoring Equestria to its normal state, and the six friends were proclaimed heroes by Princess Celestia throughout the kingdom. After the celebration, they returned to Ponyville, where life got back to normal (...for the most part), and they continued learning lessons about friendship. After a week where Twilight didn't learn anything specific and had a major freakout about failing the Princess, Celestia decreed that any of the ponies could write to her.
She's taken from right after the episode Sweet and Elite - as in, right after her birthday, where she shows that she's grown so used to living in Ponyville that she's in effect become a "rustic" herself, despite being from Canterlot and the special pupil of the Princess.
Extra notes: Just be prepared for lots of freak outs and red pens.
Cambot post sample: -and we need to make a shopping list, because we're out of quills and I need at least another two packs, and Owlicious needs another bag of mouse treats, and if Pinkie comes over tomorrow then we're going to need some sort of candy for her. And then we need to make a list of everything that needs to be cleaned and work through those one by one, so I suppose that means I need more red ink as well, and more polish and furniture wax. And then we need to find the list of people who checked out books and see which of them are overdue, so maybe we should combine the shopping trip with a book-return trip... Hmm, do you think we should make a list of lists we need to make, Spike?
[All of that came out in a steady stream before Cambot even turned the corner upon the newcomer. There's a purple pony lounging in the middle of the hall, one front hoof crossed over the other and her eyes closed as she sorts through all of these notes in her head; the vibrations of her eyes are visible behind her closed lids. Her head turns when no response comes from her intrepid assistant.]
Spike? Spike! Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike!
[And finally Twilight opens her eyes, clearly expecting to still be in her library - and obviously isn't. With a gasp, she scrambles to her hooves, more than well enough to tell that she's naturally a pony.]
SPIKE! Spike, where are you?! SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!
Third-person log sample: Once Pinkie had gotten all the partying out of her system, although that would definitely be temporary, Twilight managed to finally be able to make her way to the Media Deck and the library contained therein. All right, it definitely wouldn't be as good as her library, but any sort of library was still better than none, right? And those warnings about the material in it - surely not all of them could be right, could they?
...Right?
At first, she wasn't disappointed all that much. The place wasn't as grand as the one in Canterlot or as welcoming as her home in Ponyville, but on a metal construction out in space having standards of fancy decor was going to drive you crazy (she made a mental note to check on how Rarity was doing after she found a decent book). And there was certainly enough material in it! Twilight sighed in contentment as she dragged a cushion to the center of the floor to sit on, then began pulling several books off the shelves in no particular order to study the general contents of the Satellite's media.
She had absolutely no idea what she was getting into - and poor Cambot had no idea what that discordant wailing was it picked up on not even ten minutes later.
Riff sample: Consciousness returned to Grignr in stygmatic pools as his mind gradually cleared of the cobwebs cluttering its inner recesses, yet the stygian cloud of charcoal ebony remained. An incompatible shield of blackness, enhanced by the bleak abscense of sound.
What... what is this? This isn't writing, this isn't language - this is ABANDONING proper language! What poor thesaurus suffered for this!
Grignr's muddled brain reeled from the shock of the blow he had recieved to the base of his skull.
Just as this story is going to do to me. And what sort of name is that!
The events leading to his predicament were slow to filter back to him. He dickered with the notion that he was dead and had descended or sunk, however it may be, to the shadowed land beyond the the aperature of the grave, but rejected this hypothesis when his memory sifted back within his grips. This was not the land of the dead, it was something infinitely more precarious than anything the grave could offer.
The land of purple prose and eternal descriptions. I'm not joking, poor thesaurus! I think at this point it needs more care than even Fluttershy could give it.
Death promised an infinity of peace, not the finite misery of an inactive life of confined torture, forever concealed from the life bearing shafts of the beloved rising sun. The orb that had been before taken for granted, yet now cherished above all else. To be forever refused further glimpses of the snow capped summits of the land of his birth, never again to witness the thrill of plundering unexplored lands beyond the crest of a bleeding horizon, and perhaps worst of all the denial to ever again encompass the lustful excitement of caressing the naked curves of the body of a trim yound wench.
(Just... what... is... that. Her face is incredibly wound up at that description in a combination of shock and disgust. There are no words.)
This was indeed one of the buried chasms of Hell concealed within the inner depths of the palace's despised interior. A fearful ebony chamber devised to drive to the brinks of insanity the minds of the unfortunately condemned, through the inapt solitude of a limbo of listless dreary silence.
...WHO COULD POSSIBLY THINK THIS STORY WAS A GOOD IDEA! I DEMAND A REWRITE RIGHT! NOW!
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What do you think, sirs? I think there's a forklift with my name on it.
Name: Tai
Age: negative infinity
AIM and/or Plurk / E-mail / Dreamwidth journal: bloogle
What characters do you play here already, if any? The insanely differing duo of Ven and Zidane
Where did you hear about Just A Game? Moogle!
Have you seen MST3K before? ...zoogle?
[IC Information]
Character Name: Twilight Sparkle
Series: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Gender: Filly (female)
Age: Uncertain - she's old enough to live on her own and hold down her own job, but probably not much older than that. I tend to view her as the pony equivalent of a grad student.
Species: Pony! Unicorn to be specific, but still a pony.
Appearance: Twilight is vaguely pony-shaped, with four legs, a horsey body and head, and a mane and tail. Her coloring is overall purple, with her body being a shade of lavender that almost matches her assistant, Spike, and her mane, tail, and eyes all a deeper, richer shade almost closer to a midnight blue. Her mane and tail are streaked with magenta and hot pink; she keeps them straight and no-nonsense, with bangs cut over her eyes. As a unicorn, she has a horn in the middle of her forehead that - normally - controls her magic; her cutie mark is a large magenta six-pointed star the same color as the streak in her hair surrounded by five smaller white stars. It's a representation of her strength in magic, as that's her special talent, but it's also a very heavy-handed clue as to her role in the Elements of Harmony, even before she knows about them.
Personality: Twilight Sparkle is a unicorn who knows what she wants, knows how to get it, and will let nothing stand in her way. She is determined to be the most accomplished magic user in Equestria, the strongest unicorn, to live up to her full potential as the mightiest of unicorns, after Princess Celestia of course.
And then, she gets what she wants... and finds out it isn't all that she wants anymore.
For most of her life Twilight studied because she liked it, making very few close connections with anyone. She knew ponies by face from her classes and things like that, but the only ones she was close to were her mentor, Princess Celestia (whom she respected and revered even over her own family), and her assistant, Spike, whom she'd helped be born during her exam for magic school. She eventimes often didn't pay that much attention to Spike, although they truly did (and still do) love each other, much as a brother and sister pair would. But Twilight had her head so wrapped up in her studies and becoming Accomplished that she let everything else slide out of importance, and forgot that every pony is not an island unto herself. Thankfully, after being sent to Ponyville to oversee the Summer Sun Celebration, she gets that cleaned out of her head. While her goals haven't changed - she still wants to be the world's best magic user - she now makes time in her life for friendship, even above and beyond Princess Celestia's mandate. She's happier now than she has been in her entire life, and will not give up Ponyville and her friends for anything. Not even an ancient Chaos god can stop her.
For all that she learned her lesson about self-isolation, that doesn't mean her personality is noticably different in any other way. Twilight was, has been, and always will be very concerned with knowledge, actively choosing to live in a library so she can continue her own studies into magic and researching spells with Spike's help at any opportunity. As a member of the Elements of Harmony, she finds several opportunities to use her talents with her friends, whether it's taming an Ursa Minor or handling a dragon or Hydra. Living in Ponyville gives her plenty of time to practice her magic, and she doesn't skimp even with the amount of time she spends doing other things now.
She is, however, skeptical about several things. Twilight doesn't believe in anything that can't be scientifially (or magically) proven, leading her into conflict more than once with Pinkie, though she's somewhat gotten over it. She doesn't have anything against Pinkie, she just has to be able to understand how something happens, and when she can't find any explanation for it, it drives her brain crazy trying to figure it out. It's another facet of her thirst for knowledge, her drive to understand and comprehend. Eventually she just gives up, accepting the fact that she can't explain it, but she's still a little frustrated that she can't.
One thing she isn't is a braggart. Twilight knows how good she is at what she does, but overall she remains modest and unassuming, putting her abilities down to hard work and study thought it's due at least in part to her inborn talent. She also tries to instill this quality in her friends, most noticably Rainbow Dash, with varying degrees of success. She's the moderate one of the group, level-headed (for the most part), thoughtful, considering things from all angles and most willing to switch tactics if something isn't working, though Applejack shares some of the same traits. When Trixie comes through and starts bragging about all her accomplishments, Twilight hides her own abilities because she doesn't want to be seen as a bragger like her, and only steps into the limelight (reluctantly) when Trixie's own magic fails to calm the Ursa Minor and it nearly destroys Ponyville. She's also the only one to not be freaked out by Zecora and is openly dismissive of everyone else's attitudes about the zebra, going to far as to make several sarcastic quips at her friends as they list off the (absolutely normal everyday) activities Zecora performs whenever she comes into town. She's also the first to welcome back Princess Luna when the princess comes to Night Mare Night, and tries to help her make friends and showcase her changed image.
More than any of the rest of the ponies, Twilight is sarcastic. She has no patience for people who don't try - as long as you're actually attempting to do something, she'll help you and praise you when you make progress, but she will not let people stay stuck in something, be it a bad situation or a bad attitude. She has a temper that she can lose in such situations, and her scathing comments are legendary - for a pony, at least. She can get so frustrated with things that she ends up showing traces of the traits she dislikes herself and doesn't recognize it as a problem.
Twilight is also incredibly organized, oftentimes to an obsessive-compulsive level - but oddly, sometimes she forgets all about it. Her lists are legendary, to the point where she will make a checklist of items to use to make a checklist. She also treats reshelving day at the library with almost religious reverence, demanding to be undisturbed and lighting mood candles for the process. While she proved an absolute failure at helping with the Winter Wrap Up in any way that fit in with the three teams, though she honestly tried her best, she was still able to contribute to the process when she realized that none of them even bothered to try and keep things together and every pony more or less did whatever they thought was best. She was able to help them finish Winter Wrap Up on time for the first time in... well, a very long time through getting them all better organized and delegating tasks appropriately, and in the end the Mayor makes her the official organizer for every Wrap Up thereafter. It's not just a compulsion, it's a way of life for her; Mrs. Cake is taken completely aback when Twilight arrives to pick up a dozen cupcakes and insists on redistributing the icing on each so that they all have exactly the same amount, resulting in all of them having just one little dab. However, this has another side to it, as she can get incredibly obsessive about one thing or another, and she sometimes ends up completely forgetting about any mess she's made, books out of place, or anything else. This is most frequently seen when she levitates several books at once looking for one in particular, and when she finds it immediately burying herself in it and letting the rest fall carelessly to the floor.
Her greatest fear shown is being tardy, especially with Princess Celestia. When she comes close to not having a friendship lesson ready to turn in, she goes completely psychotic, running around Ponyville trying to search for any problem to solve with a friend - and when she can't find one, trying to make one with the series' most disturbing creepy grin by enchanting her old Smarty Pants doll with a Need It, Want It spell and accidentally turning all of Ponyville into a ridiculous brawl over the damn thing. (She realized her mistake, but then turned out to not be able to take the spell off.) She has an incredible fear of disappointing her idol, but her obsessive personality (and good imagination, even if she isn't artistic), takes this into insane levels as she imagines the consequences for one late assignment going further and further until she's finally convinced herself that Celestia will remove her from Ponyville and put her in Magic Kindergarden.
A great arc in the FiM canon is how Twilight grows and develops as a pony as she learns more about herself and how a person is supposed to get along in the world. In a way it's the series' core concept, and Twilight shows how you can be smart and sure of yourself while still being a normal person- I mean, pony.
History: Twilight Sparkle was born in Canterlot to the usual mom-and-pop, their only child. Early in her life she attended the Summer Sun Celebration with her parents and watched Princess Celestia raise the sun, inspiring in her a lifelong devotion to magic and learning everything about it. She quickly formed a dream of attending Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and her parents supported her, arranging for her to enter the school. However, she found out she would have to pass an entrance exam before she could join, which she was incredibly nervous about. She was to use her magic to hatch a dragon egg under the eyes of four instructors, and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't manage to accomplish it.
Wilting under their stares, Twilight apologized for wasting their time and prepared to leave, but just then Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom split the sky above Equestria, startling her into a magic overload. Her eyes started to glow and she manifested a purple aura, uncontrollably casting spells. The first one that happened was beneficial, as she hatched Spike's egg, but then her magic went wild, floating the examiners, making Spike grow to full adult size, and turning her parents into potted plants. Princess Celestia has to come in herself and take control of the situation, forcibly locking down Twilight's magic in order to restore order to the chaos. Twilight is at first afraid that Celestia is angry with her, but the Princess reassures her that she's only impressed at her potential, but that she needs extra study in order to learn to control her power. She offers to take Twilight on as her personal student, nearly making the young pony faint with glee, and at her parents' consent she quickly accepts. Her cutie mark appears then, signifying her talent in magic, and she quickly sinks into her life and studies.
Her routine varied little for the next several years: wake up, study, eat, study some more, eat again, study more, and then go to sleep. When Princess Celestia made Spike, the dragon she'd hatched, her assistant, she quickly grew close to him much in the manner of an older sister, but he and the Princess were the only personal attachments she had. Her loyalty to Celestia was unending, topped only by her devotion to her studies. She spent so much time with her nose in books that she eventually forgot how to socialize and live a normal life, though she was on decent enough terms with most ponies around her. She wasn't close to any of them though, more like "nodding acquaintences." Celestia, who apparently had some inkling of what Twilight would have to do in the future with the Elements of Harmony, noticed this and began hatching a plot of her own.
The day before the thousandth year of the Summer Sun Celebration, Twilight was doing research into legends in Equestria when she came across the tale of Nightmare Moon. Alarmed at how the details in the legend were adding up with what was going on right at that second, Twilight quickly wrote to the Princess to warn her, fully confident that the Princess would listen. Instead, the message she got back implied (but did not state) that Twilight was being silly and an alarmist, and the Princess firmly told her she needed to get her head out of the books and learn how to be a social pony again - in short, make some friends. She sent her to Ponyville, where the ceremony would be held that year, to supervise preparations and try and meet new ponies. Meet new ponies she did all right, the five that would shortly become her closest friends - but at first Twilight thought all of them were absolutely insane, since without a doubt every single one of them acted so enthusiastic when they met her (or Spike, in Fluttershy's case) to barely get a word in edgewise and none of them could take a dang hint. Twilight waited for the sun to rise with all of them, dreading it, and indeed her fears came to pass when Nightmare Moon showed up in place of Princess Celestia and the sun didn't rise. She immediately ran back to the library to do more research and prepare to confront Nightmare Moon, but she was followed by Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy, who demanded to know what she did about the situation - and after she told them, insisted on going with her. She tried to disuade them but they wouldn't listen, and the group made their way into the Everfree Forest to the ancient castle of the royal sisters.
Along the way, Nightmare Moon caused several mishaps and problems where each pony's individual talent had an opportunity to shine, except for Twilight herself. It took all six of them to make it to the castle, where Twilight found the five elements waiting and tried to activate them. However, Nightmare Moon came in and stole them, eventually causing them to break. Her friends rushed in to help her when they heard her scream, and the good feeling she got when she realized they were coming to her aid was the "spark" that was needed to activate the elements, broken or not. Each of the six turn out to represent one of the elements, and Twilight herself is the last one, Magic, the one that binds them all together. The six used the elements to defeat Nightmare Moon, driving the dark influences from her and leaving her simply as Princess Luna. Celestia appeared at that point, asking Luna to return and rule Equestria with her once again, and Luna accepted tearfully, having missed her sister over her thousand-year exile. Although grateful that everything turned out well, Twilight became sad at the thought of going back to Canterlot just as she'd made so many good friends, and expressed that sentiment to Princess Celestia. Celestia made a decree that she was to stay in Ponyville to study the Elements of Harmony and the magic of friendship, bringing joy to all six of the friends.
The next year passed very eventfully, with Twilight learning lessons about friendship pretty much every week, learning more about herself and her friends at the same time. Due to their roles as the Elements of Harmony, Princess Celestia would frequently use them as a sort of magical task force, sending them out to take care of dangerous situations near Ponyville and would occasionally visit them in person to see how progress was coming along. She and her friends did nearly everything together, while they still maintained their own lives and interests as they grew steadily closer. They even attended Canterlot's Grand Galloping Gala together, although the night definitely didn't go as planned for any of them. Everything was going along quite swimmingly.
Until the ancient Evil known as Discord broke out of the stone prison that the Princessess had trapped him in when they took over the kingdom and started wreaking havoc everywhere. You know, the usual.
Discord was an old foe of all ponies everywhere with incredible magical powers and strength. He was also batshit crazy and enjoyed it to the hilt. Stealing the Elements of Harmony, he worked his corruptive magic over five of the six, leaving Twilight out, changing their personalities to the complete opposites of what they were in order to break their friendship and leave the Elements of Harmony unusable even if they did find them. Twilight kept the group together, barely, until Rainbow Dash flew off after her own corruption, leading them to lose Discord's game and giving them very few other options. However, Twilight finally worked out the solution to his riddle and dragged the other four back to Ponyville, where Discord had hidden the Elements. Without Rainbow Dash, though, their attempt to use the Elements was doomed to failure, and Twilight fell prey herself to Discord's draining influence. She returned to the library, telling Spike to pack, because they were leaving.
However, Spike had been having a pretty awful day himself, having received letter after letter from Princess Celestia as she sent back all of Twilight's previous letters to her, reminding her of the power of friendship and the lessons she'd learned from all the others. As she read them, her will and determination came back, and she set out to return the others to normal so they could gather together again and defeat Discord once and for all. It took some work, especially getting Rainbow Dash to even stand still long enough to cast the memory spell on her, but eventually Twilight restored all her friends to their normal selves and they went to confront Discord together in spirit and heart. Discord clearly didn't think it would work, giving them an open shot at him - much to his dismay when he realized just how stupid an idea that was. The Elements of Harmony worked perfectly, sealing him back in stone and restoring Equestria to its normal state, and the six friends were proclaimed heroes by Princess Celestia throughout the kingdom. After the celebration, they returned to Ponyville, where life got back to normal (...for the most part), and they continued learning lessons about friendship. After a week where Twilight didn't learn anything specific and had a major freakout about failing the Princess, Celestia decreed that any of the ponies could write to her.
She's taken from right after the episode Sweet and Elite - as in, right after her birthday, where she shows that she's grown so used to living in Ponyville that she's in effect become a "rustic" herself, despite being from Canterlot and the special pupil of the Princess.
Extra notes: Just be prepared for lots of freak outs and red pens.
Cambot post sample: -and we need to make a shopping list, because we're out of quills and I need at least another two packs, and Owlicious needs another bag of mouse treats, and if Pinkie comes over tomorrow then we're going to need some sort of candy for her. And then we need to make a list of everything that needs to be cleaned and work through those one by one, so I suppose that means I need more red ink as well, and more polish and furniture wax. And then we need to find the list of people who checked out books and see which of them are overdue, so maybe we should combine the shopping trip with a book-return trip... Hmm, do you think we should make a list of lists we need to make, Spike?
[All of that came out in a steady stream before Cambot even turned the corner upon the newcomer. There's a purple pony lounging in the middle of the hall, one front hoof crossed over the other and her eyes closed as she sorts through all of these notes in her head; the vibrations of her eyes are visible behind her closed lids. Her head turns when no response comes from her intrepid assistant.]
Spike? Spike! Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike!
[And finally Twilight opens her eyes, clearly expecting to still be in her library - and obviously isn't. With a gasp, she scrambles to her hooves, more than well enough to tell that she's naturally a pony.]
SPIKE! Spike, where are you?! SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!
Third-person log sample: Once Pinkie had gotten all the partying out of her system, although that would definitely be temporary, Twilight managed to finally be able to make her way to the Media Deck and the library contained therein. All right, it definitely wouldn't be as good as her library, but any sort of library was still better than none, right? And those warnings about the material in it - surely not all of them could be right, could they?
...Right?
At first, she wasn't disappointed all that much. The place wasn't as grand as the one in Canterlot or as welcoming as her home in Ponyville, but on a metal construction out in space having standards of fancy decor was going to drive you crazy (she made a mental note to check on how Rarity was doing after she found a decent book). And there was certainly enough material in it! Twilight sighed in contentment as she dragged a cushion to the center of the floor to sit on, then began pulling several books off the shelves in no particular order to study the general contents of the Satellite's media.
She had absolutely no idea what she was getting into - and poor Cambot had no idea what that discordant wailing was it picked up on not even ten minutes later.
Riff sample: Consciousness returned to Grignr in stygmatic pools as his mind gradually cleared of the cobwebs cluttering its inner recesses, yet the stygian cloud of charcoal ebony remained. An incompatible shield of blackness, enhanced by the bleak abscense of sound.
What... what is this? This isn't writing, this isn't language - this is ABANDONING proper language! What poor thesaurus suffered for this!
Grignr's muddled brain reeled from the shock of the blow he had recieved to the base of his skull.
Just as this story is going to do to me. And what sort of name is that!
The events leading to his predicament were slow to filter back to him. He dickered with the notion that he was dead and had descended or sunk, however it may be, to the shadowed land beyond the the aperature of the grave, but rejected this hypothesis when his memory sifted back within his grips. This was not the land of the dead, it was something infinitely more precarious than anything the grave could offer.
The land of purple prose and eternal descriptions. I'm not joking, poor thesaurus! I think at this point it needs more care than even Fluttershy could give it.
Death promised an infinity of peace, not the finite misery of an inactive life of confined torture, forever concealed from the life bearing shafts of the beloved rising sun. The orb that had been before taken for granted, yet now cherished above all else. To be forever refused further glimpses of the snow capped summits of the land of his birth, never again to witness the thrill of plundering unexplored lands beyond the crest of a bleeding horizon, and perhaps worst of all the denial to ever again encompass the lustful excitement of caressing the naked curves of the body of a trim yound wench.
(Just... what... is... that. Her face is incredibly wound up at that description in a combination of shock and disgust. There are no words.)
This was indeed one of the buried chasms of Hell concealed within the inner depths of the palace's despised interior. A fearful ebony chamber devised to drive to the brinks of insanity the minds of the unfortunately condemned, through the inapt solitude of a limbo of listless dreary silence.
...WHO COULD POSSIBLY THINK THIS STORY WAS A GOOD IDEA! I DEMAND A REWRITE RIGHT! NOW!
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What do you think, sirs? I think there's a forklift with my name on it.