History Characters / CodexEquusTheChangelingCourtsSummerCourt

* BlueBlood: He was born to an aristocratic family in an aristocratic kingdom, and took to the DecadentCourt like fish to water.

* BerserkButton: Collectively they have a few. And it usually [[TheFairFolk doesn't]] [[FateWorseThanDeath end]] [[DoNotTauntCthulhu well]] for the person who pressed it.

** Do ''not'' try to manipulate them or put them at the mercy of a power beyond their control. Usually, ''they're'' the ones who does that. King Brachion tried to kill [[spoiler:Ahuizotl]] upon realizing he was manipulated into [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone releasing a world-threatening biological menace]]. And were it not for Emperor Blackthorn holding them back, the Summer Court [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge would had gone after Princess Stitching Time]] for [[RetGone briefly erasing them from existence with the Hooves of Oblivion]] while she was still the mad, corrupted time goddess Final Epoch. The only exception to this rule is the Grand Primevals -- specifically Amareros, the Love Primeval, who once brought the entire Summer Court to its collective knees overnight for treating love purely as a resource to be exploited.

* DecadentCourt: Decadence varies between individual Kings and Hives, but they are certainly deadly as a whole, to each other and any who get in their way.

* DivineRightOfKings: Much like Blackrose and her daughters, Blackthorn's sons are half-divine via their father having children with members of different races, making them demigods. And much like Blackrose's daughters, their biologically divine relations also gives them a sense of superiority and entitlement, believing that as children of a Changeling god, only they have the right to rule and their subjects must fall in line, or else. This makes them target Autumn Changeling hives because their mere presence threatens their royal legitimacy.

* BerserkButton: While his ArchEnemy Discord is a general one, he has several others.
** Incompetence is one. He foresees that his Scions will engage in their own schemes, manipulations and betrayals, but he will NOT tolerate incompetence while they do it or other things that make a fool of themselves and endanger the Summer Court's power in the process.
** Attempting to [[spoiler:remake the Love Poison that doomed the Hearts and Hooves Day prince and princesses and their kingdoms]] is one of the biggest ones for him. For some unexplained reason, it is one of if not ''the'' biggest Changeling Taboos in their culture, and Blackthorn himself goes so far as to ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/822366952/4877271625 outright murder]]'' one of his sons who tried to personally when he found out. He didn't Condemn him to Winter like all the others: He did ''[[YouDoNotWantToKnow things]]'' that made Condemning to Winter ''look pleasant in comparison''.
--> '''Changeling King:''' F-Father, I-I c-can explain - !\\
'''Emperor Blackthorn:''' '''[[LittleNo No.]]'''

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Like Blackrose, is ''heavily'' implied to be the Hearts And Hooves Day Prince. This is eventually confirmed]].

* NotSoStoic: While projecting a demeanour of a composed and confident master manipulator who are [[SeenItAll unfazed]] by almost anything and in perfect control of the situation, there are rare times when that composure slips to reveal that he could feel a lot beneath his facades after all.
** Discord being a BerserkButton to him in general, he notably becomes more emotive when Discord is brought up or even in proximity to him. This is best observed when during the 'War Against Order', where his conversations with a Discord being held captive by Despotic Destiny is positively dripping with contempt and barely-veiled hatred. His rage against Discord is also described as being able to 'level mountains' if unleashed.

* BerserkButton: Altruism ''in general'' seems to enrage Metriini, especially Soulfre's absolute refusal to give up on his yet still being able to equal the Changeling King.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Once tried to make Soulfre see his worldview (Elaborated below) by recreating the circumstances of his (possible) origin story on him, taking one of Soulfre's chemical inventions and modified it into terrible chemical weapon, then unleashing it while making sure everyone knows who (Soulfre) originally invented it. However, Soulfre not only [[ShutUpHannibal refused to accept the 'futility' of altruism]], but declare to his face that one of Metriini's assertion - namely something created for good would inevitably be twisted for evil purposes - can also happen in reverse as well, and got even by taking one of Metriini's chemical weapons and modified it into a beneficial creation: a cure for the toxins Metriini had turned his invention into. According to Soulfre's entry, this marked one of the few times Metriini was [[DidntSeeThatComing taken off-guard]].

* BerserkButton: Will not tolerate laziness or incompetence of any kind, due to growing up with people who refused to change their lazy, incompetent ways.

* BerserkButton:
** Don't cross him as one of his brothers - he despises kin-slayers and betrayers due to his upbringing and experience, and won't hesitate to inflict a FateWorseThanDeath on any sibling foolish/arrogant/mad enough to take him on.
** Don't try and measure his height or compare him to his rival in the Spring Court Queen Supia. [[HeightAngst He's REALLY testy about not matching or surpassing her on that front]].

* TheCoup: Attempted this on his surrogate father, a Mountain Jotunn Falkyr, when he was passed over for the throne of his Clan-Kingdom to his younger brother. Interesting, [[ThickerThanWater because of his upbringing]], he's not actually planning to kill his father or brothers, merely challenging his father to a TrialByCombat for the throne and then exiling him and his brothers. It's implied that the reason he went beyond that is because he realized even if won the throne rightfully, he won't have the support of many in the royal court and nobility, who dislike him, thus necessitating a full-fledged coup in order to replace them with his supporters for his power to be secure.

* TheMarvelousDeer: Or rather Jotunn, a race of Cervine Giants and one of if not ''the'' biggest among Giant races of Equus. His name is derived from ''Macrodontia cervicornis'' - the Sabertooth Longhorn Beetle, one of the biggest 'Deer Antler' horned beetles in RealLife.

** His current biggest rival in the Summer Court is King Megacephala, who operates in the Near East like he does and is a sorcerer and necromancer, which he [[BerserkButton dislikes with a passion]] due to past experiences.

* BerserkButton:
** [[DoesNotLikeMagic He has a strong dislike of sorcerers and spellcasters]], due to his [[FreudianExcuse past conflict]] with an evil SorcerousOverlord. His hive also specializes in countering and killing them. Has no aversion to magically-enchanted weapons and armour, however.
** While an autocrat himself, his war with Alabast also causes him to develop a dislike for tyrants who come into power through illegitimate means, and his pastime is infiltrating their realms and assassinating them. This criteria ironically fit many of his brothers themselves, and one of the reasons he ultimately joined the Summer Court is because his father [[ManipulativeBastard Emperor Blackthorn]] enticed him with the chance to [[PayEvilUntoEvil 'stab his more vicious-ruling brothers in the face']].
** [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Do not hurt his surrogate family]]. He devoted his entire mortal life to Alabast' destruction after his surrogate father and most of his surrogate family were killed by Alabast.

* FantasticRacism: Much like the Spring Court, the Summer Court ''hates'' dragons, heavily implied to have originated from "The Burning of Amorea" in which dragons burned and plundered their kingdoms to steal their riches. It's later deconstructed as their hatred of Dragonkind runs so deep that it also causes them to target those who had nothing to do with their people's cruel actions - Princess Apertus was horrifically tormented and abused by a sadistic Changeling King just for being a Changeling-Dragon hybrid, while Dr. Toxikon was ''brutally'' screwed over by King Heterometrus after he helped the latter; even more damning is the fact that, in Heterometrus' eyes, it wasn't personal. In both instances, the Summer Court was devastated when the products of their hatred and racism would come rampaging through their territories, in addition to various non-Changelings rightly calling them out on their behavior. Unlike the Spring Court, however, they believed themselves to be above the consequences, leaving them increasingly at risk of being wiped out should ''another'' crisis begin because of their actions.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:

* KickTheSonOfABitch: While Brachion is infamous for conducting extremely unethical experiments, one of his victims was a traitorous Changeling of Thorax's hive, who pretended to side with the ascendant Royal Changeling by purifying himself of his racial Curse, and then frame his leader for the murder of unpurified Changeling children so he could garner Chrysalis's favor. The Summer Court was not pleased, and Brachion made him his test subject after their secret agents caught and hoofed him over for dissection and experimentation.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** It's revealed in the "Final Ragnarok" arc that [[spoiler:he replaced Malekith, ruler of the Svartálfar/Myrkálfar, an Old Fae race, and used his victim's identity to play the [[EldritchAbomination Shadowed Ones]] like a fiddle. But since the Svartálfar/Myrkálfar helped the Shadowed Ones by engineering "Cycles" that doomed countless innocent divine pantheons and mortal civilizations to horrible fates so their masters can survive and get their kicks from watching their victims die, no one ever missed them]].
** He gloated to a captive Discord during the 'War Against Order' (With Blackthorn, as expected by many, supporting Despotic Destiny's own campaign to turn Equestria into a [[WorldOfSilence land of perfect order]] in exchange for helping him destroy [[ArchEnemy Discord]] after they had won, [[FalseFriend at least]] [[ManipulativeBastard on the surface]]) about the fact that Discord is about to lose everyone and everything the reformed Spirit of Chaos had grown to care for to a vengeance-crazed MadGod who was once one of Discord's many victims - and Discord is powerless to do anything but watch as Despotic Destiny goes about taking [[InTheirOwnImage and remaking them]] to replace what Discord's evil had taken. Blackthorn would rub it in Discord's face with the fact all this is ''entirely his own fault'', and considers it appropriate given how back in his villainous days Discord had done it to so many others, [[spoiler:including both him and Rosedust]]. Reformed or not, [[LaserGuidedKarma Discord had it coming]], and in his potential last days Blackthorn [[BestServedCold will not let his]] [[IShallTauntYou arch-enemy forget it]].
--> '''Emperor Blackthorn:''' It is rather ironic, is it not? Once, you have almost all the power in the world to [[TheUnfettered do as you wish]], and [[LackOfEmpathy you cared little to none for all others]] when you utilized them for your [[ForTheEvulz debased debaucheries]]. Now, [[HeelFaceTurn you have so many things to care for]]. And yet here you are again: ''powerless'', [[ForcedToWatch unable to do anything but watch]] as one you had once played with and discarded is about to take it all away for his own. [[EvilGloating Tell us]], serpent: [[WhosLaughingNow How. Does. It. FEEL]]?

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** [[spoiler:They committed genocide against an Old Fae race, the Dökkálfar, and have been impersonating both them and the Dökkálfar leader, Malekith, for eons. However, since the Dökkálfar were allies of the [[EldritchAbomination Shadowed Ones]] who helped engineer the "Ragnarok" cycles that brought both mortal and divine Deerkind so much misery for their masters' survival and sadistic amusement, no one knew they were gone, and likely wouldn't shed a tear for their deaths if word of the Dökkálfar's deeds got out]].

* ModestRoyalty: Despite being a Royal Changeling and a demigod, he doesn't seem to care much for formality and

* VillainousFriendship: [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/803149245/4938931812 Implied]] to have one with his brother King Brachion.

* FinalSolution: Attempted one against Dragonkind in revenge for the 'Burning of Amorea', known as the 'Time of Broken Scales', and nearly succeeded. Going by the entries, some of the methods in achieving such results horrified even those who hated Dragons. Of course, this eventually came back to bite them 5,000 years later, when Dr Toxikon, a survivor of the attempted genocide, [[CycleOfRevenge tried to return the favour]].

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Launched long-planned, long-awaited one against Dragonkind 5,000 years before the return of Princess Luna, in retaliation for the 'Burning of Amorea' even earlier than that, and ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu nearly did the job]]''. [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma They would end up being on the receiving end of one]] from the one of the survivors, the brilliant [[MadScientist Dr Toxikon]], after the once good-hearted Dragon scientist snapped from millennia of unresolved trauma left behind by the attempted genocide and the slaughter of his entire clan]].