History Characters / TheFreeportVenture

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* TeamKid: Of the main recurring cast, she is by far the youngest despite accompanying Sunset on a lot of her adventures.

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[[folder:Rising Fire]]
A lich leading the undead army assaulting Starlight's commune in ''Blood and Iron''. She is originally from the Sombra timeline seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Remark]]", having come to the "main" timeline to seek revenge on Starlight for having retconned hers out of existence.

[[folder:Council of Freeport]]
The ruling council of Freeport is a group of equines of ambiguous race and gender that do all their work in secret.

* EveryoneHasStandards: They are very corrupt, but they also fiercely uphold Freeport's ban on slavery. [[spoiler:When one of their members is exposed as having dealt in slavery, they are immediately ousted]].
* {{Expy}}: Of the [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Masked Lords of Waterdeep]], another council of anonymous figures who use magical masks and robes to hide their identities, who rules over a port town with a reputation for being a bit of a wretched hive.
* LegacyImmortality: They wear exactly similar masks to make sure no one can know when one has been killed and replaced.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Invoked. During their rise to power, they used their anonymity to hide from those in power, as well as be a symbol. Since no one knew who they were, they could be replaced easily while appearing invulnerable. This is continued in modern day, since the appearance of immortality is a lot more useful when one of your neighbors is an actually [[GodEmperor God Empress]].
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[[folder:Argentium the Runescaled]]
A powerful dragon that reigns over much of the north. Most known for being a pioneer (if not inventor) of the art of runic magic, being by far the most proficient in all the lands. She also trained Sunset's absentee mother.
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* SeriesGoal: Her main goals are A: To take over Freeport and rid it off corruption, and B: [[AngellicTransformation Become an alicorn]]. [[spoiler:She's well on her way to the first goal, having installed a close ally on the Freeport council and gained political influence rivaling the other councilors, but she eventually gives up on alicornhood during ''Northern Venture'']].

* TheArchmage: Archmagus, actually, but yes. While she hasn't been named Archmagus in Equestria yet, she pressured the Freeport Council into making her the first official Archmage of Freeport.

* {{Foil}}:
** To Starlight, see bellow.
** Also to Twilight, though she doesn't appear in the story. Twilight idealizes Celestia to the point of hero worship, while Sunset is fiercely independent, and despises when Celestia intervenes on her behalf. Twilight has a great relationship to her parents, Sunset... not so much. Twilight had to be forced out of Canterlot, while Sunset went even before Celestia wanter her to. Also, Sunset likes quesadillas.

* InSeriesNickname: Strumming likes to call Sunset "bacon-mane".

* MagicKnight: More Magic than Knight, but she does use her magic in accord with Chainbreaker.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She not only specializes in fire and ice magic, she's a ''master'' of it. Thoughout the story she's leveled enough buildings to equal a city block.

* InsistentTerminology: Kukri is not a grub. She's eleven-and-a-half years old.

* TheDragon: Unwilling to [[spoiler:Blackfyre]]
* {{Foil}}: To Sunset. Both are very powerful unicorns, both are extremely dedicated to a goal (equality or alicornhood) and won’t shut up about it, and both have gone back on their ideals when faced with imprisonment (Starlight using her family’s wealth and connections, Sunset [[spoiler:using dark magic]]). The main difference is Sunset is more aware of her failures and much less of a hypocrite.
** ''Northern Venture'' also revealed that Starlight had [[spoiler:forged a pact with the dragon Blackfyre]]. Not unlike how Sunset gained her power from being Celestia's student. But while Sunset studied under Celestia willingly, and later left to reassert her independence, Starlight is [[spoiler:under threat of force and compulsion to do her master's bidding.]]

[[folder:Celestia]]

* BigGood: Non-action throughout most of the stories. She appears to be about to take a more active role in Northern Venture.

* {{Expy}}: Of the [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Masked Lords of Waterdeep]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Arrives just in time to [[spoiler: kick Blackfyre's flank]]. With a PreAsskickingOneLiner from Sunset to boot.

* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is described as deep and subsonic.
* {{Foil}}: To Argentium. Both are immensely powerful dragons proficient in runecraft who participated in the Crystal Empire/Equestrian war. Whereas Argentium allied with the Equestrians, Blackfyre worked with Sombra. He's also more prone to use flesh carving, something Argentium considers abhorrent.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like Sunset, his name is sun-based.

* BarrierMaiden: She [[spoiler: holds of Blackfyre's BreathWeapon long enough to casually amuse him]].

* FutureBadass: Her fake Robin Hood campaign in Freeport, subsequent attack by Rising Fire, [[spoiler:and later servitude under Blackfyre]]? All took place at least a decade before [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Starlight ever even so much as heard the name Twilight Sparkle]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Her motivation. [[spoiler:She comes from the timeline from "The Cutie Remark" where Equestria is at war with Sombra. Her world was destroyed when Starlight and Twilight changed the timeline afterwards, and everything she's done -- including becoming a lich, travelling to another timeline and raising an undead horde -- has been in order to kill Starlight in revenge.]]

* TheArchmage: Archmagus, actually.

* {{Foil}}: To Starlight, see bellow.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Strumming really, really hates warlocks -- a term that, as far as she's concerned, includes any habitual user of what she considers dark magic. [[BadPowersBadPeople Normally, this is a fairly justified feeling]], but Strumming takes it to extremes, as seen with her execution of the bokor in ''Blood and Iron''. While the things he was doing ''were'' morally questionable, he wasn't actually harming anyone -- he only used corpses he found washed up on shore and used his zombies as nothing more than free labor for his plantation, and while he did attack Sunset and Strumming, they ''had'' already broken onto his property and attacked his zombies and elementals. None of this matters to Strumming: he used illegal magic, therefore he had to die.
** This comes back to bite her, and bite her hard. Not only is she nearly killed as blood debt by the nephew of the bokor, but this surpreme act of douchebaggery gives Sunset the incentive to take charge and threaten Strumming with ''de facto'' banishment if she acts out of line.

* DesignatedVillain: Downplayed. Sunset plots to depose them, and she is our viewpoint character. However, she admits that they're not that bad, and far better than the alternative. She just thinks she could do a better job.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Justified. During its rise to power, it used its anonymity to hide from those in power, as well as be a symbol. Since no one knew who they were, they could be replaced easily while appearing invulnerable. This is continued in modern day, since the appearance of immortality is a lot more useful when one of your neighbors is an actually [[GodEmperor God Empress]].

* AbsenteeFather: Solar was absent for most of her childhood, being occupied chasing down an infamous warlock who killed his best friends.

* {{Asexuality}}: Ambiguous. Both Strumming and herself acknowledge that she never had much interest in neither mares nor stallions, even in her teenage years. In ''Breaker of Chains'', she admits that it'd be nice to have someone around, and she does go on a date with Twilight in one of the possible future fics, so she might be asexual but not aromantic.

%%* AbsenteeFather

* {{Adorkable}}: She has probably the most of theses moments in the series. Especially cute is it when she fangirls over the prospect of her biggest historical hero and her biggest current hero might be related.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: A problem she struggles with. She vehemently refuses to sit on the sidelines when there are innocents to protect, which often results in her pushing past the point of reason. [[Spoiler:In ''Northern Venture'', she'd rather amputate her own wounded leg than sit out the war against Blackfyre]].

* FutureBadass: Her first run-in with Sunset in Freeport, subsequent attack by Rising Fire, [[spoiler:and later servitude under Blackfyre]]? All took place at least a decade before [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Starlight ever even so much as laid eyes on Twilight Sparkle]].