Characters / Codex Equus Canterlot

Here is a list of characters from Canterlot, the royal capital city of the Principalities of Equestria.

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Canterlot

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General

• Badass Family: The Equestrian royal family is this, with both divines and mortals being willing to kick ass and take names for the sake of their subjects. Even little Léon, an Alicorn Prince, has contributed in his own way, though being a toddler and Blueblood trying to protect him from his enemies means that he wouldn't be doing much.
• More Deadly Than the Male: It is believed by some Equestrians that only females are worthy of becoming Alicorn royalty, with "proof" lying in the incredible magical power of Celestia and Luna, the supposed absence of male Alicorns and the Ascension of Princess Twilight Sparkle, who was before then a Child Prodigy and one of the most powerful unicorn mares of her generation. Because of this, when Prince Léon was officially introduced to the public, they saw him as a potential threat to the existing hierarchy. Both Luminiferous and the Alicorn Princesses themselves have decried the belief as a load of bunk, with the later stating that anyone becoming an Alicorn is a cause for celebration.
• Princesses Rule: Justified and exaggerated. Equestria is one of many countries/societies that have "Princess/Prince" as a ruling title, which explains why Celestia and Luna have such titles despite technically being Queens.
• Politically-Active Princess: Justified; as "Prince/Princess" are official ruling titles in Equestria, the Alicorn Princesses are very involved in governmental affairs and have duties that would normally be reserved for those ranked higher than Princesses, such as Kings and/or Queens.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: All members of the Equestrian royal family are very capable - Celestia and Luna are powerful Alicorn goddesses whose magic lies in the Sun and Moon, respectively; Twilight Sparkle is the Element of Magic and has saved Equestria multiple times; and Cadence, though technically not part of Equestria, is the benevolent ruler of the Crystal Empire. Even Prince-Regent Blueblood gets in on the action by being a clairvoyant who uses his power to redirect government authority to where it needs to go, is one of Celestia's few trusted individuals, and the commander of the Royal Equestrian Navy. The only one who isn't involved is the Alicorn Prince Léon, but it's justified in his case as he's a baby/toddler, and Blueblood has forbidden him from participating in governmental affairs until he's older to protect him from various enemies.

Heads Of State

Celestia, the Sunraiser

See her folder entry here.

Luna, the Nightbringer

See her folder entry here.

Princess Amicitia Sparkle Equestria, the Spark of Friendship/Princess Twilight Sparkle, the Bearer of Magic

Princess Amicitia Sparkle Equestria, the Spark of Friendship/Princess Twilight Sparkle, the Bearer of Magic

See her folder here.

Notable Government Officials

Raven Inkwell, Royal Secretary/Assistant of the Crown

Princess Celestia's personal assistant and one of few ponies she explicitly trusts.

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Royal Equestrian Ministry of Internal Security (REMIS)

General

• By-the-Book Cop: REMIS and its head insisted that everything they do is within the laws of Equestria and parameters set by the Equestrian Crown. How true that is (and how often they invoke Exact Words to their mandate and the law for convenience) is often questioned in-universe by many who are concerned where and how far they could potentially take their mission.
• The Dreaded: While starting small and unknown, they gradually built up their power and presence over the Time of Trials, their investigations they made and the purges they conducted making them feared and controversial in Equestria.
• Read the Fine Print: How a REMIS agent responded to a Clovenist activist whom they are taking in for questioning for potentially seditious behaviour when he made a speech against the Equestrian monarchy, in regards to the supposed constitutional protections of the citizens.
  Clovenist Activist: We made a speech calling out the Princess, and now you are going to 'investigate' us for it? I'm an Equestrian citizen! Where is my guaranteed freedom of speech?!
  REMIS Agent: ... We never guaranteed you would have freedom AFTER speech.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Many Equestrians are very, VERY uncomfortable with their mere existence, but they are kept around because things in the Time of Trials became bad enough that they are arguably a necessary evil.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Their entire existence invokes this in Equestria among many regarding how far they could and should go in order to defend their beloved land and ideals without becoming not so different from those they face.
• I Did What I Had to Do: REMIS sees itself as unfortunate but needed safeguard in Equestria against internal and external threats, having been nearly destroyed by them more than once in recent years and only surviving by the skin of their teeth, and thus is willing to use more controversial and questionable means to ensure Equestria's safety, much to the concerns and consternations of those who do not approve of their methods.
• Necessarily Evil: They are feared and unpopular, but seen as a necessary evil in the face of all the threats inside and outside Equestria.
• The Purge: Had led many of them as part of their duties, rooting out seditionists, traitors, agents, cultists and other internal and external threats to Equestria, such as against Mayor Spoiled Caviar and his cronies in Fillydelphia for corruption and high treason for helping Talon Bais trying to destroy Dragontown, as well as leading one against treacherous generals, decadent nobles, corrupt politicians, radical extremists, unscrupulous businessmanes and other seditionist/treacherous factions after the 'Canterlot Coup' and during the 'Second Equestrian Civil War'.
• State Sec: REMIS was formed to as their name implied provide internal security for the Equestrian state, monitoring for, investigating and protecting it from internal and external threats to Equestrian government, society and ideals. It is implied that they were inspired in part by ANOTHER State Sec organisation of an ally of Equestria in the form of the Terran Inquisition of the Terran Empire.
• Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: They HATE seditionists and traitors more than anything else, and many of their investigations and outright purges are aimed at rooting them out. And much to their own concern, there is a surprising great number of them all over Equestria.
• We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Played for Laughs. A joke has REMIS agents managing to get a confession out of a mummified corpse.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Had occasionally overstepped their bounds, leading to them being called out by the likes of Equestrian media and principled members of the Equestrian Pantheon for their excesses and being put back into line by Princess Amicitia and the Equestrian government.

Sterilizing Agent, Minister of Internal Security

First depicted in a Drabble, the stoic, calculating and ruthless Unicorn mare Sterilizing Agent is the first head of the Royal Equestrian Ministry of Internal Security (REMIS), who would go on to become one of the most powerful and feared figures in the Equestrian government as she loyally but unscrupulously do whatever it takes to preserve the nation and root out all and any threat to Equestria and its values of harmony and friendship - even if it leaves her and her organization knee deep in blood.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Despite being a cold, calculating and callous figure, she does appear to possess a sense of humour as she was actually amused by a joke satirising her and her ministry's methods.
• Deadpan Snarker: When inquired about the whereabouts of an ultranationalistic party which had been mass arrested after they were exposed as a front of fifth columnists, recalling a joke satirising her and REMIS which Sterilising Agent thought was Actually Pretty Funny, quipped that "They have been misplaced."
• Deadly Doctor: From her name to her use of medical terminology, it is implied that she has a medical background. She outright describes REMIS as Equestria's 'immune system', and had authorized and even personally organized the arrest and executions of many Ponies deemed enemies of the state.
• The Dreaded: Her presence is described as dreadful and her disposition menacing, and her reputation only went up from there as she and REMIS conducted their purges.
• Expy: Brutalityinc has noted to be inspired in part from the likes of J Edgar Hoover (a ruthless public servant who turned the FBI into an efficient and effective domestic intelligence and security service but also did many questionable and controversial things) and Nikolay Yezhov (head of the NKVD who led Stalin's Great Purge in 1936-8 with remoreseless zeal).
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Many condemned her and her organization's methods, but grudgingly tolerated it due to the power she and her branch amassed as well as her apparent unquestioned loyalty and the fact REMIS' purges ultimately did help saved Equestria and everything it stood for, even if it left them knee-deep in blood.
• Meaningful Name: Her name 'Sterilizing Agent' is rather appropriate for someone who is dedicated to wiping out internal enemies of the state which she deemed 'cancer' and 'malignant' cells of Equestrian nation and society threatening its existence, its government and its values.
• Spotting the Thread: Starting from suspicion planted by one of the newly-elected Fillydelphia mayor Spoiled Cavier's off-hoof comments at the Royal Canterlot Gala earlier that year about how he wish someone could just 'take care' of Dragontown and its Free Dragons for him, as well as in an investigation over irregularities behind the mayoral elections which swept him in power over his political rival former mayor Cream Cheese, Sterilizing Agent and her ministry would uncover a web of corruption as well as financial ties with Tribalist groups domestic and afar, one of which would implicate him in enabling an act of state terrorism by the dragon-hating extremist Gaelist regime of Talon Bais by helping them sneak a whole battallion of Talon Bais soldiers led by a company of their infamous dragonslayers to destroy Dragontown in the guise of a terrorist attack, all for his own benefit and racism against non-Ponies like the Free Dragons - in effect, revealing him to be culpable for sedition, conspiracy and high treason on top of his sleazy political and corporate misconducts.
• Undying Loyalty: Her one apparent redeeming trait, pass all the blood, is that she is completely dedicated to Equestria and everything it stood for. If anything, that borderline fanatical devotion to harmony and friendship is implied to be what drove her to be willing to go as far as she did to root out anything which could threaten them.
• I Warned You: She had noticed signs of an imminent coup and the Second Equestrian Civil War years in advance, but apparently it all fell on deaf ears until it was almost too late. The fact that she was completely right contributed to her being able to amass as much power as she and REMIS had during and after the Canterlot Coup, the Great Purge, the Second Equestrian Civil War and the Continental Wars.
• Was It Really Worth It?: She and REMIS are a living embodiment of this for the Equestrians as far as the Canterlot Coup and the Great Purge are concerned. Their ruthless work help get rid of a lot of malignant elements of Equestrian politics and society which saved the nation and everything it stood for - harmony, friendship, and everything else - from those who would seek to subvert or destroy them, but it left them knee deep in blood from all the questionable things they had to do. As far as Sterilizing Agent is concerned, though, it was Worth It.

Office of Domestic Investigation (ODI)

First mentioned in a Drabble, the ODI exists to combat organised crime, investigate systemic corruption, provide domestic security services, and most importantly act as a counterweight to other security organizations such as REMIS to prevent them from going too far.

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General

• By-the-Book Cop: More firmly so than REMIS, who had often been accused of interpreting the law and their mandate liberally or by Exact Words to get their way.
• The Rival: Mentioned to have developed one with REMIS on account of overlapping responsibilities and also existing to keep them in line.

Director-General Fair Cop

• The Commissioner Gordon: Principled and determined, he does things by the book and condemns questionable or ruthless methods to pursue justice even in the face of necessity, which causes him to butt heads with Minister Sterilising Agent and her more ruthless methods.
• Meaningful Name: Fair Cop is a common saying for catching or being caught fair and square for dirty deeds, which befits Fair Cop's principled character.
• The Rival: To Sterilising Agent. Neither of them nor their organisations got along due to clash of principles and jurisdiction, as well as the fact both and others were set up to watch each other. That being said, at the end of the day both will put aside their differences to protect Equestria.

Notable Canterlot Nobles

General

• Adaptational Villainy: The Canterlot nobility. In canon, most of them are jerks and bullies at worst. Here, with a few exceptions, they are depicted as so corrupt and incompetent that they contributed to many of Equestria's problems, such as its near decimation at the hands of the Storm Empire and its allies. Eventually, following a failed coup, they are subjected to a political purge spearheaded by ex-Princess Luna and other divine/mortal members of the Equestrian Crown. Those who died in those events had their souls Dragged Off to Hell by infernal members of the Equestrian Pantheon as punishment for their crimes.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: The nobles of Canterlot are far more insidious than is shown in canon - they are stubborn, corrupt, and backwards, and would do anything to maintain the status quo and keep their power. Some of the nobles are also quite tribalist, with Blueblood's deceased parents and the pro-unicorn Children of Platinum faction being two examples; the latter even attempted to assassinate both Princess Twilight Sparkle as well as her assistant/adoptive son Spike (which was thankfully foiled by Blueblood). They are completely willing to do anything that will ensure their power as well as the current status quo are protected, including assassination and sabotage. If anything, they are the reason why Prince Blueblood gradually lost his overt idealism and hide his Hidden Heart of Gold in order to deal with them, and why the Equestrian government struggled to pass reforms that will overturn outdated policies and benefit the country as a whole.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: The Storm King Crisis had caused massive public backlash to be directed at the corrupt nobility, being a large reason why the Storm King was able to invade Equestria easily, which finally gives the Equestrian Royal Family a chance to pass the reforms the nobles were trying to block. However, Celestia is given a warning by a disguised Changeling King Brachion about the measures they would take to secure their crumbling power.
  King Brachion: Beasts are at their most dangerous when wounded and cornered. They will not go down without a fight - they will thrash, they will struggle, they will bite and tear and kill; they will take any chances and go any lengths to survive. Many a hunter on the edge of triumph had found their throats torn open by the dying animal they sought to put down. Take care, your highness, if you wish to slay your beasts; you may never know what they would not do, what they are capable of, if they felt they have nothing left to lose.
• Fantastic Racism: As implied in Blueblood's backstory, many nobles are unicorns and thus look down on those who are non-unicorns, including non-unicorn nobles. Their tribalism is so deeply ingrained that Blueblood had to develop the same attitudes in order to covertly circumvent them.
• Morton's Fork: This is what the Alicorn Princesses and their royal/noble allies face, in regards to their backwards, arrogant, corrupt, and incompetent nobility. As Princess Luna described to Crystal Prism, even goddesses such as themselves need middle-ponies to carry out their will and balance out the needs the government and their subjects. This would create a problem, especially once those same individuals began falling to corruption - if the Alicorn Princesses tried using force to implement the reforms they wanted, they would be decried as "tyrants" and overthrown, giving the corrupt nobility more power and opportunity to do whatever they wanted. But if the Alicorn Princesses did nothing in vain hope that at least one or two nobles will notice the problem and try improve an increasingly hopeless situation, the same thing will happen regardless. However, unlike Celestia, who would try use words to appeal to the nobles' better nature and get them to change, Luna is far more pragmatic and ruthless on the matter, believing that the problem would be solved permanently if the nobility was subjected to "a good old-fashioned PURGE". In the end, Luna turned out to be right.
• The Purge: Eventually, after so many years of being corrupt, bigoted and reactionary idiots, the Canterlot nobility finally went too far when a sizeable fraction of them supported a Coup against the Equestrian Crown and government over the election of Starlight Glimmer, the Egalitarian Principal as the new prime minister. This however was fortunately detected ahead of time and was foiled, with Luna and her allies launching 'Operation Sixty Six', marking the beginning of the Great Purge which would not only cleanse any and all Canterlot noble houses who had stood in the way of reforms and had their stranglehold in Equestrian society for too long, but also root out and wiped out many malignant elements of Equestrian society and politics such as traitorous generals, unscrupulous businessmanes, corrupt politicians, extremist radicals and others deemed enemies of the state and threat to Equestrian government and values of friendship and harmony. Many hundreds, if not thousands of nobles were arrested, if not outright killed, and whole noble houses were destroyed. Those who remain were either crown loyalists and allies who finally get to rise to positions to do good, or those who were spared the purges and learnt to fall in line, or else.
• Supernatural Elite: As in canon, most of Canterlot's nobility are powerful, wealthy, and influential unicorns from ancient families. The royal Alicorns, however, take it one step further by being the highest living forms of authority in Equestria, with Princess Celestia and her younger sister, Princess Luna, serving as the ruling diarchs. Even Prince Léon, an Alicorn toddler, is considered royalty, though his young age means he won't be as active until he's older.
• Token Good Teammate: There are a few nobles who aren't deeply corrupt and/or incompetent, such as Blueblood, Fancy Pants, Fleur-De-Lis, Twilight Velvet and Night Light. Unlike the vast majority of their peers, the aforementioned ponies are all working hard to ensure that some good occurs in their country. Princess Luna notes to Crystal Prism that people like them are becoming a "rarer breed" with each generation, which might become a problem in troubled times, so a more thorough "purge" of the entire nobility itself might be the only way to get rid of the rampant corruption.

Prince-Regent Vladimir Polaris Blueblood

Character: Heroic

Alignment: Lawful Good

Type: Tactician/Clairvoyant/Prince

Faction: Canterlot Government

"As those Changelings are so fond of saying - one's outer appearance can be quite deceiving."

Prince-Regent Vladimir Polaris Blueblood (his entry here) is a member of the Equestrian royal family, though one with a highly divisive reputation.

Prince Blueblood was born in House Platinum, a noble unicorn House that's famous for having blood descendants of Princess Platinum, one of the Founders of Equestria, and thus its members enjoy considerable power and influence. As the only child of his generation, Blueblood's parents tried molding him into an ideal Scion, including making him develop tribalist attitudes towards non-unicorns and forbidding Blueblood from pursuing anything that's unbecoming of a unicorn noble, including exploration and navigation. This left the young Blueblood feeling so miserable that Princess Celestia took notice when he and his parents attended her court. After a session of cookies and gentle talking, Blueblood bawled in front of her, having never experienced parental love and kindness before.

Celestia saw this as proof that he was being abused at home, and personally adopted him as her nephew. When Blueblood's parents protested the decision, she had them escorted out by her Day Guards, and by royal decree declared House Platinum persona non grata in her court for encouraging the mistreatment of a foal. Despite Celestia's busy schedule as a ruler, Blueblood grew up mostly well-adjusted under her wing, and used his newfound freedom to pursue a military career in the Navy, since it was related to his childhood love of maps and exploration.[WIP]

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In contrast to canon, where he acted like a Jerkass Prince Charmless to Rarity, the Codexverse version of him behaved that way because he dated mares who either loved the romanticized version of him or wanted him for his money and status, which led to messy breakups, scandals, and heartache. He was also constantly roadblocked by corrupt Canterlot nobles whenever he tried helping their Equestrian subjects, forcing him to act as bad as them in order to get around them no matter how miserable it made him feel.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: The Codexverse subjects him to one to justify his canon behavior. For one, he had a terrible childhood, and his parents were emotionally abusive and had high standards of what a unicorn Scion of Princess Platinum should be. The sheer misery he would suffer motivated Celestia to adopt him once she learned what was happening. His boorishness towards Rarity was also explained as one of many facades - years of being roadblocked by incompetent, cruel, and entitled nobles forced him to develop ways to circumvent them and help Equestria without endangering himself, and dealing with messy breakups and scandals caused by mares who only wanted his title and wealth influenced him to behave so repulsively in public that any mare pursuing him will be disgusted and driven away.
• Adaptational Badass: Here, he's a clairvoyant unicorn Prince who is one of the most powerful and influential ponies in Equestria, right behind the Alicorn Princesses themselves. He also boasts physical and magical combat skill, nautical expertise, and international diplomacy, things his canon incarnation doesn't have.
• Adaptational Heroism: A beloved war hero among his soldiers and a stallion completely dedicated to the well-being of Equestria and its people. His facades were his way of getting around the insidious and malignant members of Canterlot's nobility in order to do what he truly wanted. Beneath them, he's a very nice pony, if a bit cynical and pragmatic.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Here, he's a loving family man who cherishes the mares and stallions in his life, and a beloved war hero who never abandons his fellow soldiers. The unpleasant behavior he showed towards Rarity in canon is actually the result of a facade he put up to protect himself from more heartache, after being pursued by ambitious socialites who only wanted him for his money, title, and power, but turned against him for being quite not what they wanted.
• Assassin Outclassin':
  • It's implied that he was subjected to numerous assassination attempts by nobles who wanted to get rid of him, but thankfully his magical talents and fighting skills saved his life. He has scars that have since healed as proof of the incidents.
  • He also prevented an assassination attempt on Twilight Sparkle by a pro-unicorn tribalist faction, the "Children of Platinum" group, by sending a few of his loyal entourage to serve as undercover spies and having Luna assign her Night Guards to bodyguard duty for Twilight and Spike, who was regarded as a target, too due to his ties to Twilight. The foiling of such an attempt raised public opinion of him considerably, especially the Mane Six, who were terrified out of their minds by the thought of nearly losing two of their best friends to political conflict.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: As a colt, his birth parents emotionally abused him in their attempts to mold him into the ideal Scion of House Platinum, including trying to destroy his childhood dreams of being an adventurer after he got a compass rose Cutie Mark. Years later, after he was adopted by Princess Celestia and he was introduced to Prince Léon, then an infant Alicorn, he initially had doubts over his parenting skills and feared having Léon's innocence corrupted by Equestria's incompetent, selfish, and cruel nobility... but he ultimately chose to take responsibility and become the good parent to Léon that his own parents were not, resulting in an emotionally well-adjusted toddler. Both Luminiferous and Celestia believe that lots of good things await him if he continues raising Léon right.
• Break the Cutie:
  • When he was younger, his parents' controlling and emotionally abusive attempts to mold him into the ideal unicorn left him unusually sad, depressed, and tired for a colt - so much that it caught the attention of a sympathetic and protective Celestia, who adopted him shortly after learning of his history. He got better since then.
  • Then he went through it again years later, when his attempts to help Equestria were constantly blocked/sabotaged by lazy, incompetent, greedy, and entitled nobles, and he would be the subject of scandals after having messy breakups with socialites who only wanted him for his title and wealth. It got to the point where he had hide his Hidden Heart of Gold constantly, both to protect himself and to sabotage the nobility from the inside without having his progress impeded.
  • Part of his reluctance towards adopting Prince Léon as his son stems from his fear that the Canterlot nobility will invoke the trope by exploiting and corrupting Léon's innocence. After receiving offers from both friends and family to let them raise Léon, he ultimately decides to take responsibility and become a good parent to Léon his own parents were not.
• The Chosen One: He's chosen by Discord to bear the Element of Fantasy, one of the Equestrian Elements of Chaos.
• Damned by Faint Praise: This happened in one notable occasion when he was tasked with overseeing his birth parents' funerals - he couldn't be openly honest about his parents because funerals required proper decorum, so he made adoring and reverent speeches for each parent that ironically exposed their worst flaws. Those who caught on were greatly amused to the point where a few, like Luna, quickly collapsed laughing.
• Family of Choice: After he was adopted away from his controlling and emotionally abusive parents, he sees Celestia as a mother figure despite being his adoptive Aunt, and came to see Luna as a second Aunt after she came back from her exile on the Moon. Cadence is his surrogate sister, with shades of Annoying Younger Sibling as she teases him with (in his own words) "her obnoxious humor".
• Fantastic Racism: Subverted. Despite his parents encouraging him to develop contemptuous hatred of non-unicorns, he never developed the inclination for it. If he did act like a tribalist, then likely it's part of a facade that he puts on to keep the despicable nobles of Canterlot appeased. The fact that his parents, relatives and ancestors claim to follow Princess Platinum's values is rather ironic, since Platinum changed her ways after Clover the Clever saved her and the other Founders by driving away the Windigos and saving them from being frozen.
• Flanderization: In-universe; The Equestrian citizens have seen Blueblood's public facade for so long that they started seeing it as his "true" personality. Sensationalists capitalize on this by printing and spreading malicious media depicting him as either a power-hungry villain or a complete joke whose sheer unpleasantness made Nightmare Moon turn back into Princess Luna, horrified by the idea of being compared to him. It gets deconstructed and played for drama in that Blueblood secretly feels that he has no other choice but to be the asshole everyone thinks he is, or else he'll never be able to get past the nobles' corruption and help Equestria at the same time. His friends and loved ones are rightly upset and furious with the slander, and try to clear up any rumors and gossip they find, while they also feel saddened that the compassionate and heroic stallion they knew turned himself into an asshole in order to continue doing good.
• Freudian Excuse: Deconstructed, as while his motives and his experiences are understandable, his actions still end up biting his ass in the end.
  • He constantly hides his Hidden Heart of Gold in public because it's the only way to keep the genuinely useless members of the Canterlot nobility cowed, and to prevent them from sabotaging more of his efforts to help Equestria. He did try do it the nice way, but he found his reforms blocked and sabotaged, and even got into fights with assassins numerous times. This caused the public to see him as a genuinely boorish, tribalist, and sexist flank-hole who had no right to be a Prince if he isn't an Alicorn, something that secretly gives him grief as he believed there was no other way.
  • He also acts like a sexist lout in public because early in his career, he had flings with ambitious socialites who only wanted him for his money, power, and title, and had to deal with scandals that resulted from messy breakups. This broke his heart so much that he doesn't want his heart to be broken again. This ended up biting him when he ended up mistreating someone who turned out to have genuine affections for him, such as Rarity; he soon realized his mistake and went out of his way to clear things up with Rarity and apologize for his actions.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Even though his Jerkass behavior and his motives for it are understandable, considering the circumstances he went through, he still ends up hurting those close to him, and making the public genuinely see him as no different than the corrupt nobles he's trying to undermine. For his part, Blueblood genuinely believes that there is no other way for him to act, as he will be blocked and assassinated by his enemies if his intentions were made known, and even regretted it once he realized what he had done with Rarity at the Grand Galloping Gala. Fortunately, he now has Prince Léon to keep him honest again.
• Gut Feeling: How his clairvoyance works. When he focuses on finding something, then he'll take whatever path his magical intuition reacts strongly to, whether if he's finding a material object, a location, or even an abstract concept.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Double-subverted. He's a blond unicorn stallion who acts like a boorish fop and an entitled noble in public, but it's just a facade to keep the genuinely useless nobles cowed; beneath the facade is a stallion who is a loving family man that wants to help Equestria and its people.
• Happily Adopted:
  • When he was a colt, he was officially adopted by Celestia as her nephew after she discovered that his birth parents were being emotionally abusive and controlling, which explained why Blueblood came to her court looking unusually sad and tired. Since coming under her wing, Blueblood had grown up mostly well-adjusted, and regards Aunt Celestia as his true parent.
  • Years later, he would adopt Prince Léon as his son, despite them technically being "biologically" related, as Léon was born from the karmic backlash of his good deeds. Due to his desire to be a better parent than his own birth parents were, the result was a well-adjusted Alicorn toddler.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Deconstructed. He generally acts like a "useless, mare-hating flankhole" in public because if he didn't, the genuinely useless nobles of Canterlot will find a way to undermine his political power and possibly get rid of him altogether. Everything else was fabricated by his rivals or attention-starved sensationalists. However, his behavior in "The Best Night Ever" was one of those times where he took his facade too far and ended up ruining Rarity's night. His public misbehavior has earned him a rather unpleasant reputation, whether through conflicting information and/or bias, but Blueblood feels that he has no other choice but to act like an asshole in order to get things done. His friends and loved ones are rightfully upset with the slander and try to clear up any rumors and gossip they find, while they are saddened that Blueblood has to act that way for the greater good, having known him as a kind and altruistic pony. Also, his desire to protect himself from gold-diggers and social-climbers backfired on him spectacularly when he treated Rarity poorly, not knowing that her affections were real and that she's the Element of Generosity, leading to great animosity between them until Blueblood later cleared things up and apologized for his actions.
• Holding the Floor: At one point, Blueblood was confronted by a group of corrupt nobles who enlarged themselves with a growth spell, with full intention of rampaging across Equestria until the Equestrian Crown gives in to their selfish demands. Fortunately, using his diplomacy skills and his silver tongue, Blueblood distracted the enlarged nobles long enough for Celestia's Giganticorn scions and their mortal Giant subjects to arrive, leading to a Curb-Stomp Battle where the nobles quickly surrendered or were subdued by the new arrivals.
  Gigantified Noble: You have been ignoring our reasonable requests for too long! Let's see now if you can ignore us when we are the biggest thing there are in this kingdom!
  Prince Blueblood: Oh, but we can. You see, my now oversized peer, you are still not the biggest things in this kingdom...
  Celestia's Gianticorn scions: AHEM.
  Prince Blueblood: They are. I hope you enjoy their company.
  Gigantified Noble: M-mommy-!
• I Am Not My Father: The fact that his birth parents raised him poorly drove him to adopt Prince Léon as his son (despite being technically biologically related) and become a much better parent than them. The result was Léon becoming a well-adjusted toddler.
• Large and in Charge: He's described as being a tall unicorn with an athletic build, compared to Shining Armor who's short and stockier. He's a Prince-Regent who takes control of the Equestrian government and keeps it running if Celestia and Luna are occupied elsewhere, or are incapacitated somehow.
• Like Brother and Sister: Despite being adoptive cousins, both he and Cadence are very close and behave like brother and sister, with Cadence teasing him with her "obnoxious humor".
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike Blueblood's unicorn parents, who were genuinely unpleasant to the point where Celestia permanently banned them from her court for what they did to their son, Blueblood himself is genuinely nice, loving, and altruistic behind the many facades he put up to deal with useless nobles and personal heartache.
• Loophole Abuse: Happens when he was tasked with overseeing his birth parents' funerals. He couldn't express how he really felt about them because the situation required proper respect and decorum, but at the same time he didn't like them, either. So he gave seemingly adoring and reverent speeches that ironically exposed his parents' flaws. This amused the funeral-goers so much that a few of them, like Princess Luna, collapsed in stitches.
• Love Hurts: He got in quite a few scandals early in his career because he had messy breakups with socialites who either turned out to be gold-diggers or wanted to use him for their social advancement. This deeply broke his heart to the point where he pretended to be a sexist lout in public so the mares will leave him alone. This got him in trouble with Rarity when he severely misjudged her behavior and actions and caused them both to part on bad terms, until he cleared things up with her later and apologized.
• Making a Splash: His specialty lies in water magic, which reflects his changing personality. He can generate and change water to ice/gas for various uses, such as creating scalding steam clouds, firing sharp icicles and large pieces of hail, and manipulating existing water sources to create gigantic whirlpools and/or tsunamis as a crowd-control method (though this tends to exhaust him).
• Mind over Matter: Is noted to have unicorn-type telekinesis.
• Nephewism: Was adopted by Celestia as her nephew when he was still a colt after she found out about his emotionally abusive upbringing, yet was raised like her own son since then. This caused Blueblood to prefer her as his "true" parent.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Deconstructed. He had a few romantic relationships in the past, only to get into scandals over messy breakups because the mares he dated seriously either turned out to be gold-diggers or social-climbers. So he started acting like a sexist lout in public so the mares will be disgusted enough to leave him alone for a long time... unfortunately, this leads to him treating Rarity poorly because he vastly misjudged her character and intentions, and the public has seen him act this way so often that they assumed that his public behavior really is his personality.
• No One Gets Left Behind: During his days as a Navy soldier, he would often go back to save a comrade-in-arms from being abandoned, even at great cost to himself. This earned him praise and loyalty from his fellow soldiers, which hasn't changed much even after being promoted to Commander of the entire fleet.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • He's a blood descendant of Princess Platinum, one of the Founders of Equestria, while there was no such indication in the canon show.
  • He's also the adoptive father of Prince Léon, a one-shot Alicorn character from a French MLP magazine, though technically he's Léon's biological father as well due to the nature of Léon's birth.
• The Resenter: Downplayed. He admits that he feels slightly envious towards House Sparkle for being blessed with Good Parents like Twilight Velvet and Night Light, while House Platnium gave him Abusive Parents.
• Royal Blood: Ironically, despite his name, which is Blueblood.
  • He's a blood descendant of Princess Platinum, a unicorn ruler from before the founding of Equestria. His family, House Platinum, pride themselves in being related to unicorn royalty and following her ideals, and presumably enjoyed considerable power and influence in Canterlot before they were exiled from Celestia's court.
  • He came under Celestia's wings via adoption after the latter learned of his parents' emotional abuse, which makes him related to divine royalty. Luna and Cadence are part of the adoptive family, too.
• Seers: He has clairvoyance, hence his compass rose Cutie Mark - he can find lost things that people need and direct others to where they need to go. This is what allows him to attend to various political matters so Celestia and Luna can still have time to tend to their divine responsibilities. However, in his own words, he isn't a Seer and regards Celestia as a "true" Seer since she can receive future visions even while awake.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: Done during his birth parents' funerals. Blueblood couldn't talk about how he really feels about his parents in an overt way since funerals require social respect, so he got around this by roasting them with seemingly adoring and reverent speeches that ironically revealed their worst traits. Those who caught on found this to be so funny that a few of them, like Princess Luna, collapsed in stitches.
• Token Good Teammate: Of Canterlot's nobility. It's double-subverted in that while he acts like a Jerkass in public, it's so the genuinely useless, arrogant, tribalist, and incompetent nobles wouldn't try blocking his efforts to pass reforms or assassinate him altogether if they didn't know his true intentions. Beneath his facades is a compassionate stallion who loves his family and wants to help Equestria.
• True Companions: Blueblood has a circle of close friends to which he is very loyal, which includes ponies like Shining Armor (despite their constant snarking), Fancy Pants and his wife Fleur-De-Lis. During the Storm King Crisis, after Fancy Pants was injured and Fleur-De-Lis was left vulnerable, Blueblood came to their rescue and fought off a few Storm troopers to protect them.
• Truly Single Parent: Léon is technically his biological son, having spawned from the magical karmic backlash from all of Blueblood's good deeds. And due to having a few past relationships end badly and create messy scandals that he alone had to deal with because the mares he dated only wanted his wealth and political power, Blueblood never married.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Implied to be his relationship with Shining Armor; they frequently snark at each other, yet they are completely willing to work together in times of crisis. A prominent example occurred during the "Storm King Crisis", in which he and Shining rallied the remaining soldiers against the Storm Empire and directed war efforts against the Storm Navy. And sometime after the "Storm King Crisis" ended, Shining Armor was among those who approached Blueblood with an offer to adopt and care for Prince Léon in his place, largely because he genuinely wanted to help a friend out.
• Warrior Prince: Well, Prince-Regent, but Blueblood is an experienced Navy soldier, tactician, and water mage with Cutie Mark-based clairvoyance, and thus is capable of kicking ass. Notably, he fended off numerous assassins sent by rival nobles, and participated in the Storm King Crisis where he fought a few Storm Troopers just to protect a friend, Fancy Pants, and his wife Fleur-De-Lis.
• Weak, but Skilled: By a relative standard; his profile states that while he doesn't have the raw power held by Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle, he's incredibly talented in water magic, capable of creating gigantic whirlpools and tsunamis when at his strongest. This implies that while weak in comparison to Alicorns/Gifted unicorns, he's still magically powerful when compared to average unicorns.

Prince Léon Blueblood

See his folder entry here.

Fancy Pants

Fleur-De-Lis

Duke Gypsy Night Light, the Oracle of Stars

Character: Heroic

Alignment: Lawful Good

Type: Noble-stallion/Astronomer/Astrologer/Seer/"Good Parent"

Faction: Equestrian Crown/Canterlot Nobility

"People think that prophecies only offer one path, with no way to deviate from them. What they don't know is that the future itself can be interpreted and changed in many ways."

Duke Gypsy Night Light (his entry here) is the current patriarch of House Gypsy, the loving husband of Duchess Twilight Velvet, and the father of Prince-Regent Shining Armor and Princess Twilight/Amicitia Sparkle Equestria.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Unlike canon, he was a withdrawn and anti-social person due to being ostracized by his classmates for being too smart for them, and dealing with corrupt Canterlot nobles who tried gaining prestige via associating with a Seer from a respected House. He also hated his precognitive abilities and saw them as a burden that brought him nothing but misery at first.
• Adaptational Badass: In canon, he's only a supporting character like his wife. Here in the Codexverse, he's a powerful unicorn noble and mage with foresight and other magical/psychic abilities, the patriarch of a noble House that's descended from the G1 First Age prophetess Gypsy Wheel, and an extremely learned academic intellectual. He also holds the positions of Royal Astrologer and Court Seer, which carried over onto his daughter Princess Twilight/Amicitia's reign after Celestia and Luna passed the throne onto her.
• Blinded by the Light: After learning light magic from Star Echo, he can induce blinding flashbangs.
• Blue Is Heroic: He's described as a blue-pelted unicorn with a dark blue mane and tail, and he's a benevolent Canterlot noble who is the current patriarch of House Gypsy, and a powerful mage who holds the positions of Royal Astrologer and Court Seer.
• Crash-Into Hello: How he met his then-future wife, Twilight Velvet. He was so busy studying the stars outside on the Sparkle family's castle grounds that he didn't see an angry Twilight Velvet approaching, or hear her rant about wanting to "get away" from her privileged yet stifling noble life. This led to Twilight Velvet crashing into him, but it also led to them befriending and falling in love with each other despite their embarrassing first meeting. The rest was history.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was ostracized by his classmates when he was younger for being too smart for them, and he had to deal with nobles either hanging around him for the perks of associating with a respected noble House of Seers, or people only seeing him to have their fortunes told. This turned him from a cheerful, open, and excited colt to a withdrawn and anti-social stallion whose only comfort was astronomy, and hated his precognition for bringing him nothing but misery. All that changed when a certain mare accidentally crashed into him during a party...
• Fainting: When he was taken to Friendship Gardens by Golden Scepter and introduced to the spirit of his deceased adoptive daughter, Queen Majesty, he reportedly fainted from meeting the friend of his First Age ancestor.
• Green Thumb: Thanks to his voracious study habits, he knows plant-based spells and only uses them when in a pinch.
• Happily Married: To Twilight Velvet, his wife, as in canon.
• Heroic Lineage: Much like his wife, he and his family are descendants of a First Age pony - in his case, it's Gypsy Wheel, a prophetess who was an employee and close friend of Queen Majesty, one of the greatest mortal unicorn monarchs and heroes to have ever lived. Because of his lineage, Night Light has incredible precognitive abilities just like his ancestor, and has great political power and prestige among the Canterlot nobility, though he initially hated his psychic foresight because it brought him nothing but misery in his eyes. Fortunately, he would meet Twilight Velvet in a rather unexpected encounter and fall in love with her, which changed his views and personality for the better. He in turn would become the parent of Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle after marrying Twilight Velvet, and his kids would become great heroes themselves.
• An Ice Person: Implied. Thanks to his voracious study habits, he knows ice-based spells and only uses them when in a pinch.
• In-Series Nickname: His entry reveals that his canon name, Night Light, is just a nickname. His full name is Gypsy Night Light.
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: In his youth, he was very intelligent and passionate about astronomy, but it got him ostracized by his classmates who saw him as a "weirdo". This partially contributed his transformation from a cheerful, open, and excited colt to a withdrawn and anti-social stallion whose only comfort was astronomy. However, it's reconstructed,
• Karmic Jackpot: While his connection to Queen Majesty through his ancestor, Gypsy Wheel, would be a part of it, his overall good qualities and the loving, compassionate manner in which he raised his children would end up impressing Emperor Golden Scepter a great deal. This led to Night Light being introduced to the Church of the Stars, and having the majority of the Church's pantheon take great interest in his potential. He would also be taken to Friendship Gardens where he would be introduced to Gypsy Wheel's friend, Queen Majesty, who is currently residing in the Enchanted Throne as a spirit guide. It's noted that he fainted from the shock.
• Light 'em Up: After he was introduced to the Church of the Stars, he started learning light magic, and started applying it in the form of illusions, blinding flashbangs, and clouds of glittering light that mislead and distract the enemy.
• The Magnificent: Known as "the Oracle of Stars", due to possessing incredible precognitive abilities and being an experienced astronomer/astrologer.
• Making a Splash: Implied. Thanks to his voracious study habits, he knows water-based spells and only uses them when in a pinch.
• Master of Illusion: After learning light magic from Star Echo, he can make light-based illusions.
• Modest Royalty: Despite being a Duke, he prefers to dress modestly or wear nothing at all. The only times he dresses himself according to his station is during formal occasions.
• Opposites Attract: He was withdrawn and anti-social until he met Twilight Velvet, though he's still somewhat soft-spoken, quiet, and shy. His wife, Twilight Velvet, is fierce-tempered, bold, and passionate. Despite this, they compliment each other quite well, and their marriage is long and happy.
• Playing with Fire: Thanks to his voracious study habits, he knows fire-based spells and only uses them when in a pinch.
• Psychic Powers: He has precognition, telepathy, and psionic teleportation.
• Pungeon Master: His entry notes that he has tried to be "cool" and "hip" for his children by telling them "dad jokes". Reception typically involved lots of groans and whining.
• Seers: He has powerful precognitive abilities, something that he and other members of House Gypsy inherited from their First Age ancestor, Gypsy Wheel. His foresight can be enhanced through astrology, which involves the studying of movements and placement of celestial bodies like stars, planets, and meteors. While his visions can get cryptic at times, he's not too reliant on them as he trusts his friends and loved ones to do the right thing when it counts. It's noted that when he was younger, he saw his foresight as a burden that brought him nothing but misery due to nobles trying to use him to further their own ambitions, and even avoided people who sought him out for his visions. Fortunately, meeting Twilight Velvet caused him to acknowledge and accept the benefits of having foresight.
• Shock and Awe: Thanks to his voracious study habits, he knows lightning-based spells and only uses them when in a pinch.
• Sword and Sorcerer: He is the 'Sorcerer' to his wife Twilight Velvet, who is the 'Sword'. He's a skilled and versatile mage with a wide range of magical and psychic powers in his arsenal, as well as a powerful Seer due to his bloodline, but is a Squishy Wizard in terms of physical combat. While no slouch in magic herself, Twilight Velvet is a powerful swordsmare whose 'Armament Magic' revolves around weapon/armor-summoning, enchanting weapons, and enhancing her own swordfighting skills, which making her a Magic Knight.
• Telepathy: He has telepathic abilities for long-range communication. Queen Dazzleglow is very interested in helping him develop a spatial version of this, which would allow him to communicate with others through celestial bodies.
• Thinking Up Portals: He can use teleportation magic, which manifests in the form of portals, and is very creative with it. He can send enemies far away from the battlefield, slam them into hard surfaces and weapons, or even bifurcate them with the portals themselves.
• Wowing Cthulhu: He impressed Golden Scepter, an antediluvian Alicorn Emperor, with both his good qualities and his family's connections to Queen Majesty, Golden Scepter's deceased adoptive daughter, causing him to hold a great deal of respect for Night Light. When Golden Scepter took Night Light to Friendship Gardens and introduced him to Majesty's spirit through Queen Fluttershy, Night Light reportedly fainted out of shock from seeing his ancestor's friend.

Duchess Twilight Velvet Sparkle, the Vorpal Blade

Character: Heroic

Alignment: Lawful Good

Type: Noblemare/Duelist/Protector/"Good Parent"

Faction: Equestrian Crown/Canterlot Nobility

"As long as I still draw breath and my blade remains unbroken, I shall continue protecting all that I hold dear!"

Duchess Twilight Velvet Sparkle (her entry here) is a prominent Canterlot noble, the wife of Duke Gypsy Night Light, and the mother of Prince-Regent Shining Armor and Princess Twilight Sparkle.

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• Adaptational Badass: In canon, she's only a supporting character. The Codexverse greatly expands on her personality, role, and abilities, turning her into a benevolent and fiercely protective noblemare who commands power, respect, and fear as an Equestrian Duchess. She is also an incredibly powerful Magic Knight with impressive magical talent and skills in swordsmanship, enough that she became Rarity's personal tutor when the latter approached her out of concern that she Can't Catch Up with her friends, who are either (distant) descendants of gods or have helpful mutations.
• Barrier Warrior: She can summon magical barriers. It had been heavily speculated In-Universe that Shining Armor has inherited the defensive aspect of his mother's magic from her, until Twilight Velvet herself confirmed it with great pride.
• Crash-Into Hello: How she met Night Light. She was so frustrated from dealing with arrogant and callous nobles that she stormed out to her family's castle grounds after the party she was attending ended, feeling the need to vent and wishing she could "GET AWAY from it all!" As luck would have it, she didn't see Night Light, who was also outside studying the stars, and ended up walking straight into him. Despite their rather embarrassing first meeting, they would befriend and fall in love with each other. The rest was history.
• Doting Parent: She's rather proud of Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle for what they had done with their lives, and praises each of them for their accomplishments. Even though Twilight is more accomplished and talented than her brother, and an Alicorn goddess to boot, she never favors her daughter for it, and sees Shining Armor as equally lovable and unique as his sister.
• The Dreaded: Her entry notes that she's feared for her Mama Bear tendencies, as she tends to fly into a rage if her family and subjects, especially her children, are threatened and/or insulted.
• Good Parents: While she does have her embarrassing moments, such as calling her kids affectionate nicknames in public, she's otherwise noted as being a very loving and maternal parent. Notably, she doesn't show Parental Favoritism towards Twilight Sparkle despite her being a magical prodigy and an Alicorn goddess, as she sees Shining Armor as having a lot of traits and skills that make him equally great and lovable as her talented daughter. She also welcomed Spike into her family, despite him being a dragon. It's not advisable to threaten or insult her children, as she'll go into a deadly rage if it happens.
• Happily Married: To Night Light, her husband, as in canon. Her entry reveals that she fell in love and married him because unlike the other nobles, Night Light was a very friendly stallion who treated her like a mare rather than a political pawn to gain power, and had no love for his arrogant and callous peers himself
• Heroic Lineage: She and her family are maternal descendants of two Twilights of the First Age: Twilight of Paradise Estate, and Twilight the Wisher, who she heavily resembles most. It's noted in her entry that, because she's connected to two famous historical ponies, many nobles tried gaining her favor as well as her hoof in marriage, which she detested. After falling in love and marrying Night Light, she would become the parent of Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle, both who would become great heroes themselves.
• Instant Armor: Her Armament magic allows her to generate armor from her own magic.
• Magic Enhancement: Her Armament magic allows her to enchant both weapons and shields so her allies have the advantage of increased offense and defense, resepctively.
• Magic Knight: Her entry notes that she's a very skilled swordsmare, with lots of training on her hooves, and a very powerful mage due to her family having strong magic in their blood. Her "Armament magic" allows her to summon multiple blades, weapons, and shields with her own magic, and can also enchant existing weapons and shields so her allies can have increased offense and defense. She can also channel magic spells through her primary weapon, a cutlass named the "Vorpal Blade", and turn it into a weapon whose blade produces elemental magic, such as fire, ice, and lightning.
• Mama Bear: She's rather fiercely protective of her family, especially her children, and would go after those who threatened and/or insulted them. In fact, she's feared for it.
  • She went after those who treated Shining Armor like nothing more than a Baby Factory and "throne-warmer" for his wife, Princess Cadence, since the Crystal Empire is a traditional matriarchy that's ruled by Empresses and (recently) Princesses.
  • She does not tolerate displays of anti-Dragon racism at Spike, whom she has welcomed into her family, and has been known to verbally cut down anyone who does so.
  • In an infamous incident, she was furious when she learned that the tribalist Children of Platinum faction nearly succeeded in assassinating Twilight Sparkle and Spike. During the assassins' trial, Night Light apparently had to drag her away from the courtroom to prevent his wife from attacking the perpetrators responsible. She was noted to be rather satisfied when she received the news of their final punishment.
    Duchess Twilight Velvet: If Prince Blueblood hadn't gotten to those tribalist nobles first, I would have GLADLY cut them down myself for trying to hurt my babies.
• The Magnificent: Known as "the Vorpal Blade", due to her extreme skill in swordfighting and armament magic. Her epithet came from her weapon, a cutlass that is also named "Vorpal Blade" after an old bedtime story she used to read to her children as foals.
• Modest Royalty: Shared with Night Light. Despite being a Duchess, she prefers to dress modestly or wear nothing at all. The only times she dresses herself according to his station is during formal occasions.
• Mutants: Because she's a blood descendant of Twilight from the First Age's Paradise Estate, she was born a "So Soft Pony", and thus she has a thicker yet softer pelt that gives her natural armor against blunt-force attacks, and allows her to endure colder climates. Despite constant trimming and the drawbacks of increased body heat in hotter weather, Twilight Velvet believes the benefits of her mutation outweigh the cons, as Night Light loves cuddling up to her fluffy body. She would pass on this gene onto her children, though it's more prevalent with Shining Armor, which is a good thing since he lives in the Crystal Empire near the Frozen North. Hilariously, her mutation led to an incident where she found little Prince Léon nibbling on her pelt, after she let it grow longer once. Prince Blueblood, Léon's father, sheepishly promised her that he'll help wean his son off of "hair and other things that might catch his fancy".
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Her entry notes that she's really good at "playing dumb", acting like a demure and graceful aristocrat in public until an opportunity comes to let her show her true colors and strike.
• Parental Favoritism: Averted. Despite Twilight Sparkle being more intelligent, accomplished, and magically talent than Shining Armor, even to the point where she eventually Ascended while her brother didn't, Twilight Velvet doesn't favor her over Shining Armor. This is because in her eyes, Shining Armor has a lot of unique traits and skills that makes her son equally deserving of love and praise.
• Purple Is Powerful: She has purple streaks in her hair as well as a Cutie Mark depicting three purple stars that twinkles magically at night. She's also a skilled swordsman, and a powerful and highly adept mage who specializes in summoning and enchanting weapons and shields.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She fell in love with Night Light because he was very friendly, and genuinely treated her like a person instead of someone to befriend in order to gain power and prestige among the nobility.
• Spell Blade: She can generate fire, ice, and lightning spells through her cutlass, Vorpal Blade, which makes her deadly on top of her swordfighting skills.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Justified. She's skilled in Armament magic, allowing her to summon various weapons like swords, axes, spears, maces, and daggers.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She's described as being a near-splitting image of Twilight the Wisher of the First Age, except for their eye and pelt colors, the number of Stars on their Cutie Marks, and the coloration of their manes and tails. This in part made her a powerful and politically influential noblemare in Canterlot, whose lineage made other nobles want to befriend her to gain power from being associated with a descendant of a First-Age hero.
• Sword and Sorcerer: She is the 'Sword' to her husband Night Light, who is the 'Sorcerer'. While no slouch in magic herself, she is a powerful swordsmare whose 'Armament Magic' revolves around weapon-summoning, enchanting weapons, and enhancing her own swordfighting skills, making her a Magic Knight. Night Light, meanwhile, is a skilled and versatile mage with a wide range of magical and psychic powers in his arsenal, as well as a powerful Seer due to his bloodline, but is a Squishy Wizard in terms of physical combat.
• Token Good Teammate: Of Canterlot's nobility. While she plays the part of a graceful and demure aristocrat around her peers, she secretly detests most of them for being arrogant, callous, and incompetent elitists, and fears the possible negative impact they might have on her children. She ended up becoming one of the Royal Alicorn Sisters' most powerful allies because of her strong principles.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She would comfort Twilight Sparkle after the latter began blaming herself for inspiring Noble Grace and Bubbling Beaker to create Crystal Prism, assuring her daughter that she still did her best and nothing would ever change that.

Prince Nero Jewelius Blackguard

First mentioned in a Drabble, Prince Nero Jewelius Blackguard is a distant nephew Princess Celestia and cousin of Princess Cadence who on the surface appears to be a seemingly kind, understanding, charismatic if mildly arrogant gentlecolt who wished to do what's best for everypony. In reality however, he is a devious, manipulative sociopath who envied and hated his divine royal aunts and cousin for years for their popularity and power, and secretly plotted to overthrow them and become the worshipped ruler of the Principalities of Equestria as the founder of a 'pure and powerful' new dynasty. While able to hide his plots for years, his true colours would be revealed come the Canterlot Coup and the Second Equestrian Civil War, becoming the leader of one of the hostile secessionist factions.

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• Big Bad: A major villain from the already corrupt Canterlot aristocracy who later became one of the leaders of the Canterlot Coup and the secessionist factions in the Second Equestrian Civil War.
• Break the Haughty: On the receiving end of one from Golden Scepter, the Radiant Emperor, who not only No-Sell all his lies and manipulations easily, but poke a sizeable hole in his ego by pointing out just how insignificant he and his ambitions are the grand scheme of things, complete with a psychic projection of the sheer scale of the universe and an Armor-Piercing Question. It left him shaken, if unrepentant.
  Emperor Golden Scepter: You ask why we do not receive you and your proposals with the attention you believe you deserve. You wonder why your plots and machinations seemed to be beneath the notice of your aunts and their peers, seemingly always busy with far greater concerns. This is the reality: You. Are. NOTHING. A bug who poked his head out of a hole and now ponders the sun. Yet you still think you are the axis upon which Equestria if not the whole world revolves around. Look upon existence now, Prince Nero Jewelius Blackguard of House Blackguard, and ask yourself: Of what, precisely, are you in control of?
• Beneath Notice: Golden Scepter pointed out one reason why Prince Blackguard was able to get away with his schemes for so long, besides being very good at hiding them, may simply be he and they are this compare to the often far greater concerns or worse threats the Equestrian Royal Family and their heroic allies often had to deal with. Realising this may be true makes Prince Blackguard envy and hate his great aunts even more, as his ego can't stand his seeming insignificance.
• The Evil Prince: A prince by title and a pretty heartless and hateful bastard who sought to overthrow his own great aunts and seize power for himself.
• Et Tu, Brute?: On the receiving end from his cousin and friend Prince Blueblood, who was heartbroken to find out how rotten he is and helped Luna with the operation to bust the conspirators of the Canterlot Coup on the night it was launched. In turn, Blackguard was furious at Blueblood's 'betrayal' and spend much of the civil war trying to get him back for it.
• Evil Is Petty: Part of his grudge against Twilight is that she rejected him. Since they are cousins-in-law and he was just using her to have kids, it's hard to blame Twilight for turning him down.
• Evil Nephew: To Celestia and Luna. In spite of treating him with kindness, he seeks to overthrow and kill them, because they overshadow him.
• Expy: Of Prince Jewelius from the "Love and Lost" fanfic which expanded "A Canterlot Wedding" and made it darker, where he is the Big Bad.
• Foil: To Prince Blueblood. Both are distant nephews of Princess Celestia and cousins of Princess Cadence who hide their true selves behind masks to deal with society. Yet while Blueblood beneath his haughty jerkish exterior was truly faking it and really a good-hearted stallion who loved his family and wanted the best for Equestria, Blackguard beneath his compassionate noble veneer is a devious, hateful and ambitious sociopath who desire to overthrow the family he despised.
• It's All About Me: He cares only for himself and his own power, and would do anything to get it.
• Manipulative Bastard: In full form. He hid his malignant narcissistic sociopathy behind a charismatic mask of being a compassionate, understanding and patient stallion and played others like a fiddle to do his bidding.
• Meaningful Name: Besides his middle name being a direct reference to his inspiration, his first name Nero (an infamous mad/tyrannical Roman emperor in RL) reflects/foreshadows his status as The Caligula among the corrupt Equestrian nobility and later one of the secessionist factions. His surname Blackguard means someone who behaves in a dishonourable or contemptible way even in-universe, which some had noted half-humorously should had given him away as someone who is Obviously Evil.
• Narcissist: He is full of himself, believing he deserve to be outright worshipped like a god as the ruler of Equestria.
• Obviously Evil: Downplayed in regards to his surname. Some Second Age returnees noted how obviously suspicious someone who had the surname of 'Blackguard' is, but it's pointed out the meaning of the word could had changed significantly over millennia and no longer mean someone who is bad, even if Prince Blackguard himself lived up its Second Age meaning. Generally subverted with Prince Blackguard himself as he is VERY good at hiding his true villainous character.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Downplayed in that he is still portrayed as a dangerous menace with his plots and machinations, which culminated in the Canterlot Coup and the Second Equestrian Civil War. However, it's pointed out by Golden Scepter himself he is still ultimately a small fish in a big pond when compared to his aunties and her peers and allies, who are gods or heroes with often far more pressing concerns and threats to deal with than the petulant ego and petty schemes of a Canterlot noble. Part of his hatred and envy of his Alicorn great aunts stems from realising this as he cannot stand the fact he doesn't compare to his relatives in popularity and power or that he may just be beneath their notice. That being said...
• Small Role, Big Impact: Prince Blackguard had like his inspiration plotted with Queen Chrysalis to usher forth the Canterlot Wedding Invasion as part of a plot to undermine her aunts and seize power, making him partly responsible for the Fall of the Masquerade and Chrysalis' usurpation by Thorax. His schemes had also help damaged the credibility of the Equestrian Royal Family and government, starting a chain of event which would lead to the Canterlot Coup and the Second Equestrian Civil War - which he would also play a role in as a leading co-conspirator and secessionist leader.
• The Sociopath: Superficially charming and stable, Prince Blackguard is in truth a manipulative and devious sociopath who plays others like a fiddle to get what he wants and desires nothing short of absolute power for himself, caring for no one else.
• The Social Darwinist: He sees modern Equestria and his aunt's rule as weak and seeks to found a 'pure and powerful' new dynasty as the new ruler of Equestria.
• Unholy Matrimony: He hooked up with Opaline Arcana, one of Celestia and Luna's most persistent enemies, during the Second Equestrian Civil War. No one is sure how genuine either of them are for each other, although he did confirm she's an 'absolute she-demon' in bed.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He became a popular figure in Equestria after famously 'calling out' his great aunts for their failures after the 'Canterlot Wedding' Changeling invasion (some of which they gracefully accepted), especially among the nobility which became increasingly hostile to the Equestrian Crown and fearful of losing their power in the face of reforms and modernisation. He would use it to his advantage in becoming a politically powerful figure.

Other Residents

Lucky Shot/"Regal Pillar"

Character: Heroic

Alignment: Neutral Good

Type: Colt/Earth Pony/Departed Soul/Lonely Rich Kid/Abused Foal/Mutant

Faction: Principalities of Equestria, Canterlot

Lucky Shot, aka "Regal Pillar" (his entry here) was an Earth pony colt who lived in the Principalities of Equestria, and was one of many Pony foals who was affected by the Striga Family.

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• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: He receives a few comforting pats on the head from Moon Ray after the latter learns his parents died via Telepathy.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He became friends with Moon Ray Vaughoof because he was very kind, comforting Lucky Shot when he needed it and calling him by his birth name instead of the name his abusive grandparents gave him. When it was time for Lucky Shot to be exorcised from his unicorn host body, Moon Ray stayed with him the entire time to provide emotional support. Moon Ray's easygoing nature also made it very easy for Lucky Shot to latch onto him. As a result, Lucky Shot now regards him as "Uncle Moony" and hangs out with Moon Ray in the Heaven-Realms whenever the latter is available.
• Dishing Out Dirt: As an Earth Pony, he has geokinetic abilities.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Inverted. His birth name was Lucky Shot, but after the Striga Family transferred his soul into the body of a Unicorn colt, he was renamed "Regal Pillar" by his paternal grandparents. Lucky Shot hated his new name because his paternal grandparents were emotionally abusive, and they were trying to mold him into the ideal Unicorn scion that their son — his father — was not. Moon Ray calling Lucky Shot by his birth name was one of the reasons why they became friends.
• Fantastic Racism: His grandparents tried to make him adopt tribalist attitudes towards non-unicorn ponies as part of their plan to make him the ideal unicorn scion. Unfortunately for them, it didn't work.
• Forgiveness: Invoked by Moon Ray, who's working on helping him let go of this so he can be completely free of his abusive grandparents' influence.
• Hates Their Parent: He understandably hates his grandparents for how they killed his parents, ruined his life, and abused him just because his father chose to marry a 'common' Pony mare. Moon Ray is currently working on helping him let go of his hatred so he would be completely free of his grandparents' influence.
• Meaningful Name: His birth name is Lucky Shot, referring to his skill in Buckball and aspirations to become a Buckball athlete. Following his soul transference into a Unicorn colt's body by the Striga Family, he would be renamed "Regal Pillar" by his abusive paternal grandparents, who wanted to turn him into the 'ideal' noble scion that his dead father was not. Moon Ray decides to call him by his birth name instead out of sympathy, earning his trust and friendship.
• Mind over Matter: He gained arcane telekinesis after having his soul put in the body of a Unicorn colt against his will by the Striga Family. Despite his grandparents' attempts to make him take magic classes, he absolutely hated it.
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: His 'kidnapping' by a group of robbers who burglarized his grandparents' house and his subsequent accident provoked suspicions when Lucky Shot begged a Guardian of Love who healed him not to return him to his grandparents. This later led to the Equestrian Crown and its allies uncovering Lucky Shot's emotional and verbal abuse at the hooves of his paternal grandparents, and both his grandparents' dealings with the Striga Family and direct role in the deaths of his parents in a Tribalist extremist bombing in Manehattan.
• Mutants: He's a 'Happy Tail' mutant, which gives him a Prehensile Tail, allowing him to play Buckball with growing proficiency as his birth name suggests.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents died in a grocery-store bombing caused by Pony tribalist extremists, who were secretly paid by Lucky Shot's grandparents to kill his mother in an attempt to bring his father back into high society. While it worked, Lucky Shot's father ended up dying with his wife, leaving him the Sole Survivor. However, his status as a spirit living in a host body means that he ends up reuniting with his parents in the Heaven-Realms anyway.
• A Shared Suffering: One reason he was able to befriend Moon Ray Vaughoof of the Trimortidae because they both lived and grew up with abusive family members. Lucky Shot being mistreated by his grandparents earned him Moon Ray's sympathies, as he had to deal with a raging, alcoholic father for much of his foalhood in the Second Age.
• Sole Survivor: He's the only one in his family who survived a grocery-store bombing caused by Pony tribalist extremists, which proved to be detrimental as he ended up in the care of his wealthy yet emotionally abusive paternal grandparents. As it turned out, the reason why Lucky Shot lost his parents is because his grandparents paid tribalists to get rid of the common-born mare Lucky Shot's father eloped with and married, so they could use her death as an excuse to bring him back into high society. Unfortunately, while it worked, both of Lucky Shot's parents died in the bombing. However, it's later averted when his status as a spirit living in a host body is revealed and he is exorcised by Equestrian spiritual agents, allowing him to reunite with his parents in the Heaven-Realms.
• Super-Speed: As an Earth Pony, he had enhanced speed.
• Super-Strength: As an Earth Pony, he had enhanced strength.
• Super-Toughness: As an Earth Pony, he had enhanced endurance. This is what likely allowed him to survive the Tribalist bombing that killed his parents, though he was left heavily scarred in the process.

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