Line #63 Characters/TriptychContinuumOriginals


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3	[[folder: Abjura]]
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5	One of the palace researchers and a gifted school graduate. She's a light green unicorn mare with very light yellow mane and tail. She used to date Linchpin.
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10	[[folder: Aqueduct]]
11	One of the new plumbers in Ponyville, as of Year 4. First seen in ''Out Of Commission''
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13	* ElementalHairColors: She deals in water, as a plumber, and her name references the element, and so she has "an oddly-liquid blue coat".
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16	[[folder: Anise Verum]]
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18	The former Lunar head chef -- and, much to her fretting, current holder of the matching Solar post: she was cross-transferred after the events of [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119983/a-total-eclipse-of-the-fun A Total Eclipse Of The Fun]]. She's a young light green pegasus mare with an organic-looking eight-pointed star on her flanks (representing the actual anise seed) who's reluctantly taken up the (requested) assigned post of being Celestia and Luna's primary instructor in the [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/204101/princesses-cant-cook culinary arts]].
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20	* BadassTeacher: It takes a lot of prodding and provocation, but she eventually reaches the point where she can yell at both sisters and not only get away with it, but make them back away from ''her''. In concert. [[spoiler: Along with kicking half-cooked dough into their faces]].
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23	[[folder: Audu]]
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25	A "pleasantly overweight" unicorn mare and minor noble who runs a bird sanctuary outside of her estate in Canterlot.
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27	* AnimalLover: ''Loves'' birds. Notably, this isn't a marked talent but an independent interest.
28	* CaringGardener: She doesn't put in the work herself, but she's paid earth ponies and pegasi to maintain exact replicas of her birds' native habitats on her estate.
29	* ErmineCapeEffect: Always wears fancy dresses, which she calls her plumage. Even while working in her bird sanctuary, which frequently leads to ClothingDamage.
30	* NonIdleRich: She's a marked investor, and that's how she maintains her wealth. The birds are just an interest. An interest that has taken up her entire estate.
31	** Although she does contract out for services such as earth pony and pegasus landscaping and veterinary services, she does a fair amount of the work in her sanctuary on her own, up to and including preparing meat for her carnivorous birds.
32	* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: Inverted. When she hires Fluttershy to talk to her birds her ''first'' offer is already absurdly generous. Then Applejack talks her into raising it by 20%.
33	-->Fluttershy (thinking):''That's my summer feed bill, plus all the expenses she mentioned, half of my veterinary journal subscription renewals, a replacement for my medicine scales, and I think I can squeeze out repairs for the door...''
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37	[[folder: Barnum and Bayleaf]]
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39	A pair of newlyweds living in Ponyville. Barnum is an earth pony with the ability to enhance ''other'' ponies talents. Bayleaf is a unicorn and the theatre's projectionist. They're both loyal loving ponies... with a gullibility threshold an earthworm could pole vault.
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41	Also the parents of the first crystal pony born in Equestria in generations.
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46	[[folder: Blending Stock]]
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48	The former saucier of the Solar Kitchen and current junior sous chef in the Lunar, studying under Anise and working towards eventual promotion. He's a young earth pony stallion with an off-white coat, light yellow mane, green eyes, and a mixing bowl with ladle for a mark.
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50	* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: Celestia offers him the position of Head Chef of the Solar Kitchen for having helped capture Chef Ramshead. Averted in that he turns her down, pointing out that whilst he's generally smarter than the Brinner Brigade (which admittedly isn't a high hurdle to clear), that doesn't mean he knows enough about cooking to properly fill in that role. Impressed, Celestia instead re-hires him as a junior sous chef under Anise Verum, head chef of the Lunar Kitchen.]]
51	* TheMole: [[spoiler: He wasn't fired like the rest of the Brinner Brigade -- he quit to keep an eye on them, because he knew Chef was stupid enough and controlling enough to lead the rest into trouble.]]
52	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Lays down an epic third-person perspective one of these as he explains to Celestia that Chef is an absolute idiot and the only one who can reasonably be blamed for the Brinner Brigade.]]
53	* OnlySaneMan: He was the sanest and most stable member of the disaster known as the Brinner Brigade[[spoiler:, and in fact was only ever along with it because he wanted to try and keep them out of harm's way]].
54	* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Leaps in front of a plate that Chef hurls at Luna during the eclipse to keep him from causing a double corona backlash -- completely unaware of the hidden shield shell protecting the sisters.]]
55	* WalkingSpoiler: A lot of what he ultimately does during his first appearance in A Total Eclipse Of The Fun counts as spoiler territory.
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58	[[folder: Blitzschritt]]
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60	The first Ibex guard, she died one hundred and fifty years before the present, while saving Celestia's life.
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62	* GreenAroundTheGills: A species who gains magic from stability isn't going to find sailing enjoyable.
63	* HeroicSacrifice: Died putting herself in the path of a boulder before it could crush Celestia.
64	* WallCrawl: Part of her species magic. [[TruthInTelevision Not that far exaggerated from real Ibex.]]
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68	[[folder: Bulkhead]]
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70	An unusually large and bulky unicorn stallion. Formerly one of Celestia's guards, who transferred to the Lunar shift when Luna returned.
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72	* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Nonfatal example, but he was one of the first ponies taken out by Cerea during her combat exercise, and the first one she picks out of a group instead of [[LeeroyJenkins getting ahead]].
73	* {{Catchphrase}}: "Okay asshole, I'll take it from here!" Anytime he goes on shift.
74	* SarcasticDevotee: Often the first guard to protest against Celestia and Luna, ''especially'' if he thinks they're about to do something dangerous. Also completely devoted to the thrones.
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78	[[folder: Chef]]
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80	The former head of the Solar Kitchen: he was fired for being one of the instigators of the riot during the first eclipse demonstration. Immediately decided the whole thing was just proof that the Nightmare had never gone away and formed the counterrevolutionary cell known to students of Equestria's History Of Morons as the Brinner Brigade. He's a unicorn stallion in late middle age: ash-blonde mane and tail with a dark brown body, and his field resembles fast-boiling water.
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82	* BookDumb: He actually dropped out of school after a couple of years, confident he had learned everything he needed to know.
83	* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: At his own insistence; nobody calls him anything other than Chef, even before the whole Brinner Brigade fiasco.
84	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Absolutely nopony can stand him; the rest of the Brinner Brigade only follows him because they're so cowed that they instinctively obey him when he starts screaming, whilst the rest of the castle only put up with him before he got fired because they suspected he'd poison them if they stood up to him. It's telling that when he tried to go to ponies he knew at the castle for help during the work of the Brinner Brigade, every last one of them told him this to his face and kicked him out.
85	* HeManWomanHater: It takes a special breed of misogynist to keep that view in ''Equestria'', but Chef manages by focusing most of his hate against the idea of having mere ''mares'' working in professional kitchens. Sadly, this [[TruthInTelevision reflects a good part of human cooking culture]]. To him, Celestia (who truly can't cook, having never bothered to learn) is ''their'' "weak mess-up mare." Accept no substitutes. [[spoiler: At least until he begins to dream of being given the thrones.]]
86	* IRejectYourReality: In a rather [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Lord Rust-ish fashion]], Chef has a tendency to completely rewrite what's actually happening around him to match up with what he ''thinks'' is the way it should be.
87	* JerkAss: It's made very, ''very'' clear what an absolute ''prick'' he is over the course of A Total Eclipse Of The Fun. Incredibly arrogant, aggressive, controlling, stupid, and (in Celestia's opinion) adept only at taking all the credit for other ponies' work.
88	* OddlySmallOrganization: At the head of one. Justified as the Brigade is composed of those fired [[spoiler: or who quit]] after the demonstration and nopony else is both trusted enough to be allowed to join, and stupid (or drunk) enough to ''want'' to join.
89	* ShoutOut: His name can be seen as a reference to [[spoiler: Gordon Ramsay]].
90	* SmallNameBigEgo: He's a head chef, which is admittedly a fairly important job, but his ego far outweighs his actual position. For example, he was one of the instigators of the riot during the first eclipse demonstration, and his unabashed distrust of Luna was why he was fired afterwards, as he presumed that ''he'' somehow knew better on the matter than '''Celestia'''. [[spoiler: To say nothing of how he starts to fantasize that, once he and his band of losers have somehow toppled Luna, ''he'' will be made undisputed monarch of Equestria... although, to give him some small credit, he's out of his mind on stimulants to keep him awake at the time.]]
91	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: After his capture, Celestia offers him a deal. He can go to trial for his actions as the ringleader of the Brinner Brigade... which, as he essentially tried to assassinate Luna, would be an act of highest treason and with presumably very grim punishment. Or, he can take what she feels is a fairer punishment; probation and community service for life, extensive psychiatric evaluations before the former begins (which means he may spend some time in an asylum), and if he is eventually declared fit to re-enter society, he will be given a position as a junior grade chef in some kitchen that is ''not'' the castle, where he will work under female superiors and will be attending remedial classes until he gains a standard school diploma. All with regular visits from Luna to see if he's actually learning anything from his punishment. Garleek Ramshead takes one moment to confirm that he would have to work under mares, and then ''demands'' he be put on trial.]]
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94	[[folder: Chocolate & Vanilla Bear]]
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96	The medical specialists added to the team trying to help Joyous. Two male unicorns: one white, one deep brown. Chocolate (unusually muscular and solid for a unicorn, with a shaved-away mane) works as the surgical half of the team, while Vanilla (skinny and possessing a mane which may be able to lift more than he can) is the diagnostician. Despite their shared last name, they're not related: they were simply paired as roommates in college due to that coincidence and have worked together ever since.
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98	* BadassBookworm: [[spoiler: As shown in chapter 14 of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumAMarkOfAppeal A Mark Of Appeal]], Chocolate won't hestitate to sincerely threaten the life of a rampaging minotaur for the safety of his friends.]]
99	* BlessedWithSuck: Invoked and downplayed; Chocolate Bear notes that he never did have the instinctive knack for surgery that Vanilla did, he always seemed to only learn best by ''cutting''. Of course, he brings this up as a threat...
100	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Try to believe these are two of the most qualified doctors on the continent. Go ahead, try it.
101	** However, like their originals, once you look past the personality quirks, they're actually good at their jobs. They're both able to refute the sisters' contagion fears in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumAMarkOfAppeal A Mark Of Appeal]], and are the ponies who figure out how Joyous' talent actually ''[[SmellsSexy works]]''.
102	* CombatMedic: Discussed and averted in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumAMarkOfAppeal A Mark Of Appeal]]; they're skilled medics, but they have absolutely no combat training and are otherwise really not suited for combat missions.
103	* {{Expy}}: Let's all [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/131321/5/a-mark-of-appeal/unresolved-sexual-tension welcome]] [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Turk and J.D.]] to Equestria. [[note]]And also [[Series/{{House}} Gregory House]] by internal monologue.[[/note]]
104	* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler: After learning that Joyous' problems stem from an encounter with a magical plant, only named so far as the minotaur drug "red-tinge", Vanilla openly starts to contemplate the possibility of ''infecting himself'' with its baleful curse, in hopes that its strengthening of his mark-magic affinity for medicine would let him succeed in creating a cure.]]
105	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Are described as "married in every way except the legal and sexual".
106	* ImagineSpot: Vanilla is prone to slipping into them: the visible sign is a head tilt up and slightly to the right, followed by an extended freeze and non-sequitur after emerging. This isn't particularly reassuring when seen from the outside.
107	-->"Is there something wrong with him?" Luna directly inquired.\
108	"It's -- hard to explain..." Chocolate Bear awkwardly offered.\
109	"'''''Try.'''''"
110	* LaserBlade: It turns out that Chocolate Bear's personal spell (or 'trick') is to hone his telekinetic field into a surgically sharp "blade": he can create multiple such blades at the same time and in different areas with ease. This makes him a walking surgical kit -- and a potentially devastating fighter in any situation where nopony's particularly concerned about the fatality count. Fortunately, his medical code of ethics prevents him from any such activity -- unless, say, he has to defend Vanilla's life.
111	* MistakenForGay: 'natch. However, they do admit they're a little bit married.
112	* SecretKeeper: Two of only three living normal ponies[[note]]Or rather, two of the only three whom the sisters have directly told[[/note]] to know [[spoiler: that there is no such thing as a naturally-born alicorn]]. This status gets them promoted to the rank of Royal Physicians at the end of '''A Mark of Appeal''' -- in part because the palace wants to keep an eye on them.
113	* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together. Justified in that they operate their own private medical practice.
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116	[[folder: Clear Coordinator]]
117	A unicorn pony with a below-average field strength, an addiction to power, and a positive genius at the use of rumor, manipulation, and blackmail.
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119	* {{Blackmail}}: Coordinator excels at finding out incriminating details about other ponies and delights in using this knowledge to force others into submitting to him.
120	* ControlFreak: There are aspects of this in his behavior. However, he seldom gets to openly wield power -- and the one time we see him make the attempt onscreen, during his blackmail attempt on Twilight, it backfires.
121	* FantasticRacism: Chapter 30 of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]] establishes him as a shameless, hardcore unicorn supremacist. He's also shown to be absolutely horrified by "the ''warped''": [[spoiler: ponies experimented upon by Gentle Arrival during delivery, and implied in various parts of the Continuum to have non-standard magical abilities and traits as a result.]]
122	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Unwittingly kills himself by drinking a ''booster'' he simply wasn't strong enough to handle in chapter 48 of Triptych.]]
123	* {{Irony}}: Coordinator's petty vendetta against Twilight simply because she'd rejected her is what sets her on the path to becoming a Princess—and all that happens before and after that:
124	-->''It could be said that in a very real way, he'd been one of the most important ponies to have ever lived.''\
125	''But nopony knew it. Even if they had, he hadn't meant to do any of it. He hadn't had '''control'''.''
126	* IRejectYourReality: Coordinator clearly rewrites the actual events of what happened to favor his own, more personally flattering, interpretation several times during his viewpoint moment in chapter 30 of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]].
127	* {{Jerkass}}: Clear Coordinator may be the single most unpleasant, obnoxious, outright villainous character in the Continuum. [[spoiler: Even the members of the "Great Work" so far have been more AffablyEvil than him. What's more, the few ponies that attend his burial mostly do so to get proof that he's actually dead—and his own parents don't even bother to show up!]]
128	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tried to cover up his attempt to assassinate the Bearers by forcing ''her'' to consume a ''booster'' so he could then set her against the Bearers, secretly hoping it might kill her in the process. Because she was in her earth pony form, she simply threw it back up, and Coordinator impulsively drank the ''booster'' himself. But he wasn't strong enough to handle the effects and it killed him, with Gentle Arrival giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as he lay dying before abandoning him to his final moments, alone and unmourned.]]
129	* LastNameBasis: ''Nopony'' calls him Clear.
130	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Is playing at this role when he first appears in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]], but it turns out he reaches far higher up the chain of evil than that. He's at least partially responsible for [[spoiler: arranging funding for The Great Work]], and not all of the donating ponies are making contributions of their own free will. Additionally, he's been siphoning off some of that money into a private account. This has not escaped Gentle's notice.
131	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Whenever he can get away with it.
132	* SmallNameBigEgo: Coordinator has a massively inflated sense of his own superiority, and this is hammered in during his viewpoint semi-chapter in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]].
133	* SmallRoleBigImpact: In this universe, his single-hooved campaign to ensure that Twilight had ''no'' friends after she rejected his offer of "friendship" was responsible for Twilight becoming the anti-social recluse she was at the start of the show, and thereby defining the entire shape of both the show and the Continuum.
134	* WeakButSkilled: Subverted; despite the initial impression one may get upon seeing him in action and learning he graduated from Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, the reality is he got through his days at the School entirely through {{Nepotism}}, cheating, and using blackmail to scare the other students into helping him cheat. He's got a distinctly below-average field strength rating, and in fact his field tends to wink out entirely when he's stressed. Though this trope does apply to his political capabilities. Barring a major miracle, he will never have anything beyond petty power, and he knows it. But he is very adept at using what power he does have to inflict every last drop of torment, trauma, and denial possible.
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137	[[folder: Cluster]]
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139	One of the Lunar Guards. Notable in that he's one of those who seems to serve as Luna's personal company: he watches over her during open palace sessions and has accompanied her during hoof trips through Canterlot.
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141	* HappilyMarried: A stallion/stallion pairing with Josdien. (Joyous creating an IfItsYouItsOkay in him is one of the things which alerts Luna to how much of a problem that out-of-control talent is going to be.)
142	* HeroAntagonist: To Celestia and Luna in the story below. Initially, it's inadvertent. Initially.
143	* NotSoAboveItAll: When Celestia discretely suggests that maybe she and Luna wanted to get rid of the tapestry because it's absolutely hideous, he just stares blankly back and incredulously points out that "it's art!" Celestia comments to Luna after he leaves that his husband runs an experimental art gallery, so Cluster may be one of those ponies who legitimately can see some value in the repulsive thing.
144	* OnlySaneMan: The events of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTravapestry Trav(ap)est(r)y]] have left him convinced that he just might be this for the entire palace. Of course, given he's one of those ponies who actually think the tapestry being "art" somehow legitimately excuses the fact it's one of the most disgusting, ugly and unpleasant things ever produced, well, his sanity isn't ''entirely'' unquestionable.
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147	[[folder: Crossing Guard]]
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149	Canterlot's head of the regional Immigration Department: a middle-aged dark blue unicorn stallion who's responsible for an undersized, underfunded staff which has to take responsibility for the interactions between pony citizens and non-pony residents (plus citizens-in-waiting). One of the most culturally aware ponies on the continent when it comes to the other sapient species, not to mention one of the most stressed out when those cultures inevitably find a way to clash.
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151	* AFatherToHisMen: It's subtle, but at one point, he refers to Gerald as "''our'' Gristle." In general, he'll do anything to protect those under his charge. This even applies when they're wrong -- so he can be the one who yells at them.
152	* BadassBureaucrat: On his better days. He does know how to maneuver through the system, has some pull of his own, and the fact that Luna has some small fondness towards him doesn't exactly hurt.
153	* BeleagueredBureaucrat: During the bad ones. The ID simply doesn't have enough ponies to cover every last trouble spot, especially in the city with the highest percentage of non-pony residents.
154	* CategoryTraitor: Viewed this way by the more extremist elements within CUNET -- which is to say, pretty much all of them.
155	* FlashyTeleportation: Teleportation, that has flashes of light, is a spell that unicorns can learn. He can move himself within a range sufficient to at least cover most of the city, but keeps missing chances to take the escort test. He mainly utilizes the working to dispatch himself towards trouble spots, relying on Canterlot's gatehouses to provide safe arrival points.
156	* HappilyMarried: With Tarter.
157	* OddFriendship: Luna ''likes'' him. He's not entirely sure as to why.
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160	[[folder: Emery Board]]
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162	A wiry senior earth pony with a camouflage coat who "seemed to have been created by a griffon sculptor who had a minimalist approach, a fondness for facial crags, and an odd affection for working in stale jerky." His cutie mark is a megaphone with books and hoofblades around the projection rim (although it can take a while to spot that, as it blends into his coat very well). He serves as the primary trainer for rookie Guards, sorting out those who can't manage the duty and giving the rest whatever they might need to survive.
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165	* DontCallMeSir: He works for a living.
166	* DrillSergeantNasty: Did you see who he's an expy of?
167	* {{Expy}}: R. Lee Ermey
168	* GenghisGambit: He has never had a class of recruits who did not dream of killing him. [[Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl Even in a class of one.]]
169	** ''"I am the crisis!" He saluted. "They will deepen their bonds through uniting against a common enemy! Which is me!"''
170	* InsistentTerminology: Celestia and Luna are usually referred to as the Generals, not Princesses.
171	* NoIndoorVoice: Even when he ''tries'' to modulate himself, his default setting while working is LOUD.
172	* ReluctantRetiree: Essentially had to be pushed over the edge, rather than stepping down from the Guard. Then he went to the ''other'' nations.
173	* SirSwearsALot: It isn't constant -- but when Emery lets fly, it's spectacular. Ponies have been known to pass out just to prevent their vocabularies from being expanded any further.
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177	[[folder: Fajr]]
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179	A dove-grey pegasus stallion and marked teacher. Brother to Glimmerglow. Main focus of [[Recap/TriptychContinuumBlessing Blessing]]
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181	* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: His wife went into labor while dying. Unfortunately, the foal was premature and only lived ten days.
182	* TheCallPutMeOnHold: Had one of the latest mark manifests recorded.
183	* DeadGuyJunior: Names his daughter after her dead mother.
184	* DrivenToSuicide: After the deaths of his wife and daughter. Fortunately interrupted.
185	* FiveStagesOfGrief: Firmly in the Bargaining stage during Blessing. Slides into Depression by the end. [[spoiler: By his appearance in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/277853/twilight-sparkle-vs-the-equestrian-cutie-mark-constellation-registry Twilight Sparkle vs the Equestrian Cutie Mark Constellation Registry]] he's seemingly reached the acceptance stage and has formed a grief support group.]]
186	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Truly means well. Also has managed to emotionally scar both Celestia and [[spoiler: Twilight]].
187	* UnwantedFalseFaith: Refuses to believe that Celestia isn't a goddess. When his daughter dies, he blames himself for not having enough faith.
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191
192	[[folder: Gerald Gristle]]
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194	A recent griffon immigrant to Canterlot, who fully intends to become a full Equestrian citizen after the five-year process ends. Oddly deferential, unusually calm for a griffon in a new environment, and an aspiring businessgriffon who sees a distinct gap in Canterlot's food supply chain which needs to be filled -- namely, a state-of-the-art butcher shop.
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196	* TheExile: He ''can'' go back to Protocera -- but after his attempt at running a fully public farmer's market, he's not particularly welcome.
197	* TooDumbToLive: He got chased out of Protocera for trying to run an open-air farmer's market to cater to both the griffon need for ''some'' vegetation in their diet and the dietary needs of the Protoceran ponies, despite the cultural posturing that makes eating vegetables "shameful". He then proceeds to immigrate to Equestria and do... ''exactly the same thing'', just swapping the offensive food-stuff from "vegetables" to "meat". In fact, it's probably ''worse'' what he does in Equestria, as while griffons just object to vegetables as a result of cultural TestosteronePoisoning (if you consume too many plants, you've voluntarily descended to prey), the scent of blood and raw meat can potentially drive ponies into a flight reaction -- which, if it spreads to the point where herd instinct takes over, could become a full-fledged riot.
198	* WellIntentionedExtremist: By pony standards. Feeling that everyone in the capital, non-ponies included, is entitled to purchase the highest-quality ingredients for a good meal... that's a perfectly reasonable position. However, when that ingredient is ''meat''...
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201	[[folder: Glimmerglow]]
202
203	A remarkably beautiful pegasus mare, and one of the Solar guards. Sister to Fajr.
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205	* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: [[Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl During the attack on the palace]], she races to inform police stations and hospitals of what's going on. Then she starts gathering help.]]
206	* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler: All of the rushing and running around takes a toll on her, and Celestia immediately notices that she needs to visit the medics.]]
207	* PhraseCatcher: Any viewpoint character upon seeing her for the first time ''will'' comment on her beauty.
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209	[[/folder]]
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211	[[folder: Joyous Release]]
212
213	A young adult metallic blue pegasus mare with a unique problem: her seeking out Luna at an open palace session to ask for help in solving it kicks off the events of [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/131321/a-mark-of-appeal A Mark Of Appeal]].
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215	* AccidentalPornomancer: Shows just how horrifying this trope would be in reality. Anyone who interacts with her for more than a minute or two is consumed by lust, regardless of gender, sexual preference, marital status, or species. She has lived for years hiding in the fringes of the settled zones, trying to steal or scrounge what she needs to survive while avoiding all interactions with any fellow sapients. She has tried everything up to and including physically cutting out her mark to rid herself of her warped talent, to no avail. Finally, she seeks out Princess Luna as her last hope for a normal life - [[DrivenToSuicide or any life at all]].
216	* BlessedWithSuck: Can invoke arousal in any sapient being on the planet. Doesn't ''want'' to. Can't find any way to keep it from happening no matter what she does. If her talent truly does have the potential to eventually make ponies act against their personality, then she's at potential risk of sexual assault during every interaction -- and if it doesn't, then she still has to fear running into exactly the wrong sapient. And even without real control, the right pony could potentially use this talent to run a good part of the planet -- but Joyous just wants it ''gone''.
217	* BrokenBird: Let's count it off. She has a talent which she can't turn off and is getting more intense by the moon. That talent is for ''sex appeal'' and to date, has been universal in affecting anything sapient. Anypony (or, for that matter, anyone) sharing a room with her for ten minutes is pretty much guaranteed to make a seduction attempt. For some, it takes a lot less time and doesn't stop there. Her parents neglected her [[spoiler: although this no longer appears to have been their fault]], she was flown from settled zone to settled zone as a filly, never getting a chance to make or keep any friends, and when her talent turned out to be something which would get ponies to ''notice her'', the whole thing started off by gradually turning bad and then getting ''worse''. She can't be around others without risking her own safety and possibly having them lose their minds, nothing she's done has been able to find a cure, including approaching the Princesses for help [[spoiler: -- and if her condition is the result of a contagious disease, she's exposed them]]. If there are truly no ways to fix or eliminate her magic, her choices may come down to a lifetime of total isolation or suicide.
218	* {{Curse}}: [[spoiler:To all practical extents and purposes, she's under the effects of one; her problems stem from the fact she was exposed as a foal to a magical plant that's causing her mark magic to grow increasingly and uncontrollably potent. Sort of like Poison Joke, but much, ''much'' more dangerous.]]
219	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of A Mark of Appeal, her PowerIncontinence has been cured as has that of her parents. This gives her back her mothers and allows her to finally live a normal life.]]
220	* HomosexualReproduction: A result of it: both of her parents are mares, which makes Joyous a product of The Most Special Spell.
221	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Came to Luna in hopes of finding a way to ''destroy'' her mark and magic -- which for a pony, is just about the ultimate act of blasphemy.
222	* ImplausibleHairColor: In the Continuum, about one in every five thousand births produces a ''metallic'': a pony with a coat which reflects light in the same way highly polished metal would. This comes with no special abilities of any kind (other than the one to be chased by ponies and publications which focus on that appearance): it's simply an extreme recessive trait for fur.
223	* PowerIncontinence: The defining plight of her dilemma; Joyous' Talent is to invoke arousal in other sapient beings, but, initially, she can't turn it off and so is constantly making ponies and others attracted to her.
224	* SheCleansUpNicely: Was already beautiful, but years of high-stress bare subsistence living in the fringe took its toll. Now that she's starting to receive proper food and rest again (combined with a tiny note of hope), she's quickly closing in on knockout.
225	* SkilledButNaive: She survived in a wild zone's fringe for years, which has made her extremely adept with several of her techniques. She also completely missed out on all chances to advance her social skills during adolescence. As such, she can sometimes react as if she's somewhat younger than her calendar age, and is still working on figuring out certain levels of adult interaction.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder: Majorica Panderaghast]]
229
230	An enormously fat unicorn mare with a rotten pearl coat. A unicorn supremacist and the current head of CUNET.
231	----
232	* ConspicuousConsumption: Has no problem spending CUNET's funds on herself. [[TheScrooge Anypony else, on the other hoof …]]
233	* DirtyCoward: She uses the chaos created in CUNET's storming of Canterlot Castle to flee to Prance.
234	* PaperThinDisguise: Her idea of going incognito is a red-and-black dye job. It doesn't help.
235	* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:Cerea]] mentions that Majorica is only the second pony to have reacted this way to her [[spoiler:cutie mark]].
236
237	[[/folder]]
238
239	[[folder: Miranda Rights]]
240
241	Ponyville's chief of police: a unicorn mare, somewhat younger than most ponies would expect somepony in her position to be, with a coat which naturally blends into Moon-shadows.
242	----
243	* BarrierWarrior: Played with. Her trick begins its operation when she projects her green-grey field around two subjects. The colors of the field then separate: one pony is encased in green, the other in grey -- and then the two bubbles '''''repel''''' each other, with enough force to send stallions into walls. (While using that personal spell on Big Mac and Snowflake's combined mass required a double corona, just being able to pull it off at all indicates her field strength is well above average.) This allows her to break up fights ''very'' quickly. [[WordOfGod Word of Fanfic Author]] is that she can also kick it into reverse, leaving ponies effectively glued together.
244	* CrazyPrepared: As much as anypony can be in Ponyville's chaos sink, which means she's generally ready for the ''second'' time an incident hits. No freezer available in Snowflake's dimensions when it's originally needed? Then there's going to be one commissioned. Just in case.
245	* {{Invisibility}}: A non-magical variant. If she's nude and keeping her eyes narrowed, she's genuinely difficult to make out in the dark. Rarity has to dress her in bright colors for eveningwear just so everypony knows she's ''there''. However, this inverts under Sun: put her within daylight and she's impossible to miss.
246	* ThePlan: In [[Recap/TriptychContinuumDrunkLittlePonies Drunk Little Ponies]], she and Mayor Mare drafted Twilight into the police force as a one-day cadet. This certainly adds an extra measure to law enforcement when it comes to taking care of the multitudes who get drunk during Festival. Coincidentally, it also takes Ponyville's most powerful unicorn caster out of the ''drunken'' side of the equation and prevents the police from having to deal with ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction her]]''.
247	** When it comes to the Bearers, she's also capable of smaller manipulations. Having the mayor order Twilight to ignite her corona and show proof that she's sick doesn't work. Miranda asking Twilight to pick up the journals she just spilled does.
248	* PunnyName: Possibly the single worst one in the Continuum -- not that anypony in Equestria would know it.
249	** Which is later [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Anchor Foal''.
250	---> "I mean... ''Miranda''... What kind of name is that? I don't even know how I wound up as an officer, with that kind of name to '''not''' guide the way..."
251	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Zigzagged.
252	** ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumSickLittlePoniesAndOneDragon Sick Little Ponies]]'' demonstrates that she's not exactly a fire-and-forget type, making sure she has as much information as possible regarding a situation before committing to a move. However, ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumPermanentRecord Permanent Record]]'' suggests that the police department treats the Bearers with a little too much leniency, mostly from fear of having one or more leave Ponyville -- and this partial protection extends to the Crusaders, as two of them are direct relations. This policy gives the Mane Cast a touch more leeway in their actions, but it's also assisted the Crusade in continuing far longer than it should.
253	*** Explored in ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumADuetForLandAndSky A Duet for Land and Sky]]''. As it turns out, she's more or less under orders to keep the Bearers out of prison, at least when it comes to minor offenses: the palace has told her that she can arrest for a felony, but misdemeanors are overlooked and moderate violations trigger lectures. However, she's fully aware of the strain this puts on both herself and Ponyville, and she's not exactly happy with it. Additionally, she does blame herself for a good part of the Crusade, and there are signs that continuing to enact this policy has her going against her own mark: she's in a constant struggle for whether ToBeLawfulOrGood.
254	[[/folder]]
255
256	[[folder: Mr. Flankington]]
257
258	A dark green pegasus stallion in late middle age who runs a Ponyville restaurant as a one-pony operation: server, marketing director, menu coordinator -- and, unfortunately, head chef. He's quite possibly the single '''worst''' cook in Equestria: most Ponyville residents eat at his place only once (and that if somepony doesn't warn them in time), and summer tourists who assume that any eatery ''must'' be run by someone with a cooking mark often find themselves in exactly the right place to be proven horribly wrong. And for all that, he's a very nice pony indeed, one who means no harm -- so can he offer his apologies through treating you to dinner?
259	----
260	* BornInTheWrongCentury: He appears to be Equestria's first ''food chemist'', with his mark supporting that theory: it's two crossed test tubes. [[WordOfGod Word Of Fanfic Author]] is that his special talent is making just about any kind of organic matter edible. He just can't make it ''tasty''. Equestrian science/magic is too underdeveloped to let him fully express his Talent, which is keeping him from becoming a Founder -- a pony who "pioneers" a new class of Talents and their related cutie-marks.
261	* {{Determinator}}: No matter what happens, despite the many times he has been sued and lost, he keeps on working at perfecting his dubious culinary experiments. Deconstructed in that he keeps working at it because "that's what his mark is telling him to do", so it's not entirely voluntarily.
262	* TheDreaded: For all of Ponyville, at least in any situation where food service might become involved. He's noted as being able to clear out a banquet hall in nine seconds flat, and that's through showing up as an invited guest.
263	* {{Expy}}: A gentle-natured, friendly, non-evil pony version of [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Sheldon J. Plankton]].
264	* GentlemanAndAScholar: Very polite, appears to be well-educated -- he's one of the only ponies in the settled zone to recognize what Twilight actually ''means'' by "[[MistakenForProstitute escort service]]" -- and is the lone local pony other than Twilight who reads Earnest Young's research works, even though he can't use any of the field-related portions. [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/181565/orange-is-the-new-blue Orange Is The New Blue]] suggests he may be capable of reading Ancient Crystalia.
265	* GuestStarPartyMember: [[Recap/TriptychContinuumGoosed Goosed!]] has him actively working with the Bearers during the final push to get the Crystal Geese out of Ponyville: he has a treatment for boysenberries which causes fruit bats to recoil from the crushed fruit, which helps corral the colony while it's being herded towards town.
266	* [[TheStationsOfTheCanon The Stations Of The Fanfic 'Verse]]: A Continuum exclusive, and the only station it has: if somepony new moves to Ponyville, they ''will'' eventually wind up entering his restaurant. Somewhat justified in that not only is he forever looking out for new arrivals who can provide him with taste-test results, but ponies automatically assume that any facility will be run by somepony with a mark appropriate to its operation -- which means truly bad restaurants just don't ''exist''. Why not go around sampling the cuisine in your new home? At the very minimum, it's guaranteed to at least be competent...
267	[[/folder]]
268
269	[[folder: Murdocks]]
270
271	Head of the Murdocks Press Corps, dedicated to making the Diarchy look bad.
272	----
273	* AmbiguousGender: Surprisingly, despite the secretive nature of the character making it questionable if he is or isn't a stallion, it's averted: Celestia confirms in chapter 3 of A Total Eclipse Of The Fun that he really is a stallion.
274	* TheGhost: Murdocks takes his privacy ''very'' seriously, to the point that even Celestia doesn't know what he looks like. His own staff are forbidden to reveal anything about him, and they take this seriously enough that simply being asked questions about Murdock freaks them out. That this is the only trope in this entry with any real detail says it all.
275	** In fact, the only facts Celestia knows for sure are age, birthplace, and gender.
276	* StrawmanNewsMedia: He's the head of the biggest anti-Diarchy newspaper in the country, using everything up to and including blatant libel to try and ruin their reputation.
277	[[/folder]]
278
279	[[folder: Nightwatch]]
280
281	One of Luna's more prominent Guards: a dark-hued pegasus mare who can often be seen accompanying her Princess on trips outside the castle. Highly skilled with wind creation, to the point where the movements she uses to create the magic are minor and can often get past observation. Luna appears to use her for the occasional sounding board, and Celestia has been resisting the urge for cross-shift ''[[InsistentTerminology filching]]'' so she can do the same. She turns into more of a major player in the branch continuity of FanFic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl.
282	[[/folder]]
283
284	[[folder: Quiet Presence]]
285
286	A unicorn noble who dwells on an estate in the unicorn-dominated town of Trotter's Falls. He's exceptionally small for a unicorn stallion, mostly painted in fine shades of grey which are almost impossible to distinguish from each other, and his mark is -- there. ''Just'' there: it's possible to see that it exists, but it's just as grey as the rest of him and to date, nopony's been able to make out exactly what it is.
287	----
288	* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: His parents did... ''something'' to his sibling shortly after that birth. Since that foal is never mentioned in a present tense, it may involve OffingTheOffspring -- and ultimately, ''Quiet'' doesn't even know her final fate.]]
289	* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:More so than Gentle Arrival. At the end of the day Quiet just wants to protect future foals from being ''sent on'' like his sister was. Unlike Gentle Arrival he's not a bigot either. He's still a threat due to his loyalty to Gentle Arrival and his refusal to acknowledge the harm their Great Work is doing.]]
290	* BenevolentConspiracy: ''Maybe''. [[spoiler: He's a key member of the Great Work, and is likely bankrolling at least some part of it. Doctor Gentle refers to him as 'the most devoted,' and it's eventually explained that this devotion springs from his belief that discovering a way to change a foal's tribe is the only way to prevent any more foals from being ''sent on''.]]
291	* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: His younger sibling was apparently born as something other than a unicorn, and his parents responded... badly. This may explain his involvement in the Great Work.]]
292	* DeadpanSnarker: Has a ''very'' dry sense of humor. He's seldom laugh-out-loud funny, but wry observations flow from him with a completely natural cadance.
293	* DelicateAndSickly: There's ''something'' wrong with him [[InsistentTerminology in the blood]]: not only are his physical strength and endurance low (with overexertion a hazard he actively avoids), but if he ''laughs'' for too long, it turns into a harsh coughing fit -- one which threatens to break his ribs from the inside. (This can be stopped by applying hoof pressure to the right places along his barrel.) He's directly said that he won't have children until a cure is found, because he doesn't want to pass on that weakness to the next generation.
294	** Softtread eventually explains a little more about the condition: the problem appeared a few days after Quiet's birth, and it's taken careful management just to get him to adulthood. [[spoiler: However, he's ''not'' a hybrid: while Doctor Gentle delivered him, there were no special complications during the birth itself.]]
295	** Given his family's strict standards for marriage, one suspicion is that he's suffering physical effects from the first stages of inbreeding. There just may not be enough "pure" unicorn Houses left.
296	* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: His parents ''sending on'' his sister traumatized him so badly that he has utterly given up hope of getting rid of tribalist prejudice. This is why he supports the Great Work: As far-fetched and improbable as the hope of being able to rewrite a foal's tribe is, Quiet still thinks it's more realistic than the possibility of doing something about tribalism itself.]]
297	* FriendToAllChildren: Since his castle is several centuries beyond needing a barrier space to fight off invaders, it's surrounded by playgrounds and sports fields. (He also puts in some time as a referee.) Part of this may come from his current inability to have children of his own, [[spoiler: and the rest may stem from whatever happened to his younger sibling. This turns out to be the reason he supports the Great Work. He wants to ensure that no future foal is ''sent on'' like his sister was]].
298	* {{Invisibility}}: Not exactly. [[spoiler: From what Twilight and Rarity manage to mutually deduce, his talent allows him to project the emotional resonance of ''dismissal''. He's not so much unseen as overlooked, and it's also extremely easy to just ''forget'' about him. During his fight with Twilight in Chapter 50, he reveals that his control over this ability is so refined that he can even choose which senses he can block. He blocks every sense ''but'' her sense of hearing so he can speak with her and reduces it enough so that she can't get a bead on him using his voice.]]
299	** [[spoiler: Though he cannot block ''true hearing'', if only because he doesn't know it exists.]]
300	* MeaningfulName: He can be extremely quiet in word and deed. [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]] has heavily implied that his mark talent makes it hard for ponies to notice him ''and'' may interfere with their ability to retain memories of his actions: he spent a good part of his childhood sneaking around the castle, and after [[spoiler: his sibling vanished]]...
301	** ''He has to hide. He has to hide. He has to hide.''
302	** When ''Pinkie'' has trouble remembering somepony's name, it's probably safe to assume something strange is going on.
303	* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTriptych Triptych]] ends with his status unknown. It's possible that Twilight's attack [[MagicMisfre backlashed]] him to a state beyond recovery. He also might have struggled back to his hooves and gotten away from somepony who'd managed to perceive him. And if Quiet lived through it, his talent is going to make tracking him just about impossible.]]
304	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He may be a very small and frail stallion, but that doesn't mean he's harmless. [[spoiler:He's able to give Twilight, an alicorn princess magical prodigy, a run for her money in chapter 50 thanks to his ability to become invisible to her senses. Twilight has to tap into her Earth Pony ability to listen to the earth to get a bead on him, and it's implied that only works because he isn't aware that Earth ponies can do that due to the Secret. If he knew about it, he potentially could have hidden from the earth itself.]]
305	* PowerIncontinence: It's implied that his ability to "vanish" from the perception of others and even disappear from their memories isn't something he can entirely control. [[spoiler:Chapter 50 reveals that his control over this ability is actually very refined. He can even pick and choose ''which'' senses he blocks.]]
306	** [[spoiler: Though WordOfGod would later clarify that he does suffer problems with ''resonance leakage''. Basically, he has very fine control if he's actively focusing on his talent, but it has a tendency to default to "on" when he's not paying attention.]]
307	* TheNondescript: There have been signs that ponies have real trouble remembering who he is and what he looks like. When an invading reporter threatens to find out just who's been turning her tactics against her, his reaction is a slight smile. And a few chapters later, the article she writes about the confrontation at the thaumaturgy shop doesn't mention him at all.
308	* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Quiet is somewhat smaller than Twilight -- who's exceptionally short and slender for a full-grown unicorn (now alicorn) mare, leaving her initially shocked at the sight of a stallion she can outmass.
309	* UndyingLoyalty: To Gentle Arrival. [[spoiler:Chapter 50 reveals that this is because his family's servant Softtread sent Quiet to Gentle Arrival to help him cope with what happened to his sister. Gentle Arrival took in the traumatized young colt and recruited him into his plan to ensure that what happened to his sister would not happen to other foals in the future.]]
310	[[/folder]]
311
312	[[folder: Raque Marshdew]]
313
314	A reporter with the '''Palace Bugle''', one of the pro-Diarchy publications in the realm -- and, in her own way, just as bad as Wordia Spinner. The latter will never admit when the Princesses are right about something, but Raque can't make herself see anything ''else''. If the sisters started a fire which took out three neighborhoods, she would immediately compose an article concerning population overcrowding and a very desperate need for land clearance. Celestia and Luna put up with it (because they have little choice), but are no more happy with her idea of coverage than they feel about her opposite number.
315	----
316	* ArchEnemy: To Wordia Spinner, the Murdocks Press Corps, and anypony or anyone else she sees as standing against the Diarchy.
317	* {{Cult}}: A friendlier example than most, but there's still a hint in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/209574/naked-lunch Naked Lunch]] that she may be a full-fledged alicorn worshipper.
318	* {{Hypocrite}}: She's perfectly happy to write an article about how everypony should eat meat for a week to show how open-minded they are (which would fill every hospital in Equestria to capacity), but put a steak in front of ''her'' snout...
319	* StrawmanNewsMedia: She's literally the pro-Diarchy equivalent of the Murdocks Press Corps, which makes her just as bad and just as intolerable to the Princesses.
320	[[/folder]]
321
322	[[folder: Ratchette]]
323
324	A young adult mare (steel-grey coat, copper mane, tail, and eyes) who runs Ponyville's lone fix-it shop, specializing in minor to moderate [[{{Magitek}} convenience and device]] repairs, along with general feats of engineering. She's perfectly qualified for that occupation: her mark is for devices. And in the eyes of many ponies, she's also perfectly unsuited towards it, which generally has something to do with the ''wings''...
325	----
326	* {{Expy}}: For a long time, she was a stealth one -- but between her occupation and the eventual reveal of her magic's true nature, it's become apparent that she's Equestria's blood-powered version of [[Literature/WildCards The Mechanic]].
327	* FantasticRacism: A frequent victim of it: more than a few unicorns (and others) can't get past the feathers.
328	* GadgeteerGenius: To a degree: she's a capable engineer, especially for the design phase, but she has trouble ''building'' some of what she creates. She currently uses a tongue-triggered, spring-powered prosthetic to make small adjustments on devices, trying to substitute for the fine manipulations of a field.
329	* IneptMage: Has an ''extremely'' weak pegasus field. She can fly and perch on clouds -- and seems to be ''it'', as said in her '''Elements Of Elements''' story.
330	* KingIncognito: [[spoiler: She's a member of House Cumulus, which is the most powerful family of pegasus nobles on the continent.]]
331	* NoSocialSkills: Has a hard time opening up to others: initially hired Twilight as her escort to a party just so she'd have somepony she sort of knew there -- who would keep her from running away. [[spoiler: As a House member, she's used to the idea of escorts as professional paid company.]]
332	* PowerLimiter: Her entire body. Ratchette's mark gives her a ''feel'' for devices and occasionally allows her to diagnose problems on contact, but her ability to express that talent is ''partial''. Lacking any capacity to cast or tweak the actual spells, she can only repair items when adjustments to the physical elements does the job.
333	* ThePowerOfBlood: In ''Natural Conductors'', she manages to accidentally reprogram a ''rammer'' (a device which normally takes hours to attune) in an instant by smearing some of her blood on it. We don't know what else she can do...
334	* WrenchWench: To the point where it's the [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/217859/mechanical-aptitude chapter title]]. She's noted as being very attractive when she's cleaned up, although that can take five baths just to reach a normal level of dirty.
335	* WrongContextMagic: A trotting, occasionally flying sapient case of it. After ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumASeriesOfEgotisticalEvents A Series Of Egotistical Events]]'' formally introduced ''[[{{Magitek}} wonders]]'' (items enchanted by pegasi), readers quickly realized that if wonders existed, then it naturally followed that there are marks suited to being a repairpony for them -- and Ratchette's shop isn't dealing with that category of malfunctioning magic. Instead, she focuses entirely on clockwork and unicorn devices, and her mark shows a typical flow pattern of power through a device.
336	** ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumABirdInTheDryer A Bird In The Dryer...]]'' then suggested that she ''can't'' work with wonders. Ratchette finally openly admitted it in her '''Elements Of Elements''' story.
337	[[/folder]]
338
339	[[folder: Sizzler]]
340
341	The current holder of the ''meat station'' in the Lunar Kitchen. He's one of the most distinctive ponies in Equestria: bone-white mane and tail, blood-red eyes and coat (with that last having something of a liquid quality to it), and a generationally-unique mark -- namely, a ''steak''. Sizzler is the only pony in Equestria capable of preparing carnivore dishes on talent alone. Which is a particularly good thing for this young unicorn, because he doesn't exactly have anything else going for him.
342	----
343	* BewareTheSillyOnes: After going through the Solar/Lunar Kitchen Wars, he's more magically capable than most ponies suspect. Among other things, he has the potential to break shields, as said in "Naked Lunch".
344	* BookDumb: He walked past a school once. Then he realized what he was passing and accelerated into full gallop before any of the evil learning could get him.
345	* EasilyForgiven: Averted. He wasn't imprisoned after his jaunt with the Brinner Brigade, but he's under so many probation restrictions and requirements as to effectively give him an open-air jail sentence.
346	* CarnivoreConfusion: Averted. Regardless of what the rumors might claim, Sizzler doesn't eat or even really taste-test his creations. One aspect of his mark magic is to grant him a highly specialized sense of smell: he can identify the source of raw meat at a sniff, and finding out if something is currently medium rare or just medium requires a simple inhale. He ''enjoys'' all the scents at his station, but he still believes he's like just about everypony when it comes to consuming meat: he could force down a small quantity, but a full meal would make him ill.
347	* IdiotSavant: Absolutely fantastic at preparing meat dishes (especially when you consider he's incapable of taste-testing the results) to the point where the griffon embassy keeps trying to hire him away. A total dimwit when it comes to everything else.
348	* InterspeciesFriendship: Not only does he genuinely get along with Gerald, but most of Canterlot's griffon residents know him on sight. He's always welcome during any barbeque at the Aviary.
349	** Elaborated more in Glimmer. Sizzler's ''only'' friends are griffons because his presence is so disquieting for most ponies.
350	** In the split-continuity Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl, he's the only chef who doesn't flee on sight when Cerea enters the kitchens. Later, when they actually start taking they form an instant friendship.
351	* MorphicResonance: Sizzler's appearance, with a color scheme that calls to mind raw flesh and blood and bone, is a great visual signature for a pony who has a magical affinity for working with and preparing meat.
352	* SignatureScent: He apparently has a rather disquieting aroma. It probably has something to do with meat.
353	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Sizzler possesses a generationally-unique working -- which allows him to keep meat fresh indefinitely. Really. It'll ''never'' go bad as long as he's around. He's very proud of that.
354	** Which then gets flipped on its head after the Doctors Bear realize that he's actually arresting decomposition -- and ask him to stabilize a corpse. He manages the trick, and then goes off to pay the emotional toll in private.
355	* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: His coloration is this, and other ponies are afraid of him due to his reputation as a butcher who works with flesh.
356	[[/folder]]
357
358	[[folder: Stile]]
359
360	The extremely short earth pony first seen in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts And Hooves Day]]. In the Continuum, his special talent is for construction -- specializing in the little touches which allows the two-thirds of the population which ''doesn't'' have a unicorn field to function in that world at all. This makes him a very valuable pony to have around, and he never lacks for bits. It's relationships which give him problems.
361	----
362	* GadgeteerGenius: When it comes to the construction of those fine touches -- and ''tools'': it's his talent working in conjunction with Ratchette's designs which allow the latter to have a working shop at all.
363	* MeaningfulName: A stile is a small bridge used to move between pastures, getting over the fences which the occupants can't cross. In his case, it represents the ability to provide access for areas which would otherwise be blocked.
364	* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: With Allie Way. They're described as having breakups as regular and nearly impossible to reconcile as a seven-ten split.
365	* ShoutOut: [[WordOfGod Word Of Fanfic Author]] is that he's named after the main character in [[Literature/ApprenticeAdept The Apprentice Adept Trilogy]].
366	[[/folder]]
367
368	[[folder: Torque Power]]
369
370	Mazein's ambassador to Equestria: a big bull in late middle age who's managed to stay voted into the post for quite some time. He's on geniunely friendly terms with Celestia to the point where he ''doesn't'' play that much realpolitik with her. He's always looking out for the best interests of his nation -- but with the state of long-range communications in the Continuum, he's also aware that his nation tends to be well behind the news and in no position to criticize what he's doing now when they just found out what he did two weeks ago, with no knowledge of anything in between.
371	----
372	* InterspeciesFriendship: Quite a few: he's naturally gregarious and likes to buy the Guards rounds after successful negotations. (Which tends to curb their tactics somewhat after Joyous puts him in a state where they have to hold him off.) Celestia considers him to be one of her friends (albeit with a little potential political distance): Luna is still getting to know him.
373	* InterspeciesRomance: Averted. Minotaurs and ponies can form friendships deep enough to take vows of ''handfasting'', but they're just not physically attracted to each other. (It's also implied that he's a widower.) Joyous making Torque rethink that is one of the early signs as to just how big a problem her out-of-control talent is going to be.
374	* NotSoAboveItAll: Or so the sisters decide after going golfing with him and watching Torque deliberately send himself into a rage fit as a means of working out stress.
375	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Whenever possible, although he's subject to the latest votes from the Senate.
376	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Like all minotaurs: if he's truly angry, his eyes will flush red.
377	* SecretKeeper: Kept all of the details about Joyous away from Mazein, fully understanding what could happen if certain parties learned of her existence: he simply tells Celestia that the pegasus is a weapon, and somepony has to either fix her or find a way to make the shields -- then assists Equestria during the Mazein stretch of the story, doing whatever he can to help. (By the end, the shields have been discovered: biohazard suits and charcoal filters.)
378	* SuperStrength: A minotaur's magic is generally tied to their physical efforts, and he's not a small bull: Torque manages to force a pair of Guard fields into winking out just by straining against those corona loops.
379	** It's eventually revealed that he's capable of ''transferring'' his strength into a living being, sending raw muscle power to a willing recipient: this boosts their own potential without adding visible mass, and the receiver doesn't have to be a minotaur. However, this is a loan: the more he donates, the weaker he personally becomes -- and he's going to need it back in a hurry.
380
381	[[/folder]]
382
383	[[folder: Travel Track]]
384
385	A grizzled middle-aged earth pony (described that way because he reminds most ponies of an easily upset bear) who's the inventor of Equestria's railway system, along with being the Founder for all the train-related marks which followed. Very rough-edged, doesn't care about royal protocol (which Celestia finds refreshing), and takes great pleasure in proving everypony who called his ideas stupid wrong, generally by watching them board his trains.
386	----
387	* AlliterativeName
388
389	[[/folder]]
390
391	[[folder: Wordia Spinner]]
392
393	A unicorn mare who works for the Murdocks Press Corps as their lead Solar reporter, although she does interact with Luna during joint conferences and deliberate summons. Her job is simple: make the Diarchy look bad, no matter what the situation, cost, or reality -- which is a little easier to do in a world which has yet to figure out the term 'libel law'. She is described in ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'' as having a blue coat with white mane/tail and red eyes (each a shade ''off'' from the true). Her horn is shorter and sharper than the average unicorn's, and only the cruelty of nature has kept her teeth from appropriate points.
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395	* TheAlcoholic: Hinted at: Raque claims Wordia usually smells like a brewery, and Celestia gets a whiff in [[Recap/TriptychContinuumTravapestry Trav(ap)est(r)y]]. Eventually confirmed in ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl''.
396	* ArchEnemy: To Raque Marshdew, and would love to be one to the Diarchy as a whole.
397	* MyGreatestFailure: Very strongly implied. [[spoiler:In ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'''s final chapter, the narration (from her perspective) likens her work to cooking a stew: You use just the right amount of heat and ingredients (the story and how she presents it), and you get a delicious meal (profits for The Tattler). Then her thoughts drift to an incident where she raised the heat so high that the water boiled and spilled. [[NoodleIncident The result is not described]], but it's implied that whatever happened [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone caused her to start drinking as a coping mechanism.]]]]
398	* StrawmanNewsMedia: Oh, hells '''''Yes.''''' Like all of Murdocks' lackeys, she absolutely hates the Diarchy and does whatever she can in order to make their efforts look bad. The only reason she's kept a job is because Equestria, somehow, has yet to discover or implement anti-libel laws.
399	* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:[[ADayInTheLimelight Various scenes in]] ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'' show that she actually ''hates'' working for The Tattler, due to low pay and too-tight deadlines. Unfortunately for her, her reputation as the most successful anti-Diarchy columnist means no other news outlets want her, and the low pay means she's unable to afford the process of moving to a different settled zone. After much of The Tattler's readership gets tarred and feathered by association after the storming of Canterlot Castle, Spinner learns that the paper is no longer selling enough to be in business for much longer, making her tailspin all but irreversible]].
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402	[[folder:Yapper]]
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404	Canterlot's first Diamond Dog. She works in the palace restoring frescoes. She is off-white and fluffy, with shaved away (and frequently stained) fur surrounding her paws and forearms.
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407	* DeadpanSnarker: When you get past her shyness and the language barrier, she proves to have a sharp, adept sense of humor.
408	* DigAttack: Her contribution to the defense of [[spoiler:the palace]] in ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl''.
409	* TheExile: Can never return to her warren, or any other.
410	* FirstFriend: She made a pony friend while exiled and starving, but had to leave them to work in Canterlot. Sizzler serves as her FirstFriend from the palace.
411	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her forehead as a mark of exile.
412	* ShrinkingViolet: She's shy, and has been known to retreat into suddenly dug holes when startled.
413	* TheShutIn: Like all Diamond Dogs, she is agoraphobic. She deals with being on the surface better than most, but still retreats underground when she needs a break.
414	* TunnelKing: Can dig very fast and will if threatened.
415	* YouNoTakeCandle: Like all Diamond Dogs. Justified, as Equestrian isn't her first language and contains grammatical concepts that simply don't exist in her native Canis.
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Context Characters / TriptychContinuumOriginals