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Federal Republic of Ponyland

Territory: North Amareican Continent

Structure: Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic (de jure), exact details depending on time period.

Power: Economic/Technological Superpower

Leadership: President (Executive), Congress (Legislature), Supreme Court (Judiciary), Federal Governors, State Governors

Ethnicity: Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Zebras, Donkeys, Others.

Language: Amareican Equish

Ideology: Ponyland Republicanism

Religion: Magnean Religions, Others

Anthem/Motto: E Pluribus Unum / "Ponyland, the Beautiful"

"For Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

"Out of the Many, ONE."

Out of all the nations that populated Equus (then called "Tellus") in the Second Age, few were as great as Ponyland (Its entry here), which became known as the "Land of the Free". Despite its tempestuous, dark, and bloody history, Ponyland has largely stayed true to its own values of liberty, equality, and unity. By the 'Great Wars Era' of the Second Age, it would develop into an economic, technological and military superpower.

True to its name as the "Home of the Brave", Ponyland has been a historical birthplace and home for legendary heroes, which is largely thanks to a wandering enigmatic figure that called himself the "Mentor". Among such heroes are Metamare and the team of Paragons that worked with her, the Tales Seven group, Dr. Silversmith, Sr., and others. Unsurprisingly, some deities also originated in Ponyland, such as Princess Stitching Time, Blue Suede Heartstrings and his older twin brother, Bossa Nova Heartstrings, and Sola Mors.

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General

• The Alliance: Leads one in the form of the 'Alliance of Democratic Nations' during the 'Twilight Struggle' (a five-way cold war with no less than four other superpowers and their blocs) than spanned the 'Great Wars Era' Post-Second Great War. This alliance is military in nature as it is economic, with a unified military command in the form of the 'ADN Armed Forces' or ADNAF.
• Alternate Universe: Although Ponyland's history shares many similarities with RL USA, the nature of the setting with RL and between Ponykind and Humankind meant differences were inevitable, often resulting in divergences that range from Alternate History to Never Was This Universe.
  • Their capital of Liberty D.C. is named after a different Founder of Ponyland, in this case a mare named Liberty Bell, who was a prominent leader during the revolution. Incidentally, the conflict was also called the 'Ponyland War of Freedom'.
  • The 'Ponyland Civil War' (Only the FIRST one, it should be noted) ended a year earlier than RL Earth, but on a lot more bitter note between the Northern and Southern states because unlike in our timeline, the leaders of the 'Southron Confederacy' fled on a steamship with some of their remaining loyal supporters when the end was near, never to be seen again, while the vengeful Southron conspiracy that killed President Stovepipe Lakeside also got his Vice-President (Not THAT much of a loss, really) and the Secretary of State. It is heavily hinted from what's mentioned so far that all this will lead to some serious trouble down the line.
  • There are no term restrictions in Ponyland presidents: President Theddeus Moosepelt, by some unknown change in circumstances, served no less than FIVE terms in office where his RL counterpart served two and failed to get elected a third time. Incidentally, that meant Codexverse version of William Howard Taft and Wooddrow Wilson never became president, and are not even mentioned.
  • As noted under Expanded States of America, the Federal Republic of Ponyland got a lot more territory and states than its real-life counterpart, adding much of Codexverse western Canada and Cuba on top Codexverse Alaska, the Philippines and Hawaii (Here called the Sandwich Islands).
  • Ponyland intervened into the 'First Great War' in late 1915 a lot earlier than America did in the 'First World War' in 1917, due to a triple whammy of the 'Sinking of the Lusitmanea', an earlier 'Black Tom Explosion' (Which killed hundreds, seriously damaged the Statue Of Liberty and immediately pinned on Germane saboteurs) and rumours of Germane involvement in the Mexicolt Civil War and raids by Mexicolt Revolutionaries into southern Ponyland. This combined with President Teddy Moosepelt's own personal involvement (Theodore Roosevelt REALLY wanted USA to get involved in WWI earlier in real life) led to an earlier declaration of war against Imperial Germaney and the Central Powers folding a lot earlier in May 1917.
  • Ponyland was apparently responsible for helping Gran Coltolumberia stay united, and even helped them build several Paneighma Canals, which is a Gran Coltolumberian project, while they themselves have successfully built several Neighcaguaran Canals. They also apparently built not one, but seven Transcontinental Railways. Some of their leading scientists and geniuses — including a version of Robert H. Goddard and a young Silversmith — participated in an international project to send a crewed rocket ship into space and achieved crewed space travel as early as 1929; space travel for the Americans wasn't possible until Alan Shepherd's suborbital flight in 1961.
  • History began to significantly diverge in various ways starting the 1930s: first, one of Theddeus Moosepelt's son became president in 1933 rather than his nephew. In 1938, the first bonafide superheroes emerged such as Metamare, Shadow Sentinel, Dr Silversmith, Battle Prince and others, beginning the superheroic era. And then of course, a shocking Wham Episode in the form of the Wall Street Coup and a brief, Second Ponyland Civil War occurred in 1940. And while Ponyland did have its Elvis Presley equivalent in Blue Suede Heartstrings, he never died, instead becoming a globe-trotting Alicorn god of Music and Humility after meeting Luminiferous during a low point in his life and quitting his job as a career musician.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Like the USA during the First and Second World Wars, twice did the Federal Republic of Ponyland emerge from isolationism to kick flanks and take names in the First and Second Great Wars, their economy and huge population numbers proving instrumental in helping the Entente/Allied Powers win both conflicts.
• Barbaric Bully: It is implied that after past experiences with countless attacks by super-villains — many of them had their Start of Darkness from being bullied or being bullies in childhood — that the Ponylanders resorted harsh, even questionably disproportionate sanctions for bullying and those which enabled bullying, as well as investing significantly greater effort in helping bully victims recover from their abuse, all in hopes of preventing dangerous future supervillains and meta-criminals from rising.
  • The Addendum of a Codex drabble depicting Starlight stopping a school shooting and talking the teenage shooter down shows that at the shooter's trial, Starlight testified and spoke in his defense, as his actions were motivated by the relentless bullying he received from the principal's son, who got away with his actions thanks to his parent's protection. The shooter was rehabilitated and thanked his teacher for saving him from himself and either a life in prison or death in a police shootout.
  • The bully, on the other hoof, received an almost ridiculously harsh response. While his father was fired and later arrested on unrelated charges, the bully looked like he would be left alone, having learnt his lesson... until a psych review showed that not only does he showed no remorse, but also showed psychological inclination to seek revenge on his bully victim and Starlight, as well as anti-social behaviour traits reminiscent to those of supervillains that Starlight and her friends had fought in the past, along with all the implications this entails. The authorities IMMEDIATELY shipped him to the asteroid belt colonies.
  • President Bright Eyes started changing how they are being dealt with during her time in office, passing laws and setting up programs that aim to rehabilitate bullies who could still be salvaged by putting them into environments that encourages them to become more compassionate and heroic instead of enabling their cruelty and villainous impulses. It works, and certainly beats the hell out of the earlier 'only-way-to-be-sure' policies.
• Conscription: Maintained 'mandatory military service' throughout the entire 'Great Wars Era' of the Second Age owing to the frequent conflicts and crises that the country and the world experienced throughout the era, necessitating as many soldiers as they could reasonably get while ensuring a large fraction of Ponyland's population actually knows how to fight, for both good or ill. This became convenient for President Personable Pony on at least one occasion.
• The Coup: The 'Wall Street Coup' of 1940 nearly led to the overthrow of the legitimate government of President Knitted Moosepelt by a clique of reactionary business and military interests, who rather... disagreed with his socio-political and economic reforms to deal with the Great Depression, and wanted to replace Ponyland's democratic government with a corporacratic-fascist junta loyal only to them. Luckily, they were defeated in a short time, although it would have lasting consequences to Ponyland's subsequent history.
• Deep South: Portrayed negatively for their institution of slavery and starting the First Ponyland Civil War to preserve it back in 1860-4. To the Codexverse writers both in- and out-universe, this is the more or less the only thing about them which is worth recording.
  • The Deep South received an almost absurdly horrible fate with the elaboration of what the Deep South Exclusion Zone which had been mentioned in many previous entries actually is and how it came to be. The bitter ending of the First Ponyland Civil War (between the Confederate leadership getting away with their crimes by disappearing elsewhere, and the Ponyland president, vice-president AND secretary of state all getting assassinated by vindictive Confederate loyalists) led to unhealed wounds and bitter resentment between the 'Southroner' Ponies and the rest of Ponyland and growing cultural and political divide in spite of their return to their union. Confederate revanchism became even more intense and long-lasting, to the point by the early 20th century the likes of KKK, descendants of the Southern Planters and outright Neo-Confederates dominated politics, while a vocal minority of the population larger than in RL which was raised by biased indoctrination into almost enthusiastic support for the 'Lost Cause' and persecution of the Zebras and other minorities. When the 'Wall Street Coup' offered them a chance to recreate the Confederacy in a fashion, the Deep South states' ruling elites supported the coup plotters and brought the states into fight on their side during the 'Second Ponyland Civil War', whether or not the rest of the states' population wanted to, with themselves and their supporters coalsating into a coherent extremist 'Neo-Confederate' movement. When Reichist Germaney launched a surprised invasion of Ponyland from the Gulf of Mexicolt during the 'Second Great War', those Neo-Confederates to the horror of many fellow Southroners welcomed them with open arms and joined their cause, gleefully committing many atrocities on Zebras, other minorities and even non-Southron Ponylanders. Even after the wars ended, die-hard neo-confederates insurgents' continued campaign of resistance and terrorism against the rest of Ponyland made efforts to reintegrate and rebuild the region nigh-impossible. All this caused something in the Ponylanders to finally snap, and post-1948 Ponyland basically evacuated all remaining loyal Southroners and nearly the entire Zebra population from the region, kicked most of the four Deep South states out of the country (with enthusiastic public support), quarantine them behind barbwire, minefields, fences, trenches and bunker-lines, suspend rule of law over the area and declare the entire region and everyone who haven't been evacuated or fled as hostile territory controlled by hostile forces respectively. With the Deep South already devastated by the second civil war and Reichist incursion, the Southroners would spent the much if not most of subsequent 'Great Wars Era' left to rot in one giant no-pony's land where they would degenerate into barbarism, anarchy and savagery, repeatedly and ruthlessly suppressed if they threaten Ponyland in anyway (including among other things repeated aerial bombings, special forces raids, forced population transfers, etc.), turn into WMD drop-zones for wars that Ponyland would be caught up in, etc., all leaving the entire region one desolated and depopulated ruin by the time the exclusion zone is dismantled and the region is finally returned into the union.
  Many Ponylanders: You bit the hoof which fed you. Now suffer for it.
  • Of course, the entry acknowledges that not everyone down there is bad — there are the Zebras and other minorities which had been subjected to persecution and segregation, and more than half of the Southroners/Ponylanders who had either moved on or had nothing to do with the neo-Confederate Lost Cause or the reactionary and prejudiced extremism their Confederate-revanchist elites and their supporters degenerated into, and were still loyal to Ponyland. A vast majority of both groups had either fled or evacuated before the Deep South region was thrown out and quarantined, meaning everyone that's left were die-hard racists, traitors, collaborators and insurgents who had it coming.
• Deity of Human Origin: Some Ponylanders managed to Ascend to godhood despite the Second Age's relative lack of magic. Examples include Stitching Time, Blue Suede Heartstrings and his older twin brother, Bossa Nova Heartstrings, Tough Love, Shamrock Bloom, Radiant Rapier, and Sola Mors.
• Disproportionate Retribution: As an example of how desperate things became during the 'Great Wars Era', Ponylanders became willing to use some questionably excessive means to hammer down threats, all so they could ensure civilization could survive one more hour, one more day.
  • Bullying is and remains a problem for Ponylanders as it is in real life. Unlike in RL, however, the psychological traumas of being tormented in childhood has a significant chance in creating dangerous threats in the form of supervillains, whether it be the bully himself or the bullied victim. The problem of supervillains being created from bullying apparently became so bad Ponyland eventually resorted to this trope when dealing with bullies just to have the problem remotely contained. Starlight once stopped a school shooting by a student who was driven over the edge by bullying from the school principal's son. When said bully showed absolutely no remorse for his actions and even show hints of wanting to get back at the student and Starlight, the Ponyland authorities IMMEDIATELY shipped him to a Penal Colony in the ASTEROID BELT. Keep in mind the bully is still a young colt.
• Energy Weapon: One of their technologically-advanced weapons is apparently an expy of the Mirage Tank called the XBT-C 'Chamaleon' Experimental Battle Tank, which carried a DEW as its main armament and once dueled their Hooviet Lightning Tank counterparts during the 'Fourth Great War' in the shores and streets of Ponyland. Isn't as powerful as the Commonwealth SWT Mk-III 'Spectra' Special Weapons Tank, which is an expy of the Prism Tank.
• Elvis Lives: Thanks to Luminiferous' intervention (and ultimately, Bossa Nova's intervention, since he's why Luminiferous got to meet Blue at all), Blue Suede Heartstrings was saved from experiencing the same fate as Elvis Presley, which was suffering under an exploitative and controlling manager and a continuous degrade in music/concert quality up until his death. Encouraged by Luminiferous' pep-talk and those who loved him, Blue quit his job as a career musician, and proceeded to travel the world so he could preform on his own terms. It's heavily implied that this means not only Ponyland got to listen to his music for years to come, but many other people living overseas in different countries were finally able to listen to "The King of Music". And with Blue's Ascension to godhood, the world would continue listening to him long after the Second Age ended.
• Expanded States of America: Or rather, Ponyland, which acquired a lot more territory in some of the earliest divergences from its RL counterpart. On top of getting Codexverse version of Alaska and the Philippines, it also purchases all of Canada west of the 90W Parallel (The Bitish Empire was strapped for cash to rebuild after the world-shocking 'Maretian invasion of 1896') and then outright annexed Codexverse Cuba following the Spmanish-Ponyland War in the same year. The Codexverse Baja California Peninsula was added into the Federal Republic in the wake of a punitive expedition sent to stabilize Mexicolt during the First Great War. Then just before they intervened in the Second Great War (and in fact it helped trigger the intervention) they annexed even more of northern Mexicolt after a pro-Axis revanchist junta in power there attempted to grab their own territories back while Ponyland was distracted by a failed coup and a brief civil war (which failed miserably). Only time will tell how much more territory will Ponyland possess as more details are revealed...
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Ponyland is based on The United States, its history more or less a parallel to what happened in real life, save for several differences. For example, the Sandwich Islands are based on the Hawaiian Islands as they are both annexed Ponyland/American territory, with influence from Lilo & Stitch as one of its residents is an orphaned pegasus filly living with her older sister and a rehabilitated Maretians weapon experiment, whom the pegasus filly named "Stitch".
• Fantastic Racism: Being based on the United States, it has its fair share of racism and/or tribalism, namely in its treatment of Zebras. One particular incident involved the death of Garden Spade, a teenage Zebra colt who was brutally lynched by tribalists based on a unicorn mare's testimony that he whistled at her. This enraged a then-mortal Blue Suede Heartstrings when he heard of it, and in response to a reporter's question, he gave a scathing public "The Reason You Suck" Speech that decried the killers' actions as stupid, childish, and senseless, and criticized both the judges who let the killers walk away free and those who turned a blind eye out of hatred and/or cowardice.
• Get Out!: Ponyland in this universe did this to a significant portion of the Deep South after the 'Wall Street Coup', the 'Second Ponyland Civil War' and the 'Second Great War', having simply had enough of them after the states and Pony population — which had already attempted to secede and destroy the republic once before back in 1860-1864 with the Southron Confederacy and the 'First Ponyland Civil War' over slavery — threw their allegiances to Coup Plotters, and then to the freaking Reichists when Reichist Germaney launched a surprise incursion into Ponyland from the Gulf of Mexicolt in 1942, and even afterwards continued a campaign of insurgency and terrorism which made reintegration of the states and territories back into union nearly impossible. Ponyland responded by abandoning most of the offending states (except for important infrastructure and strategic locations), quarantine the region behind fences, barbwires, minefields and bunker, and simply let them descend into barbarism, anarchy and savagery within the 'Deep South Exclusion Zone' — give or take a few aerial carpet bombings, special forces raids and forced population deportations whenever vindictive insurgents from that place cause trouble — and using the Exclusion Zone as a massive kill-zone for indiscriminate use of WMDs ordinances whenever alien invaders or foreign powers arrived and land in the suspiciously-convenient undefended area to establish a bridgehead. It was not until during one of the presidencies of Lady Liberty a dozen generations after the fact they were reintegrated back into the union, but by then the whole region had became one giant desolated and depopulated ruin, all traces of their once proud (and prejudiced) culture and society gone with the wind.
  Checkpoint Gate Slogan: "REX VINDICE, VAE VICTUS." (Vengeance of the King, woe to the vanquished.)
• Good Capitalism, Evil Capitalism: Ponyland, being based on the USA, places a great emphasis on ensuring economic freedom for all its citizens and organizations as part of its founding principles. This results in both good and bad examples of capitalism being on display throughout its history.
  • Those like Highway Robbery and Max Margins shows the bad sides of Capitalism, the former being part of a plot to overthrow the legitimate government of Ponyland in 1940 and the latter being an enemy of Metamare, the Paragon From Beyond, both being villainous magnates at the head of corrupt enterprises and companies who are more than happy to unscrupulously exploit the nation's lands and people for their own wealth and profit, exemplifying the evils of capitalism. Opponents of Capitalism, like the Communists of the Hooviet Union, raise these examples to justify their hatred and opposition of the socio-economic system.
  • On the other hoof, those like Shining Nova and Silversmith demonstrates the positive side of Ponyland capitalism, both being a Self-Made Man (or Ponies, in their case) who still cares for their fellow Ponies and use their wealth and status to help others less fortunate than they are, whether in philanthropy or in superheroics.
• Hack Your Enemy: On the receiving end of this by Coltalia as part of the Overdom's contribution and participation in the 'Fourth Great War' of 1984-6 against Ponyland on the side of the three other hostile superpowers (Hooviet Union, Chineigha and Gran Coltlumbia) and their blocs, using highly advanced malware and active sensor deception technology to compromise Ponyland's early warning systems and enable the superpowers to send their invasion forces towards Ponyland undetected until they were practically right on top of them.
  NORAD HQ: Station Albmaney, we may have a minor ACS fault here. Do you have anything on your scope...?
  NORAD Station: THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!
  NORAD HQ: Station Albmaney, repeat?!
  NORAD Station: I'm lookin' at fighter jets over I-95! How the hell did they get through?!
• Historical Badass Upgrade: This can apply to the entirety of Ponyland itself, as due to taking place in the My Little Pony universe, magic exists (albeit under a scientific term), and superheroes and gods are real, which means that certain events occurred differently. However, this can also apply to the various historical figures of Ponyland that also existed in real life.
  • President Theddeus Moosepelt is based on Theodore Roosevelt, who is venerated for his reforms and was something of a Renaissance Man when he was alive. Here, he served five consecutive terms (Franklin D. Roosevelt served four terms as President), and was responsible for various reforms, including the federal income tax, workers' rights, monopoly/trust-busting, electoral reform, prohibition of alcohol, universal suffrage, desegregation of the Federal Government, and greater civil rights for minorities. It's noted that many of his reforms had been met with mixed or considerable success.
• Historical Domain Superperson:
  • Elvis Presley is hailed as a musical icon who changed the face of music forever, yet also derided as a joke who let himself get fat and destroyed his own legacy. Blue Suede Heartstrings (now King Caerulus Melodia Equestria-Corporatum) is essentially the Codexverse's Ponified version of Elvis who, as a result of changes in circumstances and choices, became a 'prodigy' Alicorn god of Music, Humility, Performance, and Love instead. Eventually, through certain choices made on his part, Blue Suede grows as a stallion and eventually re-Ascends as a reincarnation 'clone' of Mana Equus, one of the Thirteen Empyreans, turning him into an Alicorn god of Musical Magic, Self-Respect, Performance, Love, and Mana.
  • Bossa Nova Heartstrings, Blue's older identical twin brother, is based on Jesse Garon Presley, Elvis Presley's older identical twin brother who came out stillborn. While he came out stillborn like his character inspiration, Bossa Nova was adopted by the Three Deaths, giving him a (rather large) surrogate family of his own. His noble upbringing influenced him to eventually become something great — an Alicorn god — despite being dead, and being a Death god means he's still rather powerful despite not being a "prodigy" deity like his younger brother.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite all the historical changes that really began to pick up as the nation entered the 'Great Wars Era', the country still participated in the first two world wars and emerged from them a Superpower like the USA in real-life. The notable changes were in the details as to how it happened and who or what were involved. For one, the Codexverse equivalent of the Pearl Harbor attacks happen only in 1942 when Imperial Neighponese forces attacked the Sandwich Islands, but that was well after Ponyland and Neighpon were at war after Imperial Neighponese forces invaded Ponyland-held Fillypines in 1941. The Imperials also attacked Atlastka and the West Coast of Ponyland in that time as part of a wider Axis incursion of mainland Ponyland.
• Invaded States of America: This happened to Ponyland more than once, with some invasions being more or less a parallel to what happened during the "Great War" period. Due to it being an entirely different version of The United States, however, things would take a completely different turn.
  • During the Second Great War, Ponyland was attacked by both Imperial Neighpon in the Fillypines, Atlastka and the West Coast, while Reichist Germaney somehow managed to launch an incursion up from the Gulf of Mexicolt. They were beaten back once the Ponylanders ramped up their war effort into full gear.
  • In the Fourth Great War of 1984-6 Ponyland was invaded by not one, but three of its Superpowers rivals and the allies in their blocs, apparently in response to the presidency of Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony. It did not succeed, especially considering who's leading them, though it was still quite a fight.
  • And after that, the Federal Republic of Ponyland was invaded as were other places across Tellus/Equus by various Maretian factions over the course of the 'Maretian-Tellusian Wars', whether in the form of smaller attacks such as the Ponyland Maretian Incursion of 1938 by the 'Wellsian Maretians' (which was apparently soundly defeated), as well as all-out global invasions such as in 1953 by the Maretians of the Mare-Toxon Triumvirate, and a particularly brutal one in 1961-2 by Maretians of the Ackackian Technostratocracy.
• La Résistance: During the Fourth Great War of 1984-6, when Ponyland and its allies were invaded by three of Ponyland's superpower rivals and their allies, many civilian and paramilitary resistance cells arose to fight back against the invaders. One particular cell of 'Freedom Fighters' is notable of being successful enough to cause the Hooviets and even the Overdom trouble in New Port, so much that Black Baron III, a member of Overmare's inner circle and the supreme commander of the Overdom's armed forces herself would dispatch one of the Overdom's finest special forces units to the Hooviet-occupied city to assist in rooting them out. Considering the fact the Overdom is powerful enough to actually succeed in Taking Over The World under Overmare and often the only forces who could confound them with any major success are often Superheroes and Supersoldiers, makes New Port Resistance's achievement particularly notable, and unlike the Hooviets who tried to brush them off as a nuisance, Black Baron III does consider them and the 'Freedom Phantom' co-leading them enemies to be respected and engage with caution because of this.
• Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back: This happened in Ponyland history — the political and societal disarray caused by the "Wall Street Coup" allowed Mexicolt's revanchist junta forces to invade southern Ponyland to reclaim its lost territories, hoping to take advantage of its neighboring country's moment of weakness. This led to Ponyland stopping and overthrowing the junta once the remnants of the Wall Street Coup was fully dealt with and, to add further insult to injury, occupying/annexing pats of northern Mexicolt and the Brayja Peninsula.
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Implied to have been prominent in the Second Age's music scene, as shown with legendary musician Moon Ray Vaughoof. Being a professional musician seems glamorous at first, but what many people don't realize is it's actually very stressful and precarious, making it very easy for anyone to die from. Moon Ray himself believes this is why many members of the Trimortidae are musicians.
• Still Fighting the Civil War: Deconstructed. Because the Civil War ended a lot more bitterly than in RL (For reference: They never caught the Confederate leaders, and not only the president, but the vice president AND the secretary of state were also assassinated by a Southron plot), Confederate revanchism and bitterness between the states were a lot more intense, to the point that when the 'Wall Street Coup' came, the Southron states, in particular the Deep South states that formed the heart of the Southron Confederacy back in 1860-1864, gleefully sided with the Coup Plotters for a chance to get back at the rest of Ponyland and create a Neo-Confederacy (and everything it stands for, which as in real life consist of a reactionary oligarchial/neo-feudal racial supremacist socio-cultural order). When that failed and the coup was put down, they sided with the freaking Reichists when they launched a surprise incursion from the Gulf of Mexicolt, welcoming the genocidal fascist invaders with open hooves. All this convinced the rest of Ponyland that the Southron Ponies will never be anything more than racist crypto-fascistic traitors and much of the Deep South is a nest of vipers socially/culturally/politically-incompatible with the rest of the country. When continued Southron insurgency and domestic terrorism makes restoration and reintegration of the Deep South near impossible, the Ponylanders finally snapped and simply kick the whole region out of the country, letting them rot behind a 'Deep South Exclusion Zone' and treating every recalcitrant and treacherous Southroner/Neo-Confederate left caged behind the many hundreds of kilometres of barbwire, fences and bunkers as a hostile to be shot/bombed/deported on sight, rather than their once fellow Ponyland citizens.
• Superhero Capital of the World: Downplayed. While it is clear there are many other superheroic individuals and teams throughout the world during the 'Second Age', so far a majority of superheroes with entries in Codex Equus came from Ponyland, making the country seemingly this trope. Within the country there are several notable cities and towns who have a particularly high concentration of super-heroes (and -villains).
  • The city of Los Venturas, where Shadow Sentinel operates, has a number of other lesser-known superheroes such as Scarlet Scorpion, Marvelous Meteor, Iron Cavalier, Roughrider, the Faceless Troopers, just to name a few. It's implied Metamare's city of Tomorrow is also one, with many other superhero individuals and groups besides herself, inspired by her super-heroics to go out and do good.
• Tank Goodness: Developed many good Battle Tanks during the 'Great Wars Era' of the Second Age, contributing to the Second Age Ponies' status as the 'Lords of War'. One of them include the MBT-80 'Bison' Main Battle Tank, which apparently took out many Hooviet Lightning Tanks and other vehicles with their electrothermal main cannon.
  • The XBT-C 'Chamaleon' Experimental Battle Tank is an expy of Mirage Tank from Red Alert, capable of as its name implies melding into the environment with its camouflage systems, and also sporting a DEW main weapon that allow it to duel their Hooviet Lightning Tank counterparts during the 'Fourth Great War' of 1984.
  • The M2AT3 Patriot-Main Assault Tank is another example of Ponyland Tank Goodness, essentially an Expy and Adaptational Badass / Adaptation Expansion of the GI Joes' Grizzly Patriot tank and was in fact first used by their GI-COLTS Expy in-universe. It features a 120 mm electro-thermal automatic main cannon with 75 rounds of ammunition capable of firing up to 30 rounds per minute (under controlled conditions to prevent overheating and barrel-damage. Fire rate is variable and can be adjusted), guided by an advanced computer targeting system that can ensure most of the shots are dead on, while its secondary armaments include either a .50 Cal HMG with 1200 rounds and/or a freaking MINIGUN with 1500 rounds. A microfusion-powered 'Heavy Duty Accelerator' Drive system (with two pairs of rear extra-large accelerator wheels) which gives it several times the range and speed of RL modern tanks and an option to double the latter for short 'turbo-charges' bursts. Its sloped armour features layers of 'Composite Metal Foam' with lattice structure which confers several times normal protection from kinetic, thermal and mechanical damage than normal materials at only a fraction of the mass (contributing to an overall mass of tank at merely 55 tonnes), as well as a powered, smart-system integrated 'nano poly-ceramic' composite armour which confers extra protection through the energetically-magnified and computer-regulated properties of its ceramic nanoparticles (including those of dielectric, ferroelectric, pyroelectric, ferromagnetic, magneto-resistive, superconductive and electro-optical natures), and also painted with energy and kinetic-deflecting paint, making it highly durable to various forms of weapons fire and damage (The Patriot is not even considered the best among its peers in terms of protection, relying more on speed and firepower as per Ponyland military doctrine of the time).^note Both the CMF and the ceramic nanoparticle composite based armour are not made up, but actually exists in real-life and currently in feasibility/rudimentary development for vehicular armour. The author Their adaptation in the Codexverse are justified in that because of the much more rapid technological development of the 'Second Age', some of them were already around for decades and had their properties exaggerated. And that's just the baseline variant.
• This Means War!: The "Wall Street Coup" left Ponyland vulnerable to Mexicolt's revanchist junta in late 1940, which tried to reclaim its lost territories that now made up southern Ponyland. In dealing with the junta's invasion and overthrowing it, Ponyland discovered that both the Wall Street Coup and the Mexicolt incursion were orchestrated by agents of Reichist Germaney. Then, forces from Imperial Neighpon suddenly attacked the Fillypines, while the Germane Navy sunk Ponyland ships with U-Boats in 1941. All these whammies enraged Ponyland, enough to declare war on the Axis Powers as an Allied nation and revitalize its own economy/society following the devastating "Great Depression" period.
• Unfazed Everyman: During the 'Second Age', world-endangering conflicts and calamities became such a regular occurrence many Ponies by the 1980s/90s were more or less unfazed by all but the most terrible events, and the citizens of Ponyland were no exception to this. One time, waves of ballistic missiles were launched all over the world by a renegade faction, leveling entire cities, and Ace, one of the colt friends of Virtuous/Tales Seven, was more annoyed by the fact that he had to move the venue for his birthday party that day, rather unbothered by much of his hometown being demolished by the attack (Then again, Ace IS a Power Ranger and a superhero himself).
  News Bulletin: - Reports are coming in from all over the world: many cities are in ruins, devastated by hails of ballistic missiles launched by the renegade forces of - this just in! The president has declared a nation-wide state of emergency and martial law in response to - !
  Ace's Mother: Honey, what's the weather forecast for today?
  Ace: Mom, looks like we're gonna have a rain of rockets! And the guy on the Holotube just said our city is gonna be kaput like all the others!
  Ace's Mother: Ah... so the typical Monday usual, then.
• Warts and All: Ponyland's entry does not shy away from fully mentioning and implicitly condemning some of the worse parts of its history, such as the genocide of the Native Amarericans, the (First!) Ponyland Civil War and racial discrimination against Zebras and other minorities of the era. Justified in that unlike in Real Life, the Codex Equus entries are made tens of thousands of years after the end of the 'Second Age', meaning the authors have zero emotional attachments to the past civilization and could review both its merits and sins with greater objectivity.

Presidents of Ponyland

President Stovepipe Lakeside

• Expy: Of Abraham Lincoln. More specifically the version from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, if Matron Miracle's entry is any indication.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He's based on Abraham Lincoln.

President Theddeus Moosepelt

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• Historical Badass Upgrade: He's based on Theodore Roosevelt, who is venerated for his reforms and was something of a Renaissance Man when he was alive. Here, he served five consecutive terms (Franklin D. Roosevelt served four terms as President), and was responsible for various reforms, including the federal income tax, workers' rights, monopoly/trust-busting, electoral reform, prohibition of alcohol, universal suffrage, desegregation of the Federal Government, and greater civil rights for minorities. It's noted that many of his reforms had been met with mixed or considerable success.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He's based on Theodore Roosevelt, a highly revered US President known for his many awesome deeds.

President Knitted Moosepelt

• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He's based on Franklin D. Roosevelt, a fifth-cousin of Theodore Roosevelt and another US President.

President Courteous Flight

A (in)famous Ponyland Airforce general, Courteous Flight found himself unintentionally becoming the President of Ponyland during the Third Maretian-Tellusian War and went on to lead it through the conflict and its aftermath.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: In an inversion of what happened in Real Life history, he the President of Ponyland at the time ended up being the one proclaiming that "WE WILL BURY YOU!" to his Hooviet Premier counterpart during a shouting match between them in the Assembly of Nations.
• Blood Knight: This is an Expy of Curtis LeMay we're talking about. It comes with the territory of his military background.
• Decapitation Strike: While the exact details are unclear, even to him and his contemporaries, this was how he ended up becoming President of Ponyland, as the Ackackian Maretians took out the previous president as well as most of Congress and Senate in the opening days of their invasion, decimating the line of succession until he was the highest ranking officer in line to take it.
• Didn't See That Coming: He neither saw himself becoming president coming, nor saw himself doing a reasonably good job at it seeing the country through the Third Maretian-Tellusian War and its recovery.
• Expy: He's Ponyland's counterpart to the Real Life Air General Curtis LeMay, though he also draws inspiration from his The New Order Last Days Of Europe counterpart. He ended up serving as the Lyndon Johnson of his implied reformist predecessor's John F. Kennedy, pushing through many of the late president's reforms through his credibility as a War Hero and a war-winning president as well as hardnosed strong-arming those who opposed them.
• Four-Star Badass: Unsurprising considering who he is based on. This is the Pony who masterminded the strategic bombings of the Empire of Neighpon during the Second Great War, oversaw the transition of Ponyland Airforce into a full-jet force, and established Ponyland's Strategic Air Command.
• Internal Reformist: Despite being a hardline Warhawk in terms of foreign policy, he was domestically a reformist who passed many of his late short-lived predecessor's planned reforms out of a belief they are good for rebuilding and strengthening the country. He notably strongarmed the political party he became associated with to pass through the Codexverse's version of the Civil Rights Act 1964, even personally intimidating the few remaining recalcitrant segregationists into submission.
• Ironic Name: His name 'Courteous' Flight didn't really reflect his aggressive and foul-mouthed temperament, though he was a Reasonable Authority Figure (to an extent) and an Internal Reformist while he was president of Ponyland.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His aggressive stance in foreign policy damaged the truce formed between the superpowers of Tellus during and following the Ackackian Maretian invasion and led to a deterioration in diplomatic relationships which made conflict between them more likely.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Downplayed. He's a belligerent, militant, and foul-mouthed stallion, he was still loyal to Ponyland and had its best interests at heart, even if his personality doesn't show that.
  • During the Ackackian Maretian invasion of 1961-2, he gave approval to a military project despite the implied misgivings of many which is heavily implied to have helped turn the tide of the war.
  • Despite being an unrepentant Warhawk, he was still sane enough to maintain the tense truce between the superpowers and their blocs following the 1961-2 Maretian invasion. He was also domestically an Internal Reformist, making sure many of his late boss/predecessor's policies are passed out of the belief they'll help the country recover and become better.
  • Despite his own personal misgivings, he listened to Dr. Silversmith's advice at the possibility of mysterious radio transmissions from Venera (Codexverse Venus) originating from a peaceful alien civilization, and agreed to let Ponyland's space agency collaborate with the international space community to mount the epic Expedition to Venera of 1967-9 to find out, the launch of which he saw off as the last major thing he did in office.
• Reluctant Ruler: He has no political ambitions when he got the job in 1961 and is as surprised as everypony else that he became President of Ponyland when his boss (and everypony else on the line of succession) got killed by invading Maretians. He had a surprisingly good tenure nevertheless.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He strong-hooved the political party he became affilated with to pass the Civil Rights Act his late boss/predecessor left behind, knowing ending segregation and facilitating racial integration is the right thing to do for his country and everything it stands for.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Infamously foul-mouthed, he does not mince his words or tone down his language when he feel like he has a good reason to speak his mind. Just look at his apopleptic reaction when his party's whips look like they won't be able to get the segregationists in the party he became affilated with to fall in line and appear to even want to back out from supporting the Civil Rights Act.
• Warhawk: An unrepentant warhawk due to his military background, his aggressive stance against the other superpowers of Tellus led to an unfortunate deterioration of relationship between Ponyland with the other superpowers right after the Ackackian Maretian invasion of 1961. He also didn't hesitate to take advantage of the post-war chaos to advance Ponyland's geopolitical agendas, though to be fair the other superpowers did the same. He flat-out declared to his Hooviet counterpart in a shouting match at the Assembly of Nations that "WE WILL BURY YOU!". To his credit, he was still sane enough to maintain the tense truce between the superpowers and their blocs following the recent Maretian invasion.
• War Hero: One of controversial character, like the man he is based on.

President Personable Pony

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• Action Politician: On at least one occasion, she personally kicked flanks and took names for her family and others like President Marshall did in Airforce One. Apparently military service was mandatory during the 'Great Wars Era' as a result of constant conflicts and crises and she excelled to the point she had received Special Forces training.
• Alliterative Name: Personable Pony.
• Captain Ersatz: A 'Second Age' version of 'Fourth Age' Equestrian mayor of Ponyville Ivory Scroll (previous known only as 'Mayor Mare'), and implied to be her ancestor. Also one to President Marshall from the film Airforce One when a similar incident to the one in the film occurred to her. Also a bit of President Henry Hayes from how she flipped off the Extratellusian witch Rita the Repulsive when she came to deliver her threat/ultimatum to Tellus.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In a Shout-Out to President Henry Hayes's response to Anubis from Stargate SG-1, she more or less told Rita the Repulsive off when she appeared as a hologram in the White House to call for their surrender, rejecting her demands almost word for word with some of the quotes. She even snidely critiqued her fashion sense while at it, much to Rita's outrage.
  President Pony: Don't let these clothes fool you, miss fashion disaster. We're going to fight.
• The Gloves Come Off: While normally in a supporting background role as a Reasonable Authority Figure for heroes and a world leader, when her own family and other Ponies were held hostage by agents of the Chrysalis Network who hijacked her plane, she shocked every-pony by forgoing a chance to escape the plane to retaliate and rescue them. Having done mandatory military service and having Special Forces training helps immensely.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Explicitly a pun on the 'President Personable', since it's part of her actual name but she lives up to it. Also a President Action on at least one occasion.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Delivered one to Agent 'Assassin Bug' near the climax of the Chrysalis Network's Airforce One hijacking attempt, word for word for President Marshall's own one-liner in the Airforce One film.
  President Pony: Get off. My. PLANE!
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Shows calm, collected leadership during crises as well as being willing to listen and act upon warnings of threats and advice of measures to be taken, no matter how bizarre or stressful the circumstances.
• Unfazed Everyman: Like many Ponies by that time of the 'Great Wars Era', President Pony is very used to seeing shocking things, encountering weird circumstances and meeting unusual figures. Her response to Neighjor, the Sage of Power suddenly appearing in the Oval Office to warn her of Rita the Repulsive's coming and requesting her country's aid to prepare was merely one of pleasant surprise, agreeing to assist after hearing him out, and a deadpan reminder to her Secret Service that just because they should be cautious doesn't mean they should just shoot at everyone that inexplicably appear in the White House, especially when they quickly show themselves to be not a threat and Immune to Bullets.
  President Pony: I thought I warned you to be a little less trigger-happy after that time with Shadow Sentinel.

Ponyland Armed Forces

In General

• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?:
  • They almost managed to defeat or outright kill Magnamare — an Mirror Universe Evil Counterpart of of their hero Metamare, the Paragon From Beyond — when she came over to demand Ponyland's surrender during one of the earliest Mirrorverse Tellus villains' attempted invasions of Mainverse Tellus. It should be noted that being the Ultraman to Metamare's Superman, Magnamare's superpowers makes her practically a Physical God — and the Ponylanders still managed to nearly take her down with the help of superpower-zapping 'Metamagnetic Disruptor Arrays' installed all over a city and enormous amounts of conventional firepower and exotic weapons.

General Ironsight

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• Canon Immigrant: Originally starred in Equestria: Across the Multiverse, a Round Robin the authors of the Codexverse also worked on, and thus brought over to be developed further.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He and his forces almost killed Magnamare, the Tyrant From Beyond, Metamare's evil Mirror Universe counterpart from 'Mirror Equus' during one of the trans-dimensional incursions launched by the Super Villain factions there through a combination of power-nullifying technology, carefully-planned strategy and overwhelming firepower. She still managed to decimate his forces and survive long enough to deactivate the tech and get back her full power, but even then he still succeeded in delaying her from levelling Ponyland's capital long enough for superheroic reinforcements to get there.
• Four-Star Badass: Here, he's actually a Five-Star badass, owing to being ultimately promoted a Five-Star General for his exemplary service.

General Green Moor

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• Destructive Saviour: He didn't recapture Coltlanta from the Axis Powers and their Neo-Confederate collaborators — he all but completely levelled the damn place just to take out their forces within it.
  President Knitted Moosepelt: Had we recaptured Coltlanta?
  General Green Moor: Sir... what Coltlanta?
• Expy: Of Union General Irving Morrel from Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series (Depicting a timeline where the Union lost the American Civil War), who is in turn essentially an American counterpart to General Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox. He had also been compared to Union General Shermane in-universe for repeating his campaign to break the Neo-Confederates and their Reichist allies in the South.
• Four-Star Badass: Widely considered one of Ponyland's most effective and dangerous generals during the Second Ponyland Civil War and the Second Great War, having pioneered armoured warfare for Ponyland's armed forces, retook the southern states from the Axis and Neo-Confederates and later co-led the war in Marerope when the Allied Powers finally landed in Prance in 'Operation Sledgehammer'.
• History Repeats: Invoked in his drive to the sea during the campaign to take back the territories lost to the Neo-Confederate and later their Reichist/Axis allies invading from the Gulf of Mexicolt, which was compared to Union General Shermane's own 'March to the Sea' during the 'First Ponyland Civil War'.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: A subscriber of aggressive tactics and 'Total War' strategies like Union General Shermane, Green Moor did not hesitate to use overwhelming force to break the enemy's will and capacity to fight where applicable. He was ordered to recapture Coltlanta from Neo-Confederates and Reichist forces during the Second Ponyland Civil War/Second Great War; when he had done so, he had completely levelled it with artillery and airstrikes.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Shares the same opinion as the rest of Ponyland upon witnessing the atrocities the Neo-Confederates and the Reichists committed against Zebras, other minorities and even fellow Ponylanders down in the South during the campaign to recapture the southern states.
• Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Like the rest of Ponyland, Green Moor does not look highly upon the South for their thrice-fold treachery (first being in 1861-4, second being supporting the Wall Street Coup, and third and most arguably most heinous being joining forces with the invading Reichists and Axis Powers), and does not hesitate to use using aggressive tactics and thorough 'Total War' strategies in breaking the enemy's capacity and will to fight like Union General Shermane did in the South many generations earlier.

Superheroes

The Paragons

See their folder entries here.

Power Rangers

See their folder entries here.

The 'Tales Seven'

See their folder entries here.

Lady Liberty, the Spirit of Ponyland

See her folder entries here.

Supervillains

War Rock, the Magic Stallion

See his folder entry here.

Other Residents

Black Domino/Fats Domino

An Zebra musician from the Second Age, and one of the first pioneers of Rock and Roll. Blue Suede Heartstrings, who popularized the genre, respected and idolized him a great deal, and believed that if anything, he should be the "King of Rock and Roll".

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• Fantastic Racism: It's implied that he had been subjected to this in his time despite his successes as a musician, due to being a Zebra. This pissed off Blue Suede Heartstrings something fierce, as he believes he only became so successful because he was born a unicorn, and feels that Black Domino should have most of his fame.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's based on Fats Domino, as he bears the man's stage name and was one of the first pioneers of Rock and Roll just like him. And like Fats Domino, he was respected and idolized by a far more successful musician, Blue Suede Heartstrings, who is based on Elvis Presley.
• Posthumous Character: He's long dead, since much of the Codexverse is focused on the Fourth Age. However, his musical talent and influence would leave a great impact on Blue Suede Heartstrings, a fellow musician from the Second Age and huge fan of Black Domino who would eventually become an Alicorn god of Music.

Blasting Trumpet

Blasting Trumpet (first introduced here) is a corrupt businessmane from the Second Age whose notable feat (among other things) is using shady means to try becoming the President of Ponyland.

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• Trumplica: He's based on Donald Trump, and much like his real-life counterpart, he's a corrupt businessmane, as well as a racist and unpleasant stallion overall. Among the things he did was rigging elections in an attempt to become the President of Ponyland, supporting racial supremacist groups like the Proud Colts (though he vehemently denied it), and encouraging racial nationalistic populism in the general populace under the claims of wanting to "make Ponyland great again". Unlike Trump, however, his political campaign faced several roadblocks due to different circumstances and the country's populace being generally much smarter (as well as distrustful of big businessmanes due to a few crises involving them). He was also discovered by authorities to have secret ties to Uberreich, kicking off a series of events that would see entire his family (save for relatives who had nothing to do with him) and most of his supporters arrested and harshly punished (or killed), his businesses and properties completely dismantled, and his name/legacy being reviled by Ponyland at large. A violent uprising did erupt from his fanatical supporters and Proud Colts much like in real life, though it was quickly stopped by the Ponyland army.

"Colonel" Hollow Note, the Devil's Manager

Character: Villainous

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Type: Corrupt Manager/Control Freak/Fugitive/Sociopath

Faction: Ponyland

"Colonel" Hollow Note (his entry here) is the former record manager of Blue Suede Heartstrings from the early Second Age, and someone who deeply affected him for three Ages.

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• Asshole Victim: While he's behind Blue Suede's rise as the greatest musician of the Second Age, he also psychologically abused Blue Suede for years and controlled almost every aspect of his life, eventually leading to his client being hospitalized for overworking himself. He also said to Blue Suede to his face that he saw the latter as nothing more than a pawn and source of income for him. Blue Suede, understandably pushed past his limits, proceeds to beat him within an inch of his life. After that, it all goes downhill for him, and thanks to Blue Suede's court testimonies, he essentially becomes a social pariah. His twin granddaughters, Half-Note and Sweet Notes, quickly disown him when they see his unpleasantness firsthand, and he dies shortly after unloved and unmourned, his fate brought upon by his huge appetite and poor spending habits.
• Back from the Dead: He returns as a vengeful Wraith in the Fourth Age thanks to Mistletoe Dreamer, consumed by hatred and rage towards Blue/Caerulus for 'leaving him high and dry' in Hell and desiring to destroy everyone and everything Blue/Caerulus loved as payback.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Shifa' Alhabi Moufette theorizes that he might have convinced himself that everything he did was in Blue Suede Heartstrings' interest, which contributed to the abuse of his client. The same thing can apply to everyone close to him, including his wife, his stepson, and his granddaughters Half-Note and Sweet Notes.
• Big Eater: Invoked. He started binge-eating as part of a gambit to avoid being drafted for the Second Great War, knowing his resulting obesity would make him unfit for duty. Then it's later deconstructed when his eating habits got out of control in his later years following his release from prison, which resulted in a plethora of health problems that would ultimately kill him without the money to buy good medical services.
• Blackmail: He tried using both Blue Suede's homosexual relationship with Record Beat and his existence as a Unicorn as blackmail to keep him under his hoof. When Blue Suede resisted, he punished him by revealing the information he gathered to the public, causing many of Blue Suede's friends and fans to turn against him in bigotry-fueled disgust.
• Bright Is Not Good: According to his family, his favorite color is yellow and he often wore yellow clothes. His entry also describes him as wearing a yellow coat. He's also a corrupt manager and ruthless Control Freak who exploited Blue Suede Heartstrings for his own gain and psychologically abused him for years to keep him under his hoof.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • He angered his stepson by distancing himself from Blooming Mott, who had started showing signs of dementia. His stepson saw his distant treatment as a deliberate abandonment of his mother and came to blows with him over it. After his crimes regarding Blue Suede Heartstrings is publicly revealed, his stepson furiously disowns him as family and takes his twin daughters, Half-Note and Sweet Notes, with him overseas to raise them elsewhere.
  • Towards the end of his life, he would be called out by his granddaughters, Half-Note and Sweet Notes, for trying to exploit them. Previously, Half-Note and Sweet Notes thought he changed for the better, but when it became clear that he didn't learn a thing from his actions as Blue Suede's manager, they left him in disgust.
    Half-Note: I...! I can't believe you!
    "Colonel" Hollow Note: Come on, you know you'll never get anywhere in the business without a good manager.
    Sweet Notes: And we'll find one, but it won't be you! You haven't changed at all!
• Color Motif:
  • Yellow. Yellow is a cheery and warm color that's connected to logic, creativity, and challenges. Hollow Note was a shrewdly intelligent business-stallion and manager who correctly predicted the massive changes Blue Suede Heartstrings would make should he become a star, and worked tirelessly in promoting his client. This led to both of them becoming massively famous and wealthy, fulfilling Hollow Note's foalhood dreams of making a fortune. However, yellow is also connected to cowardice and deceit. One of Hollow Note's most prominent flaws is his paranoia, which spurred him into suppressing nearly all details of his past and psychologically control/abuse Blue Suede to keep everyone from learning anything about him. This created a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as eventually his actions would end up damning him in both life and death once news of his actions got out.
  • Purple. Purple is the color of Hollow Note's pelt, is connected to royalty, wealth, and wisdom. Although Hollow Note was born relatively poor, he managed to become wealthy later on by being a shrewd businessmane and manager, working to promote Blue Suede Heartstrings based on his intuition regarding the music trends at the time. Even Blue Suede himself acknowledged that much of his career and rise can be attributed to Hollow Note. However, purple is also connected to things of a poisonous nature. Although Hollow Note seems trustworthy and caring, he is actually a paranoid, greedy, and ruthless sociopath who is only out for himself. Once his life started crumbling and Blue Suede became increasingly defiant, Hollow Note began psychologically manipulating and abusing him to keep his client under his control at all times. The extent of his abuse was such that Blue Suede was left deeply traumatized for three Ages even after breaking free from his manager.
• Control Freak: Much like Elvis' manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, he was this to Blue Suede. While he turned Blue Suede into one of Ponyland's biggest stars, he also forced Blue Suede to perform constantly with little rest, socially isolated him from people who could've helped him, and stifled his musical creativity in favor of making money. He also psychologically abused and gaslit Blue Suede to make him even more dependent on him. At one point, he publicly outed Blue Suede as a gay Unicorn as punishment for resisting his Blackmail, then forced him into a marriage he didn't want under the pretense of "salvaging" his reputation. And he did all this because he was afraid of people discovering his own origins as an illegal immigrant from the Neighterlands. However, he overlooked multiple variables such as Bossa Nova's meddling and Blue Suede's friends becoming aware of his sleazy character, and eventually his controlling behavior blew up in his face when Blue Suede finally snapped and beat him within an inch of his life. This sparks massive public interest in his personal life, leading to his history of abusive exploitation being uncovered, and him getting imprisoned for his crimes — which is exactly what he was trying to avoid. That being said, his controlling behavior traumatized Blue Suede so much that he became a Stepford Smiler for three Ages, essentially repeating the very actions that traumatized him in the first place.
• Dragged Off to Hell: Bossa Nova Heartstrings mentions in a Codexverse quote that this is his final fate. After ruthlessly exploiting and abusing his client, Blue Suede Heartstrings, for a large majority of the latter's life, Hollow Note would die sometime after Blue's departure and Ascension to godhood, and was dragged off to Tartarus in chains by Bossa Nova's adoptive uncle, Malus Manes, for his crimes.
• Every Man Has His Price: In another attempt to control Blue Suede, he bribed (and possibly threatened) a therapist Blue Suede had been seeing into becoming his Yes-Man who reported extremely private information to him. This all but destroys Blue Suede's trust in therapists, causing him to avoid them for fear of the situation repeating again — so much that Blue Suede had a panic attack when he visited Mentálne, a divine child therapist, three Ages later.
• Evil Counterpart: To Prince Maestro I. "Colonel" Hollow Note psychologically abused Blue Suede Heartstrings and ruthlessly exploited his musical talents and popularity for financial gain at the expense of his client, leading to Blue Suede holding lots of emotional trauma that wouldn't be fully resolved until well into the Fourth Age. Prince Maestro I focuses on the overall well-being of his clients (including his mother, Melody, when she outlived her own agents), making sure they are supported and cared for throughout their entire careers so they could perform at their very best. To further the contrast, Maestro is a benevolent Alicorn god who embodies Agents and Honest Executives, whereas Hollow Note is a greedy, sociopathic mortal with a keen yet extremely ruthless business sense.
• The Exile: A self-imposed example. After traveling with an educational tent show in Ponyland, he returned to the Neighterlands, presumably to earn more money, but a grave incident caused him to flee back to Ponyland in such terror that he left behind almost his entire belongings, including his passport. The efforts he put in suppressing information about his origins caused many to believe that he committed a serious crime in the past and didn't want anyone to know about it. He even went as far as to bribe a visiting older brother into keeping quiet before turning him away.
• Fat Bastard: He was an obese stallion in life, which he inflicted on himself by binge-eating to avoid being drafted into fighting in the Second Great War. He was also a ruthless, manipulative, sociopathic Control Freak who abused Blue Suede Heartstrings to keep him under his thumb, leaving his client deeply traumatized for three Ages even after breaking away from him.
• Freudian Excuse: Deconstructed; while he does have reasons for why he acted the way he did, they still do not justify or excuse his horrendous treatment of others, especially Blue Suede, who was formerly his star client.
  • Hollow Note's Greed stemmed from his colthood years working as a "barker" (i.e. someone who tries to attract patrons to entertainment events) at carnivals to provide for his large yet moderately poor family. Unfortunately, once he finally became rich like he wanted, Hollow Note proceeds to carelessly spend it on gambling, accruing so much debt that he makes Blue Suede overwork himself just to pay off the debts, landing Blue Suede in the hospital and pushing the rockstar past his breaking point. After he is arrested and imprisoned for several years for his crimes, Hollow Note spends his remaining money on food and gambilng, directly contributing to his death as he was suffering from health problems and the money could've paid for good medical services.
  • Hollow Note's paranoia stems from a horrible incident in his youth that had him fleeing the Neighterlands in sheer terror, in the process leaving behind his passport. He went to such great lengths in suppressing information about himself that he became a Control Freak who stifled, gaslit, and mistreated Blue Suede just to keep his star client under his hoof. Eventually, Hollow Note's paranoia blows up spectacularly in his face when a series of mistakes and other uncontrollable circumstances created a nasty falling-out with Blue Suede that sparked massive interest in his personal life, uncovering years of exploitation and abuse and thoroughly turning the public against him. While he isn't deported back to the Neighterlands as he feared, he still spends the rest of his life a social pariah, eventually dying in ignominy thanks to him wasting away his remaining finances on food and gambling.
• The Gambling Addict: Nearly all the financial troubles he experienced can be traced back to his frequent indulgences in gambling, which contributed to both his abusive exploitation of Blue Suede and later his death in poverty.
• Gaslighting: Part of his psychological abuse of Blue Suede involved socially isolating his client, making Blue Suede question his self-worth and capability and convincing him that he wouldn't last long in the music industries if he got a new manager. As a result, Blue Suede was left deeply traumatized for three Ages despite having long since broken away from his manager.
• Greed: One of his flaws that ultimately did him in. While it started out as an innocent desire to make it big in Ponyland, his desire for wealth grew until it overtook his common sense, worsened by the fact that he had a rather naive view of what a life of wealth would entail. His out-of-control gambling habits were what spurred him to overwork Blue Suede Heartstrings in order to earn more money, until his client was hospitalized for severe exhaustion following a tiredness-induced seizure. After his arrest and court trial, he proceeded to waste his remaining money on gambling and food, factoring into his death as it left him without the means to pay for good medical care.
• Hated by All: He used to be well-respected as the manager of Ponyland's resident "King of Music", but once his history of abuse and exploitation of Blue Suede Heartstrings (among other things) comes to light, his reputation is completely and irrevocably tanked as everyone now knows what sort of stallion he truly is. Even Venerable Grace Heartstrings, Blue Suede's first wife, eviscerates his legacy during his own funeral. And when Blue Suede's husband, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, meets him in-person for the first time during Blue Suede's visit, the Deer-Draconequus god's response is to snarl at him hatefully.
• Hate Sink: Much like his real-life inspiration, he is an unfettered sociopath whose life was entirely defined by his greed and paranoia. Almost everything he did to his star client, Blue Suede Heartstrings, including exploiting him and psychologically abusing him, was so he can keep an iron hoof on his Meal Ticket and suppress any information about his origins (as well as his status as an illegal immigrant). He was also a racist homophobe who publicly outed Blue Suede as a gay Unicorn as punishment for resisting his Blackmail and then forced him into a marriage he didn't want under the pretense of salvaging his reputation. He finally gets his comeuppance when he is beaten within an inch of his life by an enraged Blue Suede, and the chain of events that follows turns him into a social pariah who is roundly hated and mocked by everyone, even in death. Even those who are only remotely connected to Blue Suede don't have anything nice to say about him.
• Historical Character's Fictional Relative: He's based on "Colonel" Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, and here he has two fictional granddaughters — identical twin sisters, Half-Note and Sweet Notes, of the G1 Rockin' Beats toyline and the My Little Pony Tales show. However, they disowned him as family after discovering his attempts to exploit them and realizing he didn't change his ways at all.
• Historical Domain Superperson: He's based on "Colonel" Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's unscrupulous and exploitative manager. Three Ages after his death, he is resurrected by Mistletoe Dreamer as a Wraith, hellbent on tormenting Blue Suede for leaving him "high and dry" and destroying everything his ex-client cared about by wiping out Blue Suede's younger self.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: "Colonel" Tom Parker ruthlessly manipulated and exploited Elvis Presley during his time as manager — contributing to the latter's decline and death — and was branded a "psychopath" by an army psychiatrist when he was a soldier. "Colonel" Hollow Note did almost everything his character inspiration did, but was also outright psychologically and emotionally abusive to Blue Suede Heartstrings despite knowing of the latter's history and reputation as a sniper during the "Second Maretian-Tellusian War". Even in death, Hollow Note tried to get Blue Suede under his hoof once again, and when he's brought back to life as a Wraith three Ages later by Mistletoe Dreamer, he quickly uses the opportunity to torment Blue Suede and try to kill the latter's younger self for being supposedly left "high and dry" by his ex-client.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Twice.
  • His greed pushed him to earn more wealth at the expense of Blue Suede's overall well-being, especially after his gambling habits got out of control. He later loses most of his wealth anyway when his violent falling-out with Blue Suede exposes his crimes and history of abuse, putting him in jail for many years.
  • His paranoia pushed him to suppress all details of his private life, even psychologically abusing/manipulating Blue Suede to keep him under his hoof on the off-chance his star client might expose him. He fails anyway when years of abuse causes Blue Suede to snap and beat him within an inch of his life, kicking off a series of events that irrevocably turns Ponyland against him once both his crimes and past are exposed.
• Ignored Epiphany: After his crimes and history of abuse comes to light, he proceeds to lose almost everything, including his surviving family who estranged themselves from him out of disgust. However, instead of reflecting on his mistakes and working to change himself for the better, he resumes his old ways after he gets out of prison. It's justified since it's a trait of his sociopathy, but it's also deconstructed as his refusal to recognize why he failed ends up damning him to Hell upon death.
• The Illegal: He came to Ponyland as an illegal immigrant, fleeing the Neightherlands over something which he took enormous effort and pains to hide along with his illegal status. All because he left behind his passport while he was fleeing the Neighterlands in his youth.
• Karma Houdini: It's theorized In-Universe that he fled the Neighterlands in his youth to avoid punishment for a horrible crime, likely murder. He was also believed to have been behind Copper Wheel's fatal automobile accident due to the timing and Copper Wheel beginning to distrust him when it happened. When he was arrested in Ponyland years later, the authorities couldn't find any proof for the supposed crime, but he nonetheless was punished for the crimes he committed while in Ponyland, including his abuse of Blue Suede Heartstrings.
• Karmic Death: He eventually dies in his old age an impoverished stallion, his death caused by a myriad of health problems that he could have cured with good medical care had he not frivolously spent his money on gambling and food. By then, he has become such a hated stallion in Ponyland that no one mourns his death; Blue Suede Heartstrings, whom he abused for years, refused to attend his funeral, and Venerable Grace, who attends the funeral on her husband's behalf, used the opportunity to eviscerate him and his legacy with a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech. He also attracts the ire of Blue Suede's parents and older twin brother upon dying; Copper Wheel Heartstrings in particular punches his face hard in retribution for how he treated his youngest son.
• Lack of Empathy: He can feel emotions, but as The Sociopath, he lacks the ability to experience, understand, or empathy for others. It's arguable that he did care for Blue Suede Heartstrings in his own way, but it wasn't enough for him to change, and whatever love he had for his client turned into a selfish, exploitative one. Shifa' Alhabi Moufette theorizes that he might have convinced himself that everything he did was in Blue Suede's interest, contributing to his abuse of the latter.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • He tried disbanding the Manephis Mafia, Blue Suede's close circle of friends and relatives who served as his bodyguards in life, so he could isolate and control his client. He is not only confronted by the Manephis Mafia itself for it, but also gets punched in the face by one of its members, Day-Bright West. To this day, Day-Bright West has no regrets doing so.
    Day-Bright West's spirit: To this day, I don't ever regret giving a huge shiner to that damn Colonel. Nope, no-siree-bob.
  • His toxic and psychologically abusive relationship with Blue Suede eventually leads to the latter reaching his Rage Breaking Point and giving him a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown (until Blue Suede comes to his senses and flees out of guilt). The incident causes many people to take interest in his personal history, which leads to the history of abuse and his status as an illegal immigrant being uncovered, and also gets him being jailed for several years after Blue Suede testifies against him in court. While he's not deported back to the Neighterlands as he feared he would, he is treated as a social pariah by all of Ponyland for his actions and remains so for the rest of his life.
  • His actions also leads to his family breaking apart: His wife Blooming Mott, from whom he started distancing himself after she showed signs of dementia, was taken away by concerned authorities and put into hospice care where she spent her last years in peace. His stepson, whom he shares an increasingly strained relationship with, disowns him as family upon learning of his crimes and travels overseas with his identical twin daughters, Half-Note and Sweet Notes, to raise them elsewhere. Half-Note and Sweet Notes also chew him out later when they meet him and he tries exploiting them for his own benefit, causing the twins to realize their grandfather never changed at all.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: His parents were poor yet morally decent Ponies who loved their eleven children. He, on the other hand, became a greedy, paranoid, and abusive sociopath who ruthlessly exploited his client, Blue Suede Heartstrings, until the latter snapped.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: It's believed by many In-Universe — including Blue Suede Heartstrings himself — that he orchestrated the automobile accident that killed Copper Wheel Heartstrings so he could gain complete control over his son.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: After coming back in the Fourth Age as a powerful Wraith, he helps participate in Mistletoe Dreamer's Time Crash by going after Blue Suede's younger, pre-Ascendant self to undo all the good he would do in the future out of sheer hatred and spite. Thankfully, he doesn't succeed thanks to Blue Suede confronting and killing him to prevent this.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: He was the seventh-born in a family that had eleven children.
• Meaningful Name: "Hollow Note" refers to how his heart isn't really into music, instead focusing on the ruthless pursuit of financial gain and his exploitation of successful musicians, such as Blue Suede Heartstrings. Blue Suede himself even comes to realize this while confronting his damned spirit in Malus Manes' Hell-Realms, having looked into his manager's eyes and saw that he really is as hollow as his name suggested.
• Never My Fault: Deconstructed. Even after suffering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at the hooves of his abused client, and having his reputation all but torn to shreds afterwards, he still refused to acknowledge or learn from his mistakes. This not only drove even his own family away from him, but also condemned him to suffer eternally in Malus Manes' Hell-Realms upon death. When Blue Suede visits his damned shade in the Hell-Realms three Ages later, he still hadn't learned a thing, and proceeded to blame Blue Suede for his current situation while conveniently ignoring that it was his own actions that landed him there. By the time he is revived as a Wraith, he has vowed to destroy everything Blue Suede loved out of sheer spite for being left high and dry, despite him doing the exact same thing to Blue Suede in his mortal years.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's based on "Colonel" Tom Parker, the manager of Elvis Presley who ruthlessly exploited his client throughout the latter's entire career. Blue Suede Heartstrings, who is based on Elvis, managed to break free of his control partially thanks to the meddling of his older twin brother, Bossa Nova Heartstrings, but it's noted in both entries and drabbles/quotes that Blue Suede was left deeply traumatized long after the fact.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He would be subjected to one by Blue Suede Heartstrings after the latter was pushed to his breaking point by a particularly brutal Trauma Conga Line. However, it's deconstructed in that once Blue Suede finally calmed down, he was horrified by what he had done, and was later found at his house crying and fervently praying to the 'King in Heaven' for forgiveness by Venerable Grace, then his wife.
• No Name Given: At first. Bossa Nova's entry and a canonized Codexverse quote reveals his nickname, which was "The Colonel". Another Codexverse quote written a few months later revealed his full name: "Colonel" Hollow Note.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: He comes back as a powerful Wraith thanks to Mistletoe Dreamer, and is so consumed by hatred and fury that he wants to make Blue Suede/Caerulus suffer by destroying everything he cares about.
• Point of Divergence: Blue Suede would have stayed under Hollow Note's thrall for the rest of his life if not for the intervention of Bossa Nova Heartstrings, whose meddling ultimately led to Hollow Note being publicly exposed as a Bad Boss and reduced to a social pariah. Jade Shell also implied that things would have turned out differently if Hollow Note hadn't forgotten his passport while he was fleeing the Neighterlands, causing Blue Suede to have a tearful breakdown over realizing his manager abused him for nothing. Prince Maestro, one of Blue Suede's Ascendant students, also points out that his mentor would have fared better emotionally and psychologically if he actually left Hollow Note behind and worked under benevolent managers who are more capable of fulfilling his emotional needs and wants.

  Prince Maestro I: Yes, it's true that Uncle Blue wouldn't have become the stallion he is today if he hadn't met that Colonel... but there are managers out there who are loads better, both in competence and in sharing decent empathy for one another. And they would've been more than capable and happy to take Uncle Blue as their client. In manipulating, controlling, and eventually abusing him, the Colonel turned Uncle Blue into one of Ponyland's greatest stars, and also the most broken stallion the world has ever seen.

• Politically Incorrect Villain: He was a controlling and psychologically abusive stallion, but he was also homophobic and racist. Discovering that Blue Suede was both gay and a Unicorn spurred him to try blackmail him into compliance; when Blue Suede resisted, he then released the information to whip the public against him as punishment. Even after dying and being tormented for his crimes for three Ages, his attitudes did not change at all, as Blue Suede noticed when he confronted him in the Hell-Realms.
• Posthumous Character: Having lived during the early Second Age, he's long dead, but his actions influenced certain aspects of Blue Suede's personality and became a huge reason why Blue Suede went without psychiatric treatment for three Ages. He comes Back from the Dead as a vengeful Wraith in the Fourth Age during the "Dark Ages Crisis" courtesy of Mistletoe Dreamer, though it's a given that he was sent back to the Hell-realms after he and the rest of the Dark Ages Alliance were defeated.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • He would receive one postmortem from Blue Suede's first wife, Venerable Grace, who proceeds to tear him and his legacy apart by exposing him as the ruthless, controlling, and heartless bastard he really is in her funeral eulogy.
  • He would receive another one in the Fourth Age, also postmortem, this time from Blue Suede himself following the latter's crowning as Prince. After he tries to psychologically manipulate/abuse his former client by claiming Blue Suede would be nothing without him, Blue Suede fires back even if that were true, he wasn't responsible for all of his client's success and is really just a greedy, pathetic coward who used him for his own ends.
  Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria: (after enduring his manager's abusive tirade) ...Yer wrong.
  "Colonel" Hollow Note: What?!
  Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria: “It's true Ah rose to stardom 'cause of ya... But in the end, it wasn't yer big head that made me popular. It was mah music an' the kindness Ah gave to them folks out there. An' truth is, you needed me more than Ah did, which ya made crystal clear durin' that fateful quarrel. (Bossa Nova/Rubeus puts a hoof on Caerulus' shoulder to comfort him when he starts looking pained) See, way Ah remember it, it wasn't about the music. It wasn't about me. Ya just wanted some dollars ta fill yer pockets an' a wall ta hide from the cops.
  "Colonel" Hollow Note: How DARE you! If I wasn't dead, I'd wring your neck with my own hooves!
  Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria: But yer dead, Colonel. You've been dead fer three Ages. An' Ah had a lotta time since ta step outta that pit ya dug fer me. Now that Ah'm outta yer hooves an' under someone better, Ah'm bein' more successful than Ah've ever been under ya. Ah'm a Prince now with a husband- (Caerulus notices homophobic disgust on Hollow Note's face) -an' a bunch a' friends at my side, while yer rotting alone in those hell-pits fer all the nasty things ya did ta me. So without me, yer really nuthin' but a sad, pathetic piece a' horse-shit.
• Riddle for the Ages: What spurred him to flee the Neightherlands in such terror that he became dedicated in burying his past completely, even at the expense of his client, Blue Suede Heartstrings?
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Thanks to Mistletoe Dreamer, his return from the grave as a Wraith in the Fourth Age saw him trying to go on one against Blue Suede/Caerulus, desiring to destroy everything his former client loved for "leaving [him] high and dry" in Hell.
• The Sociopath: While never medically confirmed, his Lack of Empathy, his abusive Control Freak behavior towards Blue Suede Heartstrings, his ruthless/exploitive business conduct, and other misdeeds paints this picture of him. It's possibly justified as when he was younger, he was punished by the military for desertion via solitary confinement, and the experience led to him having a psychotic breakdown that put him in a mental hospital. The lack of proper psychiatric treatment at the time also contributed to his sociopathic development.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: On the receiving end. Venerable Grace Heartstrings' eulogy for his funeral is an eviscerating "The Reason You Suck" Speech that tears his legacy to shreds and exposes him as the abusive stallion he really was in life. Since Blue Suede Heartstrings understandably refused to attend the funeral, Venerable Grace did this on her then-husband's behalf.
  Venerable Grace Heartstrings: (on "Colonel" Hollow Note and his deeds) Some said Blue and the Colonel made history together, that the world is richer, better and far more interesting because of their collaboration. Those who say that know nothing. The Colonel was a heartless bastard, and no amount of success he brought Blue would have excused all the hardship and abuse he put Blue through for his own profit. So good riddance he's dead. Now I need to locate my wallet, because I noticed there was no ticket booth on the way in here, but I'm sure that son of a bitch must have arranged for some toll on the way out.
• Villainous Breakdown: Being Dragged Off to Hell upon death and tormented for his crimes in life for three Ages caused him to degenerate into a bitter, angry, and hateful shell of his former self, blaming Blue Suede for his troubles while refusing to acknowledge (or learn from) his own mistakes. When Blue Suede visits him in the Hell-Realms as Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, he rages at his ex-client for being "ungrateful" and tries to manipulate Blue Suede into compliance again. However, once Blue Suede sees through him and exposes him as he truly is — a pathetic, greedy, and cowardly wretch who leeched off of others for his own benefit — he is left screaming and frothing with rage as Blue Suede leaves him behind for good. After coming back from the dead as a powerful Wraith thanks to Mistletoe Dreamer, he has become so hateful and furious that he is determined to make Blue Suede suffer by destroying everything his ex-client cared about, even going back in time to kill Blue Suede's pre-Ascendant self so all the good things he did will never happen.
• Villainous Legacy: Though long dead, his ruthless exploitation and abuse of Blue Suede Heartstrings left the latter deeply traumatized. Notably, his efforts in isolating Blue Suede led to the latter turning himself into a Stepford Smiler out of fear of receiving more abuse if he revealed his problems to anyone, and would do this for three Ages. It eventually causes Blue Suede to break down and nearly become a Fallen Alicorn once his repressed traumas finally catch up with him.
• Villain with Good Publicity: As the manager of one of Ponyland's greatest musicians, he was well-regarded by many, but at the time, almost no one knew of his abusive exploitation of Blue Suede thanks to him keeping it under wraps. His public reputation all but evaporates when Blue Suede
• You Owe Me: He tried to invoke this with Blue Suede/Caerulus Melodia when he visits him in Malus Manes' Hell-Realms, claiming that Blue Suede's success was thanks to his management and that he would be nothing without him. Blue Suede/Caerulus sees right through it and cuts him out of his life completely, leading to a Villainous Breakdown.

Copper Wheel Heartstrings and Sunny Love

Blue Suede Heartstrings wasn't always an Alicorn god, or "The King [of Music/Rock and Roll]". In the early Second Age, he was born to mortal parents, Copper Wheel Heartstrings and his wife Sunny Love, who both lived in poverty. Blue was originally the younger of identical twins, but his older brother, Bossa Nova, came out stillborn. Despite this loss, as well as narrowly surviving a tornado outbreak that devastated southern Ponyland, his parents raised Blue as best as they could. It was their presence, combined with religion, that influenced their son to grow up humble and compassionate, leading to the "birth" of one of the most famous and recognizable musicians of the Second Age when he decided to take up music as his career.

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• Foil:
  • To Ispita and Discord, the parents of Hrůza, who would also become a musician herself. Ispita and Discord are Fallen deities who had many children, yet were terrible parents, and their abusive parenting methods left their children psychologically damaged, with Hrůza constantly craving their parents' approval due to her status as The Unfavorite and her lack of true firepower compared to her siblings. On the other hand, Blue Suede Heartstring's parents were mortal, and despite living in poverty and losing a son to stillbirth, they raised Blue with love, influencing him to become humble and compassionate later in life. It's implied that they also remained a constant presence in Bossa Nova's life after they died and reunited with him in the afterlife, as they were extremely proud of him for Ascending and becoming a Death god.
  • To High King Irminsul and his wife, High Queen Arvan. Irminsul and Arvan also sired identical twin sons, though Belyolen and Temnobog only came to existence because Irminsul tried to create a "perfect" and flawless heir by purifying his then-unborn son of his inner evil, essentially mutilating and killing him in the womb. They're also incredibly flawed, being haughty and puristic divine rulers and emotionally abusive parents, which initially drove a wedge between Belyolen and Temnobog as the latter was treated as "evil" due to his birth at the time. By contrast, Copper Wheel and Sunny Love were poor, yet very loving parents, and though they lost a son to stillbirth, they raised their surviving foal as best as they could, leading to the rise of Blue Suede Heartstrings. After reuniting with Bossa Nova in the afterlife, they assured him that they still loved him despite losing him so early, and were also extremely proud when Bossa Nova managed to Ascend to godhood.
  • They're also this to War Rock's parents. War Rock's parents were perfectionists and pushed their son hard as soon as he showed signs of being a musical prodigy, but also spoiled him rotten as a reward for his successes. This gave War Rock a petty, entitled, and narcissistic personality that would worsen as he grew older, eventually leading to his death at the hooves of Ace and Melody when he became an Immortality Seeker and turned himself into a vampire after his first bid for immortality failed. In contrast, Copper Wheel and Sunny Love were loving and supportive of Blue despite their poverty, and raised him in a religious environment that encouraged virtuous traits like humility and kindness. This led to Blue becoming emotionally and morally stable as an adult, and his long list of good deeds resulted in him becoming an Alicorn god later in life.
• Good Parents:
  • They were this to Blue when they were alive. Despite living in poverty and losing one of their sons to stillbirth, they still tried to raise him right. Their regular churchgoing influenced Blue to become the devoutly religious, humble, and compassionate stallion he is today, and also birthed one of the most famous, beloved, and recognizable celebrity icons of the Second Age. Blue loved his parents so much that he fulfilled his promise to take care of them once he made it to global stardom, and was devastated when they died, to the point where he suffered from depression and developed self-destructive habits. A conversation with Prince Written Word about why he continues worshiping the god Equus makes it clear about how much his parents invested in him, even long after their deaths.
    Blue Suede Heartstrings: (to Prince Written Word) ...My parents were good folks. Even if we hadn't a single penny to our names, they still wanted to see me raised right. And it's 'cause of them that I got introduced to the King. They taught me that the King in Heaven is a humble and caring god, who created all of us out of love. By following His example, even through the bad times, folks like you and me can become as great as He is.
  • They were also this to their oldest son, Bossa Nova. They grieved his death when he came out stillborn, and it's implied they were overjoyed when they were able to reunite with him in the afterlife. When Bossa Nova expressed to them his fears that they didn't really want him because of his stillbirth and their poor financial status at the time, they revealed that they still loved him all the same, proving that his fears were unfounded.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Sunny Love is the loving mother of Blue Suede Heartstrings, who was well-known for being very close to her. When she died from a terminal illness while he was away in the army fighting in the Second Great War, Blue's happiness went with her, sending him on a downward spiral that gradually worsened and took a while to recover from.
  • Copper Wheel's name is derived from a type of metal that is considered cheaper and more prone to rust than gold or silver. He, his wife, and his surviving son lived in abject poverty until Blue's rise to musical stardom (presumably) upgraded their living conditions, thanks to Blue promising his parents he'll take care of them once he makes it big.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: They're both based on Elvis Presley's parents, Vernon Presley and Gladys Love.
• No Name Given: At first. Blue's entry only mentioned them in passing. Bossa Nova's entry reveals their names are Copper Wheel Heartstrings (father) and Sunny Love (mother).
• Outliving One's Offspring: Zigzagged. Due to living in poverty, Copper Wheel and Sunny Love were expecting to have only one foal when they decided to settle down, but Sunny Love unexpectedly became pregnant with identical twin colts. Unfortunately, the elder twin, Bossa Nova, was stillborn, which left them understandably affected and earned them the scorn of their wealthier neighbors who looked down on them for being poor, enraging Copper Wheel into getting in a fight with one of said neighbors once. Blue would end up outliving both parents after Sunny Love suddenly contracted a terminal illness and died while he was serving in the military during the "Second Great War" event, with Copper Wheel following some years later, sending Blue on a slow emotional decline that led to him suffering from depression and self-destructive habits, such as stress-eating. Luckily, Luminiferous was able to cheer him up with a "pep-talk", but his experiences made him greatly sympathetic towards those who had lost beloved family members of their own, such as Prince Written Word and Miracle Hymn. In an ironic twist, Bossa Nova himself continued to keep on "living" long after his premature death, something that surprised both his parents and especially his brother (who fainted from the shock of discovering this). It's noted in Bossa Nova's entry that his entire biological family was extremely proud of him when he managed to Ascend and become a Death god through doing various good deeds.
• Posthumous Character: Played with. Copper Wheel and Sunny Love are long dead, having died in the early Second Age, yet the influence they had on Blue is undeniable. Bossa Nova eventually decides to arrange things so that Blue will receive an "unforgettable birthday present" in the form of being able to visit their birth parents in Gavisus' afterlife, giving him some closure over their deaths.
• So Proud of You: Bossa Nova's entry notes that when he managed to Ascend and achieve godhood shortly after Blue did, his biological parents, Gavisus, and the rest of his biological/adoptive family were all extremely proud of him.
• Tragic Stillbirth: Blue's older identical twin brother, Bossa Nova, was a stillbirth. This understandably affected Copper Wheel and Sunny Love, who didn't quite expect the possibility of having twin sons and grieved their eldest son's death. According to Blue, the fact that they were poor Ponies who lost one of their sons to stillbirth caused their wealthier neighbors to claim that the "King in Heaven" was punishing them being poor, enraging Copper Wheel into getting in a fight with one of said neighbors. It is believed in-universe that Bossa Nova's death also had some kind of impact on Blue, due to his fondness for kids and his sympathetic feelings for those who lost beloved family members. Fortunately, Bossa Nova himself gained a life of his own via being adopted and raised by Gavisus Manes, and even achieved godhood through lots of good deeds... but the fact that he was stillborn made him wonder if his biological parents really wanted him or not. This was eventually mitigated when Copper Wheel and Sunny Love reunited with him in the afterlife and revealed that they still loved him as much as they did Blue.
• Trauma Conga Line: Copper Wheel's later years up to his death was one tragedy under another. First his son Blue Suede is drafted into the 'Second Martian-Tellusian War' during a time when Equus wasn't technologically advanced enough to match the invading Martians. Luckily, Blue Suede survived, but Copper Wheel's wife, Sunny Love, became terminally ill and died while their son was away. Then Copper Wheel had to watch as Blue Suede's manager, "Colonel" Hollow Note, became increasingly controlling and psychologically abusive to the point where he wormed his way into his client's private life. Then Copper Wheel was suddenly killed in an automobile accident, and while it wasn't officially confirmed In-Universe whether Hollow Note planned it or not, his death left Blue Suede completely alone and vulnerable to his manager's tender mercies. This leads to Blue Suede snapping and giving Hollow Note a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in revenge, something that would haunt him for three Ages. Quite understandably, after Hollow Note died from numerous health problems, Copper Wheel's spirit confronted him and punched him in the face, preventing Hollow Note from fleeing his well-deserved punishment and allowing him to be Dragged Off to Hell by Malus Manes.
• Vicariously Ambitious: Temnobog assumed this of Copper Wheel; Blue and Bossa Nova being identical twin brothers made him believe that their father tried to purify his unborn son of his inner evil in the womb, which was how Belyolen and Temnobog were created by Irminsul. Blue and Bossa Nova confirmed that no, they were really just born that way.
  Blue Suede Heartstrings: (to Temnobog) No, sir, we were born this way. I grew up with our Pa in Ponyland, though Bossa here grew up with Gavisus in Heaven. It's a long story... but our Pas still loved us all the same.

Crystal Light

Moon Ray Vaughhoof's first love and ex-wife.

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• Awful Wedded Life: Her marriage with Moon Ray eventually soured thanks to a combination of drugs on both sides and her own unsavory actions, such as repeated infidelity and financial theft. It culminated when, after Moon Ray nearly died from his addictions, she refused to see him while he recovered in rehab. This led to Moon Ray learning of her aforementioned actions and divorcing her. However, Moon Ray later acknowledges that their marriage wasn't entirely terrible and forgives her.
• Forgiveness: Moon Ray eventually forgives her for leading him down further into vice and abusing his love and trust to satisfy herself. He acknowledged that not all of their moments were terrible, and that they would've stayed Happily Married if she chose to become sober like he did.
• Karmic Death: Unlike Moon Ray, who eventually wises up and breaks out of his drug habit, she doesn't. She eventually suffers a fatal overdose and is dragged down to the Hell-Realms by Malus Manes to be punished appropriately.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She was in part responsible for Moon Ray's first near-death experience by enabling his addictions, and stole money from him to support her own drug habits. She also cheated on him with numerous shady stallions because she was frustrated with Moon Ray's disinterest in sex, and refused to visit Moon Ray in rehab when he gave her a call. When Moon Ray learned of her unsavory actions, he proceeded to cut her out of his life by divorcing her.
• Meaningful Name: Both parts of her name come from drugs. "Crystal" comes from crystal meth, a common name for methamphetamine. "Light" comes from "The Light", a nickname for dipropyltryptamine, which is treated by the Temple of the True Inner Light as a physical manifestation of God.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. She shares her name with Crystal Prism, a young Alicorn demigod from the Grittish Isles, and Prince Crystal Clear, the oldest adoptive son of Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria and a joint-member of the Novellus and Equestrian Pantheons.
• Point of Divergence: Moon Ray acknowledges that if she saw the error of her own ways and stopped abusing drugs like he did, they would've stayed Happily Married and he would've never met Velvet Heart.
• Sexless Marriage: Deconstructed. She cheated on Moon Ray numerous times because she grew frustrated with his disinterest in sex. To Moon Ray's credit, he did try having sex with her a few times, but it wasn't enough in her eyes. Discovering her infidelity became one of the factors in Moon Ray's decision to divorce her.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: A "Pay Cheating Unto Bad Sex" example. During her marriage to Moon Ray, she grew increasingly frustrated with her husband's asexuality and their lack of sex, so she cheated on him with other stallions to make up for it. However, her decision to do so despite Moon Ray genuinely loving her just makes her look selfish and petty, and when Moon Ray finds out, he divorces her. Her reasons for her infidelity also leaves Moon Ray feeling pretty ashamed and depressed over supposedly not being a good husband. Because of the circumstances, everyone sides with Moon Ray, while she is rightly looked upon with disgust.

Garden Spade

A teenage Zebra colt who lived during the early Second Age. He was brutally lynched by tribalists for supposedly whistling at a unicorn mare, when he actually didn't. His death, combined with his killers being let go by local judges, sparked outrage in a number of people, including then-mortal music celebrity Blue Suede Heartstrings, who developed a hatred of tribalism/racism because of it.

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• Fantastic Racism: Like Emmett Till, he was murdered by tribalists for the crime of being a Zebra colt who (supposedly) flirted with a unicorn mare. This enraged a then-mortal Blue Suede Heartstrings, who proceeded to deliver a scathing public "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the killers responsible, the judges who let said killers go free, and those who turned a blind eye out of tribalism/cowardice.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: A tragic example; he's based on Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was kidnapped, brutally lynched, and thrown into a river by two white men for supposedly whistling at a young white woman.
• Posthumous Character: He's long dead, having been murdered in the early Second Age by tribalists over something he actually didn't do. However, his death left a huge impact on Blue Suede Heartstrings, who started hating tribalism/racism in part because of it, and Loud Gale/Prince Sermo, who was once racist himself but came to realize his beliefs were wrong.

Pepper Cook Vaughoof-Manes, the Motherly Angel

See her folder entry here.

Record Beat

A Second-Age unicorn stallion and DJ who, thanks to Bossa Nova's manipulations, would become the first coltfriend and husband of Bossa Nova's twin brother, Blue Suede Heartstrings.

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• First Love: He's this for Blue Suede Heartstrings. They were brought together by Bossa Nova Heartstrings, who wanted to help Blue Suede deal with his grief over losing both of his parents, yet couldn't do so directly because of his duties as a psychopomp. It initially backfired due to public stigma against homosexuals at the time, and Blue Suede was forced to break away from Record Beat and marry Venerable Grace to convince the public that he was going through a "phase". While he married Venerable Grace, his wife, Blue Suede's heart was already set on Record Beat and never stopped loving him. Venerable Grace knew but shared no hard feelings against her husband, which factored into her decision to divorce him so Blue Suede can find happiness elsewhere.
• Happily Married: He would date and later marry Blue Suede following the latter's divorce from Venerable Grace, and their marriage was extremely loving. He and Blue Suede would also raise a then-mortal Prince Crystal Clear after adopting him as their son. When he died of old age, Blue Suede grieved his death, and Bossa Nova personally delivered him to the afterlife as a reward for taking good care of his twin brother.
• Karmic Jackpot: After he was subtly directed to Blue Suede by Bossa Nova, he treated Blue Suede kindly and, through a series of events, became his loving husband. When he eventually died of old age, Bossa Nova personally delivered him to the Heaven-Realms as a reward for taking good care of his twin brother.
• Long-Lived: Justified. Because a few of his loved ones are Alicorns, such as his husband Blue Suede and their adoptive son Crystal Clear, he was constantly exposed to divine Primordial Quintessence, which extended his life significantly. Eventually, he tired of living for so long and decided to die of old age peacefully, having grown satisfied with how his life turned out.
• Mutants: Like Blue Suede, he's an unawakened Unicorn, which would get him classified as a mutant thanks to the manipulations of the Interregnum.
• Posthumous Character: Being a mortal Unicorn from the Second Age, he's long dead by the time Codex Equus is authorized.

Saint Sunny Field Vaughoof, the Angel of Redemption

See his folder entry here.

Saint Velvet Heart, the Angel of Love

See her folder entry here.

Stellar Dreamer

A renowned film director from Ponyland.

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• Forgiveness: Inverted. He never forgave Landing Reel for causing the helicopter accident that gruesomely killed Victory "Vic" Morrow and two illegially-employed Chineighese filly actors on set. In fact, after Landing Reel was acquitted on trial, Stellar Dreamer reportedly punched him in the face and vowed never to work with him again.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's based on Steven Spielberg, a renowned American film director.
• We Used to Be Friends: He was once a friend/associate of fellow director Landing Reel, who's based on John Landis. After Landing Reel got acquitted for causing a horrific helicopter accident that killed a veteran actor and two illegally-employed Chineighese filly actors on set, Stellar Dreamer was so furious that he reportedly punched him in the face, and vowed never to forgive or work with Landing Reel again.

Steel String/Steel String, the Saint of Brotherhood

See his folder entry here.

Sunny Mane Vaughoof

The ex-husband of Pepper Cook, and the father of brothers Sunny Field Vaughoof and Moon Ray Vaughoof.

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• Abusive Parents: Deconstructed. In life, he was an ill-tempered drunk who terrorized his friends and wife, and was physically and emotionally abusive to Sunny Field and Moon Ray. He frequently drank in front of his sons, influencing Moon Ray to become an addict later on, and had no qualms beating them, either, leaving Sunny Field and Moon Ray with permanent scars. He also resented having to raise a second foal, which served as another factor in his treatment of Moon Ray. While he had reasons for his behavior, they don't justify it and his sons were left with trauma that lasted even after death. Both Sunny Field and Moon Ray eventually forgave him, but made it clear they're only doing so to get rid of any influence he had over them.
• The Alcoholic: Deconstructed. Post-war trauma from the Second Great War and other psychological issues drove him to drink, which worsened his already bad temper. Not only did he terrorize his friends and wife, he also physically and emotionally abused his sons, Sunny Field and Moon Ray, who were left with permanent scars because of him. He also drank in front of his sons frequently, influencing Moon Ray to become an addict himself later on. Unlike Moon Ray, he refused to change and eventually died of alcohol poisoning. Even worse, it's revealed that he's a much better father when he's not drinking, as he once took Sunny Field and Moon Ray out fishing with no strings attached. This is one of the reasons why he ended up in Malus Manes' Hell-Realms.
• Alcoholic Parent: Played for drama. His post-Second Great War trauma drove him to drink, exacerbating his pre-existing anger issues into something worse to the point where he abused his wife, Pepper Cook, and his two sons, Moon Ray Vaughoof and Sunny Field Vaughoof. While his Freudian Excuse does explain why he became that way, it doesn't excuse or justify his actions at all, and this was shown in how he once took Moon Ray and Sunny Field out fishing without any incident when they were young. His actions understandably caused his two sons to fear and hate him, and while they do eventually forgive him, it's only to rid themselves of his posthumous influence.
• Dad the Veteran: Deconstructed. He was mentioned in Moon Ray's first entry to be a Shell-Shocked Veteran from the Second Great War. This contributed to his bad temper and drinking problems, and because mental health wasn't taken very seriously at the time, he turned into an Alcoholic Parent who terrorized his wife and abused and scarred his two sons. And because he never repented, he ends up being Dragged Off to Hell by Malus Manes upon death and tormented for his sins.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His response to catching a young Moon Ray drinking from his bottles is to savagely beat him to the point of permanent physical scarring. Moon Ray was so traumatized by the incident that he would always wear hats to cover his scar long after it healed, with only a few people knowing about it, until he came clean three Ages later. Much of Sunny Field's issues and overprotectiveness of Moon Ray also stem from this very incident.
• Dragged Off to Hell: It's mentioned this is his final fate after he died from alcohol poisoning, being sent to one of Malus Manes' Hell-Realms to receive his punishment for being a bad-tempered, abusive father without once repenting for his sins.
• The Dreaded: Moon Ray was utterly terrified of him, and for good reason. From foalhood and even beyond death, he would flee and hide to avoid facing his father again. Overcoming this fear and forgiving him is what allowed Moon Ray to Ascend to demi-godhood.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While "Evil" is a bit of a misnomer, he had a Hair-Trigger Temper and was physically and emotionally abusive to his sons, leaving both of them physically and psychologically scarred. It's implied that being forgiven by his sons years later after death left him quite shaken, since he couldn't comprehend how the people he once terrorized and/or hurt could still bring themselves to forgive him.
• Family Theme Naming: He and his sons are named after cosmic bodies. In his case, his name is Sunny Mane Vaughoof, which he shares with his oldest son, Sunny Field Vaughoof. Meanwhile, his youngest son, Moon Ray Vaughoof, is named after the moon, and his Alicorn name has "Lunae" (which translates to "moon" in Latin) to reference this.
• Forgiveness: On the receiving end. Sometime after dying of alcohol poisoning and being sent to one of Malus Manes' Hell-Realms for his sins, he would be confronted and forgiven by his two sons, Moon Ray and Sunny Field. It turns out forgiving him was vital to Moon Ray and Sunny Field's character growths, as without doing so, they would never be able to move past their respective fears and grudges and heal. In Moon Ray's case, forgiving his father triggered his first Ascension and turned him into an Alicorn demigod of Death, Temperance, Water, and Forgiveness
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Justified. His anger issues were the result of untreated PTSD and other psychological issues from the Second Great War, which worsened when he developed a drinking problem. It's deconstructed as it bled into almost every aspect of his life, especially his relationship with his two sons, who were left physically and mentally scarred for the rest of their lives. As a result, both Moon Ray and Sunny Field feared and/or hated him, and would not come to forgive him until well after their deaths.
• In-Series Nickname: Neighbors called him "Powder Keg Mane" because his Hair-Trigger Temper (and alcohol) made it very easy for him to be set off.
• Karmic Death: Eventually, after years of drinking and terrorizing his two sons, he died of alcohol poisoning, and was sent to one of Malus Manes' Hell-Realms to be appropriately punished.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He's based on James "Jimmie" Lee Vaughan, the alcoholic father of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He once caught a young Moon Ray drinking from one of his bottles, and was so enraged that he beat up his son for it. Moon Ray was taken to the hospital and healed, but the beating was so severe that he now has an ugly, permanent scar on the right side of his head. According to Moon Ray, while the wound itself healed already, remembering how it got there never stopped hurting.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Both he and his oldest son have Sunny as their first names, but they have different middle names to set each other apart. He also shares his name with Sunny Love, the mortal mother of identical twin brothers Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria and Bossa Nova Heartstrings/Prince Rubeus Stella Equestria, as well as Blue Suede's medical dog, Sunny.
• Resentful Guardian: He did not like the thought of caring for a second child after Pepper Cook got pregnant with Moon Ray, but she refused to abort her son or, once Moon Ray was born, put him up for adoption. This factored into his anger issues and overall relationship with Moon Ray, although according to Sunny Field, he did try to be a father for both of the mat times.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Prior to marrying Pepper Cook, he fought in the Second Great War, which left him a lot of untreated psychological issues that drove him to drink. This ultimately influenced his relationship with his two sons, Moon Ray and Sunny Field, whom he often terrorized with his bad temper. While his reasons for becoming an abusive stallion are sympathetic, it didn't make his actions no less reprehensible, as he was sent to Malus Manes' Hell-Realms to be punished for his sins after death.
• Troubled Abuser: Deconstructed. He was a Shell-Shocked Veteran from the Second Great War, which left him with a lot of untreated psychological issues (his Hair-Trigger Temper being one) that drove him to drink. This would have a profound effect on his relationship with his sons, as he frequently terrorized them with his bad temper to the point where his youngest, Moon Ray, developed both a huge grudge and a deep-seated fear of his father that affected him for his entire mortal life. It wasn't until after his own death that Moon Ray realized he had to forgive the people who wronged him in order to move on, so when he finally gathered his courage to confront and forgive his father's spirit in Malus Manes' Hell-Realms, this tremendous act triggered his Ascension.
• Would Hurt a Child: He had no qualms beating his youngest son, Moon Ray, for drinking from one of his bottles as a colt. The beating was so severe that Moon Ray carries a permanent scar on the left side of his head, even though it had since already healed.

Sunshine Cream

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• Identifying the Body: Both he and Sunny Field were called in by the morgue to identify Moon Ray's body after his death via helicopter crash because it was left extremely mangled.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's based on Eric Clapton, a friend/associate of Stevie Ray Vaughan and a fellow Blues musician. For bonus points, his name is a portmanteau of the song "Sunshine of Your Love" and the band Cream, respectively.

Tempo Groove

See his folder entry here.

Venerable Grace Heartstrings

Venerable Grace Heartstrings is the first wife of Blue Suede Heartstrings and one of his early allies during his mortal days.

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• Amicable Exes: Despite divorcing, she and Blue Suede remained close friends up until her death. This is based on the relationship between Elvis Presley and his ex-wife Priscilla Presley, who both remained close friends up until Elvis' death.
• Historical Relationship Overhaul: Elvis married Priscilla both to fulfill a promise he made to Priscilla's father, and because Tom Parker believed it wouldn't be good PR if a bachelor like Elvis lived together with a fourteen-year-old girl. Their marriage deteriorated due to Elvis' philandering, drug abuse, and abusive behavior, and they ultimately divorced. Here, Blue Suede Heartstrings' relationship with Venerable Grace is much more amicable and pleasant, if a bit rocky due to the circumstances involved — Blue Suede was publicly outed as gay by Hollow Note as punishment for resisting his Blackmail and married Venerable Grace for PR reasons. While he loved Venerable Grace, he didn't love her romantically and deeply regretted this. For her part, Venerable Grace sympathized with Blue Suede and wholeheartedly supported him knowing he was being abused by Hollow Note. They still divorced, but it's because Venerable Grace wanted Blue Suede to be happy with his male lover even if that meant she would never find love for herself.
• Honorary Uncle: She would later become the godmother of Blue Suede/Caerulus' infant son, Prince Perfect Tone, partially to make up for trapping her in a loveless marriage (though she doesn't blame Blue Suede/Caerulus at all due to the circumstances at the time) and as a huge "thank you" for supporting him in his mortal years.
• In Spite of a Nail: She still married Blue Suede Heartstrings and ended up divorcing him later, despite different circumstances being involved. However, the reason behind the divorce changed — whereas Priscilla Presley divorced Elvis for his philandering and drug abuse, Venerable Grace divorced Blue Suede knowing he was forced into a marriage of convenience by "Colonel" Hollow Note and that his heart was already set on someone else long before he met her.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: While she and Blue Suede Heartstrings still ended up divorcing, they did so because she knew that Blue Suede suffered extensive psychological/emotional abuse under "Colonel" Hollow Note. She also knew that his heart was already set on his first love, Record Beat, despite public stigma against homosexuals at the time, so she let Blue Suede find happiness with him.
• Karmic Jackpot: She was very kind and supportive of Blue Suede Heartstrings, sympathizing with the psychological abuse caused by his manager and essentially being like a sister to him. And despite their marriage failing, she went through with the divorce because she saw how much Blue Suede loved Record Beat and wanted him to be with someone who truly loves him, despite public stigma against homosexuals in Ponyland at the time. Her actions would eventually be rewarded in the Fourth Age when Blue Suede, who later became Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, approached her with an offer to become the godmother of his infant son, Prince Perfect Tone, who was 'born' from a positive karmic backlash created by Caerulus' marriage to Prince Stoltur Skjöldur.
• Like Brother and Sister: Blue Suede never loved her romantically throughout the entirety of their marriage, only seeing her as his 'sister'. This partially influenced his decision to name her the godmother of his infant son, Prince Perfect Tone, three Ages later.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: After their divorce, she remained close friends with Blue Suede Heartstrings, who moved on and settled down with his coltfriend/husband, Record Beat. She would eventually be outlived once Blue Suede became an Alicorn during his travels.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Subverted; she and Blue Suede divorced long ago, but they stayed close friends afterwards, turning their relationship into a Mayfly–December Friendship once Blue Suede became an Alicorn.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: She's based on Priscilla Presley, the ex-wife of Elvis Presley who is both an actress and business magnate who turned her husband's estate, Graceland, into a tourist attraction. Though here in the Codexverse, due to things turning out differently, she's portrayed as Blue Suede's first wife, as Blue Suede would end up courting both male and female partners over the Known Ages after becoming an Alicorn god.
• Point of Divergence: In real life, Priscilla Ann Presley ended up outliving her ex-husband Elvis Presley, who died of a drug overdose in his early forties. Here in the Codex, she would be outlived by Blue Suede Heartstrings, who Ascended to godhood after leaving the music industry and becoming a globe-trotter.
• Posthumous Character: Being from the Second Age, she's long dead by the time Codex Equus was authorized.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Her public eulogy for the deceased "Colonel" Hollow Note is this, tearing down his legacy while eviscerating him for all the psycholgical/emotional abuse he inflicted on Blue Suede Heartstrings in spite of the successes he brought to the world. And since Blue Suede himself refused to attend the funeral, she did this on her then-husband's behalf.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: Her eulogy for "Colonel" Hollow Note's funeral is an eviscerating "The Reason You Suck" Speech that tears his legacy to shreds and exposes him as the abusive stallion he really was in life. Since her then-husband, Blue Suede Heartstrings, understandably refused to attend the funeral, Venerable Grace did this on his behalf.
  Venerable Grace Heartstrings: (on "Colonel" Hollow Note and his deeds) Some said Blue and the Colonel made history together, that the world is richer, better and far more interesting because of their collaboration. Those who say that know nothing. The Colonel was a heartless bastard, and no amount of success he brought Blue would have excused all the hardship and abuse he put Blue through for his own profit. So good riddance he's dead. Now I need to locate my wallet, because I noticed there was no ticket booth on the way in here, but I'm sure that son of a bitch must have arranged for some toll on the way out.

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