Starlight Glimmer

Misc. RP Information

Before reforming, she was a cunning and manipulative liar. She was callous and arrogant, including disrespectful. She wanted everypony to follow her and her ways, not even taking a moment to consider a different path. She held grudges and rejected friendship, she refused to believe friendship did anything except ruin her life. She was incredibly controlling and went far lengths just to get what she wanted, she didn't take in consider how others felt. Starlight let her trauma and the way it horri... View More

Roleplay Medium (Preferred RP Location)

Wall Posts, Private Messages, Forums

Common locations your character will be

Ponyville, Friendship Castle, Canterlot

Title(s) / Rank

Twilight's Pupil/Guidance Counselor

Likes

Kites, astrology, graphic design, magic, education, helping

Dislikes

Peer pressure, her past, forgetting a routine

Occupation

Lesbian

Hometown

Sire's Hollow

Detailed History

As a filly, Starlight wasn't as skilled in magic as other ponies. It took her years before she could properly use magic the way others did, but that didn't keep her from staying determined to learn. She was a child prodigy and had a point in time where she was proud of that part of her, though there was something about it that separated her from other fillies which made her feel lonely. Her best friend at the time was Sunburst, he was another chid prodigy who shared the same interests as her. He... View MoreAs a filly, Starlight wasn't as skilled in magic as other ponies. It took her years before she could properly use magic the way others did, but that didn't keep her from staying determined to learn. She was a child prodigy and had a point in time where she was proud of that part of her, though there was something about it that separated her from other fillies which made her feel lonely. Her best friend at the time was Sunburst, he was another chid prodigy who shared the same interests as her. He was extremely powerful and skilled in magic, it was admirable at the time. They did almost everything together and any game one of them wanted to play, the other followed suit. They had an unbreakable bond for years until... they didn't. Sunburst had unlocked his cutie mark before Starlight, meaning his destiny was laid out before him while Starlight was still lost. As a filly, she didn't understand how to take it and saw these changes as Sunburst abandoning her, especially after his immediate leave to Celestia's Magic school.

As a teen foal, she went through an emo phase. The rock music with the depressing lyrics, the black themed room with band posters, the dyed hair, even the clothes. She was going through it at that time, as every teenager does. Though that phase of her life ended quickly, it never truly left her. She still has a taste for rock music and the emo attire. Her life has been full of ups and downs, but entering her 20s is when stuff really went downhill. She had a plan, a despicable plan, to brainwash a group of ponies into following her and "being friends" with her. It worked almost effortlessly, she was able to ask Maud a simple question upon first meeting and it led her straight to her goal. She successfully managed to bring ponies into her town, manipulating them and finding ways to make them see her twisted view of equality. The town she made was terrifyingly perfect, everypony was the same, spoke the same, they all had the same cutiemark, similar hair styles, there was no individuality exactly how Starlight wanted it to be.

But that all changed when the mane 6 came in to visit her town. At first, they were completely clueless and Starlight was willing to put on a facade of kindness. The mane 6 were weary of the place and the longer they stayed, the more they figuerd out. Starlight wasn't an idiot no matter how subtly they were with their wants, she took matters into her own hands and trapped them in a claustrophic shelter to brainwash them the same way Starlight did to everypony else in the town. It almost worked, it could've worked, but even Twilight and her friends were too determined to be manipulated. The mane 6 managed to temporarily trick Starlight with Fluttershy and she ended up being the reason Starlight was discovered to be the fraud in her own town, she still had her cutie mark despite everything. The town's ponies were furious and demanded their cutie marks back, but Starlight wasn't willing. She ran off with the mane 6's cutie marks and barely got out of their hooves and from then on, the mane 6 didn't see her for months. But she saw them.

As the months passed by, Starlight was planning her revenge in the shadows. She stalked the mane 6 to learn about them, understand their friendship, their weaknesses, and their strengths. She studied each of them closely and it proved useful later on. Starlight managed to find a time travel spell Starswirl invented, except she made it better. She was able to go to any point in the past with the advancements she created, victory was in her hooves at this moment. Once it was time to strike, Starlight sent her, Twilight, and Spike back to the past. She sent them back to Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom to stop it from ever happening, she understood that if she stopped this they wouldn't get their cutie marks or their friendship. But it backfired, each change created a different devastating future, Twilight tried to tell Starlight amist the fighting but she didn't listen. It was only when Starlight actually showed her the future that she started to believe it. But even that couldn't fully convince her with all the hate welled up in her heart. In a fit of rage, she revealed her past to Twilight, showing what happened between her and Sunburst. The reason for her intense change, for her act in evil, was all due to her trauma as a filly. Trauma she hasn't moved on from.

Twilight took pity on this and attempted to reach out to her, allow her a different path. Starlight was hesitant and almost destroyed Starswirl's spell in the process, but at the last moment Twilight actually managed to reach her heart. She managed to show Starlight a different sort of kindness, a genuine kindness. It was enough for Starlight to take her hoof in hers and eventually, become Twilight's friend.

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