Rosegold Locket Ref by InspectorValvert

In youth, Locket found herself victim to several moves- her family never quite seemed to stay in one place. Knowing that she would never be grounded in one location, she focused more on her studies than on friendship. The biggest jump came when she moved from Marechester to Chicacolt. Instead of being completely disoriented by the change, she found Chicacolt to be startlingly familiar: the same, but different. It was in Chicacolt she stayed the longest, making friends with Night Life who helped fund her dreams of University. She frequently found herself in trouble at school for not respecting the idea that some things are ‘forbidden’, such as artifacts and books that were not to be touched. Despite this, Locket excelled in magical theory, taking a special interest in Starswirl’s work. She emerged from university as Doctor Rosegold, with her thesis written on Starswirl’s manipulation of time and space- in particular Starswirl’s banishment of the Sirens. She was fascinated in the idea of using Starswirl’s spells not for travel through time, but through travel through universes. Locket was contacted by Celestia to do research into the very mirror Starswirl used all those years ago. The portal was unstable, the other side of the mirror leading to the same universe but to varying different times each time the portal was activated. To repair the mirror, Locket decided she must first understand how it was made. Through her research, Locket gathered information on the enchantments and spells that created the mirror, and began testing those spells on a universe mirror of her own creation. For months she slaved over her work, experimenting and adjusting her spells. Sometimes, she could swear that she heard the same sounds of tinkering, but coming from the other side. Finally, she got all the crystals calibrated, the spell calculated and was ready to test on a huge mirror wall in her laboratory. The spell worked perfectly, and as she stepped through she ran into somepony; herself from another dimension. This version of herself was male, and went by Rosegold Watch. From almost the moment they realized what had happened, the pair became inseparable. They decided that they could not be without one another, and Locket welcomed Watch as he abandoned his home universe to join her. Pretending they were twins and referring to each other as “brother” and “sister”, only they and Celestia knew the truth. As time passed, the two found each other more and more drawn to each other. They became increasingly hostile towards anypony flirting with their “sibling” until it reached a point that it was clear the two of them would never be happy with the other being with anypony but them. Much to the horror of Celestia and Pansy Paradox, their lab assistant, the “twins” discovered a new level of narcissism no pony before them had ever reached.