Luminosity

Art by: Scarlet Spectrum You have may thought that the winds of time have taken me away from this place, and while its true that time has a way of driving us in all directions we will always try to be here to help. This time we'd like to talk about setting. Setting provides the backdrop for your character's story. It can provide technology, canon relationships, canon events to provide time and size. Or political backdrops to give your character interesting situations to stick you and your RP partners within. When choosing a setting a few questions may help you come to a conclusion. Does the setting of where my character lives have any special meaning to them? How does the setting influence the character's daily life? Does the character serve a role within the setting, be it purposely or accidentally? How does the setting react to my character? Does it even recognize my character as a part of it or am I merely a speck within a larger sea? Was my character originally from a place that is different from the setting that they now find themselves? The example being of Rarity and how she seems to hold the big city in her heart despite living within the small town of Ponyville. This comes out in the way she chooses to talk to ponies or even her career echoes those ties to the big city. When she is placed into the city you can see her flourish and sometimes even struggle due to how long shes been away from such an environment. So what setting is your character from? What setting do they find themselves now? How does the setting influence your character? I look forward to seeing your answers and discussion.

Art by artist on YCH.com: lamker This week it’s time to help you build your OCs. So to begin, we’d like to ask you to think about your OC and answer this question. “What is the biggest lie your OC tells themself?” This sort of question gives your OCs a flaw which is tied to perhaps a core ideal for them.An example of such would be that your OC believes that their friends would never lie to them. This would cause them to trust whatever their friends say at face value, like Pinkie Pie. While being devastated if they find out they were lied to. The break of their internal reality could cause them to then create another lie that is more dysfunctional then the last or provide a character with something to reflect upon. The example is how Pinkie discovers that her friends lie to her so she falls into a deep depression of which she creates versions of her friends that would never lie to her. Rejecting her friends due to their untrustworthy behavior, by creating narratives in her head about how much they dont care for her. She quickly rebounds once she realizes that her friends were instead planning something for her. While I dont personally recommend such a quick rebound it is an interesting example to get you to start to think about what makes your character tick. So what is the lie that your character tells themself?

Before I begin, I’d like to note that this character is inspired by the BBC’s hit show Doctor Who and in no way do I wish to insert myself into the canon of Doctor Who by placing her into the events of the show, rather I will be taking some elements and making the presence of Doctor Who type things present in my Head canon universe. For example Vortex manipulators, Daleks, Cyber-Ponies, and perhaps maybe even a doctor. As the universe is a vast vast place and confining myself to the planet in which Equestria lies with be closed minded. In short, the Vega-verse can have infinite possibilities and the head-canons normally just dictate the laws in which they function. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ In the distant future, the year 13 of Sirrus’s reign, 400 years after Celestia’s reign ended. A pony by the name of Clockwork[Unicorn] invented a machine that could harness the power of time spells into a device that allowed anypony to travel throughout time in hopes that he could travel back to observe how ponies have evolved in their time on the planet. With the clearance of the New Princess Sirrus he created the Hourglass Agency. The agency was designed to use his invention to allow select ponies to travel backwards in time to observe and help the current time learn and advance according to a way that fit the values of society, but as things rise so must they fall. A few years into the project a pony with dark intentions was able to weasel his way into the Hourglass Agency, giving him access to time travel. The Stallion went forward in time and began to wreak havoc upon the ponies of the time. The Stallion was quickly apprehended and the Hourglass Agency shut down. Time travel was then deemed too dangerous to be in the public’s hoof. All time travel devices were confiscated and destroyed except 2 models. One disabled model that was left in a museum so ponies can remember that time travel is dangerous and one was left to Luminosity’s grandpa, since the princesses knew that he had a deep respect from time and never meddled with events. Clockwork continued his research on his own, discovering many things that helped further society, but after traveling through all of time he realized that he had amassed much knowledge, he lacked the companionship that most ponies have. He tucked his device away and began to learn about the present. He fell in love with a beautiful mare[Pegasus] and together they had a son[Unicorn]. That son grew up and eventually fell in love with a mare[Unicorn] of his own. The two of them having a lovely pegasus daughter. The two named her Luminosity after a new star that had been recently documented, in hopes that she would bring much happiness to the world, since the power of names was greatly believed in. Luminosity grew up having an average foalhood, going to school 5 days a week and visiting her grandpa every Saturday. Clockwork was always overjoyed by the sight of his granddaughter, having a deeper appreciation of the present and all its gifts, doting on the young one with gifts and fun trips to amusement parks. When she was of the pre-teen age, he even took her through time using his time travel device that was when her life changed forever. Upon returning to her own time, after visiting Prance during world party 2 with her grandfather she discovered that she had acquired her Cutiemark! A golden pocket watch was there branded upon her flank. Her grandfather was overjoyed and even gave the time travel device to her as a gift, imploring her to use it to see many wonderful things. That night a stallion broke into Clockwork’s home to steal the time travel device, but upon learning that he no longer had it, he instead murdered Luminosity’s grandpa and ransacked the home. Luminosity was distraught after hearing the news and was tempted to go back in time to prevent his murder from taking place but from her grandpa’s teaching she knew that was against his rules and he would be angry with her for disobeying the laws of time. She became depressed and spent most of her time in her room, looking at the device that if she had not accepted would have meant that her grandfather would still be alive. She soon couldn’t deal with the pain of losing her grandfather, traveling back in time and bursting into his house, warning him that in a week’s time a stallion would come in and murder him. Much to her surprise, Clockwork was furious that she would attempt to change the future. She bursts into tears and returns to her own time to hear a knock on her door. She walks over and sees a letter get slid under the door with her father’s voice telling her it was found in the home and addressed to her. She opened the letter that was from her grandpa, he was apologizing for yelling at her and for allowing himself to get murdered for the sake of time, explaining that time travel has responsibilities and little changes cause ripples in time that can never be healed. Many years later, the same stallion had broken into the museum and stolen the disabled model of the time travel device and somehow activated it, traveling forward in time, with the inventor gone, the Princess came to Luminosity’s parents to ask if they knew where her grandpa’s personal temporal ticker had gone. Luminosity came forth during their meeting with the device on her hoof, proclaiming that she would catch the stallion and she wouldn’t accept no for an answer. The determination in the mare’s eyes made the princesses agree to allow Luminosity to travel after the stallion. Luminosity vowed in that moment that would bring her grandfather’s murderer to justice. View Less