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King Sombra

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May 26
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Cheerilee

About King Sombra

The Shadow King

Species

Crystal Pony
Species (Other)

Umbrum
Age

Unknown (within the range of 1000-1500 years)
Gender

Male
Residence

Crystal Empire
Hometown

Crystal Empire
Occupation

Tyrannical King
Character Images
Cutie Mark Image
Physical Description

In his true form, King Sombra is a demonic unicorn with a gray coat, red eyes with dragon-slits, a flowing black mane and tail, a red curved horn and sharp teeth. His attire consists of metal armor, a red royal mantle and a grey helm with two curved spikes on each side, a tiny cylinder on the front between two red spikes and three black parts that cover his muzzle and sides of his face. By Season 9, the grey lines on the muzzle part of the helm are gone.

At some points, his irises become green with purple smoke coming out, and when forcing anypony to see their worst fears, his eyes turn completely green with the pupils disappearing for a moment.
Backstory

Sombra is found as a colt in the wasteland of the arctic north and brought to a Crystal Empire orphanage. He could only speak one word - "Sombra" - so it became his name. During his time at the orphanage, Sombra was teased by other foals, but he made a close friend named Radiant Hope. Every year during the Crystal Faire, Sombra suffers severe aches. In one particularly painful year, his unicorn body would have crumbled to pieces if not for Radiant Hope's healing magic.

When he runs off into the frozen wastes one day, Sombra finds a strange red crystal. Calling itself his mother, the crystal reveals to Sombra his true nature: he is actually a hybrid between a Crystal Pony and another race called an "umbrum," created to destroy the Crystal Heart and set free the umbrum army trapped below the Crystal Empire, and then rule over both races. With this knowledge, he became a prominent Scientist, seeking to understand his biology and magic but upon being exposed again to the magic of the Umbrum - his true power and destiny is awakened.

With his dormant powers awakened, Sombra embraces his destiny; he steals the Crystal Heart away, turns the empire's ruler Princess Amore into a crystal statue, and shatters the statue to pieces. When Radiant Hope informs Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, Sombra realizes his defeat is imminent, so he enacts a curse that makes the Crystal Empire vanish.

His second attempt to take over the Empire fails, and his original physical body is destroyed - but his horn allows him to regenerate over months, after being blasted back into the wasteland that surrounds the Crystal Empire. Now that he has returned a third time, he is out for greater plans with a greater mind.
Personality

In his first appearance within the Crystal Empire he was formerly a nervous, yet curious colt who ended up becoming one of the prominent Scientists of the Empire, upon being exposed to the Umbrum's influence, he realized his true purpose was to conquer the Crystal Ponies and rule over both races as he learned of his hybrid nature between the two.

In his second appearance in the Crystal Empire, he presented himself as a dark and looming menace. He has very few speaking lines, some of them are partially incoherent, and is a very mysterious character, whose backstory is limited to the fact that he enslaved the crystal ponies.

However, he is shown to be extremely cruel, fierce, brutal, sadistic, heartless, destructive, merciless, wicked, tyrannical, manipulative, and power-hungry, viewing crystal ponies as nothing more than his slaves, using fear on them and other characters, and licking his lips as the prospect of possibly killing Spike.

In his third appearance he becomes even more calculated and learns from his previous mistakes - with intentions to conquer all of Equestria and completely overthrow the two Sisters and seeks to take their power for himself. Unlike previous times where he wanted only the Crystal Empire. What he seeks to do this time is to become the ruler of the Crystal Empire, and completely conquer Equestria under the Crystal Empire's rule.

He is extremely vengeful for his previous defeats and seeks to capture the two sisters for himself, as well as the elements of harmony, and siphon their power into his own. To learn all they know, and finally destroy them like the garbage he thinks they are after they served his purposes.
Likes

Conquest, domination, destruction, ruling over others, slavery, knowledge, power, might, spreading fear
Dislikes

Being defeated
Magic Spells

Extreme knowledge of dark magic
Abilities

Shadow shifting and Umbrum Psychology / biology
Friends

None
Rivals

Celestia, Luna, Mane 6, Spike, Cadence, Shining Armor

Recent Posts

IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

May 26

@Catpone Cerberus
Even though Sombra hadn't found what he had wanted here, at the very least he was able to rule something out. The castle seemingly appearing out of nowhere as had been told to him made no sense at all, and it made him think that the castle was something else. He couldn't put a hoof on it, but he had a sneaking suspicion there was something else at work if it was said that Twilight herself didn't know about it at all. It also didn't make much sense with how little the Guards knew, with it being something that was for the Princesses themselves. Though thinking about it more, it did kind of make sense - as there had been no real major wars, only isolated incidents requiring a few individuals of great power in modern times. In order to find what he needed - he needed to find a way to get inside Twilight's castle. To do that, he likely needed to find allies who had more knowledge in such matters than him.

With that in mind, he would return to Una's location where she was last. Whether or not she would be there - that would be Sombra's next concern. Anything could have happened while he was inside the Guard Headquarters.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

May 19

@Catpone Cerberus
This had only confirmed Sombra's suspicions about the Elements - they were kept inside of the castle itself under some form of magical protection. It was very likely such protection would void or nullify his dark magic - so he would need some other way to get in to retrieve them. It was also likely that the Guards would not know how to get into the castle to get them - though he'd ask anyway about that. He'd also ask if the Guards he was conversing with knew anything about secret weapons or anything that may be of further use. Sombra thought to himself that he could potentially destroy the Castle - but that would be a massive task, and besides, the castle itself looked like a place he could potentially rule from. He enjoyed the thought of corrupting the Castle and turning it into everything about himself. He would also ask if the Guards had access to other locations that were out of public view that could potentially hold more answers to his cause. At the very least nobody knew of Sombra's existence other than Flint and Una, as well as that other strange dragon he had encountered - so it is likely the guards would blame the current activities on Flint.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

May 12

@Catpone Cerberus
Sombra went through the paperwork as he could - moving about in a silent manner from room to room. He'd eventually locate that the reports about Applejack being missing, which made him smirk evily - as he knew that she was now deceased. Inevitably, Rarity would also be reported missing eventually - after she would have not "come back" when she said she would have from the small trip she took. Seeing the paperwork about Flint made him sigh angrily, seeing that even the Equestrian Guard had been completely unable to defeat her - what she had been up to was no surprise. Flint answered to no authority at all and did whatever she wanted, there was seemingly no stopping that.

Now that he was here - he realized that he could also brainwash the guard themselves, at least the Guard Captain and the upper elites. If he had encountered them here, he would have proceeded to put on the hidden disks into their manes. He figured that since they were so small - and that something of their character would never be predicted, that they wouldn't be discovered. If he had successfully been able to do so with the Guard Captain and the Elites of the guard, he'd lead them to one of their offices to where he could ask about the location of the Elements of Harmony directly and anything else they might know about what may be useful to finding them.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

May 5

@Catpone Cerberus
Sombra hissed with frustration at Una's situation. "Whatever it is, keep it under control. She might have done something to affect your emotional state. I am going to need you to stay here, or at least to where I can find you. Don't interact with others if you can help it, and keep your mouth shut whenever around them." Sombra stated, and gave Una a chance to voice any other opinions or thoughts. If there was not much resistance from her, Sombra's body would evaporate into black shadow quickly, and would discreetly begin his way into the Guard Headquarters - he didn't search the place entirely last time, so it was time to find out the location of the Elements of Harmony. Such a thing was likely within the Guard Captain's possession.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

April 27

@Catpone Cerberus
Sombra was satisfied with Una's explanation and maintained silence until they were close to the Alley outside of the Guard Headquarters. "Right. We were here before and I searched the place, but I did not go through the entire building. Since I am here, I have some of those brainwashing devices to use on the elite of the guard here. Taking control of Ponyville through Mayor Mare is complete, One of the Elements is dead, the other is before you as you see now. Now it is time to seize control of the Elite Guard and find out the location of the physical Elements of Harmony so that they may be destroyed." Sombra stated with determination. "You could wait here in the Alley while I go in, but, something tells me that wouldn't be a good idea and that perhaps Flint would be able to find you." he said, furrowing his brows.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

March 17

@Catpone Cerberus
To put it one way, the whole situation de-railed Sombra's entire plan. For the moment, the entire plan went to the wayside - Flint had made her appearance again. It all happened so fast, all that Sombra could currently think was that Flint was transferring some kind of magic into Una or doing something to cause her pain. Whatever it was, he had no chance to stop it from happening. There wasn't currently anyone around in the rail yard where they were, so he was free to explode into rage. His rage surged and dark magic built up in Rarity's eyes. Sombra then charged towards Flint like a bullet, bringing out various dark magic blades in an attempt to stab at her and shove her off of Una. Sombra was done playing around with Flint. The first few times may have been amusing, if a bit bothersome - but whatever this was, this crossed the line. If Flint was going to act out towards Sombra, than Sombra had no qualms in treating her like an enemy.

To say Sombra was furious was an understatement. Flint could burn down buildings, or verbally insult him all she wanted - but this was too much for him to control his emotions with. Perhaps it was his weakness, or perhaps it was his strength. If Una and Flint were capable, or receptive - they would possibly be able to feel Sombra's own hatred exploding before them into a large outpour around Sombra. His dark magic aura, the way he moved, everything about it emitted raw hate. Sombra said nothing to Flint, he was done talking.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

March 10

@Catpone Cerberus
"I would think that the most likely ones who know of their location would be the elite Canterlot guard, who are tasked with protecting Equestria's secrets. While we were in their headquarters recently, we did not look too deeply for anything like that, and the guard Captain I did not brainwash." he suggested, seemingly satisfied with the idea of returning to Canterlot to pursue that avenue. He also added that Una was free to suggest ideas, but he'd begin leading the way towards the Ponyville railyard - ready to look for a train to hop on. He'd pull out a basic cloak of some kind, to hide the fact that it was Rarity's appearance he was using.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

March 3

@Catpone Cerberus
"My best guess is that the Elements needed all 6 bearers alive to function. I do not know much else how they function, but I guess that they only work with the proper wielders. We must act fast in order to prevent them from finding other wielders for them, if that is how they work. I like the idea of using Lunar to destroy them, it would need to be done - to completely eradicate their existence. Find out the possible source of their power, if it is something external, and destroy that as well." Sombra stated. "But one has to learn more about them, and their location, first."
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

February 28

@Catpone Cerberus
It didn't seem like Sombra would find anything more of value here - and after he had finished talking with Mayor Mare about how there wasn't anything else useful in this town he would stand there and ponder over things a bit. His plan was to take power. He destroyed the Elements of Harmony to put it one way, as there are now no longer bearers for two of them. The next phase of his plan was to destroy the physical Elements of harmony themselves just to be safe - of which he assumed they were kept in Twilight's castle. He would also think Twilight's castle had some form of detection for Dark Magic or some way to ward them off. He knew that Rarity was locked away in his mind and he could likely mentally torture her until she breaks, however long that would be - he did not know.

Sombra would allow the mayor to leave and attend the duties she needed to do - he didn't want to interfere with that to make it look suspicious. Looking to Una he would see that she noticed something. "What is it?" he asked and then looked down at the ash by Una's hooves. Sombra knew neither of them had any ash on them, so he realized it must have been Flint as she had been inside the fire. He then bears his teeth. "That...ugh! If that is her...why must she always interfere with things? She knows we were here, if she really was here...but no matter, the next phase of operations is to find out where the Physical Elements of Harmony are located, and then destroy them. It will be a difficult task, but I have no doubt we shall succeed." he said, with confidence - but was visibly irritated by seeing the ash on the floor and what it made him think of.
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

February 23

@Catpone Cerberus
"It could be related to the odd...condition you have of being a hybrid between 3 different creatures. You are an artificial being, after all, so its not a surprise at all that you would have something like that." Sombra stated. "I believe the next order of business is to merely observe what happened with Town Hall and see what Mayor Mare's schedule is for the day, I am sure she has some stuff that would be useful to me around the house." Sombra said, and would search the house for Mayor Mare - if she was here. If she was, he would ask her if she had anything valuable or historical in her home here.

Topics I Participated In

OOC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

Started by King Sombra · June 27, 2022

@Catpone Cerberus
All OOC discussion for the RP goes here. Here is the link to the IC:
IC: Return of the King (1x1 with Catpone Cerberus)

Started by King Sombra · June 27, 2022

@Catpone Cerberus

(Link to OOC)
It had been some time after King Sombra was defeated. The Mane 6 and the Crystal Ponies would have thought that they vanquished the tyrannical king. They thought wrong, however. The explosion of light that blasted his body apart hid the true character of the event. King Sombra's horn remained, and was blasted off beyond sight. There, the King's horn remained for an untold amount of time. Unconscious he was, but the horn's magic would slowly begin to gather up enough power to the point where he would awaken once more. Far beyond prying eyes and within the wispy winds of the Tundra - a familiar form of shadow would return, although weak.

Within the shadow a pair of green and red eyes trailed with purple smoke would open once again. The shadow form there lingered for what felt like an eternity before he realized what had happened. He had survived, yet again. Unlike the first time, he had lost access to his physical body and he could never hope to return to power, like this. Quickly, he decided that he would leave the arctic wastes beyond the Crystal Empire and head south as his magic returns. Hours passed, the King's mind was blank as it was on survival instinct. As he went towards the south, he could feel his body returning. The shadow form slithers across the ground quickly, remaining low. He wouldn't look back.

As the hours passed, the sun would begin to set. He kept going, his eyes naturally attuned to the dark. Eventually, the arctic wastes faded away into pine forests, but he kept going south still. He wanted to get as far from the Crystal Empire as possible. Through the night, he went, occasionally taking rests. He could feel his magic returning in full - but it wasn't enough to return to his body. His mind began to trickle with thoughts. 6 ponies. A small dragon. A pink Alicorn, and a white stallion - responsible for his defeat. He realized his mistakes, though, he had been too open and too brutish the first time around. Now was time to think. All of them would pay. As his rage made his shadow form shook, he came to the realization that the Crystal Empire was not enough. No. Equestria. Yes...Equestria - that would all be his.

By the time the sun broke the dawn sky, King Sombra had spotted a structure within the forest. Not too far, was a plain. Beyond that, he could scarcely see a railway heading off into the distance. That would be the way to civilization. As soon as the sun broke the dawn sky, the King's shadowy form coalesced into his physical form that had now returned. He felt lucky.

And so he headed towards the structure within the forest. He was too far currently to really see what it was. Perhaps it was an abandoned building, or something from the distant past. He needed to rest and fully collect his thoughts.