Bright Spark

By EightBit

• July 26, 2017




Age: 18

Gender: Female

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: <p> Bright Spark is rather small and frail for her age, especially compared to her friends, the stallions Frosty Breeze and the gargantuan Thunder Quake. She has a pale orange coat, blue eyes, freckles, and usually, her cutie mark is not present on her flank. Her long two-toned brown main and tail are tied in thick braids with yellow hair ties while her tail hangs free. Like the rest of her, her horn is also rather small for a unicorn of her age. </p>

Cutie Mark: <p> A sword glowing with a yellow magical aura in front of the Equestrian Flag. While she is not a fantastic warrior, she has the special talent of motivating ponies to stand together as one to protect their homes and all that they care about. Her cutie mark is not always present. Rather, it is brought about with the help of other ponies, but even without it, her talent remains. </p>

Personality: <p> Bright Spark is shy, but friendly. She likes to have a good laugh, but she is afraid of meeting new ponies, burdening people, and travelling too far due to her condition. She loves her friends and family very much, and both of her friends treat her as a little sister who they wish to protect because of her condition, whereas she sees them as older brothers. She likes what they have and can't see anything about their friendship ever changing, which makes her very happy. While she gets annoyed by the babying of Frosty Breeze and her mother, she understands why they do it in hindsight, and she's thankful for it, but she wishes that they trusted her a little more like Thunder Quake. She wonders if her father would have babied her, too, but she likes to think that he would have given her independence. As she is afraid of meeting new ponies, she has relatively few friends. It is her dream to become a farmer like many of the other ponies in her village, but because she is frail, she cannot. Despite all of this, she is hopelessly optimistic and constantly sets herself goals that she can't possibly hope to reach. </p> <p> Likes: Her friends and her mother, hearing about her father, sunny days, snow, fallen leaves, puddles, the sound of rain, the scent of damp soil, helping her mother and Thunder Quake with farming, being active like the other ponies, reading, the flowers that her mother raises, and the vegetables grown on Thunder Quake's farm. </p> <p> Dislikes: People who tease her, fighting, ponies getting hurt, cold weather when there's no snow, her frailty, getting sick, her lack of talent with magic, spinach, asparagus, mushrooms, and blood and gore which make her feel sick. </p>

Backstory: <p> Almost 150 years ago, an immortal being known as King Obsidian—a unicorn pony of darkness who once laid waste to Equestria over 2000 years ago—returned to Equestria. He was sealed away by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and was expected to never return, but when he's finally did, his first objective, which he succeeded in, was to strike down Discord, weakening King Obsidian in the process and forcing him back into the shadows. Being an embodiment of pure chaos, Discord's freed magic ran rampant across Equestria, and being an embodiments of pure magic, Princess Twilight Sparkle was the only one who could stop it. With Princess Cadance aiding her in keeping the magic stable, she allowed Discord's magic to pass through her body for temporary purification, rendering both herself and Cadance much like Celestia and Luna. Their magic was renewed constantly, and much like Celestia and Luna who had been rendered semi-immortal through their raising of the sun and moon, Princess Twilight and Princess Cadance received a similar fate, and over the course of 150 years, they watched as those around them withered and died while King Obsidian watched and waited in the shadows. </p> <p> In this world of the future, Bright Spark is a unicorn who was born to an Equestrian unicorn mare, and a non-Equestrian, non-magical stallion. Her parents both loved her very much, but her father passed away when she was very young. As such, she doesn't really remember him, but this doesn't sadden her as it just gives her opportunities to find out more about him, like a mystery. Her mother is a florist who raises and sells her own flowers, and as such, Bright Spark's home is filled with the lovely smell of flowers. Due to the fact that her father was a non-magical pony, she was born frail and she is unable to use magic very well. As she hasn't little magic inside her, her cutie mark failed to manifest. </p> <p> She met her friends Frosty Breeze and the gargantuan Thunder Quake when in school and failed to make any more friends since because she couldn't keep up with the activities. Frosty Breeze went on to become a weather pony, while Thunder Quake continued to work on his parents' farm, growing delicious vegetables, leaving Bright Spark somewhat lonely as she has never been able to hold down a job due to her inability to walk very far. </p> <p> Despite this, she still enjoyed life with her friends almost daily, but her carefree days in her little village were torn apart when King Obsidian began his conquest of Equestria once more. Marching through the land with his army of shadows, he indiscriminately destroys all settlements that stand in his way to show Equestria his capabilities as he makes his way to Ponyville to destroy the one pony giving Equestria stability—Princess Twilight Sparkle. </p> <p> With her village scattered, and not knowing whether her mother has survived, she and her friends must make their way to Canterlot where victims of the attacks have been offered refuge, but the way there is fraught with peril, and when she and her friends discover that the King's dark forces are making their way towards Ponyville to kill Princess Twilight, they must choose between safety in Canterlot and warning the Princess of what's about to come. </p>