Cole Rebornias

By J.R.

• June 4, 2016




Age: Unknown

Gender: Male

Species: Alicorn

Appearance: Depicted above.

Cutie Mark: Skull and crossbones--symbolizes his specialty with the dead.

Personality: Cole is a very enthusiastic, but serious pony. When it comes to his work, nothing takes precedent over it. So much so, that everything around him is nothing but emptiness when he's busy with his magic.<br /><br />He's a very loving pony to his wife, but his work constantly gets in the way of it, interrupting his time and always rushing off to complete his assignments.<br /><br />From time to time, he simply would keep to himself and not let anything distract him, staying focused on what he wanted, not even his own wife...just determined to focus on his work and nothing else.

Backstory: Thousands of years ago, lived a pony named Cole Rebornias. Cole was a unicorn that lived alone on an island in the farther areas of Southern Equestria. He spent most of his time working with trying to confine magical attributes to weaponry he had. Many ponies thought this was an abstract concept that could only end badly. However, Cole wasn't deterred one bit. In fact, those who doubted him only pushed him further to prove them wrong. He was a very well-rounded unicorn that was a jack of all trades, but a master of none. He spent his time practicing many, many magical styles in order to become a very well-balanced unicorn. This included being able to confine magical status effects to weapons that he had.<br /><br />However, he would get so wrapped up in his work, that he sometimes would forget about his wife: Lavender Rebornias. She loved her husband to death, but was very unhappy that he spent so much time with his magic, and tried her best to support him...but he didn't listen.<br /><br />At times, Cole would go entire weeks without speaking to his loving wife, and the two were becoming further and further apart. And eventually, she could not take it anymore. Lavender prepared to leave him but Cole said he would follow her to the ends of the earth. However, time and time again, it kept happening non-stop, and Lavender could not bear the pain anymore.<br /><br />Lavender left him and never came back, leaving Cole heartbroken.<br /><br />A few months later, he heard a knock at the door, and answered. He found Lavender's dead body and nothing else. Apparently she had ended up destroying herself over Cole's absence. It sent him into shock, and immediate grief over how he wished he could have been a better listener. However, his tears slowed down as he thought of a way to fix it. If he could potentially put a magical spell of revival on her, then he would be able to bring her back. However, he had no real way of doing so, and looked within his magical book of confinement for an answer. In it, there was a tale of an ancient book of Death and Life that could potentially be used to bring her back, and set out to find it. <br /><br />It was down in Tartarus, and took him weeks upon weeks to make it through. However, once he finally found the book, he beamed with a ray of hope. In eagerness, he snatched it, and found the page he needed. And without thinking, he chanted the incantation to try and bring his wife back. However...it was the wrong spell. Instead of the revival spell, he called upon the spell of a curse....an ancient forbidden curse that hasn't been used for thousands of years and has been hidden away in the depths of Tartarus....<br /><br />All the sudden, the souls of the damned were beginning to swarm his body, overtaking him, and destroying his old self....nothing about him was the same anymore....The souls all began to fill his mind with guilt and regret, and all he wanted was simply a chance at redemption...<br /><br />...And that is what he received...in the form of an eternal entrapment in the underworld...tattered wings....<br /><br />As the centuries went on, Cole gained a new form as his power increased from the souls he possessed, he gained an ethereal form of dark energy. He became so powerful that the souls who had originally possessed his very being were at his mercy once he mastered the ability to control them. At first he felt imprisoned in the cold, and lonely dark world....but over time, he welcomed it as his own personal punishment...for not giving his wife the attention she deserved. In hopes to be able to show his wife he could change....as she watched over him in heaven...<br /><br />He would fight to keep Equestria safe from the souls of the wicked. He would fight to keep them safe from the evil that is Tartarus' souls. From every single one that gave him the Wings of Hades in an attempt to send him into an unstoppable torment of rage and misery across Equestria....he kept contained with a weapon he forged in the pits itself: The Scythe of Erebus. He would track them down, and keep them held in Tartarus for all eternity. The Keeper of Souls...