Illuminati Confirmed

By Painted Star

• July 20, 2015




Age: 25

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Lumina is a mare with an average height and build. Her coat is of a greyish viridian colour. Her golden eyes have a sharp shape and a mean look to them, with slight circles under them. Her mane reaches down to the middle of her legs. It is straight with a slight curve at the end. It was originally light blonde, but she dyed it a dark shade of oxford blue. It is usually tied loosely at the bottom with a big saffron coloured hair tie. Her tail is the same colour as her mane, dyed as well, of course. It was cut short by the teeth of a carnivorous plant, so now it doesn't look too well kept. Even though it's short, Lumina ties it with a thin hairband of the same colour as the one in her mane. She wears a silk scarf of the same colour tied in a knot in her neck as well.

Cutie Mark: Her cutie mark is completely white. It depicts an eye inside a triangle. It means that Lumina is really good at uncovering hidden secrets, and making up slightly logical theories.

Personality: Lumina is rather distrustful towards other ponies, especially unicorns. She tends to freak out over seeing a pony glance at her, thinking the spies are already reaching her. Despite her paranoid nature, she can be surprisingly brave when facing real danger. She likes to act mysterious, with more or less success. She makes it looks like the Conspiracy Crew/Conspiracy Club (More info in the backstory section)is just a bunch of allies that she can use or her selfish purposes. But at heart she really does care about all of them.<br /><br />She usually is introverted and quiet, observing from behind the scenes.But as soon as sh starts writing something down, or gets the chance to talk about her theories, a certain spark appears in her eyes, and she can go on about the matter for hours, if not stopped. Some even say a slight smile is seen in the corner of her mouth at times like this.<br /><br />But when there is no theory to discuss, Lumina is rather grumpy and bossy. She is also really tired most of the time due to the nights spent with treasure hunting. But without all those sleepless nights, her team's magazine wouldn't be as popular as it is.<br /><br />As you probably could have guessed already, Lumia isn't really a honest pony. If she doesn't like another, she'll make up some fishy story about them, and possibly ruin them with it. She doesn't hesitate to abuse her powers as a popular journalist. But she herself can easily be misled, she will believe anything dark enough for her image of the world.

Backstory: Lumina is the daughter of a popular journalist, Conspiracy Confirmed. Lumina's mother was a rather unfriendly mare, a candy shop owner called Sour Sanding. Appearance-wise Lumina looks almost identical to her mother, but her personality is more like her father's. Sour used to spend all of her days at her small shop, since she was the one earning the most of the family's money. Conspiracy was popular, but his income wasn't very good. Sour would often argue with her husband about his job, but he never quit. Due to his more flexible job, he was the one to spend more time with Lumina. He would always explain to her what he was writing about, and would take her with him to his "Mystery Trips". Lumina was the pony he trusted most. Lumina loved him dearly, and followed him everywhere.<br /><br />Her relationship with her mother, on the other hoof, wasn't so pretty. She often saw her yelling at Conspiracy, and started hating Sour for it. Her father did try to explain to her, that it was indeed his fault, it just made Lumina even angrier. She felt like Sour was ruining Conspiracy's image of himself, like she was controlling him. Lumina started acting colder and colder towards her mother, and slowly towards everypony else. What she did not realize, was the fact that she was becoming more and more like Sour.<br /><br />She was often skipping school to go on trips with her father, and she was mean to her classmates, so she didn't really have any friends in elementary school. She didn't care too much though, she was happy with her father being her only friend. But in high school, she met three ponies with very similar interests to hers. Two young stallions called Top Secret and Accusation and a cute mare named Blinding Truth. Blinding, the only friendly pony among them, was the one to get them together. The other three weren't too happy about her efforts to make friends with them at first, but later on she earned their trust. The four of the together formed the Conspiracy Club, and started revealing the truth (or what they thought the truth was) about their schoolmates and teachers, eventually gaining most ponies' hate. But they did also gain a small group of followers, who were watching their word as if it was said by Celestia herself. After high school, the four of them established a magazine called Underground News, which was, of course, about the latest conspiracy theories.<br /><br />Now the Conspiracy Club is traveling all over Equestria under the name of Conspiracy Crew, searching for the great truth and collecting info for their magazine.