Midnight Blue

By MidnightBlue

• April 17, 2013




Age: 24

Gender: Male

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Midnight is a dark cyan pony, with mechanical wings.

Cutie Mark: Midnight's cutie mark is a full moon with electricity coming out of it. He shocked himself while experimenting one night, and his cutie mark appeared the next day.

Personality: Midnight is a generally mellow pony, but is quite willing to stand up for what he or others believe. He is very protective of the people he loves, and will do anything to keep them safe.

Backstory: Midnight had wanted to be a scientist since he was a little foal. The problem was, his dad was a very talented musician, and wanted his son to grow up just like him. Despite being quite talented at playing music, it was just not interesting for Midnight. His dad kept pushing him to try harder, until a little part in the back of Midnight's mind just snapped. From that day forward, he would stay up late at night, fiddling with little pieces of metal, trying to create something... anything. After months of work, Midnight created something equally beautiful and terrible. Something that nopony had ever thought of before, and would never think of again. Midnight had made a pair of ornate mechanical wings, detailed beyond belief. The only problem was, there was no way of getting the wings to work. Midnight tried everything, from "borrowed" magic to arcane ideas of power. After several weeks of trying to get the wings to work, Midnight read about a concept called "electricity". Curious, he attached a metal strip to his roof, running it down into his room and attaching it to the wings. As he was making the final ajustments, a storm approached. Excited, Midnight hurried to get the metal securely attached to the wings. Just before he finished, a bolt of lighting leapt out of the sky, striking the makeshift lighting rod on his roof. Midnight was knocked unconscious by the force of the lightning, and did not wake up until late the next day. Everything changed while he slept. The wings that he had so carefully fashioned were burned down to their skeleton, and they changed. The lightning that struck his house was not ordinary, for it was a sky demon. Midnight's beautiful mechanical wings, now charred beyond recognition and with a twisted mind of their own, flapped over to his sleeping body. Once they rested on his back, they grew small metal tendrils from their internal workings, and burrowed deep into Midnight's flesh. When he awoke, Midnight felt different. Instead of thinking just normal thoughts, he also felt a deep rage inside. He felt an urge to hurt, and to kill. Unable to completely control this new dark side of his mind, Midnight fled his home in Ponyville to live in seclusion, where he could not hurt anypony. Midnight grew smarter with every day that passed, creating new inventions that nopony would ever see, and powering them with jolts of electricity from his wings. He decided that from that day on, he would live alone unless somepony desperately needed his help.