Sunshine Rays

By Icy Void

• September 20, 2013




Age: May vary, usually 14 or 15

Gender: Female

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: Sunshine has a light blue coat and her mane and tail are yellow with red accents. She has clear blue eyes and a smile that almost never falters.

Cutie Mark: Her flank is still very blank, despite the amount of life experience she's had.

Personality: Sunshine is ever an optimistic pony who will always give another pony the benefit of the doubt, regardless of whether they deserve it or not. Unlike her broth Midnight Sky, Sunshine Rays loves socializing and meeting new ponies. However, she is also fiercely loyal to her friends, and especially loyal to Midnight Sky, who has been the main parental figure in her life despite only being her older brother. And even in their new home in the Everfree Forest, Sunshine still spends much of her time helping Midnight study, but now she also spends a fair amount of time wandering into Ponyville and trying to make some friends. And while she is rather young, her rough life has caused her to mature more than most other ponies her age.

Backstory: Sunshine Rays is the youngest pony in her family, which rules over a land that has long been separated from Equestria. Her mother was an alicorn named Starlight Dazzle, but hier father was an earth pony by the name of Stony Courage, and this led to Sunshine and her siblings being different than each other. The eldest two were both alicorns, the boy was named Frozen Stars and his twin sister was Summer Breeze. Later came Flaming Leaves, he was an earth pony like their father and was instantly close to Stony Courage. Then there was River Dance, she was a pegasus and was very close to her alicorn siblings. After them came Midnight Sky, the first unicorn in the family, and later a few years later Sunshine Rays was born, and she was also a unicorn.<br /><br />Growing up, Sunshine Rays was almost always with her brother Midnight Sky, both of them being unicorns and being generally ignored by their other siblings and their parents. As such, Sunshine spent most of her time helping Midnight with his studies. During which time her brother also looked after her, teaching her magic and helping with her schooling. Sunshine even went out of her way to organize a party for Midnight when he finally got his cutie mark while saving the city, which was one of the few times either of them interacted with their parents and older siblings.<br /><br />When it was announced that only the eldest four of his siblings would ever hold any important position, Sunshine Rays and Midnight Sky became isolated from their siblings, and they both never really had any friends since they had always had eachother. With their parents too busy teaching their other siblings how to rule Neighland, and their siblings too busy learning to rule Neighland, Midnight and Sunshine became more and more isolated from the royal family than normal until Midnight finally decided to run away, and maybe try to find where the meteor from his youth crashed. Sunshine, not wanting to stay behind and be alone in the castle, secretly followed her brother as he journeyed beyond Neighland. It was several days before Midnight found her, but by then they were far from their homes in Palmare so Midnight allowed her to travel with him. Together they journeyed south west, the direction the meteor had gone, all the while learning more about magic and the world outside Neighland. They met few other ponies, but when they did both Midnight and Sunshine had decided to keep their past a secret for the time being, though Sunshine sometimes found it difficult.<br /><br />Eventually they found their way to a strange place where ponies lived in peace, far from their homes in Neighland. It wasn't until later that they learned that this place was called Equestria. They both eventually settled in the deepest reaches of the Everfree Forest, not realizing that they were very close to a town until they met Zecora the zebra in the forest(may change based on the rp). One of Midnight's main reasons for having him and Sunshine settle where they did was because it was where the meteor had crashed, and that the meteor was even mostly intact. Together Sunshine and Midnight hollowed out the meteor and slowly turned it into a true home. Only when it was finished did she ever go to the town Zecora had told them about(again subject to change), and this is when Midnight and Sunshine first saw Ponyville.