True Sight

By TrueSight

• February 1, 2016




Age: 20

Gender: Female

Species: Unicorn

Cutie Mark: A mirror surrounded by silver filigree with the back face of a card in the middle of the mirror. Her cutie mark represents her ability to see into the past through psychometry (touching an object with her horn) and divining the future with the use of an antique deck of cards.

Personality: True Sight is a pony of eccentric taste. She would much rather know what happened then, and opposed to being in the know of now. Her gift carries her all over Canterlot, appraising the antique artifacts of the noble pony families, as they wish to know the history of the objects, which has caused her to value the social arts of high society. Though she prefers to stay on the fringes of Court, she is able to expertly maneuver in that world. True Sight is her own biggest critic, holding herself to such a degree that it comes off as sometimes haughty and unapproachable to other ponies. With what few associates she has, she is sometimes blunt in her criticism, though it comes from the heart because the young unicorn counts the success of those around her as her own person success. She is slow to anger, but even in rage it is cold rage, slow but constantly burning. True Sight has never reopened any connection that she cut off on a personal level, and never will; though she has tried to make some strides in being more approachable. Punctuality is a big pet peeve of her, she does not appreciate being kept waiting, even my those members of the highest caliber in the courts of Canterlot. Though she has no real use for the present, she has a total disregard for the future. True Sight prefers the immutable facts of the past over the fancies of what may come, and greatly neglects her gifts of foresight. Maze gardens are where she goes for tranquility and symphonies have always been a special treat for her. She would like to make friends, but finds that no one really enjoys the past like her, and she cannot relate to current trends and topics. <br />

Backstory: True Sight was born the youngest daughter to Rose Aura, a crimson unicorn who used her gift of reading aura's to help other ponies overcome mental and emotional stresses; and Primal Heart a coal black unicorn whose love of flora and fauna from prehistory often kept him out in the field. It was her fathers field journals that sparked the filly's interested in history, though unlike her father her interest only went back to written pony history. She became fascinated by how ponies in the distant past lived, and how their lives impacted the lives of ponies today. Her sisters could not understand this interest in what had been, their lives revolved around the workings of the Court and the lives of the nobility. True Sight had little use for the court, until one day she went on a call with her mother to a noble's estate. Her mother had been asked to do what she could for a young coal who had been suffering from night terrors, and had asked True Sight to come with. In the mansion was a vase, depicting ponies in an ancient temple. True Sight was fascinated by vase, and as she came closer to it, she could see images, first the potter creating it, then flashes of the homes it had been in, the ponies that had handled it. All of these things came to her mind, sometimes sounds and feelings too, when strong emotions were attached, like when a mother gave her daughter who had just birthed her first foal the vase a gift. Abruptly the images stopped, and True Sight saw the sheen of magic surrounding the vase, that was now floating a hairs breath from the floor. In her trance like state she didn't even realize she had touched it and cause it to fall, but a servant in the hall caught it. Her mother, and the pony who owned the estate had come running and both gasped, not at the almost accident but at the cutie mark now on her flank. From that day forward True Sight's ability was in demand by the nobility, museums, and antique traders; wanting to know the authenticity of their items and the story behind them. It was during one of such appraisal that True Sight discovered she had some affinity for diving the future as well. Though she greatly neglects that aspect of her magic, True Sight found an old deck of cards at a noble's house, one that some ponies jokingly said could tell the future if read correctly. True Sight's magic awakened around them, and the cards arranged themselves in a peculiar pattern, the pictures telling a story that seemed plain as day to True Sight but unknowable to the other ponies. As a gift, the noble gave the cards to the young unicorn, and out of respect True Sight has kept them. She rarely uses them however, having little interest in the future, and only really utilizes them as little more than parlor tricks, to get invitations to mansions and grounds she has yet to explore for antiques.