Princess Luna (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
doublethefun) wrote2012-07-31 01:07 am
doublethefun) wrote2012-07-31 01:07 am
Entry tags:
Application: Mostly Harmless
OOC:
Name: Professor C
Are you over 16?: Yes
Personal DW:accipiter
Email: chicobo.mog@gmail.com
Timezone: CST
Other contact: xsleeplessdragon@AIM
Characters already in the game: None
How did you find us?: Used to be in the game.
IC:
Character name: Princess Luna
Fandom: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Timeline: From right after the Hearth’s Warming Eve episode, but also from another RP game, Paradisa.
Age: 1000+ years
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Using unicorn magic, her basic job is to raise the moon, bring the night, and fill it with stars and comets. Additionally, she’s a winged unicorn which means that she’s got the Pegasus ability to manipulate weather. She seems particularly fond of dark storm clouds and dramatic flashes of lightning, though she summons them with an ease and at a magnitude that other Pegasi (and unicorns) cannot. Pegasus powers also include the ability to walk about on clouds. Unicorn magic includes telekinesis, teleportation, changing spider plushies into real spiders (albeit ones with only one body segment and four eyes), poking holes in force fields, illusions, moving celestial bodies about, etc. Also, she and her sister are either immortal or very long-lived.
How would they use their abilities?:
Daily use of magic includes levitation (manipulation of objects) and flying. Moving celestial bodies around isn’t going to happen because there’s no need due to the “they’re moving by themselves?!!” factor. Magic is typically used for convenience's sake, and is hardly ever used with a malicious intent.
Appearance:
The pretty pony princess is predominantly blue and sports both a horn and wings. Horn, wings, and general size and stature are larger than that of the common pony, but she is not as big as her sister; I’d put her at 5’6” to 6’. Mane and tail are ethereal and seem to flow by themselves on some sort of nonexistent wind while looking like a piece of the night sky. Herbutt tattoo Cutie Mark is a crescent moon on a black background. Oh and her jewelry also sparkles.
Background/Personality:
So basically, in the magical land of Equestria, where friendship and harmony are the most awesome things ever, there were two royal pony sisters who ruled together. The elder, Celestia, brought forth the sun each day using her vaguely defined powers over nature. The younger, Luna, brought out the moon every evening using her similarly vaguely defined powers over nature. And thus, harmony and peace and all that cutesy stuff were maintained.
But alas, all this happiness and peace weren’t meant to last. Luna became embittered over how the ponies would play during the day but sleep through her night. Presumably, ponies weren’t into astronomy and nightclubs didn’t exist back then. Anyway, she eventually became Nightmare (Night Mare?) Moon and tried to make the night last forever; Word of God states that something might have corrupted her. Celestia used the Elements of Harmony to banish Luna to the moon and she can be seen as the “Mare in the Moon” – a vague shape on the surface of the moon that looks like a unicorn’s head. Celestia then took on the duties of raising both the sun and the moon.
A thousand years later, the stars aided in her escape. She apparently sent her sister to the sun (from the looks of it when Celestia returned with the rising of the sun later) and then tried to make an eternal night. Fortunately, six plucky mares found out about the Elements of Harmony and then underwent an arduous quest to retrieve them from their last known location, the Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters. Nightmare Moon tried to foil them on their epic quest, but they managed to escape each trial unscathed and, along the way, learned about the qualities of friendship and all that jazz. And then once they finally found her and figured out how the Elements worked, they destroyed Luna’s dark powers (i.e. Nightmare Moon) with the rainbowtastic power of friendship and reverted her back to just Luna. The sun rose, Celestia reappeared, Luna was forgiven, and then everybody partied. Yay.
Additionally, we learn that Discord used to rule Equestria before Celestia and Luna usurped the throne. Discord’s rule, as the name implies, was rather chaotic and he is depicted as a puppeteer. The sisters discovered the Elements of Harmony and then used them to turn Discord into stone.
Personality-wise, she comes across as really really loud and confident. Her booming, echoey voice is known as the traditional Royal Canterlot Voice. In fact, it can knock hats askew and blow foals right off their feet. This is coupled with her outdated ideas on how royals should act – which includes use of the royal We, thou, thee, thine, and quite a bit of formality. Of course, this is at odds with the fact that she just comes across as extremely intimidating when all she really wants to do is to connect with her subjects in the one way she knows how. It also doesn’t help that the legend of Nightmare Moon had evolved over a thousand years into the story of an evil, fanged moon pony who goes around eating baby ponies on Nightmare Night if not placated with treats and tricked with costumes. In her episode, she decides to change this scary celebration into “a bright and glorious feast” – mostly because she doesn’t want to be seen as evil any longer.
However, it’s also shown that she’s rather sensitive and hides it by assuming her aloof demeanor. After her first failed attempt at meeting regular ponies, she stalked away, head held high and pretended that she didn’t care. It was only later that we see that she had gone off to sulk. Even later, we get to see her woobie face when she realized that she has, once again, managed to scare off all the children.
She also has quite a temper. After the children ran away screaming for the umpteenth time, she got angry, which led to dramatic flashes of lightning and unrestrained use of the Royal Canterlot Voice. This in turn scared the rest of the ponies and then it all went downhill from there. She canceled Nightmare Night but was persuaded to bring it back when she found out that it’s a holiday of harmless pranks and candy and that ponies like being scared on such a night, instead of genuinely hating/disrespecting her; it’s fun to be scared and the children actually love her for it. So she finally loosens up some and is shown to be a bit of a prankster and can, in fact, relinquish the Royal Canterlot Voice.
And then she got whisked away to the magically malicious land of![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
paradisa. In her seven months there, Luna has learned (relearned? Is slowly learning?) quite a bit about friendship. Naturally proud, she doesn’t like to show weakness in front of others – emotional or otherwise . However, when one is trapped in a place where an all-powerful being is capable of kidnapping, altering, and creating impossible situations, one’s prerogatives must change. She is no longer the untouchable princess; instead, she must learn to rely on others, to have faith in her new friends, to trust in them, and be trusted in return. This particular lesson truly hit home when the castle deigned to designate a group of residents as “princesses” who had to be rescued by their “princes.” At the “princess” end, they had overcome all their obstacles and the only thing left to do was to keep faith in their “princes.” Worrying and fretting would not help in the least and there was absolutely no other option available; indeed, doubting her partner would have certainly been the worse alternative.
She has grown closer to the ponies she met briefly that one Nightmare Night (namely Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Spike) and feels responsible for them. ‘Duty’ doesn’t really cover it; the responsibilities and obligations she feels are those of a friend, rather than a ruler. While she hardly sees other ponies as mere subjects, this sort of close and personal bond is something she has rarely encountered outside of her sister.
Additionally, she has learned a lot about humans, though not as much about the other two-leggers who look pretty damn human but refuse to be identified as such. She has found that while most humans are completely flabbergasted at the very idea of a talking pony who can move the cosmos at whim (though she’s pretty sure they’d be completely flabbergasted even if she can’t move the cosmos at whim), most of them tend to treat her with respect once they get over the initial shock. Of course, she was ill at ease, to put it lightly, when she found out that equines are essentially enslaved – bought and sold with nary a blink of an eye and “put to work in exchange for food and board.” Because nobody seemed to do anything to, or even own, the horses at the castle, she didn’t actually do anything until the introduction of chariot racing, wherein human participants threw weapons at each other and their unprotected horses for the glory of winning of a circlet of leaves. Huzzah. Other than that, she has enjoyed learning about completely novel things (like microwaves and iPads) as well as the company of the humans she has befriended.
Why should that character be in this game: For OCs only.
N/A
Why do you want to continue their history here: For characters from other games only.
She has grown quite a lot during her stay in Paradisa and I believe this is a good starting point for her in Mostly Harmless. She has had time to get closer to and befriend others while truly acting on her own. Although she loves her sister dearly, Paradisa was something of a fresh start; others cannot compare her to her shining, perfect sister if they do not even know of her and she can just focus on being herself and doing her best without being plagued by thoughts of merely being second-best.
I would certainly like to see how this drastic change of environment would affect her growth as a pony.
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play:
N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?:
FlamingFerret.
Missions, pickpocketing/stealing, budding entrepreneurship, taking loans out (possibly in other characters’ names), freelance work, mooching off castmates.
1st person sample:
[hello, Thor. There might be something of a dull roar reverberating through the floors. Or possibly over a Guide.]
How many times must We repeat Ourselves? We care not for thy paperwork or thy insufferable bureaucratic nonsense! What sort of featherbrained pony differentiates two utterly antagonistic forms – with deceptively similar questions, We might add – on the basis of color? And even then, there is little difference betwixt ‘puce’ and ‘plum!’
[there’s a (relatively) quiet response that’s cut short by a sharp crack. Which might or might not be a hoof striking the counter.]
Paradisa can burn in the depths of Tartarus for all We care! Where are dear Fluttershy and young Spike? If thou hast ‘picked us up,’ as thou hast said, then surely there must be others!
[another response and then an angry snort]
Fine. We see that We are wasting Our breath arguing with the likes of thee.
3rd person sample:
Luna stared at the offending plate of alfalfa. With her sister’s (annoyingly mischievous) eyes on her, she can’t simply toss the salad or, even better, teleport it into the depths of a bog where it would never see the light of day ever again, mwahah –
She shook her head and focused on her dinner again. A blue glow surrounded her horn as she shifted the alfalfa around. With luck, maybe she can make it look like she ate it and perhaps teleport small bits of it out at a time. She focused on the spell and.
“I know what you’re trying to do, Luna.”
Damn. She stopped midspell and sighing, went back to chasing the greens around her plate once more. This was dumb. It’s not like it would be such a big deal if she occasionally skipped dinner once in a while (whenever the chefs decided to serve alfalfa) and went straight to dessert. Honestly, apple pie is probably just as nutritious as this disgusting excuse for a salad. Maybe. Minus all the sugar, perhaps.
She laid her muzzle on the table, side-eyeing the dinner plate. How is it possible that something this unpalatable hadn’t managed to go extinct in the thousand years she had been gone? Instead, they’re sitting right there, mocking her, as inedible as the first time she’d been forced to eat them.
She tilted her head a bit and focused on her big sister instead. Celestia, the high and mighty Princess of the Sun, forcing poor ponies into eating this stupid alfalfa while she just sat there, cool as a cucumber, sipping her stupid tea while guarding a slice of apple pie. Honestly, doesn’t she have anything better to do? Saving Ponyville from imminent destruction perhaps? From the manner in which Ponyville seemed to attract trouble of varying magnitudes, perhaps an investigation would be worthwhile. Maybe it merely happens to straddle the perfect distance from various dragon dens, hydra hidey-holes, ursa –
“You know, the faster you finish, the quicker you can get to dessert.”
Luna sighed and finally lifted her head from the table. A look of distaste adorning her face, she leaned forward, about to take a bite when she suddenly jumped onto her hooves with a clatter. With a shout, she dramatically pointed to a spot right behind Celestia.
“Sister! Watch out!”
Celestia turned, wings unfurled and ready to defend against whatever luckless intruder had managed to stumble his way into the castle. In that moment, Luna teleported herself outside in a flash and took to the skies. Seeing nothing, Celestia turned back to the dinner table only to find herself alone. Putting two and two together, she sighed even as a wry smile graced her face. Chasing a midnight blue alicorn against the midnight blue sky isn’t exactly the easiest task; her time would be better spent enjoying this delicious slice of apple pie.
“Double portions tomorrow night, little sis,” she said with a soft chuckle.
Questions?: Nay.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Mayhaps.
Name: Professor C
Are you over 16?: Yes
Personal DW:
accipiterEmail: chicobo.mog@gmail.com
Timezone: CST
Other contact: xsleeplessdragon@AIM
Characters already in the game: None
How did you find us?: Used to be in the game.
IC:
Character name: Princess Luna
Fandom: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Timeline: From right after the Hearth’s Warming Eve episode, but also from another RP game, Paradisa.
Age: 1000+ years
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Using unicorn magic, her basic job is to raise the moon, bring the night, and fill it with stars and comets. Additionally, she’s a winged unicorn which means that she’s got the Pegasus ability to manipulate weather. She seems particularly fond of dark storm clouds and dramatic flashes of lightning, though she summons them with an ease and at a magnitude that other Pegasi (and unicorns) cannot. Pegasus powers also include the ability to walk about on clouds. Unicorn magic includes telekinesis, teleportation, changing spider plushies into real spiders (albeit ones with only one body segment and four eyes), poking holes in force fields, illusions, moving celestial bodies about, etc. Also, she and her sister are either immortal or very long-lived.
How would they use their abilities?:
Daily use of magic includes levitation (manipulation of objects) and flying. Moving celestial bodies around isn’t going to happen because there’s no need due to the “they’re moving by themselves?!!” factor. Magic is typically used for convenience's sake, and is hardly ever used with a malicious intent.
Appearance:
The pretty pony princess is predominantly blue and sports both a horn and wings. Horn, wings, and general size and stature are larger than that of the common pony, but she is not as big as her sister; I’d put her at 5’6” to 6’. Mane and tail are ethereal and seem to flow by themselves on some sort of nonexistent wind while looking like a piece of the night sky. Her
Background/Personality:
So basically, in the magical land of Equestria, where friendship and harmony are the most awesome things ever, there were two royal pony sisters who ruled together. The elder, Celestia, brought forth the sun each day using her vaguely defined powers over nature. The younger, Luna, brought out the moon every evening using her similarly vaguely defined powers over nature. And thus, harmony and peace and all that cutesy stuff were maintained.
But alas, all this happiness and peace weren’t meant to last. Luna became embittered over how the ponies would play during the day but sleep through her night. Presumably, ponies weren’t into astronomy and nightclubs didn’t exist back then. Anyway, she eventually became Nightmare (Night Mare?) Moon and tried to make the night last forever; Word of God states that something might have corrupted her. Celestia used the Elements of Harmony to banish Luna to the moon and she can be seen as the “Mare in the Moon” – a vague shape on the surface of the moon that looks like a unicorn’s head. Celestia then took on the duties of raising both the sun and the moon.
A thousand years later, the stars aided in her escape. She apparently sent her sister to the sun (from the looks of it when Celestia returned with the rising of the sun later) and then tried to make an eternal night. Fortunately, six plucky mares found out about the Elements of Harmony and then underwent an arduous quest to retrieve them from their last known location, the Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters. Nightmare Moon tried to foil them on their epic quest, but they managed to escape each trial unscathed and, along the way, learned about the qualities of friendship and all that jazz. And then once they finally found her and figured out how the Elements worked, they destroyed Luna’s dark powers (i.e. Nightmare Moon) with the rainbowtastic power of friendship and reverted her back to just Luna. The sun rose, Celestia reappeared, Luna was forgiven, and then everybody partied. Yay.
Additionally, we learn that Discord used to rule Equestria before Celestia and Luna usurped the throne. Discord’s rule, as the name implies, was rather chaotic and he is depicted as a puppeteer. The sisters discovered the Elements of Harmony and then used them to turn Discord into stone.
Personality-wise, she comes across as really really loud and confident. Her booming, echoey voice is known as the traditional Royal Canterlot Voice. In fact, it can knock hats askew and blow foals right off their feet. This is coupled with her outdated ideas on how royals should act – which includes use of the royal We, thou, thee, thine, and quite a bit of formality. Of course, this is at odds with the fact that she just comes across as extremely intimidating when all she really wants to do is to connect with her subjects in the one way she knows how. It also doesn’t help that the legend of Nightmare Moon had evolved over a thousand years into the story of an evil, fanged moon pony who goes around eating baby ponies on Nightmare Night if not placated with treats and tricked with costumes. In her episode, she decides to change this scary celebration into “a bright and glorious feast” – mostly because she doesn’t want to be seen as evil any longer.
However, it’s also shown that she’s rather sensitive and hides it by assuming her aloof demeanor. After her first failed attempt at meeting regular ponies, she stalked away, head held high and pretended that she didn’t care. It was only later that we see that she had gone off to sulk. Even later, we get to see her woobie face when she realized that she has, once again, managed to scare off all the children.
She also has quite a temper. After the children ran away screaming for the umpteenth time, she got angry, which led to dramatic flashes of lightning and unrestrained use of the Royal Canterlot Voice. This in turn scared the rest of the ponies and then it all went downhill from there. She canceled Nightmare Night but was persuaded to bring it back when she found out that it’s a holiday of harmless pranks and candy and that ponies like being scared on such a night, instead of genuinely hating/disrespecting her; it’s fun to be scared and the children actually love her for it. So she finally loosens up some and is shown to be a bit of a prankster and can, in fact, relinquish the Royal Canterlot Voice.
And then she got whisked away to the magically malicious land of
paradisa. In her seven months there, Luna has learned (relearned? Is slowly learning?) quite a bit about friendship. Naturally proud, she doesn’t like to show weakness in front of others – emotional or otherwise . However, when one is trapped in a place where an all-powerful being is capable of kidnapping, altering, and creating impossible situations, one’s prerogatives must change. She is no longer the untouchable princess; instead, she must learn to rely on others, to have faith in her new friends, to trust in them, and be trusted in return. This particular lesson truly hit home when the castle deigned to designate a group of residents as “princesses” who had to be rescued by their “princes.” At the “princess” end, they had overcome all their obstacles and the only thing left to do was to keep faith in their “princes.” Worrying and fretting would not help in the least and there was absolutely no other option available; indeed, doubting her partner would have certainly been the worse alternative.She has grown closer to the ponies she met briefly that one Nightmare Night (namely Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Spike) and feels responsible for them. ‘Duty’ doesn’t really cover it; the responsibilities and obligations she feels are those of a friend, rather than a ruler. While she hardly sees other ponies as mere subjects, this sort of close and personal bond is something she has rarely encountered outside of her sister.
Additionally, she has learned a lot about humans, though not as much about the other two-leggers who look pretty damn human but refuse to be identified as such. She has found that while most humans are completely flabbergasted at the very idea of a talking pony who can move the cosmos at whim (though she’s pretty sure they’d be completely flabbergasted even if she can’t move the cosmos at whim), most of them tend to treat her with respect once they get over the initial shock. Of course, she was ill at ease, to put it lightly, when she found out that equines are essentially enslaved – bought and sold with nary a blink of an eye and “put to work in exchange for food and board.” Because nobody seemed to do anything to, or even own, the horses at the castle, she didn’t actually do anything until the introduction of chariot racing, wherein human participants threw weapons at each other and their unprotected horses for the glory of winning of a circlet of leaves. Huzzah. Other than that, she has enjoyed learning about completely novel things (like microwaves and iPads) as well as the company of the humans she has befriended.
Why should that character be in this game: For OCs only.
N/A
Why do you want to continue their history here: For characters from other games only.
She has grown quite a lot during her stay in Paradisa and I believe this is a good starting point for her in Mostly Harmless. She has had time to get closer to and befriend others while truly acting on her own. Although she loves her sister dearly, Paradisa was something of a fresh start; others cannot compare her to her shining, perfect sister if they do not even know of her and she can just focus on being herself and doing her best without being plagued by thoughts of merely being second-best.
I would certainly like to see how this drastic change of environment would affect her growth as a pony.
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play:
N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?:
FlamingFerret.
Missions, pickpocketing/stealing, budding entrepreneurship, taking loans out (possibly in other characters’ names), freelance work, mooching off castmates.
1st person sample:
[hello, Thor. There might be something of a dull roar reverberating through the floors. Or possibly over a Guide.]
How many times must We repeat Ourselves? We care not for thy paperwork or thy insufferable bureaucratic nonsense! What sort of featherbrained pony differentiates two utterly antagonistic forms – with deceptively similar questions, We might add – on the basis of color? And even then, there is little difference betwixt ‘puce’ and ‘plum!’
[there’s a (relatively) quiet response that’s cut short by a sharp crack. Which might or might not be a hoof striking the counter.]
Paradisa can burn in the depths of Tartarus for all We care! Where are dear Fluttershy and young Spike? If thou hast ‘picked us up,’ as thou hast said, then surely there must be others!
[another response and then an angry snort]
Fine. We see that We are wasting Our breath arguing with the likes of thee.
3rd person sample:
Luna stared at the offending plate of alfalfa. With her sister’s (annoyingly mischievous) eyes on her, she can’t simply toss the salad or, even better, teleport it into the depths of a bog where it would never see the light of day ever again, mwahah –
She shook her head and focused on her dinner again. A blue glow surrounded her horn as she shifted the alfalfa around. With luck, maybe she can make it look like she ate it and perhaps teleport small bits of it out at a time. She focused on the spell and.
“I know what you’re trying to do, Luna.”
Damn. She stopped midspell and sighing, went back to chasing the greens around her plate once more. This was dumb. It’s not like it would be such a big deal if she occasionally skipped dinner once in a while (whenever the chefs decided to serve alfalfa) and went straight to dessert. Honestly, apple pie is probably just as nutritious as this disgusting excuse for a salad. Maybe. Minus all the sugar, perhaps.
She laid her muzzle on the table, side-eyeing the dinner plate. How is it possible that something this unpalatable hadn’t managed to go extinct in the thousand years she had been gone? Instead, they’re sitting right there, mocking her, as inedible as the first time she’d been forced to eat them.
She tilted her head a bit and focused on her big sister instead. Celestia, the high and mighty Princess of the Sun, forcing poor ponies into eating this stupid alfalfa while she just sat there, cool as a cucumber, sipping her stupid tea while guarding a slice of apple pie. Honestly, doesn’t she have anything better to do? Saving Ponyville from imminent destruction perhaps? From the manner in which Ponyville seemed to attract trouble of varying magnitudes, perhaps an investigation would be worthwhile. Maybe it merely happens to straddle the perfect distance from various dragon dens, hydra hidey-holes, ursa –
“You know, the faster you finish, the quicker you can get to dessert.”
Luna sighed and finally lifted her head from the table. A look of distaste adorning her face, she leaned forward, about to take a bite when she suddenly jumped onto her hooves with a clatter. With a shout, she dramatically pointed to a spot right behind Celestia.
“Sister! Watch out!”
Celestia turned, wings unfurled and ready to defend against whatever luckless intruder had managed to stumble his way into the castle. In that moment, Luna teleported herself outside in a flash and took to the skies. Seeing nothing, Celestia turned back to the dinner table only to find herself alone. Putting two and two together, she sighed even as a wry smile graced her face. Chasing a midnight blue alicorn against the midnight blue sky isn’t exactly the easiest task; her time would be better spent enjoying this delicious slice of apple pie.
“Double portions tomorrow night, little sis,” she said with a soft chuckle.
Questions?: Nay.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Mayhaps.