Wonders of Mundus

code modified from cawaii's original

I'm bringing Lucia to the postgame - after the events of And The Stars Will Aid Her Escape, the fangame I'm planning that's her canon. What does this practically mean?

Well...

( Is that some kind of teal deer? )

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Player Name: Call me Bliss.
Player Journal: Just PM this journal or the Joshua Preston one.
Age: 27.
Contact: gTalk handle is blissauthority at gmail dot com
Characters Played: None yet, although I've apped Joshua Preston as well as this one.

IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Lucia Bolido, sometimes called the Sparkle in Twilight.
Canon: My Little Pony
OU/AU/OC: AU to the maaaaaaaaaaaax!
Canon Point: See History, below.
History:

Lucia Bolido is another world's reflection of Twilight Sparkle - specifically, she was human, and from a jRPG high fantasy treatment of the My Little Pony universe, particularly the pilot episodes of Season One. She was a wizard studying wizardry in the capital city of Arcadia, and her patron, Appolyta, was that world's Celestia and every bit as beneficent as the original flavor goddess-queen.

Her world is as geographically and culturally diverse as ours. Appolyta ruled over a far flung republic, Roman-style, with control or at least cooperation from most of the 'european' and 'middle eastern' countries of her world. Lucia herself originally hailed from the Principality of Iberia, a Spanish and Moorish inflected city with a magnificent and Alhambra-esque public park where she used to study and play as a filly little girl.

At the point in that story that she was taken from, she has met and bonded with her world's take on the Mane Six (and Spike, don't forget Spike), who are united on a quest to defeat the evil Witch of Eternal Night and her cult. Which is to say, Nightmare Moon - although at this point her universe's Pinkie Pie and some research has convinced her that the Witch is possessed, and can be freed from the influence of the Nightmare Entity proper. She will be delighted to hear that this did, in fact, happen in MLJ Equestria.

Personality:

She's essentially the Twilight Sparkle you know and love, although she's a bit more serious in demeanor than the canon one. While her natural tendency is towards introversion and introspection - to the point where she has forgotten to take meals until Spike placed a plate of bread and butter in front of her - she loves to learn. She'll speak (and listen!) with great enthusiasm on the technical aspects of anything while asking relevant questions, and writing down the answers in her personal grimoire.

Like the original Twilight, she's prone to panic attacks - particuarly if she feels like she's going to make herself look unintelligent or disorganized in front of people she respects. She is compulsively organized and neat: she's a planner and a thinker. This doesn't mean she won't do things, but learning to leap even after looking was a challenge for her. Her world's Rainbow Dash, Applejack and ESPECIALLY Pinkie Pie were instrumental in teaching her when to listen to her intuition, go with the flow, and act without conscious thought - lessons that have saved her life when it was in peril before. Still trying to figure out the thaumaturgical underpinning of the Pinkie Sense, though.

Twilight is a university-educated scholar, on scholarship even. At this point, she's mostly gotten over her imposter syndrome... but being in another world with another Twilight may bring it back. Her thinking is logically rigorous and rational, although her common sense suffers a little bit; she is happiest with puzzes she can quantify, deduce, or induce the solutions to. Her majors were, naturally, Evocation - the sudden and violent channeling of elemental magical energies - and Thaumaturgy, the long slow boring mathematical way of doing magic that connects times, spaces and worlds.

Yes, worlds: she's studied interdimensional theory and was planning for her final exam to send and expedition into the Gate of Reflected Worlds, a powerful artifact located in the palace of her world's Crystal Empire that appears to be a great mirror reflecaaaaaaaand the punchline is that it's basically the mirror in Equestria Girls. For this reason, she'll twig to the nature of Equestria a little faster than most, and will be very interested in finding out the mechanism behind the arrival of the Newponies.

Her English is of the Early Modern variety. This doesn't mean that she'll throw around Thee's and Thou's willy-nilly, however; she will reserve that intimate form of address for her closest friends and most trusted mentors. If she uses the thou form in speaking to you, 'tis a Pretty Big Deal.

Strengths:
Lucia earned her title of the Sparkle in Twilight because of her ability to shine when things are darkest. She can think her way out of almost any logical or illogical problem. She's incredibly intelligent and educated, and she has the will and the reason to remember that when others would quail.

Lucia is a mage, and a powerful one. Among her evocations were the ability to call fire, ice, lightning and acid; telekinesis; short-ranged, line-of-sight teleportation; an enchantment that will freeze the flow of time around a single person (learned from her world's Doctor Whooves), and the power to shoot bolts of purple witch-fire at anything that really deserves it, as defined by her. Naturally, her magic gives her less bang for her buck in this universe, and she will be most interested to study why this should be so. She doesn't have the Orbital Friendship Cannon TWILIGHT BREAKER! Rainbow of Light yet, but given the Elements of Harmony and a little help from her very best friends, she could probably manage it.

Given time and a way to draw magic circles, she can ward places against entry with specific exceptions; prevent magic or magical creatures from escaping a rune-scribed prison (she claims in all modesty to have had the help of her brother, Escutio Bolido, with that particular ritual); and to teleport to any save point conflux of leylines that she's visited before.

Lucia is also capable of making friends very quickly, and has the humility and integrity to admit when she was wrong - or when she has wronged another. This, too, is much like the original Twilight Sparkle.

Weaknesses:
In a word, Lucia panics. She's prone to social panic in particular; Lucia has a great fear of looking foalish, unprepared or disorganized in front of her teachers and those she loves. She is much more composed and cheerful in correspondence than she is in person, except with those she trusts. She's going to love and tolerate the buck out of the scroll network.

It has been said that wizards are subtle and quick to anger. When Lucia is particularly frustrated, SCREW SUBTLE. She comes from a world considerably more dangerous and violent than Equestria, and will need to learn to reign it in. Power wants to be used, and she has power.

Lucia will also seek a logical solution far past the point where it's clear that logic is not the correct answer. She lacks common sense and social graces that most people her age should have picked up, given that she literally lived in an ivory tower for a long time and was somewhat sheltered by her family and Appolyta goatee-wearingCelestia. Her sense of humor tends towards wordplay, and is she is somewhat humorless compared to canon Twilight (although her Pinkie has been a good influence on her).

Possessions:
1: A conical straw hat with a red headband.
2: A polished oak staff with a faceted sunstone at the top, which she uses to mark runes and channel magic.
3: A gold-trimmed cape with a mantle, with what appears to be Celestia's cutie mark embroidered on the back.
4: A grimoire, with her spells and rituals, written in a personal code.
5: A diary and pen with a collection of entries, curios and illustrations of her friends.

She would normally have a unicorn-horn wand for evocation spells, but instead has... a unicorn horn.

Pony/Animal Type:

Unicorn.

Cutie Mark:

She does not have Twilight's usual mark: instead, she has a silver magic circle encircling a hexagram, representing the Elements of Harmony bound by human will. Hi Karen Murphy!

Pony Picture:

Look she's basically Twilight Sparkle a'ight?

SAMPLES
First Person:
Does http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/10174934.html#cutid1 work for you? It's thou heavy because she's talking someone she knows very well - her mundane.

Third Person:

Lucia's eyes scanned the page again. And again. Her ears drooped and her mouth pursed downwards in irritation; she absently drew symbols and numbers in the earth with her staff, encased in the shimmering violet glow of her telekinesis.

An idle thought struck her, and she brought a hoof to her snout.

"How much easier is it within this pastoral world to grasp objects with my will, and how much harder to evoke magebolts and hoarfrost and great balls of fire?" She spoke slowly, to give herself time to hear the words and to truly think on them. Then Lucia looked at the equations from her grimoire, scratched in the sand - alongside those from it's twin from the libraries. They didn't add up.

This bothered Lucia. All unsolved mysteries did, to tell the truth.

A rumble from her stomach interrupted her thoughts. With the barest scrap of her will, she took a faerie cake from a tea-tray. This world's Spyke had left it, and strong black tea although the strength of it probably was a consequence of how long Lucia had neglected it.

She bit into it, savored the sugar and the taste of candy ginger. Sun and Moon, sugar and ginger were luxuries back home, and here they were common to the point where she could indulge whenever she wished to; and this world's Rose - Pinkie Pie, she corrected herself with a sigh - was delighted to enable her gluttony.

Yet steel was rare and swords far more expensive than on her world; gunpowder primitive and only used for festival fireworks; and the great coal-fired steam engines that provided locomotive force for carriages were, to her enduring shock, not used for warfare.

"I wonder." Lucia rolled her haunches up her barrel, then flexed her neck. "Is it in the nature of this world to abhor violence? Do the laws of this world prevent it? It would explain much..." she trailed off and scribbled another equation in the dirt, along the edge of a circle. "In motes of Essence, the cost of evocations seems..."

She smiled. Musing on a cake was the leap of intuition that she needed.