Characters:Twilight Sparkle

=Twilight Sparkle=

Physical Description
Twilight is a young unicorn mare in her mid 20s, of average height and average build. Her coat is a deep, beautiful royal purple, and her mane and tale are darker still with a stripe of pink and lighter violet running down the middle. Her eyes are also a deep amethyst color. Her cutie mark, a large purple starburst surrounded by several white and dark purple ones, represents the raw force of magic itself.

Personal History
Twilight was born to a noble stallion and mare, both very accomplished mages who are moderately famous throughout the kingdom. Her early childhood was relatively normal. Her parents were often busy, but were rarely both away from the house. In those rare times, she was watched either by her brother Shining Armor who was, at the time, a recruit of Celestia's royal guard or by Princess Cadence, a descendant of the former bloodline that ruled Equestria. It's also rumored that Twilight's bloodline comes from the late Starswirl the Bearded, but this is unconfirmed.

From a very young age, Twilight was predicted to have an incredibly potent magical power. Any unicorn who attempted to meditate nearby her could feel the ambient energy swirling and pulsating around her. Strangely, though, she never had a manasurge in her infancy. When she was old enough, she was placed in the Royal Academy of Magic, struggling through the schooling. Try as she might, she could never complete any spells and was almost ready to be expelled after the first year of schooling. The day of the final mastery exam of simple spells, Princess Celestia was in attendance. When it came time for Twilight's turn, she once again failed. The Princess gave her another chance and set down a white and green spotted egg, asking Twilight to simply give it enough magical power to break the stasis field on it and cause the egg to hatch. As Twilight channeled the mana, but couldn't release it, a twist of fate happened. The sky shattered, a brilliant display going on overhead. The resulting shockwave managed to spur Twilight on, causing her to release all of that channeled mana at once in a single burst. As it turns out, she was channelling an absolutely incredible amount of mana, which not only shattered the stasis field on the egg, but turned several of the spectators into random objects. Celestia managed to help Twilight dissipate the channeled mana, which reversed almost all of the spells she had cast inadvertantly. From that day on, she was to be Celestia's own personal student, much to the envy of the rest of her class.