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Twilight Sparkle

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Princess Twilight Sparkle (voiced by Tara Strong, singing voice by Rebecca Shoichet) is the main protagonist of Generation 4 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

She is a female unicorn pony who transforms into an Alicorn and becomes a princess in Magical Mystery Cure. She is also the daughter of Twilight Velvet and Night Light, the younger sister of Shining Armor, sister-in-law to Princess Cadance, and paternal aunt to Flurry Heart.

At the beginning of the series, she and Spike, her best friend and assistant, move from Canterlot to Golden Oak Library in Ponyville to study the magic of friendship, and in Twilight's Kingdom, she gains her own castle—the Castle of Friendship—and gains the title "Princess of Friendship". Twilight Sparkle represents the Element of Magic.

She first met Pooh and his friends in Pooh's Adventures of Thomas and the Magic Railroad where she rescued them from The Grand Duke of Owls. She is Princess Celestia's most faithful student who was sent to Ponyville to make preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration, but also to make some friends. She was incredibly reluctant too, due to focusing on her task, but also because she worried about the possibility of Nightmare Moon, an evil version of Celestia's younger sister Princess Luna, coming back after 1000 years and creating an everlasting night. The possibility became reality, but with the assistance of Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity, five friends that Twilight met while in Ponyville, they harnessed the power of the Elements of Harmony and defeated Nightmare Moon, returning her to Princess Luna. Since then, Twilight has stayed in Ponyville with her friends and reporting to Celestia about every new lesson she's learned about friendship. Twilight is also Shining Armor's younger sister.

Before becoming a princess, she regularly sends friendship reports to Princess Celestia. In Owl's Well That Ends Well, Twilight adopts a pet owl named Owlowiscious. As of The Last Problem, she becomes the new Queen of Equestria.

Portrayal[]

  • She is voiced by Tara Strong, and her singing voice by Rebecca Shoichet.
  • In the Hello Pinkie Pie series, she was voiced by Jessica DiCicco.

History[]

Friendship is Magic[]

Twilight tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders in The Cutie Mark Chronicles how, as a young filly in Canterlot, she always wanted to go to the Summer Sun Celebration. There, she witnessed Princess Celestia raising the sun, which inspired her to learn everything she could about magic. At first she finds it difficult to magically turn a page in her book, but she quickly achieves her goal. In a time-lapse sequence, she reads through two big piles of books, and her parents enroll her in Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. However, she has to pass an entrance exam before joining. Under the supervision of four examiner ponies, she has to use her magic to hatch a dragon's egg. Despite her best efforts, the egg does not hatch, and Twilight apologizes for wasting the examiners' time. Just then, Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom startles her and causes her horn to fire off a beam of light at the egg, hatching infant Spike.

With her eyes glowing white and a purple aura around her, Twilight fires off a flurry of spells: she makes the examiners float in the air, turns her parents into potted plants (this is actually the first appearance of any pony's parents, Pinkie Pie's parents are second) and transforms Spike into a giant dragon, with his head breaking through the roof. Princess Celestia took notice of this and quickly arrives to control Twilight's magic and return everything back to normal. Twilight apologizes, but Princess Celestia is not upset; instead, she recognized Twilight's power and recommends that Twilight learn to tame her abilities through focused study. She offered to take Twilight Sparkle as her own personal protégé at the school. Twilight excitedly accepted the offer, and at that moment, her cutie mark appeared. She was very happy.Throughout the series, Twilight continues to study magic, and in particular she studies the "magic of friendship" under the decree of Princess Celestia, and sends her reports of her studies. One day in Canterlot, she soon learns about the impending return of NightMare Moon. She resides in a literal ivory tower, and boasts to Spike about being Princess Celestia's "most faithful student", which is how the princess addresses her in her letters throughout the series. She is invited to Moondancer's party, but she chooses to study about Night Mare Moon's imminent return instead. She is soon sent to Ponyville by Princess Celestia under the pretense of seeing to the arrangements of the Summer Sun Celebration. Twilight first ventures into Ponyville in the first episode, where she befriends Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy. She quickly learns of the skills of her friends: she admires Rainbow Dash's ability to clear the skies, Rarity's beautiful decoration work, and Fluttershy's bird choir's melodious music. She is less impressed with Applejack's over-abundance of hospitality, Pinkie Pie's surprise party and rapid-fire one-sided conversation, and even runs away from Rarity when she practically forces her to get a makeover. She shares many adventures with her friends throughout the course of the series.

Make Your Mark[]

After proving herself in bringing harmony to Equestria, Twilight Sparkle was granted the responsibility of ruling the nation as her mentors Princess Celestia and Princess Luna abdicated their thrones. She regularly sought the counsel of her old friends and for some time, Equestria was peaceful and prosperous. Over time Twilight became more powerful as her Alicorn magic fully evolved. She began to mentor a young Unicorn named Luster Dawn to one day take her place.

However, this harmony was not meant to last. At some point, a Unicorn named Opaline appeared in Equestria, intent on stealing all the magic from Equestria for herself. To do this, Opaline purposely antagonized the three pony kinds by giving them false ideas of a perfect Equestria and that Unicorns are superior to others, which led them into turning against each other.

This caused much distrust, anger and fighting between the ponies until Twilight used all of her magical power to take Opaline's Alicorn Magic, sealing it away somewhere. Twilight then took all of Equestria's Magic and put it into the three Unity Crystals and creating an invisi-bubble over Equestria, making it hidden for many moons from outside threats and Opaline until the spell broke sometime before or after MLP: A New Generation or MLP Make Your Mark Chapter 1 special, exposing the ponies to the world once more.

It is still unknown of what befell Twilight and her friends but the legends of Twilight's accomplishments continued to persist among Ponies who either knew her directly or researched her life. Her legacy would be rekindled by Sunny Starscout and her friends.

Twilight is later seen as a hologram in Chapter 2 of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark. Her message warns the watcher(s) about Opaline, the pony whom tried to steal Equestria Magic, which is now more powerful than it has ever been and informs them of magic always changing and growing stronger. Her holographic message frizzes out, leaving out some details before cutting out.

Appearance[]

Twilight is a unicorn, later alicorn with lavender fur and an indigo-colored mane and tail, stylized with rim cuts, and also has two lighter-purple and magenta stripes running down both. She also has violet irises and prominent eyelashes, and also, occasionally, thicker eyebrows. She has a moderately-sized horn, which grew in width when she ascended to an Alicorn. Upon her ascension into an Alicorn, Twilight gained big wings on her back.

Personality[]

Twilight is first introduced in the series as being asocial. She politely refuses an invitation to Moon Dancer's get-together and later states that she and Spike "don't have time for that sort of thing." When Celestia tells her to oversee the arrangements of the Summer Sun Celebration in Ponyville and to try and make friends, Twilight is indifferent to the latter request. Over the course of the series premiere, however, Twilight comes to accept her new friendships and expresses a desire to stay with her new friends in Ponyville.

In Amending Fences, Twilight returns to Canterlot in an attempt to apologize to her former friends for her past actions. She succeeds with Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts, and Minuette, but Moon Dancer coldly rebuffs the four mares. Minuette and Twilight liken Moon Dancer's behavior to the way Twilight used to act.

But Twilight is by default a kind and sweet girl but is very strict and orderly. She holds a very high sense of responsibility (almost bordering on OCD) and values hard work and education. She is also extremely organized, having Spike look over her daily checklists three times over. During her childhood and adolescence living in Canterlot, Twilight started as a bit of a loner, valuing schoolwork and education over friendship and social participation, which led to many disappointments from her acquaintances (save for Spike) when they attempted to invite her to join social gatherings and parties, or generally to have fun. After being sent to Ponyville by Celestia on an assignment of overseeing the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration.

Like Pinkie Pie, she's also known to be optimistic, always having a positive and cheerful attitude when it comes to situations and having fun.

Powers and Abilities[]

  • Child Prodigy: Since she was a filly, Twilight has been gifted in intelligence and had hidden potential in the ways of magic.
  • Enhanced Intellect: Twilight was gifted with intelligence and specializes in organizational skills.
  • Alicorn Physiology: Throughout her life Twilight was a unicorn, but when she fixed the cutie marks and jobs, she gained pegasus wings, making her an alicorn.
  • Magic: Twilight Sparkle is highly exceptional in regard to magic, having dedicated herself to studying the art.
    • Spell Casting: Twilight can perform other various spells and tricks, she is able to learn spells simply by watching others perform them.
    • Spell Creation: Twilight can make her own spells after reading Star Swirl the Bearded's notes.
    • Levitation: Twilight can levitate herself.
    • Gravity Alteration: Twilight can use a "gravity spell" to make change the direction which gravity pulls within a certain area.
    • Time Travel: After reading Star Swirl the Bearded, she can travel through time, but only once and for a short time.
    • Magic Beam Emission: She can shoot concussive blasts from her horn.
    • Force-Field: Twilight can create a force-field to protect herself and/or others.
    • Teleportation: Twilight possesses the ability to teleport and others.
    • Telekinesis: Twilight's horn usually glows white or a faint shade of purple, and objects assume a glow of white, purple, or magenta; when she affects multiple objects at once, several other colors are used as well, allow her to manipulate them.

Relationships[]

Twilight Sparkle/Relationships

Trivia[]

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