APPLICATIONOOCName: Sair
Age: 30
Contact: Plurk: Alwaysterrible Sair#6121
Character(s) Played: N/A
ICName: Sunset Shimmer (Solar Flare)
Canon: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls/CRAU Aurora Express
Canon Point: Post Holidays Unwrapped canonwise and time in the Aurora.
Age: Human: 17ish. Pony: Young adult.
Appearance: Human. Yes, skin is actually amber yellow. Pony. She also has a
tattoo in both forms with the wings wrapped around her neck and a fiery, feathery, leafy tail that ends on her side. It covers up some of her skin is scales.
Abilities:Unicorn: She's a well educated spellcaster. Unicorn magic can do a wide range of things from transmutation to teleportation to telekinesis. She could make up new spells, though they take a lot of work and a whole lot of math. Nothing game breaky for just unicorn magic, but it certainly makes her formidable in a fight. She must also be a unicorn to use her magic.
Empathy/Memory/Mind reading: Something unicorn magic can't do so easily is mental invasion spells. Sunset Shimmer has the unique ability to be able to touch someone and see into their mind (or at a distance if she's supercharged by something externally). The ability pulls up all 'relevant information' to answer the question at hand. Either a question Sunset herself is deliberately looking for an answer to, or it could potentially go off without Sunset's will if someone is in active, current distress over something, in which case she learns what she needs to understand their problem. This ability will of course be done with permission only. There's a lot of magic in the air to interfere. It also requires Sunset to be in certain proximity to her geode necklace. If it's too far away, she can't do it. This ability can be done in either body. This also provides some strong mental defenses, but not unbeatable.
Magic Of Friendship: Plot Device Magic. Sunset is a focal point for the Magic Of Friendship, which is a harmony magic that has the end goal of 'balancing' the world to make harmony. Usually works in the form of purifying corrupted souls or magic. The Magic of Friendship needs Sunset to have support of people close to her to work and also it would be a whole Plot Thing for it to happen. So basically it'd be run by all parties involved and mods if a thing was done. Mostly its a potential fun thing to play with because nothing like rainbow lazers, but it's super situational.
Magic of Friendship (Light): If Sunset Shimmer passionately plays music, or is doing Super Empathy Things Of Drama, then she can pony up, turning her into a half human, half pony hybrid. It can let her float and if she's with someone, have a protective barrier of magic. Not impenetrable, but helps.
Magic Hairclip: Sunset Shimmer has a hairclip that allows her to shift between her human and unicorn form.
Potentially eternally youthful as a human.
(Optional) Personality: Sunset Shimmer went villain, got hit with those rainbow lazers, and had to rebuild herself from the ground up, always unsure of her place, if she had any right to say things because of her past misdeeds and unwanting to lose those who would show her kindness. Solar Flare, however, never went full villain without magical corruption and even after she saw how bad she could be, she came out with it knowing people risked their lives specifically because they cared about her and not because they were trying to stop a raging she-demon.
So at present, Sunset Shimmer is a good girl, but she still has the hard edges that guilt and uncertainty had worn away before her amnesia. Sunset is ultimately someone who wants to help. She wants to make the world a better place and she does hate to see people hurting. She knows her empathy powers are something special and she knows she is meant to be someone who heals hearts. With her memories returned, she'll be better at not being overbearing, though her fire might make it happen from time to time. She wants to listen to people, to slow down and approach things carefully if she can afford it. These are lessons Sunset Shimmer learned and Solar Flare is remembering again.
She is also very forgiving. She knows she's done bad things. More over she's seen people who had no choice, but be involved with horrific things without being bad themselves. If she sees good in someone, she will want to try and help them find it again. That being said, she won't simply excuse what they've done if they're not trying to be better or allow them to blame others for their own faults. A different between Solar and Sunset, as Sunset would at times take blame for things that really weren't a crime on her part.
She has a temper. It's not a hair trigger sort of thing, but she doesn't take insults or being patronized. She can get petty when she's frustrated. She would never do serious harm on purpose, but she's not afraid to be rude or to get on someone's nerves. She also has a healthy dose of skepticism. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
She's also incredibly smart. She was a magical protege, she's the top student at Canterlot High after only being in the human world for two years, and knows how to program apps even though computers don't exist in Equestria. She can memorize large swathes of information, and she's adaptable and resourceful. She built up a human life after literally not existing there.
She doesn't take failure or being 'useless' well. They're always heavier than her successes and it can cause her to doubt her own worth or if people will want to deal with her. She's recently realized that people will still value her regardless, but knowing it, and feeling it are two different things. Its something she will have to grow into more. It does still push her to find ways to be useful though, to be doing something of worth and makes her anxious when she has nothing.
Friendship is very important to her. She will do anything for her friends and its people who threaten them that causes her to actually wish harm on others. She will usually regret it afterwards, but her friends have saved her time and again and she won't give them up.
She does like to have fun though. She loves music and she will do graffiti art and she adores cute animals. She's an avid video game player and often gets dragged along in Pinkie Pie's other zany adventures, like a dramatic souffle delivery. She can be incredibly serious and composed, a guiding big sister type, but she can also be an incredible dork who'll tease and make fun of herself.
It should also be noted that for a pony from a land of rainbows and cute, she is able to roll with a lot of horrible. She's seen the darkness of her own world and now many others. She's able to compartmentalize and detach enough to deal with things, without turning cold to the person in need of help. It takes a lot to truly 'break' her when it comes to horrors.
History: CanonCRAU: Sunset Shimmer was called to the Aurora Express, a train that crossed the multiverse, trying to purify stars of Malice before it consumed everything. It did this with the power of Bonds. Everyone was put on a team and made to play in Trials for the emotional reactions to hopefully encourage bonding. These Trials could be social bingo to things where people died, but thankfully their quasi existence allowed them to be revived. And speaking of quasi existence, there were a great many on the Aurora who would often arrive with pieces missing. A lucky few had everything, but most were missing things like abilities, or memories. Sunset Shimmer lost her memories.
She was on Senna and given the nickname Solar Flare. Her first day was rough, waking up in a body she didn't recognize, and her fear making her lash out. She managed to alienate herself from one of her teammates entirely and managed to put off several people until she finally had a break down on Eliza as she finally realized she had no grasp or control on anything. Eliza offered Solar Flare kindness even though she had been convinced no one would want anything to do with her and it was enough to give her some footing.
Solar Flare decided to study all she could about her situation, suspicious on how easy 'sparks,' the evidence of bond magic, were generated. Bonds sounded like harmony magic and she knew that wasn't easy magic to do. She also swore to always make sure her new teammates felt welcomed and cared for, hating how her teammate gave up on her and not wanting anyone else to go through that.
Then Solar Flare discovered her empathy magic. She proceeded to get several highly traumatic memories from cannibalism to family trauma to seeing the mind of an evil god that wanted to destroy the world. It was harsh for a girl who was used to a world of ponies and teenagers corrupted with magic, but unwilling to be useless, she did her best to comfort and also at one point offer to figure out a way to kill the evil god. It prepared her, at least, for when she went through a game where she was transformed into a man eating monster. She ended up being grateful to the person who killed her before she ate someone.
Solar Flare struggled to find a balance between helping without driving people away and found it difficult. She knew she had the power to help, but it was too much for her in her amnesia state. She would help save a purified star, but then seem to cross lines that made people unhappy with her that tainted the success. Even as she does well with her teammates, Loki and Klarion, the failures built up and with a bad memory, she found herself tired feeling pain for others. She ended up eating an apathy causing flower, just to stop feeling for a little while, unaware that her empathy magic only existed because her heart wanted to help. Her apathy caused the magic to become corrupted and she was turned into a demon who ran her own traumatic trial.
But several of her friends knew something was wrong and played the game against how they would usually wish in an effort to reach out to her, to try and get through to her. It worked, though in a round about way, allowing the harmony magic inside of Solar Flare to take control to run its own trial to help her find herself again. Her friends were able to purify her and the fact so many people went so far for her has helped reassure Solar Flare's heart enough to try and move forward.
Of course, when the power of bonds is what got back those missing pieces, combining it with the Magic of Friendship was enough to pull back Sunset Shimmer's memories, though it'll take time for her to sort out all those pieces again.
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