Character Development Meme!

[rubycitymods]

!! Character Development Meme !!




Being pulled into a world different from their own can be taxing for any character and the relationships that they develop and experiences they have can alter them in many different ways, pushing them away from their canon personalities, appearances and more.

Some will change more than others, not always dependant upon how long they've been in the game!

How has your character (or your characters) changed over their time in Ruby City? Do they have scars they didn't have before; have their opinions on certain topics changed; how has their perspective been shifted by their time in the city? Which events - game-wide or personal - have impacted on them? What would they think if they came face to face with the 'vanilla' version of themselves?

Tell us all about it!

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[thepuppetmaster]

Twilight Sparkle has, almost from the start, been separated from all of her friends. Fluttershy was around when she first came to the city but left not long after and for quite a while she was alone, until Discord appeared. At that time, he definitely wasn’t anything close to any friend of hers.

She couldn’t revert back to the kind of pony she’d been when she first moved to Ponyville. Twilight needed her friends, she was lonely. Then, she found an unlikely friend in the form of one James E Walter, a prickly and easily irritated man who hated magic and well educated people and, in a word, everything that Twilight was. Despite this, though, the two of them ended up in an almost sibling-like relationship that, for a while, Twilight utterly relied on (whether he knew that or not).

Since then, she’s gained a few more friends, but JW is certainly the best one she has. There’s very little that she wouldn’t do for him, just like she’d do anything for her Ponyville friends.

After their most recent canon update, Twilight and Discord have also become firm friends. They had been partly on the way beforehand, but Discord’s capricious nature was still standing in the way of it. Really, they needed the finally few episodes of season four to cement their fondness for each other as much as they might both vehemently deny that their feelings go anything beyond tolerance.

Twilight is probably the one who has changed the least out of everyone that I play in the city and though her ideas about friendship have been altered, they’re no less strong. She misses Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rarity every day, she misses Celestia and Luna and her brother and Cadence, but she wouldn’t wish them to her even if she had the opportunity. It’s just not in her nature.

For a while, she was genuinely afraid of putting herself ‘out there’ and being visible in the city, mostly due to the kinds of reactions she got (on account of being a talking purple magic pony). She grew tired of this, though, and vented her frustrations out over the network, after which she was encouraged to ignore the haters and go about her business like anyone else in the city. It was advice that she took to heart and since then she’s been more confident in just walking around, though she’s still somewhat aware of being stared at.

Recently, she seems to be slipping back into teaching, as she did with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. From mapping the stars with Ib to teaching Ezio how to read English, she’s keeping herself busy around constantly practicing and improving her magic (and keeping Discord and JW out of trouble).