Twilight Sparkle, known formally as Princess Twilight Sparkle, was a female Alicorn pony and the former ruler of Equestria. She used to represent the element of Magic and was one of the six Guardians of Friendship. She is the daughter of Night Light and Twilight Velvet, the younger sister of Shining Armor, the adoptive older sister of Spike, the sister-in-law of Princess Cadance, and the aunt of Princess Flurry Heart.
Personality[]
Twilight was originally quite introverted and a bit rude, but eventually came out of her shell more. She held a bit of snark and was quite well-read. Twilight tried to be rational and find logic in situations. She held her friends in high regard and rose to power after proving her understanding of friendship.
Appearance[]
Twilight Sparkle has a lavender coat, and her mane and tail are dark indigo with streaks of purple and pink. Her mane and tail end in straight edges, reflecting her straight-edge personality. Her eyes are purple and almond-shaped. Her cutie mark was a pink six-pointed starburst with five smaller white stars.
Concept Art[]
Earlier G5 ideas featured redesigns of the Generation 4 characters from the cartoon. The concept art leaked in early 2017 made one major change from Twilight Sparkle from Friendship is Magic: her lack of a horn. Aside from the species change, her designs all looked very similar with her trademark bangs and purple/blue color scheme. All designs with a cutie mark kept her six-pointed star. Further artwork featured designs with a bracelet.
Media[]
History[]
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.
However, this harmony was not meant to last. At some point, an Alicorn 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. And even attacked dragons to steal their magic.
This caused much distrust, anger and fighting between the ponies until after many moons, Twilight and her friends were able to set things right. To make sure magic never pitted everypony against each other, Twilight gathered all the pony's magic and place it in the three Unity Crystals and all the dragon magic in Dragonstone, and put an invisibubble around Equestria to prevent Opaline from entering again.
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 in Growing Pains. Her message warns the Mane 5 about Opaline, the pony whom tried to steal Equestria's 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.
My Little Pony: A New Generation[]
Twilight appears at the start of the movie as Sunny, Sprout, and Hitch play with Sunny's figures. Under Sunny's control, she ushers the Guardians of Friendship off on an adventure but is disturbed by Rarity's threats to fry brains (under Sprout's control). Her Cutie Mark is shown in many ancient locations such as the lighthouse in Maretime Bay and the station in Zephyr Heights.
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark[]
Chapter 2[]
She is first seen as a hologram in Growing Pains, warning the Mane 5 about the evil Alicorn, the pony who tried to steal the magic of Equestria a long time ago during her reign after her mentors, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna retired. After that she is frequently seen in Zipp's recordings and notes about the evil Alicorn.
Chapter 6[]
In The Isle of Scaly, Spike explains that during Twilight's reign over Equestria, an evil Alicorn later to be revealed to be as Opaline Arcana have being banished from the Alicorn realm of Skyros who had the desire to steal the magic all for herself and wants to rule over all ponykind but she thought that all Alicorns were superior. Spike also explains that Opaline attacked the dragons in the Dragon Lands in order to transform into a fire Alicorn. In order to keep the magic of Equestria out of Opaline's possession, Twilight created the Unity Crystals to put all of pony magic inside of them, and all of the Dragon magic inside the Dragonstone. Twilight sent the dragons to protect the ponies of Equestria from her influence and she put a magic bubble around Equestria to keep Opaline out. However, Twilight's spell was weakened when Sunny and her friends brought magic back to Equestria in A New Generation, causing Opaline to make a resurgence in the Make Your Mark special.
In Roots of All Evil Pt. 1, Twilight is mentioned when the ponies realized that Opaline has found a way into Equestria regardless around her magical protection spell. In Roots of All Evil Pt. 2, Twilight's cutie mark appears when Opaline tries to enter the Crystal Brighthouse to steal the Unity Crystals meaning that the Brighthouse is still protected by Twilight's spell. As Opaline has all the magic of Equestria now in her possession, she disables all of Twilight's magical protection around Equestria, and her cutie mark that held the Crystals disappears, causing the Unity Crystals to lose their power completely.
My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale[]
In Written in the Starscouts, a toy version of Twilight can be seen as Sunny's Mom was holding it and gave it to baby Sunny who started chewing on it.
Trivia[]
- In A New Generation, her name is misspelled in the credits as "Twighlight Sparkle".
- Twilight knows about Opaline beforehand.
- Twilight may have either placed her message into the Unity Crystals, or her spirit is contained within the Crystals themselves.
- However, it takes six ponies, two from each of the three tribes, to fully reveal Twilight's message.
- This reflects her and the rest of the Guardians of Friendship.