Principal Keith

Principal Keith is a female character and the secondary antagonist in the Luna the Miracle Boy series. She is the headmistress of Seborga High School. She is also known by her Frankish-stylized fullname Catherine Theresia de Cinch (or just Keith Theresia, in fact that Keith is the short-form of Catherine) in the story's opening and closing credits.
==Depictions in the series==
===LMB Rainbow Rocks animated short stories===
Principal Keith briefly appears in the My Past is Not Today segment, where Roman thinks about her for acceptation as the student of Seborga High School.
===Luna the Miracle Boy: Friendship Games===
Principal Keith appears in this story episode as the principal of Seborga High School. She demonstrates great pride in her palace and its reputation as the undefeated winners of the Petrovburg's Friendship Games every four years – so much pride, in fact, that she views rival university – Canterlot Presidentials' recent boost in athletics and academics as a threat. In order to maintain Seborga High's reputation – especially the ones from France, Keith forces her lovely student – Princess Roman of Sunset Shimmer, to compete in the Games, going as far as she tells her to threaten Canterlot Presidentials by revoking Luna with Roman's amulet device to ensure she competes against him.
During her visit to Canterlot Presidential University, Principal Keith displays considerable disdain toward the presidential palace and its choice of Games competitors, comparing their selection process to a "popularity contest." She interrupts the welcome party that the palace holds for their rivals to assure everyone that Seborga High will win the Games like it always has.
During the Tri-Cross Relay event of the Games, Keith witnesses Roman's amulets open a dimensional rift and release a carnivorous plant, and she watches Jason pony up. She accuses Principal Tony of cheating, and when Tony suggests ending the Games in a tie, Keith refuses and determines to prove that Seborga High can win regardless of the presence of magic.
In the final round of the Games, Keith and the Seborga High Shadowbolts pressure Roman into releasing all of the magic from her amulet and using it against the CP Wondercolts, justifying it as fighting fire with fire. Her hubris results in the creation of Nightmare Moon. As Nightmare Moon slowly destroys around her, Keith retreats into hiding.
After both Roman and Luna are returned to normal, Keith storms against Princess Finlandia. She declares Finlandia of the "vindictive woman" and demands that Luna must forfeit the Friendship Games by citing Canterlot Presidentials' unfair advantage of "ponying up". However, the Seborga High Shadowbolt combatants turn on Keith and blame her for Luna's heroic action in rescuing Roman. Keith says that she plans to report Luna's heroic action to Princess Aulia. Fortunately, Princess Finlandia, First Lady Camilla, Principal Tony, and Sergey the Twilight Sparkle inform her that no one would believe her story, even Princess Aulia is just a mute witness. In an effort to save her face, she leaves the palace with calm dignity. She last appears in a photograph with First Lady Nabil, and the Seborga High Shadowbolts during the episode end credits.
===Luna the Miracle Boy: Friendship Games (deleted scenes)===
Throughout the episode, Keith's scenes are often musically accompanied by a rather sinister-sounding tango. In the blooper reel of this story episode when she meets Luna – in which he comes personally to Seborga High, Keith messes up her chair spin scene and laughs. It is the only time Keith appears laughing or smiling.
===Luna the Miracle Boy: Legend of Everfree===
Keith is mentioned in this story episode – first by Nightmare Moon that Keith has successfully reports to Princess Aulia about Luna's heroic actions and demands Aulia to summon her curse magic to make Luna suffered until meeting his death faster. Even so, Petrovburg will fall to Princess Aulia, and all friends and families who remain loyal to Luna will be forced to serve her as the "must-loved dictator".
===Dance of the Equestria Flares===
When discussing the post-Friendship Games state of Seborga High School. Zaynab tells Tobias that Principal Keith is no longer headmistress, and has been replaced by Zoran Medvedev.
==Special story depictions==
===Diary of the University Principals===
Keith appears as the recently-appointed principal of Seborga High School during Finlandia's senior year and Tony's freshman year at Canterlot Presidential University.
===Canterlot Presidential Tales===
In the Luna's Science Fair Sparks, Keith appears as the recently-appointed principal of Seborga High School during the Canteborga Science Fair at Canterlot Presidential University.
==Personality==
Principal Keith is the haughty, abusive, and manipulative headmistress of Seborga High. She takes pride in her students, especially France's reputations in honor for Seborga District, especially the awards that her campus receives when winning the Friendship Games, and largely considers their legacy of winning her own. She also considers Luna at his first visit to the campus as her most-prized visitor because of his intelligence.
However, Keith is very competitive and arrogant when it comes to opposition. She accepts nothing less than perfection from her students, excluding Roman's fraud when she competes with Luna, as seen during the Math Equations in the ACADECA. and she shows no reservations in resorting to underhanded tactics to preserve her palace's image, such as exploiting her students and cheating. She is also somewhat cowardly, leaving her students behind when she perceives Nightmare Moon to be a monster.
According to First Lady Camilla, Keith is "highly allergic" to the dogs.
==Quotes==
Friendship Games
:Principal Keith
::¡Vive la France! We always win.
:Principal Keith
::It doesn't matter whether or not Seborga High wins or loses. The important thing is we are expected to win because this Seborga High has a reputation. And it is that reputation— my reputation that is responsible for everything we have here.
:Principal Keith
::Ah yes. She is Roman Rosalina – my best student.
:Principal Keith
::Luna, apologize me before, Roman just challenged you at the math equations competition, do you agree with her?
:Principal Keith (assures Princess Finlandia about Luna)
::Finlandia, your son is very curious, he is the smart ones are always curious.
:Principal Keith
::I'd like to thank Mrs. Finlandia and Principal Tony for their unconventional welcome. It's been four years since the last Friendship Games, but it feels as though nothing has changed. Canterlot Presidentials continues to pick its competitors in a popularity contest and Seborga High continues to field its top twelve students. It is a comfort to know that even after so many years of losses, this presidential palace remains committed to its ideals, however misguided they may be. I wish you all the best of luck, regardless of the inevitable outcome.
:Principal Keith (disqualifying Roman)
::Incorrect!
:Principal Keith
::A tie? Was this your strategy all along, Tony? To force us into accepting you as equals? I think not.
:Principal Keith
::Finlandia! You vindictive woman! [sic] I demand that your son – Luna, must get disqualified from these Friendship Games immediately!
:Principal Keith
::Obviously! My students and my reputations from France have been infected by Luna with his heroic action! I will report this up with Princess Aulia! I hope Aulia will call her immortal curses so that Luna will be suffered, FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!
:Principal Keith
::What a sore loser.
Luna's Science Fair Sparks
:Principal Keith
::Assalamu-alaikum, Luna Vernadsky. So happy to see you.
:Principal Keith
::Some of our people just don't like dancing. What's wrong with that?
:Principal Keith
::That machine! It hypnotized us!
==Gallery==
==References==
#Main course
#*https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Principal_Cinch
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