Midnight Shine

**Midnight Shine** is a young unicorn princess that born to Princess Twilight Sparkle and Prince Blue Sword. She is Sunny's Dark Twin, possessing the latter's dark magic and having her own light magic in her twin.

After a failed attempt to kidnap her by Smee, Midnight gets to know about the Cutie Mark Crusaders' mission to save the abducted talents. When they are ready to go to Neverland, Midnight is chosen by the Tree of Crisis to help the Crusaders. In Neverland, Midnight is able to seal herself and the Shadow inside the jewel of her mane clip, where the young filly is able to vanquish the villain and free Tinkerbell from her control. Later, she and Tinkerbell are freed by Sunny.

When Star has the curse on his heart contained with a seal, Twilight and Blue reveal to Sunny and Midnight Dusk's existence.

## Personality

Midnight is shown to be a sweet and caring filly, despite sometimes losing her cool because of her twin sister's "goody" behavior.

However, when confronting with situations that are not favorable to her, Midnight can get easily frustated and explosive, just like when she got to know she was a Dark Twin. That is also shown when Atlanta bullies her for having a blacklight nature, where she tried to harm her unconsciously with a Pain Inducing Pain.

Unlike her sister, Midnight is not that much enthusiastic, being more reserved and shy. This appears to have worsen after getting to know she was a Dark Twin.

Despite her kind and caring personality, Midnight can sometimes be a little selfish, mainly when it comes to the more frustrative part of having a twin sister like Sunny. This is evident at their birthday when Midnight wanted to so much to have that day all for herself, after having her sister constantly deciding for her what to have in their birthday party. Eventually, she comes to realize the fun part of having a twin.

It would appear she had inherited some of Twilight's obsessive nature, shown when she decided to find out how did all the academy get to know about Silver Wind being a pony-wolf and the mysterious creature, despite the chances of finding out being minimum. This obsessive nature is also shown as she tries to prove that Cozy Glow is not as innocent as she appears to be. Her unwillingness to be friends with Cozy Glow is so much that she even avoids being with her friends when they are with Cozy. Eventually, she is shown to be right, as Cozy Glow was a fairy in disguise called Miss Nettle who had infiltrated the acaemy to find and take the headmistresses' spell book.

After accidently hurting her sister with her blacklight nature, Midnight comes to have a certain aversion to her own powers and, despite that, with Purple Smoke's help, she was able to accept them, she hesitates in using. This hesitation is such that she even froze when she tried to save her sister from Smee, fearing that she would hurt her. This aversion also caused some damages to her self-belief, as Midnight doubted that she would be able to save her sister, Sweetie Belle and the other kidnapped talents from Tinkerbell's clushes when the Tree of Crisis chose her to help Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. It is only when Golden Paladin is summoned to her that she comes to recover her self-belief and be able to control her power.

Ever since Midnight received her mane clip from Heartbeat, the young filly matured a lot, facing her mistakes and pass over any obstacles in her way. All that converged with the moment when Midnight made the sacrifice of sealing the Shadow along with her.

## Skills

Midnight possesses a great deal of dark magic, having not only the dark magic that was born with her, but also the one that was born with her twin sister and then transfered to her by the Lord of Chaos. Her dark magic seems to be quite powerful, as she, even with it repressed, was able to cast an aging spell that turned her own twin sister into a toddler and cast a powerful dark wave capable of knocking down strong beings like the zombie pirates of Neverland. She was also able to use her dark magic to seal the Shadow, along with her.

It's revealed that Midnight possesses a blacklight nature, mixing both light and darkness. It is shown that she has some skills in it, as she was able to cast a Pain Inducing Spell, although unconsciously. Initially, her control over it is very poor, but, with Golden Paladin's guidance, Midnight is starting to get some control over it. She can also create a barrier of blacklight that, when hit by the attacker, it can cause them a lot of pain.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Blue Sword and Twilight Sparkle

They are Sunny's parents. They love her very much and do everything to protect her.

Their relationship, however, is put to test after Midnight gets to know that she is a Dark Twin, as she got angered with her parents for not having told her the truth. Following a talk with Star, Midnight decides to follow his advice and forgive them.

#### Star Knight

He is Midnight's older brother. She seems to love him very much. Their sibling relationship is further developed after Midnight finds out about being a Dark Twin. When she gets angered with her parents for having concealed the truth from her and Sunny during their life, Star is summoned by the jewel on her mane clip to give her advice. He is able to relate with her because of the similar situation he got into after finding out he was a jinchuriki, advicing her to forgive Twilight and Blue, as they only did what they did in order to protect her.

Star Knight is shown to be very supportive of Midnight and encourage her when she have doubts, like when she was chosen by the Tree of Crisis to help Sunny, Sweetie Belle and the other kidnapped talents.

#### Dusk Storm

Dusk is Midnight's younger older brother. However, because he was raised aside of the family because of the danger he was to Star due to the curse on the latter's heart, she never met him. After Star was able to seal the curse for the time being, there was no reason to keep it a secret and Twilight and Blue revealed to Sunny and Midnight his existence. She latter meets him and gets very happy.

#### Sunlight Blaze

She is Sunny's younger twin sister. The two of them have a very close bond because they are twins, but they are not without disaggrements, as Midnight doesn't like when Sunny reveals things that were supposed to be secret between them.

Despite being Twins of Light and Darkness, the close bond shared by the two sisters allows them to remain best friends.

However, they do have some rivalry, as Midnight can get frustrated when Sunny takes decisions without regarding her opinion, like with their birthday party with Sunny deciding the games and the cake. All that frustration caused Midnight to cast accidently an aging spell on Sunny that turned her into a toddler. During that time, Midnight learned to appreciate the fun part of having Sunny as a twin and eventually accept it.

With the all trouble with Miss Nettle, the two sisters found themselves having conflicting ways of how to deal with her, with Midnight not trusting her when the evil fairy proposed a deal for the spell book, while Sunny decided to trust on her, believing the friendship they had with Cozy Glow would make Miss Nettle honor the deal. When Sunny was left distraught after Miss Nettle's betrayal, Midnight was able to restore her moral.

After hurting Sunny accidently with her power, Midnight gets traumatized by that moment in the way that she froze when Smee kidnaps her twin sister. Despite her sorrow for letting her sister be taken, Midnight becomes determined to do anything to save her. This is evidenced as she made a great sacrifice to release her from her captivity.

#### Gleaming Shield and Topaz Blade

Gleaming Shield and Topaz Blade are Midnight's cousin and they seem to get along very well.

## Description in the Saga

### *Light and Darkness - The Shadow of Midnight* (prologue)

After a Galloping Gala, Sunny and Midnight are born to Twilight and Blue. After they were born, the Lord of Chaos appeared and, after immobilizing everyone, proceeds to take the newborn princesses, wanting to take back to Twilight for having defeating him at the Light Kingdom's restoration. Despite the Lord of Order's intervention, the Lord of Chaos is able to turn Sunny and Midnight into Twins of Light and Darkness, with the former becoming a Light Twin and the latter becoming a Dark Twin. In order to keep both twins safe, the Lord of Order uses the Book of Fates to seal the twins' greatest potentials for both light and dark magics until the time they are ready.

### *Star Knight and the Nine-Tailed Fox*

In "The Power of Seeing", it is revealed that, when Star Knight was five, Twilight gave birth to twin unicorn fillies, Sunny and Midnight.

In "The Three Great Fairies Preparatory Academy", she and Sunny play a trick on Star.

In "A Glimpse of the Fox", Midnight, along with her parents and twin sister, says goodbye to Star before he goes to the academy.

In "A Meeting Between Tailed Beast and Jinchuriki", Sunny and Midnight reunite with their big brother.

In "A Holiday in Ponyville", she and her family go spend the Heart's Warming in Ponyville.

In "The Demon Fox's Cloat", she attends her brother's birthday party, but is put asleep by Leaf Mane's sleeping spores.

In “Just Add a Little Wind”, Midnight comes along with her mother and twin sister to see Star after his day training and the twins give a big hug to him, elevating his moral in continuing training.

In “The Lord of Order’s Motivation”, she welcomes Star after his victory over the General of Chaos, celebrating it.

### *Light and Darkness - The Shadow of Midnight*

In "Arriving Home", Midnight is reunited with her parents and older brother when they return from their mission to Tambelon.

In "Twins of Light and Darkness", Sunny and Midnight get to know that they are Twins of Light and Darkness, with Sunny being a Light Twin and Midnight being a Dark Twin. Despite both twins have showed shock over the revelation, Midnight, unlike Sunny who was too much shocked, had a bad reaction, getting angered with her parents for having concealed that from her and Sunny and then got out of the Mirrored Library.

In "A Brotherly Advice", after getting to know the truth and getting anger on her parents, Midnight gets to her hidding place at the gardens of the castle. Feeling her need for help, the jewel in her mane clip reacts and Star appears, giving her sister some advice regarding what to do with her discovery, encouraging her to forgive their parents. Understanding his advice, Midnights decides to go to them to apologize.

In "Sealing Potentials", Midnight returns to the Mirrored Library, where she forgives Twilight and Blue for having hidden the truth about she being a Dark Twin, telling how Star helped her realize that what they did was for her own good. They then continued to watch what happened after what the Lord of Chaos did.

In "The Academy Reception", Sunny and Midnight are revealed to be going to study at the Three Great Fairies Preparatory Academy along with their brother. Despite wanting to go, Midnight is revealed to not be very excited about that as much her twin sister for being affraid of losing control of her dark magic. Fortunately, Star reassured her. Once at the academy, the twins meet with Star's friends, but once knowing they will only have their brother only for that year as he had advanced on year foward, they got discouraged with that changing only when they get to know Silver Wind and Gust will also attend the academy. They then watch the reception before going with Moonlight and Galena to their rooms.

In "A Secret Mission", Midnight is disappointed that she and Sunny won't be roommates. She then meets her roommate, Cozy Glow, that leaves her uneasy.

In "Pursuing the Talent Thief", Midnight has a class of Enchanted Music with Sunny and Cozy Glow.

In "Anniversary Turbulence", it's Sunny and Midnight's birthday and they have some disagreements regarding what to have at their party. Eventually, frustrated with Sunny, Midnight ends up casting accidently an aging spell on Sunny, turning her into a baby. Taking advantage of her sister beeing now a baby, Midnight picks up the games and the cake, despite having Silver Wind constantly reminding her of the fact they need to bring Sunny back to normal. While watching over her and preparing the party, Midnight comes to realize how much she misses having her twin soon after she found the gift Sunny had for Midnight: a locket with a picture of them from their last birthday. But Midnight and Silver Wind end up losing Sunny, who had escaped them, so they search for her, with the throne room being the last place where they haven't searched. After getting depressed over her mistake, her mane clip summons Mirror Coat who helps her to cope with her mistake and encourages her to fix it. In order to lure Sunny out, Midnight sings her and Sunny's twin song, what causes baby Sunny to come out and Mirror Coat to reverse the aging spell. Later at the party, Midnight gives her present to Sunny: the latter's old party horn. They then receive their parents' present and watch the firework Star prepared for them.

In "A Mysterious Creature at the Academy", Midnight and her siblings return to the academy after the weekend with Silver Wind. At the next day, she and her friends discuss about the mysterious creature that had been wandering at the academy at the night before.

In "Dancing at the Moonlight", Sunny and Midnight, after getting to know about Silver Wind being a pony-wolf and the mysterious creature of the academy, try to comfort her. However, the all academy get to know about that and Silver Wind is target of their stares and Atlanta's mean words. Sunny and Midnight defend Silver Wind from Atlanta. Midnight makes her mission to find out who spread the news about Silver Wind through all the academy. Eventually, she finds out that someone was Cozy Glow and confront her along with Sunny. Cozy Glow tells them she only did that hoping to make everypony admire Silver Wind, something Sunny believes, but Midnight did not. Midnight is present when Silver Wind is able to control her pony-wolf form and gets her Cutie Mark.

In "Hunting the Predator", after a class of Science and Magic, Sunny, Midnight and Silver Wind plan to have a group study section. However, when Cozy Glow decides to join in, Midnight decides to go ask Star for help. Sunny tries to convince her to be friends with Cozy Glow, but fails to do so. Midnight searches for Star, finding him in his training place, where she sees him using his jinchuriki abilities. After that, they have a talk where Star advices Midnight to not let her distrust over Cozy Glow go too far that can affect her relationship with her friends.

In "An Explosive Temper", Midnight and her family come to Ponyville to spend the holidays.

In "Lord of the Rink", she has ice dancing lessons, strugling to do it. But, with Gust's help, she starts to get the hang of it. The two of them get paired with each other for the recital, but, because of Gust's fear of what the others would say about him ice dancing, Midnight feared he wouldn't keep up with the lessons. She did everything to help him face his dilemma, but Gust ended up returning to the ice hockey. However, thanks to the Crusaders, Gust realized his fears were unfounded and returned to the recital, where he and Midnight performed an amazing performance together.

In "The Secret of Cozy Glow", Midnight joins Cozy Glow's Enchanted Gardening Club along with Sunny and Silver Wind. However, her suspicions over Cozy Glow grow even bigger, as she sees another side of her when she catches her alone. While following when Cozy gets out of the greenhouse during the club, Midnight starts to have second thoughts about her suspicions, thinking his instinct is wrong. With this, her mane clip summons Heartbeat who tells her to always trust her instinct, even when it is wrong. This revigorates her motivations and tries to find Cozy Glow. She later finds her, now as Miss Nettle, imprisoning the headmistresses in a bubble and becoming Cozy Glow. Hiding until Miss Nettle is away, Midnight tries to free the headmistresses, but without success. She is then able to understand through the fairies' charades that Miss Nettle is after their spell book, but is not able to understand where it is. Returning to the greenhouse, she is able to convince her sister and Silver Wind about Miss Nettle and the three together try to find the spell book before her, eventually finding it at the clock tower. However, they are found by Miss Nettle who tries to make a deal with the fillies, promissing to release the fairies for the spell book. However, remembering what Heartbeat had told her, Midnight follows her instinct and doesn't trust in Miss Nettle. But Sunny, who thinks the friendship they had with Miss Nettle as Cozy Glow meant something to her, gave her the spell book, only to discover Miss Nettle tricked them. With Sunny feeling down about being tricked by Miss Nettle, Midnight is able to rise up her moral by telling her about her qualility of seeing the good in everyone. The fillies then make a plan to recover the book which involved using laughing lilies. They are able to recover the book and then release the headmistresses. When they face Miss Nettle, Sunny attacks her and, despite ending up in a bubble, she is able to take Miss Nettle's wand from her, which allows the headmistresses to corner her. Knotgrass releases Sunny and congratulates the fillies about their bravery against Miss Nettle.

In "The Attack of the Zombie Pirates", she, Sunny and Silver Wind tell the others how they defeated Miss Nettle. She, along with the other first-years, goes on a camping trip with the Crusaders. Noticing the absence of Gallus and Gust, Midnight, Sunny and Silver Wind adventure to find them, after getting to know they could be in trouble. On their way, they come across a maze of stone statues of deer warriors that prevented them from moving forward. Despite Midnight's plea to keep trying to pass them, Sunny and Silver Wind gave up and that led Midnight to also give up. At that moment, the jewel of her mane clip summon Melody who, through a song, she teaches Midnight, Sunny, and Silver Wind that they are stronger than they know by showing them how to cross over the moving warrior statues with vines and tells them to go on to save their friends. After facing two more obstacles, they arrive to a cave where Gallus and Gust are, but they are faced by Smee who tries to hypnotize them, but he is prevented from doing it with the arrival of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. The fillies watch the fight, but, seeing how the Crusaders were subdued by the zombie pirates, Midnight, unconsciously, unleashed a wave of dark magic that knocked down Smee and the pirate zombies. That caused the villains to retreat to Neverland.

In "Enchanted Science Fair", she was paired with Gust, whose competiveness was a little hard to deal with to her. After Gallus, Gust and Silver Wind fell under a devil's snare clunches when trying to get more hocrus-crokus in Leaf Mane's room and Sunny is able to save them using sunlight, Midnight has the help from Leaf Mane who tells her to fix her and her friends' friendship by using a project they all can do together. In the end, Midnight and Gust joined with the other two teams to create a Seasonal Balance project.

In "Target: Midnight", it's revealed that Midnight possesses a blacklight nature, to the shock of the ones present, as that nature was only shown by villains. After the fact Midnight had a blacklight nature spread out through the school, Atlanta started bullying her. Sunny defended her sister, however Atlanta's cruel remarks caused Midnight to lose control and attack her with a Pain Inducing Spell. Sunny placed herself between her twin and Atlanta and took the spell. Seeing what she did to Sunny, Midnight teleported away. At her hideout, Midnight started feeling disgust for her magic, but then the jewel of her mane clip summons Purple Smoke who is able to convince her to accept her magic and, by extention, herself, and inspires her to try to use it for good. After that, Smee and the zombie pirates appear, wanting to kidnap Midnight. Purple Smoke places himself between them, defending the young princess, while Star and the Cutie Mark Crusaders dealt with the zombie pirates. After Smee and the zombie pirates retreat, Purple Smoke and the CMCs told everything to Star and Midnight.

In "Endangered Talents", Midnight witnesses Sunny getting her Cutie Mark after practicing with Apple Bloom how to control her wood nature. When Smee and his zombie pirates arrive and the former grabs Sunny, Midnight tries to rescue her sister, but Smee remembers her about the time she hurt her, causing Midnight to freeze.

In "Shadows on the Snow", Midnight is with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo when they received a distress call from Sweetie Belle. Fortunately, Star arrives and, after telling them what happened in Las Pegasus, he tells Midnight to stay in the academy, while he and the Crusaders go help Sweetie Belle.

In "Entering in Neverland", Midnight joins Star, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo when they go see Atlanta and convince her to fix the magic watch. With the watch now fixed, the two Crusaders prepare themselves to save the kidnapped talents, when the Tree of Life summons Midnight to help them. However, Midnight, traumatized with her inability to control her powers that caused her to froze when Sunny was taken, refuses to go and runs away. It is then that her mane clip summons Golden Paladin who shows her that, as long she believes in herself and has courage, she will always save the day. Now with her self-belief revigorated, Midnight goes to the edge of the others saying that she is going. Apple Bloom opens the portal and she, Scootaloo and Midnight cross it.

In "Tiger Lily", Midnight arrives to Neverland with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. She is attacked by Cragadile, but the Crusaders protect her. The three of them are able to knock down him and then pursue him through the forest. When Cragadile disappears, they realize they are inside a trap. When plants start to threat them, but the trio is saved by a mysterious mare who then reveals herself as being Tiger Lily once they got to her camp. Once there, Tiger Lily explains to them who their real enemy is: a shadow that had possessed Tinkerbell and then went to take over Neverland and enslave its inhabitants. Tiger Lily, when asked by Midnight about a way to defeat the Shadow, gives her a jewel that can be used to seal Tinkerbell. Despite her doubts about being able to pull it off, Midnight accepts to do it.

In "Midnight's Last Stand", Midnight, along with the Crusaders and Tiger Lily, arrives to the Shadow's lair and helps them fight her minions, imprisoning them with her blacklight nature. However, she is captured by the Shadow and, when the latter is defeated by the Crusaders nand Tiger Lily, she returns to her side. When she does that, Midnight tries to seal the Shadow, however the sealing magic fails and the Shadow breaks the magic jewel. Despite being anger on Midnight for trying to seal, she does nothing to her, as she still needs her. The Shadow proceeds to tell Midnight how she knew she and Sunny were Twins of Light and Darkness and how their great potential would make her become stronger. It is then Midnight realize another way to seal the Shadow, requiring a big sacrifice for that. After trading a look with Sunny, Midnight uses the sealing magic again and, this time, is able to seal the Shadow on the jewel of her mane clip, but that magic also seals her, along with the villain. Inside the jewel, the Shadow quickly gains the upper hand on Midnight and prepares to finish her off. But Midnight stands tall after seeing the spirits of Star and the Generals of Order who had been summoned in her times of need. They encouraged her to be brave and strong for they believe in her. With their support, Midnight lets the bright light of goodness in her heart shine on the Shadow, causing the evil spirit to dissolve into nothingness, destroying her permanently and freeing Tinkerbell from her control. When the fairy queen asks Midnight how they can get out of the jewel, she tells her she has faith on her friends.

In "The Return of Neverland", Midnight and Tinkerbell are released from the jewel of the mane clip. She then watched Tinkerbell and Sunny restoring Neverland. After that, the Crusaders and the twins return home.

In "Epilogue - A Mysterious Guest", Midnight is seen with her sister and friends talkin in the party to celebrate the return of Neverland.

### *The Hidden Prince*

In "The Truth Finds a Brother", Star meets Sunny and Midnight, who are talking about a colt in the throne room with their parents. Their brother try to get them out of his way, but the two little fillies have become smarter to fall on his tricks, so he decided to bribe them, promising to give them the basics of his Spiraling Sphere spell. They agree with that.

In "Reunion", Midnight and Sunny are told about Dusk by their parents after Star is able to seal his curse for the time being. The two twins then went to meet their other older brother, getting pretty happy to see him.

### *Adventures in the Bermikun Triangle*

In "Surfing to an Adventure", Midnight and her family are spending their vacation at the Bright Shore. After the weather starts to change, Midnight sees his two older brothers in being transported to another realm.

### *The Elements of Virtue*

In "Legends and Shadows", Midnight and Sunny seek Star's help for their summer essays and so he takes them to the museum where he tells them about some of the great legends of ponykind.

In "A Bad Feeling", Midnight and her family go spend some weeks in Ponyville. Once they arrive, she and Sunny go see Silver Wind. She is seen enjoying the party held outside the Golden Oak Library before the appearance of the Pony of Shadows.

### *The Prince of the Cursed Kingdom*

In "What Comes Next", Sunny and Midnight, along with their brother Dusk, start a brand new school year at the Three Great Fairies Preparatory Academy.

## Appearances

The Hidden Prince

The Prince of the Cursed Kingdom

Legends:

* Y - Appears and have an active role
* N - Do not appears and is not mentioned directly by the characters.
* B - Appears, but have a passive role or his or her appearance is implicit
* M - Mentioned directly by the characters.

## Trivia

* Midnight is based on Princess Sofia from "Sofia the First", with them both having a magical object that helps them in moments of need.
* Just like her brother did after finding out he was a jinchuriki to Kurama, Midnight got angered with her parents after finding out she was a Dark Twin.
* Just like her sister, Midnight's favorite pancakes are blueberry pancakes with cinnamon whipped cream.
* Midnight's favorite cake is chocolate cake.
* When she and Sunny were little, the latter liked to blow her favorite party horn at Midnight's face. That was the reason that drove her to hide the party horn in a place where Sunny wouldn't find it.
* When she and Midnight were little, the former liked to blow her favorite party horn at Midnight's face.
* Midnight loves lockets.
* Midnight is the first non-villain character to use the blacklight nature.
* Midnight seems to have a great admiration for Somnambula.

## References

1. ↑ Appears as a reflection
2. ↑ Appears as a photograph and statue