Princess Celestia

(after Luna's corruption; all formerly)

**Princess Celestia** is one of the two rulers of Equestria alongside her younger sister, Princess Luna, and the Princess of the Sun. In addition to her responsibility of raising the sun, she has also been the teacher of Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer at different periods in time, often addressing Twilight as "my faithful student" while mentoring her.

## Personality

Princess Celestia acts as a mentor to Twilight Sparkle. She often does not directly state her goals, but, rather gives the advice to help her student find the answers she needs. For example, she wrote a letter prompting Twilight to make friends in The Mare in the Moon when her goal was for Twilight Sparkle to find the Elements of Harmony.

Despite being royalty, she often encourages her subjects to relax through the use of jokes and gentle questions. She also shows great patience with any inappropriate behavior towards her, as seen when Pinkie Pie nearly snatches a cupcake from her at a party in A Bird in the Hoof.

Princess Celestia displays a fun-loving side when she chuckles at the bottle of disappearing ink sent to her by Twilight in Griffon the Brush Off. She watches with a smile on her face when Pinkie Pie devours one of her cupcakes, while Mrs. Cake gasps and drags Pinkie away. Celestia tells Twilight and her friends in The Best Night Ever, after they ruin the Grand Galloping Gala, that she always found the Gala awful and she was hoping they would liven it up.

While kindhearted and slow to anger, Celestia's patience does have its limits. When faced against the threat of Discord's return in The Return of Harmony Part 1, Celestia wastes no time in demanding that Discord return the stolen Elements of Harmony. Also, in Lesson Zero, when Spike makes her aware that Twilight inadvertently unleashed mass chaos onto Ponyville in her obsessive attempts to find a friendship report to send to the Princess, Celestia personally intervenes to undo Twilight's out-of-control spell. She sternly orders her student to a private meeting to discuss her actions but remains understanding, and at the insistence of Twilight's friends she agrees not to punish Twilight, instead asking them all to send her friendship reports only when the lessons make themselves apparent to them. She's also shown to have very low tolerance for those who mistreat the innocent Spike when he did nothing wrong.

Celestia can also be very forgiving. She does not admonish Fluttershy for loosing track of Philomena in A Bird in the Hoof. As mentioned above, she does not punish Twilight for the chaos she caused in Lesson Zero.

She mentions that fall is one of her favorite seasons in Fall Weather Friends while at Ponyville to celebrate the Running of the Leaves.

Unknown to everyone except her sister, Celestia suffers from Alektorophobia, an intense fear of chickens. The fear is so extreme she will immediately go to hide when she sees one.

## Gifts & Abilities

* **Alicorn Physiology**: As an alicorn, Celestia has the abilities of pegasi, unicorns, and Earth ponies. She can also live longer than other ponies.
	+ **Divine Magic**: Alicorns have greater magic potential than other pony races.

### Known Spells

* **Levitation Spell**: A basic spell used by unicorns. Allows her to lift objects in a telekinetic manner.
* **Sun Rising Spell**: Celestia is capable of making the sun rise through divine magic.
* **Moon Rising Spell**: While Luna was on the moon, Celestia was responsible for the making the moon rise, being the only pony with the magic to do so available.
* **Charm Nullification Spell**: A spell used to negate charms.