My Little Pony verse

**Name**:  Evening Luster

**AKA:** “Scarlett Enigma”

**Title**: Princess of magic

**Kind:**  Alicorn, Human (Custodi )

**Reference**: Here

**Sex**: Female

**Height:** 3’ 10" (Pony),  5’ 11" (Human), 6’ 8" (Anthro)

Future: 5’ (Pony) 5’ 11"  (Human), 9’ 4" (Anthro)

**Bust:** None (Pony), 34F (Human), 40G (Anthro)

Future: None (Pony) 34H (Human), 64L (Anthro)

**Cutie mark:** An open book with a supernova over the center binding.

(“Scarlet Enigma”’s mark is still undecided)

**Horn glow:** Emerald green

**Residence**: Hiding out in an abandoned castle in the Everfree forest.

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**NPCs**: MLP characters

**Students**: Remedy Bulwark

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**Description**

For a start, she typically appears as a tall and feminine white coated Unicorn or Alicorn mare with a densely curled and layered crimson red mane and tail, deep green eyes, and a cutie mark of a supernova over an open book on her flank. Her horn produces a vibrant emerald green glow while she’s using magic.

Evening Luster always disguises herself when out in public. Not really hiding from an Alicorn’s royal status, but from noting that it would make her own attempts of information gathering difficult if they were to see her as what she is.

So… unless someone went out of their way to find out, she’d just look like a slightly taller than normal Unicorn wearing nice clothes and a saddlebag, her mane and tail look a bit like Swift Foot or Tea Love’s style… Side-swept bangs and layers of neat bouncy curls. A pretty little thing that could shatter a stallion’s jaw with a well aimed hoof strike.

(Of course, as she grew taller, this became more difficult to hide, so she opted to use disguise magic to pass herself off as a Unicorn by the name of “Scarlett Enigma”.)

(Also, in the post series timeline, she’s grown as tall as Princess Celestia and her mane has grown out quite a bit and taken on a sparkling orange-red glow that resembles the last moments of sunset.)

Her human self is an attractive young lady in her teens with long flowing curly red hair, deep green eyes, a mature, yet athletic figure with flawless fair skin, and dressed like a proper lady of the upper class… likely involving a prim black skirt, fitted blouse, necktie or ribbon, and knee high boots. Said hair tending to get really thick and fluffy if she hasn’t kept it trimmed down to a reasonable waist length. Something like a dense cascade of curls isn’t too hard not to notice.

(Of course, post-series, she’s not exactly a teen anymore, but she does have this strange agelessness about her that wasn’t as apparent as when she was younger.)

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**Notes:**

* She sometimes sneaks through the mirror into the other world for human luxuries like… books, computers, and various foods like cheeseburgers and pizza.
* Researching the old castle ruins is one of her little part-time projects. As much as she’d love to fix things up herself… work hasn’t really given her much time for such things.
* Depending on one’s view, she’s either an acclaimed fantasy author or the writer of the most sophisticated compendiums ever written. Either way her books are very popular despite being marketed as fiction… and her name not actually being on the cover.
* Height-wise… Naturally born Alicorns tend to grow faster than ponies, so despite being about the same age as Twilight Sparkle… she’s closer to Cadence or Luna in size.
* Evening usually keeps her mane and tail relatively short and tame compared to her adoptive mother Celestia and aunt Luna on purpose… mostly due to a small incident where she tried out that “floating mane” effect once and everyone thought she had a major head injury.
* She tends to be pretty independent and travels frequently and rarely hangs around the castle. As a result, she’s rarely seen in any public events… or anything else of that sort for that matter.
* Nobody knows really what Evening Luster does as a princess as she is never seen working in public view. Of course… she’s mostly busy handling things like anomalies and rogue magic too dangerous for others to handle so that’s quite understandable.

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**Background**

For one… there would be an Equestrian counterpart for the kingdom of Pallandia, but as of the present day it’s pretty much a bunch of ruins due to abandonment and neglect.  The prophecy of the sorcerer queen of the great empire’s return is recorded in Equestrian History… Although the exact location of the once vast territory she ruled has been lost to the ages.

If I were to describe what the Pallandian empire looked like it it’s heyday before the queen’s departure, I would say if it weren’t for the abundance of magitech, one might say it carries a strong resemblance to modern Thracian culture. However, the sudden appearance of a pantheon and their seizing of power shortly after the Queen’s sudden and mysterious disappearance caused the nation’s shattering and rapid descent into ruin.

After all, if the pantheon’s whims and constant needs or the spreading magical fall out didn’t destroy them, the arrival of the Windigos and other such things after the withdrawal of their protection definitely rendered the region effectively uninhabitable and forced anyone living there to leave with whatever they could take with them.

The events that happened there are quite vague… after all, events of such nature would weave quite a tale that is difficult to comprehend…It’s a bit of a story in of itself how she got there… A monster born with silver wings from a distant world, the destruction of everything that the nation of Pallandia held dear, and it’s sudden disappearance as quickly as it appeared. A strange alicorn filly that could not be much older than six years of age would be discovered wandering the Equestrian fields.

The princess of the land decided to take the foal and raise her as her own, this frightened and weary little one under her wing.

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**Extra**

It’s a bit difficult to explain, but outside of the public view she is in effect the true head of Equestria’s department of Magic both public and… not so public. However, only a select few in each department actually knows their pretty little newbie of a mare that they work under is actually an incredibly powerful Alicorn and not a more common Unicorn..

It should be noted that each department has a secret and public counterpart. Like… the department of monster related disturbances has it’s special operations alternate in S.M.I.L.E. for example.

While the secret side knows of the public side, the public side is required to deny anything about the secret side’s existence and the two halves are not allowed to directly to refer to one another outside of special circumstances. If anything… they are to claim the secret side was “disbanded” or never existed depending on the situation.

The reason for this is simple… to allow plausible deniability as well as make more covert operations more reliable and effective. After all… if public and private employees are kept separate there’s no way that someone could blow their cover in such a manner as well as allow comparing notes when both sides are working together..

**Known branches**

S.M.I.L.E. AKA the Secret Monster Intelligence League of Equestria. Private side of the Department of monster related disturbances.

D.U.P.E AKA, Department of Unexplained Phenomena in Equestria. Private side of the Department of Magical Research.

DOCI, Department of controlled incidents. Essentially monitors potential threats and carefully managing when and how they go off.

And so forth.