Twilight Sparkle

**Twilight Sparkle** is the main character of *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*, and a main character in its spin-off series, *My Little Pony: Pony Life*. Twilight has since appeared in a wide array of media, such as comic books, novels, comic books, stage productions, and more.

As confirmed in the comic book, *My Little Pony: 20/20*, Twilight Sparkle is over 20 years old, likely in her mid 20s. By the last episode, "The Last Problem", Twilight would likely be in her 30s to 40s.

## History

Twilight was born in the city of Canterlot, the capital of Equestria, to Twilight Velvet and Night Light. She had an older brother named Shining Armor and would later adopt a dragon named Spike as her little-brother. She was very close with her foal-sitter, Cadance, who Twilight would consider her older sister. At a young age, Twilight became the protoge of Princess Celestia and became a student at Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns. Fearing that she lacked friends, Celestia sent Twilight to live in the town of Ponyville where she acted as the towns librarian. In Ponyville, Twilight befriended Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity, forming the Mane Six.

Twilight went on many adventures and, in 1 to 3 years time, Twilight became the Princess of Friendship, one of the four princess of Equestria, alongside Celestia, Luna and Cadance. In her first years as princess, Twilight still lived in Ponyville and worked as a librarian, but after the centaur Tirek destroyed her house, Golden Oak Library, she moved into the Castle of Friendship and no longer worked as the towns librarian.

After several more years, Twilight was appointed the Queen of Equestria as her superiors retired. She moved back in Canterlot, and resided in Canterlot Castle with her brother, Spike, and later founded the Council of Friendship with her old friends. Twilight would be one of the only members of the Mane Six to not marry, the other being Rarity.

## Personality

Twilight is most commonly depicted as a good-natured, heroic, brave, loving, and compassionate nerd with a great wealth of knowledge on various topics, but seems to specialize in history, astronomy and in earlier episodes, engineering. Although she loves everyone around her, she can be sometimes absent minded, rude, or even mean-spirited, but she generally tries to keep a positive and kind attitude. She has a great love for reading and in particular is a huge fan of the *Daring Do* series of novels by A.k. Yearling.

Being the *de facto* leader of the Mane Six, Twilight developed strong leadership skills, which benefited her already skilled organization skills, allowing her to become a well-respected and well-loved princess. Before her ascension to royalty, Twilight often worked as an organizer for local events in her community.

Twilight began her story as a quiet introvert, but steadily grew into a more extroverted person, often going shopping, hanging out and forming much more bonds and friendships with those in her community, but still came back to the company of a book in the quiet hours of the night. Although not explored as much, Twilight was also a literary individual, who wrote essays, papers and even novels about non-fiction topics. Twilight was also quite athletic, partaking in several different sports, though never investing in them full-time.

Of her many skills outside of the academic field, the only one Twilight invested and significant time in was her musical talents. Twilight would become a noteworthy musician and became a founder of The Rainbooms. She primarily worked as a singer, but has also given herself to be a skilled piano player. To a lesser extent, Twilight has also been a fairly prolific actress, with her most noteworthy role being that of Clover the Clever in *The Funding of Equestria*.

## In other media

Twilight's history and characterization varies wildly depending on the media she appeared in.

### *Equestria Girls*

This version of Twilight was portrayed as much more silly, jovial and charismatic, but suffered from far worse anxieties and trauma, believing herself to be a freak of nature over her brief appearance as Midnight Sparkle and refused to trust herself. While her main incarnation dabbled in about every kind of science, this version was far more specialized in engineering and astronomy, though her astronomical side was explored more often with her idolization of famous astronomer, Rosette Nebula.

Unlike her main version, this version of Twilight did not become the *de facto* leader of the group, and in fact, never really developed any strong leadership qualities, though did sometimes become a pseudo-leader for the group in certain events, but her results varied in effectiveness. In "The Finals Countdown", she was effective in whipping her friends into shape for their finals, but in *Holidays Unwrapped*, she proved to be quite poor in actually organizing her friends in an attempt to get a key from their school, which had was closed for the day.

Nonetheless, Twilight in this setting was just as kind, good-natured and friendly.

This version of Twilight Sparkle was often speculated as being bisexual, due to her close relationship with Sunset Shimmer, a bisexual woman, though this was never confirmed.

### IDW comics

Twilight's personality in the IDW comics tends to be very inconsistent and generally controversial. The comics portray her as much more silly, but without the same degree of friendliness as the cartoons, and instead make her more over-the-top and less caring. She has, on a number of occasions, committed crimes such as kidnapping (*The Good, The Bad, and the Pony*), assault (*The Salty Seamare*), and arguably even murder (*Night of the Living Apples*). In general, she can be usually described as being more cold and callous in the comics, but she has been nonetheless been shown to be just as kind as her typical incarnations.

In the comics, it is implied that Twilight may be a reincarnated form of a cat who lived in the nation of Anugypt thousands of years prior to her adventures in Equestria, where she was still connected with her beloved friends and little brother.

### Pucchigumi manga

Twilight's silliness and zany behavior is cranked up in the manga, but unlike in the comics, she retained her warm nature. In her first appearance, she was sobbing on the ground as she forgot to lift her left hoof after 'yawning cutely' in her daily to-do-list, and her major appearances in later stories involved her nearly drowning in "Rarity Loves Twilight", getting depressed that her friends may have not cared for her in "Welcome to Ponyville" and later turning her treehouse into a living house named Lady Library to befriend the grumpy Mr. Titter Tree.

### Seven Seas manga

Much like in the Pucchigumi manga, Twilight here is shown to be a bit sillier, but her emotional, caring traits are kept enact. She is a minor character in the first two volumes, not doing much as Pinkie Pie serves as the primary character. In the last chapter of the first volume, she becomes a magical girl named Twilight-san.

## Jobs

Twilight has been given many jobs in her appearances. Her primary careers have been being a librarian, princess, queen, teacher, and principal, but her less important/one-shot jobs include actor, astronaut, detective, musician, lawyer, and superhero.