Moonbeam

Moonbeam in Curse of the Statuettes

My Little Pony (RGS)

* tbd

Rime of the Frostmaiden

* (*Cameo*)

**Moonbeam** is a Non-Player Character within the My Little Pony Universe and Campaigns.

Moonbeam is a current team member and former antagonist to the Mane Party. She is an intelligent Unicorn who is highly proficient in her use of magic and various spells. She has been known to be incredibly shy and anxious, though cares deeply for the few friends she has.

## Backstory

Life growing up for Moonbeam was very lonely, due to her crippling anxiety and developed shyness. Throughout her childhood and adolescence she grew very bitter and became jealous of other ponies who had friends, such as her schoolmates and the infamous Mane Six.

Eventually into her adulthood she became a recluse, and left her previous life behind for a cave within The Badlands. While there she made herself a cozy home, her dolls as roommates and only friends. One day while exploring she found an elaborate sealed door with large statues adorning either side, and a orb in front atop a fancy pedestal. The orb now hers, thanks to her natural aptitude towards using magic, she honed the Orb's magic as her own and learned how to turn objects, and eventually living things, into stone statues.

With newfound spells in hoof she concocted a sinister plan, kept a close eye on the Mane Six, and waited patiently. After all, even if nopony wants to be your friend, they have no choice whilst solid stone statuettes.

## Current Story

### Curse of the Statuettes

Just hours prior to the start of Curse of the Statuettes Moonbeam enacted her plan and succeeded in turning the Mane Six into stone statues while they were resting at a campsite during their expedition in The Badlands. The first target, Pinkie Pie, was too unpredictable and was rumored to be able to do almost anything without reason, had to be the first one to go since she was the most likely to thwart Moonbeam's plan. The second target, Rainbow Dash, the most athletically skilled and fastest out of the Mane Six, was petrified in mid air while making a beeline towards Moonbeam. A bit too close for comfort, but still went according to plan. Spike was the next target, or rather Twilight or Rarity were, when they went to jump in front of him to save him. This made the most sense as they were personally the closest to him and would block the blast before it reached him, taking out one of the unicorns and lessening the chance of a spell to counteract Moonbeam's. However, Fluttershy was positioned the closest to him, and jumped in the way of the blast.

Having to take a brief moment to improvise and rethink her plan was enough for Applejack to catch Moonbeam off guard by bucking the cliffside below her and forcing her to be on the same level as everypony else. Moonbeam managed to take aim and petrify Applejack by the time she landed on the sand below. Now having Rarity and Twilight on either side of her firing magic rays in her direction, Moonbeam panicked and bigger yet weaker blast emitted from her horn, hitting both of the final Mane Six, but progressively turning them to stone instead of it being immediate.

Using the remaining time they had left, both unicorns managed to teleport Spike away from the scene. Though not knowing how far they sent him, Spike was sent far enough away to hoof it back to Ponyville. Upon his return, he managed to catch the attention of the Mane Party.

As the dust settled and the campsite became quiet, Moonbeam rested a bit to regain her magic, and transformed the petrified ponies into statuettes, bringing them back to her humble cave home.

Several days later, she encountered the Mane Party for the first time at the same campsite she fought the Mane Six. She attempted to keep her distance and remain hidden, however one of them noticed her moving around the cliffs above them, causing her to quickly improvise and send a few petrification beams their way. She misses anypony within the Mane Party, but does manage to petrify one of the workpony pulling the wagon through the sand. Knowing her efforts in taking them out will be fruitless, Moonbeam grabs the workpony statue and teleports her way back home.

Hours later, while hiding and attempting to finalize a plan to rid of the Mane Party, she hears a commotion echoing throughout the cave's pathways. Since this sounds different from the Mane Party, she investigates by teleporting into the room. Unknowingly she interrupts a tussle between the Mane Party and a group of thugs lead by a Dr. Caballeron. Quickly realizing what she did, she runs through the caves to return home and confuse the Mane Party.

However, the Mane Party had the Staff of Umberfoal that pointed in the direction of the elaborate sealed door. The same door Moonbeam made her room outside of, leading them straight to her. As they entered her room, she allowed her emotions to get the best of her, and she started yelling at the Mane Party and threatened to fight them alongside the giant statues on either side of the sealed door if they try to take her friends away from her.

Before a fight could break out, the Mane Party interrupts by giving her a group hug, and promising to be her friends. Having never experienced such a thing before, she gave in and turned every statuette back to their normal selves. After apologies were given out, she was expecting to be locked away and forgotten about in prison, but Twilight Sparkle had a different plan. She offered Moonbeam to be her apprentice, not only so she could have an eye kept on her and she could remain around friends, but also to hone in her magic and become an even more skilled user than she already is.

### The Festival of Lights

Roughly two months later, while the Mane Six were out on a mission, Moonbeam was having a quiet day until she thought she noticed the Staff of Umberfoal move. She didn't think much of it, as if it even did move it was merely a centimeter or two. Alas, to keep her tidy teacher pleased, she tapped it back into position and continued her work. Getting consumed into her work, she quickly forgot about the staff. Until it moved again. This time it was more noticeable. An eyebrow raised now, she pushed it back and continued her work, though a bit distracted keep an eye on the staff.

Next thing she remembers is waking up the next morning, head on her paperwork and a puddle of drool, having fallen asleep at some point. She stretches and rubs the sleep out of her eyes before realizing that the staff is gone! Her anxiety immediately went to a boil and she began to panic, pace, and run around the library while writing a letter for outside help.

"Somepony! Anypony! Please Help! -Moonbeam." caught the attention of the Mane Party, the first time she saw them since the events of the Curse of the Statuettes. Reconnecting cut short as the staff forced its way through the library wall and Moonbeam sprinted after it, Mane Party following suit. The staff led them to the sealed door to Umberfoal within to Moonbeam's old room, where she aided the Mane Party in opening the door to using the Staff as a key and solving a simple puzzle.

Moonbeam remained with the Mane Party throughout their quests in Umberfoal, assisting them in exploring various areas and allowing the Festival of Lights to continue without a hitch. The residents offered for them to stay and become stone until the next festival, but everypony politely declined and made their ways back home to Ponyville.

## Trivia

* Moonbeam is the only original character to make an appearance in campaigns under both of the MLP Universe sourcebooks, Tails of Equestria and My Little Pony (RGS).
	+ As such, she is also the only original characters to appear in both of the Tails of Equestria pre-written modules, Curse of the Statuettes and Festival of Lights.
* Moonbeam was the first character to have a cameo appearance in another Universe and Campaign, Rime of the Frostmaiden. In that campaign she was a Unicorn who was given sentience and had her looks and personality altered to match her canon appearance by a Frost Druid known as Ravisin.
	+ She was planned to give a quest and lead the Party to a location that had several Pony statuettes, though this was scrapped due to giving each statuette a beneficial effect to each Party member being too difficult to keep balanced or remain useful.