Prince Dissonant Tune

**Prince Dissonant Tune** (his entry here) is a villainous Alicorn and an illegitimate son of War Rock, though decidedly isn't 'villainous' like his father in terms of conventional standards.

## Appearance

Pre-Ascension, Dissonant was a tall and lanky, yet extremely handsome Earth Pony stallion with a bright yellow pelt, red eyes, and a black and red-striped mane and tail. Because he was sired after War Rock turned himself into a Vampire, he's a Dhampir with traits like tufted ears, draconic pupils, and sharp, vampiric fangs. He inherited his tall height from War Rock, which didn’t become apparent until he had a massive growth spurt in his teens. His Cutie Mark depicts a broken guitar flanked by discordant music notes, representing how music was abused and exploited by amoral, greedy, and/or wicked individuals.

Post-Ascension, Dissonant became an even more handsome Alicorn with a chaotically rippling mane and tail made of Vice energy, a large pair of feathered bat wings with a magical wing gradient going from yellow to black and red, and a baleful halo also made of Vice energy. His mane is usually styled into a 'Death Hawk'-style mohawk. In terms of height, he's a 'prodigy deity' with accelerated physical and magical growth rates; he's slightly taller and 'older' than Winter Opera by divine standards due to Ascending first, though he's shorter than Prince Caerulus Melodia, Prince Healing Song, and Moon Ray Vaughoof, who are older 'prodigy deities'. His true Alicorn form contains chimeric traits of all mortal Pony tribes, such as a Musical Pony's chest gem, a Flutter Pony's butterfly wings, and a Sea Pony's aquatic gills and tail. His Dhampir heritage also gives him traits of the lesser-known Night Pony tribes, of which there remains little information.

In terms of attire, Dissonant usually appears as a Punk wearing a black leather jacket with various button pins on his collar, a white T-shirt with a red Anarchy symbol, and a studded bracelet on his left foreleg. He also has ear and facial piercings. After becoming an Alicorn, he wears a divine version of this outfit, though on formal occasions, he wears divine black and red barding. Traditionalist deities have been reportedly appalled by his choice of attire and tried to make him look more regal and dignified, which has led to Dissonant clashing with them on multiple occasions.

As a mortal supervillain, Dissonant wore a black and red Goth-themed costume with a cape and dark-tinted goggles to protect his eyes. He admits his costume was styled after his birth father’s clothes, but he did so to spite War Rock, not emulate him.

## Relationships

### Princess Winter Opera

Despite sharing the same birth father as well as different morals and beliefs, Dissonant loves Winter Opera and treats her like family. Winter Opera was devastated to learn that one of her half-siblings became a villain, but Dissonant comforted her, having become satisfied with the path he chose for himself. Dissonant also believes his half-sister is more powerful and skilled with dark magic than he is due to embodying Dark Magic as a concept.

### Rarity Belle

At one point, Dissonant encountered Rarity while she was dressed as a Punk, and genuinely complimented on her style. This delighted Rarity so much that she blushed and giggled like a school filly as she thanked him for the compliment.

## Powers and Abilities

### Tribal/Racial Magics

As a Dhampir, Dissonant's hybrid heritage grants him enhanced physical abilities like hearing, strength, durability, and speed. As such, he can catch noises that normal people cannot (such as people's heartbeats), run faster, lift things heavier than his own body weight, and endure attacks that would normally kill someone. It also automatically gave him increased magic reserves and the ability to wield magic, something many other Ponies didn't have in the Second Age. This allowed him to learn and use dark magic.

Dissonant's hybrid heritage also allowed him to access the Earth Pony's tribal magics such as earth magic. This made Dissonant even stronger than the average Pony in the Second Age.

After Ascending and becoming an Alicorn, Dissonant gained access to the combined magics of all mortal Pony tribes. He is exceptionally skilled with the Musical Ponies' music-magic, being able to cast various spells through music and song. However, as a Dhampir, he can wield the lesser-known Night Ponies’ tribal magics, such as sound magic..

### Music

As a god of Music, Dissonant can heal and provide helpful buffs to his allies. He can calm down and soothe listeners, and break certain curses with music. In Dissonant's case, his preferred genre is punk rock, and thus uses music to inspire fear, anger, and distrust. While his songs created rebellion on multiple occasions, he only does this for constructive purposes, such as inspiring people to defy laws and beliefs that are genuinely harmful.

Dissonant can also use Sound magic. While not as powerful as Prince Crystal Clear, Dissonant can do things like unleashing powerful, disorienting screams, projecting concussive blasts and sound waves, and manifest pure vibrations that weaken and shatter things. Due to his musical preferences, he has manifested his sonic screams with a punk rock scream. He can create new sounds or take existing songs and play them on loop; he has once undermined a Pony Autorist rally by looping fart noises during the events, humiliating its speakers and turning them into laughingstocks.

Dissonant's Music domain enhances his supernaturally good hearing, and gives him accompanying protection from deafness. He can see if someone's being dishonest by listening to their heartbeat.

### Vice

As a god of Vice, Dissonant embodies all vices and sins. He possesses telepathic and empathic powers that allow him to sense other people's vices and encourage them. He also has precognition to predict what happens when vices are pursued to unfettered degrees, or when people indulge in too much virtue. He can cast various curses that amplify certain vices and give him separate abilities pertaining to each vice - e.g. Wrath increases his physical capabilities and gives him fire powers, Sloth can make people more lethargic and grants him water powers, and so on. And like all Vice deities, he can empower himself based on how much vice is in a given area.

### Corruption

As a god of Corruption, Dissonant's psychic powers are enhanced, with the additional ability to detect foul magics and see moral corruption as a festering rot taking form on a person's body - the more corrupt someone is, the more rot they have. This allows him to create chains that become stronger and heavier based on his targets' corruption. And similarly with his Vice domain, he can empower himself based on how much corruption there is in a certain area.

Dissonant's domain also gives him the ability to magically foul up forested environments so long as the curse is in effect, and make something to wither away via touch like Princess Hnignun. He can create magical copies of people with all their flaws and sins present, which he used to help acknowledge their flawed sides and overcome them. This is what he did to help Blue Suede Heartstrings recover, as the latter needed to accept his pride to fully heal psychologically. Like Discord, Dissonant can also turn people into twisted versions of themselves, but he only uses it when necessary.

When combined with his Vice domain, Dissonant's Corruption domain makes him a powerful warlock since he can learn and use dark magic spells easily. It also makes him skilled in wielding rare spells taught by Iniquitous when he learned under at one point. At his most powerful, Dissonant displays reality-warping abilities that can transform areas into 'wretched hives' (in Cultura's words) full of sin and corruption. By Dissonant's own admission, he believes that Winter Opera is more powerful and skilled by virtue of being a goddess of Dark Magic.

### Revelry

As a god of Revelry, Dissonant possesses empathy to promote feelings of joy and celebration, as well as limitless energy to keep partying. His domain makes him a supernaturally good dancer, and when combined with his Music domain, it can magically make someone suddenly start dancing and singing in impromptu musical numbers.

Dissonant's reality-warping magic is enhanced, giving him the ability to create objects needed for parties like food and decorations, and ensure the food always stays fresh and the drinks flow continuously. He possesses a psychic intuition that gives him insight into what people would like a party, allowing him to plan accordingly. However, since Dissonant embodies the unfettered aspects of Revelry, he can combine it with his domains of Vice and Corruption and turn any party into orgies of unrestrained depravity, addiciton, and hedonism with just a little 'nudge'.

### Other Skills

Dissonant, like his birth father, is very charismatic, allowing him to make 'rousing speeches' and stoke people's hatred for him.

Dissonant is a pragmatic fighter who is very willing to fight dirty, and has humiliated those who rely on fighting 'honorably'. He possesses knowledge of various Second Age military combat techniques thanks to Blue Suede Heartstrings, who was a veteran of the Second Martian-Tellusian War and a feared snipre known as 'The Blue Death'.

### Weapons/Equipment

Dissonant's main weapon is a divinely-made magitek guitar named *Voodoo Child*, which comes from a Double Helix song that Moon Ray covered during his musical career. *Voodoo Child* has been used as a bludgeoning weapon on multiple occasions. Dissonant received it during the Third Age.

In the Second Age, he wielded various electric guitars that channeled his dark magic spells during his supervillain career. He stopped after the Second Age ended and the Third Age began.