Thunderlight

**Thunderlight**, is a male Pegasus pony with a scar across his left eye and supporting character who first appears in the season five episodes Old and New Friends and The Dark Attraction and the season seven episode Freedom At Last. He is a famous chef and Backstage worker and Shen's brother figure, the brother of Clear Rain, the uncle of Elsa and Scootaloo, the husband of Coloratura and the father of Bright Star and Lily.

## Depiction in the series

### **Early life**

Thunderlight was originally born in Vanhoover to his beloved parents Storm Rider and Sweet Mayhem and older sister Clear Rain. But his uncle Scar, hated his own brother Storm Rider who wants to make him suffer and kill his spirit. To do so, after two weeks, he sets up a situation where him and his family are sleeping at night, he tasks some of his henchmen to break into their house and steal him away, only to be caught by Clear Rain who went to get a glass of water as she alerts her parents. The henchmen bring Thunderlight to a ravine where Storm Rider and Sweet Mayhem witness Scar appear to chase them off and save his nephew. Before he could bring Thunderlight to safety a stampede of deer. Scar takes Thunderlight and runs ahead the herd of deer. Storm Rider bolts into action and is running through the stampede trying to get to Thunderlight and Scar. Unbeknownst to Storm, the henchmen dogs were steering the herd toward a nearby cliff. Scar gets there first and appears to have no place else to go. The deer are still running at full speed while some of them tried to stop themselves. As a portion of the herd starts to turn around, Storm Rider gets stuck in the middle of the chaos. Ahead of him, he sees Scar slowly backing up towards the cliff as some of the deer are forced over. For a moment, one of the deer obstructs Storm Rider's view, when they move, Scar and his son were gone. When Storm breaks free and dashes to the edge, there was no sign of them, the herd had dissipated leaving him alone staring into the abyss. Sweet Mayhem and Clear Rain approached and seeing Storm's expression knowing something terrible has happened. Later that night, Scar emerged from a cave at the bottom of the cliff. The henchmen meet Scar. After confirming that family bought the act The henchwoman mentions to Scar that they're supposed to convince Thunderlight that he is his son and the henchman also mentions that Thunderlight doesn't look anything like Scar. Scar then smirks, "Doesn't he?". He then pulls out a sharp knife and scars Thunderlight's left eye with it. Scar then somehow loses Thunderlight on a river as he ends up in a basket full of red apples and ends up in an alley next to a restaurant in Gongmen City. There, the restaurant owner and chef griffon named Ping found the baby Pegasus, who had eaten all of the apples. Though reluctant to take him in at first, Ping eventually took him in and raised him as his own son. Since then, Thunderlight had been happily raised in the restaurant, learning all he knew as a chef from his adoptive father. As he grows older into a school-age Pegasus and befriends a school-age peacock named Shen, the prince of Gongmen City and became brothers in heart with a dream: to bring fireworks for the city and Shen's parents. Later at Camp Friendship, he climbs a tree to see if he would be able to fly but then a kite crashes into the tree he's in. He sees 2 young earth ponies trying to get their friend's kite down. As, Applejack pulls on the string to get it down, Thunderlight screams and falls off the tree and into a mud puddle. Coloratura approaches him and asks who he is and as Thunder introduces himself. After he washes the mud off, Coloratura gets a glimpse of his face and grows a crush on him. Coloratura then finds out Thunder is her cabin roommate. As Thunderlight hears her beautiful singing voice, he then asks her if she would like to hang out more often. Sometime later, Thunderlight and Coloratura stare at the moon and admire how beautiful the night is as Thunderlight then stares at Coloratura saying "But not as beautiful as you" when it comes to the point where they almost kiss. During Shen and Thunderlight's teenage years, Shen showed interest in making fireworks into weapons. Thunderlight and Shen's friendship grows bitter as Thunderlight wants no part of Shen's plan. In revenge, Shen finds out Thunderlight is adopted and leads his wolf followers in decimating his family on a farm in Vanhoover. Once the farm would have been put to the torch, Shen came back home to see his parents and brother frightened by what he has done, his parents exiled him from the city and Thunderlight glared at him. Double-crossed and mad, Shen left Gongmen City with his followers filled with madness and feeling wronged by his parents and brother, as he considered his actions as valiantly defying fate to realize his goals. He swore revenge on Thunderlight while he was promising he would return and rule supreme over all of Equestria one of these days.

### Season 4 The Wrath of Nazo

In present day, Thunderlight begins to question on where he got his scar from and Ping lies saying he forgot where he got it from. Later, Thunder begins to question if he was adopted or not due to Ping. Thunderlight overhears a conversation between Ping and his adoptive mother Rainy Sky and hears the whole truth that he was adopted and and finds out how he got to the restaurant. Upset about this, Thunderlight runs away to find his real family and find out where he came from. Sometime later, Thunderlight goes out to find out where he came from and who his real family is, until he runs into his uncle Scar and notices his scar matches his own, and Scar fools him into thinking he's his biological father and Scar fills his head with lies. The story Scar comes up with, is that Storm Rider killed Thunderlight's mother and after doing so, kicked Scar and his "son" out of their home leaving them to live out on the streets. As Thunderlight wonders off to be alone, he bumps into Scootaloo who also wanted to be alone, he notices the expression on her face and asks what was wrong and she tells him that she can't fly and worries that she may never fly, Thunder comforts her by saying that he's been in this situation before as a colt. Scootaloo is shocked to hear this and says that but it doesn't make her feel any better. Thunderlight then offers Scootaloo some flying lessons. Scootaloo is excited about this and excepts the offer. They start their flying lessons at the top of a cloud, and Thunderlight gives advice saying to not force herself to fly.