Lightning Star

**Lightning 'Zappy Swirls' Star** is one among the first main characters introduced in EQUESTRIA SPIES, one of the seven members of 'The Pixels', and the main member of 'The Star Family'. She appears in all three sections of the stories as the centre of the series' focus. In the series, she is commonly referred to by her agent name, 'Agent Star', and, sometimes, her superhero name, 'The Shapeshifter'. Lightning owns a dog named Stitch, and always hangs around with her best friend/partner, Karly Crystal, the Pixels, the Rainbooms, and the Fireflies, all of which who are commonly seen with her throughout the seasons.

## General Information

### Nickname/s

Agent Star, The Shapeshifter, Raccoon Girl, Superstar, Bluey, Jean Jacket, Twinkle Eyes,

### Age

Stories 1-3: 16 years old, Stories 4-99: 17 years old, Stories 100- Present: 18 years old,

### Place of Birth

ST. Biberts Hospital, Sheroham City, England, United Kingdom

### Marital Status

Stories 1-30: Single,Stories 31- Present: Taken,

## Appearance

### Species

Human, Half common raccoon dog, half penguin, half komodo dragon

## Conversation

### Curses?

Season 1: No, Season 2: Yes, Season 3: Yes,

### Who they'd sound like

Brooklyn from Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

## Skills

### Strengths/Feats

Crime solving, Fighting, Quick thinking, Sword wielding, Theory crafting, Karate, Judo, Tai-chi, Aikido, all the kinds of martial arts, Escaping,

### Weaknesses

Warm milk, Cats, Being tugged on the ears and tail,

## Relationships

### Family

Nimbus Star (Father), Stormy Swirls (Mother), Unnamed sister, Solar Star (Grandfather), Heaven Light (Grandmother), Orion Star (Uncle), Meteor Star (Uncle), Comet Star (Uncle), Sunny Star (Uncle), Sky Star (Uncle), Vega Star (Uncle), Altair Star (Uncle), Gealach Star (Uncle), Cloud Star (Uncle), Aurora Rose (Auntie), Riley Rielle (Auntie), Galaxy Twinkle (Auntie), Skylar Space (Auntie), Blazee Burn (Auntie), Gloria Volta (Auntie), Sparky Star (Cousin), Astro Star (Cousin), Minnie Star (Cousin), Windy Star (Cousin), Breezy Star (Cousin), Rocket/Rocky Star (Cousin), Tony Star (Cousin), Agic Star (Cousin), Stitch (Pet), Swift White (Sister in-law), Argie White (Brother in-law), Taran White (Son), Pluto White (Son), Atlas White (Daughter),

### Friends/Allies

Karly Crystal (Best friend), Jace Donar, Mirus Hallot, Arianna Blairet, Fierra Mortal, Rolt Real, Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Spike, Claire Fossils, Ardi Mooncrystal, Blitz Athlete, Daisy Sunshine, Fash Photo, Astrid Wrangler, Starz ‘N Cookies, Lumina, Steven Secret,And more…

### Enemies

Vinny Devil, Duko Bandit, Rookie, George Cliff, Drake Balthazar, And more…

## Other

### Likes

Being with her friends and family, Going on adventures/missions, Solving crimes/mysteries, Video games, Writing stories, Drawing comics, Music, Dancing, The colour blue, Pizza, Flying,

### Dislikes

Being bullied, Seeing friends being bullied, Losing games, Stress, Seeing abused animals, Talking about her mother and sister, Horror movies, Criminals,

## Appearance

Lightning Star has a very simple human-like look. Her long, glorious, golden locks of hair are exceptionally fluffy that comes down below her shoulders, medium-length. Lightning has a light complexion, the peachiest of all her family, except Nimbus, that is always kept clean and soft. Her eyes are a bright sparkling sky blue, that will give off a twinkle if they are stared into for so long. They always give people a sense of trust and comfort, which is why they are Lightning's favourite thing about herself. Nimbus even gave her the nickname 'Twinkle Eyes' when he and her were stargazing one time in an observatory, and reflection of the stars bounced off her eyes beautifully.

On the surface, Lightning's figure is very typical for that of a female, a figure which she is very proud of. She is a little on the short side but is far from the shortest in her friend group. She is the shortest in the family, however.

Following her simple look, Lightning's clothing is no different. She wears a straightforward long-sleeved white top with a scoop neck underneath a cyan-blue and magenta-pink striped sleeveless jacket with a small cyan star badge clipped on the front beside the high zipper. She wears classic, navy blue jeans and neon blue trainers with pink highlights, and her hair is held back by a light blue headband.

In Season 2, Lightning's outfit and style changes. The only thing that she keeps is the blue headband to hold back her golden hair, and certain accessories, such as her turquoise badge and **C.O.B.Y** watch. Meanwhile, her attire differs a little bit, but still keeps to her adventurous, nimble, tomboy-ish, personality. A bright blue and white striped loose shirt with pink, white and navy stars patterned where it lies on the shoulders. A blue hoodie tied around her waist, though occasionally, she will wear it around her neck. By the sleeves, the hoodie will column in three more colours, same as the stars, white, pink, and navy. For the bottom half, thin navy leggings will appear, accompanied by knee high brown lace up, flat-footed boots with fluff buried inside, keeping the toes warm. Lightning finds this outfit to be much better than her first as she experiences much more freedom in it.

She holds many accessories with her at all times too as many predicaments for adventure comes to her easily: a swiss spy army knife, given to her by her father, a **Gadget C.O.B.Y 2000**, a smartwatch based off the spy computer AI, Coby, and recently received, her equestrian magic geode she wears as a necklace (badge in season 2, ring in season 3).

## Personality

Lightning Star is described as an optimistic, outgoing, and fun teen girl by all that know her really well. She goes with the flow and is always that energetic type of person, always pumped up to throw a punch at the sky. She always makes friends with those that are like her instantly, and when in any state of a stressful situation, she will always try to turn it into something entertaining. She will not hesitate to help those who need her and is always very loyal and caring towards the ones closest to her, saving them in all kinds of situations. She always speaks from the heart, almost always knowing what to say, whether it's cheering people up, teaching a valuable lesson, or making an intense comeback to anyone who yells at her.

There can be times where Lightning will turn hostile, but only towards people who antagonise her or her friends, or does something she doesn't like, which happens pretty often. She is very emotional and has anger issues and, in early stages, had problems with controlling her superpowers when angry. When confronted by a dangerous threat or person, or being protective over her friends or family, she will not hesitate to give out cheap insults, then evolve to physical violence towards the threat that is harming them. And while she receives help from her friends when dealing with her exaggerated emotions, it never stops her.

Lightning brims with confidence on her job and on missions, much like her father when he was as young as she was. She always has a smile on her face when fighting and training, and always encourages others to feel it too. She is brave and fearless, and while she doesn't go looking for trouble, she likes to have danger riddled in her life every once in a while. She can become cocky at times when she knows she will win at something, and makes witty remarks, especially before, during and after a fight, as well as after the death or defeat of a villain. She is also very sly and cunning when on stealth missions, almost moving like a shadow. It works better when she is alone because she moves quickly and quietly, her raccoon and lizard forms help her with that mostly. However, if she is not alone, she will not make a fuss, and always takes the lead when scouting areas and makes sure everyone stays safe.

## Abilities

Lightning Star is represented as the element of bravery towards the Rainbooms. With that, her equestrian magical geode gifted her the ability to half-shapeshift into three different kinds of animals: A raccoon, a penguin, and a lizard.

### Raccoon Form

When transforming into this form, her human ears will fade away, and be replaced with the ears of a raccoon on the sides of her head. A brown and blue striped raccoon tail will also form at the back of her hair, much like the Rainbooms’ forms when they pony-up. And finally, for the final touch, a blue mask will form around her eyes, much like the common raccoon's black mask. In this form, Lightning has the ability to fly and fight. She can use her tail as a weapon to knock back enemies, as well as move with great speed and agility, as she is light on her feet.

This superpower form grants Lightning the abilities to see, smell and hear very well, as these three things are all what a raccoon has a great sense of. With the touch of her mask, Lightning can illuminate her view whenever she needs to and can see perfectly in the dark. This is known as night-vision. Her ears will always pick up sounds when she is in this raccoon form, and her nose will do the same but with smells. Like this, she can always sense when enemies are far or close and be on the ready every time.

### Penguin Form

In order for this form to fully capacitate, Lightning must have the hooded part of her jacket thrown over her head. She can remove it but it's not as powerful without it. After that, a blue aura will gyrate around her body, and make the inside feel all warm and fuzzy, while the outside of the jacket will puff up. The jacket and mask will then shade into a royal blue colour, and a beak-shaped orange triangle will appear on the top of the hood where it lays on her forehead. Feather-like fluff will appear inside the jacket, and padding will grow on Lightning’s shoulders, which will drop right to her forearms. Rubbery orange flippers will also grow at the tips of Lightning’s toes, and the bottoms of her shoes will turn webbed.

In this form, she can breathe underwater and swim with perfect skill and speed without feeling any discomfort. No matter how hot or cold, or shallow or deep, or bad or good the water is, she will be fine. Waddling can sometimes be a problem, hence why when travelling in this form, she will slide on her stomach. However, she can only slide on ice or water, as that gives off the most speed. On simple ground, it just won't work. Lightning also has the ability to conjure up ice, and freeze any living surface she comes around just by touching or throwing ice at it, including fire (though it is quite difficult for her).

### Lizard Form

This form is a combination of the following reptiles: a komodo dragon, a chameleon and a gecko. When transforming, it will start with a glowing blue aura around Lightning’s body. Her jacket will then transform into a leathery, scaly dark green material, and turn her cold, as this will allow her to survive in hotter temperatures. Parts of her hands and feet will also turn into this green scaly skin, and she will also grow claws from the tips of her fingers and toes. The mask around her eyes will turn green and the hoodie would need to be over the head once again as well, as this is because spiky scales will straighten up and over them.

In this form, Lightning can breathe fire from her mouth and hands, like a dragon, and survive from hot temperatures and environments, as her scales and blood turn cold. From the chameleon side of the form, Lightning can change colour, regards to her surroundings, helping her blend in and sneak around places and people a lot better. On the gecko side, she can climb up walls and ceilings using her hands, as they appear either sharp from the claws to dig in, or sticky from the palms. She is seen as immune to fire too, as her scales are fire-proof, meaning she can walk right through flames without burning. They will glow orange on contact.

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There will also come a time where Lightning's powers will become supercharged, and this'll happen when her adrenaline shoots up to its highest point swiftly in a precarious, perilous situation. It always comes when she needs it the most, like a de-use ex-machina. In this supercharged form, her entire body will glow blue, and no matter what form she's in, her raccoon/lizard ears will turn blue, and her eyes will turn white until there are no pupils. Like that, she becomes faster, stronger, and will always be surrounded by blue lightning. Only she will have the power to turn it off once the battle has won, or she is calm enough for it to slow to a halt. It's still a thing she's trying to figure out how to use, and how it works to her extent.

## Background

Lightning Star is the second child born to Nimbus Star and Stormy Swirls. She was born on the 20th August 2003 at 6:45PM in ST. Biberts Hospital in Sheroham City and has lived there all her life. Her parents had just started going back into their spy business together as partners, but they did the best they could to give their two daughters the most normal life possible. Lightning was a clumsy toddler back in the day. She immediately went off to explore and discover what the world had to offer, and sometimes her curiosity caused pain and scars. When Lightning was age two, she went on her very first mission with her dad, as he couldn’t find anybody to look after her on such short notice. She was kept out of harm's way, thankfully, but, when she snuck out of her room, she actually stopped the criminals her father was trying to capture, by simply tripping them up. It was then in that moment that Nimbus Star knew Lightning was destined to be one of the greatest spies in her family yet.

After that, Lightning’s toddler years went on as normal as they can be. She along with her older sister were home-schooled by their mother, for safety purposes, and together, learnt all about the world, history, maths, reading, etc. Then, when she was not in class, Lightning was spending time with her family, and finding her interests. She especially grew fond of her older sister, whose name she unfortunately never remembered. They did everything together, whether it was playing, studying, sleeping, watching movies or reading books. Her sister read many children’s mystery and adventure books to her, including pirates, cowboys, explorers, superheroes and spies. They watched many Disney movies together too on videos. This is how Lightning’s love for Disney and adventure came to be. She loved her older sister very much during all these times they spent together, however, when the day of her 4th birthday came, something happened.

After the deaths of her mother and sister, Lightning swore from that day on she would exact revenge and track down her sister’s killers. By the time her fourth birthday was over, she was just about old enough to begin her secret agent training every Star family member had to go through to see if they had what it takes to continue the spy legacy. They all started at the age of four, and would finish when the counselling felt as if they were perfectly set, and Lightning excelled at it. She studied like she had never studied before, reading all the kinds of books her tutors threw at her, whether it was criminology, law, psychology, sociology and criminal investigation, and she trained like her life depended on it, learning all the kinds of martial arts, sword fighting (fencing), shooting, gymnastics and parkour from her father, uncles and grandfather. Even in her free time, she still kept her interest in many adventure books, crime games and action movies, taking and learning from them in order to get better. This continued on for the next four years, and by the time her 8th birthday rolled out, she rose to the top easily and passed the exam with flying colours. She was the one of the earliest to pass it too at such a young age, the second youngest, with only just being one year above her grandfather’s age.

Despite all of this hard work though, Lightning was still a cautious child, unsure whether or not she would be good enough for the title of ‘Agent’, and wondered if she'd even be cut out to be new head of the agency once she inherited it from Nimbus, and this was because she was afraid she would end up like her sister. She admitted her doubts to her father, but he assured her she will be just as successful as he was, maybe even better. This cheered her up alot, knowing her dad had complete faith in her. Then, after embarking on a homeward journey, after an ambush and a kidnapping, the 8 year old Lightning decided that she was not going to be afraid, anxious or clumsy anymore. The experience gave Lightning the final push of confidence she needed, and she transformed the lovable, fearless and loyal spy girl everyone sees her to be today. She continued on with her studies throughout the next three years, as well as secretly stopping wanted criminals and solving mysteries all over the city. Thanks to her looking young and innocent, nobody ever suspected a thing.

When she turned eleven, Nimbus finally decided to enrol Lightning into a public high school to give her a chance to have a proper education and make friends. Of course, he needed to prepare her for what’s to come because she’s never attended a school before, so he signed her up for a small summer school club beforehand, and that was where Lightning met one of her life-long Pixel friends, Arianna Blairet. Nimbus also recruited help from an old friend, Steven Secret, who formerly worked for him and was now the new principal of the high school he wanted Lightning to attend. Now that she had a friend and a guardian, Lightning felt happy enough to enter high school. At first, she had a rocky start, coming across a bully boy she had beef with, but she could manage him with ease. After that, she found Arianna, and befriended three more preteens that would later become her best friends: Jace Donar, Karly Crystal and Fierra Mortal. The five formed a group but had no intention of giving themselves a name yet. That was until next year, when a new face entered the team after he stood up for them against Duko Bandit, Mirus Hallot. Together, the six of them became the ultimate group of friends, and Lightning came up with the name: ‘The Pixels’. (Rolt Real then joined in the following year).

From then on, Lightning partially became inseparable with all her new pals, especially with Karly Crystal, describing her as like the sister she never had, (this implies to Arianna and Fierra too, but not as much). Lightning and Karly bonded a lot together out of all the Pixels, so much so that Lightning trusted Karly enough to tell her that she was a young spy. It turned out however that Karly already knew, after admitting that her uncle was Steven Secret and therefore, had relations to the Star agency. Lightning was over the moon when she heard this, then explained to Karly all the kinds of adventures she does, what her goal is, and where the future will take her. She then asked if Karly wanted to become her partner in crime-fighting. Taking her under her wing, Lightning then trained Karly and taught her everything she knew, and she picked on quite easily. Soon enough, the two of them become a crime-fighting/kid detective duo, with occasionally the Pixels joining in, always on the hunt for villains to arrest or mysteries to uncover, and that becomes a regular thing when Devil arrives to threaten them and their school. This went on for the next five years in Lightning’s life, as she continued to work and wait patiently for an opportunity to achieve her actual goal, and she was about to get it when new people enter into her life, and a new ability inside of her is awoken. That’s when the real story begins.

## Quotes

“Causing trouble again, are we?”

"HA HA! Your sense of humour never ceases to amaze me!"

“OOH! That's gotta hurt.”

“Thieves, muggers, crooks, scoundrels, rogues, kidnappers, murderers, smugglers… I deal with them all.”

“That haughty, commanding tone of voice of yours is SERIOUSLY getting on my nerves.”

"Alright, Alright! I just...don't want anybody to die. I swore on my life that I would protect you, and look at where that’s got us.”

“Uhh, has anybody seen my hoodie? I’m late for school!”

“Are you kidding me? I LEAP at any sort of chance for an adventure! What the hell makes you think my curiosity won’t kill the cat?”

## Trivia

* Lightning liked to play sports, especially rounders and baseball. Sadly, she stopped because she had two incidents regarding both of the games.
* When Lightning was eleven, she worked and taught in a series of places that surely had the most different and ridiculous things you can imagine.
* Lightning's least favourite subject was English, but when a teacher called Mr. Hero came along, he made her like it. She disliked it again, however, when something happened.
* Lightning is severely allergic to cats. Her nose will flare up and she will sneeze and wheeze like crazy if a single hair touches her.
* Lightning's favourite drink is milk. And when she drinks a lot of it, she gets a boost of speed and strength. It's like her source of power. However, if she drinks warm milk, it'll have the opposite effect. It'll make her slow and tired and weak. You could say that warm milk is Lightning's weakness.
* Lightning is an amazing cook and can get very creative when making food.
* Lightning needs to be hit over the head twice in order to be knocked out.
* Lightning is extremely ticklish. However, she will give you a black eye or a broken rib if you try.
* Lightning's raccoon ears and tail are very sensitive. Whenever someone tugs on them or even touches them slightly, she will feel twitchy, weak and uncomfortable.
* Lightning is fluent in playing the guitar, trumpet, piano, flute, and drums, but never likes to.
* Lightning doesn't like capes. They cause a lot of problems. That's why she wears hoodies.
* Lightning never stays long to look at herself in the mirror because every time she does, she looks at the scar on her cheek and is reminded of what happened to her sister and mother.
* Lightning likes to ship Sunset Shimmer and Devil to annoy them. It either goes off funny or really bad.
* Out of all the Rainbooms, Lightning gets along the most with Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer, even though she wishes to be very close with all of them. So she always gives them gifts, hangs out with them, helps them, and she even saved Pinkie Pie from a band of bullies at Coinky-Dink World.
* Lightning loves Barbershop Quartets.
* Lightning is the champion at the Chubby Bunny Challenge. The highest amount of marshmallows she has carried in her mouth is forty. Pinkie Pie almost beat her record, having stuffed thirty-seven marshmallows.
* Lightning is an amazing dancer and always has so much energy when she's on the dance floor.
* When training to be a spy, Lightning's grandfather, Solar Star, had her take fencing lessons. While she believed it would be a waste of time, considering that no one uses swords nowadays, it turns out to become a very useful skill to know when going on missions/adventures in the future, and as shocking as it seemed to her, Lightning respected her grandfather for the lesson after that and never doubted him ever again.
* Lightning always keeps a small golden brown teddy bear on display in her room. She will never get rid of it because it was the last thing her mother ever gifted her.
* Lightning will sometimes call people randomly by their last name, if they have one or if it sounds right to her. Nobody really knows why, but they never speak it out.
* Lightning learnt to drive a car in Paris, France.
* As a raccoon, Lightning's ears move depending on how she's feeling.
* Lightning is left-handed and whenever she writes, she always puts a star on the tittle of the i's and j's.
* Lightning's gender-swapped equivalent name is Thunder Moon.