Prince Crystal Clear

**Prince Crystal Clear** (his entry here) is a benevolent Alicorn god from the Second Age, and is the oldest son of Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria.

## Appearance

Pre-Ascension, Crystal Clear was a tall Earth Pony stallion with a steel-blue pelt, light copper hooves, white markings on his face and body, and a short golden mane and tail. He's more muscular than Caerulus due to handling and carrying technology all the time. He also has several scars from work-related accidents and battles with supervillains. Like Caerulus, Crystal Clear is very handsome; Cultura calls him a 'hunk' due to his ruggled, muscled appearance. His Cutie Mark is a copper-brown treble clef with a pair of gears, representing his focus on the technical aspects of music.

Post Ascension, Crystal Clear became an even taller Alicorn with a rippling mane and tail made of golden Sound energy, and a wing gradient going from steel-blue to gold. Unlike Caerulus, who lets his mane and tail go long, Crystal Clear keeps his short to avoid accidents. Due to his divine 'age', he started a process of growing a radiant halo made of sound energy behind his head, which is similar to Caerulus' music halo, yet hides it due to seeing his halo as tacky. His Cutie Mark also transformed and gained a musical halo like his father’s, except it’s not flanked by wings.

Crystal's true form as an Alicorn has the combined traits of all mortal Pony tribes, such as the butterfly wings of a Flutter Pony, the aquatic gills and tail of a Sea Pony, and the red chest gem of a Musical Pony.

In terms of attire, Crystal usually appears as a Greaser like his father did in the past. He combs his mane into a pompadour and wears a black leather jacket, though he wears safety goggles instead of sunglasses to protect his eyes. For formal occasions, he wears divine copper barding with a sleek, modern design as befitting someone who came from one of the most technologically-inclined Ages of Known History. Several traditionalist deities have tried getting Crystal Clear to wear his barding more so he’ll look more respectable and dignified, but he just ignores them.

## Relationships

### Crystal Prism

Crystal Prism, formerly Page Wheel, is a Fourth Age descendant of Crystal Clear through one of his lovers from the Third Age. While traveling with his father, Caerulus, Crystal Clear discovered Crystal Prism and was pleasantly surprised to find one of his descendants. However, he was enraged when he learned of Crystal Prism's ordeals as a test subject of Noble Grace and Professor Bubbling Beaker, whose experiments turned the young Page Wheel into a magic-eating monster until he was killed by Luminiferous and the Equestrian Alicorn Princesses, leading to Page Wheel's death, rebirth, and Ascension.

Crystal Clear would bond with Crystal Prism over Ascending to demi-godhood after being put in situations where they died or nearly died. And like many benevolent deities who are interested in Crystal Prism's potential, Crystal Clear has been helping his descendant overcome his PTSD by encouraging him to forge his own path, not the one Noble Grace and Bubbling Beaker laid out for him as a herald of a new Age for Ponykind.

## Powers and Abilities

### Tribal/Racial Magic

Crystal Clear was initially an unawakened Earth Pony who is physically strong from constant handling and carrying of technology. After becoming an Alicorn in a terrorist attack that nearly killed him, he gained the combined magic of all mortal Pony tribes.

Like Caerulus, he is very skilled with Earth Pony magic, but he has proven himself competent with Musical Pony spells due to embodying Sound.

### Sound Domain

As a god of Sound, Crystal Clear's powers are similar to Caerulus’, but in his case,they are much more potent than his father’s due to embodying Sound instead of Music. He can unleash powerful, disorienting screams, cast sound-based illusions, turn into an entity of pure sound, and amplify/mute sounds. He can convert sonokinetic energy into concussive blasts and shockwaves, and can manifest his magic as pure vibrations that can pinpoint weaknesses and weaken/shatter things, like buildings and armor. Like Caerulus, Crystal Clear is very creative with his domain; one unique ability is what Cultura calls a ‘compelling voice’. By mixing psychic empathy with his sonic screams, Crystal can magically provoke emotions in others like terror and rage, making him good at demoralizing enemies. Another unique ability is his ability to mix existing sounds and create new ones, which can have potentially devastating effects.

By extension, Crystal possesses supernaturally good hearing, and the accompanying resistance to protect himself from going deaf. This allows him to see if someone’s being dishonest by listening to their heartbeat.

### Technology Domain

As a god of Technology, Crystal Clear can magically activate dormant technology, dismantling and reconstructing machines at extremely fast rates, and create makeshift suits of armor from scrap parts in a pinch. He has psychic knowledge pertaining to any machine, whether created by himself or others, and this extends to any flaws and glitches that affect them, allowing him to repair them efficiently. He can also imbue machines and weapons with various boosts like increased firepower and working speed, and protection from jamming. Because he embodies Sound, Crystal can channel his sound-based spells through audio technology. Like all Technology deities and those like them, he can shapeshift his body parts into weapons. In relation to his domain, Crystal has limited lightning powers, as he can cover himself in lightning to make himself devastating in close quarters, and create explosive bombs of condensed lightning as a form of crowd-control.

### Stage Crews Domain

As a god of Stage Crews, Crystal Clear is telepathic and empathic, making him aware of his co-workers’ needs and allowing him to communicate with his crews effectively backstage. His telekinetic abilities are both powerful and refined, and is incredibly useful for handling multiple objects and multitasking in general. He can give his crews various boosts such as increased stamina and dexterity, and heal their injuries should they get into accidents. He also has a psychic intuition regarding a co-worker’s talents, allowing him to delegate certain roles that are best suited for said talents. Like Caerulus, Crystal Clear possesses precognitive abilities, but in his case, his precognition allows him to predict oncoming disasters and accidents, allowing him to protect his crews and plan ahead.

### Other Skills

Crystal Clear is skilled in physical hoof-to-hoof combat thanks to Caerulus, who is a war veteran from the Second Martian-Tellusian War and taught his adoptive son how to fight.

Crystal has a beautiful singing voice like his father, but he feels embarrassed about singing in public and only reveals it in private.

Because of his jobs as a mechanic and sound engineer, Crystal is very good at making himself ‘beneath notice’, in Cultura’s words. This allows him to secretly gather information on corrupt individuals so he can expose/sabotage them later. Both Maestro and other benevolent company CEOs see him as an extremely valuable ally because of this.

### Weapons/Equipment

Crystal Clear wields a mighty war-hammer, ***Little Less Conversation***, which he personally named after one of his father's old songs that got remixed years later in the Second Age.