Twilight Sparkle Try-outs

[Becka]

Post your try-out application for Twilight Sparkle below. This should include the Template from the Joining Board as well as a Sample RP (this can be of any character you play elsewhere, with a link to that post - only experienced players are allowed to play the Mane Six).

[Spitfire]

Name: Twilight Sparkle

Age: About 17

Type: Unicorn pony

Symbol: A red six-pointed star, backed by a white one, with five white ‘sparkles’ surrounding it, representing her talent for magic.

Appearance: Twilight is a lavender-coloured unicorn with purple eyes. She also possesses a purple mane which (usually) looks rather delicately brushed, and has a single stripe of red running through it.

Abilities/Powers/Special talent: Unlike most unicorns, Twilight’s special talent is magic itself. Proclaimed (by Spike, although she’d never claim the title for herself) to be the ‘most magical pony in all Equestria’, Twilight does have more magical skill than even your average unicorn.

Personality: While somewhat more outgoing since Nightmare Moon’s defeat, Twilight is still not the most sociable girl you could ever meet in Equestria. A very studious pony, Twilight can seem rather know-it-all at times, and is usually organised and rational – the latter being both her biggest strength and her biggest weakness, as she has a tendency not to believe in anything that she can’t prove, which has led her to injury on more than one occasion. Twilight has a rather distinct paranoia when it comes to failure, leading her to imagine the worst possible punishments whenever she feels she’s on the verge of disappointing her mentor, Princess Celestia, and often causing her to lose her sense of reason when the situation becomes too bad.

Items/Accessories/Companions: Not unusual to see Twilight with a quill and a scroll, although in the end it’s usually Spike who does most of her writing for her. As for companions, not counting Spike who’s a character in his own right, she also has a pet owl named Owloysius.

Birthplace/home world: Canterlot, Equestria (G4)

History: Born in Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle devoted herself to studying magic from a very early age, ever since she saw Princess Celestia raise the sun at her first ever Summer Sun Celebration. Not long after, much to the young filly’s delight, her parents chose to enrol her in Princess Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns, although she had to pass an entrance exam first. And, in fact, almost didn’t pass, except for the fact that Rainbow Dash’s first Sonic Rainboom startled her into awakening her not unremarkable raw magical talent, which burst out of her uncontrolled, wreaking havoc until the Princess herself brought Twilight’s powers under control, and offered to take the young unicorn as her own personal protégé. Twilight, of course, agreed, and received her Cutie Mark as a result of the encounter, too.

It was some years later when, after discovering the prophecy of Nightmare Moon’s imminent return, Twilight’s life took a change in direction as she was sent to Ponyville to oversee the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration – and under orders to make some friends, too, although the unicorn was loath to attempt the latter. As it turned out, however, Twilight found herself bonding with a group of ponies her own age when the six of them teamed up to master the Elements of Harmony and defeat Nightmare Moon. Following which, Twilight was reluctant to return to Canterlot and leave her new friends, so the Princess assigned her to Ponyville to continue studying the magic of friendship instead. Over time, Twilight and her friends were called upon again to use the elements of harmony to defeat Discord, and while they were almost divided for good, eventually managed to prevail.

Other: N/A
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Name:
Forgive me, but I’m not at all comfortable with giving out my real name across the internet. Will it suffice to say that online I typically go by ‘Angel’, and will answer to that name?

Roleplaying experience: Been roleplaying for about a year and a half now, mostly on DWoW and other Disney-based sites, and have been told by a quite few people that I’ve become an able roleplayer in that time. I’ve also had some experience playing Twilight herself, most notably on Hell on Earth.

Time zone: GMT + 0

Favourite pony: Twilight Sparkle ^^
Ponyfeathers
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Sample: (This is the same one I used for her on Friendship Is Forever, which is why it doesn’t directly relate to the plot at hand; hope that’s alright? I guess I could write a new one if you’d prefer?)
Books went flying in every possible direction as the purple unicorn frantically scanned her library’s shelves. Spike was away for once, with Pinkie being the only other pony present, and it showed by the displaced pile of books building up around the unicorn. Pinkie had come to Twilight seeking advice because something strange seemed to be going wrong with her cupcakes, and some of her potentially misplaced urgency on the matter had passed on to Twilight. Teen pony was sure she had a book on baking somewhere in here, but for the life of her, she couldn’t-

“Found it!” the pink pony suddenly bounced across Twilight’s field of vision, taking the unicorn by surprise, and she stumbled backwards into her pile of discarded books with a muffled thump. Shaking her head and looking rather regretfully at the mess of pages she’d just landed in the middle of, Twilight slowly turned her face towards Pinkie.

“How did you…?”

“It was under ‘C’!” her friend replied happily, leaving Twilight to wonder why she never thought to look for books in their alphabetical placement.

[Becka]

NAME just means whatever you go by online Pseudonyms are fine.

And no need to write a new RP. We just want to know your style and make sure you're experienced.

Try-outs will remain open until we get enough people to fill all six spots

[Becka]

*STAMP*

[Becka]

Try-Outs for Twilight Sparkle have been re-opened.

[Kiernan]

QUESTION! Do I have to retype the character application, or do I just have to try out for the character, since every pony knows Twilight, and the character application remains the same, aside from the fact that there's somepony new auditioning?

[Becka]

I think - since you've already proven yourself a good RPer - that since you'd be using the exact same application you only need to re-post it if you're going to be changing anything. Otherwise go ahead and copy/paste it onto the Joining Board.

As long as Nightbow agrees.

[Kiernan]

Yeah, I was going to say something about how I've already proven how good I am as an RPer, but I'm going to put a new segment in, anyway, since it's a part of my fan-fiction that made it into my head but not onto my computer.

Name: Twilight Sparkle

Age: About 17

Type: Unicorn pony

Symbol: A red six-pointed star, backed by a white one, with five white ‘sparkles’ surrounding it, representing her talent for magic.

Appearance: Twilight is a lavender-coloured unicorn with purple eyes. She also possesses a purple mane which (usually) looks rather delicately brushed, and has a single stripe of red running through it.

Abilities/Powers/Special talent: Unlike most unicorns, Twilight’s special talent is magic itself. Proclaimed (by Spike, although she’d never claim the title for herself) to be the ‘most magical pony in all Equestria’, Twilight does have more magical skill than even your average unicorn.

Personality: While somewhat more outgoing since Nightmare Moon’s defeat, Twilight is still not the most sociable girl you could ever meet in Equestria. A very studious pony, Twilight can seem rather know-it-all at times, and is usually organised and rational – the latter being both her biggest strength and her biggest weakness, as she has a tendency not to believe in anything that she can’t prove, which has led her to injury on more than one occasion. Twilight has a rather distinct paranoia when it comes to failure, leading her to imagine the worst possible punishments whenever she feels she’s on the verge of disappointing her mentor, Princess Celestia, and often causing her to lose her sense of reason when the situation becomes too bad.

Items/Accessories/Companions: Not unusual to see Twilight with a quill and a scroll, although in the end it’s usually Spike who does most of her writing for her. As for companions, not counting Spike who’s a character in his own right, she also has a pet owl named Owloysius.

Birthplace/home world: Canterlot, Equestria (G4)

History: Born in Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle devoted herself to studying magic from a very early age, ever since she saw Princess Celestia raise the sun at her first ever Summer Sun Celebration. Not long after, much to the young filly’s delight, her parents chose to enrol her in Princess Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns, although she had to pass an entrance exam first. And, in fact, almost didn’t pass, except for the fact that Rainbow Dash’s first Sonic Rainboom startled her into awakening her not unremarkable raw magical talent, which burst out of her uncontrolled, wreaking havoc until the Princess herself brought Twilight’s powers under control, and offered to take the young unicorn as her own personal protégé. Twilight, of course, agreed, and received her Cutie Mark as a result of the encounter, too.

It was some years later when, after discovering the prophecy of Nightmare Moon’s imminent return, Twilight’s life took a change in direction as she was sent to Ponyville to oversee the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration – and under orders to make some friends, too, although the unicorn was loath to attempt the latter. As it turned out, however, Twilight found herself bonding with a group of ponies her own age when the six of them teamed up to master the Elements of Harmony and defeat Nightmare Moon. Following which, Twilight was reluctant to return to Canterlot and leave her new friends, so the Princess assigned her to Ponyville to continue studying the magic of friendship instead. Over time, Twilight and her friends were called upon again to use the elements of harmony to defeat Discord, and while they were almost divided for good, eventually managed to prevail.

Other: Sometimes, when she's deep in thought, she ignores obvious information. Such as her relative location to the Starswirl the Bearded Wing.

Ah, the beauty of copy and paste...

[The sample is a segment that takes place during my first fan-fic, except that I never wrote this part because I was focusing on Kai rather than Twilight. A brief history leading up to this: Kai shows twilight some really old coins of incredible value, and she goes home to research them.]

"Spike, where are those books on currency throughout Equestrian history?" asked Twilight as she entered the library. She pulled the coin she had borrowed from... What did he say his name was? Aki, or something like that? Oh, well. She could find out tomorrow.

Receiving no answer from Spike, She decided to look in the history section. After all, historical currency was history. She scanned through the titles: The Earthen War, Bygone Bigotry, A Game at Dinner, Genocide and How to Avoid It... Finally, her hoof touched a book that might be of some use. She pulled down from the shelf, 'Pecuniary of the Past,' and opened it up to a page that had the coin on it.

"The Florin was used between years 748 of the second Era and 224 of the third in what is now the kingdom of Belico." Well, that was wrong. Belico had been disbanded eight years ago. Granted, this book was written before that, so there was bound to be an error or two. "It was, at the time, the value of ten bits." That was a relief. At least Equestria itself could keep to one form of currency, even if the neighboring countries couldn't. "Since it is now out of circulation, it's value has increased. As there are only an estimated two hundred left in existence, they are quite valuable to coin collectors."

Well, this was a useful venture, even if it didn't answer any of her questions. It would probably be a good idea to visit a coin collector, and have them tell her more about it. In fact, wasn't there suppo--

Her train of thought was interrupted by a knock at the door. Twilight quickly went to answer it, thinking that it must be somepony searching for a book to read. Or, it could be one of her friends, looking for advice. She might even be able to write a letter to the princess about it.

"Hello," said Twilight, opening the door.

"Hello," said a bright red Pegasus, stepping into the library, followed by two unicorns of white and blue. "Have our friends arrived here yet? We asked them to meet us at the library for a study session."

"No," said Twilight, having not seen anypony come in. "It's just me here."

The pegasus smiled at the blue unicorn, then turned his gaze back to Twilight. "Oh, good," he said, as he pulled a white out of his saddlebag and held it over Twilights mouth and nose. Before she could react, she was out cold.

[Becka]

*STAMP*

Copy/paste this into the Joining Board and you're good to go as Twilight

Now get your purple butt to the Library! I need to get Roo out of there so I can put up the Kail/Roo scene I wrote yesterday (it's my favorite thing I've ever written. EVER. Including all past RPs and several books.).

(Well, ok, maybe I still like the Pancakes RP better...)

[Nightbow]

No need to get my permission for anything. The app looks great!