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Character Name: Princess Luna
Canon: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Canon Point: Post-Season 3
Background/History: Wiki
Personality: In the past, Luna's jealousy and bitterness over ponies' preference for her sister's day drove her to become Nightmare Moon and try to cast Equestria into eternal night. She is no longer that wicked mare of darkness, but her desire for love and acceptance remains her driving force. She feels a great amount of guilt for her actions as Nightmare Moon and wishes to make amends by working to win the love of her subjects fairly. Unfortunately, having been on the moon for the last thousand years has left her even more out-of-touch with her populace than before. Time has worn away some of her more antiquated speech patterns, though she still tends to slip into "thees" and "thous" when emotional or trying to be formal. Therefore, her behavior can still seem overly rigid and harsh to modern ponies accustomed to her sister's more diplomatic ways.

She doesn't take rejection well at all, and it often triggers her somewhat fearsome temper, which only drives her subjects even further away. On some level, she views this rejection as inevitable, having never been very popular. By this point, she almost expects to be distrusted. But she hasn't entirely given up, and she's willing to try changing her approach; she just needs some guidance. Though Twilight Sparkle's aid resulted in quite a few mishaps, she remained willing to follow even the strangest of the young mare's plans and was immensely grateful to everypony who helped her along the way. Really, anyone who accepts her as a friend will very quickly earn her loyalty and affection, perhaps because she has so very few of them to begin with.

Luna is a creature of strong emotions, which can just as easily result in great enthusiasm instead of anger or sorrow, often all in quick succession. While quick to wrath, she does cool down quickly enough to realize when it was unwarranted. If so, she'll feel terrible and try to seek forgiveness. If, however, she has been truly wronged, she's very likely to hold a long grudge; doubly so, if someone she cares about was insulted or injured. Truthfully, she's a good friend to have, just a little inexperienced socially. Though she tends to fall back on courtly etiquette and her traditional Royal Canterlot Voice when nervous or upset, once she relaxes she proves to be very friendly and kind. This new modern era provides strange new opportunities for casual socialization and even fun with her subjects, and though she's still getting used to the idea, she enjoyed her first taste of it immensely.

The one area where she is most comfortable and at ease with her subjects is the world of dreams. There, she is in total control. Perhaps more importantly, she is also fulfilling a duty that only she can do. Celestia raised the moon in her absence, but she could never enter dreams like Luna can. Therefore, Luna takes a great deal of pride in this station, and does her best to provide personal aid to as many ponies plagued with nightmares as possible. Being especially fond of children in the waking world, she often gives them precedence, but adults are just as likely to receive a nightly visit. She takes an equal amount of pride in being a ruler again. While this can mean that she is proud and quick to take offense, she views ruling as a matter of responsibility rather than authority, and is very protective of her subjects. This protection occasionally extends to persecuted people of other countries as well; while she and Celestia were co-rulers, they had something of a history of dethroning tyrants, even those that weren't currently threatening anyone other than their own people. Luna tends to think little before butting into someone else's business, particularly if she thinks someone might be harmed otherwise.

Abilities/Powers: As an alicorn, Luna has tremendously strong magic. Most notably, she raises the moon and the stars each night; she is also responsible for entering her subject's dreams as they sleep and helping them fight their nightmares. Within dreams, she has total control of dream elements, and can banish or alter them at will. In canon, she has also been seen summoning thunderstorms, transfiguring objects into apparently living creatures, altering her own shape, and using general light/magic beams in combat. It's reasonable to assume she can also teleport, as unicorns below her skill level have been seen doing so, but she would require either a line of sight or a high level of familiarity with her destination to do so safely. As all unicorns, she also uses telekinesis rather than her hooves to manipulate objects, and can probably lift anything lighter than a celestial body.

Luna also possesses the abilities of the pegasus and earth pony races. She makes much more frequent and obvious use of her pegasus magic than other alicorns, owing primarily to her fondness for lightning and thunder. Even as Nightmare Moon, lightning was a favored weapon, and she still summons storms simply on a dramatic whim. As all pegasi, she can create and manipulate clouds and weather patterns. Her earth pony attributes, meanwhile, present themselves in her physical strength; she has been seen cracking stone with a stomp of her forehoof, and can shout loudly enough to blow ponies back from her. She may possess the "green hoof" common to the race as well, but since princesses very rarely have time to garden she's never been able to tell.

Items/Weapons: Only her royal regalia: crown, peytral, and shoes.
Sample Entry: Previous post here
Sample Entry Two: Luna soared over the streets of Traverse Town, a dark shape nearly unnoticeable above the glare of the neon lights. She didn't care overmuch for those particular inventions; she found them garish, ruining what otherwise might have been an almost familiar setting for her. Not to mention, she doubted anypony noticed the stars or the moon with such displays...she cast a glance ruefully upward. These nights were not hers. She'd tried time and time again since she arrived in this town, yet every attempt failed to budge the moon or even the stars an inch. Still, she felt responsible for them. Whether she was in Equestria or not, she was still a Princess.

That was why she patrolled so frequently. Because the truth of the matter was that she could not in good faith begrudge these people their lights, not when there were vicious beasts constantly lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike. Certainly, nights in Equestria could be dangerous in some places, but these monsters dared roam the city streets themselves! Neither she nor Celestia would ever have allowed such a thing - it made her wonder who ruled this place.

Regardless, such foul Nightmares could not be allowed to simply claim the night as they pleased. If this town's ruler could not see to it, then she most certainly would. Behind and above her, her Komory Bat let out a cry of warning, and the night princess wheeled about. Yes, there! A small pack of Nightmare Meow Wows, roving the streets of the Fourth District. Luna nodded at her Spirit, and both dove towards the group. Noctis, knowing what was about to happen, drew back a bit to let the princess pass him, bracing himself in anticipation...

"HALT, FOUL CREATURES! THY NIGHTS OF VILLAINY END NOW!"

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