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[Name]: Lu
[Age]: 22
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[Name]: Princess Luna
[Canon]: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
[Age]: Over 1000 for sure, but canon isn't clear. I usually headcanon like 3500-ish.
[Gender]: Female
[Canon Point]: Post-Season 4

[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 feels 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 entirely 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 still likely to receive a nightly visit. She's also prone to practicing forms of harsh lessons here, as she is equally capable of visiting nightmares upon others if she feels they are in need of correction in their waking lives. These are always special cases, though, and often personal; she hardly keeps tabs on the current karma count of every single one of her subjects.

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 there's danger involved.

[Abilities / Strengths & Weaknesses]: 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 magical 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 with some effort.

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.

Luna's weaknesses are largely personality-based, rather than in her magical abilities. She tends to be very emotional and impulsive, and does not always think things though, often leading her into making terrible first impressions and generally putting people off. This is particularly bad when combined with the fact that she's quite sensitive, and takes others' opinions of her rather seriously. After making a mistake and turning people off during introductions, she's far more likely to be hurt and offended and storm off than to make an attempt at repair. Other peoples' privacy isn't a concept she's always entirely clear on. She also has jealousy issues, and guilt issues springing from the jealousy issues. Even though things have gotten better for her since her return, she remains fairly well-convinced that she will never be as well-liked as her sister.

[Limited Powers]:
Luna will be unable to fly or teleport between islands or ships. This is less a reduction in her ability and more that she just can't navigate over the open ocean well enough to manage. She will also be unable to affect celestial bodies, and her general magical powers re: potential destruction will be decreased.

I'm inclined to keep her dream powers, as they can make for fun shenanigans, but of course these would not be used on characters without OOC discussion.

[Other Important Facts]: She is going to buy a pirate hat.

[Samples]:
♦ Thread: boop
♦ Post:
We hath discovered a new island!

It is not so very large, and is shaped roughly like a half-moon. I intend to make some proper aerial surveys, and create a map later - as well as name it! Perhaps Orion, I am fond of that name. I shall include a copy of the sketch here when I am finished.

It is not inhabited, of course, or I should not name it myself. At least, I do not believe these creatures to be sapient... [At this point, vicious snarling can be heard in the background.] It is roughly akin to a spider, with scales and many large fangs. We have trapped it under a crate. 'Tis actually strangely adorable when it is not biting - I may see if it can be trained to act as a ship's cat! Its venom does not yet appear to corrode wood, so the signs are favorable at present.