History of Twilight Sparkle: Difference between revisions

This article is dedicated to the early life of {{FIM|Twilight Sparkle}} from her birth all the way to the adoption of Spike and everything in between.

 

[[File:FIM40 Baby Twily.png|thumb|200px|left|Baby Twilight!]]

Twilight was either born in [[June]] or [[July]], making her a [[Cancer]]. According to the Ponyscope, Twilight's associated traits with Cancer is a very loving, caring and creative personality who often surrounds herself with friends.<ref name = "Annual2019 ponyscope">[[My Little Pony Annual 2015 (Orchard Books)|Annual 2015 (Orchard Books)]] - "[[My Little Ponyscopes]]"</ref> Likewise, Twilight either has the [[Pearl]] or [[Ruby]] for her birthstone. The former is associated with patience, power, peace, honesty and serenity while the latter is associated with luck, friendship, loyalty, determination, bravery and a headstrong nature.<ref name = "Annual2019 Your Gem Destiny">[[My Little Pony Annual 2019 (Orchard Books)|Annual 2019 (Orchard Books)]] - "[[Your Gem Destiny]]"</ref>

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[[File:FF4 Young Twi.jpg|thumb|200px|A young Twilight and Shining Armor tracking monsters]]

At a young age, Twilight Sparkle loved to team up with Shining Armor to track down monsters, ghosts, creatures and other oddities in the forest and countryside. Even as a filly, Twilight was incredibly punctual and learned in the arts of tracking and had their entire monster manual memorized to the point where she had a near photographic memory of the book. During one of their adventures, Twilight and Shining Armor were hunting a [[Wood Sprite]]. Shining Armor encouraged her to try and get her cutie mark in monster tracking, something Twilight was all for. During their expedition, the two hide in a bush near a cave.

The two brainstorm over all the possibilities of what could be in such a cave, with Shining Armor suggesting it could be a [[Troll]] or [[Quarray Eels]], Twilight shoots back with suggesting it could be [[Spider Monsters|Giant Monsters]] or even a [[Crystal Ghost]]. It's clear that whatever the beast is, it has their utmost attention. While the two are discussing, they are suddenly startled when they hear a loud noise come from the dark cave. The both of them slowly debate who should go first, Twilight volunteering because she wants to learn how to scout, with Shining Armor volunteering because he's older. Their debates are cut short when their bravery runs out and the two make a run for it. Although this incident scared them straight, it did not turn them away from monster tracking entirely and both held strong nostalgic and sentimental feelings towards the experience even years later. Twilight kept her book, while Shining Armor kept the Net Twilight used in her adventures.<ref name="FF14"/>

 

[[File:NEIGH_HELLO.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Even Twilight is put aback at just how awkward her brother can be]]

 

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[[File:Twilight Mark S1E23.jpg|250px|thumb|YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!]]

 

It was a dream come true.<ref name = TCMC/>...With one itsy little problem. She had to pass an entrance exam to pass. The exam was to hatch a Dragons egg. Although nervous in her abilities, Twilight didn't give up. Her parents watched on, tears of pride and joy as their daughter took the exam. She tried casting spells on the egg, warming the egg, casting spells on it again. All the while she was being rushed by a group of rather impatient ponies. Later on, Twilight is about to give up and apologizes for wasting their time when she hears a massive noise off in the distance. This causes her magic to charge. With this newly found power, she zaps the egg, making it hatch, freeing the dragon on the inside. In doing so, she scares her parents and herself as she's still supercharged on magic. Still while in this state, she's confronted by Princess Celestia, who calms her down and praises the filly for her effort and performance. Celestia states that she's never seen a filly with the same raw abilities as Twilight and says she needs to tame her abilities. The Princess then says she wants Twilight to become her personal protege at the school. Twilight is ecstatic at the notion and quickly accepts her request. In the midst of excitement, Twilight doesn't even notice she received her cutie mark until Celestia informs her of it.<ref name = TCMC/>

 

<ref>''[[My Little Pony: 20/20]]''</ref>

 

[[File:V10 First Day.jpg|thumb|250px|Twilight on her first day]]

After Twilight received her Cutie Mark, she passed the entrance exam of [[Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns]] and was sent there shortly there after. Excited and proud of herself, Twilight was eager to attend the boarding skill and brought her favorite doll, [[Smarty Pants]] to keep her company. Twilight was headstrong and confident in her abilities, believing she was ready for anything the school could throw at her.<ref name="ISSUE40">{{C|FIM|40}}</ref>

All the while, her dragon spills food on a near by table, making a huge mess. Levitating the dragon with her magic, the filly carried him all the way into her dorm to clean him up with tears in her eyes. Twilight is furious, and upset with the dragon, saying he made her look like a bad caretaker, a bad student and most of all, a bad daughter. She snaps at the poor dragon, saying she has had it with him, and that he's a stupid nuisance and nothing more. She wishes he was more like Smarty Pants instead. Upset by what his caretaker said, the dragon tries his best to make it up to her. He speaks his first words "Smuh-Pah" and clenches her Smarty Pants doll. Twilight realizes the error of her ways, that the dragon isn't just a doll or a pet, but a friend. The dragon lovingly rubs Twilights nose and claps out of joy. Twilight realizes that the dragon needs an actual name. The baby dragon insists on "Smuh-Pah" or "Smarty Pants", but Twilight refuses, saying he needs his own name.The filly begins to clean up her new friend as she brainstorms a name. She comes up with a name, but is interrupted by her parents, who ran into her dorm concerned over their daughter for just running off during the Tea Party. Twilight apologizes for her actions, but assures them that something very important had just happened. She introduces her parents to her new friend—Spike!<ref name="ISSUE40"/>

 

[[File:Twilights second family.png|thumb|left|250px|A relaxing night]]

 

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[[File:Spike's Picture S5E12.png|thumb|250px|left|A younger Twilight and her friends]]

Twilight would continue to grow up in Canterlot and presumably spent most of her yeas at Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns. There, she would become friends with [[Twinkleshine]], [[Minuette]], [[Lemon Hearts]], [[Lyra Heartstrings]] and [[Moon Dancer]]. In spite of her generally anti-social personality at the time, her friends greatly admired and cared for her, and just took her anti-social attitude for what it was. They got along great and hung out together at various Canterlot restaurants such as [[Donut Joe's]]. Twilight seemed particularly close with Moon Dancer out of all of them, as they seemed to spend the most amount of time together. On the faithful day where Twilight moved to Ponyville, she missed Moon Dancer's birthday party, which broke Moon Dancer's heart and made her grow more anti-social then Twilight ever was. In spite of Twilight's sometimes dismissive and rude attitude, she was still a good-hearted and caring mare who seemed to bond well with others and did form a fair number of friendships over the years. Her relationship with Spike also seemed to flourish in this time.

 

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