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| Emerald Hues is a unicorn with a mint-green coat and a pale green mane and tail, representing the element of magic. | = Emerald Hues = '''Emerald Hues''' is a PRPG2 player character. She is a female unicorn (later alicorn) who is the bearer of the element of [[magic]] in her time. As a unicorn, she had a mint-green coat, pale green mane and tail, and blue eyes. Her cutie mark is a hexagonal cut emerald sparking with magic. |
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| She is highly intelligent and has been extremely talented in pursuit of academic knowledge about and the practice of magic all her life. Unlike her far-distant counterpart Twilight Sparkle, however, she's done so without the benefit of having been spotted at a young age and placed under special instruction by a tutor of similar or superior ability. As a result of being more intellectually skilled and often able to outwit, out-maneuver, and out-manipulate other ponies and creatures around her, even those in ostensibly higher positions of authority and privilege than herself, she tends to have little regard for respecting limits, barriers, or being told no, seeing these as puzzles and challenges to circumvent or overcome to get what she wants rather than boundaries to accept being limited by. | ||||<tablestyle="float:right;clear:right">'''Emerald Hues'''|| ||Race||Unicorn (later alicorn)|| ||Sex||Female|| ||Occupation||Mage, wizard|| ||Affiliation||Bearers of Harmony, [[Hues Noble House]]|| ||Mother||[[Diamond Hues]]|| ||Father||[[Shining Facets]]|| ||Siblings||[[Topaz Hues]], [[Sapphire Hues]]|| |
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| An example of her mentality would run approximately as follows: If someone locks the door, go in through the window. If they lock the window, break the glass and go in anyway. If they put bars over the window, telekinetically grab a log and battering ram the locked door until it breaks open. If all else finally fails, just set the place on fire, whoever's inside will be forced out and they'll probably bring whatever was of value that you wanted access to in the first place out with them, and then it's just a simple matter of using the commotion and confusion of the fire to seize your opportunity to grab it and run. Every problem has a solution, it's just a matter of figuring out the puzzle. | |
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| Despite this attitude, she's not a bad pony or sociopathological. She's just not particularly socialized, largely by her own choice due to not having seen a great deal of value in becoming so - possibly analogous to Twilight Sparkle if she'd been allowed free reign to continue on her own to grow intellectually and in magical ability but was never assigned to Ponyville to learn about finding and valuing friends. She isn't nice simply for the sake of being nice or friendly or to make others feel better about themselves. She aims for her own interests to be fulfilled as efficiently as possible and equitable positive exchanges with others don't mean much to her except in the context of when they're the best and easiest way to achieve what she's after. As a result, when she doesn't believe that being nice is the most direct path to own ends, her interactions with other ponies (and sentient life in general) can often be blunt, rough, or crude, involving sarcasm, misdirection by omission, or open contempt for those she thinks are significantly beneath her own brainy gifts of insight and problem-solving. With those who are capable of approaching her own level, she utilizes evasiveness, careful observation and fishing for clues and windows into their personality and potential exploitable weaknesses, and playing her own cards close to her chest to prevent her own games and her true pursuits from being unduly revealed to someone with an interest in impeding them. Not being very social and not caring much about opinions held by others, she has relatively little concern for being embarrassed or humiliated and will sometimes be willing to inflict these on herself if it allows her to drag someone else down with her in a way that accomplishes something she's after. | {{attachment:emerald_small.jpg}} |
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| (To put it all more simply: On the most basic level, this character's personality is inspired by the TV character of Dr. House. If you're familiar with that show, you pretty much know who Emerald is too!) | === Early Life === Emerald Hues was born 21 Harvesting 3307 AE. Her mother was [[Diamond Hues]], scioness of the [[Hues Noble House]], a family of wealthy minor nobility in Sparkle City. Her father was [[Shining Facets]], a middle sibling in a family of Pony Republic landed aristocracy. Both of her parents were unicorns of high magicality, with Shining Facets having been carefully selected by Diamond Hues per long-running Hues practice to impart maximized potential for magicality in her foals. They had three children, all fillies. Emerald was the oldest of the sisters, [[Topaz Hues]] being the middle foal of the family and [[Sapphire Hues]] being the youngest. Emerald and her sisters were very close throughout their lives. |
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| '''Background''' | From a young age, it was clear that Emerald was powerfully magical. Her cutie mark appeared when she was a filly during an incident on a nature walk, in which she magically sensed a large (approximately 100kg) deposit of emerald crystals underground embedded in stone matrix, and displayed her prodigious telekinetic strength by pulling up the mass of gemstone so hard that it burst out of the earth. As a child she was sometimes challenging for educators, ironically partly because of her precocious reading habits. Her parents allowed her mostly unrestrained access to the expansive and voluminous family library; she often preferred reading the more advanced books there to the basic texts and homework she was assigned in school. Socialization was also difficult, due to both this bookishness and the fact that Emerald magically outclassed her peers. When it became clear that Emerald was often bored and not socially benefiting much from school, her parents placed her with a private tutor, where she was better engaged with suitable challenges. After finishing private coursework covering the scope of a full secondary education, she earned her pony equivalent of a high school diploma two years early. After taking some time off, largely occupied by her own independent reading and study, she prepared for and took college entrance examinations, scoring very highly. She attended Radiance Magic College for undergraduate studies, earning a [[BM]], then earned her [[DM]] at the [[Crooked Tower]] (thesis "Relativistic Effects in High Energy Applications of Telekinetic Magic") during the tenure of [[Everwood Wand]] as archmage. |
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| She descends from a long line of ancestry said to be of pure-bred unicorn pedigree, without any earth pony or pegasus contribution of parentage. This is certainly true at least within living memory, she has no genetic relatives that lack a horn, and most of them take pride in this fact (although the occasional differently-minded cousin does sometimes decide to date an earth pony or pegasus, and this is usually tolerated without any negative stigma or rejection but with the understanding that any offspring from such a relationship will not be recorded in the family tree as a "pure" unicorn). Some of them go so far as to attribute her considerable magical talent to this tradition of preserving and cultivating a concentrated unicorn-only bloodline. There are even rumors, encouraged by the most proud of them, that the speculated ancient alicorn Princess Twilight Sparkle was born a unicorn and related to a primordial scion of this family tree. Emerald, for her own part, doubts this claim, due to a combination of the lack of any real empirical evidence able to prove the ancestry of any pony so far into the past and doubts about the historicity of "princess" Twilight Sparkle in the first place. A princess alicorn said to live, of all places, in the local library of a small town seems too implausible, compared with the known high quality of living conditions enjoyed by the two historically verifiable princesses, Celestia and Luna. | After earning her doctorate, Emerald largely spent her time working and studying at home among her family. She became locally noted around Sparkle City as a scholar, but avoided most social engagements, finding them unpleasant and outside her comfort zone. Although noticed for being physically beautiful and considered a desirable marriage prospect, she seemed totally disinclined to consider suitors. |
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| Emerald has not dedicated herself to a single professional specialization, rather she enjoys working with magic in general and has had a wide variety of employment in fields involving using it, although getting bored easily in some tasks can become a problem. She takes opportunities to travel when they're available, in a continuous search for a combination of the most advanced magical and technological knowledge of her day, what she can derive and learn from the old Equestrian remnants of far more advanced magic and technology, and the adventures that give her the occasions to put these skills to the test in real-world use. She has a particular affinity for prospecting valuable gemstones via magical means, which in her youth earned her her cutie mark (although she's since come to feel that using her magical skills for gemological purposes was the circumstance of the time simply by chance, and that her mark is more rightfully representative of the passion for magic in general than for a single application of it). | === PRPG2 === Emerald was finally drawn into traveling by a letter sent under the pretense of being an invitation by Queen Meridian of New Equestria to access New Equestria's royal libraries. During the course of [[PRPG2]], Emerald became pregnant by a changeling, [[Cloud Lane]]. She also purified and became the bearer of the Element of Magic. === Post PRPG2 === After the contiguous events of PRPG2, Emerald returned home to give birth to her daughter, [[Amethyst Hues]]. Cloud Lane, encountering problems in Crystal Cliffs where he was employed in intelligence, fled and joined her in Sparkle City sometime before Amethyst's birth. Although she and Cloud Lane remained a long-term couple and raised Amethyst together, they never married. Emerald was a dedicated mother, spending most of Amethyst's childhood years at home raising and educating her. Emerald's sister Topaz became pregnant with a daughter not long after Amethyst was born. Topaz was a single mother whose work as a magical demolitions specialist occasionally required travel, so Emerald accordingly helped to care for her niece as well. She described her years spent raising children as some of the best of her life, stating, "I love my family more than anything, and kids with developing high-powered magic are about the right amount of exciting." After Amethyst reached adulthood, Emerald began returning to the world of academics and scholarship beyond home study. She took a professorship at her undergraduate alma mater, Radiance Magic College. === Alicorn === In 3359 AE, Emerald became an alicorn by switching bodies with Elly. Elly, slowly dying of an irreparable soul injury, had decided to use the last of her remaining time in a coherent frame of mind to enact a plan to neutralize the threat of the Dread Pantheon. Since her plan was likely to prove lethal to herself, she and Emerald exchanged bodies in order to avoid wasting an extremely rare alicorn body. This "ascension" was sometimes a mixed blessing; it thrust her into public view and occasionally invited more scrutiny than she found comfortable. Religious devotees frequently contacted her seeking guidance on various issues. Others contended that as an alicorn, she was required to be titled a Princess and insisted on referring to her as such. Emerald herself declined to opine on this directly, and steadfastly never affirmed a claim to any title other than Dame Hues (later Lady Hues, after being passed the title by her mother). === Later Life === Emerald continued to work with Radiance Magic College. Through her patronage and lobbying she contributed to its expansion into the Radiance University system, a process that saw the addition of Colleges of Biology, Astronomy, and other subjects. After this success, she was urged to continue in politics, but declined. She cited a lack of personal interest as well as reservations about the appropriateness of a Bearer of one of the Elements of Harmony taking sides in political processes, noting that friendship and power usually prove to be uneasy mixes. She also privately expressed fear of the even greater public exposure that a life on the political stage would result in. After her work with Radiance University, she was hired by the [[Crooked Tower]] in 3510 AE. In the following years, the faculty of the Tower attempted to elect her as archmage twice, but by this time she had grown to love teaching more than administrating and worried that this would impede her ability to devote classroom time to students, and so resisted the appointment. However, in 3548, a scandal erupted when it came out that several of the senior staff had secretly conducted experiments with necromancy in a pact to jointly pursue a reliable method for becoming liches. The resulting crisis of leadership and cleaning-of-house left a vacuum of positions to fill. The incumbent archmage, though not herself involved, was forced to resign, and Emerald, far and away the most qualified among the remaining untainted faculty, finally felt bound by duty and the honor of her institution to take up the office and steer it aright. Her tenure as archmage has been mostly successful, with a significant highlight being the construction of the [[Cardioid Point]] satellite campus at Heart Pond. She remains in office as the archmage of the Crooked Tower as of PRPG3 in 3645. ---- CategoryPlayerCharacters CategoryUnicorns CategoryCharacters |
Emerald Hues
Emerald Hues is a PRPG2 player character. She is a female unicorn (later alicorn) who is the bearer of the element of magic in her time. As a unicorn, she had a mint-green coat, pale green mane and tail, and blue eyes. Her cutie mark is a hexagonal cut emerald sparking with magic.
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Female |
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Mage, wizard |
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Bearers of Harmony, Hues Noble House |
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Early Life
Emerald Hues was born 21 Harvesting 3307 AE. Her mother was Diamond Hues, scioness of the Hues Noble House, a family of wealthy minor nobility in Sparkle City. Her father was Shining Facets, a middle sibling in a family of Pony Republic landed aristocracy. Both of her parents were unicorns of high magicality, with Shining Facets having been carefully selected by Diamond Hues per long-running Hues practice to impart maximized potential for magicality in her foals. They had three children, all fillies. Emerald was the oldest of the sisters, Topaz Hues being the middle foal of the family and Sapphire Hues being the youngest. Emerald and her sisters were very close throughout their lives.
From a young age, it was clear that Emerald was powerfully magical. Her cutie mark appeared when she was a filly during an incident on a nature walk, in which she magically sensed a large (approximately 100kg) deposit of emerald crystals underground embedded in stone matrix, and displayed her prodigious telekinetic strength by pulling up the mass of gemstone so hard that it burst out of the earth. As a child she was sometimes challenging for educators, ironically partly because of her precocious reading habits. Her parents allowed her mostly unrestrained access to the expansive and voluminous family library; she often preferred reading the more advanced books there to the basic texts and homework she was assigned in school. Socialization was also difficult, due to both this bookishness and the fact that Emerald magically outclassed her peers. When it became clear that Emerald was often bored and not socially benefiting much from school, her parents placed her with a private tutor, where she was better engaged with suitable challenges. After finishing private coursework covering the scope of a full secondary education, she earned her pony equivalent of a high school diploma two years early. After taking some time off, largely occupied by her own independent reading and study, she prepared for and took college entrance examinations, scoring very highly. She attended Radiance Magic College for undergraduate studies, earning a BM, then earned her DM at the Crooked Tower (thesis "Relativistic Effects in High Energy Applications of Telekinetic Magic") during the tenure of Everwood Wand as archmage.
After earning her doctorate, Emerald largely spent her time working and studying at home among her family. She became locally noted around Sparkle City as a scholar, but avoided most social engagements, finding them unpleasant and outside her comfort zone. Although noticed for being physically beautiful and considered a desirable marriage prospect, she seemed totally disinclined to consider suitors.
PRPG2
Emerald was finally drawn into traveling by a letter sent under the pretense of being an invitation by Queen Meridian of New Equestria to access New Equestria's royal libraries. During the course of PRPG2, Emerald became pregnant by a changeling, Cloud Lane. She also purified and became the bearer of the Element of Magic.
Post PRPG2
After the contiguous events of PRPG2, Emerald returned home to give birth to her daughter, Amethyst Hues. Cloud Lane, encountering problems in Crystal Cliffs where he was employed in intelligence, fled and joined her in Sparkle City sometime before Amethyst's birth. Although she and Cloud Lane remained a long-term couple and raised Amethyst together, they never married. Emerald was a dedicated mother, spending most of Amethyst's childhood years at home raising and educating her. Emerald's sister Topaz became pregnant with a daughter not long after Amethyst was born. Topaz was a single mother whose work as a magical demolitions specialist occasionally required travel, so Emerald accordingly helped to care for her niece as well. She described her years spent raising children as some of the best of her life, stating, "I love my family more than anything, and kids with developing high-powered magic are about the right amount of exciting."
After Amethyst reached adulthood, Emerald began returning to the world of academics and scholarship beyond home study. She took a professorship at her undergraduate alma mater, Radiance Magic College.
Alicorn
In 3359 AE, Emerald became an alicorn by switching bodies with Elly. Elly, slowly dying of an irreparable soul injury, had decided to use the last of her remaining time in a coherent frame of mind to enact a plan to neutralize the threat of the Dread Pantheon. Since her plan was likely to prove lethal to herself, she and Emerald exchanged bodies in order to avoid wasting an extremely rare alicorn body. This "ascension" was sometimes a mixed blessing; it thrust her into public view and occasionally invited more scrutiny than she found comfortable. Religious devotees frequently contacted her seeking guidance on various issues. Others contended that as an alicorn, she was required to be titled a Princess and insisted on referring to her as such. Emerald herself declined to opine on this directly, and steadfastly never affirmed a claim to any title other than Dame Hues (later Lady Hues, after being passed the title by her mother).
Later Life
Emerald continued to work with Radiance Magic College. Through her patronage and lobbying she contributed to its expansion into the Radiance University system, a process that saw the addition of Colleges of Biology, Astronomy, and other subjects. After this success, she was urged to continue in politics, but declined. She cited a lack of personal interest as well as reservations about the appropriateness of a Bearer of one of the Elements of Harmony taking sides in political processes, noting that friendship and power usually prove to be uneasy mixes. She also privately expressed fear of the even greater public exposure that a life on the political stage would result in.
After her work with Radiance University, she was hired by the Crooked Tower in 3510 AE. In the following years, the faculty of the Tower attempted to elect her as archmage twice, but by this time she had grown to love teaching more than administrating and worried that this would impede her ability to devote classroom time to students, and so resisted the appointment. However, in 3548, a scandal erupted when it came out that several of the senior staff had secretly conducted experiments with necromancy in a pact to jointly pursue a reliable method for becoming liches. The resulting crisis of leadership and cleaning-of-house left a vacuum of positions to fill. The incumbent archmage, though not herself involved, was forced to resign, and Emerald, far and away the most qualified among the remaining untainted faculty, finally felt bound by duty and the honor of her institution to take up the office and steer it aright. Her tenure as archmage has been mostly successful, with a significant highlight being the construction of the Cardioid Point satellite campus at Heart Pond. She remains in office as the archmage of the Crooked Tower as of PRPG3 in 3645.
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