• Shining Facets

Shining Facets

Shining Facets is a male unicorn. He has a dusky slate-blue coat, pale blonde mane and tail, and light blue eyes. His cutie mark is a transparent white step-cut gemstone with white light reflecting off its sharply defined facets.

Background

Shining Facets was born in the Pony Republic to a family of landed minor aristocrats of some wealth. His ancestry includes numerous highly magical unicorns, with some highly magical pegasi and a few very magical earth ponies. It was this high magical ability and the preservation of some precatastrophic knowledge which allowed them to accomplish heroic deeds that had earned them their landholdings and entitlements in the distant past. This strong magicality continued to manifest in later generations, Shining Facets being one of most notable examples. However, by the time of his parents' generation, they had mostly become complacent with their place near the top of the social strata, uninterested in higher pursuits or education and content to simply maintain their status quo of living in ease from agricultural profits.

Shining Facets found the prospect of this rural plantation-artistocrat life vaguely boring and not very satisfying, but had few other options in sight until his mid-twenties, when a beautiful unicorn mare passed through. The mare, Diamond Hues, was wandering the Isle of Yore at the end of a series of adventures and had recently parted ways with her previous companions, leaving her traveling alone back to Sparkle City. In the interests of fostering goodwill with other noble houses, Shining Facets' family offered her hospitality as a guest in their manor until she could arrange for safe passage home.

Diamond Hues and Shining Facets became good friends. He was fascinated by the stories she told of her travels, by her refined education, and by her intellectual wit and drive to explore and learn. She also told him about her family's long-running eugenic traditions. Being familiar as a farmer with the potential for selective breeding to create powerful advantages in emphasizing the most useful traits, he came to see these practices as interesting and sensible.

Nearing the end of her stay, Diamond Hues told Shining Facets quite forwardly that as the capstone to her adventures, she wanted to return home with a foal, and after getting to know him and researching the qualities of his family history and pedigree, she wanted it to be his. Shining Facets was willing to accommodate in helping her become pregnant, as well as wanting to pursue the prospect of a long-term romantic relationship. He also saw this as a convenient opportunity to get away from his current life and experience a city with a major center of learning, so he traveled with Diamond Hues for the ostensible purpose of escorting her home safely rather than letting her make the long journey alone.

By the time they arrived in Sparkle City, Diamond Hues was pregnant with the couple's first foal, Emerald Hues. Shining Facets never returned to the Pony Republic, remaining in Sparkle City permanently to start his new family. After a period of courtship just suitably long enough to satisfy appearances, he married Diamond Hues and became part of the Hues Noble House. They have been very happily married ever since and have had three foals in total, all of whom have been very highly magical unicorns.

Notable Exploits

While traveling to Sparkle City with Diamond Hues, shortly after the conception of their first daughter Emerald, Shining Facets and Diamond Hues encountered and defeated the lich Central Fossa. Shining Facets kept the lich's skull as a trophy, occasionally showing it to guests as a conversation piece.

Family

Shining Facets is the father of Emerald Hues, Topaz Hues, and Sapphire Hues. His wife is Diamond Hues.

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