Lady Calcite/Pyrite of the Cometheart Family

Lady Calcite/Pyrite of the Cometheart family

Calcite
She hails form a long line of nobility that within the last two generations have fallen on hard times. With mounting pressure and monetary concerns combined with some bad experiences in the night court have led her to sign on with the "new management" as a spy and representatives in the courts. She is Corona's ear in Equestrian politics,
and will often be used to help create problems within Canterlot and the court.

Skills:
Calcite is a reasonable knowledgeable unicorn in the arts of magic she can skilfully conjure a small number of illusions that can fool the untrained eye. (She's no Trixie though) Besides that she is an excellent actor her capable of throwing up different "masks" for different situations Whenever she needs to, and can be quite convincing. She is quite well read in politics and is very intelligent with money as well, but has only recently been able to put her knowledge to use.

Dedication:
Calcite if dedicated first and foremost to her family. She'd pretty much to anything for them and to live up to their high expectations of her. Her loyalty to Corona is questionable at best, she does on some level Identify with the alicorn. and due to her family's experiences with the court she more or less view's Corona as a "different type of bad" as opposed it a greater threat, but this is largely her lying to herself. Calcite is a workaholic, while she may occasionally enjoy the fruits of her labour, she is not one to be idle this can be a mixed blessing as it leads her to isolation and exhaustion but can also get allot done at the same time.

Family
Family means everything to Calcite, both her relatives and their name/safety the only pony's that matter more to her than herself are her family and she will do anything including lie to and manipulate them in order to protect them while working to make sure no one can disrespect them again. This also leads her to being very sensitive where issues of her family come up and she will take anything as a criticism

Flaws
For all her attempts and success's at deceiving others she has a habit of lying to herself as-well. Calcite is quite willing to ally with Corona to spite the court and country she feels didn't give her family due and with the intent to "save" her family regardless of the cost to herself or others. Inexperience, while her first foray into court politics was disastrous, she learned a great deal from it, but for all that she's gained Calcite is still a new court member with more money than allies, while a court member and quite capable and willing to spy, she is somewhat limited by her relatively low position in the court, something she has only been able to improve slightly with a combination of Zecora's information gathering talents and Corona's gold.
Finally, she is spiteful, her motive for allying with Corona are vengeful more than anything and if she's going to go down she'll go down swing dragging everyone she can with her.

Temper/self delusion
Calcite, in her own mind more or less sees herself as at worst a villain protagonist/well intentioned extremist, at best she sees herself as the hero in her own story, this ties in with her own habit of justifying her actions to avoid feeling guilty about her betrayal of the court and Eqauestria in general.
She tends to overreact, taking anything as a jab or criticism of either her or her family, this tends to lead to a bad tempter which she keeps reigned in but will lead to her lashing out later in vengeance, to her there is no kill like overkill. Calcite isolated herself as a child both in response to her a family's pressure, her workaholic attitude towards life and her somewhat mistaken belief that no one desired to be around her because of her family, when really she never gave anyone the chance to try, she's generally cold in herself but can put up a friendly face.

IDEA:
She possibly knows/likes Redwing.