Introducing: Optical Contact

Twilight wandered into the ballroom. Like many rooms in the palace, it was bigger than her entire library in Ponyville. The golden images painted across the ceiling gave it a royal touch with an allure of magic, while the furnishings hinted at Celestia's taste for simple elegance -- even the enormous gold-trimmed chairs, twice the size of Rarity's fainting couch, that were the only things in the room the royal sisters could sit on comfortably.

With only a couple dozen ponies in the room, it was mostly empty, but every one of them was impeccably dressed in an outfit that would make Rarity swoon. The few stallions in attendance, darker colors every one of them, all wore their manes short and at least one of the trappings Twilight had come to associate with a haughty aloofness Fancy Pant's generous behavior notwithstanding. Monocles were much in evidence. The mares, meanwhile, were much paler shades, and almost universally wore their manes in the long style that stubbornly refused to go out of fashion.

Almost. On the far side of the room was a mare with her mane cut short in the military style. She wore a dress that, though fine, Rarity would be fidgeting to rush over and adjust until it was just as elegant as the others. She stood near the far wall in such a way that, with so few ponies in the room, you had to look again to realize that yes, she really was standing by herself. Twilight watched in what she could only describe as morbid fascination as first a red-maned stallion, and then a Rarity look-alike, came up to the short-maned mare, attempted to engage her in conversation, and were firmly rebuffed. What was a mare like that doing at an event like this?

Originally from here.

Meet Optical Contact, the military mare. Her main reason for existence is to try and make the main six look bad.

That "try" is very important. In my head, OC here is a cross between Lightning Dust and Mary Sue. The biggest difference is that Mary Sue actually succeeds (well, for certain uninteresting definitions of 'succeeds').

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