Equestrian City - Professor Midnight (SciTwi) · 1:52am Mar 31st, 2018
This week's Butterfly Effects is..
Professor Midnight aka SciTwi!
Twilight Sparkle led a relatively reclusive academic career early on. Often studying into the early hours and seldom interacting with peers, she was scoring in the top of her school by the time she applied to Everton’s Independent Research Program at the age of 17, despite Dean Cadence’s reluctance on the matter.
After being accepted into Everton program she went on to change her major to Magical Theory after having narrowly escaped the explosion of The Canterlot Disaster. She became fascinated with the new magic that had begun to circle the globe, a fascination that drove her into an obsession with the subject. Working into the early hours, her peers at Everton would go on to call her Professor Midnight in part due to her study habits, and in part due to her seemingly unmatched intellect.
Being accepted on a scholarship from Sombra Institute of Higher Learning overseas in the Eastern Empire, she settled down there as she became notorious for both her pursuit of magical knowledge and her brutal means of researching it's possible applications. Many unsolved ‘accidents’ resulted in both progress in understanding magic with heavy loss of specimens and on occasion, rivals.
Soon recognized by King Sombra himself, she was asked to be part of the Military program's Arcane Applications Division, rising in rank to its leader. Her time was devoted to unethical experiments and research and development, even experimenting on her own dog after a while, turning him into a creature of vicious teeth and a killer mentality. Unchallenged by anyone who dare consider themselves a peer, she wielded her resources however, and against whomever, she wanted, all in the pursuit of knowledge.
She currently works in relative seclusion for King Sombra on high level test for military advancements. Turning regular ‘volunteers ‘ into weapons of war through forced injections of magic and chemicals.
Behind the Scenes
Sci Twi was always going to be a rather troubled character from the beginning. She was clearly on her way to a dark place already by the time we met her in Friendship Games. I decided to pick that up and run with it, and I’m told it turned out rather well.
The first thing I did was sketch out her outfit, and thankfully, we don’t have to see that awful mess, however, it did give me direction. Researching the war crimes of various “scientists” both fictional and real life, I started to see it was simple what to do with SciTwi: Mad Scientist. Of course this was starting to become a trend as I sketched this idea out, so I almost didn’t do it since it was so “popular” at the time.
I wanted to explore the direction she may have gone in a world where magic was introduced violently and abruptly. I imagined she, like most of the scientific community, would be fascinated by the entire idea of magic. We even see a great deal of this obsessive compulsive disorder at the end of the third movie.
Left unchecked, and free of any emotional or social growth, she would become a very dangerous person. Placing her in a society that fed her experiments to its own end, and you end up with an almost Deathshead like character.
Internally, we discussed a lot of how much to pull back from her, and how much to give her in regards to both graphic experimentation, and her projects. The final result was what I thought worked the best at showing how far gone she was as a person and her brutality in the quest for knowledge: When faced with a lack of specimens, she simply drugs Spike and uses him as another project. This action shows her descent into madness, and testifies to the final string of humanity left in her being cut. All without having to go CupCakes about it.
Thanks for reading! Keep in mind the more we learn about her the more her bio will be updated on the wiki we have running!
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Art by Art2u and FlightTheMoon
Midnight by me
Equestrian City by me
Mlp:FIM by Hasbro
She experimented on her own dog? She turned Spike into a Panzerhund?
And here I was hoping that he was merely a legacy, a dark replacement of the original...
Well, great work as always with this biographical material!
4828961
Yes indeed. She is quite a peice of work.
Thanks! :D
4828961
Oh and updated with a second pic ;)
4828984
I remember that picture, I think I saw it on DeviantArt.
4828986
Yup!
4828979
I'm probably going to look forward to seeing her (hopeful) eventual downfall... even as I dread the eventual meeting between her and Matter-Horn/Twilight.
I bet that the Professor would just love to run a lot of... tests... on her doppelganger...
4828989
Oh those two will not like each other. I guarantee it ;)
4828994
Yeah, I can only imagine how the sparks will fly...
You know, thinking about what she did to Spike reminded me of Dr. Borous of the Think Tank and what experiments he performed on his dog, Gabe. They both still care, somewhere....deep down... in their own twisted way.
That said, I wonder what she'll be cooking up in that lab a bit later. Sombra clearly has plans for her experiments and if her scientific process is anything to go by, there is nothing either of them won't do to achieve whatever goal they are racing towards. I do wonder how both sides of this story, nations from each other will intertwine.
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I was not aware of that. :D
Yes sombra is by all accounts ruthless as SciTwi is. Once we finish sombra up and he debuts it should be interesting to see his plans revealed ;)
Stay tuned and thanks for the read!