Lighthouse keeper. It’s a responsibility taken for granted. It’s a tough job, one that requires living in isolation. A pony can go for months with no contact with the outside world aside from watching ships pass by.
For Dewdrop Dazzle, it’s perfect. The lighthouse sits atop a rocky point in Horseshoe Bay, outside Baltimare. Even without the benefit of earth pony magic, she grows her own food. The unicorn only goes to town a few times a year and stocks up for months at a time.
Dewdrop thinks back to a time when she was a happy little pony. Before her classmates got their cutie marks one by one, and hers refused to appear. The other unicorns started learning magic, but all her horn could do was spark uselessly whenever she tried to do anything. Dewey, as she’d liked being called, was behind her peers. She was stuck repeating magic kindergarten, being made fun of by colts and fillies younger than her. It was discouraging.
Then her magic came in, and her cutie mark with it. She’d ended up with a weather mark, like a pegasus. That only made her the subject of even more tormenting.
Her magic works differently than other unicorns, which is why it had taken so long to come in. Water mages are so rare in Equestria that the last one had been hundreds of years prior. He’d been a pirate, using his talents to plunder from anypony unlucky enough to be sailing in his vicinity. Water mages were different, and the last one had been a very bad pony.
So the ponies of Baltimare had taken to treating her like she was also a bad pony. Teachers looked the other way as classmates bullied her mercilessly. She’d dropped out of school and taken a job that was perfectly suited for a mare of her abilities. Keeping an eye on the ocean, far away from anypony else.
She’s lonely in the lighthouse. Ponies aren’t meant to live in isolation. But she’s never found anypony willing to accept her for who she is. Ponies fear that which they don’t understand.
So she stares at the sea every day, for hours on end. Imagining what the ponies on board the ships are doing, where they’re coming from and where they’re going. She wonders what cargo the freighters are carrying. She imagines herself out there more often than not.
As she looks out over the ocean, she sees a tsunami racing towards the coastline. It’s only minutes away. A normal unicorn would be powerless to do anything but watch it destroy the city.
For once in her life, Dewdrop is happy to be an abnormal unicorn.
[CHOICE]Does Dewdrop save Baltimare?
>Yes, of course. (hero)
>Yes, this is the perfect chance to show off and rub it in to everypony who’s mocked her for years. (chaos)
>Depends on if the city’s willing to pay her price or not. (villain)