Name: Illudere, birth name Sugarplum Spotlight

Species: Unicorn

Approximate age: Early thirties

Coloration: Topaz coat, royal blue mane and tail with silver streaks

Cutie Mark: A shroud of sparkles around a beam of light

Special Talent: Storytelling

Accessories: A simple, slightly damaged off-white dress when out of armor

Approximate Voice: Harley Quinn. Alternatively, Withered Chica when she gets in one of her moods.

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Hey everypony! First off, Merry Christmas (Happy Hearth's Warming!) I'm back with a new commission I had done by the lovely and talented PaulySentry please check her and her work out!

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I wanted to wait until I’d posted Chapter 15, since it contains a minor spoiler, buuuuuuut oh well.

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Why do your characters do what they do?

It seems like a simple question. And, likewise, a simple answer. Why do they do what they do? Because they want to.

Okay, but why?

Character motivation is one of those topics that seems pretty straightforward. You have a character, and you want them to do something, so they need a reason to do it, right?

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So I was looking at my story and saw that at tge time of this post I am at 190 likes! Amazing!

Of course there is an issue in that I am going to have to push things back a bit more. Nothing bad! Just going to be vacationing somewhere without Internet and computers. In any case, I may not be there to hit my 200 likes special. So for that I want to apologize in advance if it is late.

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Something I've been wondering about lately: has anyone done an alternate universe story where Adagio Dazzle is the hero? Kind of like a re-write of the pilot, but with her in place of Twilight?

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I wanted a more exciting character of my own, so, here she is! Wild Mint.
Full 2D drawing coming soon, as well as a story. For though, she's going to be a pop-up character in my current works.

So my most recent story is the second focusing on Diamond Tiara grown up and a part of Twilight Sparkle's royal guard.

The question is: is there much interest in me writing another?

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I'm sure you're all aware of my... Disdain towards the recent Equestria Girls film: Friendship Games. And that I made a promise to never write a fic that references those events or any of the characters. Meaning human Twilight isn't much of a thing, and none of the Crystal Prep characters exist either... Well... I may or may not enjoy a couple choice characters. More specifically Sugarcoat and Sour Sweet... or Sweet Sour, whatever the broad's name is. The point is I'm lifting that rule, but for

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Alrighty, we got our players locked and loaded! Fourteen players in total, and to me, that's not a bad turnout. So, who are these OCs that'll be fighting for the prize!? Well, let's introduce them now!

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Remember when I made this post about this picture:

Of Generation one Mimic by Dennybutt?

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Daily Ponies 29: [G1] Mimic by Dennybutt

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Check it out, folks! With Sia having shown her character to be Songbird Serenade ages ago, we now have the official designs for some of the upcoming movie's new characters!

First up, Liev Schreiber's character who's supposed to be the main villain: the Storm King!

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Yeah, I know this is two days late, but I've been busy with stuff lately, I apologize.

This week we have another blind review, this time of a one shot that takes us back to before the bombs fell to one of the worst tragedies of the war, the Littlehorn Massacre. So yeah, this week we'll be looking at the fanfic Littlehorn by Recon777.

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Just for anyone who may be wondering about the OC commonly displayed as my avatar, here he is in full. His name is Dragonfire, although I might consider doing some form of profile from him on my homepage somewhere now I have this image, kindly provided by Sleepy Panda.

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Yes! Being a Better Writer has returned to Monday!

Honestly, I think I just got lucky this week in not being called into work today, but even so, it feels good to be working on BaBW on a Monday again! This is the day when it's supposed to go down ... Well, up, technically.

Today is also the first day we'll be going off of Topic List IX! That's right, new list, new topics!

Which brings us to today's topic of choice: digging deeper with characters!

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We all have a specific one, and we have it for our own reasons

Mine is "Romantic Comedies" preferably where the GIRL lusts after the guy and the guy gets all nervous yet the girl is persistant

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The fanfic material from one of them is just downrighy terrifying

And Greycait is correct in kne assumption, i am a massive sadist to my OCs already have two that have gotten the helmet treatment

Heya readers!

This latest mad dash to get my rewards done on time is brought to you by Nova Quill/Firimill.
As you may have guessed, Nova asked me to pontificate about that very adorable sociopath, Starlight Glimmer!

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