Lumi's Backstory


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Monster-Teeth
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2 years, 8 months ago
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A quick and dirty, but VERY LONG, summary of Lumi's backstory!

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So she's a born alicorn from earth pony parents who live out in an all earth pony farming colony on the edge of Equestria's borders. Her parents freak out because where they live... earth ponies still kinda see pegasi and unicorns as the oppressors and the enemy, and they REALLY don't want word getting out that they had an alicorn baby cause they're afraid the 2 sisters will come and take her away when someday in the future she could be important to the earth pony cause.... So they constantly cover up her wings with a cloak and a saddle bag and things like that. Everyone thinks her mom cheated on her dad since she's a unicorn + the fact that she's still a blank flank makes her the subject of a lot of ridicule. But eventually the 2 sisters pay a visit to the area cause it's like on their list of places that they need to hold the summer sun celebration or whatever to make sure all of Equestria gets to be graced with their presence and not make any one town feel too special other than the capital and they're having their little parade or whatever and her and her "friends" are running around chasing each other and they run right into the parade and she trips and her cloak and saddle bags fly up and expose her wings literally right in front of the 2 sisters 


and they're obviously like "uhhh OKAY so once we're done with this ceremony we wanna see YOU in our tent PRONTO" and obviously she's like "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck they're gonna take me away OH NOOOO" and they're questioning her and she like lies and says that she found a book of magic spells and was messing around and managed to give herself wings and they ask to SEE the book obviously and she's like "it got incinerated..." making up a wild story about how it all happened, ... and then she has a nightmare that Celestia and Luna take her away and like burn down her village or something and Luna with her dream walking stops it and she's like "oh my god it's true you CAN see people's dreams" and Luna's like "yes, but only if they're close by enough, you're colony has always been beyond my reach. ...why are you afraid of us?" and she like just looks down very sad and Luna is like "are you a true alicorn???" and she can't lie anymore and she's like "yes" and luna's like "so you are afraid we will take you away from your parents and your life.... but you are special, we need to learn why you are this way, you'd needn't throw away your whole world, but haven't you wondered why you don't have your cutiemark yet??"

I also think that her parents wrapped up her horn in bundles of fabric and then put it under a bonnet at first when she was a little baby to help prevent magical surges. But past the point where she stopped having them... she never used magic! So after agreeing to become Luna's student and stay in Canterlot for a year... she's gathering books at the Canterlot library and Luna's teaching her about the history of magical studies and unicorn history in general since all she knows is earth pony stuff... but the unicorn section doesn't have any stepladders because unicorns can just levitate books down to grab them or look at them. So she has to drag a step stool ALL the way over there from the children's section, and even when she stands on it she STILL can't reach. And Twilight is watching her do this the entire time SUPER confused because the 2 sisters agreed not to tell anyone that she was an alicorn until and only IF she decided she wanted to make it public. Finally Twilight comes over and levitates the book down into Luminence's grasp and they exchange a few hurried words before she runs off back to her room.  And then Twilight talks about this to her friends who all kinda go "what if anyone other than a unicorn wanted to learn Unicorn History?? anyone else would have trouble getting it to those books." and Twilight just has to sit there and go ":/ I mean YEAH i GUESS but-"  and then decides to directly ask Celestia wtf is up with this chick???  and Celestia is trying not to LIE but also not to tell the whole truth and is like "she was raised in an all earth pony town, she never learned how to use magic" and then twilight is like WHAAAT?????  and tells all her friends and they're like "what's the big deal" and twilight has to go off on a whole big rant about how magic use is intregal to the culture of unicorns, each their own quirks, each their own magical aura. And it all stirs a lot of hearth's warming eve heated discussions about the differences between all the races.

But at the end of the day, Luminence never thinks of herself as a Unicorn or an Alicorn.... she's always just been an earth pony who happens to have a horn and a set of wings. She does everything the earth pony way. Picks up things with her mouth and her hooves. And she never flies. She tried a few times in her bedroom but knocked things over and got caught, and of course promptly scolded. She always wears two layers of near full body covering fabric, and then has saddle bags overtop to obscure the body shape that her wings give off.