Discord

Dude only appeared two episodes but darn it I try my best to get his characterization right.

When I figure out the settings, it will be anon on, screening off unless requested.

Character Information

General
Canon Source: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Canon Format:Western Animation
Character's Name: Discord
Character's Age:Unknown. Presumably as old as Celestia, perhaps even older, so he has to be several thousand years old at least.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.n/a

What form will your character's NV take? As the spirit of chaos and disharmony, his NV will take every shape he desires, whether it is a cloud, or a ice cream cone, a fish - anything really. But when he arrives, it will be in the form of a pink umbrella, just for randomness' sake.

Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Discord is the malignant spirit of chaos and disharmony - his powers is of reality warping. He likes to twists things upside down and inside out just for kicks, and his powers reflect that. Ordinary houses become a stack of cards or just cardboard replicas. He's very versed and talented in his powers and often uses the smallest of tweaks to give himself the largest advantages, like turning dirt roads into soaps just so to make it hard on his opponents to travel. He can alter the power of physics, weather, natural growth - everything. Nothing is sacred to Discord.

He also has the power of warping personalities, another facet of his chaotic powers. He can hypnotize a honesty pony into a liar, or the most generous person into a greedy hoarder. Worse he can change an entire being's behavior that is normal within the species - he made Big Macintosh, a well-respected pony of hard work and small words into a frantically digging, mouth-breathing pony that acts like a dog. He even made Granny Smith, an elderly pony who can barely walk, into a toe-taping extraordinaire. As far as he's concerned, another person's body is another way to create beautiful chaos, and he can do that with the most precise and most horrifying care. Obviously, with his cruel nature, this is going to require a permissions post.

He also shows the power of time travel in the most passive of sense. He can place himself and other people to go back in time to see past events, but it's likely that he doesn't have the power to actually change past events. Maybe. It's hard to tell, really, for all we know it was another aspect to his illusionary powers.

Illusions is something else that he can do, something that is also tied to his chaotic being. He can give the power to give off mirage and illusions, usually as a tie-in to warping personalities. Though this can be resisted - when Fluttershy seems to resist his attempts to manipulate her through the illusions of her beloved butterflies telling her her friends disregard her, he immediately became impatient and forcefully brainwashed her into a cruel pony. Discord also has the power of transporting himself into imagery, like he did with the colored glass representation of himself.

He has the power of teleportation, taking him wherever he wishes to be. This is usually accompanied with a flash of light whenever he teleports.

Due to his malicious nature and powers, I will have the Core limit his powers. He can only use his powers island-wide on one certain thing, like giving cotton candy clouds raining chocolate milk for one day before the Core forces his power back to normal, and he can use his powers in the immediate facially of his presence or on his person. His teleportation will be limited to the island.


Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: N/A



History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: here is his history!

Point in Canon: Just as Twilight Sparkle given up on her friends and Ponyville in The Return of Harmony Part II.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A

Character Personality:

"I'm not playing fair? Perhaps we haven't met. I'm Discord: spirit of chaos and disharmony. Helloooooooo!"

If a person can be summed up by his name alone, Discord will be the winner on that front. His appearance cinches it as well. He appears wild and mismatched, not a singular matching or unifying thing about his appearance or his personality - except for perhaps his pride and cruelty.

Discord is mischievous, and sometimes he looks like the type of guy who thinks a hiding a whoopee cushion on a seat is all in good fun. He uses his reality-warping powers and illusions to his targets, often using subtle means of getting through their insecurities. However, when something does not get his way and isn't considered to be fun anymore, he gets extremely irritated and uses his powers in a more brunt fashion to get what he wants. For a being that values having fun, he sourly hates to lose, especially in games that he specifically sets up that benefits only him as the winner.

Discord lacks sympathy and consideration to others - as far as he is concerned, the world is just a giant playground to him. He's aware what he does to others is horrific, but he honestly doesn't care. He much rather have fun in his way, and woe to the person who tries to stop all the fun. Of course Discord is someone who both relishes a challenge and is willing to cheat, he just finds the challenger to be more fun when he tries to sow chaos and internal turmoil. He is literally the personification of the opposite of the Elements of Harmony. While the Elements work with the power of friendship and the ability to compromise and be serving to others, Discord works as a power of Disharmony, completely self-serving and cruel.

"Oh, for goodness' sake! You've been kind for far too long, my dear. Time to be cruel. Arrivederci!"

His talents of manipulation can be argued to be more dangerous than his reality-shaping powers. As demonstrated with his attempt to corrupt Fluttershy, he much rather manipulated people one-on-one in a very intimate way than just makes themselves turn themselves over to their darker sides. But when one resists his manipulations, he gets huffy and just brainwash her with a touch to the forehead instead. His words are difficult to snipe at, as they are a mingle of half-truths, exact words, and bald-faced lies. Sometimes he gets away with the things he does by simply being quiet, allowing people to come to their own conclusions on his own words or riddles so he can get the upper hand at winning.

For all of his sly tongue and his god-like powers, Discord has a little problem with hubris. He is very good at targeting weaknesses and exploiting them for his own gain, but once the person is down, he's confident they will stay down. As a literal representation of disharmony, he never realizes that in order for friendship to work, second chances can and will be made. His pride and his belief in his absolute power takes hold everything blinds him from the idea that it is a rather good idea to look over things that might trip them up, even if they were defeated.

What's the fun in dealing with losers, after all?


Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: I plan for him to be a big bad in Siren's Port. He will be furious when he realizes his powers doesn't quite work here in the Core, so he's probably going to play with both companies, the criminal underground and the government. He's not going to care about them in the long term, all he cares is sowing disharmony and chaos. In a setting there it is just about on the tipping point of such and him being not as powerful as he was back home, he's going to take it up as a personal challenge to push the island over the edge.

Appearance/PB:look at this smug jerk.

Writing Samples

First Person Sample [ Well, here's a sight you don't get to see every day: a goat-like face with wild red eyes with only one goat horn, the other a stag's, and a rather trim horses's mane. This oddball is rather mismatched, and it is far more pronounced when he smiles and reveals his only fang. ]

Well, this is new!

But it is all dreary, all the same. How boring. [ He rolls his eyes and sticks out his serpentine tongue. ]

But! There's going to be some hot chocolate, on me! Complete with candy cotton clouds.

It's all on me.

[ Of course, he fails to mention of the roads turning to soap. Oops. ]



Third Person Sample

Well, this is aggravating.

For a rare moment - and that's saying something, considering he is so-so-eons years old - he sat down and does nothing as he allows the weird-looking clothes-monkey chat his ear off, talking about the Core, companies, and you are taken from your world by the Core.

Discord finally heard enough and takes his frustration out on the Greeter by turning the ground into soap and have him fall down and break his tailbone. With a snap of his fingers and a flash of light, he teleports to the other side of the island - but that's not his intended target. He tried to get off the island, but he's still here.

Why?

Discord can't seem to use his powers here. He can't seem to do anything here. Just when he got Twilight Sparkle to admit the loss of home, of her friends -

Why here?

A bitter wind sweeps through the beach Discord is standing on. Not that he notices. What he does notice is that the wind carries some kind of newspaper to his mismatched feet. The headlines catches his eye and picks it up.

"Siren's Port: In Decline to Chaos!" he says the headline out loud.

And just like that, an idea forms. No, better than an idea - a game.

With a jump and a holler, he flaps with his wings with a mighty "YES!" and in a flash, he's gone.