Age: 24
Fur Color: Light Lime
Eye Color: Emerald
Magic Aura: Green
Backstory:
Before the re-establishment of the Diarchy and the return of Harmony, it was still a rare thing for the three tribes to interact. In the region of Los Alicornes, ponies were separated between the settlements of Los Pegasus, a major gambling and touristic area, Unicorn Hills, a retreat for the wealthy unicorns who wanted peace away from the busy cities of Canterlot and Manehattan, and Applewood, at the time still a major production centre for the Coltifornia apple and a deeply encroached Earth Pony settlement.
For that reason, Limelight didn’t have a very easy childhood. Born from an Earth Pony mother and an Unicorn father, he was the only unicorn his age growing up. His classmates made fun of him for being physically weak, his apple-bucking technique… quite laughable by Earth Pony standard. His magical abilities were dismissed as being mere light tricks and an offence to the true one way of doing things.
While his peers gained their cutie marks in various agricultural and apple related fields, Limelight couldn’t find his place in the world. Frustrated and envious, he one day decided to make them pay for the way they treated him. On the day before he annual Applewood Harvest Festival, he used his magic to enter the judging room unnoticed and stole the largest apple on display.
The consequences were immediate. The festival was disrupted with the ponies tried to explain how the fruit had vanished, raising various hypothesis ranging from the Mysterious Apple Thief to a fruit bat invasion. Limelight watched the events unfold with glee, feeling satisfaction like never before. He almost drowned in the attention indirectly given to him, wanting more. On that day, a symbol of a crystal pirate skull with emeralds in place of the eyes appeared on his sides, concretizing his feeling that he had found his true calling. He needed to cause mischief, to make his presence known to the world by taking away its most precious jewels.
Despite his revelation, once his fifteen minutes of glory were over, he felt guilt for his actions and returned the apple where it belonged, and the whole affair was eventually rugged under the carpet as being one elaborate prank, a practice that would become his motus operendus. Encouraged by his renewed confidence in the magical arts, he began training his skills, publicly showing off his talents to a town that was being twisted by the arrival of the theatrical industry while performing ever greater acts of thievery. Nicknamed the Borrowing Pony by the local newspaper, he took away bigger and bigger things, gaining an almost mythical status by the time he left town as an adult to show his magic to the rest of Equestria.
The Limelight Magical Show is always travelling, leaving in its wake dazzled spectators and confused authorities as works of art, trophies and other riches simply vanish, only to reappear days later, as if nothing had happened. Will you be his next victim? Or will you catch him in the act of boosting his ego? Only time will tell… wait a minute, where did your pocket watch go?