Twilight Sparkle (D) (2024)

For this character's counterpart in the Order and Chaos Saga, see .

For this character's counterpart in the Shining Sparkle Saga, see Twilight Sparkle (SS).

Note:Twilight's story in the Darkness Saga doesn't follow the main plot of Season 6, Season 7,Season 8 and Season 9 and not entirely the Season 5 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Twilight Sparkle is the central main character of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. She is a female unicorn pony who transforms into an Alicorn and becomes a princess. She is also the daughter of Twilight Velvet and Night Light, the younger sister of Shining Armor and the sister-in-law to Princess Cadance.

At the beginning of the series, she and Spike, her best friend and assistant, move from Canterlot to Golden Oak Library in Ponyville to study the magic of friendship, and she gains her own castle — the Castle of Friendship — and gains the title "Princess of Friendship". Twilight Sparkle represents the element of magic.

Before becoming a princess, she regularly sends friendship reports to Princess Celestia. Twilight also adopts a pet owl named Owlowiscious.

Personality

When she was younger, Twilight was described as being asocial, preferring to read instead making and hanging out with friends. Eventually, she ends up making great friends with Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie when Princess Celestia sends her to oversee the arrangements of the Summer Sun Celebration and Nightmare appears, even starting to realize the importance of friendship and its power.

Twilight is a great book lover. She manages to gain a great knowledge by reading books. Actually, Twilight joins a marathon after reading some books about it and ways of win it, eventually ending up in fifth place.

One other aspects of Twilight's personality is her rationality. This makes her a great observer and allows her to be calm and find any solution she wants. However, in some stress moments, she tends to lose her cool.

Skills

Twilight is exceptional with magic. Celestia herself says she has a lot of potencial, as she realizes her student had the Magic to defeat Nightmare Moon. But, as talent as Twilight can be, she can lose control of her magic and ending up misfire of fail spells.

She also has an inate ability of organization.

After gaining her wings, Twilight had some troubles in flying, but, with her pegasi friends, she manages to fly quite well.

Relationships

Family

Night Light and Twilight Velvet

They are Twilight's parents.

Shining Armor

Shining Armor is Twilight's older brother. He was her very first friend. Twilight even uses to call him BBBFF (Big Brother Best Friend Forever). Although they had a great argument before his wedding with Cadance, they manage to retain their strong friendship. Shining Armor, though extremely busy with his duties around the Crystal Empire, still has time for his little sister, whom he calls "Twily".

Cadance

Twilight reveals that Princess Cadance was her foal-sitter when she was a filly. Twilight becomes Cadance's sister-in-law when the latter marries Shining Armor. Twilight enjoys spending time with Cadance as seen when Cadance comes to visit her.

Romantic Interests

King Sombra

At first, Twilight didn't trust King Sombra at all. She didn't want nothing more than bring Sombra in after he appear to her and her friends, but because of her duty as Princess of Friendship, she knew she had to give him a chance to prove himself.

Her opinion over Sombra started to change after he staged a rescue, "saving" Fluttershy when she was falling. Little by little, she started to see Sombra in another light. This leads her to start having a certain attraction to him. One night, they meet at the library and share their stories, but, because of alcool, Twilight and Sombra end up kissing. This causes the two of them to become uncertain on their feelings for each other. But then one day, when not being able to resist anymore, they end up sleeping together. At this moment, they declared their love for each other.

Despite their love only continued to grow, they had to keep it a secret, as they didn't know how Twilight's friends would react. Eventually, this happens, what causes some tension in their friendship. When Celestia and Luna come to know about this and plan to take Sombra in, the latter reveals his true collors, much to Twilight's shock. However, despite that, Twilight still loves Sombra, as it is that love that prevents her from destroying Sombra with the Elements of Harmony through the enacting of the Love Curse. Because the curse forced her to not bear being away from Sombra and to save her friends, Twilight goes with Sombra away.

Description in the Saga

In the series

Twilight Sparkle lives inCanterlotuntilPrincess Celestiasends her toPonyville. Accompanied bySpike, Twilight checks the town's preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration and meets the rest of themain characters. The celebration is interrupted whenNightmare Moon, Celestia's nemesis, returns to power and threatens to bring eternal night toEquestria. Twilight and the rest of the Mane Six discover theElements of Harmonyand use them to transform Nightmare Moon back intoPrincess Luna. Princess Celestia gives Twilight permission to remain in Ponyville to study themagicof friendship.

During her time in Ponyville, Twilight learns about the trials and rewards of friendship, periodically sendingfriendship reportsto Princess Celestia. On rare occasions, Twilight and her friends work together to defeat powerful villains such asDiscord,Queen Chrysalis andKing Sombra.

After Twilight is able to complete an ancient unfinished magic spell with her deep understanding of friendship, Princess Celestia tells Twilight that she is ready for the next stage of her life, and Twilight transforms into anAlicornand gains the title of princess.

After defeating Tirek and opening the mysterious chest created by the Tree of Harmony, Twilight gains a brand new castle outside Ponyville, as well the title of "Princess of Frienship".

The Rise of Sombra

In "Redemption", after spending a good day with her friends, Twilight and them return to the castle where they, for their surprise, find Sombra in the thrones room who pleads for a second chance. Although they don't want to give him a second chance, they eventually agree, as they also gave one to Discord. Twilight, however, advice Sombra that, if he do the slightest mistake, he will be sorry and also blocks his magic, allowing him to stay at the castle so she could keep an eye on him.

In "Sombra... the Hero?", Twilight has breakfast with Sombra, who tries to make her disable the blocking spell on his horn, although he has already his magic back. She is convinced by Sombra to go for a walk through the town. Knowing the only way to conquer Twilight's trust is becoming a hero, he fakes a rescue and "saves" Fluttershy. With this, she starts to think that Sombra may haved changed.

In "Celestia's Warning", Twilight organizes a meeting with her friends to discuss the fact that Sombra saved her, where she asserts her determination to reform Sombra, even after the warning Celestia made to her.

In "The Dark Book", she and Spike go to the Crystal Empire where her brother and sister-in-law try to make her give up from reforming Sombra, but without success.

In "Putting the Plan in Motion", Twilight gets warmer with Sombra, letting him even use his magic for levitation. She and Spike goes to Rainbow Dash's celebration, while Sombra stays at the castle.

In "A Sparkle of Attraction", Twilight is having a late reading at the library, when she is approached by Sombra, who has a bottle of wine and a couple of glasses with him. Sombra and Twilight start sharing the drink, while starting to get to know each other. They exchange their respective life stories and found out they have a lot in common. When Twilight tries to go to bed, she, due to the wine she drunk, tripped over, only to be caught by Sombra. They get so close that the two end up kissing. When they broke the kiss, Twilight hasted to get out.

In "The Birth of a Dark Love", after their kiss, Sombra tried to find Twilight so they could talk about what happened, but she kept running from him. After dodging him at the dinner room with Spike's help, she tells him about the kiss, what caused Spike to warn him to warn her about Sombra's intensions. When Twilight comes to him to talk about the kiss, they end up making love. After the act, when she awakes, Sombra is able to convince her to keep that in secret.

In "A Royal Dinner", Twilight keeps meeting with Sombra, with the passion between the two only growing. When Celestia and Luna invite her and Sombra to dinner in order to avaliate the latter's change, Sombra ends up standing for Twilight instintively.

In "Revealed Secret Love", after a night of love, Twilight and Sombra talk about confessing their love to her friends. Despite Sombra's reluctance, he ends up giving up to her. Next day, after being caught in a romantic manner by Spike at breakfast, they quickly cover that up, with Twilight leaving the room to clear more suspition. Later, she strolls with Sombra before the meeting with her friends. When they get to the throne room, they get to know Twilight's friends had found out everything after making Spike tell them about the kiss she and Sombra shared, what leads to an argument between the six friends. After it, Twilight excuses herself to Sombra and goes to rest in her room.

In "Dropping the Mask", Twilight meets with her friends who are with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. They are revealed to know about her relationship with Sombra, having been told by Rainbow Dash. Tehy express their concern about Sombra being just using Twilight and, despite Twilight's claim their love was true, the princesses decided to bring Sombra in and so order the guards to bring him. When Sombra arrives, he reveals that he still has magic, by removing his cuffs.

In "The Love Curse", with the reveal he still has his full magic leaves everypony shocked, specially Twilight, and they quickly realize Sombra was up to something. Twilight can't believe this and is convinced everything was a lie to what Sombra replies to be untrue, as he came to fall in love with her truely. Celestia then orders the guards to seize Sombra, but they are revealed to be his servants that he created after using a spell in his book. It's then that Twilight and her friends called upon the power of the Elements of Harmony. But when they used them on him, he got unharmed, getting only even more powerful after absorbing their power. Celestia and Luna try to attack him, but Sombra only turns them into stone and then holds Twilight's friends hostage. He proceeds to reveal Twilight that he had casted a curse on her that would prevent her from harming him as long she loved him. He also made her bond with him, causing her to need to be with Sombra. Promissing to free her friends and the alicorn princesses, Twilight goes away with him.

Appearances

Legends:

• Y - Appears and have an active role
• N - Do not appears and is not mentioned directly by the characters.
• B - Appears, but have a passive role or his or her appearance is implicit
• M - Mentioned directly by the characters.