At age 26, White Night is the Captain of the Royal Intelligence, of the Starpony Kingdom (aka Stellequestria). He is a ruler in training, alongside his sister, Nightlight Sparkleheart. Neither of them was born of royal blood -- yet Princess Skysparkle has become their godmother.

At age 16, Nightlight Sparkleheart has been sent on a mission to learn the power of friendship. She shows a classic case of "Unicorn Syndrome": She loves math, science, and spell programming (no magic; this is sci-fi). Unfortunately, she has a hard time opening her heart to someone else. Moreover, she struggles with anger problems that are common to those on the autism spectrum.

Up to now, her big brother is one of few who have managed to capture her heart. Nightlight and White Night are both powerful unicorns. Nightlight is arguably more powerful, but she is less competent at controlling her powers.

Nightlight may have more intelligence for academics. But White Night has far more emotional intelligence.

As an intelligence agent, White Night gets torn between trying to be honest and trying to keep secrets. White Night seeks to reveal the truth. Yet he knows how to lie with a straight face.

White Night becomes shocked as he uncovers hidden corruption throughout the kingdom. There are corrupt officials in high places, and there is a shocking amount of local corruption. Three of the most corrupt cities are Equopolis (Equopolis Province), Las Yeguas (Neighvada Province), and Crystal City (Seaquopolis Province). Within Equopolis is a small city that is especially corrupt: Foalstown.

Princess Skysparkle is one of the most kindhearted rulers. She is an alicorn with great influence over the sun, moon, and weather. Unfortunately, her head has been in the clouds for far too long.

Skysparkle has relied on making friends to make her life easy. Unfortunately, her kingdom no longer has as much friendship as she thinks.

As Captain of the Royal Intelligence, White Night seeks to be the big brother for all his fellow creatures. He's been sending agents far and wide to collect valuable information.

Unfortunately, White Night starts to rely too much on his own schemes. Consequently, he surrounds himself too much with people who know how to trick him. He knows how to deceive, but he becomes too attracted to people who know how to deceive him.

Meanwhile, Nightlight, his little sister, starts to appreciate that life is about friendship. In the process, she learns not just the joy of friendship -- but also the intelligence of friendship.

The way White Night starts to spy on people ends up deterring many from opening up to him. It encourages a silent resistance. Nightlight starts to learn -- better than her brother -- how to build the relationships that restore a sense of community.

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Born with a silver spoon, Nightlight is assigned to live as a regular citizen. Princess Skysparkle considers this exercise a crucial part of becoming a Princess of friendship.

Skysparkle herself comes from a very humble background. She was born, over 1000 years ago, back when when unicorns were some of the most despised and persecuted creatures. Her family had to hide underground.

Skysparkle appreciates that our Creator once lived on Earth, as a fellow human being. As part of redeeming us, he walked in our shoes. He suffered one of the most grotesque and humiliating punishments -- but then brought himself back to life. Skysparkle feels her rise to greatness was given as an example of how rulers should serve their people.

White Night was born back when his family was struggling to buy a decent house. As a toddler, he was a charming little boy. He charmed his way into being taken up as a student of Skysparkle's. He has been on the field as both a soldier and a spy.

White Night is about to marry Princess Honeymoon, who is 33 years old. She is like a big sister to him. White Night has always looked up to great mother figures. In return, he longs for them to look up to him, as a father figure.

Honeymoon is one of the four rulers of the Starpony Kingdom. She is Skysparkle's adoptive daughter. Honeymoon sees her husband-to-be as a big little brother. She is amazed at the way he's grown into a leader.

Secretly, Honeymoon feels insecure as a ruler. Conversely, White Night feels he's stuck in Honeymoon's shadow. As Nightlight grows into a Princess of friendship, he starts to feel in her shadow, too. To his shock, she wins her own crown as a ruler -- while he remains a prince consort.

brother starts to feel he’s in the shadow of his little sister. In this case, both of them are overpowered unicorns, and both of them have become royals. It’s just that the sister has become a ruler — while he remains a prince consort.

In his desire to feel properly appreciated, White Night takes advantage of the rulers’ feelings of insecurity. This way, he can feel like the power behind the thrones. Unfortunately for him, this does not help him find a lasting sense of peace.

To earn his own crown as a ruler, White Night must overcome his own feelings of jealousy and insecurity. He must learn to appreciate how much his little sister has grown. He must learn to look up to her as a big little sister.

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Starponys: Crowns of Friendship © and ™ of M. Wayne Howell (starponys87@gmail.com), along with all characters therein.

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Visual Description:

White Night is a white unicorn with a build that balances the cute and delicate with the big and strong. He has wavy hair that straddles the line between wild-looking and well-combed. His hair and mane descend just past the neck.

White Night has bright blue eyes and sapphire-colored hooves. His hair is bright cyan-blue with a lightish golden stripe and a darker bluish stripe. He is nearly a head taller than his little sister (Nightlight).

The mark on White Night's flank is the following:

His mark is a multicolor shield with a tall eight-point star. Three hearts hover above the shield. The eight-point star is made of two perpendicular crosses -- a tall one and a square one. The shape of the shield resembles the American Interstate shield (vaguely resembling a cursive lowercase "v" with a curvy three-point crown).

The shield has three colors -- in stripes that slant down from right to left (paralleling the upper right and lower left points of the star). From top to bottom, the colors are bright bluish cyan, yellowish cream, and brightish lightish golden orange. The tall eight-point star is a reddish hot pink. The three hearts are a deep bright purple.