This Day Will Be Perfect

"I ascended to alicornhood and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." This is an indie roleplay and ask blog for Princess Cadance. Please read the rules before asking to roleplay. Credit for icon goes to Sugarberryart.tumblr.com!

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Day One - Introduction

Hey! My name is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but just call me Cadance. The doctors recommended that I should open up an online diary to help connect with subjects in preparation for my coronation, and to help jog my memory. If you want to ask me any questions, feel free! I'm not sure how many I can answer, but I'll try my hardest! Blog's a little work in progress, It'll get better.

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((Hey, this Cadance blog was made by a friend of mine! Head here to support a cool in-character blog about a Queenly Cadance! :D ))

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The hard part of coming back is partially curating my dash. xD Since I don’t use this blog as a Main Blog to my personal anymore, I’m trying to shift through RP blogs and non-RP ones.

My dash is so empty now. Help.

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Slowly trying to build back up a new list of people to follow as I watch the show. xD Starting to really get in the mood for RPing here again.

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So...I just redownloaded my old RP icons. I think I’m gonna come back to this blog! I may not be on as much as I was when I used to be active, I have other projects to work on whenever I get the chance, but I think I wanna come back to this!

So! Feel free to send asks in if you want, and I may toss out a proper starter call soon! I think this will be fairly fun~

(Also, an important note: I have not seen any of MLP past the Season 8 Premiere, including comics, shorts, and Pony Life. I plan to rectify this sometime in the future, but for now my knowledge remains in the realm of Seasons 1-7. Hopefully that isn’t much of an issue!)

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Low-key feeling like returning here someday...I’m not sure if the community is still here, but I loved being a part of it and I’d be glad to come back sometime if it’s still around.

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Gosh, I can’t believe the show’s ending still. It’s been such an important thing to me since I first started watching back in Season Four, even if I haven’t watched it since the Friendship School arc started, I still feel disbelieving a little.

It’s been such a good run, and I really wanna catch up some time. I’m really thankful for all the fun it’s given me, and all the lessons its taught me, both directly and indirectly.

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Crystal Terminology

Below is a list of helpful terms to know when working with gems and minerals. It includes terminology on various crystal shapes and forms. Terms specific to mineral shapes have “(form)” next to them for ease of reference.

Abundance (form): An abundance crystal consists of one long quartz crystal with many small crystals clustered around its base. Its function is to attract wealth and abundance.  

Adamantine Luster: A particularly brilliant shine as shown by a specimen such as a diamond.

Amorphous (form): Amorphous crystals, such as obsidian, have no particular shape. Energy flows rapidly through and amorphous crystal as it has no rigid internal organization.

Aura: The subtle bio-magnetic sheath that surrounds the physical body, providing a protective zone that extends for about 18 inches to 3 feet from the body and contains information about a person’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state of being. 

Aura Crystal: A crystal specimen, usually of the quartz variety, that has been coated with metal (i.e. gold, titanium) in a vacuum chamber resulting in an iridescent sheen.

Ball (form): Balls are usually shaped from a larger piece of crystal and may have planes or flaws within them. They emit energy in all directions equally. 

Barnacle (form): A barnacle crystal has many small crystals covering a larger crystal. 

Bridge (form): A bridge crystal grows out of another larger crystal. It assists in bridging gaps and bringing things together.

Carat: The standard measure of weight for precious stones and metals. A carat is equal to 0.007 oz (0.2g).

Cathedral Quartz (form): Cathedral quartz may appear to be composed of several convoluted pieces, but these are in fact all part of the main crystal which has multiple terminations with at least one point at the apex.

Channeler (form): A channeling crystal has a 7 sided facet at the front of the termination and a triangular face on the opposite side. It channels healing energy or information from higher sources. 

Cleavage: The way a mineral or rock breaks along a certain plane, or in a certain direction.

Cluster (form): A cluster has many points bedded, but not necessarily fixed, into a base. The crystals may be small or large. 

Companion (form): A companion crystal has two crystals entwined and partly growing in each other, or a small crystal that grows out of the main crystal. 

Cross (form): A cross formation has one crystal at right angles to another, usually larger crystal. 

Crystal: A naturally occurring substance whose atoms are arranged in a regular manner. 

Crystal System: The systems in which crystals are grouped based on their symmetry. There are 6 crystal systems: cubic, monoclinic, triclinic, trigonal/hexagonal, orthorhombic, and tetragonal. 

Diamond Window (form): Flat faces at the top of crystals are called windows. A diamond window is large and connected to the apex and the base.

Double Terminated (form): A crystal with two naturally faceted ends. 

Dull Luster: A shine that reflects very little.

Earthy Luster: A non-reflective mineral luster.

Egg (form): A crystal cut in the shape of an egg. 

Elestial (form): An elestial has many natural terminations and folds over a multilayered crystal. 

Etched (form): An etched crystal that looks as though hieroglyphs or cuneiform writing has been inscribed on its faces. 

Faces: The External flat surface that make up a crystal’s shape.

Fault Line: An inner flaw or break in a crystal that refracts light and appears to divide the crystal into sections. 

Fluorescence: The optical effect whereby a mineral appears a different color in ultraviolet light than in ordinary daylight. 

Fracture: The distinctive way a mineral breaks.

Friable: Minerals that easily crumble are referred to as friable.

Gemstone: A mineral, usually crystal-like, which is valued for its color, rarity, and hardness.

Generator (form): A generator crystal has six facets meeting equally in a sharp point. 

Geode (form): A geode is contained within an outer form. When opened, it is hollow with many crystals pointing inward. 

Geologist: A scientist who studies the Earth and its structure and composition.

Gridding: The placing of crystals around a building, person, or room for protection or enhancement energies.

Habit: The general shape of a mineral.

Inclusion: Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, often producing a rainbow.

Iridescence: A play of colors that looks like oil on water that occurs when light reflects off internal elements of a rock or mineral. 

Layered (form): Plate-like crystals such as lepidolite are referred to as layered. 

Luster: The way in which light reflects of the surface of a mineral.

Manifestation (form): One or more small crystals are totally enclosed by a larger crystal. 

Matrix: The bedrock on which crystals are formed.

Metallic Luster: A shine like that of polished metal.

Mineral: A naturally occurring solid with specific characteristics, such as a particular chemical composition and crystal shape.

Mineralogist: A scientist who studies minerals.

Mohs Scale: A scale of hardness used in classifying minerals. It runs from 1 to 10 using a series of reference minerals, and a position on the scale depends on the ability to scratch minerals rated lower.

Occlusion: A mineral deposit within a crystal, which usually shows up as cloudy patches, spots, or a ghostlike image depending on the color of the material.

Opaque: A substance or material that does not let light pass through it.

Ore: A rock or mineral from which metal can be extracted

Phantom (form): A phantom crystal appears ghostlike within the body of a larger crystal. 

Pleochroic: In a crystal, appearing to have two or more different colors or shades of color, depending on the angle from which it is viewed. 

Point (form): Points may be natural or artificially shaped. A single crystal point has a faceted pointed end and the other end tends to look ragged where it has been separated from a cluster base. 

Prism: A solid geometric figure with a set of faces parallel to one another.

Pyramid (form): A crystal with four sides on a base, but the base itself may be squared off if the crystal is natural (i.e. apophyllite) rather than artificially shaped.

Record Keeper (form): A record keeper crystal has clearly etched pyramid shapes on its side or sides. 

Resinous Luster: A shine like that of resin.

Scepter Quartz (form): A scepter quartz is a large central rod around one end of which another crystal is formed. 

Seer Stone (form): A seer stone is a natural, water polished stone that is cut to reveal an inner world. 

Specific Gravity: The ratio of a mineral’s weight compared to the weight of an equal volume of water.

Square (form): A square crystal consolidates energy within its form. It’s useful for anchoring intention and grounding. 

Streak: The color of a mineral’s powder. It is less variable than the color of the mineral, so is a more reliable identification tool.

Striation: One of multiple, usually parallel grooves or scratches on a rock surface, produced by abrasion associated with glacial movement, stream flow, a geologic fault, or meteoric impact.

Tabular (form): A tabular crystal has two wide sides resulting in a flat crystal which may be double terminated. 

Transmitter (form): A transmitter crystal has two seven-sided facets with two perfect triangles between them. 

Tumbled (form): Refers to stones that have been polished in a large drum with grit, resulting in a smooth and often shiny stone.

Vitreous Luster: A shine like that of glass.

Vogal Wand (form): A crystal with specially created, indented facets with specific angles down the sides of a quartz wand. 

Wand (form): A crystal in the shape of a wand, either naturally occurring or artificially cut. 

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Revised 30 September 2017

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I come back for ten seconds and find a ton of posts flagged. Really Tumblr? :?

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Prince Blueblood, any suggestion about how to take a mosquito that don't leave you alone?

“You ask a servant to destroy the pest with fire, while you stay safely in your room with a flyswatter ready.”

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((*Raise the hand* I have a question... Blueblood is around in the crystalverse?

I’d definitely say so~ Typically Blueblood stays in Canterlot, but he visits Cadance from time-to-time either for personal reasons or to help her out. Because of that, I’d say he’s likely around in the Crystalverse, yes~

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Starter call for Prince Blueblood: Capping at three!

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Starter call for Princess Cadance: Capping at three!

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I think I’m gonna post starter calls for Cadance and Blueblood soon, cause it’s been a while~ Until then, if you have a thread with me that I haven’t answered in a while that you want continued, feel free to comment here and I’ll get right on that when I get a chance~

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heart-tips:

“Don’t worry, Cadance. What you need to remember is… Silver and I have been putting ourselves on the line to stall this. Poison Joke in the blessed water, smashing the windows, switching all the food out with wax, redirecting all of the mail he’s been putting out, hijacking the weather pony schedule to keep dumping rain on the church at the times he needs it, pretending to be him and cancelling all of his appointments - you name it, we’ve done it.”

“The wedding isn’t foolproof - the law goes to vote for repeal tomorrow. The same day as the wedding itself. And that’s just it - it was scheduled for a week ago. We’ve stalled - but not enough.”

A sigh.

He walked forward, braving the enraged Princess of Love to give her a hug; putting his own feelings aside for just a while to let her burn them off.

“I’m going to be crashing it tomorrow. And then causing enough chaos to give the repeal time to go through. …I’m…”

His voice dropped a tone; his eyes watering. Fear.

“…probably going to get really hurt in the process. But I wanted to tell you in case… well, the guards get the better of me. You may need another student.”

The implication was utterly clear.

This conversation reminded Cadance of a game of tug-of-war. Each time she thought she understood what was happening, the rope yanked her off her balance.

The combination of the hug followed by the implication of his words felt like she was doused in ice water before hit by a lightning bolt. It cooled her anger, only to electrify her fear.

“No.” She said the word like a denial, not a command. “Heart, there has to be some better way. You can’t just go on some sort of- Of suicide mission knowing that it won’t work!”

She tried to think of something that would work. Some sort of master plan like Celestia always thought of that would save him and tie up all his problems in a neat little bow. But it wasn’t as easy as Celestia made it seem.

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heart-tips:

Even as he spoke, he felt his own insides - his own soul - harden and freeze over, as well. Never let it be said that the Student of Romance and the Princess of Love didn’t have a similar way of reaching the same conclusion.

Or the same emotion.

“There is a unicorn noble by the name of Honoured Hoof - who has been trying to invoke an old, old unicornian law. One that would allow him to - somehow, I’m no lawyer; I only know the outcome - marry the Princess of Magic without having to go through the standard contracts. All he’d have to do is fake a few things, and we both know how easy that is.”

Heart had once managed to get himself labelled the Crown Prince of Saddle Arabia despite obvious problems with that. All it took was bits. Bits and amorality.

“Princesses Celestia and Luna are working to repeal the law, but they needed time. So Silver Streak - you may remember him - and I have been doing everything in our power to stall. Damaging the church. Stealing supplies. I had to talk him out of firebombing his house more than once.”

A pause.

“And I failed. The wedding goes ahead tomorrow, and - I am not powerful enough to stop it. And dragging you into it will just cause more problems than it solves, Princess.

He scrunched his eyes closed.

“I… wanted to tell you before I forced myself to do something utterly stupid to stop this.”

As Heart continued to speak, there was a noticeable shift in the air. The room didn’t just seem cold. It was cold, and getting colder, in fact. It was like the room was falling prey to the emotions of those inside it, the temperature dropping like their spirits.

Cadance at least tried to keep to her promise, but it wasn’t easy. Each word seemed to make her angrier than before. By the time Heart was finished, there was only one thing Cadance could truly say.

“That bastard.” Cadance practically growled the word. “I can’t believe there are ponies still like him in the world. Who does he think he is, putting out this- This perversion of love just so he can get power?”

In an unconscious act of anger and worry, Cadance started to pace as she spoke, back and forth in front of Heart as if trying to walk out her rage. As she did, her magic seemed to be acting on its own, her aura rising up from her horn like a flame waiting to be lit against the first thing that drew her ire.

“There has to be something we can do,” Cadance insisted. “The wedding can’t be foolproof, there has to be someway to stop it from happening.”

Well, at least now she knew Heart wasn’t exaggerating.

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heart-tips:

Heart Tips did not get as far as he did by being unobservant; and in his time spent as a student he had come to learn a little bit about how the Princess of Love operated. The fact she was currently not freaking out did not mean that state of affairs would continue for long.

“…you may be getting a wedding invitation in the mail for Earl Honoured Hoof and Princess Twilight Sparkle. An invitation she will likely be finding out about when it arrives into hers.”

And he braced himself. This outburst was likely going to suck.

There was a moment of silence following the announcement. Cadance wasn’t sure how to respond at first. The statement, and so matter-of-factly too, that Twilight was just getting married out of the blue was so sudden, so unexpected, so mindboggling, that Cadance couldn’t react in any other way than...

Snickering. She snickered, and all at once the tension around her seemed to fade as a slight smile appeared on her face. “Oh, I see. Very funny, Heart.” She shook her head, chuckling a little still. “You had me there for a second, that was a good one.”

Cadance’s amusement was short-lived however. While this definitely seemed like some sort of prank -- if a strange one -- she noticed that Heart wasn’t laughing. Or smiling. Or...anything really. On closer inspection, he seemed completely serious.

And that’s when the last sentence he said registered. An invitation she will likely be finding out about when it arrives into hers

Cadance felt the air around her grow cold, as if a wave of sheer ice was the Frozen North had found its way to her. Heart was being serious, and now she was too.

“Heart,” Cadance started. Her smile was gone, along with any vestige of humor. She spoke simply, with little evidence as to how she was feeling other than concerned. “What’s going on?”

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I have to go for a while to clean house, not sure how long. See ya later everyone~