Valiance Ascalon:
Family: Forgen Irondust (father, earth pony), Silverline (mother, unicorn)
Species: Unicorn
Build/Height: Muscular, taller than the average stallion and mare. Slightly taller than a Saddle Arabian pony, due to the genetics of her shire father.
Status: Alive
Weapon of choice: Halberd
Personality/Background:
Hailing from the dryer, lusher side of Hayseed Swamps, came Celestia's most devoted follower, Valiance Ascalon. In her quiet town of Salo, she was indoctrinated into the more devout sect of Celestia's gospel. With a raging passion in her heart, she set forth to one day serve the sun princess in her royal army. Although she would have been completely satisfied with merely being just another soldier, due to unforeseen circumstances,she now works at the princess's side as a personal assistant, or as her official title, an acolyte.
Valiance is easy going, understanding, and always willing to make a friend. Slightly gullible to those she trusts and holds dearly, the pale unicorn is tricked regularly into tests and other predicaments by Celestia and a certain other princess (mainly "pranks/adventures" in this case). Because of her laid back attitude it is not hard to convince Valiance to have fun or participate in shenanigans, even when skeptical.
However, despite her laid back nature off the clock, she takes the seriousness of her position as acolyte to the sun goddess with gusto. She's quick to be ready for battle, level headed and a clever warrior. She uses her brain as well as her brawn to level the field against her adversaries. Although she isn't cruel by nature, she is unrelenting and unforgiving of enemies to Equestria and her majesty. The passion to serve and protect her princess is what has driven her ever since she was a filly, it is what motivates her to better serve Celestia each day. To preserve that she will be willing to sacrifice her own wants and needs, even at the cost of her own morality.
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The following are artworks I've already posted on my DeviantART in relation to MAS.
"Even a tiger can smile, dear." - Celestia
The outfit she's wearing is from the beginning of episode 10 of the original series:
I wasn't originally going to do much with Celestia's accessories, since designing still life objects (along with architecture xP) isn't my strongest skill at all. So I wasn't really motivated to try. However, as I was working on drawing a full-body of Celestia to use as reference for my future stories/pictures based in the MAS Parody universe, things changed. I got to her shoes and just started to think about her crown and necklace. I thought to myself since I am going to be going out of my way to trying my best to draw and design architecture and interiors for this series in order to improve, why not do the same for this?
Now, in the universe of the Mentally Advanced Series, Celestia is a cold, calculative, tyrannical ruler, with a frightening and intimidating presence. So, I took this into account and tried incorporating some of that into her accessories. Keeping the swirly regality of it, but making it very sharp and angular as well. I also took inspiration from gargoyle statues for the necklace, to coincide with Celestia's monstrous nature.