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Starlight Pianissimo was a pony who loved music and aspired to be a musician. She didn’t care about fame and just wanted to create music she loved without the interference of record companies and corrupt managers like Svengallop. For over a decade, she learned to play a few instruments, including piano (her main instrument), guitar, bass, and drums, practicing for hours almost every day. While not exceptionally skilled at guitar, she was a phenomenal pianist and songwriter, earning her cutie mark in the latter. Her favorite genre of music is progressive rock and most of her solo albums are progressive rock albums.

Starlight began her musical career around the same time as Coloratura while also working at a record store to earn a living. She struggled to make it for a couple years until she attended the Helping Hooves Music Festival when Coloratura, simply known as “Rara”, performed “The Magic Inside”, inspiring her to continue. Starlight manages to get in touch with Coloratura and the two quickly become friends, bonding over their love for music and staying true to themselves. The two begin collaborating as a duo, recording a reasonably successful album together as well as a few cover EPs each focusing on a single artist, with Coloratura singing, Starlight playing most of the instruments, and both of them playing piano together.

Starlight and Coloratura would both develop a crush on each other, with Starlight, who initially did not sing, being inspired to sing along with Coloratura, although her voice wasn’t nearly as good as Coloratura’s. Both of them still had their own solo careers outside their collaborations with Starlight enjoying reasonable success thanks to her association with Coloratura.

Sunset Shimmer became friends with both Starlight and Coloratura after returning to Equestria permanently and began her own musical career as frontmare and guitarist for her own rock band. The three would begin collaborating as a trio, recording a couple reasonably successful albums while also contributing to each other’s solo projects with Starlight joining Sunset’s band as a keyboardist and Sunset joining Coloratura’s touring band as a guitarist. Starlight began crushing on Sunset Shimmer almost as much as Coloratura. The three of them remained best friends for life.

Starless and Coloratura were together when all of a sudden, Coloratura’s cheek began to glow, and all of a sudden, her body began to disintegrate. Several ponies outside also begun to disintegrate as their souls left their body and were collected by Grogar’s bell. Applejack and Pinkie Pie also began to disintegrate, but somehow, the magic of friendship kept them both alive. Starless tried to save Coloratura but his dark magic couldn’t save her and she was gone. He puts on the Alicorn Amulet he stole earlier, becoming fully evil and transforming into an artificial unicorn while increasing his strength and speed. He begins his return to Black Night and his gang with the goal of destroying them and Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight Sparkle and her friends are safe by the magic of friendship and see several souls in the air and a powerful magical energy coming from the Everfree forest, realizing that’s the location of Black Night and his gang, and they head there. The bell cannot drain magic while the resurrection is taking place, but regardless, when Twilight and her friends arrive, Black Night and his gang fight them and prove to be more than a match for them. After a long battle, Twilight Sparkle and her friends are knocked out and the spell is almost complete. Grogar was about to return.

Suddenly, Starless returns and attacks the gang, who is worn out after their struggle with Twilight. Twilight, barely conscious, realizes that regardless of who wins, Equestria is doomed. Starless ultimately wins the fight and kills Black Night knocking out the rest of the gang. The spell is almost complete and Starless is about to stop it until Twilight points out that he may be able to revive Coloratura and everypony else who was killed in the sacrifice. Starless had become apathetic towards everything at this point but also realized he was throwing away his one chance to be reunited with Coloratura, not like she liked him anyways. He tries to take off the amulet but is unable too as he had become too corrupted by the amulet, which nearly takes full control over him, but Twilight and her friends, who have woken up, help Starless overcome the amulet’s influence. Starless then realizes he can sacrifice the amulet as well as his own magic and undo Grogar’s resurrection to bring back everyone Black Night and his gang killed, including Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow, who are all turned back to stone when all of this is over.

Coloratura is revived, but her reputation has been destroyed with her being falsely accused of killing her own fans. While she does forgive Starless, she also rejects him. All of the surviving gang members except Starless are arrested and sent to various prisons. Black Night remains dead. Twilight Sparkle offers Starless her friendship and Starlight Glimmer offers to let him live with her at the Castle of Friendship and to teach him about friendship, and Starless reluctantly accepts. He moves in to live with her, Sunburst, Trixie, and Sunset Shimmer (who moved back to Equestria permanently not long after Twilight’s coronation).

Starless is doing better although he still beats himself constantly for everything he’s done but gets by with his new (and old) friends. He tries to move on from Coloratura and begins dating Sunset Shimmer, who has somewhat of a crush on him, for a while. He still visits Coloratura often and their relationship begins to rekindle as Starless slowly lets go of the past and Coloratura’s reputation is restored and she once again becomes one of the biggest artists in Equestria.

One year later, Starless and Coloratura get married and now have a healthy relationship. Starless and Sunset Shimmer break up but remain close friends.

Starless has completely given up on life, knowing Coloratura is about to die, or even if she lives, her reputation will be destroyed as she’ll be framed for the mass murder committed by the cult. He could have prevented this but he did nothing. Part of him wishes he could go back and save Coloratura, or at least warn her of the upcoming danger, but he hasn’t seen her since before Nightmare Moon was released, and he wasn’t sure Coloratura would even remember him let alone forgive him after what he did when Coloratura left to go to Manehattan. He decides that Coloratura doesn’t matter to him anymore, that nothing matters to him, and that life isn’t worth living anymore.

Starless takes a walk in the Everfree Forest before returning to his house, a small shack in the forest not far away from the Castle of the Two Sisters. He stabs himself in both of his front hooves a few times, writes a suicide note, and prepares to hang himself before he suddenly gets a visit from Princess Luna. Luna sees a lot of Starless in herself and believes there is still time to stop Black Night and his gang, but Starless doesn’t care anymore and believes he’s beyond help, or rather that’s what he tells himself. Luna takes Starless to the Castle of Friendship, where he’s confronted by his old friend, Starlight Glimmer. It’s been many moons since they last saw each other after Twilight took away Starlight’s village from her. Starless is still upset that Starlight left him when he needed her, but he doesn’t take it personally since her leaving was more Twilight’s fault and thought Starlight’s village wasn’t any good to begin with. The two have a heart-to-heart talk but Starless still believes there is no hope for him or Coloratura. He’s not sure whether to think that Starlight Glimmer’s been brainwashed by Twilight Sparkle while he saw the light, or whether this whole time he’s surrounded himself with the wrong friends and Black Night has deceived him to turn against Twilight. Remembering that Black Night threatened to lock him up if he tried to stop them from sabotaging Coloratura’s hoofsies, Starless begins realizing that he and his gang don’t care about him and regrets joining them, but he also believes it’s too late to turn back, that he’s too far beyond help.

Luna then takes Starless to Coloratura’s mansion in Manehattan. Coloratura doesn’t recognize Starless at first but soon remembers him once he reveals his cutie mark and refreshes her on their past together. Starless and Coloratura find out they both had crushes on each other when they were younger, and Coloratura forgives him for assaulting her all those moons ago, until Starless reveals something else: those hoofsie stamps she gave out in Ponyville were cursed, and everypony who took one is going to die. Unfortunately for them, once a curse is placed, it cannot be removed except by whoever placed the curse, and since Coloratura gave herself a hoofsie, she’s going to die once Black Night begins his resurrection spell. Starless rushes to Twilight’s castle to alert Twilight Sparkle about the danger, revealing everything in a private location outside her castle so Black Night and his gang couldn’t eavesdrop on them, including the recent monster attacks, the missing statue of Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow, and the return of Grogar. They both frantically search for a book about the dark magic they used and a way to stop it, but to no avail. Twilight calls her friends for an emergency and finds out that Applejack and Pinkie Pie both got a hoofsie from Coloratura and were going to die too.

Starless, knowing that Black Night and his gang will soon begin their spell thus destroying Coloratura and hundreds of other ponies, and that there’s no way to stop this, decides to begin his own plan, giving up any good inside him he may have had left and putting an end to both Twilight’s friends and Black Night’s gang. He breaks into Zecora’s hut to steal the Alicorn Amulet, believing it will make him powerful enough to take down Black Night and his gang while also corrupting him beyond help, and then returns to Coloratura’s mansion to see Coloratura in her final moments. She isn’t too happy to see him knowing that he’s part of the reason she’s about to become a victim of Black Night’s spell, but also knowing he and Twilight tried to save her and everypony else who took her hoofsies, allows Starless to stay with her.