Lacunae (Project Horizons)

Lacunae
~ DotRook
Profile
Race	Alicorn
Sex	Female
Faction/Role	The Goddess Unity Priest, Heavy weapons expert.

Appearance
Eyes	Violet
Mane	Night Blue
Coat	Dusk
Cutie mark None

“	I have been in Hoofington many years. I am… resistant to the screams of the city. Few alicorns can survive in it for long. In some places, it is physically damaging	”
– Lacunae Explaining Hoofingtons lack of Alicorns

Lacunae is an alicorn working for the unity alicorns. She is part of the Goddess , and is supposed to bring Blackjack into aiding the Goddess for their well-being. She is one of the protagonists in Project Horizons .

Background

Originally, the Goddess sent her to Hoofington to locate some former relics within the city. However, the enervation radiated from the city became "screams" to the Goddess, bringing unbearable pain to every alicorn within Unity. So the Goddess isolated her from other Unity members, allowing the mission to be continued while the other members do not need to suffer the scream through involuntary telepathy.

This isolation makes up Lacunae. In text, it means "unfilled space" or a "void", which sums up what this pony is – a part of the Goddess where it dumps unwanted parts of itself (weak personalities, bad memories) into this void. It is guessed by Blackjack that it is these unwanted parts that forms the unique personality of Lacunae.

Personality

She is a very quiet pony, and can sometimes pocess a bit melancholy tone. Even as such, as part of the Goddess her body can be shared by others in Unity , like many other Goddess alicorns. However, she is not a typical Goddess providing her more isolated status from the other alicorn spirits. This is due to her mission, and perhaps her true identity as well.

She claims she deserves to suffer, likley due to the original personality, buried within Lacunae.

Appearance

Similar to Princess Luna in appearance, when Blackjack first met her, Blackjack mistaken her for Luna. She has a purple body and blue mane, and a pair of violet eyes. Being a Goddess and of course an alicorn, she is much larger than typical unicorn in the wasteland. She covers herself with a black lace dress, so potential enemies will not recognize her for being a Goddess from seeing her wings (though it can be tricky due to her body size). Still as stated by Lacunae, a pony is less likely to ask about a larger than usual unicorn.

Skills

As an alicorn, she pocess a far greater magical strength than any other typical unicorns. She can lift a gatling gun with magic at ease (which Blackjack commented, impossible for her), and can also teleport herself and other ponies within a reasonable range (as herself commented, "The energy needed is the product of the square of the amount of mass to be transported, the square of the distance to be covered, Fireflash's constant, and the inverse of the amount of radiation I've absorbed."). She also possesses healing powers as seen in her many attempts to heal the groups injuries.

Also because of being an alicorn, she can communicate with the Goddess no matter where she is. However, it is seen that the Goddess can speak through her without her approval. Blackjack is able to distinguish between the Goddess and Lacunae's personalities.

Relationships

Blackjack - She assists Blackjack throughout her journey and has saved her life on more than one occasion. She refused to let Blackjack die in Stable 99, as she still had a debt to The Goddess.

P-21 - She gets along with him, and assists him by relaying messages telepathically between Blackjack and himself at one point.

Morning Glory - She seems to get along well with her, and assists her in medical procedures.

Arloste 'Rampage' - They get along well enough. Rampage reminds Blackjack of her soft heart when she recruited Lacunae.

Scotch Tape - She has allowed Scotch to ride on her back and teleported her and Morning Glory to the Fluttershy Medical Clinic when Scotch's organs were filled with Chlorine Gas by Killing Joke.

Notes & Trivia

• She is used as a place to store regrets, negative feelings and weaker personalities that exist within the Unity Alicorns.
• Can be possessed by the Goddess at will.
• Wears a Black Lace Dress to hide her wings and Alicorn status
• Her black dress is a reference to the lady in black.
• Looks remarkably similar to Luna
• Wields a Heavy Minigun with ease.
• Has shown extensive knowledge concerning miniguns and heavy weapons.
• Was shown as being able to wield multiple heavy weapons when she used a Steel Rangers Power armours weapons and her Minigun. Coupled with her shield spell.
• Has a fondness for dandelion sandwiches.
• Refuses to let Blackjack die and reminds her of her debt to the Goddess
• Has a guilt complex, possibly from the original personality buried within her.
• Her name is the plural form of lacuna which literally means, 'A missing portion in a book or manuscript.'

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