The Background Six!

[Name: Octavia Melody

Nicknames: Octavia, 'tavi

Appearance: Octavia has 4 hooves and no arms, like all equines. She has a dark gray mane and tail, a light gray coat and light purple eyes, and she wears a white collar with pink bow-tie. Her cutie mark is a purple treble clef.

Abilities: She can play the cello. And she plays it very well.

Backstory: Octavia is a cellist, and she has played the instrument at many social gatherings, such as the Royal Gala.

Relationships: Octavia lives with Vinyl Scratch, and is on good terms with many ponies in and around Ponyville. She is aware of the mane six, but they have never interacted.

Personality: Octavia is a sophisticated pony with a received pronunciation accent. She is intellectual and well-spoken, and is a fan and practitioner of classical music. In fact, she is a fan of high culture in general, but doesn't come off as pretentious or snobbish. She recognises electronic music (the kind Vinyl makes) as a legitimate form of music, even if she doesn't particularly enjoy it. She takes her band practice very, very seriously.

Quotes: "There are few social engagements not improved by the proper musical accompaniment."

"This isn't a contest, Vinyl..."

"A monster attack?! Blast! I'm performing at the ceremony this afternoon, and I still haven't sorted out what to play. How am I meant to practice with a monster invading Ponyville?" ]

[Name: Vinyl Scratch

Nicknames: Vinyl, DJ Pon-3 (stage name)

Appearance: Vinyl has 4 hooves and no arms, like all equines. She is a white unicorn with a spiky blue and light blue mane and tail. She has red eyes, but always wears magenta glasses. She is often seen with headphones, constantly listening to electronic music. Her cutie mark is the mirror image of two bridged eighth notes. Her magic aura colour is light magenta.

Abilities: Like all unicorns, she can levitate objects with her magic. She is also a talented DJ and producer.

Backstory: Vinyl is a DJ, and has disc jockeyed in various clubs and parties across Equestria.

Relationships: Vinyl lives with Octavia Melody, and is on good terms with many ponies in and around Ponyville. She is aware of the mane six, but they have never interacted.

Personality: Vinyl is a laid back DJ whose main concern is making music and DJ'ing. She lives for the energy of music, and knows countless other producers and DJs. She respects high culture, but it doesn't really appeal to her, as she prefers the energy of club music and parties.

She is constantly listening to music, and her taking her headphones off is a sign that something big is happening. Vinyl never speaks, and prefers to use body language to express herself. She may be mute, but she has never confirmed this.

[Name: Sweetie Drops

Nicknames: Bon Bon, Special Agent Sweetie Drops

Appearance: Bon Bon has 4 hooves and no arms, like all equines. Sweetie is an Earth pony with a beige coat, blue mane with a pink streak, blue eyes, and a cutie mark of three candies.

Abilities: Sweetie Drops is a former agent for "S.M.I.L.E." — the Secret Monster Intelligence League of Equestria. She still has access to various monster trapping gadgets that she keeps in a suitcase.

Backstory: She was an agent for "S.M.I.L.E.", a monster capturing agency. However, when a Bugbear escaped Tartarus, the agency was dissolved. Her codename was "Special Agent Sweetie Drops".

Relationships: Bon Bon is in love with Lyra Heartstrings, and they hope to marry one day. She is on good terms with many ponies in and around Ponyville. She is aware of the mane six, but they have never interacted.

Personality: Bon Bon is a friendly mare who can sometimes be dryly sarcastic. She is almost never seen away from Lyra, and the two are constantly with each other. Bon Bon has a habit of switching voices, a holdover from her days as a secret agent.

Quotes:

"Go ahead, try one of your jokes out on me! I laugh at everything."

"My name isn't Bon Bon. It's "Special Agent Sweetie Drops". I work for a super-secret anti-monster agency in Canterlot, or at least I did until the bugbear went missing from Tartarus a few years back."

"Buying and bribing our affections? Politicians are all the same."

[Name: Lyra Heartstrings

Nicknames: Lyra

Appearance: Lyra has 4 hooves and no arms, like all equines. She has a mint green coat, brilliant cyan mane and tail with a white streak, yellow eyes, and a cutie mark of a lyre. Her magic aura is yellow.

Abilities: Like all unicorns, she can levitate objects with her magic. She also knows about the existence of humans in alternate dimensions, and often makes hands with her magic.

Backstory: Lyra grew up in Canterlot, and was a childhood friend of Twilight, though the two don't speak much. Somehow, Lyra learned of the existence of humans in other dimensions. She may have done this by messing with a magic mirror, not unlike the one Twilight used to enter the human world, but she will never speak of this.

Relationships: Lyra is in love with Bon Bon, and they hope to marry one day. She is on good terms with many ponies in and around Ponyville. She is aware of the mane six, but has only interacted with Twilight when they were fillies.

Personality: Lyra is a friendly mare who keeps bringing up humans. Most other ponies think she's making stuff up. She is almost never seen away from Lyra, and the two are constantly with each other.

Quotes:

"Would you like to come have lunch with us?"

"Where does the phrase 'two left hooves' come from, anyway? All ponies have two left hooves..." ]

[Name: Doctor Whooves

Other names: The Doctor, Doctor Hooves, Time Turner, John Smith

Appearance: A stallion earth pony with tan fur and a brown, spikey mane and a brown tail. He has 4 hooves and no arms, like all equines. He wears a short green tie, and he has light blue eyes. His Cutie Mark is an hour glass.

Abilities: Doctor Whooves is the last of the Time Lords, a race of pony like aliens from the planet "Gallopfrey". Like other Time Lords, Doctor Whooves has two hearts and can regenerate upon death: changing his form in a blast of light.

Doctor Whooves is clever and perceptive, though he hides this under his quirkiness and odd references.

Doctor Whooves has psychic paper, a small piece of paper in a leather protector that can show whatever he needs it to in order to gain access and authorisation.

Doctor Whooves also has the Sonic Hoofpick (often called "the Sonic"), a small cylindrical device which can scan objects and areas, open locks, and hack technology.

Backstory: Doctor Whooves is an alien from Gallopfrey. Doctor Whooves stole a TARDIS (a spaceship / time machine disguised as a police box which is bigger on the inside than on the outside) from his home planet when he was young, and ventured around space and time. He arrived in Ponyville, and began to masquerade as the town's timekeeper to blend in, but was secretly mending his TARDIS after it was struck down by an alien attack.

Relationships: He is on good terms with many ponies in and around Ponyville. He is aware of the mane six, but has never interacted. He is close with Derpy Hooves, and occasionally goes on adventures with her.

Personality: Doctor Whooves is a witty and fast talking, with a bubbly personality. Doctor Whooves makes many pop culture references and sprinkles foreign, and alien, words into his speech, which often goes off on weird rambling tangents where he references surreal and strange adventures he's previously been on. Doctor Whooves is fond of describing quirks of space-time as "timey-wimey".

Beneath this, however, Doctor Whooves is a troubled and melancholy stallion, still enraged at and disgusted by his actions during the Time War. When pushed Doctor Whooves can be extremely aggressive and arrogant, though never outright violent - he hates using weapons unless it's a last resort. Doctor Whooves will, however, unleash a devastating anger towards his enemies, using whatever he can to non-lethally destroy them. Doctor Whooves can also be pretty vain, and has a deep-seated and well hidden fear of "death" (regeneration).

Quotes: "Great job! My new invention -- The Magnet -- can collect products from all your shops at once! It will appear when you most need it!"

"Allons-y!"

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff." ]

[Name: Derpy Hooves

Nicknames: Derpy, Ditzy Doo, Bubbles, Muffins.

Appearance: Derpy is a female pegasus with a messy blonde mane and tail, yellow wall-eyes (they point in different directions), with a Cutie Mark that depicts bubbles. Like all pegasi, Derpy has no arms and four hooved legs, and does not have a horn or claws, but she can fly.

Backstory: As a filly Derpy was one of the strongest fliers in Cloudsdale (the floating pegasus city), but a bump to the head caused her brain trauma and misaligned her eyes.

In the present, Derpy has taken up a job as a mail mare, delivering post to Ponyville, Canterlot, and Cloudsdale.

Relationships: Hangs out a lot with Doctor Whooves, a scientist and possible alien. Derpy knows about Twilight Sparkle being a princess, as well as the mane 6, but rarely interacts. She has no real opinion of Princess Celestia or Princess Luna, but she does think the sun and moon are pretty.

Personality: Derpy is a well-meaning and friendly pony, but is extremely clumsy and forgetful. Derpy has a habit of zoning out and forgetting important things, making it a miracle that she somehow memorised every address in her area. Derpy loves muffins, and would happily eat nothing but muffins if her doctor would allow it.

Quotes: "Mmm, muffins..."

"Moving furniture is waaay harder than delivering mail. Plus if you drop an envelope on somepony, you USUALLY don't put them in the hospital!"

"Which way is South again?" ]