The Stolen Character

by Morning_Starlight

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sad, Tragedy, Slice of Life
Length: 1030

A cute adopt that finds herself pulled down a path trotted down too common for characters. Only, its a famous artist and his friends that drag her there.

A bat pony, put up for adoption by her creator, finds herself being stolen from one of the most popular vector artists. She tells the tale of the pain she suffered during the theft and the pain she still feels today.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-01-29 17:30:01 UTC

I am Stolen

Hi! I’m Morning Starlight! And I wanna tell you my story!

It all began when I was created by my creator...

STOP STOP! I suppose I should say that the person who's helping me type this, my owner the Curled Pony, is not my creator. She just gave me my name, my cutie mark, and gave me my friends. ZOWIE is my creator. Zowie Stardust? She owns Star Struck? Eh, you can look her up later, but anyway...

Zowie doodled me around the start of October 2014. Since she liked me so much, she even gave me a bit of color. She thought I looked good and I thought I looked AMAZING! I even got some freckles for a sprinkle of extra cute!

There was one problem though. My creator didn’t know what to do with me. She already had so many characters of her own, and I was just so full of energy and a big handful. So, she decided to try putting me up for adoption. I even remember her saying that I was gonna be her first adopt ever! But, she was really nervous, and she didn’t know how to exactly price me, being her first adopt and all. It came down to her deciding to put me up as an auction adopt, and felt that five dollars was the right amount to start off on. Until someone had placed the highest bid by a certain time, I was going to be hers. When someone paid for me, I would become theirs and hopefully have a happy new home.

Zowie couldn’t sit with me waiting all the time for someone to buy me though. It was really scary. There are so many people on DeviantArt looking for characters to adopt! Either to add them to a collection, or to use them for other reasons. A few people were interested in me, including my owner, but then, the worst possible thing happened. The worst possible thing for any artist really.

I was stolen. Stolen by people that didn’t like Zowie for some reason. They took me away to their forum and started calling me names like “ugly” and “stupid”. When I tried to run, they caught me, and ripped off my watermark, even when I begged them to stop and to leave me alone. One named Vito pushed me down and traced over me. It burnt and I cried. It hurt so much! I wanted to go back to my creator! After it was done, there was another me and they named her “Robinia” and put grapes on her flank... and did things to her. Awful things. Naughty things.

When Zowie found me there, she was quick to pull me from the adopt auction and held onto me tight. She was really mad and sad. I remember her crying as they mocked her... because of me. Just because she drew me. It hurt every time they mentioned the copy and the truth about her. It still does. I cry when it does.

A lot of people saw what happened and got really mad at Vector Vito for doing what he did, and they got mad and fought for me and Zowie. No matter how many times he tried to twist his story. Even my owner fought. She got hurt really bad, but every time she fell, she got right back up. She still fights for me today.

the Curled Pony talked to Zowie a lot and staid by her side. She still does that too. When I was a little stronger, and the fight began to die down, Zowie offered me to her for free, but the Curled Pony refused it. She insisted on paying for me. Zowie questioned it a few times, but the Curled Pony never really gave a strait reply. But, when I asked why, she told me that it wouldn’t be right to take me when so many people tried so hard to free me.

The Curled Pony took me home and was quickly grouped with her other ponies. I staid close to Michael and Savos. It was made very clear that both of them were very special characters, even though they were both adopted too. My owner told me that they were based on the people who changed her life the most.

Another problem quickly came up: I didn’t have my place. No name and no cutie mark.

At the time the Curled Pony was changing jobs. She had a few cutie marks in mind, but was trying to come up with a name outside of “Star”... which kinda backfired on her. After about a week or two, she finally decided on everything.

“Morning Starlight,”

“To me, you are no longer a doodle, or a blank design. You shall represent my thirst for knowledge, no matter the purpose.”

The Curled Pony really enjoys researching about a lot of different things, she especially loved history, and can quickly find out if someone stole a character! She's very proud of it, and a lot of people start to come to her if they think that a character's stolen, which just kinda makes her confused. Its kind of funny.

Since she's taken me under her wing, she’s only had two pieces of art done of me. One was just a simple sketch that she commissioned one of her favorite artists in the whole world to do and the other one was digital picture from a trade. The people who stole me made edits to it. the Curled Pony and the artist were really made, especially since the watermark was removed. They both got really angry when they decided to make the picture into clop by putting in another bat pony they called “Aux”. I never saw the Curled Pony so red, especially when they began to threaten the Curled Pony for standing up for herself, and the art she worked for... now she’s afraid to get more art of me unless its at a con.

Even though my owner loves me, art theft based on hatred has hurt my creator, owner, and stopped me from being the character I want to be.