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Blackjack Render by Vector Brony.
| “ | No, This isn’t suicide. I don’t want to die here, like this. I know the Wasteland sucks. Every single person knows that. But I also know that, so long as folks think the right way is more killing, nothing is going to get better. I’d like to live. I’d like to go back to Glory and tell her what an idiot I’ve been. But I also know… just like every one of you knows… that there is no easy way out. Never. I don’t know what this Cognitum has told you, Dawn. I don’t know what the Core has to offer. But I do know that there is no simple fix to the Wasteland. No saving it. There’s only doing better, and making the hard choice. | „ |
| ~ Blackjack, to Dawn, Steel Rain, and inadvertently Deus, Chapter 52 |
Summary[]
Fallout Equestria created by Kkat
Blackjack and Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons created by Somber
Death, Blackjack had fully succumbed to the cancer and radiation that was wrecking her body. She had died, and her soul had passed on to the world of stars, seeing all the grandeur of the universe in its origin.
The Stars showed her the beginning of life on Equestria. The centerpiece of a cosmic schism that shook the very universe. Her world, her life was simply a cog in the machine of war between universal constructs. Watching with horror as the twisted spirit corrupted the Sun and Moon sisters of legend. The Stars had wanted to spare Blackjack's soul from the torment she would be destined to face. But she refused, shunning the idea that she can run away from such a cosmic catastrophe, and leave her friends to die.
It was with that notion, that she returned to the living world. A world significantly altered by cybernetics and synthetics. Blackjack had become a cyberpony, complete with retractable hands and thumbs.
Following a brief drunken adventure with the Stable Dweller Blackjack had learned that Sanguine was destroying every outpost she had visited before arriving at Tenpony, having grown desperate in obtaining EC-1101. With no time to spare, Blackjack and company leave Tenpony Tower. Hoping to stop Sanguine's ambitions once and for all.
Appearance[]
Blackjack is a white unicorn pony, sporting a red and black mane motif, serving as a compliment to her playing card theme.
Post death Blackjack's body was plugged top to bottom with cybernetics. Both keeping her alive and to assist in combat. Her eyes still glow though that's now due to them doubling as video projectors with a red tinted flashlight.
Her most prominent appearance change is her limbs, which have been entirely replaced with prosthetics. Notably she can mold her hooves into mailable hands, to better hold and utilize equipment.
As for the rest of her body, only a select few vital organs survived the cyborgnization process.
Despite the more imposing appearance Blackjack's body is again not as durable as one might be led to believe, and it'd be foolish to believe it can endure more heavy armaments' like a tank, as they are notably combustible.
Personality[]
Like her appearance Blackjack as an individual changes very drastically throughout the events of Project Horizons. At her core, she is a jovial, peace loving, drunkard on the outside however this is only to mask the great pains she constantly feels within. Blackjack abhors the lawless conditions and mentalities associated with The Wasteland and will go out of her way to enforce whatever she can define as peace.
As with Littlepip when she first left the stable Blackjack initially had an extremely sheltered and limited world view. Being almost completely unable to comprehend what would drive ponies to madness. Her own always do better mentality caused her early on to feel immense pressure. this pressure compounded with immense feelings of regret in regards to innocents and friends she got killed, or had to kill, often lead Blackjack to thoughts and even acts of attempted suicide. However, through the help of her friends, and their reassurance that she was important and was making a positive impact on the world she learned and realize that she had and could persevere more than any other pony. With her past in mind she pushes forward with the faith of others and her history to remind her to never give up, to always push to do better and be better.
For this section of this story as well as the ones that follow, more than ever Blackjack's regrets come to reinforce her do better, be better life motto. She's come to terms with that killing herself when others less fortunate have died in her name would only make their deaths feel ever more meaningless. She continues her quest with that in mind not just for her sake, but the ponies who gave their lives to make discovering the secrets of the Hoof possible.
Personal Statistics[]
Alignment: Fluctuates Heavily but Neutral Good to Chaotic Good usually
Name: Blackjack, Go Fish (This was her birth name), Security, Maiden of the Stars
Origin: Fallout Equestria Project Horizons by Somber, a Fallout Equestria fanfiction
Gender: Female
Classification: Unicorn, Security, Cyberpony, Maiden of the Stars, The Fool, Spirit-touched
Age: Between 16 and 20 going by Word of God (Somber has claimed that she is the same age as FiM Season 1 Twilight.)
Birthplace: Stable 99
Likes: Firearms, "Vigilance" (Her family's signature pistol), Alcohol (Wild Pegasus Whiskey in particular), Sex, Gambling, Parties, Being drunk, Swords, P-21, Morning Glory, Rampage's default personality and Shuuja, Lacunae, Scotch Tape, Being a Mother figure to Scotch Tape, Littlepip, Littlepip's friends, The Crusaders, Chapel, Star House, Psychoshy
Dislikes: P-21's Suicidal Tendencies, The Dealer, Memories of Stable 99, Hallucinations, Conflict, Any faction that would harm innocent ponies, Sanguine, Rampage's Angel of Death Personality, Hangovers, Equestrian Politics, Mysteries
Status: Alive
Hobbies: Adventuring, decerning EC-1101's purpose, attempting to be a peacemaker, gun collecting
Values: Honesty, kindness, family, and peaceful enviorments. Though Blackjack herself struggles with adhering to these values in attempting to uphold them.
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: Blackjack's Friends, The Crusaders, Chapel, The Reapers
Themes:
Aoshi - SECURITY (Theme)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Often Referenced)
The Living Tombstone - Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry
Combat Statistics[]
Tier: 8-C, 8-C with most weapons, 2-A with Star Metal Sword
Keys: Book 3/Beginning of Book 4 (Current Tabber) | Chapter 53 | Chapter 62b/Eclipse Body
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry (Via her horn.), Cyborg (Type 2), Minor Magic (Greatly Reduced due to having her horn chiseled off), Minor Telekinesis (Type 1), Rage Power, Berserk Mode, Supernatural Willpower (Broke free from a mental simulation that was specifically designed to pacify her.), Acrobatics (Capable of doing backflips while dodging machine gun fire), Minor Energy Projection, Minor Teleportation (Only able to Teleport 3 feet and will leave her burnt out afterwards.) Regeneration (High Low, Low with Healing Potions), Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation (Can read the minds and memories of others by touching their forehead with her horn.), Passive Fate Manipulation (Must be involuntarily triggered, see Notable Abilities/Techniques.), Extrasensory Perception (Can see souls and spirits through her interactions with The Dealer.). Via Weapons: Statistics Amplification, Extrasensory Perception (Via Pipbuck), Perception Manipulation (with S.A.T.S. she can slow her own perception of time to a stand still.), Information Analysis (via E.F.S.), Multiple Personalities (Via EC-1101), and Stealth Mastery (Her Stealthbuck add on completely makes her invisible and cancels any noise the user would make to a degree). Via Star Metal Sword: Durability Negation, Non-Physical Interaction, Soul Destruction, and Power Nullification (Star Metal can interact with and destroy souls, souls cannot pass through the substance. A Discord comparable to his Tier 4 canon counterpart was unable to use his powers to stop Star Metal from harming, imprisoning, and absorbing him.), The Sword itself is Resistant to: Power Nullification, and Reality Warping (Discord refused to attempt warping the material in any capacity and its implied to have been beyond his abilities.)
Attack Potency: Building Level (Scaling to Littlepip, Stronger Physically than she was before, proved strong enough to rip open a metal tank hatch and harm ponies who can ram through stone walls. Can Fight Hellhounds who violently dig out of the ground to attack their foes.), Building Level with most weapons (Her weapons can harm others comparable to herself.), Multiverse Level+ with Star Metal Sword (Made out of Star Metal, the strongest known metal in the universe. Star Metal can disrupt and destroy fundamental concepts such as predetermined fate. Star Metal was used to imprison, trap, and torture Project Horizons' version of Discord, who is aware of and should be much stronger than his Friendship is Magic counterpart.)
Speed: Subsonic movement and reaction speeds (Should be comparable to this canon FiM feat.). Massively Hypersonic Perception and Reaction speeds when using S.A.T.S. (Should be comparable to her Book 2 form). Supersonic to Supersonic+ attack speed with firearms.
Lifting Strength: Superhuman, Human Level with Telekinesis
Striking Strength: Building Class, Building Class with most weapons, Universe Class with Star Metal Sword
Durability: Building Level (Scaling to Littlepip, Survived being smashed through a stone wall, shrugged off being shot at with bullets that turned marble to dust. Survived being hit by missile recoil. Survived having a boat dropped on top of her. Should be comparable to Deus, who can survive being hit head on with grenades and dynamite.)
Stamina: High (Her cybernetics allow her to go weeks without sleeping or eating, albeit it's ill advised. Should be similarly as resilient as she was before becoming a cyborg.)
Range: Melee Range unarmed, Extended Melee Range with Star Metal Sword, Several Meters with most weapons
- Pipbuck: A Inventory Management, Health Monitoring, PDA System Fused to the bone of her front right hoof, the device can track enemies up to a kilometer away, manage Medical Supplies, help her hack into other devices and do the following with pre-automated spells:
- S.A.T.S.: S.A.T.S., short for Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell, is a targeting spell that slows the users perception of time to a crawl and allows them to more accurately deal with targets. Once activated the spell presents users with a HUD of the chances of their attack hitting their target. Once released all attacks are carried out automatically.
- E.F.S.: E.F.S., short for Eyes Forward Sparkle, is a sensory spell that when activated gives the user an indication of lifeforms surrounding them, making several assertions and determining whether or not they are a threat to the user.
- EC-1101: Program embedded into her Pipbuck that gives her access to highly powerful pre apocalypse weapons. A spirit named The Dealer is embedded into the program, he can help Blackjack with advice on how to deal with certain situations.
- Stealthbuck: The Stealthbuck is an add on for Pipbucks designed to replicate the abilities, of a Zebra cloak, it completely makes the user invisible and cancels out any noise the user would make to a degree.
- Healing Potion: Provides Low-Low Regeneration if consumed
- Combat Shotgun: Shotgun, a running gag in the story, is how Blackjack loves to break these.
- Dual SubMachine guns
- Star Metal Sword: Sword made of the same material that cases Trottenheimer's Folly's ammunition it is the strongest known material on Equus.
- Vigilance: A 12.7 MM pistol, and family heirloom of Blackjacks. Despite its ammo weight it has a surprisingly decent amount of travel to its shots.
- Taurus Rifle: Heavily Modified Standard issue scoped hunting rifle, Blackjack picks it up after the owner it was named after was killed by Deus, its shots were able to pierce Deus's armor point blank, and it works great in long distance shootouts.
- "Loaded Down": Advanced Assault Rifle with armor piercing rounds.
- Duty and Sacrifice: Twin 5 Shot 45 Caliber Revolvers, they were specifically made to be fired telekinetically and thus prove extremely effective in combat due to their armor piercing abilities.
Notable Abilities/Techniques:
- Telekinesis: Blackjack can use the ever basic telekinesis spell to lift small objects like firearms or other weapons.
- Energy Projection: Blackjack has the ability to fire "Telekinetic Rounds". Pockets of air she has encased in a layer of Telekinesis that she can fire like a bullet.
- Mind/Memory Reading: Blackjack can read the minds and memories of others or even transfer them to herself if she touches the target's forehead with her horn.
- Teleportation: Blackjack can teleport herself 3 feet using her teleportation spell. Due to her inexperience and cybernetics, she can only teleport herself, and use of the spell will leave Blackjack completely exhausted.
- Passive Fate Manipulation: It is revealed in the final section of the story that Blackjack has always been able to manipulate fate to her favor passively, given she can meet certain requirements to trigger an ability. The ability was first theorized by Cognitum, and several other characters of seemingly higher origin (Discord, The Stars, and The Dealer), have all respectively given credence to the ability's existence. In it Blackjack can alter her fate to "win" contests against others at the cost of losing something of high personal value. The conditions for reaching this state are extremely vague as it was able to be triggered for the first time to help Blackjack avoid trouble in killing someone who beat her in a benign card game. Full extent of the ability surpasses the comprehension of the universe governing Star Spirits, beings who are capable of seeing into an infinite number of timelines.. The ability is subtly displayed and referenced on Blackjack's cutie mark, an Ace and Queen of Spades. According to The Dealer (Himself a ethereal cosmic being who feeds on suffering.) and Cognitum Blackjack may always win in some extreme fashion if she can pay a heavy cost and suffer in return. Throughout the events of Project Horizons the variation of what can be defined as anteable has varied drastically, be it Blackjack offering pieces of her own flesh and blood, the lives of those close to her, ponies that would be painful to lose, or more meta concepts and ideas. Blackjack clinically dies 3 or 4 times yet even in death the ability has kept her in the game as it were. The ability however is more inclined to keep Blackjack in a perpetually tortured state, is situation dependent, and will not full take effect if Blackjack is unable to ante up something to trigger the ability, be it lacking a more vested interest in the conflict in question.
Intelligence: Average, Blackjack is a mare that by her own admission is not as smart as the peers that surround her. More often than not she will base most of her decisions on feelings over something feasibly smarter for the long term. As previously stated however, this is by her own admission and she is fully aware of where in that mindset she could end up being predictable at first glance. This self awareness of being the pony with "The Biggest Heart in the Wasteland" and her other traits has allowed her to get the drop on her opponents by doing the opposite of what they might be predicting. Along with that Blackjack has had bouts of good decision making when it comes to highly stressful situations.
Weaknesses: Must maintain power by consuming scrap metal, rocks, or gems in particular. Failure to maintain power will result in her being put in a coma. Excessive use of magic, or use of more exhausting spells (Teleporting) will render her horn inert for some time. She has a Magically Induced Tumor that can make her more prone to Mind based attacks. Pipbuck is vulnerable to EMPs. E.F.S. does not inform its users what kind of life it finds and has trouble with elevation. Stealthbuck only lasts an hour and requires an hour of recharge time after each use. Blackjack's fate manipulation requires her to "ante up" something of extremely high value to her personally. Holds an extreme amount of regret for her past actions, and is easy to manipulate emotionally. Taking excess drugs can overexert her body and kill her. Can be very predictable at times.
Blackjack Render by Vector Brony.
| “ | I’ve never liked gravity. It’s not heights that’re my problem. It’s falling. It’s the idea of gravity pulling you downward. The sense that there was some force constantly clutching at you simply because it could. It didn’t matter how hard you tried or what you wanted, gravity was always there; inescapable, inexhaustible, and unforgiving. | „ |
| ~ Blackjack |
Summary[]
Fallout Equestria created by Kkat
Blackjack and Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons created by Somber
Sanguine was stopped, Discord freed, Hightower cleansed, and the Highlanders were put into the ground, but trouble still found its way into Blackjack's mind. Further tormented by the ever growing control of The Goddess, Blackjack, in ever lowering mental depravity seeks to right the world before her, no matter how much pain she endures.
She has two missions before her now, stopping Lighthooves, a genocidal maniac, from declaring civil war on The Enclave, and from unleashing a dangerous bio weapon, which would turn everypony into meat obsessed husks. Fitting to also find out EC-1011s true nature in the mean time.
With her new augmentations, Blackjack thrusts her mentally shaken group to the Society, hoping to borrow their aircraft and stop Lighthooves before it was too late. Before the Goddess's strings could further seep into her, or the end of the world would come.
Appearance[]
Blackjack is a white unicorn pony, sporting a red and black mane motif, serving as a compliment to her playing card theme.
Prior to battling a tank Blackjack required further upgrades, as it was clear she ignored previous descriptors or warnings. Her hooves and frame have now been fitted with reinforced tank barding. Allowing her to take and endure far more than she could previously. A minor side effect of these upgrades saw her lose the ability to turn her hooves into hands due to a glitch.
Personality[]
Like her appearance Blackjack as an individual changes very drastically throughout the events of Project Horizons. At her core, she is a jovial, peace loving, drunkard on the outside however this is only to mask the great pains she constantly feels within. Blackjack abhors the lawless conditions and mentalities associated with The Wasteland and will go out of her way to enforce whatever she can define as peace.
As with Littlepip when she first left the stable Blackjack initially had an extremely sheltered and limited world view. Being almost completely unable to comprehend what would drive ponies to madness. Her own always do better mentality caused her early on to feel immense pressure. this pressure compounded with immense feelings of regret in regards to innocents and friends she got killed, or had to kill, often lead Blackjack to thoughts and even acts of attempted suicide. However, through the help of her friends, and their reassurance that she was important and was making a positive impact on the world she learned and realized that she had and could persevere more than any other pony. With her past in mind she pushes forward with the faith of others and her history to remind her to never give up, to always push to do better and be better.
Personal Statistics[]
Alignment: Fluctuates Heavily but Neutral Good to Chaotic Good usually
Name: Blackjack, Go Fish (This was her birth name), Security, Queen Blackjack, Maiden of the Stars
Origin: Fallout Equestria Project Horizons by Somber, a Fallout Equestria fanfiction
Gender: Female
Classification: Unicorn, Security, Cyberpony, Queen, Maiden of the Stars, The Fool, Spirit-touched
Age: Between 16 and 20 going by Word of God (Somber has claimed that she is the same age as FiM Season 1 Twilight.)
Birthplace: Stable 99
Likes: Firearms, "Vigilance" (Her family's signature pistol), Alcohol (Wild Pegasus Whiskey in particular), Sex, Gambling, Parties, Being drunk, Swords, P-21, Morning Glory, Rampage's default personality and Shuuja, Lacunae, Scotch Tape, Boo, being a Mother figure to Boo and Scotch Tape, Littlepip, Littlepip's friends, Her Sunglasses, The Crusaders, Chapel, Star House, Whisper
Dislikes: The Dealer, Memories of Stable 99, Hallucinations, Conflict, Any faction that would harm innocent ponies, Legate Vitosius, Lighthooves, Steel Rain, Dawn, Rampage's Angel of Death Personality, Hangovers, Equestrian Politics, Mysteries
Status: Alive
Hobbies: Adventuring, decerning EC-1101's purpose, attempting to be a peacemaker, gun collecting
Values: Honesty, kindness, family, and peaceful enviorments. Though Blackjack herself struggles with adhering to these values in attempting to uphold them.
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: Blackjack's Friends, The Crusaders, Chapel, The Reapers, The Society
Themes:
Aoshi - SECURITY (Theme)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Often Referenced)
The Living Tombstone - Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry
Combat Statistics[]
Tier: 8-C, 8-C with most weapons, 2-A with Star Metal Sword
Keys: Book 3/Beginning of Book 4 | Chapter 53 (Current Tabber) | Chapter 62b/Eclipse Body
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry (Via her horn.), Cyborg (Type 2), Minor Magic (Greatly Reduced due to having her horn chiseled off), Minor Telekinesis (Type 1), Rage Power, Berserk Mode, Supernatural Willpower (Broke free from a mental simulation that was specifically designed to pacify her.), Acrobatics (Capable of doing backflips while dodging machine gun fire), Minor Energy Projection, Minor Teleportation (Only able to Teleport 3 feet and will leave her burnt out afterwards.) Regeneration (High Low, Low with Healing Potions), Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation (Can read the minds and memories of others by touching their forehead with her horn.), Passive Fate Manipulation (Must be involuntarily triggered, see Notable Abilities/Techniques.), Extrasensory Perception (Can see souls and spirits through her interactions with The Dealer.). Via Weapons: Statistics Amplification, Extrasensory Perception (Via Pipbuck), Perception Manipulation (with S.A.T.S. she can slow her own perception of time to a stand still.), Information Analysis (via E.F.S.), Multiple Personalities (Via EC-1101), and Stealth Mastery (Her Stealthbuck add on completely makes her invisible and cancels any noise the user would make to a degree). Via Star Metal Sword: Durability Negation, Non-Physical Interaction, Soul Destruction, and Power Nullification (Star Metal can interact with and destroy souls, souls cannot pass through the substance. A Discord comparable to his Tier 4 canon counterpart was unable to use his powers to stop Star Metal from harming, imprisoning, and absorbing him.), The Sword itself is Resistant to: Power Nullification, and Reality Warping (Discord refused to attempt warping the material in any capacity and its implied to have been beyond his abilities.), With Mane Six Statuettes: Indomitable Will, Supernatural Willpower, Resistance to: Corruption, Mind Manipulation, Possession, Soul Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, and Empathic Manipulation (Should have all the same Abilities as Littlepip's set of statuettes.), Minor Resistance: to Radiation
Attack Potency: Building Level (Scaling to Littlepip Stronger Physically than before.), Building Level with most weapons (Her weapons can harm others comparable to herself.), Multiverse Level+ with Star Metal Sword (Made out of Star Metal, the strongest known metal in the universe. Star Metal can disrupt and destroy fundamental concepts such as predetermined fate. Star Metal was used to imprison, trap, and torture Project Horizons' version of Discord, who is aware of and should be much stronger than his Friendship is Magic counterpart.)
Speed: Subsonic movement and reaction speeds (Should be comparable to this canon FiM feat.). Massively Hypersonic Perception and Reaction speeds when using S.A.T.S. (Should be comparable to her Book 2 form). Supersonic to Supersonic+ attack speed with firearms.
Lifting Strength: Superhuman, Human Level with Telekinesis
Striking Strength: Building Class, Building Class with most weapons, Universe Class via Star Metal Sword
Durability: Building Level (Scaling to Littlepip, Survived being smashed through a stone wall, shrugged off being shot at with bullets that turned marble to dust. Survived being hit by missile recoil. Survived having a boat dropped on top of her. Should be comparable to Deus, who can survive being hit head on with grenades and dynamite.)
Stamina: High (Same as her prior form. Can go weeks without food or rest and endure the greatest of pains.)
Range: Melee Range unarmed, Extended Melee Range with Star Metal Sword, Several Meters with most weapons
- Pipbuck: A Inventory Management, Health Monitoring, PDA System Fused to the bone of her front right hoof, the device can track enemies up to a kilometer away, manage Medical Supplies, help her hack into other devices and do the following with pre-automated spells:
- S.A.T.S.: S.A.T.S., short for Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell, is a targeting spell that slows the users perception of time to a crawl and allows them to more accurately deal with targets. Once activated the spell presents users with a HUD of the chances of their attack hitting their target. Once released all attacks are carried out automatically.
- E.F.S.: E.F.S., short for Eyes Forward Sparkle, is a sensory spell that when activated gives the user an indication of lifeforms surrounding them, making several assertions and determining whether or not they are a threat to the user.
- EC-1101: Program embedded into her Pipbuck that gives her access to highly powerful pre apocalypse weapons. A spirit named The Dealer is embedded into the program, he can help Blackjack with advice on how to deal with certain situations.
- Stealthbuck: The Stealthbuck is an add on for Pipbucks designed to replicate the abilities, of a Zebra cloak, it completely makes the user invisible and cancels out any noise the user would make to a degree.
- Healing Potion: Provides Low-Low Regeneration if consumed
- Combat Shotgun: Shotgun, a running gag in the story, is how Blackjack loves to break these.
- Dual SubMachine guns
- Star Metal Sword: Sword made of the same material that's encased in Trottenheimer's Folly's ammunition, strongest known metal on Equus.
- Vigilance: A 12.7 MM pistol, and family heirloom of Blackjacks. Despite its ammo weight it has a surprisingly decent amount of travel to its shots.
- "Loaded Down": Advanced Assault Rifle with armor piercing rounds.
- Duty and Sacrifice: Twin 5 Shot 45 Caliber Revolvers, they were specifically made to be fired telekinetically and thus prove extremely effective in combat due to their armor piercing abilities.
- Mane Six Statuettes: 6 Statues of the Mane Six from the MLP Friendship is Magic TV Series series, these statuettes each contain a small fragment of each respective pony and Rarity's soul, it is strongly hinted that these statues if all united can give their respective holder resistance to Mind and Emphatic Manipulation from even the strongest of Alicorn Magic and The Goddess.
- Penance: Highly Advanced Prototype Sniper Rifle that has low kick back when enveloped in magic.
Notable Abilities/Techniques:
- Telekinesis: Blackjack can use the ever basic telekinesis spell to lift small objects like firearms or other weapons.
- Energy Projection: Blackjack has the ability to fire "Telekinetic Rounds". Pockets of air she has encased in a layer of Telekinesis that she can fire like a bullet.
- Teleportation: Blackjack can teleport herself small distances using her teleportation spell. Due to her inexperience and cybernetics, she can only teleport herself, and use of the spell will leave Blackjack completely exhausted.
- Mind/Memory Reading: Blackjack can read the minds and memories of others or even transfer them to herself if she touch the targets forehead with her horn.
- Passive Fate Manipulation: It is revealed in the final section of the story that Blackjack has always been able to manipulate fate to her favor passively, given she can meet certain requirements to trigger an ability. The ability was first theorized by Cognitum, and several other characters of seemingly higher origin (Discord, The Stars, and The Dealer), have all respectively given credence to the ability's existence. In it Blackjack can alter her fate to "win" contests against others at the cost of losing something of high personal value. The conditions for reaching this state are extremely vague as it was able to be triggered for the first time to help Blackjack avoid trouble in killing someone who beat her in a benign card game. Full extent of the ability surpasses the comprehension of the universe governing Star Spirits, beings who are capable of seeing into an infinite number of timelines.. The ability is subtly displayed and referenced on Blackjack's cutie mark, an Ace and Queen of Spades. According to The Dealer (Himself a ethereal cosmic being who feeds on suffering.) and Cognitum Blackjack may always win in some extreme fashion if she can pay a heavy cost and suffer in return. Throughout the events of Project Horizons the variation of what can be defined as anteable has varied drastically, be it Blackjack offering pieces of her own flesh and blood, the lives of those close to her, ponies that would be painful to lose, or more meta concepts and ideas. Blackjack clinically dies 3 or 4 times yet even in death the ability has kept her in the game as it were. The ability however is more inclined to keep Blackjack in a perpetually tortured state, is situation dependent, and will not full take effect if Blackjack is unable to ante up something to trigger the ability, be it lacking a more vested interest in the conflict in question.
Intelligence: Average, Blackjack is a mare that by her own admission is not as smart as the peers that surround her. More often than not she will base most of her decisions on feelings over something feasibly smarter for the long term. As previously stated however, this is by her own admission and she is fully aware of where in that mindset she could end up being predictable at first glance. This self awareness of being the pony with "The Biggest Heart in the Wasteland" and her other traits has allowed her to get the drop on her opponents by doing the opposite of what they might be predicting. Along with that Blackjack has had bouts of good decision making when it comes to highly stressful situations.
Weaknesses: Must maintain power by consuming scrap metal, rocks, or gems in particular. Failure to maintain power will result in her being put in a coma. Excessive use of magic, or use of more exhausting spells (Teleporting) will render her horn inert for some time. She has a Magically Induced Tumor that can make her more prone to Mind based attacks. Pipbuck is vulnerable to EMPs. E.F.S. does not inform its users what kind of life it finds and has trouble with elevation. Stealthbuck only lasts an hour and requires an hour of recharge time after each use. Blackjack's fate manipulation requires her to "ante up" something of extremely high value to her personally. Holds an extreme amount of regret for her past actions, and is easy to manipulate emotionally. Taking excess drugs can overexert her body and kill her. Can be very predictable at times.
Blackjack Render by Vector Brony.
| “ | Bwackjack! | „ |
| ~ Boo's first word, stopping Blackjack from going on an insanity induced killing spree. |
Summary[]
Fallout Equestria created by Kkat
Blackjack and Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons created by Somber
A horrifying predicament befalls Blackjack again. The stress, the mind bending stress of her mission all but sees her in torture in every waking moment, the death of herself and her friends further bespells a madness within her, one curated by her new augmentations.
More Machine than pony, more automaton than moral, she lashes out in futility, threating to kill the Stable occupants of Shadowbolt Tower, Lighthooves mission was irrelevant. All of this to her was irrelevant compared to what she thought she had lost, herself. The stars dark prophecy seemingly being true.
But a voice, a lone voice that she did not recognize through sound but in emotion, stopped her pain and agony, Boo, uttered her first word, "Blackjack". The pony she had worked to raise, do right for unconditionally, and save, had grown! For as much as she had lost already, she would only continue to lose more precious things if her mind went astray, and so she subsided her anger, as a calm wind overtook her.
But the transfiguration into a cyber alicorn had revealed yet another reason to fight on, she was pregnant. The child of hers and P-21 rested in her new, disfigured body. With a newfound vigor and courage she reasoned with herself to continue forward, to stop Lighthooves bio weapon and forge a future where she can start a family...happily...
In her final fight with the maniacal madpony Lighthooves, Blackjack emerged victorious. Not wanting the tower's destruction to trigger the release of Lighthooves bio weapon, she activated one of the towers resting megaspell protocols, which would implode the tower in on itself. As the spell went off Blackjack, exhearting the last of her power reserves, flew against the black hole like pull, as buildings and decrepit buildings were plucked from the ground into the ever growing sphere. Finally having survived the hell storm, Blackjack fell into the core with Boo clinging on to her. Her power reserves drained, it was only by sheer chance that she survived. However the damage to her systems made moving impossible, henceforth for the next 3 months, she spent her time as a metallic vegetable teaching Boo all she could like a mother, as she eventually regained her strength, periodically using the perceptitron to see the impact Security's absence would have on Hoofington.
Appearance[]
Blackjack is a unicorn pony, sporting a red and black mane motif to compliment her naming motif.
In this key Blackjack endures her most violent transformation thus far. She is now 90% cyborg with only her reproductive organs and brain being left of her vital flesh and blood. Her new body sees her adorned with 2 wings to her side, as she has now become a cyber alicorn.
The pain that this transformation brought upon her can be seen no more clearly than her face. Of which is now almost entirely a frightful automaton. A chilling reminder of the pain she has endured.
Personality[]
Like her appearance Blackjack as an individual changes very drastically throughout the events of Project Horizons. At her core, she is a jovial, peace loving, drunkard on the outside however this is only to mask the great pains she constantly feels within. Blackjack abhors the lawless conditions and mentalities associated with The Wasteland and will go out of her way to enforce whatever she can define as peace.
As with Littlepip when she first left the stable Blackjack initially had an extremely sheltered and limited world view. Being almost completely unable to comprehend what would drive ponies to madness. Her own always do better mentality caused her early on to feel immense pressure. this pressure compounded with immense feelings of regret in regards to innocents and friends she got killed, or had to kill, often lead Blackjack to thoughts and even acts of attempted suicide. However, through the help of her friends, and their reassurance that she was important and was making a positive impact on the world she learned and realized that she had and could persevere more than any other pony. With her past in mind she pushes forward with the faith of others and her history to remind her to never give up, to always push to do better and be better.
Personal Statistics[]
Alignment: Fluctuates Heavily but Neutral Good to Chaotic Good usually
Name: Blackjack, Go Fish (This was her birth name), Maiden of the Stars
Origin: Fallout Equestria Project Horizons by Somber, a Fallout Equestria fanfiction
Gender: Female
Classification: Cyber Alicorn, Alicorn, Maiden of the Stars, The Fool, Spirit-touched
Age: Between 16 and 20 going by Word of God (Somber has claimed that she is the same age as FiM Season 1 Twilight.)
Birthplace: Stable 99
Likes: Firearms, "Vigilance" (Her family's signature pistol), Alcohol (Wild Pegasus Whiskey in particular), Sex, Gambling, Parties, Being drunk, Swords, P-21, Morning Glory, Rampage's default personality and Shuuja, Lacunae, Scotch Tape, Boo, being a Mother figure to Boo and Scotch Tape, her unborn children Littlepip, Littlepip's friends, The Crusaders, Chapel, Star House, Whisper
Dislikes: The Dealer, Memories of Stable 99, Hallucinations, Conflict, Any faction that would harm innocent ponies, Legate Vitosius, Lighthooves, Steel Rain, Rampage's Angel of Death Personality, Hangovers, Equestrian Politics, Mysteries
Hobbies: Adventuring, decerning EC-1101's purpose, being a motherfigure to [[|Boo (Project Horizons)|Boo]], attempting to be a peacemaker, gun collecting
Values: Honesty, kindness, family, and peaceful enviorments. Though Blackjack herself struggles with adhering to these values in attempting to uphold them.
Marital Status: Single
Status: Alive
Affiliation: Blackjack's Friends, The Crusaders, Chapel, The Reapers, The Society
Themes:
Aoshi - SECURITY (Theme)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Often Referenced)
The Living Tombstone - Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry
Combat Statistics[]
Tier: 8-C, 8-C with weapons
Keys: Book 3/Beginning of Book 4 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 62b/Eclipse Body (Current Tabber)
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry (Via her horn.), Cyborg (Type 2), Magic, Telekinesis (Type 1), Rage Power, Berserk Mode, Supernatural Willpower (Broke free from a mental simulation that was specifically designed to pacify her.), Acrobatics (Capable of doing backflips while dodging machine gun fire), Energy Projection, Teleportation, Flight, Regeneration (High Low, Low with Healing Potions), Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation (Can read the minds and memories of others by touching their forehead with her horn.), Minor Gravity Manipulation (Has a gravity amulet embedded in her that allows her to fly.), Social Influencing, Passive Fate Manipulation (Must be involuntarily triggered, see Notable Abilities/Techniques.), Extrasensory Perception (Can see souls and spirits through her interactions with The Dealer.). Via Weapons: Statistics Amplification, Extrasensory Perception (Via Pipbuck), Perception Manipulation (with S.A.T.S. she can slow her own perception of time to a stand still.), Information Analysis (via E.F.S.), Multiple Personalities (Via EC-1101), and Stealth Mastery (Her Stealthbuck add on completely makes her invisible and cancels any noise the user would make to a degree), With Mane Six Statuettes: Indomitable Will, Supernatural Willpower, Resistance to: Corruption, Mind Manipulation, Possession, Soul Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, and Empathic Manipulation (Should have all the same Abilities as Littlepip's set of statuettes.), Minor Resistance: to Radiation and Gravity Manipulation
Attack Potency: Building Level (Comparable to Alicorns and Legate. Harmed another pony with augmentations extremely similar to her own) Building Level with weapons
Speed: Subsonic movement and reaction speeds (Should be comparable to this canon FiM feat.). Massively Hypersonic Perception and Reaction speeds when using S.A.T.S. (Should be comparable to her Book 2 form). Supersonic to Supersonic+ attack speed with firearms.
Lifting Strength: Class 25 Flew against a gravitational pull that was strong enough to completely tear apart Shadowbolt Tower. A building that is at least twice the size of the Burj Khalifa.), Human Level with Telekinesis
Striking Strength: At least Building Class, Building Class with weapons.
Durability: Building Level (Comparable to Legate and most Alicorns.)
Stamina: Low (Though Blackjack is still the same resilient unkillable mare she was prior, the Eclipse Body's augmentations and power draw severely limit what she is able to do for long periods of time. Just flying for 5 minutes at top speeds is enough to completely drain her battery.)
Range: Melee Range unarmed, Several Meters with weapons
- Pipbuck: A Inventory Management, Health Monitoring, PDA System Fused to the bone of her front right hoof, Blackjack uses a highly modified at this point to allow her to monitor her vitals and use the device via a HUD built into her eyes. The device can track enemies up to a kilometer away, manage Medical Supplies, help her hack into other devices and do the following with pre-automated spells:
- S.A.T.S.: S.A.T.S., short for Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell, is a targeting spell that slows the users perception of time to a crawl and allows them to more accurately deal with targets. Once activated the spell presents users with a HUD of the chances of their attack hitting their target. Once released all attacks are carried out automatically.
- E.F.S.: E.F.S., short for Eyes Forward Sparkle, is a sensory spell that when activated gives the user an indication of lifeforms surrounding them, making several assertions and determining whether or not they are a threat to the user.
- EC-1101: Program embedded into her Pipbuck that gives her access to highly powerful pre apocalypse weaponry. A spirit named The Dealer is embedded into the program, he can help Blackjack with advice on how to deal with certain situations.
- Stealthbuck: The Stealthbuck is an add on for Pipbucks designed to replicate the abilities, of a Zebra cloak, it completely makes the user invisible and cancels out any noise the user would make to a degree.
- Healing Potion: Provides Low-Low Regeneration if consumed
- Combat Shotgun: Shotgun with drum magazines, a running gag in the story is how Blackjack loves to break these.
- Vigilance: A 12.7 MM pistol, and family heirloom of Blackjacks. Despite its ammo weight it has a surprisingly decent amount of travel to its shots.
- "Loaded Down": Advanced Assault Rifle with armor piercing rounds.
- Duty and Sacrifice: Twin 5 Shot 45 Caliber Revolvers, they were specifically made to be fired telekinetically and thus prove extremely effective in combat due to their armor piercing abilities.
- Mane Six Statuettes: 6 Statues of the Mane Six from the MLP Friendship is Magic TV Series series, these statuettes each contain a small fragment of each respective pony and Rarity's soul, it is strongly hinted that these statues if all united can give their respective holder resistance to Mind and Empathic Manipulation from even the strongest of Alicorn Magic and The Goddess.
- Penance: Highly Advanced Prototype Sniper Rifle that has low kick back when enveloped in magic.
Notable Abilities/Techniques:
- Telekinesis: Blackjack can use the ever basic telekinesis spell to lift small objects like firearms or other weapons.
- Energy Projection: Blackjack has the ability to fire "Telekinetic Rounds". Pockets of air she has encased in a layer of Telekinesis that she can fire like a bullet.
- Teleportation: Blackjack can teleport herself small distances using her teleportation spell. Due to her inexperience and cybernetics, she can only teleport herself, and use of the spell will leave Blackjack completely exhausted.
- Mind/Memory Reading: Blackjack can read the minds and memories of others or even transfer them to herself if she touch the targets forehead with her horn.
- Passive Fate Manipulation: It is revealed in the final section of the story that Blackjack has always been able to manipulate fate to her favor passively, given she can meet certain requirements to trigger an ability. The ability was first theorized by Cognitum, and several other characters of seemingly higher origin (Discord, The Stars, and The Dealer), have all respectively given credence to the ability's existence. In it Blackjack can alter her fate to "win" contests against others at the cost of losing something of high personal value. The conditions for reaching this state are extremely vague as it was able to be triggered for the first time to help Blackjack avoid trouble in killing someone who beat her in a benign card game. Full extent of the ability surpasses the comprehension of the universe governing Star Spirits, beings who are capable of seeing into an infinite number of timelines.. The ability is subtly displayed and referenced on Blackjack's cutie mark, an Ace and Queen of Spades. According to The Dealer (Himself a ethereal cosmic being who feeds on suffering.) and Cognitum Blackjack may always win in some extreme fashion if she can pay a heavy cost and suffer in return. Throughout the events of Project Horizons the variation of what can be defined as anteable has varied drastically, be it Blackjack offering pieces of her own flesh and blood, the lives of those close to her, ponies that would be painful to lose, or more meta concepts and ideas. Blackjack clinically dies 3 or 4 times yet even in death the ability has kept her in the game as it were. The ability however is more inclined to keep Blackjack in a perpetually tortured state, is situation dependent, and will not full take effect if Blackjack is unable to ante up something to trigger the ability, be it lacking a more vested interest in the conflict in question.
Intelligence: Average, Blackjack is a mare that by her own admission is not as smart as the peers that surround her. More often than not she will base most of her decisions on feelings over something feasibly smarter for the long term. As previously stated however, this is by her own admission and she is fully aware of where in that mindset she could end up being predictable at first glance. This self awareness of being the pony with "The Biggest Heart in the Wasteland" and her other traits has allowed her to get the drop on her opponents by doing the opposite of what they might be predicting. Along with that Blackjack has had bouts of good decision making when it comes to highly stressful situations.
Weaknesses: Must maintain power by consuming scrap metal, rocks, or gems in particular. Failure to maintain power will result in her being put in a coma. Flying uses an extreme amount of power and she can only fly for five minutes before shutting down. Excessive use of magic, or use of more exhausting spells will render her horn inert for some time. Pipbuck is vulnerable to EMPs. E.F.S. does not inform its users what kind of life it finds and has trouble with elevation. Stealthbuck only lasts an hour and requires an hour of recharge time after each use. Blackjack's fate manipulation requires her to "ante up" something of extremely high value to her personally. Holds an extreme amount of regret for her past actions, and is easy to manipulate emotionally. Taking excess drugs can overexert her body and kill her. Can be very predictable at times.Other[]
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