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Blackjack Render by Vector Brony.
| “ | You want to know what dying is like? It’s wonderful. It’s such a relief because it’s over. All the pain. All the misery. It’s just done. Dying was the best night of sleep I ever had. It was a rest I’d earned, but I didn’t care because I was at peace. |
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| ~ Blackjack to Thernody, Speak Chapter 8 |
| “ | It’s not the lives you could have saved that matter. That’s never enough, and you can drive yourself crazy if it’s what you focus on. You save as many as you can, when you can. That’s all anypony can do. | „ |
| ~ Blackjack, 200 years later, Project Horizons Epilogue |
Summary[]
Fallout Equestria created by Kkat
Blackjack and Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons created by Somber
5 Years later, Post Chapter 77[]
After the climatic events of Project Horizons, Blackjack rejoined the world of the living once again in the cold but familiar depths of Stable 99. Her past life, her experiences, all flashed before her in her Blank body in an instance as she ran away from the depressing memories that 99 had wrought upon her. The pain of her past torturing her endlessly as she wandered the wasteland again. Once again defaulting back to an emotionally disturbed wanderer.
4 Further Years Later[]
The Heartmenders, a special group dealing with the connections between one's self and their soul, were funded and supported by Velvet Remedy and the NCR, to work on mending the most corrupted, and depressed minds of the wasteland. Though Hoofington was changing for the better, the air of death and pain from decades past, still lingered over the city like a festering corpse. There was something wrong, somepony still terribly wronged...Blackjack. The secret top priority, of the Heartmenders, was rehabilitating The pony who wagered and lost everything for the Hoof. The pain of the past has left Security mentally fortified, to where she treats her own doctors psychological issues, through her own ungodly experiences. She has truly been through more pain and suffering than any pony could possibly imagine. She began to feel isolated from the very world around her. Be it killing more slavers, getting dangerously drunk, or having gratuitous sex, nothing could subside or fill the pain in her heart. She was just a husk waiting for the sweet release of death. The sheer mental complexity of her condition felt like it was something beyond the Heartmenders, who started to take her case more personally than professionally by this point. Desperate to induce results, they introduced Blackjack to their youngest member. The young and naïve Threnody, who was persistent in reaffirming to Blackjack that life is still worth living. It's only over time when Thern truly begins to understand Blackjack's life and pain, opening the cold and depraved Security slowly up again to the world around her.
Appearance[]
Blackjack is a white unicorn pony, sporting a red and black mane motif, serving as a compliment to her playing card theme.
Post dying for a third (or fourth if one counts her soul being trapped in a computer.) Blackjack's soul resurfaced quite violently in her blank body. sporting all the same attributes as it had previously when she inhabited it. A one for one perfect genetic recreation of her original body prior to all the mutations and augmentations she acquired throughout the events of Project Horizons
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.
However, the ultimate events and the numerous deaths and eldritch atrocities she has endured has left her utterly broken. That even after giving everything, the ponies she loved, her children, and her own mortality, to save the planet, there were still ponies who would mistreat her and treat the name of security like scum. In the 4 years since first reawakening in her clone body, she saw the hell that was still ever present in her absence. Though the NCR were doing everything in their power to create a new governmental system, there still existed ponies who would dare to commit cruelty to others in the face of reformation. It's here where Blackjack acts as a vigilante, killing raider pockets wherever they may pop up. But in this a moral struggle finds itself bubbling within Blackjack. Did her friends' deaths mean anything, does killing these ponies change anything, and she let loose her moral ties to those around her all of these questions continue to haunt her.
Personal Statistics[]
Alignment: Varies between Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Good
Name: Blackjack, Go Fish (This was her birth name), Security, Maiden of the Stars, Spirit-touched
Origin: Fallout Equestria Project Horizons by Somber, a Fallout Equestria fanfiction
Gender: Female
Classification: Unicorn, Security, Clone, Maiden of the Stars, The Fool
Age: 9 Years Old chronologically for her Physical Body[1] (Currently inhabiting her clone body, which shares her original 18 year old body's physical appearance prior to becoming a Cyborg.), 22 Years Old Consciously[2], 27 Years Old Overall[3](Speak, unlike Project Horizons, does not leave Blackjack's age up to ambiguity and in its interpretation of the character makes it very clear that Blackjack was 18 years old during the events of Project Horizons.)
Birthplace: Stable 99 originally, clone body was created in the Hippocratic Research facility
Likes: Firearms, "Vigilance" (Her family's signature pistol), Alcohol (Wild Pegasus Whiskey in particular), Sex, Gambling, Parties, Being drunk, Swords, Her children, Littlepip, Littlepip's friends, The Crusaders, Chapel, Star House
Dislikes: Herself, The Dealer, Memories of her past life, Memories of her missing and/or dead friends and lovers, Relapses caused by her PTSD, Hallucinations, Conflict, Hangovers, Equestrian Politics, Mysteries, Cosmic Beings, Living, Being alone
Status: Alive
Hobbies: Attempting to be a peacemaker, randomly jumping into and picking fights, gun collecting, finding a purpose in life. Sex when pushed to the point of an emotional breakdown.
Values: Thernody
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: Heartmenders, Littlepip, Watcher, and Celestia (Prefers to follow her own path, but will work with the NCR if needed.)
Themes:
Aoshi - SECURITY (Theme)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Often Referenced)
The Living Tombstone - Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry
Combat Statistics[]
Tier: At least 8-C, 8-C with Vigilance and Optional Firearms, At least 8-C with Magic
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry (Via her horn.), Immortality (Types 1, and 4, she is cursed by the stars to be eternally bound to the living world, when her alicorn body was destroyed her soul eventually resurfaced in her blank body. According to Project Horizons's Epilogue, Blackjack showed no signs of aging by comparison to the monumentally younger Brood and Blanks.), Magic, Telekinesis (Type 1), Rage Power, Berserk Mode, Supernatural Willpower (Broke free from a mental simulation that was specifically designed to pacify her. Shrugged off an illusion where she experienced a near month long death of another pony in an instant as a "4/10 death". Broke free from multiple dream sequences specifically designed to treat her insanity. Remained conscious and able to fight seriously for an extended period of time after being bisected, and ripping out her own heart.), Acrobatics, Energy Projection, Teleportation, Social Influencing, Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Forcefield Creation, Extrasensory Perception (Can see souls and spirits through her interactions with The Dealer.), Minor Matter Manipulation (Reformed a destroyed wall.), Minor Cloth Manipulation (Can manipulate the size of clothing.), Possible Minor Portal Creation/Dimensional Travel (Can open portals to Lunas own Pocket Dimension which is completely unaffected by the outside world and exists in its own space time.), and Telepathy. Resistance to: Sleep Manipulation, Illusion Manipulation, Dream Manipulation. Possible Resistance to Age Manipulation (Did not physically age even 200 years later.) and Empathic Manipulation (The sheer amount of Negative Emotions Blackjack can give off was enough to cause physical harm to and nearly kill a heartmender, though this could also be due to how heartmender magic functions.). Via Weapons: Regeneration (Low, via Healing Potions)
Via Optional Equipment: Via Pipbuck: Statistics Amplification, Extrasensory Perception, Perception Manipulation (with S.A.T.S. she can slow her own perception of time to a stand still.), and Information Analysis (via E.F.S.)
Attack Potency: At least Building Level (Though not as strong as she was in her Alicorn form she should still scale to feats she performed with this same body during the events of Project Horizons, which would make her at least comparable to Legate, Rampage and Whisper.) Building Level with Vigilance and Optional Firearms, At least Building Level with magic (Several characters have gone on to comment that her magic has begun to rapidly grow in power, similar in nature to Twilight's {Her Ancestor} did.)
Speed: At least Subsonic with Massively Hypersonic Reactions, Higher with S.A.T.S. (Should be comparable to the last time she inhabited her Blank body.). Supersonic attack speed with Vigilance and Optional Firearms
Lifting Strength: Class 25 (Should scale to Boo and her prior “Blankjack” feats.), Superhuman with Telekinesis (Capable of easily lifting and tossing around other ponies.)
Striking Strength: At least Building Class, Building Class with Vigilance and Optional Firearms, At least Building Class with Magic
Durability: At least Building Level (Superior to how Littlepip was during the events of the Original Fallout Equestria. Should be no weaker than she was when she previously occupied the blank body during the events of Project Horizons.)
Stamina: High (Should have no less stamina than she had when she last inhabited her Blank body during the events of Project Horizons. Which is itself superior to all but Blackjack's alicorn form. It is implied by those closest to Blackjack that she has grown stronger since then.)
Range: Melee Range unarmed, Several Meters with weapons and magic, Much Farther via Teleportation (Capable of teleporting from one side of Hoofington to another seamlessly, Hoofington is somewhat analogous to Manhattan in overall size. In a failed attempt to teleport herself to the moon, Blackjack was able to teleport to the planet's upper atmosphere.)
- Healing Potion: Provides Low-Low Regeneration if consumed
- 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.
Optional Equipment
Blackjack has access to an assortment of storage containers containing various firearms she's collected throughout her more recent activities. Additionally The Heartmenders, under Velvet's orders, force her to wear a Pipbuck whenever possible for the purposes of tracking her.
- 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.
- 10 Gauge Shotgun
- 10mm Pistol
- Disintegration Pistol
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. Since merging with Luna, Blackjack's control over this ability has increased immensely as she can now form more complex shapes like scissors and drills.
- Teleportation: Blackjack can teleport large distances rapidly and can do so with others in tow.
- 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.
- Possible Minor Portal Creation/Dimensional Travel: Through the use of a verbal incantation Blackjack can open a portal to the realm of Equestria's Shadow, a pocket dimension created by Princess Luna during her stint as Nightmare Moon. This pocket dimension exists outside of space and time, and allows its inhabitants to view/witness events of the outside world from within its boundaries. However the scope of this space time pocket is extremely limited and presents its own unique environmental hazards. Its most deadly being pockets of raw exposed accelerated time with the pocket's outer boundaries. Coming into close contact with which will rapidly age it's victim to death in mere seconds. Also though Blackjack is capable of travelinb to this dimension with the incantation, she is unable to leave it on her own.
- Forcefield Creation: Blackjack can summon force fields similar to the ones used by Alicorns.
- Fire Manipulation: After merging with Luna's soul Blackjack has gained the ability to project and control fire, and retained use of the spell even after her original body died.
- Possible Telepathy: Is using her Blank body again however the ability has not been demonstrated and it is unknown if she has retained the ability or refuses to use it.
Intelligence: Extremely Gifted, However her past trauma during the events of Project Horizons final chapters has left her to a more straightforward combative approach. She prefers to end fights as quickly as possible which can lead her to tunnel vision and overlooking certain aspects of her opponent.
Weaknesses: Blackjack is extremely emotionally disturbed following the penultimate events of Project Horizons and has since again recessed in becoming a reckless, reclusive, drug abusing, alcohol and sex addicted, loner, similar to how she was in Project Horizons earlier parts. Her mental state has left her more prone to violent uncontrolled outbursts, especially if she is reminded of her old friends and family .Bringing up her friends and past will distract her heavily. Has lost her Fate Manipulation due to The Dealer for the moment no longer taking interest in her. Excessive use or magic or more powerful spells will render her horn inert for some time. Mind and Memory manipulation requires direct contact with her opponent and leaves her vulnerable while active. Blackjack being convinced into killing herself will negate her immortalities. Cannot willingly leave Luna's Pocket Dimension and it is unknown if she remembers the spell's incantation.
References[]
- ↑ "But the epilogue took place only a couple of years after PH. Speak, chronologically speaking, is about 9 years later."
- ↑ “The important thing is that four years ago, her blank body woke up in her old stable, 99. Since then it’s proven alive, aware, and extremely distraught.” Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons - Speak, Chapter 1: Unsaid
- ↑ "Blackjack - Chronologically aged 27"
Other[]
Notable Victories:
Mettaton (Inverted Fate) Mettaton's Profile (Mettaton Spirial was used and Blackjack was not allowed access to her optional equipment. Starting distance was 10 meters and, Speed was Equalized. SBA was otherwise applied. This match was a part of the 8-C tournament.)
S-2 (Giya) S-2's Profile (Blackjack was not allowed access to her optional equipment. Starting distance was 10 meters and, Speed was Equalized. SBA was otherwise applied. This match was a part of the 8-C tournament)
Notable Losses:
Left (Spy's Sexelent Adventure) Left's profile (Blackjack was not allowed access to her optional equipment. Starting distance was 10 meters and, Speed was Equalized. SBA was otherwise applied. This match was a part of the 8-C tournament)
Inconclusive Matches: