The Master Mev (Team Awesome Arc, Chapters 1-11)
Megan Calfee for Ocellus
Ocellus based on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic TV series. This story takes place during season 8. The season acts as a backdrop or is notably changed throughout the chapters.
Ocellus is a young changeling and member of the Student Six. In chapter 5, the six friends get caught in a fear snare that Rainbow Dash instinctively casts while revealing herself as a master mev. Ocellus is perceptive, curious, and timid. She is the only creature to notice that Twilight Sparkle is not using magic.
Chapter Appearances with dialogue:
Chapter 05 - The Fear Snare
Chapter 07 - Discordant Experience
Chapter 09 - Second Wind
Sample Dialogue from the actual My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic TV show: https://youtu.be/rWNgG1ItPu8?t=35
There is an audition example from me on this role to give actors an idea of what I have in mind.
Have any of you noticed that Headmare Twilight is not using any magic today?
(Context: Ocellus asks this question to the rest of the Student Six during their lunch break at school. She has noticed Twilight isn't using magic during school on Monday. No one else noticed.)
Professor Dash, what was that?!
(State this line as a scared whisper.)
(Context: When Rainbow Dash reveals her full vampire form to the Student Six, it goes well beyond her original intention of just making sure they believe her. A red circle forms around her and the entire group. A translucent leviathan rises up (called a "leviathan dread" in the story and eventually named Blitz). The whole process traps them in their own fear. The leviathan telepathically sends the word Master to the group after she harmlessly swishes through them and dismisses herself. Gallus calls out the word as a question, and it releases the group from the trap. Ocellus asks the above in a scared whisper, as a reference to all of the above with the circle and snake. Rainbow will eventually answer her that she guesses it's called a fear snare).
The electric shock is gone, but I still feel...bad…like a knot in my stomach. I can't tell if it's guilt about trying or lament that I can't do it. I've never had something like this happen to me.
(Context: Master mevs are immune to most magic cast on them. For changelings, that means they can no longer take on Rainbow Dash's form. Ocellus discovers this fact after the events of chapter 5 and that she receives an electric shock if attempting the full vampire form. She admits this discovery to Rainbow Dash in chapter 9. Rainbow asks her if she is alright. The above line is Ocellus' answer.)
