Queen Novo

Queen Novo

Queen Novo is a female seapony/Hippogriff who appears as a supporting character in My Little Pony the Movie and a minor character in the chapter books The Stormy Road to Canterlot and Beyond Equestria: Fluttershy Balances the Scales. She also appears in the IDW comics and the episodes The Hearth's Warming Club and The Ending of the End - Part 2. She is the ruler of the kingdoms of Seaquestria and Hippogriffia and the mother of Princess Skystar.

Kind, sex, residence, and occupation.

She is a female seapony when she's underwater but on land or on surface she becomes a hippogriff. She mostly resides in Seaquestria or Hippogriffia and is the ruler of Seaquestria and Hippogriffia.

Appearance.

Her eyes are a strong magenta, and her mane is a gradient of brilliant fuchsia to strong mulberry and has a coat of light fuchsiaish gray.

Relatives.

Princess Skystar (daughter) Silverstream (sororal, nephew) Ocean Flow (sister) Sky Beak (brother-in-law) Terramar (nephew)

Development and design.

According to the film's art director Rebecca Dart, Queen Novo's early designs were very complex and had to be simplified for animation purposes. Her seapony form took inspiration from weedy seadragons, and her peacock motif was a constant element throughout all of her design iterations. Queen Novo, as well as Princess Skystar, was designed by Rebecca Dart.

Depiction in the My Little Pony The Movie.

Queen Novo appears in My Little Pony The Movie as one of the film's new supporting characters. When the Mane Six first arrive in Seaquestria, Novo's daughter Princess Skystar introduces them to her, and she is shocked and angered to see outsiders in her kingdom. After Skystar vouches for them, she tells them the story of the Hippogriffs, despite Novo's objections. Novo is revealed to be the Queen of the Hippogriffs that Twilight Sparkle and her friends have been seeking, having fled underwater with her subjects when the Storm King invaded their former home. After Queen Novo uses her Pearl of Transformation to turn the ponies into seaponies, Twilight asks if they can use the pearl to save Equestria from the Storm King, but Novo refuses, wanting to keep the pearl from falling into his clutches. Princess Skystar singing with her mother MLPTM Novo joining her daughter's celebration. Novo excuses herself for a seaweed wrap and massage, and she returns during a party being thrown by Pinkie Pie and gets swept up in the merriment. Convinced that the ponies are worth helping, Novo prepares to do something for them. But before she can, Twilight gets caught trying to steal the queen's pearl. Novo, enraged by Twilight's deception, uses the pearl to turn her and her friends back to normal and banish them from Seaquestria. At the end of the film after the Storm King is defeated, Queen Novo, in her Hippogriff form, joins the Friendship Festival celebration in Canterlot. Because Princess Skystar had gone behind her back and left home to join in the ponies' cause, Novo grounds her with a happy laugh, indicating she was still proud of Skystar for rescuing Princess Twilight and saving Equestria. During the film's closing credits, Queen Novo parties with the ponies and meets Princess Celestia.

Depiction the series.

In School Daze - Part 1 and Part 2, set after the events of My Little Pony The Movie, Queen Novo is mentioned, and her niece Silverstream is introduced. In Surf and/or Turf, Queen Novo is mentioned again. Terramar states that, after the Storm King's defeat, she split her Pearl of Transformation into hundreds of fragments and distributed them among her subjects so that they could travel back and forth between Mount Aris and Seaquestria. In The Hearth's Warming Club, Queen Novo is depicted in Silverstream's story about the Hippogriffs' Three Days of Freedom festival. In The Ending of the End - Part 2, Novo briefly appears with her daughter and the other seaponies in Seaquestria listening to Silverstream rallying them to help the Mane Six against Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek, and Cozy Glow.

Personality.

Queen Novo is portrayed as nonchalant, sarcastic, and somewhat egotistical. Distrustful of outsiders, she is very hostile toward the Mane Six at first and secretive about the history surrounding herself and her subjects. Though she is briefly sympathetic to the plight that Equestria faces, Novo is mainly concerned about the safety of her own kingdom and keeping her magic pearl out of the Storm King's hands. If someone tries to steal from her or betrays her trust, she becomes furious and vengeful, as shown when she banishes the Mane Six from Seaquestria. She is slightly vain, undergoing beauty treatments on a regular basis.

Quotes.

"Princess Skystar, what have you done?! You know surface dwellers are forbidden here!" — My Little Pony The Movie "Well, of course I know. I'm the queen. I know everything." — My Little Pony The Movie "Well, I guess the pearl is out the oyster now." — My Little Pony The Movie "Honey, I'm sorry about your home. I truly am. But my responsibility is to protect my subjects. The pearl is not going anywhere." — To Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony The Movie "Ooh! Time for my seaweed wrap. [...] Yes, a massage, too. Mama needs her deep tissue." — My Little Pony The Movie "All of this so you could sneak in and take the pearl?! This is why we don't bring strangers into our home! You don't deserve to be one of us." — My Little Pony The Movie "You are so grounded!" — To Princess Skystar, My Little Pony The Movie "Why, Princess Twilight! How wonderful to see you again!" — My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #61 page 5 "Interrupting my beauty ritual again? Stratus Skyranger, how many times do I have to tell you? A queen has to look her best for her subjects." — The Stormy Road to Canterlot "My daughter would love to meet you. She's always telling me we should let other creatures into the city. She loves hearing different stories about what it's like outside the city walls, and if I'm being honest, I think she could use some friends her own age." — To Tempest Shadow, The Stormy Road to Canterlot "Do you dare come into my home and try to steal from me? Nocreature wrongs the Hippogriffs. You will pay dearly!" — To Tempest Shadow, The Stormy Road to Canterlot