Next in my Dawnverse canon, the Crystal Royal Family! Only a few more headcanons to go haha
 
No major changes here: just a few new mane styles. I also gave Flurry Heart a temporary cutie mark: I am trying to stay somewhat to the show canon, and I don’t know what they are planning with Flurry Heart, so yea.
 
Below is some information on the Crystal Royal Family:
 
Prince Consort Shining Armor Sparkle:  
After his magical marriage to Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, Shining Armor became Prince Consort to the Crystal Empire. In doing so, the unicorn relinquished his position as the Captain of the Royal Guard so that he may fulfill his duties to the Crystal Empire. Within only a few years, Prince Consort Shining Armor and Princess Cadence both saved and rebuilt the once forgotten empire, as well as welcomed an alicorn foal named Princess Flurry Heart, something unseen in any pony’s lifetime. More years went by with Shining performing both royal duties and those relating to the Crystal Guard, taking the position of captain. Shining even joined in welcoming a Pillar of Equestria, the famous StarSwirl the Bearded, into his castle. However, the powerful unicorn seemed more interested in learning more about Princess Flurry Heart than the return and rebuilding of the Crystal Empire. Weary at first, Shining watched the unicorn carefully, wondering what the powerful wizard was thinking. Eventually StarSwirl’s intentions became known: he desired Shining and Princess Cadence to produce another alicorn foal. At first Shining refused to even think of the request; however, on the insistence of his wife, Shining agreed to have another child to try and produce another alicorn. Shining watched as Princess Cadence became pregnant again, her energy fleeting with every passing day. Shining merely broke down on the day of their second foal’s birth since all he could see was his wife teetering on the edge of death, even with her alicorn strength. After a grueling labor, Shining and Princess Cadence welcomed a pegasus colt, not the alicorn StarSwirl was eagerly expecting. When the powerful unicorn heard of the foal’s birth, he simply shrugged it off and requested that Shining and Princess Cadence simply try again to better prove his theories. In a furious rage, Shining commanded that StarSwirl leave the Crystal Empire, claiming that his wife was not a means of simply birthing foals. After StarSwirl left the Crystal Empire, Shining and Princess Cadence welcomed their new colt, Shining Breeze.
 
As a father, Shining faced raising two royal foals, one a magical miracle, and the other with an unknown place within a family of powerful magical beings. Shining takes his role as father seriously, although he left most of the chores with his daughter for either Princess Cadence or a royal tutor: this left plenty of time for either work or with his son. Shining more often than not chose work since he felt he could never relate well enough to his son. Although both stallions shared similar names, they could not be more different from each other: where Shining Armor excelled in sports and charm, Shining Breeze lacked the physique to do more than sit behind a desk and count numbers, his favorite hobby. Although Shining Armor could never really relate to either of his children as they grew up, he always made time to hear about their day and to be there if either royal child needed their father.
 
Fun Facts:  
- Shining is a romantic at heart: he loves cheesy romance novels, thinks of all the ideas for dates, and even surprises his wife with tacky ursa major teddy bears and balloons. Shining is also quite protective of his wife, not even letting his children get in the way of loving his wife.  
- Although considered a jock in the present day, Shining considered himself 100% nerdy as a teenager with his love for comic books and D&D.  
- Shining gave up his title as Captain of the Royal Guard a few years after the birth of his daughter, relinquishing the job to Commander Tempest, at the request of his sister Princess Twilight Sparkle.
 
Princess Mi Amore Cadenza:  
After Celestia discovered Princess Cadence’s blood relation to Princess Amore, the Princess of Love was sent to rule the reemerged Crystal Empire in the hope of rebuilding the once proud city-state. Princess Cadence also surprised Equestria in birthing an alicorn, something unheard of since Celestia and Luna themselves. Princess Cadence seemed to embody a new dawn in Equestria, a humbling idol, although the new Crystal Princess would never acknowledge the pedestal idolization from her ponies. Princess Cadence loved her crystal ponies with no doubt; however, the once pegasus pony never truly wanted epic fame or special treatments even with her alicorn status: she simply wanted a partner to love and a family to call her own since she lost hers in her infancy. Princess Cadence ruled over the Crystal Empire while raising her daughter Princess Flurry Heart when one day the Pillar of Equestria Starswirl the Bearded requested a stay at her Crystal Castle. Although her Prince Consort Shining Armor refused at first, Princess Cadence revered the ancient powerful unicorn, and so welcomed StarSwirl into her kingdom. StarSwirl remaiend at the Crystal Castle for quite sometime, spending most of his time with both Cadence and Flurry Heart, eager to learn more about their status as alicorns since neither existed before StarSwirl sent himself to limbo. Days turned into months, and even with everything Princess Cadence told the powerful unicorn, StarSwirl remained curious. One day, out of the blue, StarSwirl approached the royal couple with a request to produce another child in the hopes of another alicorn. Although Shining refused, Princess Cadence eventually convinced her husband to agree, the princess herself eager to both learn more about alicorns and to help her idol. After months of physical and mental exhaustion even beyond the creation of an alicorn foal, Princess Cadence painfully delivered a small pegasus colt. Princess Cadence was too exhausted to know what ever happened to StarSwirl, for once she came through a few days after the birth, the powerful unicorn apparently left the Crystal Castle. Although disheartened in disappointing her idol, Princess Cadence warmed to her new son Shining Breeze.
 
As a mother, Princess Cadence shares her love tremendously with her partner and children. However, royal duty seems to triumph over quality family time, the Crystal Princess often missing moments with her son to either lead her ponies or teach her daughter, the alicorn heir, everything she may need to know for the future. Despite her lack of time with her son, she loves doting on the pegasus, seeing more of old self in her son as supposed to her daughter.
 
Fun Facts:  
- Princess Mi Amore Cadenza is a great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Princess Amore, the original Crystal Princess. Princess Cadence is also of an incredible distant relation to Princess Celestia, being a decedent of a long passed child of the sun alicorn.  
- Princess Cadence was originally an orphaned pegasus who spent her days alone at an orphanage outside of Canterlot. Princess Celestia requested that the pegasus filly be placed within the Royal Castle in Canterlot, knowing the potential of her decendent.  
- Princess Cadence embodies the magic of all forms of love: “Eros, Philia, Storge, Ludus, Pragma, Philautia, Agape, and even Mania.” lonerwolf.com/different-types-…  
- Princess Cadence never fully recovered from the birth of Princess Flurry Heart, which made the pregnancy of Shining Breeze incredibly dangerous to both mare and foal. After the birth of Shining Breeze, multiple doctors, and even Princess Celestia herself, told the Princess of Love to never again have children.
 
Princess Flurry Heart:  
Coming soon!
 
Prince Shining Breeze:  
Coming soon!