Twilight Velvet (Enemy Unknown) (character)

Twilight Velvet is a female Unicorn born in Canterlot, and is the wife of Nightlight. She has two children; Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle.

From the first days of the Dimensional War Twilight Velvet was exposed to heavy death and suffering; far too much for her kind to handle normally. She volunteered to join the Royal Medical Reserve and aided wounded soldiers out of combat, but after the aliens invaded she volunteered to join a new team known as the "XCOM Project."

Velvet was only a Rookie when her first operation went awry. She and three other Rookies had been taken by Fielde out into the Badlands to train but they were interrupted as a UFO landed nearby. The team moved in on it but after a hard fight the only two survivors were Fielde Locke and Twilight Velvet. From that point on, Fielde knew Velvet was "Strike One" material and offered her a place on the team.

Velvet fought in Strike One as a Support unit for a long time, and rose to become one of XCOM's Finest. However, her immortal streak had to end as she perished. On a mission to disable an alien device (later discovered to be a bomb comparable to a nuclear explosive) the team discovered the device could not be disabled, it had to have it's energy vented into the inner core to both discharge it and destabilise the energy. The strength of the pure Plasma would also atomise anything inside the inner chamber, including the system required to detonate the explosive. The process had to be started from within the inner chamber. Twilight Velvet entered the chamber silently before anyone noticed; activating the process and mentally preparing herself for death. She saluted to Strike One outside of the chamber and they saluted back, with Velvet telling Fielde to tell her children that she had died to save them. Fielde nodded and they shared a goodbye before the chamber was instantly flooded with bright green energy and Twilight Velvet was reduced to nothing in less than a second.

Twilight Velvet's death shook XCOM greatly, as it was the first time a member of Strike One - a squad commonly thought to be immortal - had died. It would not be long before Hardline would die, with both events heavily and negatively impacting XCOM's Will.

Despite Velvet sacrificing herself of her own accord, her family outright hate XCOM for allowing her to die. When Twilight Sparkle confronts Fielde, she tells him that her death was his fault; to which Fielde only replies "I know."