That's not the Seabreeze I had in mind but she'll do.

My two biggest changes when it came to my 'masks' were the change from X-Melancholy-X to The Syreth Clan, and the expansion of the ponyverse and similar things with what you see now as Lore-Lei.

The origin of the first one is simple, my online persona was called Melancholy, based off the my only trait I had at that time. It was the best word to describe me back then to be honest. Melancholy (the character) also had a counterpart named Melody, who - as you'd assume - was more cheerful and lighthearted. They were two completely separate characters at first.

As I went with time, I grew, and so did my little personal world which I named 'The Sector'. With time, I realized I'm more than just a simple fancy word, I'm capable of feeling all sorts of different things and have all sorts of strange interest. I realized this when creating my other characters, each being based on one of these traits, each having a bit of myself in them.

Aftef time, I fused Melancholy and Melody together into a single character: Mel, and now, they had a lot of friend characters too, whom I all collectively refered to as the Syreth Clan. I only realized it's time for a name change when I suddenly found myself given the oportunity, but I didn't hesitate. 'X-Melancholy-X' was too edgy, and just not me anymore, only a mere fragment of what I am.

It's the origin of the first one.

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The second one was different. At first, I was just simply slapping the design of Mel on a pony, and named my ponysona Melodious Silence, later on simply Silence. I still didn't make her a completely seperate username for pony related things, though. That went on for a long, looong time. So long that I learned how to write fanfiction, became actually good at writing fanfiction, and realized Silence was a HUGE mistake, erasing her.

For a while after that, I didn't feel like I need a seperate 'mask' for pony content, until a friend of mine behind one of Rarity - who ran by the same name - made me think. They nicknamed me 'Aggy' from our roleplays, and that kind of made something click. For a while, I went with it, and used the alias of Agate, slowly seperating the normal and pony related names. But that wasn't right, since Agate had a vastly different, hardly relatable character than I did (which was the reason I created her in the first place), I needed a new 'me'.

The idea of Lore-Lei came after slowly building up my own pony universes due to my recent disappointment of where the show was going breaking me. I came up with so many characteres by that point, I had no trouble with creating a 'shell', a design for a ponyself, I looked into myself and choose the things that I thought and people have said defined me the most: creativity, mysticism, a fascination with eastern culture, spirituality, and an affinity with untapped potential of things.

From this I forged Lore-Lei, and from Lore-Lei I forged Friendship Fables.

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This post ended up really, really long, so I'll try to cut the summary short.

I always thought of this ordeal as a 'Masquerade'. Settle for what you want to build your new 'mask' for: an all-purpose personality or a more specific one. Decide to what degree you're going to use the mask, if you're going to have a full-fledged lore around it, or just make it no more than a second name. Think what sort of things you can relate to when it comes to the topic you create the 'mask' for.
Look deep into yourself and ask questions, then from the answers, create something that will be your new 'mask'. Because, like in real life, a good mask needs a theme and complexity. Also, don't be afraid to have multiple of these 'masks' for different 'occasions'. I do, and it's a lot of fun.

Would I be glad I have only one pony.

Oh dear, so many responses overnight. Thank you all of you.

Congrats!! I'm entering my sophomore year myself this coming fall semester! Do you know what you are studying?

Congrats!!! That's wonderful news!!!
What are you going to study?
Uni time is the best time of your life, make the most of it!
I miss it so much, sitting in the library all day, researching, writing!!

It translates to Information Technologist Engineer in english, I don't know how you'd call it. Anyhow, it's going to be part-time training which means I'm going to do vast majority of my studies at home. We tried that since we didn't think I can get enough points for the full-time, which turned out to be wrong in the end. Oh well, it's not like I could afford living that far either.

After trying and failing two times, after hours of nerve-wrecking silence and days of no sleep, after mixing up my accounts on the registration site (apparently it makes difference between upper and lowercase), I finally got the news.

I got enough points to go to the university! Way more than enough, in fact. And the free type too that is much harder to get into.

I'm so happy I'm crying right now. And mom is jumping around in the other room giggling like a maniac. I don't know, I just needed to get this out right now, for the last couple days I've been having this dull 'weight' on my heart and it feels so weird that it's not there anymore... in a good way.

I still can't get enough of those twintails. Also love each and every of your work, especially BBE Ribbons.

First thing first: please please for the love of God please stop overdoing Truly's accent. Yes, we know she has a southern accent, yes, we know she says 'I' like 'Ah', don't murder the english into incomprehensible levels because of it.

Second, you wasted too much time describing ponies who didn't actually matter who they were at the arguing in the beginning. Introduce them with detailed description when they will receive actual focus. Right now you dumped so much information on the readers in that one scene I got pretty confused.

Other than these, your pacing is excellent, almost 'in medias res', your characterization is flawless, and your prose - while pretty purple - is enjoyable, descriptive and professional. Just be vary of going what I call 'ultraviolet'.

Can't wait to read more of these. You're an amazing writer.