Cutie Mark:
https://starryoak.deviantart.com/art/Stitchwork-Shine-s-CM-657863232
Welcome to the Miracleverse! AKA, the Disliked Ships AU, but I don’t use this as a platform for hate. While the universe is slightly… twisted, they are all options that could have happened in the main TFIMverse. They’re a chance to do things with the… standard ships that people have, and using them in new ways, as well as a platform for interesting characters. I want to do some different things with the designs, so I may note the standard designs I tried to avoid with each design. These designs have been done for… an embarrassing amount of time, so expect a lot of the designs at once, I finally decided to upload them. This girl was made on January ‎14, ‎2017!

Now onto design notes that define her and how I tried to make her different; I don’t know why, because I quite like a lot of Starburst fanfoals, I find something that I can’t really pin down… off? Not bad, just something I feel doesn’t work quite.. all together. I don’t know why the orange tones don’t work for me, but sometimes they just mess with me. The theme for her has always been ‘toylike’ or ‘teddy bear’, with a dash of ‘G3 pony’. I wanted to give her a look that felt like she was toylike, and her colors highly feel like G3 ponies, which is why she has a heart on her hoof; one of the main theme tying G3 ponies together. The teddy bear elements are her belly and nose being colored, toylike features including her colored horn, like something stuck on later of a different material than the rest of the fabric. Her colors come from overlaying Sunburst’s mane on Starlight’s coat and merging them to make them more strawberry-ish, and Sunburst’s mane hueshifted to the darkest purple on Starlight’s hair, mixed with blue, Sunburst’s father’s eye, and her cutie mark is Starlight’s cutie mark colors and Sunburst’s colors for the moon and sun, respectively.

This girl? While Miracle and Claystone are the deuteragonists of the story, Stitchwork… Ironically for her name, is going to be the one who unravels the beginning of this plot. I’ll be drawing more character building scenes and stuff, and eventually work my way up to telling the story of it. This won’t mean the end of minor character designs either! Nor does it mean I’m unveiling any endgame stuff. It just means that you’re finally going to know, at least a bit, why the Miracleverse is the way it is; what started this. Now, I’ve laid out the clues for it in a few of the various bios, and at least one person has some kind of clue, at least a tiny bit, of what it might be. I’ll lay out the clues I’ve given at the bottom of her bio!
Stitchwork Shine is the daughter of Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer, a neurotic mare, inheriting her mother’s anxiety attacks as well as her father’s social anxiety, along with some minor traumas in her childhood all coming together to form this bundle of pure anxiety in a very fluffy cuddly package. She’s quite cuddly, in fact; her appearance does not lie, her fur is exceptionally soft and fuzzy… it’s a shame that she has a lot of issues with physical contact, not liking the way other ponies fur feels rubbing against hers or the usual way it’s uninvited, most ponies are relatively social creatures with a tendency to touch others casually, but even the slightest un-warned touch can cause her to jump in fright. She’s not in any way a mean or unfriendly mare, she just doesn’t have a particularly small personal space bubble and has a tendency to try to avoid being close to others in conversation, which makes her feel distant to most others. The only thing she feels comfortable touching her skin is her scarf, which she fiddles with obsessively when under stress, which is almost always.
Her best friend is Princess Accordance, meeting her when Starlight first took over living in the Friendship Castle when Twilight moved in with her husband, which she put off until her son was born. Accordance kept sending response letters to Twilight’s (constant) letters to the castle, and Stitchwork finally answered one with ‘you have the wrong address’. They were both like, 5-6. And yes, both of them already had decided to take on their various neurotic duties. Celestia couldn’t stop Accordance while still keeping an eye on Cackle and her husband AND her kingdom, and Starlight kind of just tossed the mail out and it landed in Stitchwork’s general direction. Celestia was grateful for Accordance to have a friend, but still really wanted to stop her five year old daughter from turning into a workaholic. It didn’t work, in case you were guessing.

Stitchwork is very fascinated by the friendship map in the front of her house, once she stopped drawing on it after her mom threw a few fits, and now is trying to figure out why it stopped working, since her mother fixed it and it was sending the Mane 6 after the incident with time travel. She’s not any closer to unraveling the secret than she was when she started, but she’s determined to figure it out. Patience is the key. She can’t run diagnostics, she is, after all, technically still a seamstress, but she’s also the daughter of two very powerful unicorns, and with an access to a really big library. A really, really big library. She’ll figure it out. She just has to have a little more coffee and sleepless nights with her face pressed onto the map because she passed out again.
The rest of this bio is both devoted to Starlight and Sunburst’s relationship, but also… the big reveal.

Starlight and Sunburst met under some… interesting circumstances. Similar to canon, but, well, this is where you learn why the Miracleverse exists. Starlight was preparing for her first friendship lesson, or rather, doing everything she could to not get assigned one, to anxiety ridden to think she could do it,rejecting every one and having anxiety attacks while Twilight wasn’t looking her way. Of course, opportunity knocked when Twilight received a snowflake on the wind from the Crystal Empire, inviting her to come. Twilight would have much more preferred that opportunity stayed behind that day… and never, ever came back, when she read what she thought would be an invitation to meet Shining Armor and Cadance’s foal. There was a single word that hit her first.
Stillborn
It was, technically, an invitation to meet her niece/nephew, but also to say goodbye. She had died before she was born. Nobody knew why, besides that the little alicorn was gone before she arrived. Twilight and her friends, originally expecting to bring gifts that were quickly abandoned, took the train to the Crystal Empire, Twilight trying to cover up her sadness and anxiety, protecting Spike, even though he already knew, she asked him to do something special for her, so he wouldn’t have to see the baby gone, to take Starlight on the only friendship lesson she had in the Crystal Empire… seeing her childhood friend Sunburst.
It wasn’t hard to find, and for once, Spike wasn’t mobbed by the Crystal Ponies… they were all in their houses or crowding the entrance to the palace, coming to pay their respects to the baby princess. Sunburst was home, and… well, they talked. Starlight couldn’t tell how long they talked, but it was awkward and silent, with a cloud of grief literally hanging over the Empire, the two of them not sure what to say. It was only when there was a sharp knock on the door, after Spike had fallen asleep, informing them that it was morning already, that they realized they had sat there until the next day.
The funeral was at dawn. The princess was buried without a name; Princess Cadance and Shining Armor had not yet decided on a name, intending to name their foal when they met her… but… well, it wasn’t going to happen. The foal was buried at the highest rolling green hill in the Empire, under a beautiful crystal tree, with only an image of her in flight and the words ‘The Baby Princess’ written on it, her date of birth and death the same. Everyone in the Empire was there, and nearly every pony, even those who were simply random ponies who lived in the Empire, paid their respects to the child. Princess Celestia and Luna were there, wings draped over one another as they participated in a moment of history no one wished to repeat. There was no speech from the mother nor the father, Twilight had made her way to the pedestal to say something to the niece she never met, but broke down when she tried. In the end, the silence spoke more to everyone than anything anyone could have said. Pinkie Pie attempted to say something, being the first pony to know of the foal’s birth, she was the most prepared. Even though she tried her best, there simply wasn’t anything that could make the situation any less painful. Spike was almost forced to speak, being the Empire’s hero, the second the Empire ponies realized their savior was there, they were certain he could do something, say something.
When he said goodbye to his cousin, unsure of what to say beyond that, something shattered. The collective grief, the misery of every pony in the empire had done something that seemed impossible up to that point; the Crystal Heart had shattered. The jewel was powered by emotions, but could not handle the grief and mourning of an entire empire.