Marshalia

Marsha is a light grey Alicorn from the Nightosphere and one of the main characters of My Adventurous Pony Friendship is Mathamatical. Marsha's father call her Marshalia Christopher Abadeer the Fourth, Marsha or simply Marshy. She resides and works at a bakery as a baker and holds parties for the various ponies of Ooo, and goes on adventures with her friends. She is a very exuberant, enthusiastic, happy, funny, silly, talkative, jolly, and giggly pony. She writes and performs many songs, and she also has a pet ghost dog named Dusk. She frequently serves as the comic relief of the show and performs impossible, logic-defying feats, such as her seemingly inflatable hair or even sometimes "breaking the fourth wall". She represents the element of laughter.



Personality
Marsha is an outgoing, optimistic, cheerful, energetic, happy and hyperactive pony who loves sweets and often speaks and acts in non sequiturs. Loving to make ponies laugh and put a smile on their faces. She has a fondness of parties and a tendency to throw them on a whim. Marsha plays many instruments and frequently breaks out into song. She also tends to hop rather than walk, usually accompanied by a springing noise. She is often not taken seriously even by her closest friends, who call her out on her seemingly illogical behavior. She is almost always excited, and manages to keep her excitement after winning thirty-five consecutive games of tic-tac-toe against Princess Bubblegum while they wait for Fionna to catch up.

Marsha teaches the other ponies to laugh at their fears through an impromptu musical number, and helps Finn accept things even if he doesn't understand them. She plays a series of pranks on the residents of Ooo with Marshall Lee, saying that she loves to have fun. She is very conscientious about this, though: when she pranks someone it's in such a way that no harm is done and the victim gets a laugh from it too. As an example, she once painted all of the apples on Marceline's trees. Marceline was originally furious until she found that the paint was water-soluble. She'll never prank someone if she knows it might hurt them, such as Fionna, because of her extreme sensitivity. When Ashley lashes out at Fionna and makes her cry, she decides to take measures against her "Marshy Pie style" by throwing the pony a party. Marshall set a number of different pranks for the guests at the party. Unfortunately, Ashley manages to become a victim of all the pranks. She assumed that Marsha had set all the pranks for her in particular, and was shocked to find that Marshall Lee did it. When Marshall refused to leave with her, she left by herself in a rage.

Marsha shows an insecure and somewhat deranged side of her personality. After her friends give her feeble excuses for missing Dusk's party, she breaks into a fit of paranoia which "deflates" her hair and causes her color to fade to a grayish gray. She abandons her friends for inanimate objects and pretends they are real, even having an argument with them, complete with several nervous spasms. Marshall eventually intervenes, forcefully pulls her out of her unhinged party, and drags her back to her friends. When she finds out her friends did not abandon her, she immediately returns to her usual cheerful self and her hair bursts into its normal shape.

Marsha tries to prove that she is responsible by begging Jake and Lady for the opportunity to babysit their children. When the other main ponies refuse to help, thet ask Marsha dejectedly if she could do it. Marsha becomes overjoyed; however, Jake and Lady warn Marsha that babysitting requires "responsibility" and she may be overwhelmed by this task. In response, Marsha insists, "I can be responsible!" Why, responsibility is my middle name! Marsha 'Responsibility' Abadeer!" Inevitably, the responsibility of taking care of the foals turns out to be more than she expected. Finn, having expected as much, shows up at the door and asks if Marsha would like any help since "some ponies just aren't cut out to handle the responsibility." Marsha takes this as an insult and promptly shuts the door, determined to prove Finn wrong. Marsha eventually manages to properly care for the babies and take control of the situation.

Marsha does her best to befriend a Cranky Old Candy Pony, denying most of his rejections. After she accidentally burns one of his scrapbooks, Finn tells Marsha she will have to make an exception and not be his friend. Marsha agrees, but continues to hound the pony until he accepts her apology. Eventually, when Marsha makes amends after reuniting the pony with his long-lost love, he does accept Marsha's apology and calls her his friend, leading Marsha to literally skyrocket with joy like a firecracker.

Marsha's personality is magically altered by Lord Grim once. Marsha finds herself in a balloon garden filled with laughing balloons. At first, Marsha enjoys it, calling it "the greatest balloon garden [she's] ever seen". However, one of the balloons latches on to her leg and lands her in a mud puddle, so the atmosphere changes into a menacing one. A bunch of other balloons surround her and laugh, and afterwards Lord Grim appears and tells her that her friends were never laughing with her, they're laughing at her. The balloons, formerly sporting benign, smiley faces, distort themselves into the familiar faces of the main cast, even developing their voices and colors, and close in on Marsha, still laughing. Marsha's eyes swirl in a "hypnosis" effect and her coat and mane become much grayer. She becomes cynical, and gets angered when anyone laughs or shows signs of pleasure, suspecting it's at her expense. Near the end of the next episode, Finn restores her previous color and demeanor. Afterwards, she is seen being carried away in a wheelbarrow, giggling and remarking, "I turned gray! Can you believe it?"

Skills
Marsha can preforms acts that no other character can do. One example is when Marsha streches her neck out farther than it can.

She is a proficient singer. She is a proficient dancer. She is a excellent baker. She is an amazing songwriter and can come up with lyrics with very little inspiration.

She is a proficient party planner. She can appear at a location before one specific character does. She can predict the future through various twitches and involuntary motions made by her body.

She has a proficent memory (except when she's scared). She is proficient in magical abilities: good and evil. She can teleport with no problem.

She is a proficient actor. She can pretend to be crying and be good at it. She is an excellent painter. She is also an excellent drawer. Marsha can play sports very well.

Parents
Just like Marceline, Marsha had Hunson and Rose as her mother and father. When she was only five days old, her mother was killed and Marceline was seperated from her and Hunson.

Ever since then, Hunson was always Marsha's primary caretaker. He raises Marsha since infantcy and even takes care of her in the present day.

Siblings
Her sister is Marceline. Marsha as a baby only knew Marceline for five days until Marsha saw her again as a filly with her cutie mark.

Later on, Marsha is seen rarly all over Ooo, due to her sticking in some main places.



Cutie Mark
As a very young filly, her life was very unhappy until one day she snuck out of the Nightosphere during the day and saw a beautiful Rainbow, which Lady created to earn her cutie mark. The rainbow that she witnesses makes her smile, and she then decides to dedicate her life to making people happy and throwing parties. When she invites her father to their first party ever, her father calls her Marshalia Christopher Abadeer the Fourth. He joins Marsha, and he shakily start to develop smiles, and eventually merrily participate in Marsha's party.

Pinkie Promise
Marsha used Pinkie Pie's special oath, a variation of "Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye." Her version is "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Finn and Marceline recites this promise. Marsha takes these promises very seriously, stalking Finn in the former to make sure she doesn't slip up, and angrily pursuing Marceline in the latter when she believes Marceline has broken the Pinkie Promise. When she screams at Marceline because of it, her voice gains a near-demonic echo. During close-ups, her pupils are golden yellow and scarlet red, in sharp contrast to her normally brown eyes.

Dusk
Dusk is Marsha's pet ghostdog who is introduced in Feeling Marshy Keen. Marsha confides in Dusk many times about her feelings and what's going on in Party for One. She celebrates Dusk's birthday in the same episode. In the same episode, she appears by Marsha's side in various costumes through her singing telegram number.

Reflextivity and Cartoonish Gags
There are several instances when Marsha shows awareness of the cinematic and cartoon elements of the show, so-called "breaking the fourth wall" between the stage and the audience, similar to Pinkie Pie. She reacts to fade-outs and iris-wipes, and often looks directly "at the audience." Many scenes in the series are set to directly face the audience, among them the Winter Wrap Up song where most background ponies look at the viewers, but Marsha performs these actions more frequently than other characters. She frequently performs cartoon-staple feats such as eye-bulging, wild takes, and unusually angled cuts into the frame.

Marsha performs many cartoon gags, which are a mix of new and repeated gags. Some of them include spontaneously having six hooves to count with, opening her mouth wide enough to swallow a mass of cake sized and shaped like her in one gulp, and pulling out a green felt check symbol from nowhere. She also stands on the old candy pony's door upside down without falling. Marsha's duplicates show a similar ability, one sprouting fingers from a hoof, another pulling a 'crazy face' that resembles the face of a G3 pony.Her merry skips resemble Pinkie's, when she pursues Marshall and comically appears right next to him wherever he goes. Her costume and waddle are reminiscent of Pinkie Pie's costume and waddle. She runs in the air in Feeling Marshy Keen, and runs at full speed backwards. She appears in the same frame multiple times in the Cupcake Song. She twists her neck around two full turns, then her body spins while her head remains in place to undo the twisting. She is depicted as being aware of the cinematic elements of the show, where she holds back the iris-in in order to have the last line of the episode; she repeats this process in Magical Duel before the episode can end with her mouth still missing - in this occasion, she ends up on the screen side of the iris-in, and Marsh joins her there. She dresses up as a chicken and lays an egg when frightened.

While other characters seem to either not notice or ignore her gags, in Too Many Marshy Pies, after Marsha halts herself mid-freefall and silently descends into the lake, Marshall deliberately draws attention to how strange it is.

In the beginning of Ooo Friends, Marsha explains she is "nervicited". She curls up into a tiny ball, then gets out of it making the Transformers sound effect.