Flim (Ready)

[Mojo]

Roleplay Type: Mane RP

Name: Flim

Sex: Male

Age: Stallion

Species: Unicorn

Eye Colour: Green

Coat: Tan

Mane/Tail: Red mane and tail with white striping

Physique: Lanky, tall and skinny

Residence: Fillydelphia

Occupation: Business Colt/Con Artist

Cutie Mark: A quarter slice of a Red apple. Flim was very competitive in his foals years, even with his own brother. One day, when his brother was home sick, Flim worked his charm in the schoolyard, peddling hoofmade apple shaped quill holders. Of course, unknown to his classmates, Flim had chafted each one from real discarded apples he managed to sneak from the trash and painted to look like they were carved from wood. When his classmates discovered this, they all threw their now rotting apple shaped quill holders at Flim, pelting the young enterprising colt so intensely he galloped all the way home crying. When he told his parents and his still ill brother what had happened, they gave him a great idea to benefit from his new found unpopularity. The next morning, when Flim returned to school, his angry cheated classmates were there waiting for him with more rotten apples. But the lanky unicorn colt had a brand new product to offer them: Dart boards with his own photo in the center of them! When Flim convinced his classmates (with the best sales pitch of his young life) that these wooden backed dart boards would be perfect for rotten apple target practice, he sold out of them within a matter of minutes! Though he was still unpopular with his classmates for a time afterwards, at least Flim had discovered a way to profit from the situation. As he sold the last one, to his own teacher, a flash of light appeared behind him. It was then that the unicorn colt discovered he had earned his cutie mark. Since it was apple related, Flim now realized his destiny would be somehow connected with apples.

History: Flim, with his twin brother Flam, was born into a business-oriented family where their parents, Easy Street and Shell Game, passed on their somewhat shady knowledge of business to them. Although his brother was more mechanically inclined, Flim was superior to his sibling in regards to creativity. During their early foal years, Flim was very competitive with his brother, each trying to out perform the other when it came to swindling his classmates and sometimes, even adult ponies. As the twin brothers grew up, they realized that they could do a better job at deal making and profiteering by working together. Besides, since his brother's cutie mark seemed related to his own, Flim reasoned that it was their destiny to cooperate to 'make their fortune' in Equestria. So when the two brothers were old enough to strike out on their own, they did so together. It was Flim who came up with the idea for the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 while his brother drew up the blueprints for it. After many weeks of hard work and trial-and-error testing, their new creation was ready to present to the world! Their first stop was Ponyville, where the brothers had a very stressful as well as unsuccessful encounter with the Apple Family. In the end, it was Flam's idea to shut off the Quality Control monitor of the SSCS6k that produced the inferior apple cider their potential Ponyville customers rejected flatly. Accepting their defeat, at Flim's suggestion, they drove their wheeled machine to the next town. However, it seemed that the duo's nack for underhooved tatics and 'short cuts' in quality worked against them with each subsequent town they visited. Flim has never lost his desire to make a 'fast Bit,' a philosophy his twin brother shares equally.

Character Summary:

Flim usually appears in public as a charming, dazzling gentlecolt who can carry a tune surprisingly well. The dapper lanky unicorn is a master of giving convincing speeches, a skill he often uses when trying to sell his wares. It is said that Flim could sell snowshoes to desert ponies and ice cubes in the frigid northern regions of Equestria. In reality, Flim is a very cunning, devious stallion who'd sell his own mother if it would make him a large enough profit. He is very ruthless when it comes to business, as he and his brother demonstrated during the infamous Sweet Apple Acres incident. Flim loves only one thing more than money, and that's MORE money! Greed is his number one motive in all that he does, says and plans. Of the two Flim-Flam brothers, Flim is definitely the 'spokespony' of the outfit, leaving his brother with most of the mechanical work. Flim can be very nice to other ponies, until he gets what he wants (usually their money). He dreams of making one 'big score' that will earn him enough bits to live comfortably for the rest of his life. The only true friend he has in life is his brother Flam. Any other friendships he manages to make are very temporary, especially when those friends discover Flim's true motives.

[Dio]