Peryton "Shadowmane" [Ready]

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“You cannot kill that which is already dead.”

Roleplay Type: Canterlot Chronicles

Name: Petal Klobb (AKA Shadowmane)

Sex: Female

Age: Middle-aged doe

Species: Peryton

Eye Color: Orange

Coat: Darkish-brown umber

Hair: Shaved off

Physique: Just a little bit taller than an average pony, and extremely fit on account of her leadership duties. Like with many peryton does, her antlers are stubs in comparison to stag antlers. Hidden with a mask are pieces of shrapnel embedded throughout her entire face

Residence: Hollowed-out Mountain Lair in the Eponnine Mountains.

Occupation: Former Chief Special Agent within the Royal Equestrian Intelligence Network (REIN); betrayed the organization to found the World Revolutionary Agency for Imperialism, Tyranny, and Hostility (WRAITH).

Cutie Mark: NA

Unique Traits: As the figurehead of WRAITH, Shadowmane can usually be found at the forefront of the organization’s dastardly operations. The specific nature of her prior work in REIN has enabled the doe to be exceptionally skilled in hoof-to-hoof combat. But when her hooves and her Hawkins Fighting Knife won’t do, Shadowmane is also a skilled shot with Kestrelson & Sons’ experimental Cougar semi-automatic pistol; one of the first Aquellian weapons of its kind and specifically customized for handling by a hoofed creature.

Shadowmane keeps her true identity as Petal Klobb a secret at all costs. Except in the privacy of her own living quarters, the supervillain wears a black, scifi-inspired jumpsuit covering almost her entire body, even the wings. Shadowmane determines it not necessary to be able to glide out of situations unless at the very utmost of need. The leader of WRAITH is also always sighted wearing a steel helmet, designed to hide her small antlers. To complete her disguise, Shadowmane wears a blank white mask intended to offer no real clue to the leader’s species. Shadowmane’s “unnaturally” thin legs are falsely claimed to be a result of her once being a wraith, before being brought back to life. Hence the WRAITH saying; “You cannot kill that which is already dead”.

The final weapon Shadowmane possesses is using her special peryton ability to manipulate how others around her perceive her voice. Back in her days in REIN, Agent Klobb’s forged identities benefited from being able to use different manners of speaking without requiring vocal training. Now, as the public voice of WRAITH, those who hear Shadowmane tend to hear a tinnish, almost-golemlike sexless voice. Depending on one’s point of view, Shadowmane intends herself to be viewed either as an otherworldly prophet... or an inequine terror.

History: Nobody knows for certain the origins of Petal Klobb. A long time ago, the freighter Klobb was sailing through northern waters when its crew spotted a little peryton doe adrift at sea, sleeping on a piece of driftwood. Mysteriously, the only other debris around were scores of flower petals. Hence, the crew named the survivor Petal Klobb and brought her back to Equestria. Without any known family, the peryton was entrusted to a Stalliongrad orphanage for safekeeping.

Life proved rough in the overcrowded, underfunded orphanage. Fed up with its poor conditions, the young Klobb escaped from the facility one day, choosing to take her chances in the streets of Stalliongrad. Out there in the most unforgiving of urban crucibles, the peryton learned how to steal, deceive weak-minded ponies, evade pursuit, and defend herself from threats to survive. Not intending to live as a street rat forever, Petal Klobb also made full use of the public libraries of the city to give herself an education.

Years passed, and the peryton became mature and clever enough to get on the wrong side of Stalliongrad section of the Royal Equestrian Intelligence Network. When REIN finally apprehended Petal Klobb, their agents surprised the orphan by not threatening her with imprisonment, but by providing her an opportunity to join REIN as a field agent. REIN knew full well that Klobb lacked any hope of legal employment, so its top brass figured it would be a shame for the doe’s natural talents for special espionage duties to go to waste.

Petal Klobb went to work for her new employers, who gave her combat training to make the peryton an even more valuable asset. It became quickly apparent that beyond standard intelligence gathering, Klobb was an exceptional field agent, capable of avoiding capture and fighting out of danger as needed. Her skills were legendary in the community, and the doe even became one of the few Equestrian civilians ever granted a license to kill.

But as time passed, and Klobb earned promotion after promotion, REIN’s directors worried that their prized agent was turning into a loose cannon. Petal Klobb’s methods of going after threats became more brutal, and the ‘messes’ she left behind harder to clean. She grew dissatisfied going only after organized crime syndicates and corrupt businessponies. Klobb came to believe in the existence of a grand conspiracy by Aquellia to undermine the very fabric of Equestrian society, and started heavily advocating for REIN to morph into a secret police force to counter this perceived gravest of threats.

The expected clash over REIN’s direction... never took place. On a highly dangerous mission to destroy the private weapons cache of the dangerous Capt. Brenda Razorclaw, Petal Klobb wound up surrounded by the Opposition right as she was planting explosives. Rather than face capture by Razorclaw’s marines, Klobb prematurely detonated her bombs, blowing the cache sky-high, and the peryton with it. Assumed dead by both Razorclaw and REIN, the grievously wounded agent miraculously survived to find refuge in a dark corner of Aquellia.

It was during her private recuperation when Petal Klobb concluded without proof that her superiors sent her on a suicide mission to silence her, permanently. Aquellia wasn’t the true enemy; it was Equestria’s weak government itself! Klobb no longer wanted to put up with the Princesses as corrupt rulers when she herself could better rule the country with an iron hoof. With a newfound thirst for power and revenge, the former agent crafted the identity of Shadowmane, and used her knowledge of the underworld to establish the building blocks of WRAITH, an organization devised solely for conquering the world. After years of growing in the shadows, WRAITH and Shadowmare are now ready to make their first strike.....

Character Summary: Among Shadowmane’s greatest traits is her charismatic public speaking. Her oratory has proven many times in the past to be effective at exploiting divisions between groups of ponies, rallying her troops, and luring others to WRAITH’s cause. She publicly upholds a warrior’s code of honor, emphasizing such values as righteousness, courage, and loyalty to one’s group. Not one to let emotions lead her to pointlessly fight lost causes, the usually calm and collected peryton has no compunctions over retreating, preferring to live to fight another day.

On a darker note, the leader of WRAITH is infamous for her extraordinary intolerance for failure, reserving harsh punishments for those she accuses of incompetence and treason. For all her supposed care for her followers, Shadowmane would never give a second thought for sacrificing them in achievement towards her ends. If the peryton has one vice, it would be her need for public attention. Shadowmane always leans towards actions that instill mass terror, even when using such tactics is counterproductive.

Within WRAITH itself, Shadowmane is to be addressed by her subordinates solely as “Number One”, especially during official meetings and assignments. Those minions who form a more intimate bond with their leader are exempt from having to follow this courtesy when other WRAITH members are not around.

REIN Special Agent Klobb is believed to have perished in the line of duty. The fact that she survived, and is in actuality the megalomaniacal Shadowmane is a secret known only to Klobb herself.

Spoiler

"Kestrelson & Sons" and "Hawkins" are Aquellian companies created by Diomedes for the Para Bellum universe. I've been allowed to make use of them by Dio in this app. But seriously, read Dio's fanfiction!

NOTE: Work on this app might be a bit slow as long as I'm stuck on the physical design.

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Unique Traits done. Hope to get to the rest sometime this week.

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Summary finished. Now to do History........ eventually. -_-;

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And it's finally done and ready for a look.

[Mojo]

Hi there!

Brilliantly constructed app! All of the required fields are filled, and it's masterfully written!

I'll recommend this app for further SRPH analysis!

[Armony]