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Name: Spinelnut


Sex: Female


Age: Mare


Species: Crystal Pony


Eye Color: A bright safety orange.


Coat: A slightly dark shade of silver.


Mane/Tail: Her mane and tail are a pale tint of yellow. She keeps her mane short and styles it's natural wave to flip out neatly, finishing it off by tying a lime green bandanna over the bangs of her mane and in front of her ears. Her tail is in a sadly short state and is often uneven and sloppily kept in comparison to her mane.


Physique: Spinelnut is pretty average in stature for someone in her line of work. She's not especially tall or short or fat or skinny with her only above average quality being some extra muscle. But that, too, is pretty typical of a pony that works with her hooves.


Residence: She lives in the Crystal Empire, Obsidian Ward, but she's been known to travel a bit from her home to take on various jobs.


Occupation: Engineer, mostly in maintaining the trains and consulting on building construction, but she does like to tinker with some mechanical gadgets in her spare time.


Cutie Mark: A screwdriver and a wrench laid across each other like an X.


Unique Traits: Spinelnut is actually a pretty decent puppeteer in the Crystal Kingdom and is frequently performing her puppet shows in the Arts District of her home kingdom. She's good at acting as a result of all the practice, with a special focus on voice acting. She also has a proficiency with crafting marionettes, though they're nowhere near as good as the true masters. Lastly, Spinelnut is captain of her Ward's Spike The Brave & Glorious Fan Club, so she's pretty up to date with Spike gossip.

 

History: Spinelnut was born in the Crystal Empire only a short while before King Sombra sat on the throne. The crystal pony was only a foal when the oppressive ruler was banished and he cursed the empire, vanishing her home and family from the world for the next millennium. While still traumatic, her young age when the Crystal Empire finally came back and the Crystal Heart was restored probably helped her adjust to the modern age better than most. It was a good thing too as Spinelnut's mother very quickly remarried to a Pegasus tourist, sold the family farm, and relocated them to the Obsidian Ward. Their new home was much closer to the train station where Silver Barter, Spinelnut's stepfather, opened a souvenir shop. Spinelnut spent much of her later filly days working in the shop and learning to cope with all the change in both her home life and the empire itself.

 

She loved meeting all kinds of foreign ponies and creatures and was always excited to see what the last millennium had developed. But she still kept close to her roots for better or worse. On one side, Spinelnut proudly embraced her heritage and stubbornly continued performing the classic puppet shows that her grandfather was renowned for back when he was alive, despite modern inventions and unicorn magic proving to be far superior at operating the marionettes. On the other side, Spinelnut had an awful fear and distaste for unicorns ingrained into her by the tyrannical unicorn king who hurt her empire so many years ago. The empathy that the Crystal Ponies are lauded for only encouraged this as not every citizen managed to adjust happily to the new time period they were forcefully thrust into.

 

This discomfort and suspicion she tended to treat most magic users with is likely what kept her older unicorn step-sister, Citrine Gleam, away in Manehatten. She still keeps her as a pen pal to this day, but, unbeknownst to Spinel, her stepfather and mother both agree that a family gathering will likely have to wait. Spinelnut has a pretty good relationship with both her mother and father, though she actually ended up closer to Silver Barter than anyone. They both were practical ponies, while her mother was a bit too flighty and impulsive for her taste. Still, she doesn't have anything negative to say about any of her family.

 

Sometime during the construction of the train station, Spinelnut went from a blank-flank to a fully realized crystal pony. While practicing her marionettes and puppet shows, the pony ended up encountering some of the construction workers sent in to help begin work on getting a train through the frozen wasteland to connect the Crystal Empire to the modern world. She followed them around the entire day until, through either frustration or kindness, the young pony was allowed to borrow a set of one of the worker's tools. She immediately took off with it and started tinkering with whatever she could find. It wasn't entirely responsible, but, as a result, Spinelnut discovered her true calling. She fixed a leaky pipe in her family's kitchen and instantly things just fell into place. She found she had a special knack for figuring out how things worked together and just what to do to improve them.

 

She started out helping fix things around her home and neighbors, as well as putting together simple devices to sell at her family shop – toy helicopters, extending grabbers, miniature cars and boats, and, as she got older, pocket watches and music boxes. Once she was ready to move out on her own, Spinelnut took on a job maintaining the train that kept her mother and stepfather in business with the constant stream of tourists. A personal project or two later in which she helped remodel a neighbor's bathroom and constructed a shed allowed her the experience to start traveling to assist and later consult on bigger engineering projects. Spinel still has a long way to go with relearning modern technology, but she's a surprisingly talented Crystal citizen who picks up on things fast.

 

Character Personality: Spinelnut is a practical, hardworking pony who will never hesitate to help a pony in need. Mind, Spinelnut isn't some yes-pony pushover who will simply do whatever anyone says without question—she has her own plans and work to get done! But, if someone's in trouble, her friends know they can rely on her to help them until it's done. She may ask for a favor in return or an IOU for her work, but that's a small price to pay for quality support, right? She has a bit of a short-fuse and is definitely prideful, with said pride easily getting smarted when some upstart unicorn decides to use their horn to magic a solution when her tools could have sufficed just fine, thank you.

 

Speaking of magic users, it's already been noted that Spinel has a deep discomfort around most unicorns stemming from a belief that any magic user is capable of subjugating her kingdom just as Sombra did. As a result, she tends to be suspicious and rude to unicorns in general, avoiding them whenever she can. She's a pretty kind pony overall so she never intends to be a bully to her unicorn cousins, but she can be caught acting like one if left alone. She's quick to fix her behavior if somepony has the confidence to call her out on it, which is how she's managed to get along with her magic-wielding coworkers. Another flaw of Spinel is her often invasive curiosity of how modern ponies and creatures live. She simply wants to be as up to date as possible and loves to compare notes, but not everypony is comfortable with her Q and A's.


Character Summary: Spinelnut is a curious, responsible Crystal Pony who can be a bit of a bully. She spends her work traveling to consult and engineer on various projects, while her off time is usually spent working on her marionettes and performing folktales with them in the Crystal Kingdom Arts District (or wherever she happens to be, on occasion).


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