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Roleplay Type: World of Equestria Mane RP

Name: Flickerlight

Sex: Female

Age: Mare (27, or equivalent)

Species: Unicorn

Eye Color: Bright orange (FF7B00).

Coat Color: Very pale light green (E6FFBF).

Mane/Tail/Markings Color & Style: A very pale blue (D4E9FF), with a central streak of white (FFFFFF); both mane and tail are long, and given a rounded cut at the ends that emphasizes the colors. Her mane is frequently bound up in a silver ring.

Physique: Tall, willowy.

Cutie Mark: A lit candle in a brass chamberstick.

Origin/Residence: Flickerlight grew up in an isolated village in a mountain valley in The Foothills; her family subsequently moved to Solstice Heights, after a particularly unpleasant winter hit the village. As an adult, she now resides in Canterlot.

Occupation: Lamplighter. Streetlighting in Canterlot is delivered through a variety of methods, many of which do not lend themselves to automatic control. Flickerlight makes her rounds at dusk, lighting the streetlamps in preparation for nightfall and replenishing their fuel; and again at dawn, snuffing out the lights for the day. At night, in between her rounds, she has no official duties, but she can perform some minor sorts of repairs on damaged or broken streetlamps and will try to do so. Otherwise, she frequently uses her time to make simple decorative lanterns and candles for extra income.

Motivation: A particular dislike, even fear, of unrelieved darkness. She finds both psychological comfort and meaning in using light, particularly fire, to ward off darkness.

Likes: (optional) Fire, light, hot tea, oatmeal

Dislikes: (optional) Darkness, cold, winter, loud noise

Character Summary: Flickerlight's special talent revolves around fire and light. Although she is capable of sparking fire through magic, doing so seems to be physically and emotionally draining, and she is more likely to do so when agitated or excited than on purpose; for everyday firelighting she carries an igniter. She finds it far easier to control a fire that has already been lit, to affect its shape, spread, burn, and color; the amount of control she can exercise is inversely proportional to the size of the fire. (She has similar, but much weaker and less fine-tuned, control over other lights.) She has also, during the course of her job, learned about the making and repair of candles and lamps.

As a filly, Flickerlight and her family lived in one of the remoter and higher valleys of The Foothills, above the headwaters of the Quickrun River. At that altitude the winters were very cold, and one year the village was hit by a sudden snowstorm, with local pegasi unable to stop it until the snow had already reached hazardous depths. Flickerlight and her father were trapped away from their home for several days; when her father became disoriented from the effects of hypothermia, Flickerlight was left to her own devices. That night, panicking from fear of the dark and the cold, she generated a spark from her horn; though small by itself, it set a nearby tree alight. The warmth kept them alive until a rescue team, spotting the flame, got through to them and returned them home. The experience left her with a deep dislike of pure darkness and the unlit places it fills, but also with her cutie mark: a lit candle.

After that winter, her family left the village for Solstice Heights; Flickerlight herself moved to Canterlot when she reached adulthood, feeling more comfortable among the lights of the city. Her ability to control fire first led her to become a firefighter, but after an evaluation of her performance, her superiors, with unusual haste, decided that she might be better suited in another role, and advised her of an opening for city lamplighter. She has held the post for the past four or five years, and greatly enjoys her occupation.

Flickerlight has a good sense of humor, but is something of a private individual. She has a habit of being deliberately and playfully enigmatic about her own background and thoughts, and enjoys seeing how others react to this behavior. She enjoys it most of all if they are patient and interested enough to try to understand her anyway. Partly for this reason, those around her consider her tend to consider her eccentric, though if asked they may present other reasons as well, such as her enthusiasm for conversations about fire, and a rather worrying tendency to gaze at candles and fireplaces.

Flickerlight

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Well, that job would fit better with certain ideas I've had about her, so I'd kinda prefer it. But to an extent I'm hedging my bets, because being a lamplighter depends on there being the kind of streetlamps you have to light manually. Oil lamps would work, as would probably gas lamps (though some of them had regulators to turn them off automatically), and possibly she could do lights of a magical nature as well, depending on how they worked. But if they were electric lights? They wouldn't necessarily have an automatic control system, but if not, then you get the amusing image of someone going around and flipping all the switches.

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