Pegasus Pathfinder, Daring-Do Fan-Club President and Adventurer! [Finished]

[SteelEagle]

Type of RP: World of Equestria RP

Name: Pathfinder

Gender: Female

Age: Mare

Species: Pegasus

Eye color: Light purple.

Coat color: Light brown.

Mane and Tail Color and Style: Greyscale in color, dyed from her natural baby blue to match Daring-Do. Clipped and jagged looking mane in an attempt, partially successful, to emulate her favorite literary character.Her tail is multiple shades of purple, ranging from dark purple to nearly white, also dyed to emulate Daring-Do.

Body Type: Athletic and fit, though naturally scrawny and wiry. Her physicality comes through more in her boundless enthusiasm rather than any innate gifts. Small in stature and without the muscle structure of the stronger ponies, she has instead opted to craft a physique built to endure and be pushed rather than one with fantastic ability.

Cutie Marks: A rope around a globe.

Origin/Residence: Cloudsdale, though she now wanders the land in search of adventure.

Occupation: Adventurer! (Or, as her pity-fueled friends would say, unemployed)

Motivation: To do as her idol, Daring-Do, and solve the great mysteries of the land in epic adventures!

Likes: Adventuring, Daring Do, Adventuring as Daring-Do, Books, Cider, Foals, spooky woods.

Dislikes: Neigh-sayers, authority, normal 9-to-5 jobs, hospitals.

Character Summary:

Her parents were Cloudsdale's- neigh, EQUESTRIA'S- finest flying performance duo. Their feats astounding and their bravery legendary, matched only by their boundless confidence, swift wits, and stunning skill. They produced a single foal, and soon after they had rested up, they left her in the care of Cloudsdale's child services so they could finish their tour.

On their way to a sold-out show on the edge of Griffon territory, they vanished. Search teams were dispatched, Cloudsdale and Canterlot alike offering words of support and compassion. They were never to be found, and after months of searching, they stopped. Pathfinder passed into the care of the Cloudsdale government. She thus grew up in the rather dog-eat-dog world of Cloudsdale orphanages.

Her early life was thus spent in relative seclusion and timidity, her social senses shaped by what surrounded her. Namely, while there were very few awful ponies and the guardians tried their best, those few awful ones could do a mental number(and sometimes a physical number), and there were simply too many fillies and colts for the guardians to look after. She became the sad product of a sad equation, a foal in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This all came to a screeching halt when she got her hooves on the first Daring-Do book as a filly. Not only did it remind her of the all the stories she heard of her parents, but it provided for your little filly a sense of empowerment that they too could persever against seemingly insurmountable odds. She took to her flight training well and worked on her body to produce one best suited for what she wanted to do later in life- become an awesome and cool adventurer! As her physicality grew, so did her mentality, and she soon became a more confident and outspoken pony.

Another major turning point, when she gained her cutie mark, would come soon after. One of the colts from the orphanage had ran away, yet a major storm was coming, the type that not even the Pegasi pony on the weather teams could hold back. It would be dangerous for any pony to be outside, and Pathfinder grew concerned about her colt runaway friend. She ventured out into the vicious windy conditions of a Cloudsdale laid bare to the elements, a small knapsack with a bungee cord rope and book along with her standard outfit complete with the officially licensed Daring Do hat, and searched high and low. Almost giving up hope, she spotted a disturbance in a nearby cloud. She leapt on just as the colt, unable to handle the high winds and whose screams were being muffled by the wind, fell towards the ground. Realizing that no one could hear them and that she alone could save him, Pathfinder tied the rope to a nearby pillar and jumped down to follow the colt.

The wind whipped viciously and relentlessly, tossing her to and fro. Only her determination to get as close as possible kept her even within visual distance of the colt. His wings beat in the distance, their strength undeniable but his struggle in vain. All he could do was very minutely slow his descent. That slow down was what Pathfinder needed, as her own campaign against the wind went on and she drew close to the panicking colt. Finally, at the very end of the rope, just before she snapped back against the strain, she grabbed ahold of the poor dear. They pulled closer through great effort until she had him through the joints in their front legs. She then heard an audible spring, and the two were launched back up towards Cloudsdale. She was able to move her body to change the trajectory and as they were being slingshotted across the city, she stretched her wings out with great strength and broke the binds, launching them towards a building.

They both went flying through the window of a Cloudsdale library, where they would eventually end up bowling through ten shelves before stopping. Despite the damage, she was deemed a hero in the eyes of Cloudsdale and found later that her cutie mark- which represents her adventuring attitude that would see her cross much of the world, along with resembling the cover of the fifth Daring-Do book- was now emblazoned on her flank.

That confidence and seemingly inability to taste fear became the cornerstone of her personality, as she fell more and more in line with the idolized hero of her imagination, Daring-Do. During flight training, her confidence and self-assuredness became the single greatest muscle she had behind her, pushing her beyond the rather stringent limits then imposed on her and landing her near the top of her class through sheer force of will.

Since that day, she often found herself involved in self-styled adventures. Sometimes they were really just contests of daring and bravery in the high towers of Cloudsdale. Other times, they ware more vital matters of sneaking and spying on uncouth elements who she believed were attempting to smuggle valuables out of Cloudsdale. Often, her views were almost entirely fictional yet were taken as seriously as the word of Celestia. This has led to a few theories purpoting that she has trouble distinguishing fact from fiction. This is false belief; she just rather enjoys the pleasant and exciting fiction inside her head more than the mundane reality around her.

She currently is the Cloudsdale head of the Daring-Do Fan Club, dominating it through a cult of personality not of her own doing. She has attended several large fan meet-ups, where other Daring-Do fans have both been impressed with her look(which yearly resembles more and more the character) and charisma while also being more than a little freaked out by her fanaticism. Most think she is absolutely insane and the heads of the other city's fan clubs groan at her near daily messages and well-written(though somewhat creepy) fanfiction.

After her education was completed, Cloudsdale offered her many different avenues of advancement. Cloudsdale pegasi were honored members of the REA and the more elite branches were stocked with valued Cloudsdale citizens. Cloudsdale trained weather ponies could find work anywhere for high pay. The Rainbow teams, who treaded fierce storms to lay the groundwork for the revelation of their brilliant rainbows, were easily the most beloved Pegasi in existence.

She turned them all down when the time came, opting to leave the city to pursue what her heart desired- adventure, and all the freedom that came long with it. She now wanders the entire landmass, seeking out the great treasures of Equestria's past and the adventures alongside them. More often than not, she ends up having to take some crummy temporary job as some sort of worker in order to eat dinner that night. What little money she does make is sent to the orphanage where she grew up, with her basic desires amounting to nothing more than her immediate needs and the lust for adventure.

The truth is that within her is little more than a foal, stunted by her upbringing and clinging to the guise of a role model whose flawlessness in spirit helped provide the groundwork for whatever success she now claims. Strength, decency, honor, bravery, eclipsed spiritually only by a quest for answers that drives both the foal internally who seeks answers to her parent's disappearance, and the more confident mare on the exterior who seeks answers to Equestria's riddles. Boldness and courage is the mask worn by a foal cloaked in timidity and fear.

Her friends see as a rather sad figure: An obsessed fan who invests so heavily in her chosen fandom that it becomes a crucial, almost creepy, part of her identity. Her 'adventures' don't do much other than waste her time, no money, no glory yet attained. They appreciate the fact that there are few mares you'd rather have with you, but between her physical adventures and 'fragile' mental makeup, they worry for how long that'll last.

Of course, Pathfinder says differently. She is an adventurer and adventurers, if they're worth their salt, shouldn't care about money at all! It's all about the thrill of discovery and the sheer joy of survival. If she can solve the mysteries of the world- and help some ponies along the way- then she just doesn't care what you think.

She is, after all, a true adventurer! (Besides, she is thinking of contacting the author of the series with her plethora of well-written fanfiction. Maybe she could start writing for his extended universe?! OOH, maybe remake some of her adventures as Daring Do's? Ahh, the possibilities!...Even if he stopped responding to her years ago.)

[Davroth]

Seeker's taken, I'm afraid.

[SteelEagle]

Okay, name change then! I am never good at names, hehs.

Mkays, Pathfinder?

[SteelEagle]

Finished.

[brianblackberry]

The app is great, all that needs to be changed before being stamped is the summary calls her "Seeker" (twice), while the app title and her name is listed her as "Pathfinder". Just fix this and let us know and I am sure it will be approved.

[SteelEagle]

Fixed the instances of Seeker as well as the other two names I wrestled with while writing her up. (Spirit and Fandom.)

[brianblackberry]

Well for Great Fanfilly Justice!

[SteelEagle]

Took out that banner which for some reason was stuck and couldn't be edited out.

[Skye]