ShaleCrow

It's hard to pick a character I really don't like. I think the character I like the least is Trixie, but that's partially because this fandom is obsessed with her, and I can get really bad hype-aversion a times.

You're making me pick? Seriously, while admit that I like them all, My favourite has to be Becoming Popular. It's an awesome song, and it's from the episode where I started to actually like Rarity. For my second favourite, it's a tie between Smile and Opportunity, with Opportunity being just a tiny bit better than Smile .(Technically that would make Smile my third favourite, but who's counting? ) If I had to pick a least favourite, it would be Find a Pet. It's not a bad song, it's just a little formulaic and disney-ish for my tastes. This thread has officially made me watch Becoming Popular again and have a costume geek-out. (Ooh, there's the one from Green isn't Your Colour! And there's her Gala dress! And that one looks like the one from her Gala fantasy!)

Woohoo, another Lesson Zero fan! it's one of my favourite episodes, mainly because I've been in Twilight's position before. Welcome to Canterlot!

I actually don't mind waiting. It's part of my weekend schedule; I read some MSTed fan fiction saturday morning, and then watch My Little Pony sunday morning (I watch on sunday because I'm about 23 hours ahead of America).

Welcome to Canterlot!

Howdy, fellow Dungeons and Dragons player! Welcome to Canterlot!

Welcome to Canterlot, SuperKloana! I just had a quick peak at your dA gallery, and it looks pretty good!

@Solaria Yeah. I'm not so good at the painting pictures with words, but I'm practicing to get better at it. But I do admit that I love the art of speaking and writing. @OccupyEquestria and Dessa When I said that Luna was a redeemed villain, I meant that she used to be antagonist, but I now one of the good guys. Nightmare Moon was an antagonist, though whether she and Luna are the same person is debatable, but the Elements of Harmony redeemed her and changed her back to Luna. In my opinion Luna/Nightmare Moon was a traitor because she betrayed Celestia, and in some ways Equestria as well. She may not have thought herself as a traitor, though. She quite likely thought she was putting things right, because there was likely dark magic involved and dark magic could make anyone loopy. Luna definitely had a motivation to betray Celestia. If she didn't, and just did because the plot demanded it, that would have been bad writing. I actually like Luna for a lot of the same reasons OccupyEquestria does. I really like characters that, even though they're no longer 'bad guys', they still have to fight prejudice against them and prove that they are actually one of the good guys. However, I also like characters were get to explore what would make them betray someone the know and love. For Luna, it was the fact that most ponies preferred day as opposed to the night Luna worked so hard on. To give an example from another fandom, in Warhammer 40k, Horus betrays the Emperor because he thinks the Emperor is trying to become a god, and is going to throw Horus by the wayside once Horus has conquered the galaxy for him. @Trilobite It appears I have! And I'll definitely check the word association game now that I know about it.

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria “Mane” Rp Name: Clockwork Sex: Male Age: Young Stallion Species: Unicorn Coat Color: Light Bronze Mane/Tail/Markings Color & Style: Clockwork’s mane and tail are a golden cream colour. His mane is very long and quite shaggy.His tail is equally long and shaggy, and he carries it unusually high. Eye Color: Yellow Cutie Mark: Two overlapping golden cogs. Physique: Clockwork has a very average body type for a male pony. He’s a little bit taller and leggier than most, but it’s barely noticeable. Clockwork believes that he is freakishly tall, but in reality, he wouldn’t stand out of a crowd. Origin: Canterlot Occupation: wind-up toy maker. Motivation: To make the best clockwork toys in a Equestria, and to make children smile. Likes: clockwork gadgets, honey, daisies, children Dislikes: tripping over things (which unfortunately does a lot), peanut butter, bullies. Character Summary: Clockwork had a pretty ordinary childhood for a Canterlot pony. His father was an all round tinkerer, though he officially made clocks for a living, and his mother was a toy maker. He was one of the last of his circle of friends to get his cutie mark. He was a fairly old colt, nearly in early adolescence when one day his father, frustrated with a project that wasn’t going to plan, went off on a walk to blow off some steam. The project was a wind-up toy spider for a Nightmare Night celebration. While his father was on his walk, Clockwork tried to fix the spider himself. In a fit of technical brilliance, he actually got the toy spider working. When his father came home, he was about to tell his father that he was sorry for messing with his dad’s tinkering, but he had got the spider working, when his father took one look at Clockwork and his jaw dropped. After a bit of back and forth between them, Clockwork finally managed to work out that he had got his cutie mark. He spent the next two minutes bouncing up and down with glee, before, in true Clockwork style, he crashed into a wall. After that, Clockwork became an apprentice his father, working on clockwork gizmos with him. While Clockwork was competent at making clocks and other, practical things, he was much better at making toys, and vastly preferred making them as well. When he came of age, Clockwork moved out and got his own shopfront-come-house. The shopfront itself is quiet small, and feels even more cramped than it actually is. Most of the shop is benches, strewn with garishly painted wind-up toys. The inside and outside walls are just as garish and rainbow coloured as the merchandise. The area behind the shop is even smaller and much more cramped. A small work-bench is in one corner, covered with gears, axles, scraps of sheet metal and a large pile of blueprints. An oven and stove top is in another corner, with dishes and cutlery piled up in the sink next to it. Finally, in the middle of the room, there’s a large pink futon with a teetering stack of technical manuals and fairytale books next to it, and a small gas lamp. Clockwork is a friendly stallion, but he’s the sort of pony who prefers to have a small circle of close friends instead of a giant group of distant ones. He’s good with children and loves to see them smile. He’s extremely klutzy (as much as he hates falling flat on his face), and would forget his own head if it wasn’t firmly attached to his own neck. Once he’s a made a promise, Clockwork would climb the highest mountain and attack the bloodthirstiest dragon to fulfil it. Full image made using GeneralZoi's pony creator.

Thank you! I return the extended hoof-of-friendship to you.

Thank you everyone for such a warm welcome! @Zephyr Breeze *returns enthusiastic high five* I'm not a player of the tabletop either. I once tried getting into it, but I couldn't remeber any of the rules for more than 10 minutes, and it would have costed me over $200 to make a simple army... Yeah. I just stick to the novels and the spin-off tabletop rpgs. I haven't played any Bioware games, but I've heard good things about them. My computer has no graphics card to speak of, so any newer games (newer in this case meaning 'came out after 2006') cause my computer to overheat. My screen name actually comes from one of the Warhammer 40k spin-off rpgs, Dark Heresy. The Shale Crows were monsters for a one-off adventure, but I kinda fell in love with the little critters. @Dessa I'm only a little a bit of a polyglot, I can only speak my first language fluently. I've got little bits of other languages: a few words in German, bits and pieces of Spanish, I used to speak Japanese kinda well, and my French is pretty okay (mainly because I'm learning it right now). Anyway, thank you again for the warm welcome!

Hi there! I’m ShaleCrow. Feel free to call me Shale, or Crow, or pretty much anything (provided I can tell that you’re talking to me). I’m from Australia. I have far, far too many hobbies for my own good: drawing, writing, roleplaying, Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, flute playing, sci-fi (especially Warhammer 40k) and fantasy etc. I’m a bit of a crazy linguist at heart, and I love words and idioms; their origins, their meanings, everything! I love all languages, and I tend to collect words and phrases from all over the world. This can mean that I sometimes use words larger than my own head. I’m of the ‘why write ten words, when there’s one that means the same thing?’ school of writing, which means that sometimes my writing becomes a huge lump of words that doesn’t make much sense. So if I do write something that makes no sense, please tell me. I’m trying to break myself out of my giant word habit. I had been hearing about MLP:FiM long before I actually got into it. I just thought it wouldn’t be my cup of tea. Then I found a remix, I believe it was Night of Pony, and I thought “I just have to get the context for this”. I checked out TVTropes to see if it was good, like I do with all shows when I think about getting into them. It sounded good, as did the fandom, so I watched the first part of the pilot. And then the second part. And then the rest of the first season. I was completely hooked. I found Canterlot via a youtube ad. I don’t normal click on the video ads, but I decided check it out because it looked interesting and I had never seen a MLP ad on there. A few days of frantic browsing and character brainstorming later, and here I am, writing this intro. Favourite pony? Hmm, that’s a tricky one. As much as it’s cliché to say this I like them all, I do. Fluttershy is so cute; Applejack and Dash are lean, mean feistyness machines, Big Mac has the best voice etc. If I absolutely had to pick a favourite, it would be Luna. Though that’s probably because I really like redeemed villains and I adore traitors. Anyway, hi guys (again)!