Name: Glesga Ferm Gender: Male Age: 25-30 Species: Earth Pony Looks: Built like any strong, tough farmer would be. Tall, light brown coat with a dark musky brown mane with even darker streaks running through it. His mane is short and unkempt and his tail is similar just of an average length. His general appearance is rugged and stressed from years of rough work. Two ring piercings in his left ear and one bar throw his right eyebrow. He sports a worn white, but dirt stained pinstripe shirt. On top of this he has a rather generic brown waistcoat complete with pocket watch and tie. Hanging from his neck is a chain with large circular charm resembling a windmill tucked in behind the waistcoat. Kept firmly in his waistcoat pocket is a set of spectacles complete with all the additional sights and customizations ranging from help for acquiring targets at a distance to seeing through clouds. A bandolier complete with pouches and two holsters hangs tightly around his body and allows for him to store both a pistol, rifle and assortment of tools and ammunition. Clipped onto his ear is an extending monocular that falls into place in front of his right eye and is fully compatible with his glasses. A strange strip of leather wraps around the sleeve of his left foreleg and also has an adjacent charm to remind him of his old life. Personality: Strong silent type. Not by choice but more so by nature. He never spoke much whilst working the fields or shipyards. He's confident in his skills but not in his personality though he won't back down from arguing a point. He's opinionated and strong, though you couldn't tell from his quiet exterior. Family values are extremely important to him and the same is said for matters involving friends. More often that not he is polite and to the point, but when pushed too far or faced with something that annoys him deeply he becomes a lot more erratic and is prone to making rash decisions in these lapses of a stable mindset. Cutie Mark: Ferm's Cutie-mark is a circular cross hair with a bird in mid flight in the center of the circle. This relates back to his foal-hood and more specifically his first kill out hunting with his parents. Although the animal is a bird the actual kill much to the recipients of this stories amusements was a winged boar from one of the islands near his home. Random Fact: He has an almost intimate knowledge of most ship types from his long days in the ship breaking yards, with the proper appliance of skills he could pose as a valuable engineer. He's also a crack shot having trained with air cannons to clear clouds and rifles to hunt back on the farm. He's a **** fine cook but he won't admit it. Your Ship: The Languid Sophisticate, a small airship staffed by four ponies. This small brass reinforced wooden ship is built around a large metal helium tank. The ship features a flight deck at the top of the tank, while storage and everything else run around the top half of it. Four propellers sit at the back of the airship, two flanking the balloon on each side. The flight deck features four large bore clockwork cannons with speed loaders and full mobility. When manned they can fire in a full 360 degree area, allowing for exceptional coverage and increased accuracy. It also features two large high-pressure steam guns that fire burning hot gases at short range, making them devastating in boarding actions for both attack and defense. The ship is largely automated, with sails, anchor, and propellers all mechanized to be manipulated from the helm where the Captain can normally be found. The cannons are also able to be fired from the helm, but aiming must be done manually. As long as the mechanisms are intact, the cannons will automatically reload. The main features of the ship are the armory, doctor’s office and workshop, as well as each pony having their own living quarters as well as the captain’s own rather lavish one. The lowest deck of the ship is entirely devoted to storage. He is most likely found in the armory polishing and cleaning weapons and or maintaining cannons. Inside his cabin is a mess of wires, metal, s**** and various other useless materials, though on a table under a bright light is a green potted plant thriving in this strange environment. Rank: Chief Gunnery Officer and the ships cook. Weapons/Fighting style: Whilst Ferm is a fairly good shot with a basic pistol he carries, his pride is his custom made weapon created from scavenged parts of zeppelins, airships and other craft. The rifle is long and made of mostly golden material with wooden inlays and vanishings. Near the butt of the rifle is a holder on either side for various types of ammuntion which can be loaded into the revolver mechanisim closer to the centre of the rifle. Each barrel of the cylinder will pop out and be loaded with a round rather than the full cylinder being removed. As the rifle expels a round steam shouts out both vertically and diagonally downwards from ports along the barrel to help with recoil reduction. The rifle has a scope that when several buttons similar to that found on a saxophone are pressed various different zooms will align closer the users eye. Though he boasts a practiced aim he isn't afraid to fight with his hooves, a knife or anything nearby. Lifelong dream or general goal: Whilst he misses his past life in the ship breaking yards or on the fields, he now finds himself searching for a higher calling. Farm work was becoming easier as the steam modernization flew in and forced those not needed to step back and find work elsewhere and that led to him joining the ship breaking yards. He feels that the land was taken from him and now as he finds himself soaring through the clouds he feels safe in the idea that the sky can't be taken from him. The sky is his new home and he plans to make the best of it. History: He grew up on the sky islands of Glascow a few miles off from Beakbreak. Glascow was prime farm land albeit high in the sky suspended by ballons and tethered to the ground. Noone was quite sure what the purpose of islands were but they have been their for almost forever. Empty up until recently, well empty all except from the strange winged wildlife on the islands. Cows, sheep, pigs, all with wings. He spent his younger years performing small tasks that eventually started to pile up and form large labourious tasks ranging from a whole day of ploughing fields to blasting away clouds with the air cannons present on their peasus-less corner of Glascow. A favorite past time of his was heading out into the fire fields (fields of plants that looked like wheat but with a strange firey essence to the tips that extinguised when uprooted) to hunt the rare and strange animals of the island. Later in his life he was forced to take off and leave the farm in the capeable hands of his family, now equipped with more advanced farming technology, to pursue a career elsewhere in the skies. This was shortlived though as he soon found himself grounded in Beakbreak surrounded by airships and ballons as he fixed battle scars and storm wounds. In Beackbreak he learned a vast amount of information regarding sky pirates and the ships they sailed in and this started to really pique is his interest. Slowly as he masted the forgery and various other works available he found himself asking around the docks to see if any crews were taking on new recruits. At the start of this endeavour though he faced little success with most crews stating they had no need for an overworked ex farmhand with a good eye. Although having been raised in the clouds he wasn't sky material, but this only fueled his new passion. Taking matters into his own hooves he started work on building his own ship though even with his skills passed on from the local Beakbreak workers he was incapable of doing so. Ferm s****ped the idea and started on a new path. His new plan was to secure his place on a crew by using the talent he now neglected the most. His natural aim and skills with weapons. He took to the steam works and started crafting firearms for the local crews at discount prices and slightly more expensive prices for the visitors from afar. One day he found himself met by the crew of the The Languid Sophisticate, a strange bunch of ponies to find in the sky, or so he thought. He wasn't sure what it was but the idea of serving aboard a ship with only 3 crew members seemed fascinating and exciting to him and naturaly he jumped at the chance. His wares were layed out for prices starting at almost nothing and reaching not far above that. Essentially he bought his way onto the ship but as time passed he no longer feels guilty for doing such a thing. Sometimes Ferm finds himself out on deck priming and checking the cannons he is reminded of the farm and the work he put into all of his endeavours there. Good honest work, and it was hard to, kept him fit, something that was hard to find in most jobs. These thoughts don't last long though and as soon as cannons start firing and cries of battle ring out he feels right at home soaring high and far above his real home.