RarityDash

Welcome! Hope you enjoy it here.

Heh. I had always wondered if there were any ranks beyond Brony. Doesn't seem like there is anyone with over 1000 posts around who isn't staff. That's cool to know.

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We probably all have a couple ponies we don't connect with as much. For me it's Pinkie and Fluttershy.

I personally think Twilight's delightful personality is integral in making the show work.

Cool. I don't know how it compares to RPs on other sites, but I think the RP here is pretty fun.

Oh cool. Don't know much about it, but space stuff if kind of cool. And she's probably just my fourth favorite, but I love Twilight.

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Welcome to Canterlot! Hope you like it here.

I'd want to live in Princess Celestia's home.

But if you mean just from the mane six, I'd say my favorite is probably Applejack's. Sweet Apple Acres just has a particularly eye catching design in my opinion.

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Because I don't think I can ever have enough ponies, here's my fourth application:

Name: Midnight Brand (shortens to Midnight. Wind Chaser called her simply Night.)

Post colour: CCFF33

Sex: female

Age: middle-aged Mare (40-45 equivalent)

Species: Earth pony

Pelt colour: very dark green

Mane/Tail/Markings colour & Style: bright yellow. Mane is somewhat long and kind of wavy and combed over her left eye. Tail is long and full.

Eye colour: reddish brown

Cutie Mark: A long sword at an angle, with a thick black shadow surrounding it.

Physique: Very fit and a little taller than average. Looks many years younger than she is.

Origin: Born in Solstice heights. Now resides in an isolated home within the Roughrider Ridge.

Roleplay Type: Mane RP

Occupation: former soldier of the Royal Equestrian Army. Now a single mother living as a recluse in the Roughrider ridge, taking odd jobs for money when she needs it.

Motivation: Be there to provide for and protect her daughter, Hopesong.

Likes: Hopesong, snow, clouds, plants, tranquility

Dislikes: hurting others, being away from her daughter, monsters, sweets.

Character Summary: Ever since she was a foal, Midnight had been different from most ponies. She would never smile. Her expression remained cold and hate filled. Her parents, simple ponyfolk in charge of a small plot of land at the edge of Solstice Heights hadn't a clue what to do with their somber and sometimes cruel daughter. Things hardly got better as the young Midnight aged.

It was one day when she was a filly that her life started to take focus. A roving manticore, not fully mature, but full of rage, wandered onto the family land and started wreaking havoc. Midnight, with just her strength, anger and a sharpened kitchen knife, frightened the beast into a hasty retreat. In the process, her cutie mark was earned: a sword surrounded by a dark shadow. Midnight's parents took this as a sign of where their daughter was headed and had Midnight volunteer for the Royal Equestrian Army when she was of the right age. Midnight passed through training with incredible ease and was soon a full fledged soldier.

So began a distinguished career of service, keeping Equestria safe from those who would mean it harm. Her toughness and ferocity was hardly matched, as was her prowess in battle, and she did a good job of following orders to the letter. The higher ups noticed, and soon she was on the way up.

After years of serving, now an adult mare, Midnight had achieved the rank of Lieutenant and was leading her own platoon of ponies. Among the soldiers under her command was a pegasus scout named Wind Chaser, a good natured stallion from Ponyville a few years Midnight's junior who claimed to fall in love with the hardened battle mare at first sight and tried to win her over. Midnight thought him an undisciplined simpleton and would reprimand him constantly and often quite cruelly, thinking his behavior completely inappropriate. Chaser had boundless persistence though, as well as a knack for romantic words... and a certain loneliness had long been growing inside Midnight, as much as she would deny it. She gave in to her persistent subordinate for one night and one night only.

Only just days later Midnight's platoon was deployed to subdue a ferocious hydra which was terroizing a small pony settlement. The beast was fully grown and more cunning than an average hydra, but Midnight's crew were tough and ready for action. Soon both they and the hydra were weakened. A couple of her ponies were wounded pretty badly, but the hydra looked nearly ready to fall. Wind Chaser suggested they pull back and regroup with another platoon just to be safe. Midnight wouldn't hear of it. She charged the beast herself, intent to bring it down with all her might. She found what would be a critical blow, but it wasn't quite enough. The hydra snapped at her and there wasn't any time to get away.

Wind Chaser threw himself between Midnight and several sets of sharp hungry jaws. The rest of her platoon soon had the hydra defeated, but it was too late to save the pegasus. Midnight blamed herself for the loss, which had her shaken and completely devastated. Though Chaser was ultimately the only casualty of the day, she decided she was unfit to serve Equestria any longer. She retired from service immediately. Very soon after she realized she was with child.

Midnight, wanting to distance herself from hermilitary life and live in solitude, settled in a desolate corner of the Roughrider Ridge where she gave birth to a pegasus foal she named Hopesong. She came to devote her life to tending to this foal who she had limitless love for. All the anger and sadism of her youth was gone completely as she watched her young foal play.

Midnight, as raising Hopesong, now a filly, takes money, will on occasion go into town to find work doing whatever she can. Her only real skills are in fighting, and though doing so now pains her, she will take on violent work if it pays well. She'll do anything to ensure that her daughter has the brightest, most peaceful future possible.

Midnight as she is now, is somber and taciturn, yet kind. She only really gets worked up over her daughter, of whom se has limitless pride. She enjoys tranquil things and being amongst nature. She is ashamed of the old her, and will often wear clothing to conceal the shadowed sword on her flank. She is extremely quiet about her past when talking to Hopesong, as she is terrified of her kind and gentle daughter hating her for it.

Though she is a changed pony, some traits have remained in Midnight. She is courageous and headstrong. She has the strategic mind of a trained soldier and a great deal of persistence. What she fears above all else is losing anything else important to her; anyone foolish enough to endanger the things she loves, and especially Hopesong, will be promptly greeted with a return of the old Midnight Brand.

Midnight misses a lot when it comes to her daughter. She means entirely well and feels its her duty to work hard to provide for Hopesong, but she's never had a normal family life. She didn't really have a strong connection or respect for her parents, and is really kind of misguided raising a filly by herself, having no real guide to go by. In Midnight's head, the proper way to best provide for her daughter is to get her material things, and though she does really value the time spent with the filly above all else, she's willing to sacrifice it to get such things. Hopesong has had to learn to be a fairly mature filly, able to provide for herself when her mother is away for long stretches of time. She is a kind of lonely filly without many pony friends (she might have a pet or two though), and while she does lack a formal education, her mother did teach her to read and often brings her books which she learns from.

Hopesong's profile

Art of Midnight with her daughter Hopesong, courtesy of the incredibly talented Buxy.

And here's a solo pic from the awesome NemesisPon3:

Hi! Welcome to Canterlot. I hope you have fun here!

I am totally not surprised that Winter Wrap Up is running away with this like it is...

I've been to a pretty large number of rock concerts myself. Mostly just seen a bunch of older rock stars (I like some newer music too, just when I'm going to concerts I'm usually tagging along with my dad; I don't have any money for things like concerts on my own). I've seen Bob Dylan (with John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson), Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Tom Petty (with ZZ Top), John Fogerty, Meat Loaf, George Thorogood, Steve Miller (with Joe Cocker), Neil Young and Weird Al (who I've seen three times...).

Concerts are almost always a fun time.

Good to see a Twilight fan. She's awesome and doesn't seem to have quite as many fans as some ponies.

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Welcome to Canterlot! Enjoy your time here.

Welcome to Canterlot!

Welcome to the forum!

I voted Art of the Dress. I probably prefer Winter Wrap Up by a hair actually, as that song is pretty near perfect. I just really, really appreciate Art of the Dress for being as epic as songs like Winter Wrap Up and At the Gala and with mostly just Rarity singing. Really, this song singlehandedly made me love Rarity. Winter Wrap Up might be catchier and more fun, but it didn't change my opinions about the characters singing the song in any greater way. Basically, while I'd say Winter Wrap Up is a technically better song, Art of the Dress means more to me, which is why it gets my vote.

And that's not mentioning that Rainbow Dash's coolest line ever is in the middle of the song.

Oh yes. The wait for my first character to be approved was kind of hard to take. It wasn't nearly as bad with the ones after that though.

I can't think of too much like that, at least not that I've come across. Just make sure you've read the stuff in the Getting Started section and you should pretty much be set.

I'm still fairly new as well, so I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think there really is much of an overall plot to the RPs here. For me so far, it's pretty much just having my characters interact with others people's characters without much of any greater plot going on around them. It's been really pretty easy to just jump into things without having to really study older RP threads.

Welcome to the forum! Hope you enjoy your stay.

The reason you can't post is that there's a rule here that you have to post five time in the introductions section before you can post anywhere else.

Aww. Spirit looks great. Thanks.