Arylett

I just started out too and got accepted. This seems like a good place for me to introduce my character, Artsy. I don't see her as the antagonist type as she wouldn't really commit any pranks, but perhaps somepony else could wheel her into their schemes as a sort of unwilling assistant or "minion" or something. She's not really all that aggressive, so it'd work and it'd give the pranker somebody to interact with. So yeah, I'm interested!

Thank you. :3 Ah, the reason I didn't go into further detail about her family, her friends, her relationships... is because I didn't want to go overboard. I wanted to keep things a certain length so as not to overwhelm people. I already have a lot of detail. And apparently, from what I've seen in the rules here, they don't like too much elaboration on romance. So I don't want to try to step on anyone's toes. However, a lot of the friendships and such didn't work out merely due to conflicting personalities. Arguments, and the like, befriending rather aggressive ponies in contrast to her normally non-aggressive behavior, and her moodiness overall causing her to sometimes snap at inappropriate times, or sometimes just smile at the wrong times. Others couldn't keep up with her and just found her too confusing and erratic to be friends with. She just couldn't maintain them. I'll try to put some of that in there. As for the mood swings, it's really due to her family. It could be explained more from her parents in general behavior, who herself suffered from a few mood swings. From seeing these mood swings and inheriting them, it kind of amplified her behavior. So I guess there's that about her family, they're kind of moody themselves. They tend to add a bit erratic and odd. I suppose that'd tie into expanding their roles too and simultaneously explain that. Thanks for the suggestions though! I'm glad you like it, and I'll make sure to edit it a teensy bit more to add those details. Don't want to go too long. (Also, it's madame, heh.)

I only got a shiny new digital camera which I'm pretty sure was just a pity gift from my parents that my mother was originally going to own. (Not sure what to do with it because I'm not much of a photographer. @_@) They couldn't get me much of anything because they just didn't have any money this year. Of course, I'm going to get a belated new computer in February when they save up the funds. So there's crossing my fingers for that... this thing's kind of falling apart. Nothing pony, no. I don't really own a single bit of pony merchandise except one McDonalds toy. I also didn't give out any gifts, because well, I don't have money or really any friends to give gifts to. Nor do I have the time to draw out what I believe would be an adequate gift.

I did a 99% run on Final Fantasy IX, beating all of the sidequests... including the first super boss I've ever beaten, Ozma. I've beaten him twice. It's really one of my proudest accomplishments because on the first time, I got lucky TWO TIMES. My party died twice and Eiko's Phoenix came to revive them for me. In case you aren't aware, that is INCREDIBLY rare. I had insane luck on my side. Oh and also, I beat Sephiroth in the original Kingdom Hearts. Dear lord, was that DIFFICULT. The second and currently only other super boss I've beaten. Did a 100% on that game. It took me a million tries, but I finally wiped my forehead in relief when I finished it. I was at around level 90, equipped with an Ultima Weapon, and I beat him on Expert Mode. Even someone I know who is a gaming expert that likes to challenge himself could not beat him. :3

The first game I've played was probably Super Mario World for the SNES. On console, I mean. I can't really remember too far back, but it seems to be the one that pops up in my mind the most. So yeah, my first console with a Super Nintendo. Not as classic as some, but oh well.

Most of the soundtracks from the Final Fantasy series. In particular, anything by Nobuo Uematsu. My favorites include Final Fantasy IX, VIII, X, and XIII in the soundtrack line up. I sometimes hear the music in my mind for fitting situations from the games. For instance, it's sort of cold right now. And in my mind, I've started hearing an icy theme from Final Fantasy VII.

Airlift it. Do you know the muffin man?

Thanks! I think I've shown off all my recent work worth showing though. I wasn't implying that in any form. I was merely stating that it is not a vector in addition to not being traced despite similarity to show poses. But thank you. :3

Klawpz! You finally post. Good boy! :3 Just remember to tune out the lies about any other hat being superior to a fedora. Because that is clearly not the case. Your hat is the only holy hat to exist.

Hay. I have paws too and I still can brohoof. :3 Welcome! I'm also a furry. Later on, I might even be changing my avatar to my fursona. (Which I find more important than my current avatar - my ponysona) But yours looks pretty cute. I like the book and the bandana there. I've been here probably as long as you, so I can't really give you the ins and outs of this place. It seems pretty cool thus far though. I hope you enjoy yourself!

This sums up my thoughts perfectly. I feel that Season 3 has been a significant downgrade from Season 2. (Though Season 2 IS when it all started. The Last Roundup fiasco and Rainbow Dash constantly being put in sunglasses for no reason) All of the pandering is just so obvious, so hamfisted. And people can wonder - why is this a bad thing? Because when you try to pander to an audience, make an active effort (especially an audience a show was not made for), it detracts significantly usually from the work rather than just doing your own thing and continuing to allow it to be good in its own context. It's like they're shoving it in the faces of bronies for them to eat out of a plate. "Look what we did! Now love us!" Knowing this honestly makes me feel a little disgusted and disappointed with the crew. Can't they have the confidence that their show CAN be good enough without needlessly pandering to a periphery demographic that it's not even made for? An occasional reference or shout out for them is okay. But the levels the show has been getting lately... all I can say is at least the latest episode was centered around Applejack. It didn't have much pandering in it at least. I feel pandering to bronies too detracts from it being a show for little girls. And the only one, at that, that's actually any good for them. A show made for females is now trying to pander to a base of males. As a female myself, that makes me a little upset. There aren't enough good shows for us out there. It almost feels like the bronies stole the show away from little girls. Honestly? The demographic of teenage males and older is quite lucrative. It's often what most marketers try to pander to. You guys have enough good shows and choices for you. Little girls do not. It's just sort of disappointing. If you like the show for what it is anyway and accept that your demographic is not the primary one, you don't need to be pandered to.

...Short to the West? Do you understand that question before mine or is it just me?

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria Name: Artsy Dreamscapes Sex: Female Age: Mare (Young Adult) Species: Unicorn Eye Colour: Brown. Coat: A mild tan. She wears crimson glasses and a golden necklace with a small ruby on it around her neck for accessories. Mane/Tail: Long, curly and sort of wavy dark brown with a single red curled streak going through it. She wears a large red flower in her mane. Physique: Shorter than average and a bit more chubby. But it's more subtle. She is very physically weak and not athletic in the slightest, exhausting easily from even the slightest physical task. As such, most of her strength is focused in her magic. Residence: Trottingham Occupation: Artist. She sells her abstract art paintings for other ponies in her gallery, and occasionally does artistic performances. Cutie Mark: It is an odd crimson abstract symbol created by Artsy herself in her drawings representing her creativity. It also symbolizes imagination and her pension for abstract (and also various other types of) art. The symbol also resembles the flower she uses to create the paint that puts her art on paper, except tilted in a different direction and two of them attached together. (The resemblance is better seen when Artsy is facing the front rather than the side, as the flower in the reference above is seen from a different angle) Artsy had also spent most of her time as a filly fantasizing about what her cutie mark would be, and drawing various versions of it. However, for most of her life, she had trouble with basic telekinesis and rather raw uncontrollable magic, thus causing her to repress and restrain it out of embarrassment One day, however, after a long day of work and throwing out old ideas about possible cutie marks, the unicorn was tired and decided to take a walk to clear her exhausted brain. On her way through the the streets of Trottingham, she found a single glimmering red flower upon the ground. It was looking at this flower's overall shape that the unicorn was struck with a stroke of inspiration. The inspiration and urge was so great, that she simply had to draw it down on paper. But before she could, her repressed magic suddenly burst forth from her horn, creating a light show of glorious abstract shapes and illusions from her fantasies. Including... an abstract symbol that had been floating around unconsciously in her mind. This odd abstract symbol, unlike anything anypony had seen before, was the pinnacle of her creativity. She immediately trotted to her home, with flower in hoof, and drew the shape down on paper. Before she knew it, the shape had appeared on her flank... and now she had a cutie mark. As she grew older, because of her previous containing of her magic, it took her concentrated effort and training to eventually control her magic. She became a very skilled unicorn using her determination, specializing in art-related telekinesis (lifting a pencil or a paintbrush, for instance), and intangible artistic light illusions of many mostly abstract vague shapes and dreamscapes that bedazzle and amaze. (They can never be anything too well-formed, such as another pony. The more well-formed they are, the less she can create. She could only at most create a silhouette of another pony or of various settings) Yet she still had trouble with non art-related telekinesis, and is currently extremely sloppy with using it for anything else. As well, she never fully recovered from her magic containment, and cannot really do much of anything else magic-wise. Her magic mainly pertains to anything involving creativity. But she is still skilled within the limited fields she can utilize. Currently, she is able to use these spells to create spectacular displays and works of art, and uses the same type of glowing magical flower she found on that very day to make a paint that allows her light illusions to tangibly actually be put on a canvas. She first focuses all of her creative thoughts carefully, then casts her Dreamscape (the light show spell) to allow the thoughts to take form. Afterwards, she will take the multiple amounts of paint she created by grinding her stock of flowers and toss it at the lights. The paint sticks onto the lights and take on their shape, glowing. Then she uses her magic to shrink or skew the shapes as needed and puts it upon paper or canvas. This is how she creates many of her commissed paintings and how she will conduct a performance in her gallery. Though she is also capable of drawing normally, but only does this for more detailed images that she cannot create light illusions with. Due to her unique way of creating art, her normal art does not get as much attention and thus does not earn her as many bits, which is why she mainly does art in this manner. To this day, the very same flower she found when she received her cutie mark is the one she wears in her mane. (The flower in her mane lost its glow long ago.) History: Born in the luxurious Trottingham to an earth pony and a unicorn, Artsy was a young filly who had experienced many issues with her magic. Her parents merely allowed this problem to festoon, assuming that she would grow out of it and learn to control her powers. This was due to her mother mostly being the most active in her upbringing and as an earth pony, there was simply nothing she knew about teaching a unicorn how to use magic. The two, though well, meaning, were quite erratic in their personalities and had a tendency to have various mood swings, jumping from one conclusion to the next in a second. Her mother was especially rather worrisome, being paranoid and extremely protective of her daughter. Something which Artsy herself inherited and learned from. The earth pony mother's constant reminder of her magic problem only made matters worse. As she entered magic kindergarten it became more apparent that this issue would not go away. As previously mentioned, she restrained her magic out of embarrassment Though Artsy was a very bright student, showing intelligence and obedience to her teachers, her refusal to perform magic along with her strangely secretive behavior had her flunked and friendless. Her parents enrolled her into a more regular, diverse school that included the other types of ponies, and though she excelled here with her intelligence and good manners, the memory of her failure remained... It was such feelings of inadequacy and loneliness that caused a lot of her emotional issues. But there was a bright side to be had for this poor pony. She was one of the first in her class to gain her cutie mark. For you see, Artsy had spent most of her time alone creating art, realms, stories, all sorts of odd ideas. She was often consumed in her work, and became one of the first in her class to realize her special talent and gain her cutie mark. Other ponies were amazed and impressed, garnering her more positive attention amongst her peers, and causing her to regain a little more confidence. With this small bit of confidence, she was inspired to finally once and for all learn how to use her magic properly. As previously mentioned, she trained long and hard with intense determination until she finally grew into her own. Artsy gained and lost many friends along the way, and managed to blossom to a more confident pony, though still with past issues. She also found love - twice - but those as well were as fleeting as the friends she lost. Constant arguments and hostility proved to be the end of her relationships and friendships, and still haunt her to this day. Part of it was due to conflicting personalities - she had a tendency to befriend the more brash and aggressive who didn't appear to understand her sensitive and artistic nature. Not to say that they were bad ponies. It was simply that she and those ponies were not compatible as friends. The other part was merely her erratic mood swings learned and inherited from her parents. These inappropriate reactions confused and in some cases alienated the few she had managed to befriend. As a result, she was made well-aware of how fragile friendship is. Her special form of creating art, meanwhile, attracted the attentions of several Trottingham tourists. Using some bits she earned from a few street performances and commissions, she rented her own space for a small gallery. Currently, she shows off at the gallery, immersing herself in her work. At the moment, she doesn't really have any close friends and keeps a distance from other ponies due to her general timidity at befriending ponies and fear of rejection from past experiences. Instead, she purchased a small black cat named Apple (after her favorite fruit, the apple) as her pet to keep her company as she works. One day though, she hopes to find true friends who will stay with her no matter what. Character Summary: A pony that is rather anxious, timid, neurotic, and naive, Artsy tends to keep to herself. Eccentric and very emotional once you get to know her, with some wild mood swings at times. She displays a fiercely passionate temper and attitude for things that she is driven to do, such as those who she cares for. Her determination and patience almost seem limitless, as she is not the type who typically gives up. When working on a project she cares about, she puts all of her heart and soul into it with such intensity that it can be declared somewhat insane. Yet in her mood swings, she does have a tendency to become rather gloomy and moody. At times, she can become depressive and negative if she succumbs to them. As well, if her patience is tested to its limits (which is definitely very possible), her rather explosive temper will come forth and prove that Tartarus hath no fury. But it is only rarely that she expresses the anger within her. Due to her moody nature, it is very difficult to make her truly feel happiness even if she tries to put on a brave face. This is something that she searches for constantly and only feels when she has true friends and love. Her overall timidity and fear of rejection makes it difficult for her to befriend others. But deep down to the core, Artsy is a very lonely pony who wants to make friends more than anything in the world. When she finds close friends to truly love, she will be absolutely loyal to them no matter what. In the eccentric vein, Artsy has a tendency to make up odd random nicknames/words for those she knows more. When she has bursts of energy, she can be very over the top and often ramble about odd stories she has made up. Her mind is always brimming with some sort of odd creative thought that she at times cannot control and has the impulse to unleash. She has an odd sense of fashion and enjoys wearing clothes and accessories at all times to being completely nude like most ponies. It causes many ponies to regard her as a unique and rather odd personality, yet also unforgettable. As well, she's kind of ditzy, having a tendency to misinterpret less obvious jokes/sarcasm. She's typically honest and sincere in her interactions, yet not blunt. And keeps her truer feelings to herself. She won't lie, but she won't exactly say the whole truth either. However, it's typically easy to tell when she's keeping something. Her expressions and body language are extremely expressive to the point where she can't really control themselves. And as a result, her emotions are always obvious in some way. She finds herself more at ease in the presence of domestic animals rather than other ponies, and as a result has a tendency to dote on whatever pets she obtains, showering them in ridiculous affection. Some other of her glaring flaws include extremely low confidence and lack of social graces.

It varies per year. Most of the time, I feel the holidays to be an enjoyable experience. However, there are certain years... such as 2009. And this year, yes. I can safely say that no, I do not feel holidayish at all. I received one gift - a camera - out of pity and consolation from my parents due to... a certain incident that ruined pretty much everything. It's less merry and more gloomy for me these days.