Here is my app: [colour=#222222]Shadow Flare.[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Age: 19[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Coat: Mid-Night Black.[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Eyes: His eyes are an amber colour, and seem to glow at night.[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Mane: His mane is usually scruffy and extremly untidy, a mixture of red and black. It is usually on the left side of his face, covering his eye.[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Tail: HIs tail is just a bit shorter than averge, but is actually kept in cood condition. His tail, unlike his mane, is firey-red. [/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Cutie Mark: A red shield that has 2 lightning bolts hitting the middle at the same time.[/colour] [colour=#222222]He got his mark when he was a young foal. He was playing with Ember, his twin sister when a storm blew in fron the Everfree forest. Shadow saw how the cloud was charged, and ran to protect his sister. He dived forwards and slammed her out of the way, only for a bolt of lightning to hit him instead. He hit the ground, his sister under him. She was panicing, but Shadow finally got her to her hooves and they started galloping, Shadow limping and trailing his Pegasus sister. [/colour] [colour=#222222]Again, he could 'feel' how another bolt of lightning was about to his Ember, and again, he dived into her. This time, he could feel the burning on his fur, his body slowly burning. He awoke in a hospital several days later.[/colour] [colour=#222222]Ember was fine, he had acted as her shield from the lightning. That's when he saw he was no longer a black-flank[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Background:[/colour] [colour=#222222]Shadow had a happy childhood, apart from nearly dying when he got his cutie mark. With his family, they lived in Canterlot with a very well-off life style. Shadow had nearly everything he would ever need, expect a mare friend maybe, but one day, a mare friend became the last of his concerns.[/colour] [colour=#222222]When he was only 15, he came home onto to see the front door open. He thought his parents had done it, but that idea vanished when he was his mum and dad lying dead on the floor of their living room, covered in their own blood. His next actions were in vain and frantic, searching for his sister.[/colour] [colour=#222222]It was weeks before the police gave up, not a single lead was there, nothing. Shadow's already dangerious mental conditon fell even further into dismay. Shadow, after a year of moaring the lose of this family, joined the royal guard. Working his way in, his eyes set upon getting revenge. He proved to be unchallengable when it came to ariel recon and scouting, never seen, never found.[/colour] [colour=#222222]He was assigned as the person bodyguard of the royal family, the princess. Luna.[/colour] [colour=#222222]Luna took a shining to Shadow, and after only a month of knowing each other, Luna knew more about Shadow than anypony had been bothering to look. (Not sexual, if that's where your mind headed)[/colour] [colour=#222222]His missions are usually a success because he never leaves a pony behind, no matter what[/colour] [colour=#222222] [/colour] [colour=#222222]Mindset: He is fighting for equality, and for his sister who he hopes to find one day. He is extremely loyal to those who stand by him and will speak his mind, this can cause many problems.[/colour]