Pegasus Fly Wheel [Finished]

[TheRedFox]

Roleplay Type: Mane RP

Name: Fly Wheel

Sex: Female

Age: Young Mare

Species: Pegasus

Eye Color: Baby Blue

Coat Color: Snow white, but usually stained with spots of grease and soot

Mane/Tail/Markings Color & Style: The mare’s tail and main are both windswept and unkempt, colored in electric blue, with a long black streak running through the middle.

Physique: The mare has the sleek, racing style physique of most of her species. However, she has a little bit of muscle mass, that has developed over years of mechanical work.

Cutie Mark: Her cutie mark is a gear, with two wrenches crossed below it (looking very similar to the pirate Jolly Rodger)

Origin/Residence: Was originally born in Cloudsdale, but moved to Breakbeak City with her family after Flight School. She now travels with the Freewing and her pirate crew; however still maintaining a residence in Cloudsdale for her downtime.

Occupation: Engineer and Mechanic aboard the Freewing

Motivation: Her motivation is to gain many riches, and keep the beautiful Freewing in the air no matter what weather she’s in, or how bad the battle was.

Likes: (optional) Fly Wheel enjoys tinkering with almost anything, especially steam engines. The mare also has an obsession with collecting odd trinkets in her travels.

Dislikes: (optional) Fly Wheel very much dislikes anypony messing with “her” engines, she has had way to many things get broken or messed up that way, and simply won’t allow it! She also dislikes anything with a mango taste.

Character Summary:

Personality:Fly wheel is a rather odd pony in her ways. She is almost always very laid back, except when it comes to her work, when there is an engine that needs fixed or anything else that needs done, the mare is very eccentric and devoted to her work. The mare also has a knack for oddity and randomness, most of which is harmless, but can be quite amusing at times. The mare also has times where she is very hard at hearing from the countless hours of working with loud steam engines.

History: Fly wheel, like many other Pegasi was born in the city of Cloudsdale as an only foal. Fly’s father worked at the weather factory, working on many of the engines and other devices used by the factory. During this time in Cloudsdale, Fly Wheel lived a normal life, attending school with the other pegasi her age, and going through flight school as just an average filly.

However; when her father was offered a job repairing steam engines at the airship harbor in BreakBeak City, her whole family packed up and moved. And while things went great for her family as a whole with the new job and new surroundings, things didn’t go as well for Fly Wheel. When the young filly tried to go back to school, she had a hard time making new friends, and fitting in with the mostly griffon population. This soon drove the filly to staying home, and working with her father in the shop, where she learned to love the family trade, until eventually she dropped out of school all together, and found her talent and cutie mark in the engine repair business, which also required her to learn to operate them.

Soon after, while on a trip to the junk yard to find a rare part for an engine, the Pegasus would meet a griffon around her own age named Grandya. Grandya’s father owned the junk yard the pegasus would often visit looking for parts. The two would quickly start talking and become friends, spending hours each day exploring the expansive junk yard, and having races to see who could find the parts they needed first. However; like all great things, this friendship had to come to an end. When Fly Wheel got older, she had to move back to Cloudsdale to find work with a company fixing steam engines all over Equestria.

This job started out as a dream for the young mare, allowing her to travel all over Equestria, doing all kinds of jobs, from fixing Airships in Canterlot, to working on factory equipment in Stalliongrad and Cloudsdale. Howere, this job quickly lost its glamour; the long hours, constant moving, and repetitive nature of the job made it very hard for her to make close friends, or any kind of real life for herself, and while the mare still holds her strong passion for the mechanics, she is looking for any other way to work with them, especially a way that will put some excitement in her life!

Cutie Mark Tale:After flight school, Fly Wheel was forced to move from her beloved Cloudsdale to the griffon city of BreakBeak. Once the young filly had settled into her new home, she tried to go on with her life, attending the local school like she had back in Cloudsdale. However; the filly was never really able to fit in with her new classmates, and had a lot of problems with being picked on and outcasted. The only thing that helped Fly Wheel through each day, was coming home to help work on the steam engines with her father. However; after only a month of the new school Fly couldn't take it anymore, and dropped out of the school.

Upset by the decision she was forced to make, Fly Wheel went for a walk through the town, wanting some time to think about what she would do now, and what she would tell her parents when she went home. As the young filly wandered, she made her way to the harbor in the city, where she would stumble upon a large group of stallions struggling with the steam engine on one of the airships. The young filly, knowing quite a bit about the engines stopped to watch the stallions for a bit. During her short time of observation, she overheard that they couldn't figure out what was wrong, and that they're shipment would be late if they didn't get the engine fixed by sundown.

This information was all the invitation the filly needed to get involved. After several minutes of coaxing, the filly convinced the stallions to give her a shot on the engine, where the mare dove right into the engine, and after several hours of hard, dirty work, the mare managed to unlock the engine and get it back up in running. The stallions were so impressed, they began to spread the word throughout the harbor as she worked, and soon attracted a crowd for the finale of the engine starting up.

This was enough of a feat to impress many of the captains and other mechanics that worked in the harbor, almost all of which wanted to come and talk to the little filly, and ask her questions about where she learned all of this. The filly spent the rest of the evening talking to the older ponies, and looking over problems on their ships, or any other type of mechanical thing they needed fixed. It was here that the filly finally felt at home, like she belonged, and with her head stuffed inside of a soot filled steam engine, getting her hooves dirty, that she finally earned her cutie mark!

At the end of the day, the filly would make the long walk home, no longer thinking about how terrible school was, or what she would tell her parents, but only of the new friends she had made, and of all the great engines and ships she got to work on that day! When she returned home, her parents (who were justifiably worried about her) gave the young mare a long lecture about staying out late, and running away from school...before they saw the new cutie mark. Now intrigued, the filly told her parents all about her day, and at the end, her father agreed to let her stay out of school, as long as she agreed to work with him full time.

The Freewing: The Freewing is an airship, built, and now owned by Gangplank (Owned by Quicklime). Originally built for the REA (Royal Equestrian Air Force) she was captained by her creator Gangplank until the day she was scheduled to be decommissioned. It was this day that Gangplank stole the Air Ship, and turned it from a ship of the REA, to a pirate vessel! The Freewing is now rebuilding its crew, to take to the skies of Equestria once again.

Pony Maker Code: 2X3N070010D6D6D6000000004013B89FEUN1G39000000000I10024C60000001C107F3FCC004CB2

[Xiee]

I approve of her relationship to my OC Grandya!

[Mojo]

I must say that I am very impressed with this app, RedFox!

LOVE the name! Very MLP appropriate!

LOVED the additional personality section, it's important to know how a char interacts/reacts with others.

Xiee, thanks for posting your approval of Fly Wheel's relationship with Grandya!

Very well written app!

There are two minor suggestions I have that will help enhance this app even further:

First, could you provide a little bit more detail about the Freewing? Those who are not familiar with Breakbeak City (such as myself) may be unfamiliar with the craft. Just adding a general description of the Freewing somewhere in the app would be very helpful

Secondly, could you please expand a little bit on Fly Wheel's cutie mark story? Often a detailed cutie mark story can give readers of an app an even better idea of what the character's all about.

As I said, overall, this is a GREAT app!

Also, don't forget to put the "Final" label on this app when it is 100% ready to be evaluated for approval.

[SunsetSombra]

Yup, seems like a worthwhile addition to the RP, and a valuable asset to that little ragtag group of adorably plucky pony pirates...!

Stampeth'd for great justice.