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[ Pony Related Character ]

Name: Cloudburst

Sex:Male

Age:Young Stallion

Species: Pegasus

Pelt Color:Lemon yellow

Mane/Tail Color & Style: Short, chopped shades of green, with a blue streak

Eye Color: brilliant blue

Cutie Mark: blue raindrops in a pattern forming a larger raindrop.

Physique: rangy and thin

Residence: a cloud above Appleoosa

Occupation: freelance rainmaker

Motivation: laziness, a quick bit here and there, to get out of being a full weather pony, which is (sadly for him) where his talents lay. He'll eventually grow up and realize his parents were right, and that he IS a brilliant weather pegasus.

Likes:making money, napping, basking in the sun, being an eternal child, carrot cake, "the fillies"

Dislikes:work, people making decisions for him, feeling obligated to do things, being a responsible adult

Character Summary:

When Cloudburst was a foal, everyone said he had heaps of potential as a weather pony. He has no great and profound cutie mark story, he just was always groomed to be on a weather team. It came as little or no surprise to anypony that his cutie mark appeared while he was taking his required Junior Weather team test, which he aced. He did his best to try to please his parents and to live up to their expectations, but as he got older he got sulky, blaming them for outlining his entire life without considering his feelings.

He struck out on his own, determined to make his way in the world, without an actual plan on how to accomplish anything, just the incredible sense of world weariness and presumed "having it all figured out" that tends to come with late adolescence in many ponies AND people.

He flew to all the corners of Equestria, doing odd jobs for ponies without wings, until one day he flew just a little too close to Talonopolis. He mouthed off to and was attacked by a young griffin and just barely made it out of there alive. Missing several important pin feathers he flew on, but finally collapsed on the outskirts of Appleoosa. Some kind farm ponies nursed Cloudburst back to health with their scant rations during the longest, hottest drought anyone could remember. Once his wings were back in action he repaid the favor by helping the family and the town by whipping up some clouds from the Neighples Marsh and slowly guided them towards the parched town and surrounding farm plots regularly for several weeks in a row.

Cloudburst's parents had always told him it was a Pegasus' duty to bring rain to any ponies of Equestria who needed it, and to not expect payment. However the practical and stubborn ponies of Appleoosa insist that a day's work always equals a day's pay , threw their bits at him and wouldn't take no for an answer. He took this as an opportunity to only do work when he wanted to, or needed money, so he decided to stay in Appleoosa. He formed a cozy cloud for himself just above the rooftops of the town, and if you throw a few bits up to him, you get rain. 2 bits an acre. He's quite an expert at making sure that enough water is used, and any leftover water is recycled back into his cloud, not out of any great concern for the environment, but rather so he doesn't have to exert himself to get more. And when the cloud needs recharging, he just heads to the marsh. So he is, in effect a weather Pegasus because it's what he knows, but he feels a little bit better knowing it's on his terms.

Cloudburst is a bit of a rogue and a scoundrel, but he has a heart and puts up a great front. He feels a little guilty, sometimes, taking the money off the folks of Appleoosa, especially the poor and nice ones (the jerks, he really doesn't have a problem taking money from them, and bandits... he will in fact extort even more money from bandits). For the nice folks who can't actually afford his services he will contrive a way, unless he is starving that week, to return the money to them. Generally he buries it in their garden for them to discover the next time they are weeding. Of course the kind farm ponies who helped him when he was injured never even have to ask. Their farm has been very prosperous ever since, and they only suspect that Cloudburst waters their crops at night since the ground is always wet in the mornings, but haven't caught him in the act. But the carrot cake and apple pie they leave out on their roof is always mysteriously gone as well. He loves attention, but doesn't want people to begin to rely on him to do good deeds, because then they would EXPECT things of him. He's a bit sulky and stand-offish, except when he is around older fillies and younger mares, when he magically transforms into his impression of a debonair cosmopolitan heartbreaker, which almost NEVER impresses the ladies. Cloudburst's mouth also has a tendency to write checks his flanks can't cash, especially towards stallions smuch bigger than him (and even moreso when a lady is involved). Lucky for him he's a Pegasus in a town of mostly earth ponies, so he can just high-tail it to a cloud until tempers blow over. He doesn't have many hobbies, but then again he is a very young stallion who hasn't quite figured out who he is. He's also quite a bit entitled, and really needs to learn that the world doesn't revolve around him or his problems. Perhaps this will come with age.

Every once in a great while, when he is feeling appropriately grateful for living among such a great town of ponies who put up with him (some, younger colts, even respecting him, most thinking he's a lazy jerk who should do more of a part in the community, though), he'll scatter his cloud for a little while and create a rainbow over the town. At least until he needs to coalesce his cloud back together so he can take a nap.

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This looks good. Is it still WIP? It can't be approved with that tag on it.

Also, do the raindrops on his Cutie Mark look kind of like a flower petal pattern?

Yep!

And he is still WIP. I had another idea for him a few days ago while I was driving (he and Trillium were both inspired by a lengthy drive, at the same time), and I am trying to get it back into my head. it just keeps slipping away. So, if I can't figure it out by Wednesday, I'll call him complete :)

As for his cutie mark, sort of. Working on that as well. I'm leaning towards more of a large raindrop formed by smaller ones.

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