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[Deer] Chotchkie

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[ Creature Related Character ]

Name: Chotchkie *

Sex: Female

Age: No longer a fawn, but not quite an adult: just old enough to live on her own

Species:deer

Eye colour: Chocolate Brown with amber flecks

Physique & colours: Tiny, and will remain tiny (she is similar in size to a Leaf Muntjac , but definitely pudgy in the midsection from all the sweets, both pilfered and freely given. She has an ordinary russet brown coat with a creamy underbelly, and a little tuft of darker hair on top of her head, sometimes tied with a bow when she can find someone to tie it for her.

Residence: Whitetail Woods, towards the Solstice Heights Foothills border

Occupation: She doesn't need a job. She lives in the woods, and supplements her diet with food she gets from the well-meaning ponies in the nearby loosely-organized "villages" dotting the foothills around Canterlot. Unless being completely adorable is an occupation. Then sign her up! She also helps in woodland cleanup activities (Winter Wrap Up, Running of the Leaves, etc) when she feels like it. Mostly she just gets in the way.

LikesCUPCAKES, marshmallows, pie, attention, candy, ice cream, adoration, donuts

Dislikesthis nasty "woods food" that Trillium and the other ponies keep trying to make her eat, being alone, big cities (but she adores little villages full of cottages... and sweets), having responsibility foisted on her.

Character Summary: Chotchkie was found in the woods, alone by Trillium when she was just a tiny little fawn, injured and barely alive. The kind hearted pony and her small community took the little creature in and nursed her back to health. She was, and still is such a tiny cute little thing that they named her after the knick-knacks that littered the shelves in their cottages (which, being so close to the Whitetail Woods, many of those figurines were of deer), and doted upon her with attention and food. A side-effect of this is that she doesn't exhibit as many typical deer traits as she should at her age, and was almost unable to acclimate to living in the woods (indeed many of the ponies of the Solstice Heights Foothills woke up to find Chotchkie crashed out and drooling on their lawn furniture or raiding their gardens and flower beds during those first few months where Trillium tried to get the little deer to live in her natural habitat).

Chotchkie loves being the center of attention, since she basically was for as long as she can remember in her short life, so she's spoiled and slightly entitled. She is also EXTREMELY nosy. The ponies joke that her name should be "Whatcha Doin'?" since it's what they hear her say most often. She has a lot to learn in life: how to really take care of herself, what her motivation is, what she special talents she might have. She is eager to learn when she is interested, and as Trillium would put it "Smart as a Whip!"

Her pony friends have requested that she start a search for her real parents, or at least other deer, so they can teach her the ropes. They love the little brat, but realize that coddling her as a fawn wasn't in Chotchkie's best interest, so they worry about what will become of her without their protection. Sometimes in the youngster's mind this morphs into "the ponies don't love me anymore", and she throws little hissy fits and resorts to ruining their flowers (she can be slightly destructive and vindictive), but then other times she understands that she is not a pony and needs to live they way she was meant to. When it's convenient for her.

She is on the cusp of having more empathy for other creatures, but is still primarily self-centered, so the timing of the search for others of her kind has come at a bad time for her, emotionally. She is kind of afraid to meet other deer, though, because she knows that most of the ones who she may meet will be older, wiser and see her as a complete baby.

Notes:

* I know the more common spelling of this is tchotchke. But chotchkie was chosen because of Office Space.

** Note on Personality. If Chotchkie had been raised by another pony, say, a bandit pony, she would likely be a tiny little criminal, and be a little too good at it

CHOTCHKIE CAME DOWN WITH PERYTON POX AND LOST HER USELESS WINGS!

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