Unicorn Fuchsia Blooms - [Ready]

[PedestrianWolf]

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria

Name: Fuchsia Blooms

Sex: Female

Age: Mare

Species: Unicorn

Eye colour: Lime Green

Coat: Creamy White, with freckles on her nose

Mane/Tail: Wavy, not curly, hot pink with paler pink streaks

Physique: Fuchsia is average height for a mare her age. She is curvy, rather than slender.

Residence: Garden Gait

Occupation: She owns and operates a flower shop called The Green Hoof in Canterlot.

Cutie Mark: The story of Fuchsia Blooms' cutie mark begins with her mother. Ever since she was a small foal, she would follow her mother around as she puttered in the garden. Fuchsia loved to help water the plants, and pull up the weeds. Sometimes the particularly stubborn ones would send her flying rump over teakettle when they finally gave way.

For her birthday, her mother gave her a spot in the garden, and a packet of flower seeds. This patch was to be all hers to care for. She took to it with zeal. Fuchsia carefully planted the seeds, kept them watered and fertilized, and made sure they had enough sun. She mercilessly pulled any weeds that threatened her little seedlings. She watched them grow with pride.

One day she noticed the buds were just about to open. She watched with bated breath, as the first bloom slowly opened. It was like magic! Fuchsia ran with giddy excitement to the house, calling "Mama, Mama come see!" Her mother, who had been watching out the window the whole time, came out to the garden with a smile.

"Look Mama, look!" Fuchsia cried.

"I see," said her mother. "But haven't you noticed something else, dear?"

"No, Mama, what?" Fuchsia asked with confusion. Did her mother not see her flowers were blooming?

"Look at your flank, dearest."

Another flower had bloomed. A perfect pink five petaled blossom, with pale green leaves.

History: Fuchsia Blooms was born and raised in Canterlot. Her father, a distinguished looking unicorn named Fullerton, is a traveling salespony for Equus Libris, He travels all across Equestria selling almanacs and encyclopedias. Sometimes he also sells recipe books and collections of fables for foals. He always made sure to bring a little trinket home from each city or town he visited for his little girl. Her mother, a soft and gentle unicorn named Morning Glory, is a gardener, and keeps several plots and patches in the yard behind their modest home. She grows tomatoes, carrots, beans, broccoli, pumpkins, and radishes in the vegetable patch, and crocus, daffodils, tulips, iris, lilies, asters, gladiolas, and chrysanthemums in the flower beds. Not roses, though, she doesn't like their prickliness. (Aside to Bramble Rose - her great grandmare, Wisteria Lane, was a genteel earth pony from Manehattan)

As a foal, her mother would bring her out into the garden every day, and let her chase butterflies, watch the ants, or just nap in the sun. Soon, Fuchsia Blooms would start helping her mother with the gardening tasks. Morning Glory taught her daughter everything she knew about gardening and growing plants. She taught spells to keep the bugs off the leaves, and to prevent blight. She taught her how to test the soil, and make adjustments in the moisture and acidity levels. She taught the best times to plant, and when to harvest.

While all this was useful information, Fuchsia was far more interested in the flower beds than the vegetable patches. Carrots and tomatoes were okay, but she didn't care for radishes or pumpkin. And definitely not broccoli, yuk. But flowers, those were another story. They were bright and colourful. They drew bees and butterflies to the yard, and sometimes hummingbirds. Often they also drew neighboring ponies over for a visit, to enjoy the lovely blossoms in the spring and summertime.

School for Fuchsia Blooms was not terribly difficult. The worst part of the schoolday was being stuck inside when the weather was nice. She always preferred to be outside, and would often be caught staring out the window rather than paying attention to her lessons. When she would get home, she would always take her homework out to the yard and sit in the grass, or in the shed at the potting table. The smell of flowers and soil was comforting and helped her think.

When she became an adult, Fuchsia Blooms moved out of her parents home to a little house in nearby Garden Gait. She converted the back yard into a greenhouse, so she can grow flowers year round. She opened a flower shop in Canterlot called The Green Hoof, named in honor of her mother, where she sells bouquets, corsages, and other floral arrangements to the local ponies.

Character Summary: Fuchsia Blooms absolutely adores flowers. To her, flowers mean love. She enjoys growing them from tiny seeds to full grown plants. She likes to cross breed them for interesting and beautiful new varieties. She especially loves roses, lilies, and orchids.

Fuchsia Blooms runs a florist shop because she wants to share her love of flowers with everypony. She especially likes it when shy young colts and not so young stallions come in to her shop to buy flowers for their special somepony. She delights in being able to help them pick out the perfect gift, be it a full bouquet, or a single stem.

When you first enter The Green Hoof, Fuchsia Blooms will greet you from behind the counter, where she is most likely creating new floral arrangements, or checking on delivery orders. She wears a green apron with a five petaled flower embroidered on the front. If you seem uncertain about what you want, she will happily come out into the shop to show you the different blossoms she has, and ask questions in order to design for you the perfect bouquet. Before you leave, she will cast a spell on the flowers so they will stay fresh and fragrant for twice as long as they normally would. It's part of the service she offers, and doesn't cost any extra. Fuchsia Blooms does this because she wants the recipients of her flowers to get as much enjoyment out of them as possible.

The shop also has a resident hummingbird. His name is Flit, and he has his own perch and a little birdhouse in the rafters. He prefers to fly free among the flowers though, and sometimes takes a nap in Fuchsia Blooms mane, right behind her horn and between her ears.

When she's at home, Fuchsia Blooms likes to putter around in her greenhouse. The orchids and roses take a lot of work, especially when she is trying to create a new hybrid. Afterwards she will relax on her sofa with a book on botany, or the language of flowers. Sometimes she likes to read adventure stories set in wild untamed jungles, and dream about visiting such places. What beautiful flowers must grow there!

In the spring and summer, she invites a few of her neighbors over for garden parties, or attends their parties. She covets an invitation to the Grand Galloping Gala, so she can spend the evening happily wandering through the castle's gardens. And maybe, just maybe, meet another unicorn there who loves flowers and growing things as much as she does.

As much as she loves helping other ponies with their romances, from a corsage for a first date to bouquets for a wedding, Fuchsia Blooms really doesn't have any pony to call her own. She would like to find a nice stallion someday, but it seems every one she meets is already involved with somepony else. It doesn't worry her though, she is happy on her own for now. She has her neighbors for company, and Flit to amuse her in the shop.

When she isn't at the shop or in the greenhouse, Fuchsia Blooms loves to dance. She prefers more formal ballroom dancing, but an old fashioned country hoedown is great fun, too. Sometimes, when she's in a particularly good mood, she will hum quietly to herself and sashay around the shop, daydreaming of a dashing stallion with a rose caught between his teeth, who will sweep her off her hooves and lead her in a passionate Tango.

She likes bees and butterflies and ladybugs, but Fuchsia Blooms does not like spiders. Yes, they can be beneficial, eating other bugs that might nibble on her plants. But they're also kinda creepy. She won't kill them, though. She sweeps the corners regularly to remove cobwebs, and any spiders she finds get carefully shooed outside.

[PedestrianWolf]

I still need to write the story of her cutie mark, and her family history and character summary. I have ideas, but they need to be fleshed out some more.

EDIT #1 Cutie mark story finished.

EDIT #2 History story finished.

EDIT #3 Character summary finished.

Ready!

[starswirlthebearded]

Take your time! Just keep us updated on your progress!

I am already liking her design

[Bramble Rose]

Nice work on this app! I'm thrilled to see that you've included so many of the things we were talking about!

I also really think Flit is a great idea. Nice lil' pet. Great idea! The app is really solid - history, cutie mark story, meaning behind the cutie mark, all good.

Not required for approval: I would recommend adding one hobby, like, or dislike that doesn't involve flowers. Something to just flesh her out a little bit, give her a little more dimension. Dancing, or bowling, or museums, or home brewing, or something like that.

As a non-helpstaff comment: I would love to have a thread where Bramble meets Fuchsia, like making his first delivery to her flower shop. I think we could have fun!

[PedestrianWolf]

I'll flesh her out a little more. I just wanted to get her ready so I could start working on my other RP character, Snickerdoodle.

[Bramble Rose]

So I saw! just figured as you had it set to 'Ready', I'd set in my quick two cents.

[PedestrianWolf]

Okay, I've added a non-flower related hobby, dancing, and a dislike, spiders. I think more of her personality will reveal itself once I start roleplaying with her.

[Bramble Rose]

As usually does happen! This seems a really solid app, let me know when you feel it's finished and I'll begin the final approvals process.

[PedestrianWolf]

Unless there is anything else you think she needs, I believe this application is ready for final approval. Do I need to change the title?

[RarityDash]

Excellent, well detailed application! Very deserving of a stamp:

[PedestrianWolf]

SQUEEE!!! *happy dance*