Pegasus Shadow Dive

[Aeiou_77]

Name: Shadow Dive

Gender: Female

Age: Older Filly/ Young Mare: 19-ish

Species: Pegasus

Pelt Color: Dark Grey, almost Black

Mane/Tail Color & Style: Her mane is scruffy and long in the back, with the same case on her tail, both are a dark shade of midnight blue.

Eye Color: Sky Blue

Cutie Mark: A long black arrow pointing downward with multiple, alternating, dark blue and black shock-waves emanating from the shaft.

Physique: Average height, Shadow has a relatively athletic build, though her legs aren't as far along as her back and wings. She is quite agile and aerodynamic.

Residence: Cloudsdale

Occupation: Night Shift Weather Control Assistant

Motivation: Frequently feeling isolated due to her dark color, she assumes that everyone associates her with the night, darkness and the unknown. She wants, fervently to make friends, but often slinks away, especailly from her fellow pegasi, despite her flying affinity and her uncanny ability (special talent) to keep a level head when hurtling toward the ground at extreme speeds. Wonderbolts membership is one of her hopes, but not necessarily her main focus.

Likes: Night-flights, where her black flight-trail is less noticeable, Nighttime in general, Diving/Flying, Friends, Ponies who would look past her differences and/or embrace them, The Moon, Princess Luna

Dislikes: Being arbitrarily stuck together with things like the Shadowbolts and Nightmare Moon, Being criticized, Gossip, Griffins to a mild degree

Character Summary: Born to a family of dark-colored pegasi, Shadow had felt normal until her first day at Flight Academy. She performed very well until a group of griffins began teasing her for her dark colors, allusioning it to being evil with names such as Shadow Death, Shadow Dark and Devil Dive. Hurt by their words, she stopped trying to excel and just tried to get through as under-the-radar as possible to avoid being criticized more. She avoided flying during the midday hours like a plague, but in the night, she would practice, becoming progressively a more affluent flyer. She graduated with no particular honors, and as the night came and her peers went their own ways, she took to the sky and flew as high as she could. When she could barely breathe, she turned back to the earth and dove at the ground miles below her, willing herself to push past the mean remarks of the griffins and the others she had assumed shared their feelings about her. She burst through the sound barrier in a deafening crack, but instead of the brilliant rainbow wave created by one of her peers, a stark black wave tore out from where she had achieved the speed.

She told no one of the event, as it had scared her more than make her feel achieved, as the event had caused her cutie mark, a black arrow with black and blue shock-waves eminating from it, to appear. A special talent that resulted in such an unnatural occurrence left her with a low opinion of herself, and she signed up to be on the night-shift weather patrol to avoid potentially prying eyes. She has began to feel lonely and has been shifting her schedule to include daytime hours as well, hoping to make friends, but she remains unsure of whether or not other ponies will accept her. After being alone for a while, her personality has roughened. She doesn't take kindly to criticism.

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