Earth Pony Harlequin Salad [Ready]

[RarityDash]

Thanks to Rosewind for inspiring this one.

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria

Name: Harlequin Salad

Sex: female

Age: young mare

Species: earth pony

Eye colour: hazel

Coat: Her coat is tan with scattered dark brown splotches of varying size.

Mane/Tail: Her mane is a very vivid hot pink in colour. It's styled in a mess of unkempt mid length curls sticking out all over the place.

Physique: She is fairly average in size. Maybe slightly taller and thinner than other mares her age.

Residence: Manehattan

Occupation: Waitress. Aspiring chef.

Cutie Mark: Harlequin Salad's cutie mark is a bowl of colourful mixed fruits. It represents her ability to prepare things that are colourful and nice to look at.

She found her cutie mark as a young, bright eyed foal one day while trying to do something special for her father who she was very close with and loved dearly. She decided to try cooking for him as she had always loved eating the food he made for her. She was sure that with enough love and effort she could produce something he would absolutely adore.

So Harlequin gathered up a variety of fruits, vegetables, mayonnaise and an assortment of spices and tried to put together the best fruit salad she could, as it was a dish her father had always enjoyed. In the end, she had prepared something she was very proud of. The colours were so bright and vivid, and it had an enchanting smell. She thought the taste was very unique and fun too.

She surprised her father with the salad and he was clearly blown away by the act of kindness. More over he was stunned by how good what his daughter had prepared looked. He ruffled the filly's mop of pink curls and told her he was proud. Harlequin was so very touched and inspired that her cutie mark appeared then and there, along with her lifelong dream of making food that would make others happy.

The fact that her father was violently ill after actually eating the salad somehow didn't connect with her.

History: Harlequin Salad was born into an ordinary life in a quiet Fillydelphia suburb. Her parents, father Merrymaker and mother Victory Garden, made a decent life for her and her sister as a children's book author and garden supply store clerk respectively. Her foalhood was pleasant, comfortable and relatively uneventful. Perhaps that is what lead Harlequin, always a wide eyed dreamer, to aspire for greatness.

From very early on, she decided she would find that greatness by becoming a world famous celebrity chef. She was determined to reinvent cuisine In Equestria, become a top selling cookbook author, open a world famous restaurant and become showered with praise and adoration by countless ponies from every corner of Equestria. it was her one dream, and a young Harlequin determined to make it her one reality.

There was just on stumbling block in the way, albeit a rather big one: Harlequin Salad is not a good chef. Her food while often colourful and eye catching, more often than not, due to bizarre flavour choices, is best described as disgusting. Becoming a celebrated chef has become an increasingly distant dream, as finding just one pony who enjoys her food has thus far proven to be an impossible task.

To pursue her dreams, when she became a mare, Harlequin moved to the big city of Manehattan, intent on attending a respected culinary school. This came to an end when, after a few months something she prepared made one of her professors violently ill. Undeterred, Harlequin took a job as a waitress at a fancy restaurant in town, hoping that being around fine foods will help her better understand how to make them. All the while she continues to read cookbooks and practice her chosen craft.

Character Summary: Harlequin is a cheerful, upbeat mare. She is not the sort to ever get beat down, even by her perpetual and often egregious failings. She sees every stumble as something to overcome and is almost reckless in her ability to keep going even as life slaps her in the face. She just keeps on her winning smile and always does her best.

This can also be a bit of a flaw. Harlequin is best described as being quite stubborn in her pursuits, even in the face of negative talent. She has a rather bizarre sense of taste and seems to fundamentally not understand how flavours work. She just has no talent for pleasing taste buds often to the point of comedy. Most ponies who know her, recognize she has no chance of becoming a chef, though so far none has been able to convince her of this.

Harlequin is a very fun loving, social mare. She enjoys hanging around with friends, and listening to music. She is perhaps not the smartest mare and can get confused or a bit spacey at times, but is usually pretty good at at least bluffing that she knows what others are talking about. She is generally easy to get along with--provided she doesn't try and feed you too often. She is generally very outgoing.

She can get a bit obsessive at times, especially about her passions, but is more generally an easygoing pony. She is quick to crack a joke, sometimes at her own expense. She is quite committed to her waitress job and tries to do her very best at it, seeing it as a valuable opportunity to further her pursuits. While some might say she doesn't know when to take things seriously, she tries her best to put serious effort into everything she does.

[QuickLime]

Have you considered Crossovers?

[Rosewind]

[RarityDash]

I love you guys too.

[Corsair]

Who is this Phil guy? What the hay is a 'Time Wizard' anyway? I say we just reject this and... wait, we can't just reject it? Darn. Oh well, here goes:

Seriously though, good app, and interesting, funny character. Only one minor detail, it's it's mostly word confusion: "This came to and when, after a few months something she prepared made one of her professors violently ill." This sentence seems a bit confusing the way it is written. I understand what you meant, but it could be clarified with something like "A few months after she was accepted, something she prepared..."

Just fix that and we can delete... I mean approve this app.

[RarityDash]

Somehow "an end" became simply "and". I think lack of spacing and lazy auto correcting was likely involved.

Anyway, it's fixed now.

[SunsetSombra]

....Ugh....I guess I'll just have to stamp it, eh?

I've heard of tossing the salad, but this is ridiculous!

[Rosewind]

Guess I'll file this application...under awesome! (Earth Pony)