Earth Pony Starless Shroud [Ready]

[RarityDash]

Roleplay Type: Canterlot Chronicles

Name: Starless Shroud

Sex: female

Age: mare

Species: earth pony

Eye colour: very dark brown; left eyes is permanently damaged, she wears a black eyepatch over it.

Coat colour: An incredibly dark shade of violet

Mane/Tail/Markings colour & Style: medium blue in colour. Fairly short in length and unkempt. She always wears a hat of some variety (currently a gray, triangular pirate hat would be most common). Her tail is medium length and full, but also somewhat unkempt.

Physique: Somewhat tall for a mare, and in pretty good shape. Wears a worn out, gray overcoat at most times.

Residence: Born in Beakbreak City; now wanders, but has come to reside on the airship, Freedom Wing.

Occupation: Thief, drifter, con artist, and currently pirate.

Cutie Mark: a night sky without stars; more specifically, a rectangular patch of black containing a few wispy dark gray clouds and a bright half moon.

Following the incident at the Dragon's Peak mentioned bellow, Starless was filled with a want to prove herself and also make some bits. She marked a certain pony, an adult stallion, for a target and stalked him by night. When she didn't get caught, and in fact was able to pilfer his saddlebags without him even noticing her presence, the cutie mark appeared. It is a dark night sky, symbolizing her skill at masking her presence.

Unique Traits: Starless is a master thief who excels at effortlessly picking pockets. She picked up a number of other skills from her time as a thief as well, such as picking locks and easily finding places to hide. She can be silver-tongued when needed and has a respectable knowledge of gems and artifacts. She also has a fair knowledge of airships and can manage some minor repairs if the need arises. In terms of combat skill, she is most comfortable with small blades and keeps a total of three small knives in her coat and one in her hat. She is not, however a good shot with a gun and wouldn't know what to do with a full sized sword.

History: Starless lived most of her life in her birthplace of Beakbreak City. Her father was a criminal of some note named Slick Noir. He was captured by the REA after a certain botched heist and currently serves time in a prison in Stalliongrad. Starless and him never had much of a relationship, though in a way she respects him and what he's accomplished from afar. Her mother Nightmist was a lounge singer with a fair following, until her untimely passing when Starless was still a foal. Her lack of parental guidance enabled her to frequently get in trouble from her earliest days.

From the start she was a street smart filly with little respect for authority. As a young filly, her and a couple friends of similar disposition snuck off through the nearby mountains up to the Dragon's Peak, to play the ultimate game of chicken by harassing an adult dragon. The ponies were ultimately successful in getting the dragon's attention, and were forced to make a break for it as the fearsome creature chased after them. The dragon, who in all likelihood just aimed to scare the young ponies away, allowed their safe escape, but in the course of the chase starless tripped and an ember from one of the nearby lava pits got in her left eye, permanently damaging it.

This occurrence effected her greatly, but perhaps not in the way one might expect (aside from it directly giving her a persisting fear of dragons, who she associates with the incident). Rather than inspiring her to tame her wild ways, it served only to embolden her spirit by giving her a burning desire to become greater than that failure. To do this, she figured she had to make a name for herself, and to do that she needed to get rich. The easiest way for a pony of her disposition to do that was to take it for herself, so she became a thief.

Eventually she graduated from petty thievery to more elaborate tricks, and this brought with it heat from the authorities. She left Beakbreak and drifted for a while from city to city until she ended up in Stalliongrad. Here she came to the conclusion that the best way to escape the law was to take to the skies. She joined up with a crew of sky pirates, making a point of her tough and resilient attitude and the airship knowledge she had picked up hanging around the Beakbreak airship yards, she got a crew position as a deck hand onboard the Freedom Wing, under captain Gangplank, where she does her best to stand out as little as possible.

Character Summary: Starless is not a very kind pony, to put it bluntly. She has no qualms about breaking laws and she doesn't respect authority well. She judges others callously, lies constantly and keeps lots of secrets. She's also brash, cynical, impulsive, overly proud and quick to start arguments. She is furthermore something of a poor sport, she covets money and fame and is just generally kind of bitter.

Starless is a tough as nails mare who is nothing if not sure of herself and her talents. Quick thinking, quick acting and relatively fearless (unless beasts get involved), she can prove to be a valued ally when things get dicey. She has a decent level of control over her harder emotions, and is at least somewhat able to temper herself when she needs to or its to her advantage.

She's social, fairly well humored and enjoys having a good time. She also has a strange fixation/obsession with hats, something she has a large collection of and can get kind of weird about. On the odd occasion that a pony can manage to get through all the thick layers of cynicism, artificiality and aggression, they'll find a surprisingly firm friend.

Aside from her beloved hats she also loves listening to music, arguing (but only if she wins) and learning all she can about airships. Oh, and money. She's very much of the opinion that bits make the world go round and will do virtually anything, no matter how deceitful, if it means lining her pockets. She can't abide by fools, being forced to suck up to others and secrets being kept from her. Dragons are her greatest fear.

[QuickLime]

I approve of Gangplank being in this application

[GhostGirl]

I see no problems with this other than the fact that her Cutie Mark is listed twice. Shame, Raridash! Clean that up and I'll pass it on.

[RarityDash]

Hehe. I had to adapt the application from the old app format and missed that. Fixed now.

[SteelEagle]

Looks good! Get her into action. Arrrrr!