Spinel Fix [FINAL]

[TwoBits]

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria

Name: Spinel Fix

Sex: Female

Age: Younger mare

Species: Crystal pony

Eye colour: Dusky emerald

Coat: Aquamarine; it goes without saying that she bears the translucent, crystalline coat effect typical to crystal ponies.

Mane/Tail: Gradient hues of cool, mellow grassy and emerald green; Done up into a careful, modest updo of meticulous curls, and bound with glossy bronze ribbons. The tail is likewise wrapped in more of the same ribbons, though allowed to hang down.

Physique: Petite, slender, fit

Residence: Crystal Empire

Occupation: Crystal Guard medic

Cutie Mark: A thin sprig of sage curled around an emerald heart

History: When Spinel Fix was born to a pair of doctors, it was expected that she would grow up to carry on the family practice, and for a while it certainly did seem that she would meet her fate as yet another nurse from the clinic in the residential district. Being a timid little filly, Spinel found it hard to be around other foals, and so she turned her efforts instead to learning as much as she could about the family trade, knowing this could help her to compensate for her social ineptitude and eager to please her mother and father by following in their hoofsteps. Naturally she developed quite an aptitude for the medical vocation, and the early arrival of her cutie mark made her one of the first ones in her class to reach this important milestone.

The cutie mark itself came about as a result of Spinel being assigned to help care for her first patient, a little colt who had been brought in after an unfortunate fall into a creek and was consequently running a high fever and coughing and wheezing. For a little bit, Spinel wasn't quite sure what to do with this colt--despite his obviously ill condition, it was still difficult to begin treating him as the hospital environment made him remarkably tense and resistant to all efforts to get a full measure of his affliction. After a few failed tries to coax him into cooperating the worried and flustered filly really felt that she could do no better than to go and fetch her more experienced parents for help--before leaving, however, she did brew up a quick tea with sage and honey for the patient, hoping that drinking it would at least bring him some brief comfort. A few minutes later Spinel and her mother returned to find the tea gone, and--much to Spinel's pleased surprise--the colt had not only begun to breathe a little more easily, but had calmed down remarkably and was even accommodating of further treatment. Spinel had not expected that such a simple gesture--a sage tea, of all things!--could do great things to help another pony, but it became apparent then that she'd made the right choice in using such a simple herb to soothe her frayed patient. She decided then that she wanted to learn more on how to connect to other ponies, and to help ensure that their recovery would be as smooth and calm as possible under her charge. And so, as the gentle and nurturing nature of her talent was determined, so too did her cutie mark begin to glow into existence--the representation of her budding affinity as a caretaker.

For a while, Spinel was perfectly content to work alongside her parents in the clinic. She loved the satisfaction and achievement of helping to comfort and bring good health back to ailing ponies, whether for ailments minor or serious, and in a way working with many patients actually helped the filly to become a bit more confident around others, and gave her the experience to become quite adept at calming down upset or frightened foals and older ponies. After a few years, though, as she grew older and took on more responsibilities in the ward, she began to feel inexplicably...restless. Yes, she was proud of her job, and she so dearly loved her family and the familiar little hospital she'd grown up with--but, she gradually realized, she was itching to do more. She desperately wanted to take her healing skills to the next level, beyond what she could expect to ever exercise as a mere family pediatrician. And so it came to be that one fateful day, she made the next step towards finding her true destiny.

Once she came of age and graduated from standard schooling, the typically reserved and gentle mare surprised her parents with the news that she had applied to the Crystal Guard as a unit nurse, submitting with her resume her lifetime of medical knowledge and practice; though surely she could have done just as well serving as a commonplace civilian doctor, Spinel just inexplicably -knew- that the Guard was where she needed to be, and where she had the most potential to grow both in vocation and in character. She saw the next number of years furthering her skills and learning the ropes of the Guard in academy, and once she graduated and was granted her desired position she went on to spend a great many more years dutifully tending her unit's Crystal soldiers and their wounds during their adventures, until the time came when King Sombra usurped the throne to the Empire and eventually caused it to plunge with him into darkness--and, like all the rest of the crystal ponies, a terrified and battered Spinel Fix fell into a seemingly interminable slumber, unaware of the passage of time throughout the rest of the world until waking up in a haze one thousand years later.

Spinel has since adjusted to the shock of returning free of Sombra's reign in a new time, if anything using the knowledge that she survived such an experience to bolster her own confidence and surety. In the current day she maintains a steadfast post and continues to brush up on her long-neglected skills, prepared for the day when her fellow Guardsponies will need her at their backs to keep them standing and capable.

Character Summary: Spinel was already a tentative, socially inhibited pony from the start; while her time serving with the Crystal Guard has certainly done its part in helping her to work around others, she is still a cautious and reserved mare who attempts to compensate for her interactive imperfections by throwing herself wholeheartedly into her work. Her general shyness and reluctance to speak too much may lead one to assume this pony a timid, impressionable waif--this is quite as far from the truth as one can get. Her hesitance in idle conversation does not make an appearance when she is on the job, mending wounds or prescribing medicines, and in fact her years of dealing with patients of many temperaments have formed her into a mare who can be quite formidable and stern (though not unkindly so) when circumstance requires. Overall, Spinel Fix is well-suited for the profession of healer and caretaker, dedicated to keeping ponies at ease and in good shape but also ready to bring somepony back down to earth when something unpleasant or frustrating needs to be done.

Since the Crystal Empire's revival, Spinel has begun to foster a growing curiosity of the lands beyond her home kingdom in concurrence with the recent influx of new ponies and trade systems. Presently speaking she would not think of simply leaving her post in the Crystal Guard, not when skills such as hers could end up being greatly needed in the future...and yet at the same time, she can't help but host a small, insistent feeling that she could help to do so much more good for ponies out there in the wide, unknown world beyond. At the very least, exploring and learning about new cultures, histories, and remedies could carry some extra benefit to be applied to her own healing techniques, much to the benefit of others. And so, even as she continues to work diligently away where she is called for at home, she continues to strive and learn as much as she can of the lands beyond the borders, so that she may be prepared should the opportunity ever come for her to set off into the world.

[Armony]

How is this application coming along?

[TwoBits]

Slowly, I'm afraid--I'm not quite happy with how I handled her history, but I haven't really had time or brainpower this past week to figure out how to fix it. Hopefully I can change that this weekend! ^^

[TwoBits]

Revised Spinel Fix's history! I really do feel so much better about this version, but by all means do let me know if it could use some changing or explanation.

[Bellosh]

Sorry for the long delay. This looks like a very good app, but you're missing a Cutie Mark story.

[Armony]

How is this application coming along?

[TwoBits]

Got kidnapped by personal life, sorry. I'll try and get that cutie mark story edited in tonight.

[Bellosh]

Read your edit, but just saying that your OC got her cutie mark early is not enough of a story to go along with it. You need to write about the specific circumstances that led to having that mark appear on her flank. Lemme' know when the addition has been made.

[Armony]

How is this application coming along?

[TwoBits]

Phew...finally got around to editing in her Cutie Mark story. I may come back at some later point to fine tune it and make it read more prettily, but this should hopefully suffice for now as an explanation.

[Bellosh]

Random note: for crystal ponies who were children +1,000 years ago, we don't mind if they start working far earlier than nowadays. Schools weren't compulsory back then as per modern norms, so it's always nice to see when crystal pony apps keep these things in mind. ^_^

[Armony]