Tripp Hardy (Ready)

[TwoBits]

Because I totally need yet another character, amirite? And it just so happened that it was high time to add a foal to my character logs.

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Roleplay Type: World of Equestria

Name: Tripp Hardy (more commonly answers to Tripp, Tripps, Trippers, or Hardy)

Sex: Female

Age: Young Filly

Species: Earth Pony

Eye colour: Royal Blue (#2B60D3)

Coat: Dusty brick red (#C11B17); short and soft, prone to cowlicks and fluffy bits poking up (especially around the shoulders and a spot on her rump just above her tail)

Mane/Tail: White with caramel orange streaks (#F87217); layered to above the shoulders and pulled back into two low-hanging tails either side of her neck, very fuzzy and prone to flyaway. Her tail is just as puffy, hangs down to just around her knees, and is similiarly tied at the end in an attempt to keep it tamed.

Physique: Smaller than average, yet very nimble and quick; is actually soft and round enough to be considered EXTREMELY plush and cuddly-looking, but detests being reminded of this trait. As is typical for earth ponies of her age, Tripp is fairly strong and durable, though with her excess of gusto and enthusiasm she can quickly burn through those stamina reserves if she exerts herself too much at something.

Residence: Baltimare

Occupation: Student

Cutie Mark: -blank flank-

History: Tripp lives with her parents Berry Sunrise and Ocean Walker in the residential districts of Baltimare; her mother, Berry, is a full-time waitress and bartender at one of the restaurants dotting the Boardtrot, and her father, Walker, mans the docks and handles incoming cargo. As loving as they both are, this arrangement does mean that Tripp is left to her own devices a great deal of the time until one or both of them come home, which honestly probably only gives her more chances to get into trouble. Her parents have tentatively considered giving Tripp her own key so she can let herself into the house after school, if not for the fact that she'd likely manage to drop or forget the key somewhere. Hence, she ends up spending a LOT of time either wandering around town or at a friend's house until Berry or Walker can come to pick her up, and has ended up becoming fairly well recognized among a good number of the locals for one reason or another (usually for the shenanigans linked to her presence.)

Character Summary: When a foal looks so fluffy and cute, one would likely expect them to have an equally sweet and mild personality to match. Such is...not the case with Tripp Hardy. She can sure pour on the charm when she feels motivated, but for the most part she is rash, hot-headed, and more than a little smart-mouthed--speaking before thinking, leaping into action without properly thinking through a plan, and then using sharp retorts and deflection to save face when her hastily cobbled plans blow up in her face. Tripp is a filly focused on accomplishing two things with her life--to have the best time ever, and to do so in an especially, epically AWESOME way. What "awesome" means in this case, she couldn't actually put into specific words, but who cares? She's bound to become awesome sooner or later if she just keeps doing things that sound and look brave, cool, or remarkable at the time, right?

Of course, the fact that she doesn't really stop to think these things through means the results tend to end up less awesome and more....well--anticlimactic at best, and downright disastrous at worst. It probably doesn't help matters that she reacts to being called out for her recklessness by getting defensive and doing her best to out-argue or out-namecall the other pony or ponies doing the calling out. Nor does Tripp seem to absorb scolding or lectures--she'll sulk and behave for a short while just to get the lecturer off her back, and then a day or two later will go right back to doing her own thing again, seemingly ignorant of the lessons or failures of the last time.

For all that, though, there's not much evidence to suggest that Tripp is WILLFULLY bad or a troublemaker. For what it's worth, she is quick to fiercely defend the few ponies she regards as "okay" enough to call her friends, and she...tries, at least, to do well at schoolwork. She actually does have a strong idea of where the moral line lays between "sort of good-ish" and "plain old bad and awful", and strives to always stay on the side of right (discounting the occasional unforeseen consequence of doing something half-baked, of course). Heck, she can even dial down the sass for a bit and be genuinely nice and helpful if she feels remorseful enough or is genuinely concerned for a pony. She's just remarkably lacking in inhibition and a filter between her brain and her mouth.

Tripp has a surprising knack for impromptu writing projects. She may not seem like a filly who'd have the patience to sit down long enough to organize and write something, but if she's writing freeform about something she knows then she can actually turn out some pretty well-written and entertaining pieces. When asked about it, she'll indifferently brush it off as any possible hint of her future cutie mark's shape, claiming she only does it because she likes to write about herself and the way she sees things. Why would she want her cutie mark to be something like a journalist's or bookwriter's, after all? That's not NEARLY as awesome as she's surely bound to end up becoming. (Pointing out that she couldn't have any way of predicting the future like this usually just causes her to shrug, grunt, and go off to do something else.)

Tripp has an immense liking for spicy foods, despite the likelihood that she'll bite off more than she can chew and end up tearing around in a frantic search for water or milk to ease the stinging. Even if they do make her mouth burn something awful, she loves the tough "grown up" feeling she gets from being able to chow down on spicy stuff. In this vein, hot cinnamon candies are currently up there at the top as her favorite sweet treat, tied right alongside saltwater taffy.

Despite living next to both a harbor and a river delta, Tripp has never yet learned to swim. Her dad promises that he'll teach her someday soon when he has the time, but...well, so far free time has been scarce for him, and her mother isn't exactly the best of swimmers either. Tripp can sort of do a clumsy Diamond-Dog-Paddle to move herself around in the water if she's wearing her floaties (the only way she'll be allowed around bodies of water), but she hates the floaties for making her look like a baby and will mostly choose to stay away from water rather than willingly subject to those Celestia-awful things.

[TwoBits]

Think I've managed to get History shaped up decently. I also expanded a bit on the character section to add a few extra tidbits.

In any case, ready for review!

[Mojo]

Hi there!

Looking over this app, it's great! All of the required fields are filled and it's very well written!

Well done! Recommending this app for further SRPH review!

[SteelEagle]