Pegasus Windwright [Ready]

[Windwright]

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria
Name: Windwright
Sex: Male*
Age: Stallion*
Species: Pegasus
Eye colour: Blue
Coat: Teal/Cyan with white markings blanched into it, see his summary. He tends to wear nothing, though when he's working he has a lab coat, a face mask, and goggles, and he owns a harness-style pair of flight goggles and bomber-style coat he uses when he needs to be out in severe weather.
Mane/Tail: Blue with navy lowlights, he keeps a swept-back, slightly feathered style to his mane, leaving it looking somewhat wind-tossed.
Physique:  Average build, a bit taller than usual
Residence: Rainbow Falls
Occupation: Self-styled chemist, he makes and distributes medicines and cosmetics. See follow-up post.
Cutie Mark: A 'tribal' stylised staff with a line winding around it and a pair of 'wings' at the head. The butt of the staff dips slightly lower than most cutie marks, but not so far as to be particularly outlandish.

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Cutie mark (warning, large)

He acquired this cutie mark rather later than his peers. He wasn't just the last in his class to have his mark, he was the last foal from among his siblings and cousins, and had actually entered high school before he found it. He had found an interesting looking flower beside the school's track, which he took to one of the teachers. In the process of trying to identify it, the pair discovered that it glowed when a unicorn's magic was applied to it. While the teacher thought nothing more of it, Windwright continued experimenting with the flower until he'd made a paste out of it, and like any colt who's read way too many comic books, he used it to paint a "cool" mask on one of his unicorn friends. This had three effects: first the paste dyed the friend's normally red coat orange in the affected area until it finally washed out; because the 'mask' touched his friend's horn, the stained area glowed like a torch for three days whenever the friend used any magic at all; and Windwright himself gained a cutie mark in the same style as the pattern he'd made, albeit with much finer lines.

 

History: 

Born to a pair of weather pony parents, Windwright was the first of three siblings. Due to genetic quirks in his family tree, he was the only pegasus of the three, and his parents tried to stress different aspects of weather work from a young age; Windy never really had a knack for these, however, and often spent long periods of time flying from place to place avoiding the lessons his parents tried to impart. Eventually they shrugged and moved on with life, but Windy found that he rather enjoyed flying and built up a rather impressive amount of stamina for his age. 

 

He retained this trait as he grew into an awkward foal, and for a time he thought about making a career of it if his cutie mark never manifested. His circle of friends was small but diverse, due in part to the fact that his sisters were a unicorn and an earth pony, and he therefore never really understood the cliques that often developed in other foals.

 

As he started his teenaged years, some of his peers began avoiding him for having a blank flank at such a late age, but his friends helped see him through. When he finally did earn his mark, the event was accompanied with relief more than excitement, even if it took him another few years to understand what the mark actually represented. 

 

Shortly after school, he did something incredibly reckless and somewhat foolhardy, flying alone from his home to Las Pegasus with nothing but his saddlebags of books and a vague idea of what he wanted. Once there, he started studying under unicorns and alchemists, trying to understand the science behind their magic. It was during this sojourn in the desert that he met and started exchanging letters with Storm Watcher, the stallion he would eventually come to marry.

 

Eventually Windy moved out from under the tutelage of other chemists and began developing his own brand of pharmaceuticals, with the backing of some rather generous investors who eventually took the business side of things over more or less completely. This left him free to pursue development of more products. The first of these, and the one that drew investors, was a mane-conditioner that eventually gave his cosmetic line its name 'Wind-Touched', which due to a combination of ingredients that reacts with a pony's innate magics gave its users a wind-tossed boost to their manes.

 

Around this time, he also started cultivating some of the harder to find herbs and flowers he used, and experimenting with new breeds of plants. A combination of the need to expand this space and being evicted from the home he shared with Stormy due to a work-related explosion (could have happened to anypony, I swear) led the couple to purchase a new home in Rainbow Falls, where they now reside.

 

Character Summary:

Windwright has two major states of mind. When he's working, he's usually extraordinarily focused, taking meticulous notes and exact measurements, with the end goal being reliable results that do the same thing to anypony using one of his products, every time they use them. His instruction guides tend to read more like engineering manuals than cookbooks, leading to passages that are difficult for lay-ponies to follow, but that nearly anyone with the technical know-how needed to create the products can use to get the right formula every time. This lends itself very well to other ponies being able to mass produce the things he makes. 

 

This same level of focus also applies to reading anything related to a project he's working on, which often leaves a haphazard pile of books from different cultures in his wake. To this end, he's learned how to read certain types of books in several foreign languages, and he can reliably translate Itailian, Prench, and Zebra texts dealing with plants, herbs, potions and the like. His penmareship could use some work, though, as the notes he accumulates during these binges are nigh incomprehensible to anypony else, and only barely to Windy himself.

 

When not working, though, he's actually quite laid-back. One of the results of his upbringing and the environment he grew up in is that he's very accepting of other ponies differences and foibles, and overall tends to be very forgiving and mellow. One of the odd habits he picked up during his time in Las Pegasus was testing some of his products on himself, since it was somewhat difficult to find other test subjects.

 

Notably, after developing the formula for his pelt-blanching agents, he's had Storm Watcher etch designs into his pelt about once a season, when the coat regrows. The pair tend to make very elaborate patterns that mimic or complement his cutie mark, most often on his neck, cheeks, chest, and shoulders. The dye doesn't take well to his feathers, though. Another is that since he, rather by accident, discovered the formula for a potion that temporarily swaps the imbiber's gender *he frequently spends several hours a week as a mare, for little to no reason at all. He doesn't market that potion because aside from altering the primary and secondary sexual characteristics its effects are rather unpredictable, but it is a formula he keeps a short stock of that he gives out on request to those who know about it. 

 

His relationship with Stormy brought some profound changes out in Windwright. For one thing, it expanded his social circles rapidly, as Storm Watcher was always an insatiable flirt, a habit Windy was more than happy to reciprocate and eventually emulate. For another, Stormy never held the stallion's eccentricities and focus against him, and was happy to leave Windy to his own devices while he pursued his own talents and jobs. In turn, Windwright opened up and started supporting not only Stormy's efforts, but those of their other friends and family members. It was from Storm Watcher that Windwright learned to forgive quickly. Both also serve as voices of reason to the other's pursuits, never afraid to point out problem areas in the other's work, or ask important questions. 

 

Stormy also helps out with some of the more tedious tasks that support the pair's pursuits, tending to trees in the orchard and herb patches in exchange for the use of one of the greenhouses (the largest, actually) and Windy's efforts in manipulating the weather systems therein from time to time. The two complement one another well, and often the toughest part of their marriage are the periods when their jobs keep them apart for one reason or another.

 

However, Windy does have his own flaws and quirks. He rarely interacts with most of his family, and takes great pains to keep them estranged. His playful teasing can be taken too far, and he rarely notices when it does until the damage has been done. He's quick to apologize, but very slow to express gratitude verbally. He can also be somewhat abrasive if he's in a poor mood, or trying to focus on something else. Additionally, when he is working on a project it's often very hard to get or hold his attention.

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Windwright on the right, Stormy on the left.

[Windwright]

THIS POST WILL BE A PERSONAL REFERENCE LIST OF STUFF WINDY HAS DEVELOPED, SUBJECT TO ADMIN/HELPSTAFF DISCRETION.

For ease of reference, I'll be splitting this theoretical list into three categories: cosmetics will include dyes, makeup, perfumes, and mane, tail, and coat care products for everyday use, and will be slightly on the pricey side; everyday pharmaceuticals will include any "over the counter" products, as well as things like sunscreen; medical grade products are things that are subsidized by the cosmetics, and are usually sold directly to hospitals, doctors, or pharmacies and then administered or dispensed to the pony who needs them.

[RainbowFoxxy]

Hi! I'll be able to help you out with this app to get it ready for SRPH approval.

 

You really have done some good work here and this character certainly is interesting!

 

I will send this up for SRPH approval.

 

Awesome character overall and also great artwork!!

[Blueblood]

 

Thank you for your patience