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Name: Bevel "Widget" Gear

 

Sex: Female

 

Age: Mare

 

species: Unicorn

 

Eye color: pale yellow

 

Coat: Mocha brown

 

Mane/tail: Dark, dusty brown. Both her mane and tail are usually in a frizzled mess. Usually wears her mane in tightly wound dreadlocks.

 

Physique: Above average height though not by a terribly noticeable amount. Has the build of mare who works out regularly and eats healthily.

 

Residence: Widget rarely stays in one place for long, at least in a geographic sense. She usually returns to Talonopolis to present and help the silverbeaks with the various projects she works on, but afterwards she tends to leave shortly after and take off on her own personal airship which is large enough to function as her own personal home and workshop for whatever contraption she works on

 

Occupation: Engineer, inventor, traveling 'Gadgeteer', and magi-tech specialist.

 

Cutie mark: A Cog gear with an infinity symbol over it.

 

After the young filly had moved in with the Silverbeaks, one of her favorite pastimes was watching the engineers and builders at the airship yard making new vessels and improving old ones. She spent many an afternoon watching those ships being built up until they were skyworthy.

 

One day one of the engineers who had worked there took notice of the little filly watching them and asked if she'd like a look at the room where they designed and modified the ships. She gladly accepted and followed the griffin to the workshop. The first thing she noticed were two griffin engineers who were talking about their latest design for a ship. The two were so wrapped up in their conversation they failed to notice the filly who was now inspecting the plans.

 

The young Widget cleared her throat to get their attention and then pointed out a very serious problem with the engine. After going over the plans again, the engineers realized the filly was right! After a good deal of talk the two engineers thanked the little filly and placed a pair of goggles on her head as a gift. Not long afterwards she realized that her mark had appeared!

 

Unique Traits: 

Magitech genius: While not innately strong in traditional magic as other ponies, Bevel has studied and implemented many magical theories and ideas into her design to the point she can more or less replicate even very high tier spells that few ponies know so long as she is able to learn how it works and has the appropriate parts to make it. So far her talents in magitech engineering leans heavily toward the spatial spells but she has learned a great deal of other spells she's managed to recreate through the use of her tech with the occasional odd side effect. Give her enough time and enough motivation She's shown to be able to produce almost anything and improves on her designs regularly.

 

Knowledge sponge: Bevel's mind is almost absurdly sharp and able to soak information faster than most can even without magical aide. While she often may appear to be skimming a book and just flipping the pages she is actually capable of absorbing and processing the information quicker than most normal ponies could. 

 

Magical knowledge and skill: Through her years at the school for talented unicorns, Bevel has learned and learned a great deal of spells and knows how to cast them... thanks to her own moderate magical pool she's rather limited in what high energy spells and intense magic she can use without exhausting herself. In order to combat this she's focused on fine tuning very basic spells to be more effective than most unicorns tend to when they find their calling. Despite her relative weakness in magical performance she has proved herself to a capable and crafty mage if she must be forced to use raw magic. Where her magic truly shines are in the devices she builds, her abilities often proving a match for many of the best magitech minds in Equestria or Aquellia and she is always looking for ways to improve it.

 

Mechanical knowledge: Bevel has often come across strange devices in her travels made by others and seems to have a strange instinctual intuition on how something works. Regardless of it's age she tends to be able to figure out relatively how it could be made to work again if possible.

 

History:

 

Bevel Widget was born to a stallion named Mandelbrot and Remontoire. One of them was a rather controversial magical scholar pegasus who couldn't use magic himself, wrote many detailed papers and theories about the subject that are still read today in some circles of darker magics, Her mother remontoire was a former thief from prance who after being caught, turned a new leave and began to work as a toymaker and a regular magitech engineer who often worked for the Silverbeaks in Talonopolis, having become very close friends with the griffin family. Her life with her parents was a decently happy, if a tad quirky one. Even since she was small she seemed to boast an incredible intellect and capacity for knowledge and learning that somewhat alienated her from others, usually she kept to herself or her close friend and Cousin; Voronoi Fractal. Despite her social shortcomings many described her as excitable, extremely giggly,  eager to learn, and occasionally easily distracted with the newest strange spell or gizmo.

 

Things had made a very drastic change after her mother passed away in an accident while working on a ship in the yard when she was a filly and her father just seemed to disappear into thin air when working on a magical experiment. As a favor to their friends, a member of the Silverbeak family asked the filly if she'd like to live with them; a notion that Widget approved of. Not long after, the filly moved in with the Silverbeaks. The griffins of the family were quite kind to her, if a bit snarky and mostly focused on work; a trait that Widget seemed to take into her own personality. Seeing as how much she stuck in the private schools she was sent to she was occasionally given trouble by the griffin children... but despite she occasionally found some decent ones despite her growing lack of smiles.

 

After she got her cutie mark, Bevel decided to apply for the school for talented unicorns in Canterlot to see if she could learn more about and incorporate the knowledge of magic into her passion. Widget's time in the school had proved to be useful as she seemed to absorb and ace classes fairly effortlessly. In that time there she proved to be a very driven student but seemingly not understanding some the equestrian philosophy after the time she had spent among griffins had rubbed off on her. Her relationships among her classmates were perhaps below average, usually not bothering with any gatherings and associating with them only when assignments called for it and returning to her own room shortly after. Bevel spent more than a few years in the school, learnign a great deal about many spells and how they were performed. Upon graduation she had made great strides in a few forms of magic but mostly in regards to spatial magic and various aetherology theories and formulas afterwards she took back to Talonopolis.

 

Upon returning to the family she had begun to work for them as an engineer and inventor. Putting her talents to good use she made a multitude and impressive inventions and Airship designs, earning herself quite a bit of coin. Eventually, the mare made enough money to build a large airship of her own which she dubbed "The wandering Zephyr" ... or just Zeph for short. Because, Widget still had a strong desire to learn and improve her self and the various gadgets, gizmo, contraptions, and projects she worked on; she began to travel across the world. Usually she would seek out places with strange magical leanings or properties to study them and see how they worked and if she could use it for something. Other times she would usually find herself stuck in some town or random village that happened to have something weird going on she got into if only to try and understand it.... any maybe help out someone who needed assistance.

 

Widget's endgoal seems to be solely to amass as much knowledge as she can and use it to make her inventions more and more amazing, mostly to get rich and earn more money so she build a large workshop away from talonopolis where she can work on various things on her own.

 

Character Summary:

 

Widget's primary talent's include both magic and technology while leaning heavily towards the tech side. Her mind is almost always constantly trying to come up with new inventions or how to improve on pre-existing designs. The mare's prowess with gadgetry is almost frighteningly impressive, sometimes coming up with incredible gizmos with useful applications entirely by mistake. Widget is also fairly good at adapting to a situation, usually social ones as she is able to clean up very nicely and appear as an almost entirely different pony when she needs to rub elbows with those she needs to in order to get what she wants/needs. Her time in Magic school has proven very useful as she's managed to incorporate some magical theories, spells, and enchantments into her projects to improve performance beyond what most technology is capable of. Without the use of any of the various knick-knacks she keeps on her person, she proves to be a very potent and skilled mage, particularly in the fields of teleportation and telekinesis. Ever since she was young, Widget possessed a mind that was remarkably sharp and could soak up and remember most information like a sponge. She also seems to have a deeply intuitive knowledge about machinery, even such that she has not seen before, being able to locate problems very quickly without even knowing the exact terminology for the components that make it up.

 

In the end, Widget wishes to be one of  (if not -the-) smartest creatures on the planet. While she knows such a thing is a rather lofty goal she is determined to try and achieve it to the best of her abilities, this however may be her attempt at rationalizing her rather potent wanderlust that hit her after leaving magic school. Another goal she seems determined to find are other minds who she can consider relate-able. 

 

Widget loves machines, gadgets, gizmos, contraptions, tools, vehicles and to a lesser but still potent degree, magic. She also genuinely enjoys exploring old ruins and sites where any mysterious magic may be in the hopes of understanding it, especially if there is already little information on it in the first place. There are two things in this world that Widget values above all else, her personal vessel; the Wandering Zephyr, and the goggles she wears on her head almost twenty-four seven. It's not uncommon for her to sometimes pat or stroke the ship as if it were a pet or even speak to it when noone is around... or she is extremely focused and fails to notice someone watching. Other pastimes that this mare enjoys includes reading and music. She has a massive personal library back in talonopolis and a large record collection in her personal airship.

 

How Bevel Widget will act very often depends on where she is and who is watching. Amongst the griffins she grew up around she can be quite pleasant, if a bit sarcastic and snarky. However in the case of ponies or other species... or non silverbeak griffin's she can appear to be somewhat dour and quiet unless she's spoken to, usually preocupying herself with some strange item she randomly pulls out of her pocket. When she's in her element and in her workshop she flipflops between moods as she works, usually if she's in the middle of something, if someone manages to walk into such a situation she'll most likely pull them along to act as an assistant in whatever crazy thing she's up to. This is usually the most common method that she meets others.

 

While Widget's faults don't usually trouble her, they can sometimes be somewhat offputting to some, most notably her visage when at rest. Some say she has a somewhat permanent glare on her face; a look she attributes to her eyebrow placement. That combined with her tendency to not easily emote how she feels until she effusively excited it can sometimes confuse others into thinking she finds them annoying. Perhaps because of her immense talent among the silverbeak griffins, Widget has a bit of an ego on her. If she thinks remotely that there is a chance she's going to fail she often feels to need to calm herself down. Widget's egotism has often lead her to believe she doesn't need to rely on others, and often hesitates to call anyone a 'friend'. Usually, depending on how close she is to an individual she will shift between calling them, 'assets', 'assistants', 'colleague', or 'associates'. In addition to that she has a slight temper, usually in regards to distractions in regard to her work to the point she can scare some of the biggest griffins into submission with a look or a shout. Bevel, while flexible in most situations is rather adverse to changes in plans or schedules, depending on the situation she'll need to either calm herself down or just be somewhat passive aggresive and snarky.

 

The mare also has an annoying case of farsightedness, to remedy this she usually wears glasses with a strap on them, and has modified her favored pair of goggles to use perscription lenses. Even with her love of machinery and books, Widget is still annoyed by dust and soot, sometimes sounding stuffy in it's presence. Worse than her issues with dust would be a rather potent allergy to dog fur and dander... which is a major pain for her since she finds dogs adorable.

 

What Widget fears most is forgetting, or being forgotten. She despises the idea that she will be nothing but a footnote and history and not be remembered for anything. She's also very uncomfortable in social situations where certain expectations she doesn't expect she can conform to are placed upon her. To cope in such situations she will usually take out a device that she often carries around; a small metal box with a screw in it and a matching screwdriver she uses to tighten it until she is 'centered'.  Widget also hates to be looked down upon or felt sorry for, her ego has also left her hesitate to show any form of weakness to anyone even close associates.

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