oc Flick Ray - retired tennis play and podcaster

[Hippo]

Roleplay Type: G5 Original Character
Name: Flick Ray
Gender: Male
Age: Middle-aged
Species: Pegasus
Eye color: Hazel
Coat: Blue
Mane/Tail: Purple
Physique: Fit, like a retired athlete
Residence: Zephyr Heights
Occupation: Retired tennis player, sports commentator, and self-learned podcaster
 Cutie Mark: Tennis racket
Unique Traits: Wears a sports jacket, generally out of habit

History: Flick grew up in a prestigious household in the pegasus community. His privilege allowed his to be able to have more opportunities to excel in the things he wanted to pursue. One such activity he enjoyed early on was the game of tennis. Because pegasus ponies lacked magic to fly, the sports that were most popular were those that required agile movement on the ground. Tennis had already had a huge following in Zephyr Heights, but through his desire to practice it, Flick became one of the most phenomenal tennis players during his prime.

 

When he got older, he became a repeating champion, winning grand slams in tennis tournaments several times during his career. Because he loved the fans of the sport as well, he became a very marketable personality for the sport and received many endorsements from sponsors and video executives.

 

When he retired from the professional sport of tennis, many networks signed him contracts to be a personality on talk shows and analysts for tennis matches. But not too far into his post-competing career, he realized that the large amount of clout-chasing in the media industry was keeping him from being apart of the community in the way he thought would fit best. So he abandoned his contracts in order to pursue a solo career in self-publishing.

 

Flick started a podcast that is delivered over the Zephyr Heights ponynet, and chooses to not censor himself like manestream media in order to promote a genuine attitude and commentary to his watchers and listeners. His goal is to have conversations with interesting ponies on his podcast that feel genuine and real, instead of filtered by the manestream media that dominates the airwaves.

 

Character Personality: Down to earth, a good conversationalist, and likes to listen in one-on-one conversations. Sometimes when he really is into a particular topic, he fails to realize how much he is talking and talks too much. He sometimes repeats himself because he always feels the need to reiterate a previous talking point. He is open-minded, but gets frustrated when others seem to not be open-minded without explaining why. He is not afraid to call a pony out, even in a livestream, even with a famous pony.

 

Character Summary: Flick Ray is currently recognized as a retired athlete who has decided to host a podcast. He hopes to air interesting conversations with famous and not-so-famous ponies in order to illustrate the diversity of opinion of ponies of all kinds. With pony unity on the horizon, he hopes to inspire himself and others on the new strange worlds that have been hidden to the pegasi for many moons.

[SteelEagle]