Hippocamp [Hippocamp] Beachnut

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Name: Beachnut

Sex: Female

Age: Older Filly

Species: Hippocamp

Pelt Color: Bright Red

Mane Markings, Color & Style: Yellow with bright pink highlights, medium long, kept slicked down

Eye Color: Gold

Cutie Mark: Three Beechnuts, sitting in an open pod

Physique: Long-legged and lanky, but still well-toned, with a thick, strong tail from time spent ashore (and possibly in part due to her earth pony heritage)

Origin: Gallopocous Island

Roleplay Type: Mane

Occupation: None yet, but she has a talent for chemistry

Motivation: Learn about her heritage and find a place for herself

Likes: Bitter food, waterproof pockets, the Wonderbolts, coral, violins, oil, pirate tales, sharks, fire

Dislikes: Small mammals, being told what to do, deserts, open ocean, being naked

Character Summary:

Beachnut's father, Malabar, was an earth pony sailor, who oversaw the naval shipping of many of the Nut family's products. Though a far cry from the traditional family business of growing nuts, his profession was considered an acceptable one in the family's eyes, and he proceeded to turn around significant profits for the family. Before long, he had progressed from chartering vessels to transport the family's cargo to purchasing a ship of his own.

It was on this ship, on his way home from a trade venture into far-off lands of the Zebrafolk, that an unspeakable creature from the depths of the ocean attacked their ship. Malabar's crew fended off the creature for a time, but it quickly became apparent that it was not going to let them out of its territory. In a desperate gamble, he loaded his crew onto lifeboats and rammed his ship into the creature, driving the injured creature away. Malabar went down with his ship as a hero, and is officially listed deceased.

However, unbeknownst to him, the creature was in fact a tamed kraken, doing what it was trained to do in defending a hippocamp city, far beneath. When their guardian was injured and fled home, Beachnut's mother, Moonwake, was among the warriors dispatched to investigate. She found Malabar unconscious and near death, and took him to the surface, where she resuscitated him. While many of the hippocamps wanted to arrest him for assaulting the creature and damaging their city with the debris from his ship, the logistical problems with incarcerating a land-dweller underwater led them to instead exile him to a small islet not far from the mane Gallopocous Island.

Over his time time, he and Moonwake gradually fell in love, as she volunteered to oversee his resuscitation. When his debt was considered repaid, rather than return to his former life as a sailor, he elected to stay there, and the two were married. It was on this islet, in a clear pool beneath a small grove of beech trees he tended (from the only cargo he managed to salvage from his sinking ship) that Beachnut was born.

Though no longer a prisoner on his islet, Beachnut's father never returned to his family. He preferred being thought of as a dead hero, and he was happy raising his daughter and caring for his trees. Beachnut grew up in relative isolation, with only the occasional visiting pegasus or hippocamp. When she was filly, she was diagnosed nearsighted, and fitted with prescription goggles, but she never actually got to visit the far-off, underwater city of her kin. Due to their distance from any cities, her education came almost entirely from books, which she read voraciously.

Beachnut displayed quite a talent for chemistry, and she loved to start oil fires on the surface of the waves. She spent an usual amount of time on land for a young hippocamp, often drying out painfully for her recklessness. This led her to experiment with concocting an oily coating for clothing that would keep her from drying out as quickly, but wouldn't wash out in the water. Upon finally finishing a working product, she earned her her cutie mark (her namesake partially in a shell). She quickly adapted to wearing clothing all the time, keeping lotions on hoof for parts of her body she can't cover up. Because of her normally clothed state, she has actually developed a strange sense of modesty, and is extremely self-conscious about nudity.

Just recently, Beachnut has resolved to travel. She wants to discover more about her roots, see the world, and learn more about it. While she's quite clever, and knows a lot about science, she has very little real world knowledge, and she approaches nearly everything with a naive idealism.

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