Unicorn Telki

[lordbrony]

Name: Tela "TelKi" Kino

Sex: Female

Age: Very Young Mare (equivalent to a 20 year old human)

Species: Unicorn

Pelt Color: Deep rich orange

Mane/Tail/Markings Color and Style: Long, messy and poofy firey red mane that reaches all the way down her neck. Kinda like her hair. Short, strangly straight tail

Eye Color: Emerald Green

Cutie Mark: Pretty close; I'd want the edges to be wavy but apparently its a PITA to draw

Physique: Short and petite for her age (makes her look like a high school filly)

Origin: Manehattan

Roleplay Type: Mane

Occupation: Just graduated, doing freelance jobs while travelling

Motivation: Travel the world, using her ability to awe, help and of course, earn bits

Likes: Having fun, getting her way, the jaw hanging look on other ponies' faces when she struts her stuff

DisLikes: Being looked down upon because of her size, ponies thinking she's a young filly, being made to do things she doesn't want to do, being looked down upon or underestimated in general.

Backstory

Telki was born the youngest daughter to long line of academics in Manehattan. Her parents used to be both professors in the prestigious Manehattan Institute of Merchantry and Commerce. Genetics meant that from the onset, Telki was always one of the smallest fillies in class and while that was always a magnet for bullies, Telki’s spunk, smart mouth and general wittiness (being born to a family of eggheads has its perks) always meant that she had a comeback to any teasing and soon she was able to pass through school without excesssive drama.

Telki’s father had retired from teaching relatively young to set up a bookstore and he initially had hopes of his daughter applying herself and joining the family trade. Telki did give him hope by doing relatively well in school and showing a moderate interest in reading, but after seeing his daughter so full of life and sunshine, could not bring himself to force the dull life of a bookstore keeper or teacher on her.

How Telki got her cutie mark was a bit of a mystery to everyone then. Before she had established her street cred; some catty ponies had tricked her into volunteering to decorate and prep the school gym for a fundraiser dinner and then no showed at the agreed time. Rumors swirled around in school that Telki had walked into the empty school gym with all the decorations packed in their respective cartons and crates, at the scheduled meeting time in the evening and walked out 5 minutes later with the gym fully decorated, all the tables set down to the spots for trays and cutlery and her cutie mark on her flank. All Telki would reveal then was that after she had realized she had been duped, she closed her eyes and imagined how the gym would look when it was done; and when she opened them, the gym was exactly as she pictured it and her cutie mark had appeared. Adding to the rumor was some ponies mentioning that they had seen some bright red shapes floating and whizzing around in the gym. As far as everypony knew, Telki was too young to even have been formally trained in magic, too young to possibly even wield magic and father's bookstore did not have a magic section, so that was completely out; or was it?

All was revealed weeks later. Telki came home one day from school and saw the door to her father's bookstore ajar. Inside, a trio of street punks had tried to rob the store and had her father at knifepoint. Seeing Telki, her father tried to yell out a warning, but only succeeded in drawing attention to her. As the punks closed in, Telki stood her ground, seemingly unafraid. Suddenly, Telki's eyes glowed red and beams of light as red as her mane shot out of her horn. Each punk soon found himself picked up and flung into a corner and bookcases shifted to form a makeshift cell around them. There they stayed, their combined strength unable to even shift one of the red glowing bookcases a single inch, until the police came and took them away.

The next few days brought a change to Telki, her mane drooped and her bubbly nature became more sombre, and no amount of coaxing seemed to bring her out of her funk.

It was a fortnight after the incident and Telki trudged home to her apartment. Just as she was about to go in she heard a voice call out to her. Telki turned and saw that it was her neighbour Jazz Brass. Telki had always seen Jazz Brass as a really cool uncle of sorts, but the old musician pony was rarely home these past few months, travelling around Equestria with his band. Jazz was confused at the Telki now standing before him, a quiet pony that seemed to have lost all her self confidence.

Sensing her discomfort, Jazz invited her in and after a hot chocolate, Telki spilled everything; the feeling of anger at realizing she had been played, closing her eyes and envisioning horrible fates for her tormentors and wishing she could somehow decorate the gym herself, how she had opened her eyes in the gym and saw the contents of the crates floating overhead, all encased in a red light that seemed to emanating from her horn, some racing and some floating to to where they needed to be, knock-down tables assembling themselves and cutlery sorting themselves into groups before setting themselves on the tables, and the bookcases in her father's store rearranging themselves at her will, forming seemingly unmovable walls.

Jazz listened without a word, wizened face smiling as Telki finished her story. He simply asked Telki if she was afraid of what she could do or she would hurt somepony with her magic; and lastly if she saw herself as a monster, to which Telki gingerly nodded.

Jazz burst out laughing. What he saw, he said, was a very talented young filly who could do so much at such a young age and she had a special gift. He told her of how his parents had discouraged his love for music, but he could not deny who he was and what he loved and finally made it as a musician. Wrapping up, he said that he had gave Telki all the advice he could, and that he was leaving on tour again the next day, this time for a few years and he had only came back to get instruments and sheet music out of his apartment.

Telki nodded and left without a word.

The next day, Jazz Brass was up early, carefully shifting his heavy brass instruments out of his apartment and trying not to strain his back. Setting down a particularly heavy tuba at the stairwell he turned around and saw Telki standing behind him.

Telki asked if Jazz would need any help, to which he simply smiled and nodded. Telki closed her eyes and magically all the instruments and suitcases of music floated upwards in midair, then slowly drifted down the stairs and finally settling at the doorway. With only a knowing smile exchanged between the pair, they both went down the stairs where Telki helped to load the waiting carriage. Jazz noticed that Telki's eyes were glowing a soft rose red.

Telki waved good bye and was about to turn around when Jazz called out to her. He rummaged into his bags and produced a locket, his farewell gift to Telki. She opened it and inside was inscribed the words “Be proud, not afraid, of who you are and what you can do”

Telki's parents came home that day to the old Telki, much to their surprise.

After graduation, and with her brothers volunteering to take over the running of the bookstore, Telki decided that the future for her was to travel across Equestria using her skill for both fun and profit. Waving goodbye to her parents and brothers, she left home, taking only a map, a few bits and of course, an old faded locket that she wouldn't take off.

Character Summary:

Telki's special ability revolves around her being highly skilled in telekinesis. While most unicorns can only move or manipulate single or small groups of small items at a time, with a comparative amount of effort, Telki can do the same with more numerous and much larger and heavier objects without a loss of control or precision, in addition whenever Telki is manipulating something, a red magical beam connects her horn to whatever she's holding and moving so everypony knows its her. Whenever Telki uses her telekinesis, her eyes glow depending on the intensity of her effort and her emotional state, it ranges from fiery red when she's angry or exerting her powers fully to soft rose red when she's calm or just being mildly strained to no glow for "normal" level usage. Currently, Telki has not been trained in any other form of magic so she can't do any form of spellcasting (might change that but I highly doubt so nor do I want it to)

Telki is fun loving friendly and generally carefree. She treats her travels as a never-ending adventure and never settles in one place for long. To earn bits for her expenses, she hires herself out for short term or odd jobs, usually involving farming or construction where her abilities are most sought after. She's not above helping others for free, but only if she deems them deserving of her help. She's far from being a mercenary even though she displays some of those traits. (she is the daughter of 2 business school professors after all!). Most importantly, she is determined to live life by her rules her way!

(Note to any RPer, if you want her to help you you either have to convince or pay her, either works)

[lordbrony]

only missing a cutie mark now!

[lordbrony]

Done!

[lordbrony]

approval is taking longer than expected........

[brianblackberry]

Greetings! Upon reading this I felt I was reading an X-Men origins story for a particularly powerful mutant (and I don't even read X-Men ). My main concern is that she could be overpowering. I don't see anything wrong with having a strong magic user unicorn, but here I see a tremendous amount of power but no drawbacks especially given her age, they abilities seem simply incredible. I use the Twilight Sparkle benchmark for power in unicorns, the idea being Twi is the strongest magic user among the unicorn set currently living (enough that Celestia decided to tutor her personally). As an adult I can see her having unusually strong telekinesis as her MO (especially if its at the cost of other usual unicorn abilities) but it should like be toned done some when she was young.

The other part of the application I am still no clear on is what her cutie mark is or its meaning, is this something to be revealed in the RP?

[lordbrony]

Greetings! Upon reading this I felt I was reading an X-Men origins story for a particularly powerful mutant (and I don't even read X-Men ). My main concern is that she could be overpowering. I don't see anything wrong with having a strong magic user unicorn, but here I see a tremendous amount of power but no drawbacks especially given her age, they abilities seem simply incredible. I use the Twilight Sparkle benchmark for power in unicorns, the idea being Twi is the strongest magic user among the unicorn set currently living (enough that Celestia decided to tutor her personally). As an adult I can see her having unusually strong telekinesis as her MO (especially if its at the cost of other usual unicorn abilities) but it should like be toned done some when she was young.

The other part of the application I am still no clear on is what her cutie mark is or its meaning, is this something to be revealed in the RP?

Well I already thought of that so 2 things: her main and only skill is telekinesis and she has no spellcasting whatsoever so its not like she's near Twilight's level in raw versatility, secondly she when she's using it there will be a beam connecting her to whatever she's controlling so if she wants to do anything destructive or mischievous she's not going to be getting away with her especial since her energy signature is bright fiery red and everything can be traced back to her.

Her current cutie mark is a very bad approximation of how it looks like when she's using her powers (beams originating from the same source encasing things), I will definitely change it if I can get a better or a custom pic.

I can see where you are going with her age, but I prefer her to be young, cheery and positive about life. Pushing 40 makes her powers more believable, but its kinda hard to make a cheery pinkie pie-ish character believable without the "immaturity, never-grew-up" angle creeping in

and yes I did pull a lot from the X men

[brianblackberry]

The name is a little unusual, but as you explained, it does relate to her ability.

For Great Justice!

[Skye]