Pegasus Ignition [Final]

[Halide]

Name: Ignition

Sex: Female

Age: Mare

Species: Pegasus

Roleplay Type: Mane

Eye Colour: Silver

Coat Colour: Red, with bright red markings (dyed)

Mane/Tail/Markings Colour & Style: Tricolour Red/Orange/Yellow (Dyed - naturally just orange), medium length, messy, gradiented to try and look like fire.

Physique: Athletic

Cutie Mark: Microphone

Origin/Residence: Cloudsdale-born, nomadic.

Occupation: Stage hoof

Motivation: Believes strongly in self-determination and self-reliance, as well as the drive to make oneself a better pony. Also very much adrenaline-driven, seeking excitement and thrills.

Likes: Music, dye, cannon-fire, fire, racing, spice, flying, thunder and lightning.

Dislikes: Silence, whining, oboes, snow, cages, oceans.

Character Summary:

Ignition has never been a quiet, timid, or trepadacious sort of Pegasus. Even during her first few days of being alive, she was loud, energetic, and rather hard to get to keep still - or, for that matter, to keep in any one place for more than a few minutes at a time. She has never been one to stay still, or stay quiet, or even stay focused at times.

As a foal, she was a fairly quick learner, though this also made her a bit of a trouble-maker, as she spent much of her efforts on getting out of things, like cribs and bedrooms and houses and Cloudsdale. She was quick on learning how to walk, how to run, how to fly, and how to talk, putting her several months, sometimes even a full year, ahead of the average. Learning to fly was the most challenging, of course, but for the sake of her sense of adventure, it was worth the effort. Once she could fly, though, it became a source of pride for her, once she was old enough to know what it meant to be proud. It didn't take her long to start getting exploratory from there.

Once she was a proper filly, Ignition didn't act as most of her peers did. She was something of a loner, simply because she didn't take the time to get to know those around her very well. More often than not, she spent her time outside of Cloudsdale, diving from the high Pegasus city, then swooping and gliding over much of central Equestria as she so desired, simply exploring and racing herself from place to place. She saw a lot of different ponies this way, and she made a few friends in various places, but even then, she wasn't all that involved in getting to know anypony. It didn't bother her, it was just the sort of Pegasus she was, flighty and abroad. Even when she was acting her age, she seldom acted like much of a filly – she yelled, she boasted, she dared, she kicked, she did stunts, and she got into the occasional fight. Without the eyelashes and without opening her mouth, more often she was mistaken for a colt than a filly.

Ignition's youth progressed, and while those around her tried to figure out who they were, the red Pegasus spent all the more time away from Cloudsdale, sometimes skipping school or missing out on meet-ups if she felt like it. The world was big, after all, and she wanted to see more of it. Eventually, though, she could fly as far as the coasts, and there, her explorations came to a close – The grand, wide oceans seemed to go on forever, and they were boring. She couldn't reliably fly over the oceans, and at that point, she'd seen most of what interested her in Equestria – no cutie-mark for her efforts, though. This only threw her back into being more sociable, and the general misbehaviour only grew. She got into trouble with the law now and again, due to graffiti, getting into fights, and the occasional public misdemeanour. She began to live for thrills, especially when the thrills were risky, impressive, or required her mind to be quick and her wings to be quicker. Though she was seldom caught for her actions, she was caught often enough to be grounded every now and again, which of course took the edge off of her behaviour. Even still, no cutie-mark.

At first, the idea of seeing most of Equestria had driven her on, but now that she had done so, it had left a gap in her life, and worse still, she was behind most of the other ponies her age, when she had once been ahead. Worse still, she didn't really have much interest in school.

Thunderstorms and tornadoes were exciting, but being a weather Pegasus sounded really boring. The Wonder-bolts were awesome, as far as she was concerned, but for all that her wings had carried her, she wasn't cut out to be a pinnacle of Pegasus athleticism – training was boring, too, especially when it was part of a schedule instead of just being for fun. Music was pretty cool, or at least some of the records she could get her hooves on were pretty cool, but actually learning music theory bored her, and many of the woodwinds just made her want to put something in her ears. Still, she took up playing guitar, as well as a Pegasus could manage such, simply because she liked to play and it was an instrument that did well on its own. She put time and effort into managing the stringed instrument, writing the occasional song and singing the occasional piece, though seldom with enough drive to make anything of it. Still, no cutie-mark.

Soon enough, Ignition started taking up dying her mane, her tail, and even her coat to try and stand out all the more, experimenting with styles and colours whenever she got bored of her appearance (which was fairly often). She wanted to stand out, of course, and though she was still much more adventurous than most of the other fillies and colts her age, she didn't seem to be able to pull the attention she used to garner for it. Her flank was still blank, and she still didn't really know what to do with her life. In an attempt to keep out of a rut, the red Pegasus started joining a number of different school clubs that at least seemed interesting. Of them all, she enjoyed the music and drama clubs the most. Ignition found acting to be sort of fun, in its own way, and the music club was way closer to her tastes than the school band. She could sing better than most of her peers, when her heart was in it, but there was little that drove her to sing. Though she was proficient at her instrument of choice, the strings still hadn't caught enough of her passion to truly want to take the stage, and her acting, while spirited, was sub-par. However, she had a knack for lighting, set-up and sound, so she generally ended up playing stage-hoof to set up performances, whether or not she was in them.

It was during an after-school show that she found her cutie-mark. It had been a good day, and beneath Cloudsdale, a storm was brewing. She was enthused and energetic in her work, the rumbling of thunder far below and the occasional flash of lightning between clouds keeping her on her hooves. Being so enthused, Ignition had every intention of making the stage as excellent as possible, especially given that she'd be on it as the last act. The lighting was set up just right, coloured glass lenses in place for when they were wanted. The acoustic boards, angled precisely as they were supposed to be, and the markers left clear, but hidden from the audience. The microphone, tuned and ready. It was one of her best set-ups, and between that and the storm beneath her, she put more effort into her own performance, making it actually worthy of praise. By the end of the show, she had her cutie-mark – a microphone, representing her talent with the mic. Of course, she assumed this had to do with her setup of it, rather than her performance in front of it. After all, she'd been playing guitar for years, surely the guitar was not her talent.

From there, Ignition was re-ignited, back to being as lively and troublesome as she had in her youth. She didn't have as an exciting talent as she'd hoped, but at least she had found it. Her studies declined once again, and she did more travel, becoming something of a travelling stage-hoof even before reaching mare-hood. Once she'd moved out on her own, she realized that she didn't have to answer to much of anypony for her actions, and it was back to the misadventures, the thrill-seeking, and the attempts at adventure whenever she could spare it. She got into trouble with the law more often, now that the only punishments came if she were caught, so long as she kept herself down to petty infractions in cities far from her home. She'll even goad the occasional guard or officer into chasing her, just for the excitement of having to dodge the law.

All in all, Ignition isn't a run-of-the-mill sort of mare, but for all that she tries to stand out from the herd, she still has yet to make much more of herself than a nuisance. Her work, while fairly good, goes largely by the wayside in light of those that she does the work for, and while she wishes she had more attention, she lacks the ambition to become somepony truly outstanding.

http://soundcloud.com/halide/opening-chords-1

[Blossom]

Do you have a picture of her cutie mark, or are you planning to add it to your pony picture?

[Halide]

Well, it's just a microphone, right? I'll put the cutiemark on when I can move this up to Final.

[Blossom]

Well, it's just a microphone, right? I'll put the cutiemark on when I can move this up to Final.

Okey-dokey.

[SunsetSombra]

I've read over the application, and honestly can see nothing else that needs a huge amount of attention - so let's shoot the moon with it! =D

[Skye]