Pegasus Thunder Boomer

[Thunder Boomer]

Name: Thunder Boomer (His friends shorten his name down to "Boomer")

Gender: Male

Age: Young Stallion

Species: Pegasus

Pelt Color: Lime Green

Mane Color & Style: Royal blue with two light cyan (almost white) streaks. His mane is messy and brushed forward haphazardly.

Tail Color & Style: Royal blue with a light cyan (almost white) streak. His tail is cut short and kept rough and rarely brushed. His streak seems permanently kinked in a zig-zag pattern.

Eye Color: Blue

Cutie Mark: A gray storm cloud with a royal blue lightning bolt sitting on top of it.

Physique: Average height and with a mostly athletic build. It's obvious he's in good shape, but doesn't go out of his way to train or work out. His normal daily activities seem to be enough to keep him trim. He likes flying hard and fast, and this seems to keep him in good form. He's good looking in a sort of rugged, don't-give-a-damn kind of way.

Residence: Thunder Boomer's home town is Trottingham, but he hasn't been back there since he dropped out of school. Instead, he prefers the transient lifestyle and roams around. He has yet to find that a place where he's willing to settle down. Most often he lives in a town for awhile, takes up a job, gets bored, gets fired and moves on.

Occupation: Various. With his talents, you'd think he would have been a shoe-in as a weather pony, but he's just too spontaneous to hold down a steady job. Plus, lightning just sorta happens naturally when a big storm is created, nopony wants to actually charge a cloud on purpose.

Motivation: Thunder Boomer has been fascinated with lightning storms ever since he was a colt. When the summer storms came, he would gaze out the window and just watch the lightning. To him, it was beautiful and the excitement he got whenever he heard a clap of thunder was insurmountable. Eventually he started running out into the storms. He found the experience of being out in the raw, untamed weather to be absolutely thrilling. His parents would try to stop him and warn him it was dangerous. Thunder Boomer just didn't seem to care. He had become a young, little, thrill-seeker.

Thunder Boomer's obsession with lightning eventually let him to start experimenting with the clouds above his home town of Trottingham. Mimicking some of the older pegasi, he would push the clouds together and condense the water and create rain. Through practice, he became quite good at it . . . but simple rain clouds, a thunder storm does not make. Wanting more, he began to experiment with ways to create lighting. After several years of practice, he discovered that in the right conditions, he could create static electricity by rubbing his wings together. He found he could store it in his body for a short period and charge clouds with it. Once the cloud is charged, BOOM! Lightning. He received his cutie mark after making this discovery.

(Ever rubbed your socks on the carpet and then shocked someone? Boomer uses a similar technique only he rubs the feathers of his wings together and he can store enough static electricity to charge a whole cloud. Conditions must be dry with low humidity for it to work.)

Likes: Risk taking. Adventure. Thunder Storms. Lightning. Rain. Flying with/in the wind. Tacos. Goofing Off. Your Mom.

Dislikes: Being bored. Unfriendly Ponies. Authority. Tomatoes. Musicals. Lectures. Waking up early. Maths. Ponies that act like tools.

Character Summary: It's said that only stupid pegasi aren't afraid of lightning. Thunder Boomer is either an idiot, incredibly brave, or some sort of genius. Anypony he meets just can't decide which. Thunder Boomer absolutely loves thunder storms. He loves the sound of the thunder, the flash of the lightning and the smell of the ionized air.He loves the thrill of a storm so much he will actively seek them out when he wants a good adrenaline rush.

He can seem to sense where lightning is going to strike and will instinctively dodge that area, this seems to be one of the only reasons he's still alive.

Some time after Thunder Boomer discovered his special talent, his parents opted to send him to Cloudsdale for education. They figured the experience would help him to settle down, and with his weather talents, get his hoof in the door at one of the weather factories. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Tried his best to stick with it for awhile and he took just about every weather systems class offered. . . but he just found campus life far too monotonous. Eventually, Thunder Boomer became more and more restless and he started playing hookie to go thrill seeking. For the most part it was harmless, and sometimes he even brought like-minded friends with him. Unfortunately, because of this behavior, his grades became non-existent . . . and when a risky venture nearly got himself and a group of ponies killed, it became the last straw and he was expelled from school. Shamed with feelings of guilt, he did some growing up that day. He left Cloudsdale with a new drive to find his place in the world. It's been a struggle, because most of his particular talents aren't exactly advantageous.

Personality wise, Thunder Boomer is headstrong, but a pretty decent guy. He tries to be nice to everypony he meets. His thrill seeking and enthusiastic attitude can be annoying to some. He's not without the ability to be quiet, he just gets bored easily

[Tam]

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