Creature [Earth Dragon] Jade Gemforge [Final]

[ThatWhichIs]

Roleplay Type: Equestria Main Rp

Name: Jade Gemforge

Sex: Female

Age: Teenager

Species: Earth Dragon

Coat Color: Her scales are a uniform dark green color.

Markings Color/Style: Veins of pale-green, almost white, run over her body, giving her a marbled look. A small ridge of pale-green horns run above both eyes, with a matching ridge running down the center of her back halfway down her tail.

Eye Color: A startling, deep blue.

Cutie Mark: None, she's a dragon.

Physique: Jade is a large, though low-slung, dragon. Measuring ten feet long from the tip of her snout to the end of her tail, she's only roughly three feet tall. If she stretches her legs as much as she can, she can reach roughly four and a half feet in height, but there's no real reason for her to do such a thing. A large, triangular head sits at the end of a short neck, only allowing a limited arc of side-to-side movement. Her front shoulders, and fore-limbs, are massive and heavily muscled, her back legs smaller in size though still powerful. Her tail makes up six feet of that imposing length, starting off as large as the rest of her but narrowing down into a surprisingly whip-like tip. Each of her legs end in five claws, and on her front legs one of these claws is positioned, and capable of being used, much like a thumb.

Origin: A small cave system to the east of Dodge Junction.

Occupation: Gem and jewelry merchant.

Motivation: To make intricate, beautiful jewelry, eat delicious gems, and generally not be bothered.

Likes: Gold, gems (specifically fire opals and jade), books, and showing off her creations to others.

Dislikes: The rain, high places, and crowds.

Character Summary: Discovered as an egg in the mountains surrounding Canterlot, the pony who found it was a young Unicorn foal, who stumbled upon the egg as it was about to hatch. Her first waking moment saw her face to face with the startled, and somewhat frightened, Unicorn, and because she didn't know any better, Jade decided that this Unicorn must be related to her. In time, she would learn she was a different species, but in the early days she didn't care.

Jade's early life was like that of any other young dragon raised by ponies. Given the name Jade at birth for her hide color and markings, she followed the unicorn that had hatched her, one she often thought of as 'her' unicorn instead of the other way around, exploring Canterlot with them and even helped her with her studies from time to time. However, as the years passed she realized that a life spent mostly in a library or the big city wasn't a life for her, and began to explore outside of Canterlot, in the mountains surrounding the shining city.

Every day she would go out and explore, and every day she would bring back some gems, her prizes of that adventure, until it soon got to the point where the room she and her unicorn shared was filled with them. Realizing that the gems were being wasted by sitting there, and that she was starting to drive her unicorn up the wall due to the lack of space, Jade went out into Canterlot, searching for something to use her gems for. Eventually, she found it, a purpose she could eagerly devote her 'prizes' towards. Jade had discovered a small, custom jewelry shop, the "Silvyr Smyth", where she found two ponies who were willing to teach her the art of jewelry making, and she spent many a happy day there, learning the craft.

Then came the fateful day, graduation at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. As they had grown apart, after graduation Jade and the pony she would always think of as 'her unicorn' went their separate ways, Jade off to find a location she could set up a shop of her own, and the unicorn to the alabaster towers and scholars of Canterlot to continue their quest for knowledge. Jade spent many months searching for a place to settle down, until she finally found the perfect cavern, located between Dodge Junction and a nearby Diamond Dog settlement. Carving a home for herself in the caves, Jade settled into a comfortable, if somewhat unusual, relationship with the nearby ponies and the Diamond Dogs. Given her size and species, the Dogs wouldn't bother her, and thanks to her innate desire to wander, she would often trade them rare and exotic gems for some of the more common local ones, which she would craft into jewelry and the occasional sculpture to sell to ponies across Equestria.

Personality

Being raised primarily among pony-kind, Jade has a friendly and cheerful exterior, often able to slip right in to pony society thanks to this. However, beneath this exterior facade is a temper to match any dragon, and a mind that doesn't forget past slights easily. It takes a bit to break through her facade, but when it happens she often ends up doing things she regrets, such as yelling at a friend or breaking something she cared about. While she doesn't find it hard to apologize, she doesn't often do so, believing that apologizing often dilutes the sincerity of any apologies.

[MyLittlePonyTales]

Character Summary: Hatched as part of a young unicorn's entrance examination for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, Jade's early life was like that of many other young dragons raised by ponies.

I'm just going to stop you right here, unfortunately. As we learned from Dragon Quest, Dragon's are mysterious creatures to ponies. Now, since we allowed Dragons into the Mane RP and lives of other ponies prior to that episode, that's how things will stay for our canon. Although Spike is the only Dragon we see actually living with a pony, so it's probably rare (there aren't many accepted Dragons anyway).

The hatching a Dragon test was a unique test given only to Twilight Sparkle. The staff have had to tell people to alter their pony Applications when they try to say they got into the Celestia's school by hatching a Dragon egg.

This was stated by Lauren Faust (FiM Creator), while she was still working on the show. Here is where the question was answered on her DeviantArt. Now, I can consult the other staff to see how they feel about the matter. As I said, we've had ponies change their Applications, but generally changing their entrance exam into the school does not completely change the character.

However, an easy fix for you could be that the Unicorn still hatched the egg, it just wasn't for an entrance exam into Celestia's school. The Dragon can still accompany her to the school, it just shouldn't be an entrance exam.

This looks like a great Application, actually, except for that one thing.

[ThatWhichIs]

Mkay! Thank you very much. Truth be told, I was a bit nervous posting this. And, honestly, I was uncertain on the whole entrance exam thing.

Also, a note: You may want to edit the lore post for Dragons then, as it mentions eggs being given to unicorn to hatch as entrance exams, which is why I included it.

Edit: I changed the 'Entrance exam' bit. Also, I may have misread the post on dragons, as

A successful hatching of a dragon egg by a unicorn grants them entrance into the school, and often they will be rewarded with the dragon hatchling as a companion for their studies.

is different than "All unicorns attending this school were tested by seeing if they could hatch a dragon egg to get in."

Just for future knowledge, hatching a dragon egg (for any reason) will grant a unicorn entrance into the school, but is not necessary for entrance into the school?

[Armony]

[Dio]