Unicorn Marionette Charade [Final]

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Roleplay Type: Mane RP

Name: Marionette Charade

Sex: Mare

Age: Marionette is a mare, but she's just left her filly ages, putting her around the youngest possible age for a mare

Species: Unicorn

Eye Color: Almost bright green, more on a lighter spectrum

Coat Color: A bright red, to the point where it starts to look faded

Mane/Tail/Markings Color & Style: Color-wise, Marionette's mane is a shade of starry silver. She tends to take great pride in her mane, and keeps it well combed. She keeps the part running down her neck plain, but she often arranges her bangs into straight combed braids. Her tail is about as large as her mane, and matches the groomed look nicely. Unlike her mane however, she creates an illusion of a jagged look in her tail

Physique: Well, being as young as she is, she's somewhat smaller then most ponies, but she's definitely bigger than a filly. She's actually quite slim, and often gets so wrapped up in things she even forgets to eat every now and then. In fact, she isn't quite athletic, and gets tired after prolonged physical activity, such as constant running or exercise. She can handle basic things fine, she's far from being malnourished, but she clearly isn't as athletic as other ponies.

Cutie Mark: Her cutie mark is a puppet handle, with a few strings dangling down from it. The puppet handle is a standard wooden cross, but the strings are actually an almost glowing shade of silver. Her talent is crafting puppets and controlling them to a remarkably life like level.

Origin/Residence She was born and currently lives in Canterlot, but she often takes extended leaves to various cities to gather materials for her puppets.

Occupation: Well she doesn't own any stores, she creates puppets and has street performances with them. Occasionally if bits are especially difficult to come buy she sell a puppet or two, if she feels kind enough to follow the law that day (Explained in the summery, if you'll humor me)

Motivation: As a performer, her passion is too constantly improve her puppets too the point where they become works of art. As a self-proclaimed villain, her mission is too cause general havoc and be a by the book evil pony. Much to her chagrin, she also is motivated too help pretty much anyone who is down on themselves.

Likes: Puppets, a good show, a well preformed charade or front, a successful plan or performance, places that give a spooky feel, acting (to the point where she'll constantly rework her past depending on who she's talking too), magic, her brother Mirage Riddle, scheming and playing at being a menace, and candy

Dislikes: Not being in control of a situation, anything that's painfully obvious, being called unintelligent, seeing anypony sad or depressed, being foiled in her schemes, somepony solving one of her 'brilliant' plans, the royal guard, and squirrels (It runs in the family)

Character Summary: Like her brother, Marionette was born and raised in Canterlot. As a young filly, her childhood was rather pronounced. While Mirage was off learning magic from their father, she would often watch her mother Razzle Dazzle as she performed in all the different plays she did. Of course, this inspired her to try to take interest in the theater world, which affected her mentality to an insane degree. First of all, and perhaps most importantly, it inspired her to try and find her talent in the acting arts.

Marionette could recall her first attempts as something of a disappointing failure. Hoping everything would work out, she auditioned for a play in a very little known theater. Although her voice was ok, and she could get the tones and emotions near spot on, her motions were, well, terrible. She didn't really come close to getting a part, but she wasn't disheartened. For the next few weeks, she would try (and fail just as equally as her first try) to find a talent in any form of performance she could think of. In between these, she would boost her drive by watching her mother's plays. As she watched more and more of these, she began to idolize several of the villains in these plays. Without them, she realized, there would be no plot or substance to a play. They had catchy songs, unique personalities, and could make or break a story depending on how good they were. All in all, she wondered if an affinity for these things could make other lives just as interesting. Perhaps she could even go so far as to make other ponies better, by providing opposition.

With this mindset, she did encounter a few roadblocks. Her father Dragonheart was a strong believer in morals, and somehow successfully ingrained being kind into Marionette's very DNA. This made it difficult to call herself evil, because she just couldn't stand any pony being sad, or hurt. This limited her schemes into victim-less crimes, and she lacked the foresight to pull off anything big with this. Until she turned an eye to her brother. Although she and Mirage never really spent much time together, she idolized him all the same, and was inspired by his love of riddles. Taking this into consideration, her 'crimes' became more and more complicated, and oddly enough, more successful.

All this evil did nothing to help Marionette with auditions, or finding her talent, but that would change with a vacation to Ponyville. From the moment she got there, she was fascinated with the Everfree forest. On the second day or so of dwelling there, she snuck off from her family to go explore it at night. As she wandered in, she was enamored with it all. Luckily, she somehow managed to avoid anything life-threatening. Losing track of time, she wandered for hours during the night until she found a clearing with a small pony-shaped chip of wood lying on a stump. Admiring it, she picked it up only to then realize how hopelessly lost she was. Panicking, she could not have found a better stroke of luck when she was found by a peryton living in the forest, who lead her back to the edge of the forest. When she got back, her parents were overjoyed, and the entire family decided to call the vacation short.

Back in Canterlot, she toyed around with the small piece of wood, eventually carving a small, remarkably pony-like puppet, complete with some strings. Although the task was hard, she enjoyed every bit of it and the result filled her with pride. When she finished, she received her cutie mark as she played around with it, startling herself by how good she was. As she was older, she realized there were precious few stages she could perform a puppet show in. Rather than be limited by this, she decided to perform in the streets. With such an amount of joy in her life, her evil schemes in between puppetry became bolder. She also developed a dislike for the Canterlot royal guard after they foiled several of her plot, and she has become rather irked at how the guards treat her with bemusement (After all, she's still pretty young, and her plans never really hurt anyone despite her worst intentions).

Personality: Marionette has a rather unique personality. The first thing she'd have you know is her undying strives to be villainous, and she constantly cracks various schemes to spread as much chaos as she can. That said, she has a rather odd moral inhibition. No matter how hard she tries, she can't stand the sight of any pony feeling depressed, and she's almost forced to help try to feel better. That said, the only thing Marionette can think of to cheer others up is either a puppet show, or breaking the law some more. As for her talent, she devotes as much time as she can to running street shows. After all, it is her rule abiding way to get the bits.

Aside from kindness and evil, Marionette is rather fond of making things elaborate. Anything worth doing should be anonymous, and if people really care enough about it they'd have to find it out. Every crime was a game of wits, and every show was a mystery, as puppets danced alone throughout streets with seemingly no one nearby. A show is half of the fun! Of course, with to create such elaborate plans, one needs to be smart, and this is where Marionette shines. Oddly enough, while she is smart, and she shows tremendous wisdom at times, she easily flipflops between acting like how you'd expect one so young to act like. She loves candy, hates being condescended to, and she acts her age.

[MyLittlePonyTales]

How is this Application coming along?

[FlimFlam]

It'sa coming along. I must apologize for the wait, but I'm in the middle of a bit of stress, so it may take a while to get things done.

[MyLittlePonyTales]

Any progress on this Application?

[FlimFlam]

Should get quite a bit done tonight, if not finishing outright. Sorry for the lack of activity!

[brianblackberry]

For Great Justice! (Or is that injustice?!)

[Dio]