Post by waxworks on Apr 8, 2013 17:35:49 GMT
-General Stuff-
Name: Powderkeg
Nickname/Alias(es): PK, Puffball, Keggy, Peeky.
Race: Bat Pegasus
Gender: Female
Age: Mare
Additional Status: Powderkeg wears a pair of black goggles, which she usually keeps up like a headband unless she's working.
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: Coal Dust Black
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Her mane surrounds her head like a small explosion, sort of like a 1980s punk rock style, multiple colors radiating outwards. She keeps her tail partially wrapped up except for the end of it, where the hair fountains out like another explosion.
Eye Color: Orange
Cutie Mark: A small wooden barrel
Other Scars/Markings: I should mention her having bat wings, although this is easily explained by her father being a member of Luna's guard, so that's just genetics plain and simple.
Physique: Powderkeg's a bit small for her age, but otherwise well proportioned.
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: The Forge
Job: Pyrotechnician, maker of fine Fireworks and Explosives.
Mother: Quicklime
Father: Glimmering Gloam
Sibling(s): Fuse Box (Sister) and Showering Sparks (Brother)
Other Family: NA
Closest Friends: Waxworks, Mannequin Grace, Mandolin Gray, Dusty Pan, Rivet Stitch, Gearshift, Fantastic Mirage
Courting/Courted By: NSF
Mate: NSF
Foal(s): NSF
-Personality Stuff-
Likes: Explosions. Powderkeg is hypnotically drawn to large scale events such as a breaking dam, town hall accidentally being kicked to bits by a hapless pegasus, etc. Anything where something small causes something tremendous to occur will catch her attention. She's also very fond of onions and walnuts as a snack, and likes it when ponies speak with flair.
Dislikes: Rainy days and overly friendly ponies (whom she's not been acquainted with yet). Pessimists, doomsayers, and anypony who ever claims something's destiny or fate.
Motivation: Hope, and the self-assurance that she can always do better tomorrow than she did today, leading her to always try to do whatever she does bigger, faster, and louder.
Strengths: Powderkeg's an eternal optimist, and always believes in a positive outcome no matter how dire the odds. She always works to see the bright side even when it's dark as far as the eye can see.
Weaknesses/Flaws: Powderkeg is boastful, and overconfident in her own abilities, often leading her to make promises that she then has to run herself ragged to try to keep.
Fears: Powderkeg's biggest fear is being in a situation where she's absolutely helpless to do anything about what's happening, that no matter what she does things will turn out poorly. On a more simplistic scale, she's also terrified of centipedes and anything with what she terms as "too many limbs."
Overall Persona: Powderkeg variates between being introverted and quiet, and extroverted and loud. These outbursts tend to come in quick explosive bursts where she'll suddenly let loose with everything she wants to say and then some, only to clam back up in embarrassment. This also comes about from her habit of being overly boastful when she does talk, then immediately regretting what she said and wishing she could take it back. She has a bad habit of not thinking before she speaks, and not expressing herself often enough, resulting in a sort of a major cathartic event that takes her over. She tends to have a hard time making friends because she feels she needs to constantly impress or entertain them, although some of her closer friends keep trying to remind her that they'd like her anyway. She also has quite a chemistry background that she uses for her knowledge of combustion and pyrotechnics, and will often get drawn into any such discussion of reactions.
History: Friends of Powderkeg are generally surprised at meeting her parents, as her mother speaks with the country accent they're familiar with, while her father has a think Tramplevanian accent. This is easily explained by her father still being on active duty in the Canterlot Guard while she was growing up, so she spent more time around her mother than her father. Conversely, her little sister Fuse Box was born shortly before their father retired, and because she wound up working in the Guard herself, wound up spending more time with him and thus the two sisters have mismatched accents. Their brother has a strange mixture of the two. PK's childhood was fairly carefree and cheerful, living with her parents and siblings in Canterlot. The three children were for a time all pyrotechnically minded, and would often get in trouble for putting on impromptu fireworks shows... in the school auditorium. Her parents' house has several pictures on the walls of the siblings missing bits of their manes or eyebrows in various combinations. Being the middle child of three, PK often found herself competing for attention which led to her being boastful and loud, but then finding her older brother could generally do the things she could not (but which she'd boasted she could) contributed to her introverted side.
When she was old enough, she decided to strike out on her own, much like her older brother Sparks had done. After all, Canterlot was a nice place but they certainly didn't have a shortage of pyrotechnicians, and so she moved out to Ponyville to begin her life in colorful explosions.
Name: Powderkeg
Nickname/Alias(es): PK, Puffball, Keggy, Peeky.
Race: Bat Pegasus
Gender: Female
Age: Mare
Additional Status: Powderkeg wears a pair of black goggles, which she usually keeps up like a headband unless she's working.
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: Coal Dust Black
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Her mane surrounds her head like a small explosion, sort of like a 1980s punk rock style, multiple colors radiating outwards. She keeps her tail partially wrapped up except for the end of it, where the hair fountains out like another explosion.
Eye Color: Orange
Cutie Mark: A small wooden barrel
Other Scars/Markings: I should mention her having bat wings, although this is easily explained by her father being a member of Luna's guard, so that's just genetics plain and simple.
Physique: Powderkeg's a bit small for her age, but otherwise well proportioned.
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: The Forge
Job: Pyrotechnician, maker of fine Fireworks and Explosives.
Mother: Quicklime
Father: Glimmering Gloam
Sibling(s): Fuse Box (Sister) and Showering Sparks (Brother)
Other Family: NA
Closest Friends: Waxworks, Mannequin Grace, Mandolin Gray, Dusty Pan, Rivet Stitch, Gearshift, Fantastic Mirage
Courting/Courted By: NSF
Mate: NSF
Foal(s): NSF
-Personality Stuff-
Likes: Explosions. Powderkeg is hypnotically drawn to large scale events such as a breaking dam, town hall accidentally being kicked to bits by a hapless pegasus, etc. Anything where something small causes something tremendous to occur will catch her attention. She's also very fond of onions and walnuts as a snack, and likes it when ponies speak with flair.
Dislikes: Rainy days and overly friendly ponies (whom she's not been acquainted with yet). Pessimists, doomsayers, and anypony who ever claims something's destiny or fate.
Motivation: Hope, and the self-assurance that she can always do better tomorrow than she did today, leading her to always try to do whatever she does bigger, faster, and louder.
Strengths: Powderkeg's an eternal optimist, and always believes in a positive outcome no matter how dire the odds. She always works to see the bright side even when it's dark as far as the eye can see.
Weaknesses/Flaws: Powderkeg is boastful, and overconfident in her own abilities, often leading her to make promises that she then has to run herself ragged to try to keep.
Fears: Powderkeg's biggest fear is being in a situation where she's absolutely helpless to do anything about what's happening, that no matter what she does things will turn out poorly. On a more simplistic scale, she's also terrified of centipedes and anything with what she terms as "too many limbs."
Overall Persona: Powderkeg variates between being introverted and quiet, and extroverted and loud. These outbursts tend to come in quick explosive bursts where she'll suddenly let loose with everything she wants to say and then some, only to clam back up in embarrassment. This also comes about from her habit of being overly boastful when she does talk, then immediately regretting what she said and wishing she could take it back. She has a bad habit of not thinking before she speaks, and not expressing herself often enough, resulting in a sort of a major cathartic event that takes her over. She tends to have a hard time making friends because she feels she needs to constantly impress or entertain them, although some of her closer friends keep trying to remind her that they'd like her anyway. She also has quite a chemistry background that she uses for her knowledge of combustion and pyrotechnics, and will often get drawn into any such discussion of reactions.
History: Friends of Powderkeg are generally surprised at meeting her parents, as her mother speaks with the country accent they're familiar with, while her father has a think Tramplevanian accent. This is easily explained by her father still being on active duty in the Canterlot Guard while she was growing up, so she spent more time around her mother than her father. Conversely, her little sister Fuse Box was born shortly before their father retired, and because she wound up working in the Guard herself, wound up spending more time with him and thus the two sisters have mismatched accents. Their brother has a strange mixture of the two. PK's childhood was fairly carefree and cheerful, living with her parents and siblings in Canterlot. The three children were for a time all pyrotechnically minded, and would often get in trouble for putting on impromptu fireworks shows... in the school auditorium. Her parents' house has several pictures on the walls of the siblings missing bits of their manes or eyebrows in various combinations. Being the middle child of three, PK often found herself competing for attention which led to her being boastful and loud, but then finding her older brother could generally do the things she could not (but which she'd boasted she could) contributed to her introverted side.
When she was old enough, she decided to strike out on her own, much like her older brother Sparks had done. After all, Canterlot was a nice place but they certainly didn't have a shortage of pyrotechnicians, and so she moved out to Ponyville to begin her life in colorful explosions.