Post by Nyahahameha on Dec 28, 2016 21:03:28 GMT
-General Stuff-
Name: Snooze Cruise
Nickname/Alias(es): Snoozles
Race: Unicorn
Gender: Female
Age: Teenage
Additional Status: Captain of the Dreamboat, a galleon that sails the sea of night blanketing the Dream Plane, chasing off nightmares and leaving pleasant dreams in its wake
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: Dark Grey, not quite black
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Light grey, almost white, styled into a massive puff of curls and softness which tends to cover one eye or the other - appears as if she has a cloud growing out of her head and flank
Eye Color: Blue
Cutie Mark: A wooden sailboat atop three white clouds
Other Scars/Markings: N/A
Physique: Shorter and thinner than average for her age - almost malnourished-seeming
Physical/Magical Abilities: Her talent is traversing the dream world, giving her the ability to connect to other ponies' dreams and exert a typically positive influence on them. She developed this ability out of desperation while lucid dreaming during her time in her cursed spore-induced coma, her magic ability becoming completely focused on this one feat. Over time, she was able to develop this ability and expand the 'distance' she could travel, and was even able to create a magical construct within the dream plane, which she christened the "Dreamboat" - this was mainly so she could transport other ponies with her, allowing her parents and herself the ability to interact within one shared dream. The Dreamboat also greatly expanded the distance she could travel upon th dream plane, at the cost of subtlety - most ponies would be immediately alerted to their state within a dream upon seeing the Dreamboat entering it, often leading to said pony waking up and making Snooze Cruise's efforts moot, which led to her not typically using it without good reason. After being woken from her coma by Luna's power, Snooze Cruise has been able to develop her dream-centered magic in other ways, enabling her to interact with the dream world while still semi-conscious, as well as enabling her to control her real world body from within a dream - producing the effect of sleep-walking and sleep-talking.
Physical/Magical Weaknesses: Due to living the current majority of her life in a coma, kept alive only through medical means, Snooze Cruise's body is underdeveloped and physically frail, not suited to most types of labour. In addition, she did not receive a complete education, as she was only able to glean so much knowledge over the years by walking into the dreams of ponies dreaming about school. This directly affects her magic ability, as she was never taught to control her magic the way most ponies are, and thus is unable to perform even the most basic feats of more practical magics - a weakness best demonstrated by her inability to levitate even the smallest objects. In short, she has almost no traditionally marketable skills. In terms of the weaknesses of her talent magic, her dream walking does have a limited range - she can more easily enter amd integrate herself into the dreams of those who are located in close proximity to her in the waking world than those who are located far away. Use of the Dreamboat can expand this range, but at the cost of subtlety - nine times out of ten, the intrusion of the Dreamboat into another ponies' dream will shock them awake, making the effort moot. She also does not have absolute access; those with a well-guarded mind may have the ability to prevent her from traversing their dreams.
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: Parents' Home on a cabbage farm, some distance from Ponyville.
Job: None
Mother: Lullaby
Father: Cradle Rock
Sibling(s): N/A
Closest Friends: N/A
Courting/Courted By: N/A
Mate: N/A
Foal(s): N/A
-Personality Stuff-
Likes: Sleeping, being awake, having new experiences, exploring her surroundings, several different genres of instrumental music, being carried places, chasing away bad dreams aboard the Dreamboat, the faces of ponies who just realized they're dreaming, most kinds of vegetables, bland food, sneezing
Dislikes: Manual labour, intermittent loud noises, too hot or too cold weather, any food with a well-defined taste, being rushed, ponies who lack patience, the general concept of personal space, shifty-eyed animals, breeds of animals of species that typically have hair but in these specific instances do not, most kinds of music featuring lyrics
Motivation: Having new experiences to make up for the ones she missed out on. Bringing good dreams to as many residents of Equestria as she can. Finding a place in the waking world as fulfilling as the one she has in the dream world.
Strengths: Being a go-getter, easily motivated, especially by the prospect of helping others. Having an unfettered imagination, allowing her to concoct solutions to problems those more grounded in reality might not think of. The wisdom of an old hermit.
Weaknesses/Flaws: The desire to be recognized for her contributions to others. Being generally an easily-distracted flake with a limited understanding of social convention. Being a meddler who doesn't know when it's best to just leave somepony alone. The wisdom of an old hermit.
Fears: That she won't learn how to take care of herself before her parents cease being able to take care of her. That she'll be left alone in the real world like she initially was in the dream plane. That she'll get stuck in a job she hates in order to support herself (I.e. maintaining the cabbage farm). Sharp objects (unless they're specifically desinged as weapons). Raisins (psychosomatic allergy).
Overall Persona: Snooze Cruise is a naturally curious girl with a naturally abundant imagination and a natural urge to help others. In spite of these fairly commonplace character traits, she tends to be difficult to communicate with, due in no small part to her habit of being asleep an average of twenty three hours a day. Despite the ability to communicate with others in her sleep and the fact that she has an expansive vocabulary, she tends to communicate in vague speech riddled with tangents unrelated to the topic that was brougt to her. Even when fully awake, her limited understanding of social cues makes her come off as either rude or dumb to most who meet her during the daytime.
At nighttime. a seemingly entirely different personality gets to shine, specifically when she introduces herself to somepony within their dreams. These ponies are met by a boisterous, spontaneous, semi-comprehensible girl ready to show them the world of adventure that exists beyond the waking. This Snooze Cruise is just as curious and well-meaning as the real world's Snooze Cruise, only without the limitations applied by reality.
During that one figurative twenty fourth hour when she is enitrely lucid in reality is when these two aspects of who she is align as one. Only those curious enough about who she really is will be able to meet with this Snooze Cruise, a talkative and happy-go-lucky girl genuinely interested in learning about other people and having new experiences. This Snooze Cruise tends to make the most sense while speaking.
That said, all of these Snooze Cruises will nose their way into your business if you seem like you're having a bad time, awake or asleep, and getting mad at her will just make her want to make it up to you. She also follows a kind of logic that doesn't always make the most sense, a holdover from her comparative lack of interpersonal relationships and years of not being grounded by reality.
History/Background: Short version: Was unintentionally put to sleep as a foal by a magic flower with cursed spores, which was meant as a birthday present from a friend of the family due to being so pretty, and wound up in a curse-induced coma for almost the rest of her life. During this time, her magical ability manifested itself and she develped it as she lucid dreamed, enabling her to traverse the dream plane in gradually increasing distances, using the dreams of others to learn about the world of the waking and interacting with her parents in much the same manner. After being released from the moon, Luna found Snooze Cruise traversing the dream plane and took pity on her. Luna was able to use her power to remove the curse and awaken her from her coma.
Name: Snooze Cruise
Nickname/Alias(es): Snoozles
Race: Unicorn
Gender: Female
Age: Teenage
Additional Status: Captain of the Dreamboat, a galleon that sails the sea of night blanketing the Dream Plane, chasing off nightmares and leaving pleasant dreams in its wake
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: Dark Grey, not quite black
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Light grey, almost white, styled into a massive puff of curls and softness which tends to cover one eye or the other - appears as if she has a cloud growing out of her head and flank
Eye Color: Blue
Cutie Mark: A wooden sailboat atop three white clouds
Other Scars/Markings: N/A
Physique: Shorter and thinner than average for her age - almost malnourished-seeming
Physical/Magical Abilities: Her talent is traversing the dream world, giving her the ability to connect to other ponies' dreams and exert a typically positive influence on them. She developed this ability out of desperation while lucid dreaming during her time in her cursed spore-induced coma, her magic ability becoming completely focused on this one feat. Over time, she was able to develop this ability and expand the 'distance' she could travel, and was even able to create a magical construct within the dream plane, which she christened the "Dreamboat" - this was mainly so she could transport other ponies with her, allowing her parents and herself the ability to interact within one shared dream. The Dreamboat also greatly expanded the distance she could travel upon th dream plane, at the cost of subtlety - most ponies would be immediately alerted to their state within a dream upon seeing the Dreamboat entering it, often leading to said pony waking up and making Snooze Cruise's efforts moot, which led to her not typically using it without good reason. After being woken from her coma by Luna's power, Snooze Cruise has been able to develop her dream-centered magic in other ways, enabling her to interact with the dream world while still semi-conscious, as well as enabling her to control her real world body from within a dream - producing the effect of sleep-walking and sleep-talking.
Physical/Magical Weaknesses: Due to living the current majority of her life in a coma, kept alive only through medical means, Snooze Cruise's body is underdeveloped and physically frail, not suited to most types of labour. In addition, she did not receive a complete education, as she was only able to glean so much knowledge over the years by walking into the dreams of ponies dreaming about school. This directly affects her magic ability, as she was never taught to control her magic the way most ponies are, and thus is unable to perform even the most basic feats of more practical magics - a weakness best demonstrated by her inability to levitate even the smallest objects. In short, she has almost no traditionally marketable skills. In terms of the weaknesses of her talent magic, her dream walking does have a limited range - she can more easily enter amd integrate herself into the dreams of those who are located in close proximity to her in the waking world than those who are located far away. Use of the Dreamboat can expand this range, but at the cost of subtlety - nine times out of ten, the intrusion of the Dreamboat into another ponies' dream will shock them awake, making the effort moot. She also does not have absolute access; those with a well-guarded mind may have the ability to prevent her from traversing their dreams.
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: Parents' Home on a cabbage farm, some distance from Ponyville.
Job: None
Mother: Lullaby
Father: Cradle Rock
Sibling(s): N/A
Closest Friends: N/A
Courting/Courted By: N/A
Mate: N/A
Foal(s): N/A
-Personality Stuff-
Likes: Sleeping, being awake, having new experiences, exploring her surroundings, several different genres of instrumental music, being carried places, chasing away bad dreams aboard the Dreamboat, the faces of ponies who just realized they're dreaming, most kinds of vegetables, bland food, sneezing
Dislikes: Manual labour, intermittent loud noises, too hot or too cold weather, any food with a well-defined taste, being rushed, ponies who lack patience, the general concept of personal space, shifty-eyed animals, breeds of animals of species that typically have hair but in these specific instances do not, most kinds of music featuring lyrics
Motivation: Having new experiences to make up for the ones she missed out on. Bringing good dreams to as many residents of Equestria as she can. Finding a place in the waking world as fulfilling as the one she has in the dream world.
Strengths: Being a go-getter, easily motivated, especially by the prospect of helping others. Having an unfettered imagination, allowing her to concoct solutions to problems those more grounded in reality might not think of. The wisdom of an old hermit.
Weaknesses/Flaws: The desire to be recognized for her contributions to others. Being generally an easily-distracted flake with a limited understanding of social convention. Being a meddler who doesn't know when it's best to just leave somepony alone. The wisdom of an old hermit.
Fears: That she won't learn how to take care of herself before her parents cease being able to take care of her. That she'll be left alone in the real world like she initially was in the dream plane. That she'll get stuck in a job she hates in order to support herself (I.e. maintaining the cabbage farm). Sharp objects (unless they're specifically desinged as weapons). Raisins (psychosomatic allergy).
Overall Persona: Snooze Cruise is a naturally curious girl with a naturally abundant imagination and a natural urge to help others. In spite of these fairly commonplace character traits, she tends to be difficult to communicate with, due in no small part to her habit of being asleep an average of twenty three hours a day. Despite the ability to communicate with others in her sleep and the fact that she has an expansive vocabulary, she tends to communicate in vague speech riddled with tangents unrelated to the topic that was brougt to her. Even when fully awake, her limited understanding of social cues makes her come off as either rude or dumb to most who meet her during the daytime.
At nighttime. a seemingly entirely different personality gets to shine, specifically when she introduces herself to somepony within their dreams. These ponies are met by a boisterous, spontaneous, semi-comprehensible girl ready to show them the world of adventure that exists beyond the waking. This Snooze Cruise is just as curious and well-meaning as the real world's Snooze Cruise, only without the limitations applied by reality.
During that one figurative twenty fourth hour when she is enitrely lucid in reality is when these two aspects of who she is align as one. Only those curious enough about who she really is will be able to meet with this Snooze Cruise, a talkative and happy-go-lucky girl genuinely interested in learning about other people and having new experiences. This Snooze Cruise tends to make the most sense while speaking.
That said, all of these Snooze Cruises will nose their way into your business if you seem like you're having a bad time, awake or asleep, and getting mad at her will just make her want to make it up to you. She also follows a kind of logic that doesn't always make the most sense, a holdover from her comparative lack of interpersonal relationships and years of not being grounded by reality.
History/Background: Short version: Was unintentionally put to sleep as a foal by a magic flower with cursed spores, which was meant as a birthday present from a friend of the family due to being so pretty, and wound up in a curse-induced coma for almost the rest of her life. During this time, her magical ability manifested itself and she develped it as she lucid dreamed, enabling her to traverse the dream plane in gradually increasing distances, using the dreams of others to learn about the world of the waking and interacting with her parents in much the same manner. After being released from the moon, Luna found Snooze Cruise traversing the dream plane and took pity on her. Luna was able to use her power to remove the curse and awaken her from her coma.