Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2011 5:22:47 GMT
-General Stuff-
Name: Argentinia
Nickname Archie
Race: Pegasus
Gender: Female
Age: 18
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: White
Mane/Tail Color and Style: She's unable to grow a mane; she has a short tail (see reference). She was simply born without the follicles necessary for a mane--this is more of a bizarre abberation than anything else.
Eye Color: Pink
Cutie Mark: Silver Bars (like this
Physique: Thin, taller than average. Not scrawny but not beautiful; bony, almost (but not quite) skeletal.
"Listen George, it's only 10 million bits... No look. LOOK, George, we play these cards right here, even the Princess is gonna want a loan--Nah, she'll need our cash. And you know what? We'll be in a position to say no. To her. To Celestia."
--Plans for the Future, the daydreams of Argentinia
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: Archie lives in a small cottage her parents own and live in; she pays them rent to assuage her feelings of dependence.
Job: Accountant for the Ponyville Bits Exchange (PVBE) (a bank).
Mother: Lucky Charms
Father: Fluvius Aurorum
Sibling(s): Buttercup, Delphus, Georgie, Cielus, Prancer (all older than her and working jobs away from home)
Closest Friends: She esh FRIENDLESS D: (for now ^w^)
-Personality Stuff-
Likes:
Pillar 1: Archie likes symbols of success. Yes, it's fine to make money--a supreme goal. But the point of money rests in what Archie can use it to say about herself. She is successful; she is neat; she is her own (dangerous) woman. At least, she will be. Because of this, she likes money; she likes sleek, black clothes; she likes the musty smell of lately polished hooves that follow the bankers of Manehatten like a cloud of smug success.
Pillar 2: Throughout her life, and even now, Argentinia's someone else's work-horse. She isn't number 1, she doesn't run her life, and all that matters to her boss is how speedily and correctly she, employee Y, can balance accounts. So you know what, if she gets a chance to lord it over someone, she's gonna have fun doing it--even if her "fun" involves blackmailing a friend.
Pillar 3: And who would such a person adore? Celebrities, naturally. These are the ponies that command society's attention and admiration. She follows Photo Finish's life and habits religiously.
Pillar 4: Archie has a sweettooth. You may think this is a minor point: not so. When I say she has a sweet tooth, I mean peppermints make her weak in the knees. I mean that, unless she is able to summon the maximum of her self-control, she can't resist the bonbon in front of her. And it screws her up. Sugar highs demolish her social defenses--the walls she's built around her personality to maintain her dignity.
Dislikes:
What does Archie despise? Anything that threatens her sense of pride or independence.
This includes but is not limited to:
Her job and her boss. The sooner she can strike out on her own, the better.
Athletes. She hates them. She is unbearably jealous of them: she is weak.
Royalty. Celestia, after all, is almost a kind of goddess, and nothing makes you feel small or insignificant like knowing that somewhere, someone who isn't you is making the sun rise.
Parties. She has nothing to say there; she doesn't dance. She rarely smiles. Still, she goes to them regularly, pursuing some buried and perhaps misplaced longing.
Motivation:
Independence, independence, independence.[/u]
Who knows what she'll do when she finally makes it? The point is, she won't depend on anyone or anything for her living but her own talents--and, more importantly, there will probably be idiots who will depend on her. She will, after all, have the power of life and death over their bits investments. That, after all, is what got her into the financial business. Bankers make and break livelihoods.
And of course, there's that nagging feeling that keeps her going to those Friday Pony Parties, the yearly galas and local get-togethers. It's the same gnawing sensation that made her continue to date at business school, even after the first and the fifth and the eleventh failure. It will, no doubt, continue to push Argentinia towards distinctly unprofitable uses of her time.
And she will continue to eat candy in large quantities, wracking up substantial dental fees <3
Strengths:
I'll be brief here because I've already basically touched on these above:
ARGENTINIA
-- is Good at Math
--Can fly
--Makes a good sales pitch; she can act and lie well.
--is determined to go far.
--possesses the ability to say “forget you" (or some more mature permutation of that |3) to fear in order to achieve her goals.
Weaknesses/Flaws:
Once again in brief,
--Unathletic
--Poor self control in regards to certain compulsions, like her almost unreal sweet-tooth.
--Bad with loyalty; bad with receiving loyalty.
--Sees her goal and dives for it, regardless of peripheral variables—like that speeding truck full of explosives about to intersect her trajectory.
--Can be a loud-mouth if she loses her self-possession--tends to say things she later regrets.
--Tends to act a bit drunk when she’s on a sugar high, which exacerbates all of the above.
Fears:
Among various rather heavy fears of turning out to be a nobody, she doesn't like to work with that variety of dragons that could eat her, given the desire to do so. Too bad: most of the biggest jewel traders in the world are such dragons.
Overall Persona:
As you’ve likely surmised, Archie’s a driven business lady driven simply to impress. Sugar highs tend to tear down that wall to reveal a stupid mathematician with few social skills and little to offer beyond her accounting abilities. She’s never experienced any kind of close friendship; developments of this kind to be experienced in the rps themselves will likely constitute the bulk of development for this character.
Basic bio:
Archie was born in Ponyville, the last child of a highly pretentious father (metaphorically) from Stuffy McStuffington and a happy-go lucky mother from the other side of Pinkie Pie's imagination.
Although Mom and Dad split the names for the kiddies, only Archie really inherited Dad's personality. Monocles and silly fur hats and misused big words isolated her in school. Sure, she grew out of it; sooner or later, she started to dress like and to talk like anypony: she even started to go by Archie. Even her dad, after all, wasn't a bad guy as an adult.The trouble was that by then Archie had missed out on childhood friendships. Unable to find a niche where she belonged, she became more and more alienated from the folks of Ponyville's schools, and more and more unable to resolve the problem.
Then came Sach's business school in Manehatten. That's when she fell in love with the city and its celebrities and its gilded towers for gilded people with gilded lives. It was also then that classes got hard. She boarded herself up. She studied hard. By year two, she was ranked 22 in a class of 500. It wasn't enough for her. Feeling inadequate, she began to date. Not knowing any-stallion other than her aging father, she'd sign up for blind dates each and every Friday--each of which left her more disconsolate than the last--until the students who ran the program simply barred her from signing up.
In the end, Archie graduated 35 in her class with all A's and not a friend in the world, which was more than enough to land her a middle-income job as an accountant at an important bits exchange in Ponyville. She took it because it paid. Her parents offered to let her live with them--which she did. She hated herself for it: She was not that kind of pony... But at least they were someone to talk to. They would have been, too, if she hadn't insisted on paying them rent, treating them with all the affection she would have offered to any other land lord.
But she still has her ambitions. She can still be a heroic, insidious kind of investor: she can be one of those big-shot investors, a bonds salesman on her own--no, at the head of her own firm, making and breaking lives at her whim, building a fortune, decieving dragons, pilfering the royal hoard, showing every pony just what kind talent she has.
Name: Argentinia
Nickname Archie
Race: Pegasus
Gender: Female
Age: 18
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: White
Mane/Tail Color and Style: She's unable to grow a mane; she has a short tail (see reference). She was simply born without the follicles necessary for a mane--this is more of a bizarre abberation than anything else.
Eye Color: Pink
Cutie Mark: Silver Bars (like this
Physique: Thin, taller than average. Not scrawny but not beautiful; bony, almost (but not quite) skeletal.
"Listen George, it's only 10 million bits... No look. LOOK, George, we play these cards right here, even the Princess is gonna want a loan--Nah, she'll need our cash. And you know what? We'll be in a position to say no. To her. To Celestia."
--Plans for the Future, the daydreams of Argentinia
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: Archie lives in a small cottage her parents own and live in; she pays them rent to assuage her feelings of dependence.
Job: Accountant for the Ponyville Bits Exchange (PVBE) (a bank).
Mother: Lucky Charms
Father: Fluvius Aurorum
Sibling(s): Buttercup, Delphus, Georgie, Cielus, Prancer (all older than her and working jobs away from home)
Closest Friends: She esh FRIENDLESS D: (for now ^w^)
-Personality Stuff-
Likes:
Pillar 1: Archie likes symbols of success. Yes, it's fine to make money--a supreme goal. But the point of money rests in what Archie can use it to say about herself. She is successful; she is neat; she is her own (dangerous) woman. At least, she will be. Because of this, she likes money; she likes sleek, black clothes; she likes the musty smell of lately polished hooves that follow the bankers of Manehatten like a cloud of smug success.
Pillar 2: Throughout her life, and even now, Argentinia's someone else's work-horse. She isn't number 1, she doesn't run her life, and all that matters to her boss is how speedily and correctly she, employee Y, can balance accounts. So you know what, if she gets a chance to lord it over someone, she's gonna have fun doing it--even if her "fun" involves blackmailing a friend.
Pillar 3: And who would such a person adore? Celebrities, naturally. These are the ponies that command society's attention and admiration. She follows Photo Finish's life and habits religiously.
Pillar 4: Archie has a sweettooth. You may think this is a minor point: not so. When I say she has a sweet tooth, I mean peppermints make her weak in the knees. I mean that, unless she is able to summon the maximum of her self-control, she can't resist the bonbon in front of her. And it screws her up. Sugar highs demolish her social defenses--the walls she's built around her personality to maintain her dignity.
Dislikes:
What does Archie despise? Anything that threatens her sense of pride or independence.
This includes but is not limited to:
Her job and her boss. The sooner she can strike out on her own, the better.
Athletes. She hates them. She is unbearably jealous of them: she is weak.
Royalty. Celestia, after all, is almost a kind of goddess, and nothing makes you feel small or insignificant like knowing that somewhere, someone who isn't you is making the sun rise.
Parties. She has nothing to say there; she doesn't dance. She rarely smiles. Still, she goes to them regularly, pursuing some buried and perhaps misplaced longing.
Motivation:
Independence, independence, independence.[/u]
Who knows what she'll do when she finally makes it? The point is, she won't depend on anyone or anything for her living but her own talents--and, more importantly, there will probably be idiots who will depend on her. She will, after all, have the power of life and death over their bits investments. That, after all, is what got her into the financial business. Bankers make and break livelihoods.
And of course, there's that nagging feeling that keeps her going to those Friday Pony Parties, the yearly galas and local get-togethers. It's the same gnawing sensation that made her continue to date at business school, even after the first and the fifth and the eleventh failure. It will, no doubt, continue to push Argentinia towards distinctly unprofitable uses of her time.
And she will continue to eat candy in large quantities, wracking up substantial dental fees <3
Strengths:
I'll be brief here because I've already basically touched on these above:
ARGENTINIA
-- is Good at Math
--Can fly
--Makes a good sales pitch; she can act and lie well.
--is determined to go far.
--possesses the ability to say “forget you" (or some more mature permutation of that |3) to fear in order to achieve her goals.
Weaknesses/Flaws:
Once again in brief,
--Unathletic
--Poor self control in regards to certain compulsions, like her almost unreal sweet-tooth.
--Bad with loyalty; bad with receiving loyalty.
--Sees her goal and dives for it, regardless of peripheral variables—like that speeding truck full of explosives about to intersect her trajectory.
--Can be a loud-mouth if she loses her self-possession--tends to say things she later regrets.
--Tends to act a bit drunk when she’s on a sugar high, which exacerbates all of the above.
Fears:
Among various rather heavy fears of turning out to be a nobody, she doesn't like to work with that variety of dragons that could eat her, given the desire to do so. Too bad: most of the biggest jewel traders in the world are such dragons.
Overall Persona:
As you’ve likely surmised, Archie’s a driven business lady driven simply to impress. Sugar highs tend to tear down that wall to reveal a stupid mathematician with few social skills and little to offer beyond her accounting abilities. She’s never experienced any kind of close friendship; developments of this kind to be experienced in the rps themselves will likely constitute the bulk of development for this character.
Basic bio:
Archie was born in Ponyville, the last child of a highly pretentious father (metaphorically) from Stuffy McStuffington and a happy-go lucky mother from the other side of Pinkie Pie's imagination.
Although Mom and Dad split the names for the kiddies, only Archie really inherited Dad's personality. Monocles and silly fur hats and misused big words isolated her in school. Sure, she grew out of it; sooner or later, she started to dress like and to talk like anypony: she even started to go by Archie. Even her dad, after all, wasn't a bad guy as an adult.The trouble was that by then Archie had missed out on childhood friendships. Unable to find a niche where she belonged, she became more and more alienated from the folks of Ponyville's schools, and more and more unable to resolve the problem.
Then came Sach's business school in Manehatten. That's when she fell in love with the city and its celebrities and its gilded towers for gilded people with gilded lives. It was also then that classes got hard. She boarded herself up. She studied hard. By year two, she was ranked 22 in a class of 500. It wasn't enough for her. Feeling inadequate, she began to date. Not knowing any-stallion other than her aging father, she'd sign up for blind dates each and every Friday--each of which left her more disconsolate than the last--until the students who ran the program simply barred her from signing up.
In the end, Archie graduated 35 in her class with all A's and not a friend in the world, which was more than enough to land her a middle-income job as an accountant at an important bits exchange in Ponyville. She took it because it paid. Her parents offered to let her live with them--which she did. She hated herself for it: She was not that kind of pony... But at least they were someone to talk to. They would have been, too, if she hadn't insisted on paying them rent, treating them with all the affection she would have offered to any other land lord.
But she still has her ambitions. She can still be a heroic, insidious kind of investor: she can be one of those big-shot investors, a bonds salesman on her own--no, at the head of her own firm, making and breaking lives at her whim, building a fortune, decieving dragons, pilfering the royal hoard, showing every pony just what kind talent she has.