Post by captaintrek on Dec 28, 2011 10:47:31 GMT
Well, finally, after much procrastination, here's the character app I promised 2K I'd put in...
-General-
Name: Starry Silvershine
Nickname/Alias(es): N/A. He prefers “Mister Silvershine”, but generally won’t correct you if you call him “Starry”.
Race: Earth Pony
Gender: Male
Age: Mature adult (equivalent of early 30s)
Additional Status: Senior manager at Silvershine Mining Inc.
-Physical-
Pelt Color: Slate grey
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Bright yellow with paler yellow stripes.
Eye Color: Brown
Cutie Mark: A pencil writing on a gilded scroll.
Other Scars/Markings: None worth noting.
Physique: Starry has a prim and dignified bearing, but a life filled with study and desk work has left him relatively unfit.
-Social-
Current Residence: Canterlot
Job: Successful business pony and noted aviator
Mother: Pearl Silvershine (maiden name Pearly Topaz)
Father: Ironhoof Silvershine
Sibling(s): Brighteyes Silvershine (younger brother) and Sunny Silvershine (older sister)
Other Family: Various aunties, uncles, nieces, nephews and even his now extraordinarily old grandfather Longlocks “Divining Rod” Silvershine
Closest Friends: There are many who respect Starry, but he is generally too distant for true friendship.
Courting/Courted By: None. Starry never had time for a wife...
Mate: N/A
Foal(s): N/A
-Personality-
Likes: Perusing a clear objective, efficiency, scheduling, logical reasoning, keeping busy, knowledge, being seen to be independent and capable without having to rely on others, slow and ponderous classical music, seafaring theory and personal achievement.
Dislikes: When others let their hearts rule their heads, idle chatter and small talk, others seeing him as weak, inferior or in need of help, being pitied, failed endeavours, touchy-feely ponies and lazy ponies, fast-paced, bombastic music, emotionally charged situations (he can’t relate to them!) and having too much spare time.
Motivation: In the short term, Starry has focused himself on pulling in favours and diverting resources to his slightly inane airship scheme. In the longer term, however, he honestly doesn’t know what he wants. His life, up until recently, was entirely consumed by one specific objective, and now that he has achieved that goal, he doesn’t really know what he truly wants next. The airship scheme is merely a weak attempt to fill that void...
Strengths: Starry Silvershine is intelligent, knowledgeable and possesses superb business acumen and plenty of skill in the paperwork laden, organisational part of management and even command. He has the ability to remain steadfast, professional and stoic in the face of even determined opposition, never allowing himself to be visibly rattled. At first, this unflappability was simply a facade he had learned to project, but over the years it has come to increasingly dominate his character. He is also perceptive, with a knack for picking up on and diagnosing problems that slip under the radars of other ponies. His present position at the beck-and-call of both a successful mining company and a wealthy upper-crust family could also be considered to be a “strength”, though this is a strength of circumstance rather than a strength of character.
Weaknesses/Flaws: Despite his substantial professional successes, Starry leads a largely empty existence, with little in his life besides pride, ambition and work. He has no real friends, any “social life” he leads is by professional obligation only, and he has never known the touch of a mare. When young, he responded to the condescending views of his relatives by closing his soul off from the world, and since then it has atrophied to a critical degree. Additionally, his chilly professionalism has a tendency to rub quite a few more sociable ponies the wrong way (a fact he is keenly aware of, hence why he keeps more charismatic ponies on hand to maintain morale among the “troops”).
Fears: Crashing and burning... Even with his keenly analytical mind, he refuses to even consider what would happen if he were to lose everything he has worked so hard to achieve...
Overall Persona: Starry was born to the wealthy and notable Silvershine family of Canterlot, owners of Silvershine Mining Inc. Almost exclusively comprised of unicorns, Starry’s hornless appearance upon birth was such a surprise that it was briefly assumed that he was a unicorn with a birth defect. It was, however, quickly proven that this was not the case, and that Starry was, in fact, a perfectly healthy little earth pony foal. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop the family from taking a disfavouring view of the black sheep (and later middle child) of the family. Whilst never going so far as mistreating him (indeed, by the standards of most families, Starry’s childhood was downright cushy), there was always an obvious perception that Starry was in some way a pony to be pitied because he would be unable to practise magic like a “normal” Silvershine, with an unspoken assumption that he would likely never amount to as much as his siblings.
Perceptive from a young age, it didn’t take long for the intelligent young Starry Silvershine to catch on to this. Every time he would attempt something that would require even the slightest bit of hoof or mouth dexterity, somepony with a horn would be at his side in an instant to do it by magic for him. “Let me get that for you, dear...” and “Oh, don’t trouble yourself, dear...”, they would say, with any protests from the young Colt that he could do it himself ignored and any attempts on his part to approach the others and show them that he could do something they would normally do for him laughed off and dismissed as “cute”.
This attitude clashed violently with Starry’s personality, as he was from birth a driven, ambitious pony. Abundantly aware of what he could do if only his family would give him the chance, Starry became obsessed with proving himself, especially to his father Ironhoof. When he started to be given less advanced education materials that his older sister Sunny had been given at his age, even though he obviously showed greater aptitude than she ever had, he would seek out the appropriate materials himself, learning largely from texts as there was usually no pony to teach him. This was necessary, as his requests for advanced lessons, especially in mathematics, quickly became the butt of jokes within the Silvershine household.
A lesser pony might have become a seething, rebellious ball of rage as this continued over the years, but Starry quickly learned to internalise his anger as he endured endless lessons in noble etiquette and upper class “respect”, coping with the incredible vacuousness of Canterlot’s wealthy elite and relentless pandering of his family by adopting a persona of cold, professional indifference that forced Starry Silvershine to grow up well before it was his time. He became the perfect little scholar, but the happy, innocent little foal he should have been was mercilessly crushed in the process. All that was left was his ambition; his need to prove to Iornhoof Silvershine that he was not worthless...
And so he studied, at first to exclusion of everything else. This unsustainable practise came to a head when Ironhoof noticed that his son had failed to show up for dinner one evening, and had been absent from lunch earlier that same day. He eventually found a tired, thirsty and hungry Starry Silvershine in the family library, surrounded by stacks of books and papers, furiously mouthwriting notes with a glazed look in his eyes. Upon hearing his aghast father say his name, Starry turned... “See here, father... I can write by myself...” he smiled, just before collapsing from mental exhaustion.
The next day, when Starry awoke, what stuck him the most was that he didn’t regret for a moment what had transpired the day before. The chastising voices of his mother and father filled his ears, but all he could think about was the fact that sometime during that marathon study session, his cutie mark had appeared, the image that of a commoner’s pencil writing upon a beautifully gilded scroll of top quality parchment. Even then, the symbolism was not lost on the perceptive colt...
Of course, this event only worsened the family’s barely veiled “damaged goods” perception of Starry, but he was, under strict conditions, allowed to continue his studies. It took years, and Starry only grew ever colder and more distant as childhood friends drifted away, leaving books as his only companions, but eventually, the victories began to come. The slightest admission from the family that they were impressed with his progress would fill him with carefully concealed pride, every tiny inch of progress he made towards making them proud acting as a vital little piece of joy for him to hold on to, the emotional journey akin to leaping from stone to stone across a raging river of what could just as easily have been either loathing or self-loathing.
After a painful, repressed adolescence, where his raging hormones clashed with and were ultimately defeated by what was rapidly becoming a truly magnificent level of self-control; Starry emerged into adulthood with a plan. The family had tried to keep the truth concealed from their children, but Silvershine Mining was failing. Over several generations, both the aptitude for mining itself, and the business acumen needed to make it function on a larger scale had largely disappeared from the family, save for the rapidly aging Longlocks Silvershine. Ironhoof had done his best to make a go of it, but a string of bad business decisions on his part had left the company near the brink.
Sensing his desperation, Starry approached his father with a plan for rebuilding the consortium... He wasn’t entirely surprised when his idea was curtly shot down... Even now, when his wall was lined with degrees and diplomas from several high-profile institutions, lauding a pony whose diligence, in their words, was only matched by his brilliance, all his father could see, deep down, was a hornless little earth pony colt...
Undeterred, Starry managed to convince his father to allow him a lower-level position within the company. It was little better than middle management, but it was a place to start. His tactic, in principle, was simple. He would impose stringent standards of workplace efficiency while keeping a more charismatic pony on-hoof to ensure morale didn’t sink too low from the at times unreasonable workload demanded by the young Silvershine. Within weeks, his department’s results had skyrocketed, and within two months he was helping neighbouring departments to lift their game. Across the whole company, it wasn’t much, but it was more than enough to catch the attention of those higher up...
Promotions soon followed. Starry’s family might have been influential proprietors with a majority stake in the company, but there were none-the-less plenty of more open-minded ponies ready and willing to do anything in their power to save the company (and hence their jobs), including going behind the back of Ironhoof Silvershine to put Starry in the best possible position to rescue Silvershine Mining. And rescue it he did. Through his own actions, and judiciously making carefully worded suggestions to those above him that never quite gave them the full picture (which would leave them endlessly scampering back to Starry for more advice), Silvershine Mining turned itself around.
The years Starry spent restoring SIlvershine Mining to its former glory were prideful, but largely joyless and utterly loveless. An aloof, distant employer, even the charismatic team builders he preferred to keep as his right-hooves were seldom able to break through his hardened exterior, and couldn’t claim to know very much more about him than the average rank-and-file employee could. Even they, however, couldn’t have known the extent to which Starry Silvershine had by then demolished his own soul in the pursuit of the two things he had left, pride and ambition...
By the time the company was well and truly flourishing again, Ironhoof could no longer ignore his son’s successes, especially now that even the board of directors had joined in the chorus of praise. Probably Starry’s proudest moment came when his father wound up having to approach Starry in his own office to ‘discuss business’. Ironhoof found himself on the receiving end of what was largely self-inflicted humiliation, the endlessly patient Starry happy to allow Ironhoof’s mumbly evasion to break down into simpering deference. Ironhoof had flown straight beyond taking pride in his black sheep son’s accomplishment and gone straight into awe and even fear of Starry’s status and power. In this moment, Starry Silvershine could have brought his father to his knees with but a single word...
But Starry was neither bitter, ‘nor vengeful. He accepted his father’s apologies with the same calculated indifference he used to deal with everypony else, though in so doing he managed to (quite intentionally) make his father feel even worse than if Starry lashed out and bucked his dear old dad in the jaw. The company, he declared, would remain in the family as a whole. Starry would not use his connections to yank the proverbial rug out from under the hooves of the rest of the Silvershine clan. In return, he was never to be pitied or treated like “damaged goods” ever again. He would be acknowledged as a true and valued Silvershine. These were extremely generous terms, and Ironhoof was unable to agree fast enough.
This brings Starry Silvershine, essentially, to today. He has accomplished what he set out to do, to win the respect of his family. The fact that respect has become (at least in Ironhoof’s case) synonymous with fear doesn’t matter to the earth pony. However, with the weight of both Silvershine Mining and the rest of the Silvershine family’s assets firmly behind him, Starry has found himself in an awkward position, not on a professional level, but a personal one. This position can be summed up by the words, “What the hay do I do now?”
The possibilities for a rich stallion like him are, of course, endless, but with a large part of his entire reason for being now concluded, his internal emotional state has slowly begun to collapse into turmoil. Even worse, his meticulously crafted steely exterior has prevented most ponies from seeing it. Starry Silvershine has become a pony on the brink, and even he doesn’t quite realise it.
For the moment, at least, his hold on the reigns of Silvershine Mining has remained steady, but he has begun, largely on desperate unconscious whim, to strike out in search of something to fill the gaping void within his soul. One-upping his own accomplishments seemed at least a somewhat logical next step. He still has his pride, after all, so why not try to swell it?
To this end, Starry has decided to pursue an interest of his he has been putting off for a long time now. Whilst not his ‘special’ talent, navigation comes fairly naturally to the pony, and despite rarely getting the chance to put this secondary talent into practise, he has studied nautical charts and other maritime texts extensively. Even more interesting to Starry is the surprisingly similar practise of airship captaining and navigation. This is probably why there is in airship in a bottle sitting on Starry’s desk back at Silvershine Mining...
So why not get into airships? Acquiring the relevant licenses proved a trivial matter for the intelligent stoic, and now all he needs is an airship to command. Unfortunately, he has missed his first opportunity. Prince Blueblood had recently commissioned a private airship and was looking for somepony to command it. However, despite Starry’s impressive credentials, he was passed over by the prince in favour of Fancy Pants, a personal friend of his. Embittered, the emotionally degrading Starry Silvershine is now on the verge of what could be his first serious mistake. If he can’t find somepony else’s airship to command, he has decided, he’ll just have to build his own...
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And there he is... Hope you like him. ^_^
-General-
Name: Starry Silvershine
Nickname/Alias(es): N/A. He prefers “Mister Silvershine”, but generally won’t correct you if you call him “Starry”.
Race: Earth Pony
Gender: Male
Age: Mature adult (equivalent of early 30s)
Additional Status: Senior manager at Silvershine Mining Inc.
-Physical-
Pelt Color: Slate grey
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Bright yellow with paler yellow stripes.
Eye Color: Brown
Cutie Mark: A pencil writing on a gilded scroll.
Other Scars/Markings: None worth noting.
Physique: Starry has a prim and dignified bearing, but a life filled with study and desk work has left him relatively unfit.
-Social-
Current Residence: Canterlot
Job: Successful business pony and noted aviator
Mother: Pearl Silvershine (maiden name Pearly Topaz)
Father: Ironhoof Silvershine
Sibling(s): Brighteyes Silvershine (younger brother) and Sunny Silvershine (older sister)
Other Family: Various aunties, uncles, nieces, nephews and even his now extraordinarily old grandfather Longlocks “Divining Rod” Silvershine
Closest Friends: There are many who respect Starry, but he is generally too distant for true friendship.
Courting/Courted By: None. Starry never had time for a wife...
Mate: N/A
Foal(s): N/A
-Personality-
Likes: Perusing a clear objective, efficiency, scheduling, logical reasoning, keeping busy, knowledge, being seen to be independent and capable without having to rely on others, slow and ponderous classical music, seafaring theory and personal achievement.
Dislikes: When others let their hearts rule their heads, idle chatter and small talk, others seeing him as weak, inferior or in need of help, being pitied, failed endeavours, touchy-feely ponies and lazy ponies, fast-paced, bombastic music, emotionally charged situations (he can’t relate to them!) and having too much spare time.
Motivation: In the short term, Starry has focused himself on pulling in favours and diverting resources to his slightly inane airship scheme. In the longer term, however, he honestly doesn’t know what he wants. His life, up until recently, was entirely consumed by one specific objective, and now that he has achieved that goal, he doesn’t really know what he truly wants next. The airship scheme is merely a weak attempt to fill that void...
Strengths: Starry Silvershine is intelligent, knowledgeable and possesses superb business acumen and plenty of skill in the paperwork laden, organisational part of management and even command. He has the ability to remain steadfast, professional and stoic in the face of even determined opposition, never allowing himself to be visibly rattled. At first, this unflappability was simply a facade he had learned to project, but over the years it has come to increasingly dominate his character. He is also perceptive, with a knack for picking up on and diagnosing problems that slip under the radars of other ponies. His present position at the beck-and-call of both a successful mining company and a wealthy upper-crust family could also be considered to be a “strength”, though this is a strength of circumstance rather than a strength of character.
Weaknesses/Flaws: Despite his substantial professional successes, Starry leads a largely empty existence, with little in his life besides pride, ambition and work. He has no real friends, any “social life” he leads is by professional obligation only, and he has never known the touch of a mare. When young, he responded to the condescending views of his relatives by closing his soul off from the world, and since then it has atrophied to a critical degree. Additionally, his chilly professionalism has a tendency to rub quite a few more sociable ponies the wrong way (a fact he is keenly aware of, hence why he keeps more charismatic ponies on hand to maintain morale among the “troops”).
Fears: Crashing and burning... Even with his keenly analytical mind, he refuses to even consider what would happen if he were to lose everything he has worked so hard to achieve...
Overall Persona: Starry was born to the wealthy and notable Silvershine family of Canterlot, owners of Silvershine Mining Inc. Almost exclusively comprised of unicorns, Starry’s hornless appearance upon birth was such a surprise that it was briefly assumed that he was a unicorn with a birth defect. It was, however, quickly proven that this was not the case, and that Starry was, in fact, a perfectly healthy little earth pony foal. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop the family from taking a disfavouring view of the black sheep (and later middle child) of the family. Whilst never going so far as mistreating him (indeed, by the standards of most families, Starry’s childhood was downright cushy), there was always an obvious perception that Starry was in some way a pony to be pitied because he would be unable to practise magic like a “normal” Silvershine, with an unspoken assumption that he would likely never amount to as much as his siblings.
Perceptive from a young age, it didn’t take long for the intelligent young Starry Silvershine to catch on to this. Every time he would attempt something that would require even the slightest bit of hoof or mouth dexterity, somepony with a horn would be at his side in an instant to do it by magic for him. “Let me get that for you, dear...” and “Oh, don’t trouble yourself, dear...”, they would say, with any protests from the young Colt that he could do it himself ignored and any attempts on his part to approach the others and show them that he could do something they would normally do for him laughed off and dismissed as “cute”.
This attitude clashed violently with Starry’s personality, as he was from birth a driven, ambitious pony. Abundantly aware of what he could do if only his family would give him the chance, Starry became obsessed with proving himself, especially to his father Ironhoof. When he started to be given less advanced education materials that his older sister Sunny had been given at his age, even though he obviously showed greater aptitude than she ever had, he would seek out the appropriate materials himself, learning largely from texts as there was usually no pony to teach him. This was necessary, as his requests for advanced lessons, especially in mathematics, quickly became the butt of jokes within the Silvershine household.
A lesser pony might have become a seething, rebellious ball of rage as this continued over the years, but Starry quickly learned to internalise his anger as he endured endless lessons in noble etiquette and upper class “respect”, coping with the incredible vacuousness of Canterlot’s wealthy elite and relentless pandering of his family by adopting a persona of cold, professional indifference that forced Starry Silvershine to grow up well before it was his time. He became the perfect little scholar, but the happy, innocent little foal he should have been was mercilessly crushed in the process. All that was left was his ambition; his need to prove to Iornhoof Silvershine that he was not worthless...
And so he studied, at first to exclusion of everything else. This unsustainable practise came to a head when Ironhoof noticed that his son had failed to show up for dinner one evening, and had been absent from lunch earlier that same day. He eventually found a tired, thirsty and hungry Starry Silvershine in the family library, surrounded by stacks of books and papers, furiously mouthwriting notes with a glazed look in his eyes. Upon hearing his aghast father say his name, Starry turned... “See here, father... I can write by myself...” he smiled, just before collapsing from mental exhaustion.
The next day, when Starry awoke, what stuck him the most was that he didn’t regret for a moment what had transpired the day before. The chastising voices of his mother and father filled his ears, but all he could think about was the fact that sometime during that marathon study session, his cutie mark had appeared, the image that of a commoner’s pencil writing upon a beautifully gilded scroll of top quality parchment. Even then, the symbolism was not lost on the perceptive colt...
Of course, this event only worsened the family’s barely veiled “damaged goods” perception of Starry, but he was, under strict conditions, allowed to continue his studies. It took years, and Starry only grew ever colder and more distant as childhood friends drifted away, leaving books as his only companions, but eventually, the victories began to come. The slightest admission from the family that they were impressed with his progress would fill him with carefully concealed pride, every tiny inch of progress he made towards making them proud acting as a vital little piece of joy for him to hold on to, the emotional journey akin to leaping from stone to stone across a raging river of what could just as easily have been either loathing or self-loathing.
After a painful, repressed adolescence, where his raging hormones clashed with and were ultimately defeated by what was rapidly becoming a truly magnificent level of self-control; Starry emerged into adulthood with a plan. The family had tried to keep the truth concealed from their children, but Silvershine Mining was failing. Over several generations, both the aptitude for mining itself, and the business acumen needed to make it function on a larger scale had largely disappeared from the family, save for the rapidly aging Longlocks Silvershine. Ironhoof had done his best to make a go of it, but a string of bad business decisions on his part had left the company near the brink.
Sensing his desperation, Starry approached his father with a plan for rebuilding the consortium... He wasn’t entirely surprised when his idea was curtly shot down... Even now, when his wall was lined with degrees and diplomas from several high-profile institutions, lauding a pony whose diligence, in their words, was only matched by his brilliance, all his father could see, deep down, was a hornless little earth pony colt...
Undeterred, Starry managed to convince his father to allow him a lower-level position within the company. It was little better than middle management, but it was a place to start. His tactic, in principle, was simple. He would impose stringent standards of workplace efficiency while keeping a more charismatic pony on-hoof to ensure morale didn’t sink too low from the at times unreasonable workload demanded by the young Silvershine. Within weeks, his department’s results had skyrocketed, and within two months he was helping neighbouring departments to lift their game. Across the whole company, it wasn’t much, but it was more than enough to catch the attention of those higher up...
Promotions soon followed. Starry’s family might have been influential proprietors with a majority stake in the company, but there were none-the-less plenty of more open-minded ponies ready and willing to do anything in their power to save the company (and hence their jobs), including going behind the back of Ironhoof Silvershine to put Starry in the best possible position to rescue Silvershine Mining. And rescue it he did. Through his own actions, and judiciously making carefully worded suggestions to those above him that never quite gave them the full picture (which would leave them endlessly scampering back to Starry for more advice), Silvershine Mining turned itself around.
The years Starry spent restoring SIlvershine Mining to its former glory were prideful, but largely joyless and utterly loveless. An aloof, distant employer, even the charismatic team builders he preferred to keep as his right-hooves were seldom able to break through his hardened exterior, and couldn’t claim to know very much more about him than the average rank-and-file employee could. Even they, however, couldn’t have known the extent to which Starry Silvershine had by then demolished his own soul in the pursuit of the two things he had left, pride and ambition...
By the time the company was well and truly flourishing again, Ironhoof could no longer ignore his son’s successes, especially now that even the board of directors had joined in the chorus of praise. Probably Starry’s proudest moment came when his father wound up having to approach Starry in his own office to ‘discuss business’. Ironhoof found himself on the receiving end of what was largely self-inflicted humiliation, the endlessly patient Starry happy to allow Ironhoof’s mumbly evasion to break down into simpering deference. Ironhoof had flown straight beyond taking pride in his black sheep son’s accomplishment and gone straight into awe and even fear of Starry’s status and power. In this moment, Starry Silvershine could have brought his father to his knees with but a single word...
But Starry was neither bitter, ‘nor vengeful. He accepted his father’s apologies with the same calculated indifference he used to deal with everypony else, though in so doing he managed to (quite intentionally) make his father feel even worse than if Starry lashed out and bucked his dear old dad in the jaw. The company, he declared, would remain in the family as a whole. Starry would not use his connections to yank the proverbial rug out from under the hooves of the rest of the Silvershine clan. In return, he was never to be pitied or treated like “damaged goods” ever again. He would be acknowledged as a true and valued Silvershine. These were extremely generous terms, and Ironhoof was unable to agree fast enough.
This brings Starry Silvershine, essentially, to today. He has accomplished what he set out to do, to win the respect of his family. The fact that respect has become (at least in Ironhoof’s case) synonymous with fear doesn’t matter to the earth pony. However, with the weight of both Silvershine Mining and the rest of the Silvershine family’s assets firmly behind him, Starry has found himself in an awkward position, not on a professional level, but a personal one. This position can be summed up by the words, “What the hay do I do now?”
The possibilities for a rich stallion like him are, of course, endless, but with a large part of his entire reason for being now concluded, his internal emotional state has slowly begun to collapse into turmoil. Even worse, his meticulously crafted steely exterior has prevented most ponies from seeing it. Starry Silvershine has become a pony on the brink, and even he doesn’t quite realise it.
For the moment, at least, his hold on the reigns of Silvershine Mining has remained steady, but he has begun, largely on desperate unconscious whim, to strike out in search of something to fill the gaping void within his soul. One-upping his own accomplishments seemed at least a somewhat logical next step. He still has his pride, after all, so why not try to swell it?
To this end, Starry has decided to pursue an interest of his he has been putting off for a long time now. Whilst not his ‘special’ talent, navigation comes fairly naturally to the pony, and despite rarely getting the chance to put this secondary talent into practise, he has studied nautical charts and other maritime texts extensively. Even more interesting to Starry is the surprisingly similar practise of airship captaining and navigation. This is probably why there is in airship in a bottle sitting on Starry’s desk back at Silvershine Mining...
So why not get into airships? Acquiring the relevant licenses proved a trivial matter for the intelligent stoic, and now all he needs is an airship to command. Unfortunately, he has missed his first opportunity. Prince Blueblood had recently commissioned a private airship and was looking for somepony to command it. However, despite Starry’s impressive credentials, he was passed over by the prince in favour of Fancy Pants, a personal friend of his. Embittered, the emotionally degrading Starry Silvershine is now on the verge of what could be his first serious mistake. If he can’t find somepony else’s airship to command, he has decided, he’ll just have to build his own...
_________________________
And there he is... Hope you like him. ^_^