Post by Johari on May 1, 2012 17:00:17 GMT
Name: Johari
Nickname: Jo, but she prefers her full name.
Race: Zebra
Gender: Female
Age: Mare
Additional Status: Johari is never seen without her dark turquoise/gold earrings and matching necklace. Her mane and tail hair are almost always kept in dreads.
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt color: Light grey
Mane/Tail color and Style: Dark grey and white, dreadlocks
Eye Color: Purple
Cutie Mark: A stylized pencil, shaped in stripes.
Other Scars/Markings: None besides stripes.
Physique: Average
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: Ponyville
Job: Jeweler
Family: None anywhere nearby.
Closest Friends: None yet
Courted/Being Courted By: None
Mate: None
Foals: None, and not planning any.
-Personality-
Likes: All forms of art, dance, and theatre, open air, nature, animals, geology, rocks, gem hunting, sculpting, flying (via a unicorn's levitation or in an air balloon), trying out lots of different foods.
Dislikes: Close mindedness, ignorance, foolishness, impulsiveness, confined spaces, insects.
Motivation: Johari is forever torn between her artistic passion and making enough Bits to pay the bills.
Strengths: Creative, driven, easygoing, compassionate.
Weaknesses: Neurotoic, Absentminded, overly abstract, workaholic, socially awkward or even aloof at times.
Fears: Bugs - the bigger, the scarier. She is also terrified of griffons after wild roaming packs of them threatened her tribe at home.
Overall Persona:
Johari is a zebra hailing from the same faraway land as Zecora. She first moved from her home to Manehattan but eventually left for Ponyville, as she enjoys the calmer and less busy lifestyle. Her voice is low and mellow but distinctly feminine, and speech is quick, terse, and with purpose.
Despite being a Jeweler by profession, her real passion and principal hobby is sculpting. From time to time, she receives freelance commissions for her work. However, she prefers to use more stable, lucrative business of crafting necklaces, brooches and earrings as a career. Although she has no natural magic she has a geologist's education, a sharp eye, and hooves sensitive enough to feel for prime gem earth and therefore functions as an adequate gem finder.
Johari is generally warm and friendly, and deeply humble. Growing up in an improverished environment has given her a deep thankfulness for even the most mundane comforts. However, this can also cause her to overreact to people complaining endlessly about more benign problems. She is cultured and worldly but has to check herself mentally, lest she come across as snobbish to born and raised small town ponies. She keeps few close friends and is deeply loyal to them, sometimes being nice to the point to her own detriment.
Although filled with endless tales of her travels from Fillydelphia to Vanhoover, Johari chooses not to speak about her more distant past.
((OOC notes: drawings by me. Her name means gem/treasure in Swahili.))