Post by Astraea on Aug 20, 2014 4:42:06 GMT
-General Stuff-
Name: Cephei Centauri
Nickname/Alias(es): Ceph, C.C, affectionately called "Adversaria" by her mentor, Solar Run, due to her nature of always seeming to be conflicted over something.
Race: Pony, Unicorn
Gender: Female
Age: Filly/Teen
Additional Status: Sometimes while working/studying/practicing magic, Cephei can be found wearing a light gray jumpsuit like garment with pockets to hold her multimedia device that plays her audiobooks which she also uses to voice record things or simply use it to listen to music and various other objects. She has another jumpsuit similar to the one she uses while working that she likes to wear to bed sometimes to hold her multimedia device so she can listen to music or review her work. Can be seen here. Her magic aura is a bright, almost neon orange color.
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: Periwinkle: a light, almost powdery shade of blue with a hint of purple in certain light. On her face is a light dusting of white freckles.
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Cephei's mane and tail is streaked orange and blue with the blue portion of them being a few shades darker than her coat color. Cephei's mane is kept a medium length in the back as the strands tend to fall over her withers and rests at her shoulders. At the poll, the mixing strands of orange and blue are kept semi-long to help hide her broken horn. However, as her horn is starting to grow back, it peeks out from under her mane just a bit. Soon, she won't be able to hide it.
She also has a habit of shaking her bangs over an eye when upset or annoyed and tends hide under her mane when nervous or scared. When focusing, on her magic or otherwise, or generally feeling at ease with those around her and of a happy or neutral mood, she flicks her locks out of her face so that her bangs do not get in her eyes and block her vision.
Her tail grows long but she hacks it off to a medium length so that it does not get in the way while working. She used to keep it long but after tripping over it many, many times as a foal, she makes sure to chop it off when it begins to fall below hock-level. When nervous or feeling self conscious, she tends to keep her tail low and covering one flank to obscure the fact that it is bare. When excited, she hold her tail high and with pride but tends to flick it from side-to-side. Depending on how exited or how proud she is determines the speed at which her tail flicks. One could say that her mane and tail are very expressive.
Eye Color: Cephei's eyes are gray in color but due to their lack of color, they are prone to picking up on the colors around her appearing various shades. Usually they pick up the color of her pelt and appear periwinkle just like her coat but sometimes, as in when her mane has been styled or flicked a certain way, her eyes can appear a pale orange, picking up the color from the orange strands in her mane.
Cutie Mark: Despite her age, Cephei has not yet gained her cutie mark. It is believed that because of her broken horn which halted her study of magic and the fact that she changes her occupation every so often, she has not yet found her special talent. she has many interests but cannot seem to stick to one being both scatterbrained and simply not wanting to be held down just yet. It is hoped that when her horn grows back completely, she'll be able to focus her magic better. That along with settling down may help her in gaining her cutie mark but only time will tell.
SPOILER ALERT!!
Her cutie mark can be viewed here.
END OF SPOILER ALERT!!
Other Scars/Markings: Cephei's horn is broken about 2/3rd's of the way from the base. This happened in an accident explained in her history. Cephei also attempts to hide the daintiness of her hooves by keeping her fetlocks unshorn and keeping her coat just a tad bit on the fluffy side to add some bulk to her frame. While it doesn't add much, some have mistaken her for a young colt/stallion as she bares a striking resemblance to her father when he was her age.
Physique: Petite build with dainty hooves and small muscle groups though they are well defined; she carries herself in high regard when her self-esteem is intact though shifts to a sullen trot when her ego is bruised. Since her horn was broken and even more so now that it is starting to become difficult to hide the still healing appendage in her mane, she has not carried herself in high regard since the accident and learning that the injury affected her magic. Slinks by and would be easily looked over in crowds if not for her bright colors and her resemblance to her father.
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: As with her jobs, her residence changes though she tends not to stray too far from home most times.
Job: Varies
Mother: Proxima Centauri
Father: Rigil "Alpha" Centauri
Sibling(s): Acrux
Other Family: Coalsack D. Nebula - Uncle, Solar Run - Mentor/friend of the family, Andromeda - Solar Run's Mate/friend of the family
Closest Friends: Artemisia - fellow classmate , Harbledown - pet barn owl,
Courting/Courted By: n/a
Mate: n/a
Foal(s): n/a
-Personality Stuff-
Likes: Cephei likes diversity and is thoroughly intrigued by contrasting things. She values the strengths and respects the weaknesses of all pony-types while the very notion of two totally different things having similarities ex: the sun and the moon, light and darkness, day and night, yin and yang, etc. How these things interact with each other to provide balance just astounds her.
She also likes ponies who are open-minded. Those who do not let differences create boundaries and who try to see the world through the eyes of others. Those who do not jump to conclusions and ponies who allow her to be who she is and accept her with her flaws and all.
She also likes books even if she does find reading to be a chore at times and prefers to listen to audiobooks, she loves to learn and seeks knowledge and has come to the understanding that books are the perfect medium for storing such knowledge. She would much rather spend her day talking with close friends and learning things from them while sharing her own tidbits as the act is more personal.
Dislikes: Cephei doesn't have too many dislikes as she tries to compartmentalize a lot of things that she does have a dislike for. she believes that every pony has a reason for doing things but even so, there are just some things that makes her chew at the bit in anger.
Motivation: Cephei's main motivation for all that she does is her desire to find her special place in the world without having her destiny being shaped by the expectations or influenced by the wants of her family. While she doesn't mind them having expectations or wanting her to become or do certain things, she wants to be her own person and step out of the shadows of both her infamous father and older brother. Having the Centauri name marks her as one to eventually have something to do with the stars and while she is honored to be born into such a family where her very name strikes awe in others, she wants to be sure that whatever she decides to commit her entire life to doing is something that she wants to do and will enjoy for all her days.
Besides that, a second motive that drives her craving for knowledge is to show other ponies that pony-type does not define a pony. Born a unicorn into a family of pegasusi, she wants to show the world that pony-type(unicorn, pegasus, or earth pony) does not define a pony or limit them to what they can do. As of now she is studding hard to formulate a permanent spell that will allow non pegasusi ponies the ability to walk the clouds. She aspires to find a spell to allow her to grow wings and maybe trade in her horn for a pair. Even she's not all that certain that this is possibility but she dreams it can happen and she was always told to follow her dreams wherever they may take her.
Strengths: Inquisitive by nature though sometimes this can double as a weakness or personal flaw as it leads her into things she probably should have stayed out of, she is rather headstrong on top of this which is another thing that can double as a personal flaw for her. She tends to over-analyze things but get lost in the smaller details and lose track of the bigger picture. A hard worker at heart who has learned over the years that short cuts do not cut it and one must put in the same amount of effort to get grand results.
Weaknesses/Flaws: Her inquisitive nature finds her caught up in things she should have stayed out of. Being headstrong also leads her to doing things just to prove it to herself to to others that something can or can't be done. As a foal, she was a slacker and a bit lazy feeling that energy shouldn't be wasted on accomplishing something that could be done with less effort. While this has changed a bit over the years, she still falls victim to wanting to skip things she doesn't see to be important and getting to the chase.
Cephei is rather shy but only because she feels like the odd pony out as a unicorn in mostly pegasusi family. She has also had to deal with the expectation of those that know her father and the expectations of her parents themselves to follow in the hoofprints to either become a grand military leader or go off into scientific studies. While she has an interest in astronomy, she just doesn't see herself having anything to do with the stars as she feels a disconnect with them because she is a unicorn and not a pegasus. Sometimes she over thinks things and fumbles over the minor details while losing focus of the big picture.
While she feels confident in her magic while practicing alone, when faced with showing her skills off, she doubts herself. This as exasperated more now that her horn has been broken and is healing causing her magic to be less focused and at the very best, unpredictable. Though things are starting to round itself out as it continues to heal, she spends a great deal of energy simply focusing and hopping that she can her magic to do what she wants it to.
Fears: Even despite the fact that her horn is growing back ever so slowly, she fears that it will never be the way it was before and that it will always pose a hurdle on her path to developing her magical skills. While her mentor has done nothing to support this theory, due to a recurring nightmare, she fears that one day Solar Run will stop wanting to help her with her magic and find another pony -- one that is not damaged -- to mentor. Much like her irrational fear of her mentor leaving her to find somepony else, she fears that her parents and the pegasusi half of her family resents her for not being like them.
Overall Persona: Cephei Centauri was born into a family of strong pegasusi fliers. Her father, Rigil Centaurti or "Alpha" Centarui, a nickname given to him while he was in the military, is her idol. She also looks up to her older brother but the two siblings have parted ways with one another due to a silly difference in opinions but the two love each other very much and both want to fix their relationship but neither knows how and are afraid the other doesn't want to reconcile with the other.
This has led Cephei to either carefully choose her words around others or overly explain things which can become annoying. While she is somewhat aware of this, she really doesn't know how to be more concise with her words without giving drawn out explanations. This has led the chatty foal to grow up to become a selective talker of sorts who would much rather you hate her for not saying anything at all than hate her for something she's said badly. This wears off with those she's become close with and she tends to have to be reminded both by herself and sometimes by others, that it is okay to leave some things up in the air.
She has a huge heart and cares for all living things, even a few that scare her like bats and the creepy crawlies, and has even taken in an injured barn owl and nursed it back to health. While she only intended to care for the owl while it's wing healed, they two became a near inseparable pair as they bonded over a common point of being both "broken" creatures.
History/Background: Cephei is the youngest foal of Mr. and Mrs. Centauri and baby sister to Acrux. Unfortunately, unlike the rest of her mostly pegasus family, she was born wingless, though ironically enough, with a horn due to both sides of her family having unicorn ancestors. Because of this, Rigil and Proxima was confronted with the need to leave Cloudsdale when Cephei grew too big to be carried around in a saddlebag. With Acrux enrolled in fliers' school and just a few years away from completing, the family made the difficult decision to temporarily separate in the best interests of both their foals to allow Acrux to finish school and so that Cephei did not grow up feeling alienated. Proxima decided to go back to Manehattan and it is there that she raised Cephei with the help of her family.
Cephei attended a school for unicorns and honed her magic abilities until one day, while testing out a newly discovered spell that allowed her to levitate, she fell to the ground. While the drop wasn't all that high, it was enough to leave her banged up a bit and having landed face first, she managed to break her poor horn off very close to its base. While doctors confirmed that in due time it would grow back, not even they could be certain if her magic would ever function the same way it did before the accident. She was told very sternly by the doctors to not attempt any sort of magic until it had healed and while she did listen, if only because it hurt her to even try to use magic at this time, not being able to perform magic greatly saddened the young foal. It was during this time that she became more reclusive; simply wanting to be alone for she felt alienated by her peers as a broken unicorn.
Time passed and her horn did eventually get better. She was given the clear to try basic spells but in doing so, it proved that her magic had been changed by the accident. Now her magic was unfocused, wild, and overall unpredictable in nature. Two big things happened next during her recovery: one is that she found an injured barn owl and nurse her back to health. While originally it was planned to release her back into the wild after her wing healed, the two broken birds became the best of friends. They each enjoyed each others' company and Cephei swore that the little moon-faced bird had a way of communicating with her. Blinking her eyes and turning her head to the side, she acted as if she understood the words and commented accordingly. The time came when the bird's wing has fully healed but when she set out to release the bird, she flew off but came back to the young unicorn. It was that day that she gave her a name and since then, Harbledown and her have been inseparable.
The second big thing to happen to her was the meeting of Solar Run, a unicorn stallion with a knack for using magic in odd ways. Cephei found magic difficult to use and for a while she believed that she would never be able to perform magic again but it was his urging that pushed her to keep trying. Soon, he took the young foal under his metaphorical wing seeing a lot of his old friend's spirit in her. Under his guidance, she began to focus more on her other talents.
Name: Cephei Centauri
Nickname/Alias(es): Ceph, C.C, affectionately called "Adversaria" by her mentor, Solar Run, due to her nature of always seeming to be conflicted over something.
Race: Pony, Unicorn
Gender: Female
Age: Filly/Teen
Additional Status: Sometimes while working/studying/practicing magic, Cephei can be found wearing a light gray jumpsuit like garment with pockets to hold her multimedia device that plays her audiobooks which she also uses to voice record things or simply use it to listen to music and various other objects. She has another jumpsuit similar to the one she uses while working that she likes to wear to bed sometimes to hold her multimedia device so she can listen to music or review her work. Can be seen here. Her magic aura is a bright, almost neon orange color.
-Physical Stuff-
Pelt Color: Periwinkle: a light, almost powdery shade of blue with a hint of purple in certain light. On her face is a light dusting of white freckles.
Mane/Tail Color and Style: Cephei's mane and tail is streaked orange and blue with the blue portion of them being a few shades darker than her coat color. Cephei's mane is kept a medium length in the back as the strands tend to fall over her withers and rests at her shoulders. At the poll, the mixing strands of orange and blue are kept semi-long to help hide her broken horn. However, as her horn is starting to grow back, it peeks out from under her mane just a bit. Soon, she won't be able to hide it.
She also has a habit of shaking her bangs over an eye when upset or annoyed and tends hide under her mane when nervous or scared. When focusing, on her magic or otherwise, or generally feeling at ease with those around her and of a happy or neutral mood, she flicks her locks out of her face so that her bangs do not get in her eyes and block her vision.
Her tail grows long but she hacks it off to a medium length so that it does not get in the way while working. She used to keep it long but after tripping over it many, many times as a foal, she makes sure to chop it off when it begins to fall below hock-level. When nervous or feeling self conscious, she tends to keep her tail low and covering one flank to obscure the fact that it is bare. When excited, she hold her tail high and with pride but tends to flick it from side-to-side. Depending on how exited or how proud she is determines the speed at which her tail flicks. One could say that her mane and tail are very expressive.
Eye Color: Cephei's eyes are gray in color but due to their lack of color, they are prone to picking up on the colors around her appearing various shades. Usually they pick up the color of her pelt and appear periwinkle just like her coat but sometimes, as in when her mane has been styled or flicked a certain way, her eyes can appear a pale orange, picking up the color from the orange strands in her mane.
Cutie Mark: Despite her age, Cephei has not yet gained her cutie mark. It is believed that because of her broken horn which halted her study of magic and the fact that she changes her occupation every so often, she has not yet found her special talent. she has many interests but cannot seem to stick to one being both scatterbrained and simply not wanting to be held down just yet. It is hoped that when her horn grows back completely, she'll be able to focus her magic better. That along with settling down may help her in gaining her cutie mark but only time will tell.
SPOILER ALERT!!
Her cutie mark can be viewed here.
END OF SPOILER ALERT!!
Other Scars/Markings: Cephei's horn is broken about 2/3rd's of the way from the base. This happened in an accident explained in her history. Cephei also attempts to hide the daintiness of her hooves by keeping her fetlocks unshorn and keeping her coat just a tad bit on the fluffy side to add some bulk to her frame. While it doesn't add much, some have mistaken her for a young colt/stallion as she bares a striking resemblance to her father when he was her age.
Physique: Petite build with dainty hooves and small muscle groups though they are well defined; she carries herself in high regard when her self-esteem is intact though shifts to a sullen trot when her ego is bruised. Since her horn was broken and even more so now that it is starting to become difficult to hide the still healing appendage in her mane, she has not carried herself in high regard since the accident and learning that the injury affected her magic. Slinks by and would be easily looked over in crowds if not for her bright colors and her resemblance to her father.
-Social Stuff-
Current Residence: As with her jobs, her residence changes though she tends not to stray too far from home most times.
Job: Varies
Mother: Proxima Centauri
Father: Rigil "Alpha" Centauri
Sibling(s): Acrux
Other Family: Coalsack D. Nebula - Uncle, Solar Run - Mentor/friend of the family, Andromeda - Solar Run's Mate/friend of the family
Closest Friends: Artemisia - fellow classmate , Harbledown - pet barn owl,
Courting/Courted By: n/a
Mate: n/a
Foal(s): n/a
-Personality Stuff-
Likes: Cephei likes diversity and is thoroughly intrigued by contrasting things. She values the strengths and respects the weaknesses of all pony-types while the very notion of two totally different things having similarities ex: the sun and the moon, light and darkness, day and night, yin and yang, etc. How these things interact with each other to provide balance just astounds her.
She also likes ponies who are open-minded. Those who do not let differences create boundaries and who try to see the world through the eyes of others. Those who do not jump to conclusions and ponies who allow her to be who she is and accept her with her flaws and all.
She also likes books even if she does find reading to be a chore at times and prefers to listen to audiobooks, she loves to learn and seeks knowledge and has come to the understanding that books are the perfect medium for storing such knowledge. She would much rather spend her day talking with close friends and learning things from them while sharing her own tidbits as the act is more personal.
Dislikes: Cephei doesn't have too many dislikes as she tries to compartmentalize a lot of things that she does have a dislike for. she believes that every pony has a reason for doing things but even so, there are just some things that makes her chew at the bit in anger.
- Close-minded ponies
- Ponies that try to group things together and set boundaries for others
- Manipulators and mean-spirited ponies who seem to be mean for no reason other than just being mean.
- Not being able to figure things out
- Being put into a box based on her family by others
Motivation: Cephei's main motivation for all that she does is her desire to find her special place in the world without having her destiny being shaped by the expectations or influenced by the wants of her family. While she doesn't mind them having expectations or wanting her to become or do certain things, she wants to be her own person and step out of the shadows of both her infamous father and older brother. Having the Centauri name marks her as one to eventually have something to do with the stars and while she is honored to be born into such a family where her very name strikes awe in others, she wants to be sure that whatever she decides to commit her entire life to doing is something that she wants to do and will enjoy for all her days.
Besides that, a second motive that drives her craving for knowledge is to show other ponies that pony-type does not define a pony. Born a unicorn into a family of pegasusi, she wants to show the world that pony-type(unicorn, pegasus, or earth pony) does not define a pony or limit them to what they can do. As of now she is studding hard to formulate a permanent spell that will allow non pegasusi ponies the ability to walk the clouds. She aspires to find a spell to allow her to grow wings and maybe trade in her horn for a pair. Even she's not all that certain that this is possibility but she dreams it can happen and she was always told to follow her dreams wherever they may take her.
Strengths: Inquisitive by nature though sometimes this can double as a weakness or personal flaw as it leads her into things she probably should have stayed out of, she is rather headstrong on top of this which is another thing that can double as a personal flaw for her. She tends to over-analyze things but get lost in the smaller details and lose track of the bigger picture. A hard worker at heart who has learned over the years that short cuts do not cut it and one must put in the same amount of effort to get grand results.
Weaknesses/Flaws: Her inquisitive nature finds her caught up in things she should have stayed out of. Being headstrong also leads her to doing things just to prove it to herself to to others that something can or can't be done. As a foal, she was a slacker and a bit lazy feeling that energy shouldn't be wasted on accomplishing something that could be done with less effort. While this has changed a bit over the years, she still falls victim to wanting to skip things she doesn't see to be important and getting to the chase.
Cephei is rather shy but only because she feels like the odd pony out as a unicorn in mostly pegasusi family. She has also had to deal with the expectation of those that know her father and the expectations of her parents themselves to follow in the hoofprints to either become a grand military leader or go off into scientific studies. While she has an interest in astronomy, she just doesn't see herself having anything to do with the stars as she feels a disconnect with them because she is a unicorn and not a pegasus. Sometimes she over thinks things and fumbles over the minor details while losing focus of the big picture.
While she feels confident in her magic while practicing alone, when faced with showing her skills off, she doubts herself. This as exasperated more now that her horn has been broken and is healing causing her magic to be less focused and at the very best, unpredictable. Though things are starting to round itself out as it continues to heal, she spends a great deal of energy simply focusing and hopping that she can her magic to do what she wants it to.
Fears: Even despite the fact that her horn is growing back ever so slowly, she fears that it will never be the way it was before and that it will always pose a hurdle on her path to developing her magical skills. While her mentor has done nothing to support this theory, due to a recurring nightmare, she fears that one day Solar Run will stop wanting to help her with her magic and find another pony -- one that is not damaged -- to mentor. Much like her irrational fear of her mentor leaving her to find somepony else, she fears that her parents and the pegasusi half of her family resents her for not being like them.
Overall Persona: Cephei Centauri was born into a family of strong pegasusi fliers. Her father, Rigil Centaurti or "Alpha" Centarui, a nickname given to him while he was in the military, is her idol. She also looks up to her older brother but the two siblings have parted ways with one another due to a silly difference in opinions but the two love each other very much and both want to fix their relationship but neither knows how and are afraid the other doesn't want to reconcile with the other.
This has led Cephei to either carefully choose her words around others or overly explain things which can become annoying. While she is somewhat aware of this, she really doesn't know how to be more concise with her words without giving drawn out explanations. This has led the chatty foal to grow up to become a selective talker of sorts who would much rather you hate her for not saying anything at all than hate her for something she's said badly. This wears off with those she's become close with and she tends to have to be reminded both by herself and sometimes by others, that it is okay to leave some things up in the air.
She has a huge heart and cares for all living things, even a few that scare her like bats and the creepy crawlies, and has even taken in an injured barn owl and nursed it back to health. While she only intended to care for the owl while it's wing healed, they two became a near inseparable pair as they bonded over a common point of being both "broken" creatures.
History/Background: Cephei is the youngest foal of Mr. and Mrs. Centauri and baby sister to Acrux. Unfortunately, unlike the rest of her mostly pegasus family, she was born wingless, though ironically enough, with a horn due to both sides of her family having unicorn ancestors. Because of this, Rigil and Proxima was confronted with the need to leave Cloudsdale when Cephei grew too big to be carried around in a saddlebag. With Acrux enrolled in fliers' school and just a few years away from completing, the family made the difficult decision to temporarily separate in the best interests of both their foals to allow Acrux to finish school and so that Cephei did not grow up feeling alienated. Proxima decided to go back to Manehattan and it is there that she raised Cephei with the help of her family.
Cephei attended a school for unicorns and honed her magic abilities until one day, while testing out a newly discovered spell that allowed her to levitate, she fell to the ground. While the drop wasn't all that high, it was enough to leave her banged up a bit and having landed face first, she managed to break her poor horn off very close to its base. While doctors confirmed that in due time it would grow back, not even they could be certain if her magic would ever function the same way it did before the accident. She was told very sternly by the doctors to not attempt any sort of magic until it had healed and while she did listen, if only because it hurt her to even try to use magic at this time, not being able to perform magic greatly saddened the young foal. It was during this time that she became more reclusive; simply wanting to be alone for she felt alienated by her peers as a broken unicorn.
Time passed and her horn did eventually get better. She was given the clear to try basic spells but in doing so, it proved that her magic had been changed by the accident. Now her magic was unfocused, wild, and overall unpredictable in nature. Two big things happened next during her recovery: one is that she found an injured barn owl and nurse her back to health. While originally it was planned to release her back into the wild after her wing healed, the two broken birds became the best of friends. They each enjoyed each others' company and Cephei swore that the little moon-faced bird had a way of communicating with her. Blinking her eyes and turning her head to the side, she acted as if she understood the words and commented accordingly. The time came when the bird's wing has fully healed but when she set out to release the bird, she flew off but came back to the young unicorn. It was that day that she gave her a name and since then, Harbledown and her have been inseparable.
The second big thing to happen to her was the meeting of Solar Run, a unicorn stallion with a knack for using magic in odd ways. Cephei found magic difficult to use and for a while she believed that she would never be able to perform magic again but it was his urging that pushed her to keep trying. Soon, he took the young foal under his metaphorical wing seeing a lot of his old friend's spirit in her. Under his guidance, she began to focus more on her other talents.