Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 12:41:26 GMT -6
||| Prince Blueblood |||
#Name;Prince Blueblood
#Age Group ;Young Adult
#Gender ; Male
#Species; Unicorn
#Cutie Mark ; A compass
#Occupation ; Officially is the Royal Surveyor; practically is just a playboy and a rich idiot with no day job.
#Powers and Abilities ; He has a natural sense of navigating and planning. He doesn't have that much magic beyond the basics like telekinesis.
#Physique ; Charmingly muscled
#Mane and fur color and style ; White fur with a long, flowing blonde mane.
#Eye color ; Icy Blue
#Other appearance details (optional) ; Is often seen wearing a tuxedo and bowtie. Rose optional.
#A more thorough description (optional) ;Prince Blueblood is dashing, handsome, the epitome of princely princeness in all of Canterlot. A young stallion, he has a pure-white coat with grey hooves, and his coat is always perfectly groomed. His mane is blonde, long, and handsome, going from the top of his head to down past his shoulder blades, plus bangs. His tail is the same golden blonde, and is perfectly groomed and straightened out. His eyes are an icy blue, handsomely situated with eyebrows for maximum impact of all emotions. And of course his build is strong and large to get the sense of security and safety, but small enough to still be graceful and charming. Add in some roses and the propensity to wear tuxes and bowties, and you have the mix for the look of the perfect prince charming.
#Personality ;
At first glance, Prince Blueblood seems to be the perfect prince charming of every pony’s dream. He appears suave and charming, and handsome as well. And if you only met him for just a short period of time, he even acts with it, speaking with a suave voice that sounds polite yet hypnotic at the same time. In public appearances, he is refined and formal, but at the same time a little flirty with all the lady-ponies to just give him that slight hint of devilish charm. So as said, he is the perfect prince charming…in public.
In reality, Prince Blueblood is spoiled rotten. Being born royal, he has been waited on hoof on hoof for his entire life, and so expects everypony to treat him in such a manner. His entire world view is centered on himself and for himself. He tends to ignore the needs and desires of other ponies while expecting them to care for his, even for something as simple as opening a door or handing over a rose. In many ways, he simply just doesn’t seem to think of other ponies as actual ponies to care and respect, but simply servants or tools for his own pleasure and comfort to use.
Of course, with a sheltered upbringing, Blueblood is also rather snobbish and tends to look down on lower-class ponies and their culture, sometimes purposeful (such as insulting their commoner’s food) or accidental, such as pitying them or being amazed by their “abilities” that he didn’t think commoner’s were capable of. Yet at the same time, he overestimates their capabilities, such as asking them to pay for stuff even when he, obviously, should be capable of paying for it himself. He’s also a rather prissy stallion, and is terrified of getting dirty (as seen in his using of Rarity as a shield from cake), chipping his hoof, or any other kind of dirtiness or pain or any other discomfort.
To be fair to the stallion, however, he isn’t intentionally a pompous jerk; it’s an issue of upbringing and ignorance. After the events at the Grand Gala and Rarity chewing him out, Blueblood is trying to be more conscious of his behavior to try and rectify it (and forced to with being sent to Ponyville). However, old behavior is hard to kill, and personality even harder. It’s going to be a long, long, long, long, long, long process of turning this shadow of a prince into a real prince charming.
#History ;
Prince Blueblood is the great…okay, it’s not really known how far back he is related to the Princesses (current genealogies suggest about 52 times removed), but somewhere back in time his family line became involved with the family line of Celestia and Luna. This technically makes him a nephew of some sorts to them. This suggests that his name of “Prince” is just that, his name. Officially, he’s a “Duke”, but Prince is just such a more charming name.
Prince Blueblood himself is the heir to a long line of an aristocratic family that, while not really ruling anything, still maintains its wealth and social status. Born into wealth, he was pampered from birth like any good son of an aristocratic family should be. With wealth, servants, and a fancy mansion to live in, it seemed as if Prince Blueblood had everything a pony could want. The only thing he was missing, of course, were real friends, not servants paid to bend at his every whim. This lead to him growing up a selfish, spoiled colt, believing everything was for his own amusement and that only his own needs mattered.
It was a moment of selfishness that actually led to his cutie mark. Outside of Canterlot was a giant maze, of which he was forbidden to enter due to his young age. He, of course, entered it, believing that something good had to be hidden in the center that his elders just didn’t want him to have. With his pen and paper, he successfully navigated the maze, only to find absolutely nothing in it. Still, he found that he had a talent for navigation and planning, and alongside that his surveyor cutie mark. Once grown up, he was given the title of Royal Surveyor and put in management of the office responsible for such things; it was primarily a title and it was expected he wouldn’t actually do anything and just let the underlings deal with actual work.
In the meantime, he went to all the social events with his family, integrating into upper-class society. As he grew up, he soon became the upcoming bachelor stallion, and a prince-charming idol amongst ponies all around Equestria. He of course enjoyed the attention and the flattery the title brought him, but all it did was continue to boost his own ego and sense of self-entitlement. He pretty much became two-faced by this point; charming and suave in public, snobbish and self-centered in private. Such disconnect, of course, could not last for long. Things eventually came to a head one night at the Grand Galloping Gala, where he met the fair lady Rarity.
She came up to him of course, and he spent most of the evening with her. In doing so, Rarity finally found out about the disconnect between his public appearances and his actual behavior. He of course failed to notice how angered she was getting until the end of the night, where the giant cake was flung towards him. Without thinking, he used her as a shield from the cake. After doing so, he got the full frontal assault of the mare’s wrath, eventually finding himself covered in cake after being chewed out for the only real time in his entire life. And he never saw her again.
The Gala, of course, became the biggest social scandal of the century, and Blueblood’s treatment and Rarity’s reaction was one of the biggest parts of it. In shame and fear of the press, Blueblood hid in the castle and dug into his ‘work.’ He rarely attended events, and even then only for cameo appearances at things such as flying ships being sent out. Being such a recluse, and one with a bad reputation, was not acceptable for a member of the pony aristocracy. Something had to be done, and it had to be done fast. Eventually it was decided that Blueblood, in order to make up for his behavior at the Gala and to learn more about life outside of Canterlot, would live in Ponyville like a commoner pony.
He does not look forward to this.
Note: Part of this history was inspired by the wonderful fanfic The Best Night Ever.The Roleplayer's Corner
#Nickname ; Whammy
#Age ;20
#Gender ;Male
#How did you find us? ; Admin
#Sample RP ;
Oh, this was starting to turn out to be a bad, bad idea. One day in Ponyville and already he was starting to regret his and his family’s choice to send him to live in this accursed hovel. There was absolutely no high-class eating establishments, no streetlights or civilized amenities, and most importantly, dirt roads were everywhere. His freshly polished hooves had to touch DIRT. Oh and it was dusting his hooves, diminishing the shine of them, and the grains were getting all stuck in cracks and it was just UNBEARABLE. How could these ponies stand to live in this place!
Unfortunately, necessity was forcing him to leave his little room in the inn (if you could consider that closet space a real room). As his family was only willing to pay for the room, he was going to have to try and find himself a….a…oh he could not even think of the word it pained him so. Still, if he wanted to even get near to his prior level of lifestyle he was going to need to get one of…those. Unfortunately he had no idea where to start searching on his own; after all, he was used to servants assisting him or doing such tasks for him. The flyers at the bulletin board didn’t seem fit to him either, so that was out of the question.
Of course, if one was watching him walk down the street, it was obvious that Prince Blueblood was rather out of his environment. While he was trying to walk in such a way as to maintain his pose and grace, he was shaking a little as if in a paranoid state. And if a pony ever got near him, he jumped a little in whatever direction was needed for him to get out of the way. Overall, he was an obvious mess, and whenever someone started looking at him like they recognized him he would try and get out of their sight as fast as possible or hide himself. If word got out among the Canterlot elite that THE Prince Blueblood was having to live in a backwoods town like Ponyville, why, he would be the laughingstock of all of Equestria! Hopefully he could just get through this supposed “humbling experience” that, while it was his idea at first, he was now regretting big time…
