Post by Time Turner on Aug 12, 2012 21:19:56 GMT -6
||| “Doctor” Time Turner|||
#Name; “Doctor” Time Turner
#Age Group ;Adult
#Sexual Orientation ; Heterosexual
#Gender ;Male
#Species;Earth Pony
#Cutie Mark ;An hourglass
#Occupation ; Officially is the timekeeper for Ponyville, but dreams of being a professor of ponyology or archaeology or something at the Royal Academy. Really just uses that as an excuse to travel.
#Powers and Abilities ; A keen sense of adventure…or being slightly out of his mind. It’s a thin line.
#Physique ; Slightly pudgy, but is in generally good shape. Tends to run a lot.
#Mane and fur color and style ; Light brown fur with a messy dark brown mane and tail.
#Eye color ; Blue
#Other appearance details (optional) ; Occasionally wears a tie. Ties are cool.
#A more thorough description (optional) ; None
#Personality ;
There are many ways to describe Time Turner; brilliant, amazing, unhinged. Bored of his life as a simple timekeeper, Time Turner has a very keen sense of adventure and exploration. He enjoys travelling Equestria to see the world first hand instead of simply through books, though he also enjoys books. Just about everything tends to fill him with a slight child-like glee, and when in a new location he’ll wander about almost as if he was a child again. Of course this sometimes gives him the common sense of a child, leading him to wander into trouble and danger from time to time without any real sense of fear, only excitement that usually leads him to yell out random phrases like “fantastic” or “allon-sy” (which he picked up from some ponies from Prance). And of course like any other child who is excited, he pretty much never shuts up when he really gets going, asking questions and what not.
Amongst all the wonder and excitement, Time Turner can be a little ditzy sometimes. Even with his excellent time-keeping skills he can be a bit forgetful of anything that doesn’t catch his interest (like names). This can make him rather hard to deal with sometimes, especially when he is so caught up in something he forgets social graces. Depending on how long you know him then, he can be anything from an eccentric to a jerk to being one of the most loyal friends you’ll ever meet.
In fact, friends make up about half the reason for all his travelling. Meeting new ponies is always good and all, but he also tends to take any ponies that share a similar interest in learning with him. After all, what is the point in exploring and learning about the world when there is no one to show it to? Also, even with all his interest in the world, he does realize that friends are important and likes to have them around to keep away loneliness. With all his travelling though he tends to have a small group of friends, and his absent-mindness tends to make him leave them behind every once in a while to go do something else. Knowing that his travelling can be dangerous sometimes, he also tends to be very protective of his friends and takes on a lot of responsibility for their safety. If they do get hurt, he tends to feel very guilty about it and takes the blame on himself before doing whatever he can to make things right.
While generally a very optimistic pony, Time Turner does have a very good sense of the harder side of life, from both first and second hand experiences. His innate sense of goodness tends to compel him to do something whenever he is faced with a situation where somepony needs help. However, he only helps whenever somepony wants it, or if not helping puts more than just the one pony in danger.
As for his job, he still enjoys timekeeping and recording things, but he does have dreams of one day becoming a professor of…something. He doesn’t really know what exactly, but he does like people to call him “Doctor” to just humor his dreams. Many ponies think his claims are really just an excuse to claim he is going away on ‘research’ for what amounts to vacations. Whatever the case may be, he loves the world and everything in it, and not even Celestia can get in his way of seeing it all.
Should be noted due to his travels he has some rather irrational fears and dislikes, such as a dislike of pears and a fear of statues of pegasi.
#History ;
Time Turner is a native of Ponyville, being born and raised there. His father and mother didn’t do anything that spectacular, working primarily within the bureaucracy of the mayor’s office. This made it very easy for him to get into the same thing as he helped his parents every once in a while during “Take your foal’s to work” days. He found that he had a very good sense of timing, even if he didn’t have an hourglass or some other way of telling time. About the only thing that stopped him was he was easily distracted and had a bit of a bad memory if something didn’t interest him. Still, as a foal he was always picked to be the timekeeper when playing games at school, earning him his cutie mark during a particularly close race where his innate sense of time gave him the edge in determining who had the best time.
However, keeping time wasn’t his only time-based love; he also loved history. An avid reader (he had to do something when not keeping time after all), he could always be found engrossed in a book about the history of Equestria, or the world, or even fictional worlds. Already an excitable and explorative foal, reading of all the wonders of the world simply encouraged it more. He didn’t just want to read about these places; he wanted to see them for himself. Of course, as a foal he was way too young to do so. As he grew older, he had a brief stint as a student at the Royal Academy in Canterlot. He was hoping that as a student he could become attached to some kind of dig or research that would get him out into the world, but unfortunately he didn’t have much luck as they preferred ponies of higher levels of education than he did.
Eventually boredom of being a student overtook him, and he returned to Ponyville. On his return, he took up a job offer to be the official timekeeper of Ponyville. This put him charge of, in his own words, all things “timey wimey” in Ponyville; keeping time at sports events, making sure clocks were set right, keeping work hours for employees, etc. It paid well enough, well enough he could start saving bits to use for ‘vacation’ hours all around Equestria. Oh, and of course to attend “conferences, meetings of the Time And Recording Day Information Society, and intergovernmental timekeeper exchanges,”…aka excuses he made up to leave. In all of Ponyville, probably only Rainbow Dash skips more work than he does.
With all his absences into other parts of Equestria, he has a bit of a reputation throughout the kingdom. Many ponies in many towns will know him by name, or his nickname of “Doctor” (makes him sound more professional he claims). Most of them will have some interesting stories as well as he tends to get involved in trouble, parties, or trouble parties wherever he goes. Opinions also tend to vary, from being a wonderful pony to being a complete loony. He tends to have fairly pleasant memories of most of these adventures, and is always looking for more people to drag along for the fun.The Roleplayer's Corner
#Nickname ; Whammy
#Age ;20
#Gender ;Male
#How did you find us? ; Admin
#Sample RP ;
”You know, I don’t think I’ve ever actually travelled at night. I should do this more often. It’s quite lovely, even if I can’t really see where I’m going.” Time Turner said to himself, walking along rather happily the dirt road from Ponyville.
He had saved up enough bits to once again set up travel to…well he didn’t know yet. This time he decided to go by road to whatever town hit his fancy on the way. To further make a change, he decided to travel by night. Ever since the return of Princess Luna night travel had become a safer option. Also, he really wanted to see if he could spot any new works by the ruler of the night. About the only problem was he had some trouble getting sleep to prepare for the trip. There had been a big commotion in the town square, something about a unicorn magician or something. He did go to the show, since he had no choice really. This Trixie person seemed entertaining enough. A bit of a braggart though…
Trotting along comfortably, Time Time stopped as his ears flicked towards the sound of somepony running. Now who could that be out and about at this time of night? Well, other than him of course, but not many ponies were like him. Turning around to say hello to whatever other brave pony was walking the roads at night, he instead saw the figure of a blue-furred and white-maned unicorn running towards him. While he couldn’t see her that well, it looked as if she was currently in a state of a mix of anger, confusion, and…crying? Well, that just made this whole situation a lot odder. A crying unicorn running down the road in the middle of the night was not normal after all. Did he miss something back in Ponyille?
Still, he was already in the path, and it looked like this pony was in trouble. The least that he could do was try and see what was going on before he made any judgments. After all, strangers were simply an entryway into brand new exciting adventures…though he didn’t know how well of an entryway crying unicorns were. Well, there was only one way to find out. Raising a hoof, he waved down the pony as she ran past him.
”Oh, hello there. I’m Time Turner but you can call me…”
The pony kept running, and from the sounds of it she was mumbling to herself. It seemed as if he was going to need to be a little more aggressive if he was going to get her attention. With a running start, he was off to adventure! Or therapy, not sure what was going to be needed. Either way…
”Hey, wait up. I’m the Doctor, I can help!”