Post by lost on Nov 29, 2012 23:19:19 GMT -6
||| BLANK SLATE |||
#Name; Blank Slate
#Age Group ; Young Adult
#Gender ; Female
#Species; Unicorn
#Cutie Mark ; None, hence the name, Blank Slate
#Occupation ; Blank is a Jack of all Trades, Master of None; she will pretty much do any work that comes toward her and while it won't be expertly done, it be at least just that: done.
#Powers and Abilities ; As mentioned above, Blank is pretty much a Jack of all trades. More specifically, however, she doesn't appear to have any specialties. She can do basic levitation spells and is somewhat gifted artistically but otherwise, she's on the plain side.
#Physique ; Scrawny and long legged; she's never quite gotten used to her lanky body style so she's some what clumsy.
#Mane and fur color and style ; White and cut short; curly but only loosely so. Often on the messy side.
#Eye color ; Brown.
#Other appearance details (optional) ; She has a sort of ratty tail that ends in a tuft of fur. She only ever knew one of her parents so she's not quite sure where this trait came from. Furthermore, her maw is dusted black along with her hooves; there is a black diamond around her slightly curved horn.
#A more thorough description (optional) ;N/A
#Personality ;
Despite not ever having gained a cutie mark, even well into her adulthood, Blank has always retained a happy-go-lucky attitude and is really easy going. She doesn't let other ponies get to her under the logic that if she tried to please every single one of them, she'd be a basket case. Instead she works to just be herself and enjoy who she is for what she is.
Flighty at times, she can be forgetful and is extremely disorganized. Her thoughts generally tend to be easily derailed and she'll often drag whole conversations off topic. Often she forgets what she was going to say when she enters a room and she almost seems to be ADHD in her mannerism, being a naturally fidgeting pony. As stated above, her lanky body has made her rather clumsy and its not uncommon for her to trip over her own tail. Usually she just laughs it off, even when others are laughing at her.
Scatterbrained to a fault, the only time she seems to be focused is when she's painting, a past time that she truly seems to enjoy and is one of the things that's helped her to come to accept her blank flank status. The way she looks at it is, she's like a blank canvas; its empty and white and doesn't have any special traits. But it can be filled up with color and pictures and feelings and become special in and of itself. In her own way, she believes her blank flank is her cutie mark and she's simply had it her whole life.
She accepts easily that she is who she is and while she could change herself to please those around her, it wouldn't, in the end, please herself. She's happy and that's, in her mind, what matters.
Other, slightly more physical traits, that follow Blank around is her tendency to snort slightly when she giggles. Its one of the few things that still embarrass her and she'll often get a nice rosey hue when it happens. Furthermore, she has a tendency to stamp her hooves and shift about; she's always in motion in someway, trying to let the excess energy that just radiates off her. She's a fairly fast racer... when she's not tripping over her own hooves.
Its not all sunshine and daisies for her; she is, despite having accepted it, a bit sensitive about her blank flank and doesn't appreciate other ponies trying to look down on her for it. Often, others tend to assume she's younger than she actually is and then proceed to talk down to her. This is one of the few things that make her angry and she can become somewhat cold toward other ponies for it. The frigid-ness can be a bit of a shock.
#History ;
Blank Slate was born like any other little pony in Canterlot; she of course had a mommy and a daddy though... she never really got to know her mom. Her mom wasn't around when she was growing up and her dad loved her enough for two parents so it never crossed her mind to ask where her mother was. Instead, it was simply always her and her father, who was a very artistically gifted pony. It was pretty much the only thing he was good at, however; he was very bad with money and often they were very poor. They managed, however, and it taught Blank Slate to be flexible.
When she was old enough, she joined her peers in public pony school. There she was a decent student; that was to say, she passed her classes with C's. In fact, she was fairly middling on everything; she didn't seem to excel at anything. This wasn't too worrying until she noticed that her classmates all had special talents and, as a result, were gaining the highest pride of any pony; cutie marks!
She told herself that she simply hadn't found her special talent yet and if she just broadened her horizons then, one day, she would! She spent the next few years doing various things and learning various skills. She taught herself how to sow, she grew a garden, helped one of the local vets with the animals... she did any kind of job she could set her hooves on with no results.
This was discouraging but she hadn't lost faith that one day, her cutie mark would come to her. Her confidence didn't stave off her peers who, by this time, had noticed their classmate's lagging development. Her name evolved from Blank Slate to Blank Flank over night, and even the nicest of ponies seemed to look down her pristine white pelt.
Embarrassed and hurt, she withdrew from school(by the time an adolescent) and instead asked her dad to let her go out into the world. He seemed reluctant to let his little girl go free but after some persuasion, he allowed her to go out into the world. She spent many years traveling Equestria and learning about various different cultures.
Furthermore, she met and spoke with many different types of ponies, some of them very wise. One in particular, a Zebra, spoke to her about how lucky she was to be without a cutie mark. It meant she was pretty much free to do and be whatever she wanted to be. Heartened by the words, Blank slowly came to accept her seemingly permanent blank flank. Instead of returning to Canterlot, however, to her father and her nasty peers, she continued to travel. There was just a joy she had in doing it...The Roleplayer's Corner
#Nickname ; Lost
#Age ; 20. I'll be 21 next month.
#Gender ; Female
#How did you find us? ; Via a complicated chain of affiliate hopping and RPG-D
#Sample RP ;
"Mmm... chocolate cupcake..."
Blank Slate licked her lips and lowered herself into a sitting position, rump settling comfortably on a thick, plush pillow. Below her was the most delectable and beautifully decorated morsel she'd ever seen. She could hardly wait to dig into it! Behind her, her long tail quivered in excitement and eagerly she leaned forward to take a bite out of the moist cake.
She glided through the delicious frosting with easy and into the so chocolatey it was gooey bread of the cake, breaking off a sizeable chunk. She chewed it and was instantly transported to heaven, thinking that she had to be missing a lot as a unicorn; eating the cupcake felt like flying. She gave one of her front hooves a stomp and let out a long, exaggerated,"Mmm-mmmm-MMM!" all the while chewing the morsel in her mouth. Once she'd swallowed it and come down from the almost nirvana like high that it gave her she leaned forward to take another bite, pausing as she caught the eye of a large, thickly built black stallion. He was staring at her oddly, his hind quarters spotted white with appaloosa markings.
She blushed a bit, embarrassed slightly by her display; despite this, she sent him a giant grin, her tail wagging. "Sorry! Its just sooo good!"she said. He smiled back at her shyly and went back to his own dessert. She grinned wider and took another bite of the euphoric inducing sweet...
Notes: Kinda nervous as the last time I signed up on a MLP RP, I had a rough experience. ^^; Eitherway, here is Blank Slate in all her glory.