Post by swiftwind on Aug 23, 2014 7:38:28 GMT -6
||| SWIFT WIND |||
#Name; Swift Wind.
#Age ; Mid Teens
#Orientation ; Hetero.
#Gender ; Female.
#Occupation ; Former runaway, currently student at Canterlot High School.
#Alignment ; Unaligned.
#Physique ; Lean and wiry, underdeveloped in certain areas.
#Hair color and style ; Dark purple, cut short and manageable.
#Eye color ; Grey.
#Clothing ; Hoodie, t-shirt, jeans (normally in black or dark grey).
#Other appearance details (optional) ; Swift has a nasty-looking scar on her right shoulder (it can be hidden by a t-shirt but it's one of the reasons why she's a little anxious about showering after gym class) as well as a few other scars on her body.
#A more thorough description (optional) ; Swift is a little boyish looking and she tends to not act girly when possible. She is nervous having to take showers and the like around other girls (mostly because of her underdevelopement in certain areas and the scars). She has forced herself to lose her Manehattan accent (she thought it would make it harder for anyone to work out where she came from) and has developed a talent for learning accents quickly.
#Personality ;
Swift is (as she would put it) a realist, others might say a fatalist. She tends to keep herself to herself, not being sure either to trust people or not. Her upbringing (of sorts) means that she knows that any friends she might make are likely to be temporary at best and probably will betray her in the long run. She knows that stealing is wrong but she justifies it as things she needs to survive, hence she almost always only steals food and then from people with food to spare.
When she ran away from the orphanage in Manehatten she ran into situations where she would be in trouble if she looked like a girl. Since then she acts as un-girly as possible when with others. Since she was found out and forced to stay in Canterlot, Swift has tried to fit in as much as possible while she makes plans to get out of town as soon as she can.
Swift enjoys physical activity, especially running (she was one of the fastest runners in her old school and cold necessity has kept her skill level up since she ran away from Manehattan.
#History ;
Swift assumes she was born in Manehattan. Since she can remember she had lived in a orphanage and various foster homes, trying and failing to get a family. The one time that things seemed to be going well for her the foster parents discovered that the mother had a child of her own on the way. Swift was unsurprised when she was returned to the orphanage before the birth. The next foster home she was sent to ended up with her back in the orphanage with a big, ugly scar on her upper back. Finally, Swift ran away from the orphanage two years ago.
Swift was woefully unprepared for life on the run. She soon discovered that she was faster and more agile than most and after spending a week on the road with no food was forced to steal from a shop. With a full belly and little or no real qualms about what she had done to get it Swift started stealing to get what she needed to survive. After run-ins with locals who were concerned about a girl on the road on her own Swift started acting and moving like a young man, finding it made things less complicated.
After travelling as far as Canterlot, Swift moved into a abandoned house until she was captured by the local police after a tip-off from a neighbour. She was taken to a local orphanage and told she would have to go to school, despite the fact that her education was two years behind other students her age. She decided to comply while she made plans for getting out of Canterlot.The Roleplayer's Corner
#Nickname ; David.
#Age ; 40
#Gender/Preferred Pronouns ; Male.
#How did you find us? ; I followed the link from The Fun Has Been Doubled (where I play a more equine version of Swift).
#Sample RP ;
Swift had been lying in bed for a few hours, unable to sleep. Her captors had insisted that she go to some fancy-shmancy school, despite her protests that she was two grades behind any of the students. As it was she was due to start school the next day.
The idea scared her more than anything had since the last foster home she had been in. She was under-educated, underdeveloped physically and the last thing she needed was to be stuck in the shower with others after gym class. She could guess how thing were going to go already. On top of that, she had heard stories about the really weird stuff which had happened at the school recently.
All in all, going back to Canterlot High School was going to be terrible. All she could do was plan for getting out of town as quickly as possible. That was going to mean getting a job, if she could with her past, then making enough money to skip town without having to steal. The money her captors gave her would barely cover school equipment and lunch. Swift guessed that it was probably going to take a while before she would be in a position to get out of this one-horse town.
Realizing that she wouldn't get to sleep that night, Swift gave in and started mentally drawing up plans.