Mapenzi
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Whispers in the Silence
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Mapenzi
Oct 31, 2011 14:07:58 GMT -5
Post by Mapenzi on Oct 31, 2011 14:07:58 GMT -5
Name: Mapenzi ( Meaning love )
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Species: Zebra
Coat: A very pale grey Almost like a dirty white, Adorned by a much darker grey shaped into stripe patterns that run all around her body. (See Picture for indepth, Exact markings )
Mane/Tail Color: It tends to change depending on what shes doing, however it is naturally black with white bold striped running though it.
Eyes: Orange
Cutie Mark: A mark she gained in her home land, A circle like shape that is broken into two semi circles in which the lines spirl inwards. All of which is incased by small dots that line its perimiter.
Residence: Once a traveler from a 'Distant Land' This mare currently resides in a small home in White Tail Wood..
Occupation: Currently she is a model for the fashion queen on ponyville, Made so after rarity spotted her looking around her shop and loving the idea of making clothing that would co-ordinate with the female striped pelt. She has been working for the unicorn for a little over 3 months now.
Special Talents: Mapenzi is a lightning fast runner, trained back in her home land so that she could escape danger, she does still run now but in a more relaxed manner due to the lack of danger in her new home. She believes she can talk to those who have passed, when sitting next to thier graves. No one can be sure if she can or not. Strategy; Making sure no one feels alone ; Made wise by her travels and her home land she usually has something helpful to add.
Likes: The smell of moist recently dug up earth, Running, The rain, Her mother, Excitement.
Dislikes: Thunder storms, The darkness (More bitch black than just the night), Swamp Water, Fighting, Seeing broken hearts.
Weaknesses/Failings: After an Incedent in her youth, Mapenzi cannot swim and in fact holds a paralizing fear of most bodies of water, the worst being swamp water She is far too trusting of strangers; No Magic; No Flight; Clostrophobia; Emotional.
Attributes/Accessories: No matter where shes seen her ears are seen sporting a gold stud in ear ear, undernieth which are two a golden hoops, One for each ear. A golden ring attached around the base of her wild tail and a golden lip piercing completing the set, although the lip peircing is often removed when showcasing Rarity's designs.
A rarer thing to see her in is a bone like necklace, Made from the remains of various animals that had died at the time of its creation, along with various feathers and beads. It was made for her at birth and now mostly resides on a wall of her home, it does occasionally made appearences though.
She usually carries saddle bags on her, Although thier contents often change they seem to have a reccuring theme of items.
- A strong thatch bound rope, mostly brought with her just incase soemthing goes wrong, She has taken far too many chances in the past and doesn't want to make the same mistakes twice. -Bandages
Her underbelly has a scar that runs its length due to an accident in her travels, She tries to keep it hidden.
Personality: (WIll add more too later)
Wise.
Trusting of new Ponies.
Mentially off.
Brave / Stupidly Fearless.
Proud.
History/Backstory: Right this will be strange to explain, here we go.
Mapenzi is the daughter of two highly respected Equines, her father the main leader of thier tribe, her mother the healer of all ailments. Both where powerful shamens, dealing with everything from the treatment of the dead (Thier buerials and preperation) To creating good luck trinkets for the younger children to aid in thier sleep. Being so well known, the town was abuzz when Mapenzi was finally born, they Expected her take after her parents when they came to pass, Eventually enough so that she could lead thier tribe just as her parents had done so well. This seemed to go well at first, She took interested in everything there was to learn and took to most of it with reletive ease, it was when she started to grow older that the problems started.
She seemed to have an unnatural obsession with the passed members of the tribe, spending ours in thier buerial grounds talking to the graves, Listening to them claiming that she could hear them, that they where happy to have somepony visit them. As much as it scared some, her mother was overjoyed! To her, Mapenzi was not like those of the other fillies of her age but instead had already opened her mind to that of the world around her. In truth mapenzi really did think she could hear them, although weather it was true of not is still unknown, She didn't want anyone to be lonley, even those who no longer had an earthly body. This extended to living Zebra's to mind, She hated the idea of someone being alone in life only to be passed on into a world of silence. She could see how few ponies visited thier lost loved ones, it broke her heart.
It was when her father tried to teach her about what ponies can go though in life that her attention for all of the lessons started to fall, She could see he was trying to pull her away from the buerial grounds but he seemed to have come up short when thinking of ideas to distract her with. She just wanted to help the forgotten ones, not lead the ones who forget. Slowly she found herself starting to hate the members of her tribe, not able to see past when she could see, only able to talk to her mother or the dirt in the wasteland. That was when a traveler came to the tribe, he seemed to want to change everything.
He was a pony with no stripes and wings, a terrifying thing to the tribe, who at first all tried to hide from the colt. Leaving it up to the female with no fears, although this time, Mapenzi didn't feel so brave. When she approached the male he seemed to tower over her, looking down his maw at the strange filly before him. He did not however mean any harm, dispite what the others felt and Mapenzi began talking to him she could see that for herself. He ended up staying with her tribe for a solid few weeks, Much to the joy of the female. She loved listening to the stories of his travels around so many distant lands. It all sounded amazing.
However after the weeks had passed he did not seem to leave, instead he wanted to 'help them' Describing thier ways of almost savedge compaired to those of this home, Promising to help them. At first a few zebra's agreed but that did not seem to be enough, he wanted the whole tribe to get involved. Mapenzi's father wouldn't allow it, Speaking of how what the male had been desicribing where all lies to bind them before he sprung his trap. That he wanted to take what they loved away from them and turn them into the hollow shells, like the ponies he spoke of from his home land. He and a large group of the tribe drove the stranger out, much to Mapenzi's dismay. She loved listening to the stories he spoke of but there was no arguing with her father...
Months passed but Mapenzi could not get the stranger out of her mind, So she decided. All those stories she had heard, she wanted to experience them for herself. She said goodbye to her mother in the night, Appologising to the buerial grounds before fleeing into the night, only two saddle bags worth of items to get her to this new land.
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Mapenzi
Oct 31, 2011 16:58:40 GMT -5
Post by Archaic on Oct 31, 2011 16:58:40 GMT -5
Accepted c: Rarity has already okay-d the occupation, and I really like the depth in Mapenzi's character - it's about time we had another zebra around!
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