Rambling Puppet

I had a wild imagination as a kid so even something as tame as the old Goosbumps live show could scare me.

Transformers: I watched the G1 series and eventually found my way to Seibertron.com. Gwar: my friends let me listen to them and I've been addicted to their shows since Ragnarok. Warhammer 40K: I got into it after saying "Screw it" to TCGs since i had to keep buying new cards. The older guys at my comic store played it so I picked up the rule book and enjoyed it ever since. Dungeons and Dragons: My comic book store had the books out, and let me read a few of them. my friends and I still play once a month. Sonic the Hedgehog: Archie Comics. Eventually dropped it because I felt the fans were crazy and the story of the comics kept getting worse. Final Fantasy: FF2 for the SNES. Dropped it after FFX. MLP: The internet. I can't point to what drew me exactly, I just saw a little on YT and got dragged down the well. Now I write fanfics for it. x3

I'm both, but the term Brony just means 'fan of MLP' to me. I'm also a diehard Bohab.

Comics, Books... I occasionally get a new Warhammer 40k model for my army.

I'd go with a tree or wild plant name, not one that's cultivated like a flower. Bramble is the first that comes to mind. Briar Patch, If he was older I'd suggest Father Pine. Mist Dancer, Oak Heart... or maybe you'd like something more poetic like Vines Encrusted or Redwood in Autumn just throwing some ideas out there. =3

The original Zelda at the age of 3, and that's in the 80s.

Picture of him in my sig Name: Willow Wisp Age: 24 Gender: Male Race: Unicorn Appearance: Willow is a slender, underweight stallion of average height. He has a brown-dark brown mane and tail that he keeps cut short but rarely combs. He has navy blue eyes, and his coat is the dark green of moss, and his cutie mark is a long style lantern with a burning candle in it. Personality: Willow is a quiet, well meaning stallion from a lower income family. He tends to be withdrawn and tight lipped, preferring to think rather than to speak. He lacks confidence, largely due to his weak magic, and from the pestering from his brothers about his meager profession. Although introverted, Willow is a realist, and tries to offer aide to those he feels won't just take his help for granted. He dreams of someday becoming magically strong enough to attend a magic school, illusion spells especially fascinate him. Backstory: Willow comes from a mixed family, his father being a unicorn (Silverheart) and mother an Earth Pony (Duststorm). Due to this he grew up amid a more down to earth family than most Unicorns tend to have. His life in the lower part of Manehatten wasn't always wonderful, but he considers his childhood a happy one. His older brothers (both earth ponies, Redcap & Pinecone) tended to pick on him for being smaller and weaker. It was when Willow got a job helping the lamplighters of Manehatten that he found he liked chasing the darkness of the night out of the city streets that he earned his cutie mark. His brothers teased him, saying that he was doomed to have a mediocre job for the rest of his life. Willow snapped at them, finally telling his brothers off before moving to Canterlot. Thanks to some kind neighbors, friends he had made in school, Willow currently lives in a small apartment that had been remodeled after an incident involving a grease fire. Willow now works as a lamplighter, still saving every bit he can so he can attend a good magic school, while trying to be a good pony. Special Talent: Willow's cutie mark is an iron lamp with a lit candle inside. It represents both talent for light spells, as well as his love of lanterns and candles. While not a talented magician, he can produce light spells which help him unerringly find his way in the dark. Other skills: He's a very good listener, and knows the streets of Canterlot and Manehatten very well. His biggest talents are always light spells, ranging from lighting candles to producing bright flashes of blinding light. His twice daily trek around the city keeps him fit, and for a unicorn he's considered physically fit, but magically he's puny and doesn't know many other spells. Odd things: His preferred holiday is Nightmare night, although he is kind of a wimp about being scared. Sometimes falls prey to depression due to overthinking his lot in life. Has poor self image and doesn't think any mare would be interested in him, so he doesn't even attempt to hit on girls. Could spend all day cracking and eating nuts. Willow also prefers to use his hooves and mouth rather than use magic to manipulate things. He has quiet disgust for Sapphire Shores' music, and tries to leave when he hears it.

Eh heh... just me reacting without reading. I saw your brohoof of my post in your RP request thread and assumed you were starting things up. Thought this was the OC thread for us to put our characters. Leaped without looking. I do that sometimes. ^-^;

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I'm game, I do tend to focus more on character than some grand adventure though.

I am an athiest. Logic and reason, knowledge and freedom from spirital pipe dreams.

My eyes? sort of a mess really. Some people I ask say blue, others say green.

I never really considered myself being with someone, but I occasionally get very lonely.

My grandmother was taken off her ventilator two days ago. she had fallen and shattered her first vertebrae. She was the matriarch of the family, she kept us all in order. Now I feel lost, and extremely worried about the future.

So this idea came to mind while making an offhand remark about an evil celestia from a FiMficition story, suppose somepony, one of your favorite villians or just an AU version of your favorite pony gets pulled into Ravenloft, the Realm of Dread where evil is widespread. Let's take it a step further and make him/her the dark lord of his/her own domain and the Dark Powers of Ravenloft begin tormenting her eternity. This Ravenloft could be the one from Dungeons and Dragons, or its own pony-version, but I was wondering if anyone had some ideas that would spring from this. Example: I see Xenolestia from the Conversion Bureau series set up almost like Count Strahd von Zarovich, that she has her own castle and an ordered land to rule, and she keeps the trains running on time. However every pony in her employ always ends up acting like newfoals, mindlessly grinning at her and speaking in a monotone voice that excites paranoia. In addition, she seems to have no control over the power of the sun here in Ravenloft, and perhaps the worst curse laid on her by the Dark Powers, when the sun goes down she herself transforms into a human woman, no matter what she does, no magic or potion can keep her from transforming every sunset. The ultimate punishment for the scourge of humanity is to be hunted by her grinning subjects until morning. And like every Dark Lord, she professes that her actions (genocide) were in the right, that she is the victim.

In highschool: sometimes in my math class, otherwise I reserved a nap for study hall. Although once in 8th grade I slept through a class, woke up in another, then hurried to my next class. I did get some vengance for the teacher no one nudging me awake by leaving a huge puddle of drool on the desk. it was first period and I have never slept well since I was 6.

I normally get ear or sinus infections, I very rarely am bedridden. Since I have tinnitus, those two infections only the ringing worse... @_@

No problem, I'm glad I can share my work with you. =3 He is sorta meant to be a background pony given a history, but perhaps I should consider giving him more friends and making him a bit more extroverted. He doesn't live in a vaccum afterall. EDIT: However, I did write him as a flawed, if very quiet character. That's area for potential character growth, especially where it comes to self confidence.

Here's my OC, picture in my sig Name: Willow Wisp Age: 18 Gender: Male Race: Unicorn Appearance: Willow is a slender, underweight stallion of average height. He has a brown-dark brown mane and tail that he keeps cut short but rarely combs. He has navy blue eyes, and his coat is the dark green of moss, and his cutie mark is a long style lantern with a burning candle in it. Personality: Willow is a quiet, well meaning stallion from a lower income family. He tends to be withdrawn and tight lipped, preferring to think rather than to speak. He lacks confidence, largely due to his weak magic, and from the pestering from his brothers about his meager profession. Although introverted, Willow is a realist, and tries to offer aide to those he feels won't just take his help for granted. He dreams of someday becoming magically strong enough to attend a magic school, illusion spells especially fascinate him. Backstory: Willow comes from a mixed family, his father being a unicorn (Silverheart) and mother an Earth Pony (Duststorm). Due to this he grew up amid a more down to earth family than most Unicorns tend to have. His life in the lower part of Manehatten wasn't always wonderful, but he considers his childhood a happy one. His older brothers (both earth ponies, Redcap & Pinecone) tended to pick on him for being smaller and weaker than them. It was when Willow got a job helping the lamplighters of Manehatten that he found he liked chasing the darkness of the night out of the city streets that he earned his cutie mark. His brothers teased him, saying that he was doomed to have a mediocre job for the rest of his life. Willow snapped at them, finally telling his brothers off before moving to Canterlot. Thanks to some kind neighbors, friends he had made in school, Willow currently lives in a small apartment that had been remodeled after an incident involving a grease fire. Willow now works as a lamplighter, still saving every bit he can so he can attend a good magic school, while trying to be a good pony. He does occasionally dream of owning his own candleshop, but that's something for the future. Special Talent: Willow's cutie mark is an iron lamp with a lit candle inside. It represents both talent for light spells, as well as his love of maintaining lanterns and making candles. While not a talented magician, he can produce light spells which help him unerringly find his way in the dark. Other skills: He's a very good listener, and knows the streets of Canterlot and Manehatten very well. His biggest talents are always light spells, ranging from lighting candles to producing bright flashes of blinding light. His twice daily trek around the city keeps him fit, and for a unicorn he's considered physically fit, but magically he's puny and doesn't know many spells. Odd things: His preferred holiday is Nightmare night, although he is kind of a wimp about being scared. Sometimes falls prey to depression due to overthinking his lot in life. He has a poor self image and doesn't think any mare would be interested in him, so he doesn't even attempt to hit on girls. Could spend all day cracking and eating nuts. Willow also prefers to use his hooves and mouth rather than use magic to manipulate things. He has quiet disgust for Sapphire Shores' music, and tries to leave when he hears it.

jeans, plain shirt, and preferably my black Bohab vest with all the heavy metal patches I sewed into it. =3

Fresh pineapple is awesome =3

They're all up on YT... for now. go check em out. =3 For being the first fully CGI show, it still holds up in my opinion.

A suggestion: Come up with the character's backstory first. That will tell how he/she will look. Did s/he have a good childhood? What does s/he do? Think of this as constructing a journey toward something, give your character a goal or motto that sums up their way of thinking. How does s/he interact with the world, because no character exists in a vacuum. They are effected by everyone they encounter, their choices may have had unintended consequences. Its these events, these thoughts, this history that gives the character their appearance. The first few OCs I had I always wanted them to end well, to tred some grand, super-awesome path that was leveled with all manner of things I thought were epic. But I learned eventually that less is more. When the normal is... well, normal, the more out of place, fantastical things stand out like monoliths in the desert, and invite curiosity. Don't feel you have over-complicate your OCs.