Aqua Fortis

By Waywardfoals

• October 4, 2016




Age: 29

Gender: Male

Species: Unicorn

Cutie Mark: It's a flask with green liquid inside, showing his talent as a scientist.

Personality: Aqua is incredibly shy and introverted, having little patience for criticism or insults. He hides his shyness behind a mask of pessimism and apathy, not wanting to make it easy to get close to him, even though he does want to open up to others.<br /><br />When with friends, he instead uses his grumpy exterior and sarcasm to make jokes the to help add levity. When he's at his most comfortable, he's prone to exadurate this persona for the sake of humor.

Backstory: Even as a foal, Aqua was a genius, able to learn and retain information quickly. He earned his cutiemark after completing a science project, which was a chemistry project involving his name sake(Under adult supervision.). He graduated elementary school early, but because of this, he missed out on learning valuable social skills. Not only that, but because he skipped several grades, he had been denied information he would need at higher grades. This resulted in no small amount of stress, as well as him struggling to adapt mentally to being the odd fish out.<br /> <br />Unfortunately, he could not handle all the pressure and folded, his grades dropping and resulting in some accusing him of having cheated in the first place. He lost most of the respect of the school and even his parents. Needless to say, he become quite nihilistic and uncaring, dragging his way through school into adulthood. His apathetic attitude continued further, though eventually he made an effort to go to college, if for no other reason than to get away from his nagging perents. Thankfully, he managed to make some friends here that helped him out of his funk, if at least a little.<br /> <br />Once he graduated his his course, he got a pharmacist license and opened up a pharmacy in ponyville, mostly so he wouldn't have to see his perents again. At this point,, besides his work, he's also trying to work past his pessimism and enjoy himself, though he's very shy, hiding it behind a grumpy exterior. At the same time, he'll poke fun at his act to give some levity, playing up the grump act for humor.<br /> <br />Now, this guy has been through several iterations, and this is his latest, wanting to go for a child genius who had too much pressure to take at a young age and couldn't handle it. Also, his colors are sort of meant to be less appealing, as I wanted to evoke a chemical appearance with his colors.