Autumn

By Stardust*

• May 23, 2016




Age: 26

Gender: Female

Species: Non-Pony

Appearance: Light brown fur with a few freckles. She has light aqua eyes, a short head of hair that is the color of autumn leaves. Her horns are a very light shade of grey, and she normally wears a bow and sometimes a scarf.

Cutie Mark: N/A

Personality: Outgoing, she loves to meet new ponies/creatures. She is very kind, lovable, loyal, and true to herself.

Backstory: Autumn grew up in a town much further north than Yak-yakastan, in a little village called Girdwood. She loved growing up there, every reindeer worked hard together to make sure that every deer had what they needed. They took care of one another. <br />She was an only child to the chief and head nurse of the village. She was one to stand out that is for sure. She was constantly watched over and judged for the things that she did and/or didn't do. This was a slightly stressful life for her, but she overcame it with ease. <br />From a young age she was taught that kindness matters, but so does your own self worth. She needed to work hard, study and be a contributing member of her community. Which, for a while she adhered to. <br />Until one day, she was making her way out to gather snow berries from a far off area of the forest when she heard a sound that was nothing she had ever heard. The cry was ferocious, yet pained. She dropped her baskets and started to search the wood. <br />As she got nearer to the sound her adrenaline kicked in. But she was washed with an overpowering sense of calm. The creature was in an egg, broken, the entire forest floor covered in feet of snow, yet around the egg, grass. She had never seen such a thing. <br />She quietly crept forward. Here eyes grew wide, and her jaw dropped as she saw the tiny creature. Magnificent wings, attached to a tiny turquoise body. Tiny claws, and a brilliant set of pure white sharp teeth. As it cried, the creature got the hiccups. Every time it would hiccup a tiny burst of blue flame would shoot from it's mouth. <br />Autumn wrapped the baby in her scarf and took it home. Getting any and every book on creatures of Equestria she could find, she grew to love every part of it so much that as she raised the baby dragon she decided that was what she was going to study at University. <br />The two grew up together, she loved him more than anything else. As he grew up, it was obvious he couldn't stay in the village. With a tearful goodbye and all the knowledge she could give him on his species he followed the dragon migration as it few over one year. <br />Autumn was at the top of her class at University and she was going to make a name for herself. She might not have done what the village wanted her to do, but with her father and mothers blessing she made her way across Equestria and found her way to the University of Canterlot. She took on the role as a professor for Mystical Creatures. She lived in a cottage just outside of the forest on campus. She loved every minute of it, teaching students about every creature that she knew of, and she was learning more all of the time. Her research never stopped, and she would travel and learn as much as she could about each creature she encountered.