Braith

By Mephala

• May 16, 2013




Age: 19-24

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Braith has a creamy white coat with a russet ed and mint streaked mane. Her eyes are different colours; on is a mottled yellow, and the other an electric green.

Cutie Mark: Braith has a flaming wrench in the shape of a quarter note, representing her talent in instrument repair (she enjoys both playing and fixing them). She also enjoys fire, hence the fact that it's on fire.

Personality: Braith acts very confident; she has an aura of someone who is in charge and is a natural leader. However, she uses this to hide the fact that she has a weak self-confidence level.<br /><br />Braith isn't afraid to get her hooves dirty; she enjoys hard work and reflects her work in her personality; she's outspoken, occasionally crude, and brash, but can also be faithful, strong, and honest. She is quite strong due to growing up rough-housing with griffins.<br /><br />Braith dislikes getting close to people, preferring to place her trust in her own hooves, and is very self-reliant. She's not quiet, however, and isn't afraid to speak her opinions, ill taken or not.<br /><br />She tends to let her bad temper get the better of her. She loves the heat, particularly fire, which she uses to fix things on occasion. However, she dislikes snow and cold weather in general, as she has little resistance to them. She has a hardy constitution besides that and doesn't get sick easily. She has a high pain tolerance but low magic resistance. <br /><br />She's quite witty and sharp-minded but gets confused about the pony world on occasion.<br /><br />She's also very competitive and challenging, as she usually feels like a disappointment to her family and desires to prove herself.

Backstory: Braith grew up in a griffin settlement, and as a result doesn't have the highest respect for other ponies thanks to growing up with griffins, most of whom are afraid of ponies. <br />The reason she lived there was because her parents were saved by a griffin at a young age and, admiring their mores simplistic and natural life over the extravagant ones of their kin, they moved.<br />Both her parents were unicorns, but Braith had no magical ability, which made her competitive and often angry, as she felt like she was letting her magical parents down. Though they assured her that she was not, she still felt inferior and, as a result, grew to be a dedicated worker but have fairly low self confidence; she hides this behind a mask of extreme self confidence.<br /><br />When she was young, she demonstrated an aptitude for the lute; she often played for griffin celebrations and festivals, and moved on to other instruments like harp, flutes, and drums. She did not have access to higher levels of instrumentation, and when a young griffin friend of hers named Nos smuggled her in an oboe she was severely punished, as she was forbidden contact with the outside world. Braith hated being constrained by these rules and ran away that night with the help of Nos and his younger sister Adar.<br /><br />When wandering in the woods. she met a young manticore named Seirian, who also desired freedom. However, Braith was wary of her new "friend", as manticores are the mortal enemies of griffins. Seirian promised her that they could leave together with an ahuizotl named Cas, across the sea to the land of Equestria, but ahuizotls are even more shifty than manticores, and she refused. She never saw Seirian again after she was found by a search party several days later and taken home; she presumed she returned to the manticore lands, or was eaten by the ahuizotl.<br /><br />Recognizing that their daughter was unhappy, her parents decided to allow her to take up smithing and mechanics with their blacksmith. While she found her passion in repairing instruments, Braith wanted to move onto greater things; Nos had had his leg repaired after a manticore attack by a pony who gave him a cybernetic limb. Braith studied this with great interest and eventually constructed her own. However, her parents beat her for this, and she was publicly shamed.<br /><br />Shortly after, Nos was exiled, and his sister left with him; Braith now had no way to continue to study, as her leg had been smashed to bits. She eventually confronted her parents, who, after a terrible row, told her to leave, which she did.<br /><br />Managing to get a ship across from the wilder lands of her home to Equestria was difficult, but she managed to, though it took her over a month to cross. In that time, she entertained fellow travelers with her musical skills, and helped the engineers on the deck with their repairs on the ship. She was 18 when she finally got her cutie mark after she completed her first instrument at her "forge", on her birthday.<br /><br />Braith arrived and found work continuing to apprentice; she completed it early, shortly before she was 19, as she had started before she was 14, quite early. She moved to a small town and opened shop, where she met her friend Dyn, and practiced there. She continued to travel and enjoy herself, relishing the amazing wonders of Equestria after her simplistic growing up.