Charred Remnant

By NavelColt

• February 17, 2015




Age: 20

Gender: Male

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Charred has a very warm and dusty color scheme; a dark red coat supports a dark brown mane with a lighter shade of red running along the side. He has tangerine colored eyes, a darkened brown area on his snout, and dark freckles on the bridge of his nose of the same color as his brown mane. His hooves are kept untrimmed in a jagged pattern.

Cutie Mark: Charred's cutie mark is a buffalo skull surrounded by a veil cloud of smoke; a few sparks of fire are present in the cloud, and the skull is partially covered in soot. When other travelers and towns people ask him about it, he tells them it represents the harsh desert environment in which he thrives in, and the dangerous places he uncovers in his travels. In truth, his grim cutie mark is a branded symbol of the dark magic he foolishly and unintentionally placed on himself as a young stallion.

Personality: Charred has a very solemn and grim outlook on situations, being an insufferable pessimist at the worst times and a dry-humored, sarcastic joker at the best. Despite this, he is a very independent individual who has complete confidence in his own abilities, and has a knack for surviving on his own in the wilderness. Naturally a lone-wolf, he seeks out companionship from the occasional town and its inhabitants sparingly, much of the time preferring to be a nomad and travel around by himself.<br /><br />When Charred eventually does find himself in social situations, he plays the quiet type who responds to conversations rather than starts them, displays some minor levels of chivalry, especially towards mares, and will fight tooth and nail for his pride and beliefs, should they be challenged directly by another. While he doesn't have any close friends, he does have one or two acquaintances that he regularly meets up with in his returned visits to certain towns. He greatly values these individuals, and reciprocates their interest in remaining in contact with him through spending much of his time with them whenever he does roll back into town.

Backstory: Charred was born in a small village located somewhere in the far southern mountains of the dusty San Palomino Desert. His family and the other ponies that lived in the dry, sandy mountains were a nomadic group that did trade with travelers and outpost towns that spotted the edges of the desert's landscape. Through these travelers and merchants, a teenage Charred obtained a plethora of items from other lands; voodoo charms and other mysterious objects, all of which he had an insatiable fascination for.<br /><br />As a developing young stallion, an overly curious but poorly cautious Charred messed around with these items, aiming to give himself powers to command the desert terrain and thrive on its' harsh environment; his motivations ranging from simple improvement of life quality to bragging rights. Unfortunately for him, the page of magic he read from was an unfinished, worn page from a dark voodoo book given to him by a shady merchant from a far away land; the unstable semi-spell backfired upon him once cast, and scarred his body with dark magic. While his body did gain immunity to the harshness of the desert as he had hoped, it also branded him with a grim cutie mark, a 'curse mark', which represented the dark power he was now cursed with; the grim ability to turn all living objects to charcoal remains through a few moments of prolonged touch.<br /><br />Now a young adult, Charred travels the unclaimed terrains of Equestria, discovering ancient ruins, forests and natural wonders not yet truly discovered by pony kind. With his cursed touch forcing him to keep away from an active social lifestyle less he accidentally hurt somepony, he's taken to the lone-wolf lifestyle instead; traveling Equestria to explore what there is to see, enjoying the pureness of nature and smiting the dark beasts that try and eat him along the way.