Diamond Rustscythe

By Silver W. Valensnow

• May 31, 2014




Age: 25

Gender: Male

Species: Pegasus

Appearance: a darkgreen pegasus, brown mane and tale, disshevelled, slightly shaded roange eyes

Cutie Mark: A scythe with a drop of blood hanging from it.<br />This represemts his ability in melee war.

Personality: A little cynical and bored he knows his sarcasm and takes fun in making a hit here or there, avoids it most of the time though. takes stock in getting better from other ponies and has rough edges in his personality, therefore it takes some time for him to truely befriend somepony. When talking his mouth always finds the most stick-to-the-fact words, to the point where he is brutally honest.<br /><br />Ability:<br />average muscular, can take much fatique before being exhausted, medium to low visual strength.<br />Defines himself in the arts of: combat, gambling, flying, thinking fast and applying great mental pressure on a pony. ln weaponry his favourite type of weapon is long-hafted, sword/club-like and natural weapons(e.g. stones, branches). Applies himself in the art of weapon creating very well and i known to have created weapons for famous warponies. Where thinking speed is concerned, taking split-second decisions is nothing out of the ordinairy for him. Has some proficiency with ranged weapons but is hindered by his visual problems sometimes. Strategically some skill, but has to adept and takes some time for it.

Backstory: Was raised by poor ponieswho, when their money was running low, had no choice but to him to a foalhouse for homeless. He was bullied there the first few weeks and decided he would not tolerate the other foals any longer. He toughened up and became bitter and rescentful, thus his evil disposition was born. after a while he was the foal calling all the shots in the foalhouse and one day, when a certain pony had irritated him very much, made a critical mistake. He had pushed another foal and accidently killed it. Fearing for his life he ran away by digging a hole under the fence for a few days, while hiding in places where he could not be found. On the day of his escape he was very sad and wondered the streets, he kept thinking about the letter he had written to the ponies in the foalhouse that were actually his friends.Forced to live on the streets he started pilfering other ponies, shops and markets, anything to stay alive and his bitterness grew with his body. He was out on the streets for mroe than 6 years, in which time he grew to be a teenager with determination in every thought. He had started to realise things, how life went for poor ponies, how others looked at him as disgusting and vile, calling him an honorless begging streetfoal. In that time he had also learned how to kill mercilessly as he was conscripted by one of the underworld gangs run by a descendant of Tirek. lt went dificult for him in the beginning, but he became soulless in killing and the gangmembers all started calling him Rustscythe. This was partly because he actualy preferred killing with a scythe, but also because, in the beginning, they had to buy a new scythe for him once in a while because he never took care of it. He learned the hard way to have love for his weapon though as the gangleader himself taught that to him with an iron hoof. He served the gang for three year, in which he became a pony with but two things on his mind: justice and killing. One day he conflicted over a petty detail that was injustly handled by the gang. lt wouold have made no difference if the gangchief had not been involved. He was roughed up and left in the street without a second thought, for the gangchief assessed that the pony had done to much things that reaked of justice lately and that he was annoyed by it because not all things were to the gang's benefit. He lay there a full day, overnight and another half day before he was spotted by somepony who actually cared about helping him. lt was shining armor who walked the streets of Canterlot to return to the castle after a succesful errand, normally he would not have noticed, let alone picked up, a homeless pony. This pony however was in a very bad situation and was nearly dying. Shining armor took the pony with him and brought him to the physicians of Canterlot castle, he had no time to stop by the hospital and knew the ponydoctors of the castle would do fine work. The nopony in the sickbay of the castle made well for a good recovery and was one day lucky enough to see princess Celestia. The white noble aproached the former beggar and talked with him, asking his name. He told the princess that his name was never given to him by his mother, being a homeless pony and all. He had actually invented his own name. He called himself Diamond and told the the princess about his past, renaming himself Diamond Rustscythe. Celestia had heard of that name in context to outlawed actions and killings and wanted to lock Diamond away, before she could make this decision though Diamond interrupted her with the words"l want to better my life, l have experienced much sorrow and hardship in that time and l want to live a normal life now". Celestia thought about this for a very long time, also counselling with her advisors as to what was to be done about this matter and, finally, after two weeks of deliberation, they reached a verdict. Diamond was allowed to enter service under watch of high-ranking ponies of the guard. SO it happened. Diamond became a guard and was soon trusted enough by the royal familyto promote him to personal guard. His favourite weapon was the coice halberds, because they came closest to the scythe he was use to fight with. When Diamond was awarded with special honors by saving somepony's life, Celestia gave himthe captainsmedal and the right to get a distinguished weapon. He was offered to get a model made by the finest smithingpony in all of Equestria, but turned the offer down, explaining he wanted to make his weapon by himself. His life was devided by two worlds now, the world of being a guard for the royal family and the world where he learned from the smithingpony how the art of weaponcreation was handled.He was 24 when he finally learned the last thing from the smithing-chief and started working on his own weapon He spent eight months fabricating his weapong, putting so much love and devotion into it that the weapon started reacting to that. The blades that were highly polished and stuck out of the sides of the weapon started to change to take the form of wings, an intercut pattern of feathers and the general shape of a wing were slowly coming to be the qeapons new bladeform. The blades on the underside of the weapon still remained as lethal as beore, for he took great care of his weapon as he had learned so long ago. When the weapon was finally finished he dubbed it "The Winged Executioner" and never let it out of his sight ever again. Till this day Diamond remains a loyal servant of the princeasses and is treated with respect by the entire royal guard. His name, however, was not very well known to ponykind, but he preferred it that way, living the life of a justice-bound Assassin in peace and prosperity, his blade never dulling and his reflexes always sharp and trained.