Erad Strum

By Erad Strum

• March 13, 2015




Age: 20

Gender: Male

Species: Non-Pony

Appearance: Height: 4’8” <br />(A bit taller than a normal stallion)<br /><br />Eye colour: Crimson<br /><br />Mane colour: Purple<br /><br />Body Colour: Rosy Brown<br />

Cutie Mark: His Cutie Mark before the whole Canterlot incident was a signed parchment with a small dagger next to it.<br />(His occupation was being a Patrol Guard(-Day shift))<br />-----<br />Since then it disappeared from his legs.

Personality: -His personality is mainly positive, despite his present situation.<br />-At first he is careful on who he shares his true nature and identity with.<br />-He is friendly, loyal and giving to those who he deems worhty of trust.<br />-The one thing he can't stand is when someone betrays him.<br />

Backstory: Story:<br /><br />At the time of the Changeling Invasion on Canterlot, a number of citiczens have been captured.They were either ambushed by suprise, or weakened in battle, and they couldn’t take more.Those who were captured, were placed in cocoons, in reason of assimilating them to the invading army, to gain further advantage in numbers.<br /><br />Erad, with a lot of others were for their “luck” have been captured near the end of the conflict, and were immidiatelly prepared for transformation.<br /><br />That’s when, as we know what happened in the Wedding Hall, the Princess of Love with his husband was able to banish/annihilate the changelings from the city.<br /><br /><br />With the invasion force gone, the capital was cleansed of the invaders once and for all.<br />Or not entirely?<br /><br />The blast which came from the palace, was not strong enough to fully penetrate the ground and reduce the remaining cocoons to ashes, but instead it cut the transformation process.<br />Then, all the remaining and still living former citizens were released.Some of them were almost fully changelings, but a group of the ponies who were out of the claws of this nature defying attrocity, were still living, breathing and thinking creatures.<br /><br />When Erad has awakened on the ground, embraced in the darkness and silence of Canterlot’s abandoned Mining-Caves, he wasn’t sure of it yet, but his appearance was greatly altered.After the enemy was not present in the capital anymore, Celestia was noted of this remaining “bothering factor”, and the City Guard was ordered to seek out and eliminate all these remaining abominations, including the ones who were still aware of their past identity, mainly because they meant a threat to the Kingdom, and the Royal Circle.<br /><br />Those of the now called "Outcasts" as they named themselves, who were lucky enough to get out of the city throught the sewers before the purge were either hidden deep within the forests of Everfree, or gone in search of their fallen Queen and brothers to join them.<br />The ones who have gone through a certain stage of their transformation, gained the ability to alteir their appearances, which all the regular changelings had, have been able to adapt to the lifes they had before.<br /><br />This happened with Erad too, but the experience left it's mark on his very soul.<br /><br />With his co-identity now hidden, he had to hide in order to survive, and with it came a “curse” which was natural for others of his kin, but for him it was a rather alien and burning desire to experience the emotion of love.<br />And because of this, he had to commit acts, he both enjoyed to do, thanks to his now natural state, but found them to be a life long curse he had to bear on himself, until his last days. <br /><br />---------<br /><br />Currently he is living in Fillydelphia, alone.He uses another form to live his life, not his original one, mainly because he could not make peace with his past life yet.<br />He rents a mediocre apartment, and he works as a Bartender.<br />He mainly choose this job because this way he is not forced to feed on one specific pony's feelings/desires/love, but many, even if these are sparse in quantity.<br />He used to have a couple short relationships just for quenching his built up hunger, but he tries not to indulge in these kind of activities anymore.<br />He tries to remain alone and hidden for the time being.