Glass Cannon

By Widdershins

• June 22, 2017




Age: 18

Gender: Male

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: <p>   Glass Cannon is a moderately smaller than usual unicorn with a foggy blue coat. His fur fades to white around the front of his face but mostly the end of his muzzle. His white-grey, dense mane parts in two around his horn to make small bangs over his worried, light blue eyes. His tail matches his mane's color and tends to bunch up a little bit above his back knees. </p> <p>    Glass also has a small, black, anti-magic horn ring, but he's a bit self-conscious about how it makes him look so he tends to forget about it often, even though he like as not shouldn't. </p>

Cutie Mark: <p>  <em>*Uhh*... </em>I'll... uhh, get to work on that soon!<em> (How do you make glass into a cutie mark?! It's transparent!) </em> </p>

Personality: <p>   Glass is rather excitable and can be frenetic, flimsy, flighty & flinchy from frequent Feasing.  ... Uh, I mean <strong>teasing. </strong>He wasn't much bullied but it was always made clear what his faults were and how he has to be ever cautious about his abilities and can get way too nervous when too much attention is directed at him. So too, he's quite skittish, especially in loud or startling situations. Glass is rather brittle (<em>oh shaddup, you! That pun isn't the sole reason he's named that!...though it helps.</em>) and has some serious self-confidence issues... for entirely warranted reasons too. </p>

Backstory: <p>    Glass Cannon's family has a history of poor magical abilities. Their Father, Mr. Cannon, wasn't known for his notably strong magic, when he and his pegasus wife started considering having foals, it was brought up that this might make their foals' magical abilities yet even weaker. The two were in love though & sincerely wanted to have children so no concern was payed any due. </p> <p>     ...but they weren't quite aware of just how drastic the results would turn out to be. </p> <p>    When Glass's older brother, Lazer, started showing promise in magical abilities his parents were excited and quickly enrolled both colts into Celestia's School for Unicorns. While his older brother quickly excelled in controlling his own magic & eventually found a place in the unicorn military forces, it was a much worse story for young Glass. It wasn't so much his potential for magic that his teaches called into question, no, he certainly had a talent for tapping into sheer, raw magic force... but what was an outright liability was Glass's equal incapability to <em>control </em>that magic. He could never focus enough to make something happen, as per usual in magic, so much as blow holes in the ceiling or singe the teacher's hat or tie. Along with progressively more teachers growing weary of helping the colt & a lifelong prescription for an anti-magic horn-ring (the sort they use for important sporting events where extra security is needed) Glass soon dropped out of school with only passingly <em>"decent" </em>grades in anything that didn't involve him controlling his magic. </p> <p>   To this day, if Glass thinks too hard for too long or gets alarmed too quicky, or so much as sneezes too suddenly, he's libel to erupt in a beam of magical energy out the top of his head, piercing any roof overhead. It's not unusual for him to have a particularly bad reaction and spend a good few minutes being rocketed flank-first around town until enough things get in his way. In fact, a few rare times he's been startled so bad that he's blown his horn & wound up hammering his chin into the ground and knocking himself out! </p>