Nightshade

By discorded

• January 16, 2013




Age: 25

Gender: Female

Species: Non-Pony

Appearance: zebra

Cutie Mark: Tribal mark: <br />animal tracks: earned for her skills in tracking after following the tracks of a boar.

Personality: Greedy, selfish, smoothtalker, intellegent, she takes advantage of opertunities when they present themsleves. She loves the life of luxury and a civilized society.

Backstory: Nightshade was born inside a tribe of zebra. <br /><br />Nightshade was a happy kid, she had a family and friends. At 6 years old, she played a game of hide and seek with the other kids of the tribe, she found all the other players by following their tracks, she was skilled at hiding but even better at tracking. <br /><br />When she was 8, she was giving a test to see if she would earn her tribal mark. (the zebras literally have to earn their mark, a coming of age trail that if they pass they get a mark dyed onto their flank)She was tasked with finding a wild boar inside the forest and retreive a bandana tied to the boars tusk. She was told that it would be dangerous but she was confident. She began tracking the boar, after several hours she found it. The boar was sleeping, and Nightshade could see the bandana. She stealthfully approched the boar and removed the bandana from it's tusk without waking it up. As she was walking away, Nightshade accidentally stepped on a tree branch. The boar woke up and seemed angry. Nightshade ran away being chased by the boar. The boar was catching up to her, but there was a small hole leading into a cave, she though that it was her only chance of getting away. The boar was too big to enter the hole, but still guarded the entrance. Nightshade was trapped, her only option was too wait. Night came and she was cold, hungry and afraid. She though that it was stupid how she risked her life for a bandana only to earn a tribal mark, but after everything that she just went through, she had it and was determined to get it back to her tribe. Eventually the boar fell asleep again, she decided that this was her only chance and this time made sure she didn't step on any branches. When she returned to her tribe with the bandana, she earned her right to her tribal mark. For tracking the boar she received her tribal mark of animal tracks. By far she see's this whole experience as the worst moment of her life. <br /> <br />When Nightshade was 9, her parent were going to search for an rare herb which was being sold in town. Nightshade had never been in town and begged to go with them, and eventually they agreed to take her. After a while, they reached the town of ponies. Nightshade's parents left her alone, so they could buy the herb. Nightshade was amazed by the town, the ponies spoke diffrent, they had strange houses, Nightshade noticed that her mane was diffrent then the ponies, everything was so diffrent and new to her. After walking around she met a group of ponies about her age, she became friends with them. She would then visit town once every week. Nightshade loved the way things worked in this more civilized society. Although she didn't want to say it, she hated the ways of her tribe, but she didn't want to let her parents know that she was ashamed of their ways. She eventually began to speak more like regular ponies and she changed her mane style. <br /><br />When she was 10 the royal sisters went missing, Nightshade was still quite young and didn't really have an opinion on the matter. <br /><br />A couple years later, when house everfree was made, Nightshade's parents forced her to abondon her new found lifestyle and friends being told that "You need to fight for house Everfree It's for the future of the tribe". Nightshade was devastated and forced to train to become a zebra skirmisher. Her hate for her tribe and house Everfree got bigger, she hated the forest and those who wanted to live in it and disconnect themselves from a civilized society. <br /><br />At 18 she heard a rumor that her house was preforming barbaric acts such as cannibalism and blood sacrifices, for Nightshade this was the last straw. She left house everfree and made way towards Manehatten, the house with the most civilized group of ponies. But before leaving her parents tryed to stop her, they told her that if she didn't come back they would need to kill her as a sacrifice for the house. Nightshade had no choice but to kill her parents who were completly obsessed with lady Fluttershy and her prescious forest that they would kill their own daughter. Nightshade made her way to Manehatten, on her way there she would run across a couple of battles, she would hide until it was safe. She tryed to leave most of her old life behind her. She was going to have a new start. <br /><br />After arriving at Manehatten she found out that she was to poor to afford the entrance fee. She had to live in the Undercity. For the next 2 years, she would work together with a mercenary group to make money. Nightshade's job was to track diomond dogs into their gem filled homes. <br /><br />After making enough money to cover the entrance fee and afford a home, she moved into the city. Now 20 years old she decided to live up the life, speaking with others, eating expensive food, admiring the different districts. <br /><br />Now 21, she had to make a living, so she became a member of the house, working as a scheamer-smoothtalker, trying to make deals beneficial to the house. Being a zebra makes most other ponies underestimate her, being a huge mistake. <br /><br />Now she is 25, one of her goals is to make her way up the ranks of the house, to make as much money as possible.