Peanut Butter

By Shanashie

• June 26, 2013

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Toffy brown pinto-pony with a mane the colour of butterscotch. Shorter and touting a lighter muscular frame than most earthers, her body type is easily mistaken for a more lithe species. Whist she is averse to physical training, long expeditions away from civilisation usually make up for a rampant sweet tooth.

Cutie Mark: Candle shining upon an open book, representing bringing light to hidden knowledge. The angles created by these objects within the mark are also could also be likened to a sextant or open compass, tying into her love of symbolism and puzzles.<br />

Personality: Bubbly and curiouser than a cat who’s yet to discover the old proverb, Peanut’s enthusiasm is somewhat out of place in her chosen profession. This is probably why, despite being an excellent cryptographer and reader of dead languages, she has yet to advance beyond Field Assistant. She has a bad habit of embellishing facts with half truths or wild guesses to make things sound more interesting. Whilst this makes her a very popular choice for delivering lectures to visiting school foals, it has earned her zilch in the way of a reputation in what is mostly a straight faced profession. From a distance one would think all this chasing of old-mare’s-tales and ages long gone was some convoluted form of escapism.

Backstory: Heralding from the far hills of Trottingham, Peanut Butter grew up on a farm some way outside the bounds of the historical city. An adventurous foal, PB often found herself leading her close knit circle of friends off into the tamed forests bordering the open countryside. Once the site of many small settlements, the forest contained all manner of old walls and long abandoned huts and the young filly would spend hours making up long convoluted stories about their past. Unbeknownst to her, she was gradually honing her eye for detail and tying evidence left behind to real world events talked about in their history classes at school. During one particular school report where the students were asked to make up a story about their favourite place, she went out of her way to gather ideas that fit with the evidence presented. She pointed out the reason the hut’s had all been abandoned had been because the land had flooded during the great Eclipse some thousand years before, the entire area becoming swaps and eventually draining to leave the forest behind. Impressed by just how much truth she had gleaned in her tale, her teacher directed her towards the archaeology courses run by Trottingham History Museum. And so began a lifelong fascination with ancient Equine history.<br />As a field Archaeologist for the historical research branch of CSGU, PB specializes in cryptography and pre-eclipse artefacts. She rarely talks about her life before her intern-ship at Trottingham History Museum, often deflecting questions with the assurance that everything before that was the life of ‘just another farm girl’. Those who know her can see something more to this story, but wisely don’t push the matter. <br />