Poly Lingua

By Poly Lingua

• May 13, 2016




Age: 20

Gender: Female

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: She has light blue-grey fur, a pale yellow/blonde mane and tail, and blue eyes, and she wears a soft pink bowtie similar to Octavia’s.

Cutie Mark: An open book with a magnifying glass, signifying a ‘linguist’ or an ‘investigator of language’.

Personality: Poly is very introverted and an INTP on the MBTI. She is analytical, inventive, but also reserved and often shy around large crowds. She is very socially awkward, impatient, and easily bored. She is horrible with emotions and rarely expresses them, however, it's not that she lacks emotions, simply they run too deep and too fierce that she covers them up with logic and stores them away. She abhors small talk, and most of her friendships are based around the exchange of knowledge; otherwise, she can get easily bored of other ponies, conversing with them often becoming a nuisance. Sometimes she can appear cold or even rude to other ponies due to being a bit of an aspy. Lots of times she can appear in a daze as though she's lost inside her head, often thinking or debating something. As a result she is very indecisive and nihilistic. Occasionally, however, she can act childish and humorous, even playing pranks on others, especially when around close friends or ponies she knows well.

Backstory: Poly was born in Appleloosa to Javajack and Pennifur Hooves. Her father, Javajack, a unicorn from Canterlot, was a Magic Programmer (one who uses a magic language to create encoded information/instructions for spells with certain purposes). Her mother, Pennifur, was an earth pony from Appleloosa who loved money, and eventually she became an accountant working for a bank in Canterlot. Her father, outside of magic programming, had a huge affinity for animals, and therefore, Poly grew up living with many different pets; snakes, frogs, hedgehogs, cats, etc. Her father also shares her personality, making him her closest friend in many ways. Her mother on the other hand comes from a very rustic family, speaking with a heavy country accent. She too is introverted, however, she is much more organised, strict, and emotional; she's the one who usually keeps her father 'in check'.<br />When Poly was a little filly, her father moved away to Canterlot in order to find work and to help support her and her mother. During that time she stayed with her mother and her mother's parents. Eventually they had saved up enough money to buy their own house and move to Canterlot, finally reuniting with her father.<br />Right after they had settled into their new home, Poly's sister, Julibee, was born. Julibee, much like her father, came to adore animals and pets, but eventually decided her real passion lay in teaching fillies. She is usually described as the opposite of Poly in that she can be very emotional and irrational; but they can still get along... most of the time at least.<br />After the birth of her sister, Poly found herself enrolled in an arts' school, playing the contrabass in their orchestra program. Most of the time she was isolated, never talked much, and spent most of her time in the library studying. It was during this time in the library where she discovered foreign languages and the many cultures of races outside of the domain of the ponies. She became obsessed and spent all of her free time teaching herself one language after another. She even began creating and theorising her own languages and grammatical structures with her acquired knowledge. One day she discovered a book on linguistics by the famous stallion, Roan Chomsky. It was then that she got her cutie mark. Her parents, having been highly impressed by her dedication and her cutie mark, decided to send her abroad for a few moons to Griffonstone to practice speaking their language and to participate in a homestay.<br />Poly didn't remain entirely isolated, however. At one point she befriended Octavia Melody, who was a bit older than her, during sectional practice when they were the only two to show up. Since then they began to talk more and hang out more till eventually they became best friends. Octavia was, of course, shocked to find out Poly was related to her musical 'rival', Sherlock Hooves. Poly also befriended Vinyl Scratch through Octavia, although not as profound of a relationship was formed. Another time when she was in the Canterlot library looking at random books for interesting information, she stumbled into the geology section and met Maud Pie, who went on to explain everything she knew about rocks, leading to more and more intellectual conversations. This ushered in Poly's second major friendship.<br />Outside of Octavia and Maud, she also enjoys spending time with her much older cousins, Sherlock and Mycroft; often engaging in intellectual games and banter. She particularly likes to partake in cases with Sherlock when the opportunity presents itself, albeit the occasion is quite rare. Once she helped him to decipher an ancient language of some sort engraved on a piece of stone left at a crime scene; this ancient language, however, turned out not to be ancient at all, but a constructed language used by a secret underground society of criminals.<br />Currently, Poly studies at Canterlot University, focusing much of her time on language studies and playing contrabass in the university's orchestra. Occasionally she ventures outside of Canterlot to document or study some enigmatic language that is either not yet documented or lacks substantial documentation; lots of times this can lead to some pretty wild adventures.