Psycho Soldier

By CHAOS_FANTAZY

• January 21, 2014

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Psycho Soldier has a very strong physical build, being both taller and bulkier than a typical earth pony. His bright, vibrant crimson coat fails to show any bloodstains that may otherwise cover him. His wild, spiky mane is an acidic green, and it hasn't been cut in so long that his tail spills out onto the ground. His eyes are a deep, clouded purple, betraying nothing about the mind behind them. A small assortment of weapons is kept in the saddlebag on his back.

Cutie Mark: Psycho's cutie mark, a sword clashing against a fang, represents his talent for combat—specifically, fighting against monsters. He earned this mark a week into his self-imposed exile to the Everfree Forest, after killing a manticore with his bare hooves.

Personality: After extended periods in the wild, Psycho Soldier has become something of an animal himself. Sharing in their paranoia, he has a tendency to attack any living creature that is not himself, and never goes anywhere without his makeshift weapons. With many years without companionship, he finds other people something foreign, and cannot recall if he desires it or not. He thinks in a bit of a primal form; anything to further his own survival.

Backstory: Psycho Soldier was born into a lower-class family of earth ponies in the midst of Manehatten. His parents always displayed a desire to send him to high education, but he himself saw the military as his one and only interest, and already was instigating fights at school to "train." His parents, misinterpreting this as an act of rebellion, sent him away to live with part of the extended family in Ponyville, where he would learn his discipline the old-fashioned way.<br /><br />He was about to take that anticipated heat at school from a couple of bullies that had cornered him and Topsy Turvy (Then a stranger to him), when Perfect Balance leaped in front of them and fought them off. Psycho had never seen anyone fight quite like he had, let alone himself, so he was quick to strike up a friendship with the stranger. Even if they didn't see eye-to-eye on everything, social rejects had to stick together, right?<br /><br />After finishing his education—mostly on subjects he cared not about—Psycho Soldier hastily went to sign up for the Equestrian Royal Guard. He made a decent name for himself, but was eventually discharged, as he was too hostile towards visitors. Taking this as a sign of his own failure, he cut himself off from civilization, and retreated to the depths of the Everfree Forest. There, he regressed into a primal form of fending for himself and aggressively hunting the monsters that haunt there. Initially, his goal was to return to Celestia and request a position in the Equestrian military, but he may have lost sight of that goal by now.