Sage Nathaniel Thyme

By Sagely Thyme, Scoffer of Tiramisu

• December 20, 2017

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: <p> He has a midnight blue coat and light purple eyes. He has white hooves and his mane is cobalt blue with a purple accent on top. He is decently tall and normally wears a cloak along with two magical charms around his joint on his front hooves. </p>

Cutie Mark: <p> His cutie mark is a grimoire with an herb on it, on top of a magic circle with an ancient language scrawled around it. </p>

Personality: <p> He acts rather upbeat and jovial on the surface, but underlying beneath it he is actually rather cold and distant. He tries to make everyone happy if he can and doesn't like it when others are sad. That being said, he is rather aloof and chooses to avoid other ponies most of the time. In fact he actually avoids most anything alive other than the plants he surrounds himself with. He dislikes being near others because he has to keep up his happy go lucky style otherwise everypony will start worrying about him and start trying to help, as most ponies do. He is loyal to a fault, but due to a lack of companionship he feels he can only be truly loyal to his studies in magic. </p>

Backstory: <p> He hails from a long line of unicorns, and magically inclined ones at that. Everyone in his family since they began have been exceptional mages, except him. As a baby he never let out magical outbursts, and as he grew he showed no signs of improving. His only family were his mother and father, both exceptional practitioners of magic. His father wanted him to live up to his potential set within him, and his mother just wanted him to be confident in himself, magic or no. He was bullied from time to time by other unicorns for his lack of magical ability, making his only friends earth ponies and pegasi. One day, worried that he would be bullied forever on account of his lack of magic, he was taken to see several doctors, all of whom diagnosed him with BMS (Blocked Magic Syndrome), which prevents magic from easily leaving his horn. His horn acted as both a conduit for his magic, and yet at the same time prevented it from being used at all without great exertion. Eventually his father grew tired of this and decided to *fix* his son. He took him to the basement and forced him to cast spells, and every time he couldn't he would be beaten senseless. His mother eventually came home to the dreadful scene, only to be beaten down by his father for acting against the family's best interests. This was when Thyme had had enough, he stood on shaking hooves and forced his magic with all his might, trying desperately to make it work. The thing with BMS is that there will always be a limit to how much it can stop: eventually a spell will make it through, but in most cases it is lost in translation and comes out chaotic and without form. So too was the case here, as Thyme's rage manifested in fire the like of which no pony could withstand. His father yelped and tried to flee, only to be engulfed in the inferno, and his mother was consumed next. Thyme was impervious as the caster, and fell unconscious soon after due to the strain of such an intense spell. When he woke he was in a hospital with doctors all around him, told that he had passed out due to the injuries he sustained from his father, and was informed that his parents had died in the inferno. He would have been lost if not for the Princesses, who gave him a home and a job, to act as a caretaker for a private garden of theirs located closely outside Canterlot. It was here, after awakening from his stupor of what he had done, that he discovered alchemical plants, and began to study them. He slowly became more used to living alone, and vowed never to harm another pony with his unruly magic, instead learning not traditional but still usable magics. From alchemy to fortune telling, incantations to rituals, he learned as much as he could and found the truth that there are many kinds of magic that exist, and very few that require a horn to work. There he works even now, tending to the garden, while also acting as the Apothecary and local remedy seller for the ponies of Canterlot.  </p>