Scattamoose

By Widdershins

• December 4, 2016

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Species: Non-Pony

Appearance: Species: Moose<br /><br /> Scattamoose stands at twice the height of most ponies, but a few inches short of what most full-grown bull moose are. He is covered entirely in a slightly curly & shaggy coat of auburn hair that has just enough blond hairs as brown to make it hard to tell if his hair is lighter or darker.<br /><br /> In addition to his coat, Scatta also shares the characteristic wide snout and oversized hooves that are notable for his species.<br /><br /> Scatta's antlers have a total of seven points, four on his right. The span between them are just under five feet wide and are big enough to cradle a small pony.

Personality: Scatta has always been a dreamer & stupidly polite. He fancies himself a singer & a traveling bard, though that would imply that anypony has ever paid to listen to his deep, atonal voice. He can be rather sweet & protective of his friends, but he considers everypony his friends, even if they are currently attempting to attack him.<br /> He has always been a rather simple lad of rather simple tastes. Moose culture is rather down-to-earth & almost tribal. Scatta is just as willing to get a free hand-out from a restaurant as he is likely to be found eating out of your flower bed of your front yard. He may not earn many bits to pay for his food, but it doesn't bother Scatta all too much when he can live off the land... or other ponies' unattended gardens. In fact, it is pretty hard to find him indoors, not from any lack of trying on his part, but because it's pretty hard for him to grasp that he needs to turn his head sideways to fit through the narrow doorways ponies keep building. Unless somepony shoos him off, he's libel to keep headbutting the building until the doorframe cracks. <br /> While he is pretty slow-witted, especially when it comes to figuring out when his audience has lost their will to listen to his off-key singing, Scatta tries his best to keep up with these much quicker ponies. A inordinately large amount of his speech tends to be agreement with whoever last talked accompanied with some rather vigorous head-nodding, though this does give off the rather correct notion that Scatta never really knows whats going on around him. More then anything, he is a follower and can be seen galumphing behind somepony who has given him their word to do most of the heavy thinking for him. A few times before he has served as a sort of bodyguard for hire, despite his rather passive nature. The natural sheer size of a moose can ward off most ruffians; if a fight starts, it'll usually take a moose a few good blows before they realize they've been hit or that somepony actually wishes them harm.<br />

Backstory: Meese (Yes, the race itself is called Meese. Its not grammatically correct, but you try telling a moose that!) are a rather mysterious, but well-known tribe of ponies. Any pony ambassadors that attempted to get them to attend the Equestria summits left only with tales of foolish Meese calves, shoddy wooden nick-knacks and a few barrels of the famous tree syrup that serves as the race's only known trade with the outside ponyworld. <br /> The Meese live in the dense forest northeast of Vanhoover and on the southern borders of the Crystal Empire. Moose are not by any extent a secretive or even subtle race; they can often be found wandering into small towns or farms close to their forest where they have to be frequently shooed off from the deep conversations they get into with fenceposts. <br /> While not much is known about how they live, tales are told of how their stubborn niceness has warded off invading armies. Their refusal to defend themselves has kept their numbers low since the days that Sombra's Empire first attempted to encroach on their land.<br /><br /> Scatta's origin though, is a bit simpler...well, then that previous amount of simple anyhow. Most Meese are content in their dense, untraceable, unmapped forests but Scattamoose was spacey by even moose standards. One day he just simply got it in his head to wonder what the world outside the treeline was & just started trodding his way south without a plan or provision. With a good stamina, strong hooves and no plan outside of grabbing a quick meal off a passing bush, Scatta has covered a good amount of Equestria by hoof.