Scribblegroove

By Scribblegroove

• December 28, 2013




Age: ~20

Gender: Male

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: He has a brown mane and a light brown skintone. His tail and mane are very shabby, as he never cares about how they look. They look like theyve been hastily cut. He has bright blue eyes and a few brown spots between his eyes. His hooves are light grey.

Cutie Mark: His cutie mark resembles a note, holding a pencil drawing music lines. It shows his passion for art and music, and his will to create them himself.

Personality: Scribblegroove is a witty, smart and joyful pony, who wants to share his idea's with anypony he can talk to. He often ends up talking way too much, and saying things he shouldn't. He can really lose himself in his own passions and near-obsessions for music, which often irritates the ponies who need to bring him down-to-earth and into reality again. Scribblegrooves endless sarcasm combined with a slight bit of narcissism can annoy everpony around him. But deep inside he has a heart of gold, and most of all a mind full of music he wants everyone to enjoy. <br />Scribblegroove sees art and music in everything, and is constantly composing music or images on his surroundings in his mind, which distract him a lot. He is also quite brave when it comes to taking challenges head on, though he quickly loses confidence if things don't go as quickly as he thought they would.<br />

Backstory: Scribblegroove enjoyed the first years of life growing up in a fairly wealthy family in Canterlot. The comfort of his life in this early stage made him slightly spoiled and used to being pampered, but it hasn’t affected his behavior too much. He regards it as the easiest but also most boring part of his life.<br /><br />Around the age of four he discovered music. Of course the years before he had listened to it, but not very actively. Since this age however, he began to explore and question every single tune he could find. He would ask his parents annoying questions like: “Why does this sound good? And why doesn’t this? Why does that instrument make that sound?” However, he also began to become more interested and more passionate about music. <br /><br />Around the age of 10, he had started to compose his first serious pieces. At the same time he began experimenting with magic in conjunction with music. His parents quickly took note of it and enlisted him for the school for gifted unicorns (from here on mentioned as SfGU). After he showed his talents to the examiners and passed he began studying the ins and outs of magic next to his studies on musical composition and his instrumental skill, showing most interest in piano, though also experimenting with other instruments such as bass, saxophone, vibraphone, guitar, drums and the trumpet.<br /><br />When Scribblegroove hit puberty, and when his parents, teachers and other authority figures couldn’t hold on to him as much anymore because he began to typically rebel, a terrible streak of laziness hit him. He only did what he liked most… make music. Leaving his studies on the SfGU almost neglected. His grades started to drop dramatically, and his parents became extremely worried. In his last years at the SfGU he made a small end sprint and finished with barely acceptable grades… Except for experimental music magic, which was a very unusual and new area of studies at the time, and advanced telekinesis, for controlling instruments more efficiently. Playing five instruments is very hard, but using magic to do so makes it slightly easier.<br /><br />After his graduation from SfGU, Scribblegroove had hit the age of 17. Usually ponies graduate from the SfGU at an older age, but the teachers of the SfGU had sort of given up hope on Scribblegroove, no longer believing that he would put in any effort at all. They let him graduate early, with only half a certificate. Scribblegroove moved on to compose a lot of music and further enhance his musical skills. Only two years later he realized that not properly finishing school had been a bad idea, as he has a hard time getting a job. For a year he tried scrapping together bits from small performances and collaborations with bigger musicians.<br /><br />But on his twentieth birthday something big happened. He finally discovered a brand new way to make music: Magical projection. It was something nopony had done before, and he acquired a small bit of fame with his discovery. Enough to start playing at bigger places and earn enough money to start living on his own, moving away from his parents’ house at the age of twenty.<br /><br />After a few months of travelling around playing at different gigs, making a few friends and learning a few new things, Scribblegroove’s talent was discovered by Dexter Brandswise, a talent hunter who tries to evolve good artists into great ones. He enlisted Scribblegroove in the Canterlot Conservatory. In there he tries to develop his skills in composition and instrumental skills, as well as practicing his very own magical way of producing magic. In weekends and throughout vacations he visits great artists and musical marvels to have a few private lessons, broadening his area of skills, while at the same time giving him a little insight on each specific part of musicianship. Though Scribblegroove is very skilled, he is definitely not done learning yet!<br /><br />Though Scribblegroove has always specialized in Jazz, he has learned from several interviews with various (not always famous, but always very experienced) musicians that it is important to try to broaden your view to almost every direction when you want to become great. Though Scribblegroove is too much of an elitist bastard to ‘lower’ himself to a genre such as electronic, or pop music, or metal, he has agreed to start studying classical composition along with everything else.<br /><br />Right now Scribblegroove is travelling around various places to meet famous artists, composing, studying and practicing on the run. He has a place to stay, but he never stays there for very long. The Conservatory always sends him to a new place to learn, since it cannot afford to get those artists to come to Canterlot, since the conservatory is pretty small (though of high quality).<br />