Standard Deviation

By StandardDeviation

• September 3, 2018




Age: 25

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: <p> <img src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://i.imgur.com/PKOPzmC.png&key=17e28b33dbfaadef40d01069a4108893e8fc0f33b298466a335f99ef893cc854" alt="PKOPzmC.png" data-imageproxy-source="https://i.imgur.com/PKOPzmC.png" /></p>

Cutie Mark: <p> The ancient Egyptian Anhk, symbolizing Dev's talent at breaking into and looting all manner of ancient tombs and ruins.  </p>

Personality: <p> Brash and cocky. Loud, boisterous, and carefree.<br /> Dev is, in her own words, a complicated mare. She's not overtly cruel, but she's not very nice either. Dev is a casual lawbreaker and mercenary, living a migrant lifestyle. Her skills range from petty theft to tomb raiding of the highest caliber, and she doesn't shy away from the dark and gritty. <br /> Her prickly, antagonistic exterior doesn't shelter someone tender and hurting underneath, though most would like to believe she harbors an inner "soft side," futile as that may be. Dev is a bad person and she knows it; wears it on her sleeve like a trophy. <br /> But there is a difference between a bad person and a villain, and she takes care not to cross that line.  </p>

Backstory: <p> She was born Sweetspot to a pompous and affluential couple in the city of Manehatten, and spent the first fifteen years of her life in white dresses and tight, uncomfortable shoes.<br /> But Dev was not meant to be a debutante, no matter how much frilly material her mother piled on. <br /> So she did what any typical, rebellious teenager in her position would do.<br /> She ran off, and started a whirlwind life of petty crimes and near misses. <br /> Only for Dev, there was no greater lesson to be learned or moral to the story. She did not, in fact, limp back home with her tail between her legs at the first instance of true consequences for her actions. Instead, she flourished. Dev learned the ins and outs of street life, and as her skill and prowess grew, so too did her reputation. Folks from all around wanted her to steal things for them, and she had no qualms about doing so, seeing as she was compensated generously. She received requests for bigger and bigger targets, and the higher the stakes went, the more Dev began to depend on the adrenaline rush of the crime. <br /> Several times, even, she'd even been sent to plunder tombs and ancient ruins at the behest of ponies as rich and arrogant as her parents had been. <br /> The cutie mark she received within the depths of a crumbling, underground temple only served to reaffirm Dev of her place in the world. She was <em>meant</em> to steal things. How could she interpret it any other way?... </p>