Tabula

By Princess Lona

• December 21, 2013




Age: 73

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Tabula is a creamy colour, very close to white, but not quite. Her mane and tail are a rich, earthy brown, however she keeps her mane shaved. A very short stubble of mane is visible. Her tail is kept short, and resembles the style of Big Mac or Dr. Hooves. She has dark chocolate eyes and very little visible eyelash. She has minor crows feet at the corners of her eyes but other than that, her skin is quite smooth for a pony her age.

Cutie Mark: Her cutie mark is nothing. That is to say, it looks like a blank flank but in truth, she has a cutie mark of nothingness.

Personality: Tabula has spent her life meditating. She is very calm. She speaks little but when she does, her words always resonate with the other ponies in the conversation. She takes nothing seriously, however she is not particularly silly. She likes to laugh, albeit softly and she is almost always smiling. She has not achieved full enlightenment but she has learned much and is quite zen.

Backstory: Tabula was a quiet filly who enjoyed walking in nature and experiencing the world with all five senses. However, she was teased by her schoolmates for being the last in her class without a cutie mark. She didn't actually mind not having one, but the fact that the other kids wanted to upset her was frustrating and saddening. She continued to grow up and so did her classmates. As they got older, the other ponies stopped teasing her and some even apologized for it. As adults, the others now found it strange and a bit creepy that a grown pony would not have a cutie mark. Others now began to feel awkward around Tabula and didn't know how to talk to her. So she had few friends but it did not bother her. However, the fact that they felt awkward bothered her, just as the fact that they wanted to tease her had bothered her before. For the first time in her life, she started to worry about not having a cutie mark. She did not like that her lack of a cutie mark seemed to upset people. So shortly after completing school, Tabula set out alone into the Everfree forest. She wandered and pondered and eventually came to a mountain. She climbed to the very top and once there, she felt the greatest amount of clarity she had ever experienced. She was above the clouds and the air was sill. Her senses were alive and there was nothing to distract her. She just sat there quietly for hours. It was the first time she ever meditated. Then in an instant, she felt it. Her cutie mark. It was there, it had appeared, she felt it. She looked back at her flank and it still looked blank but the cutie mark was there. It was a cutie mark of nothingness. Tabula realized that her destiny was to seek to understand that which cannot be understood. So she built herself a small, simple hut on the mountain and spends all day raking, gardening, and meditating. She walks in the forest and has made friends with Zecora.