Temperance

By Fractured

• February 22, 2016




Age: 10

Gender: Female

Species: Unicorn

Personality: Immature. Is very childish, and hates at losing at anything, or not having things go the way she wants them. Only treats others with respect on very rare occasion, typically when she is forced to, though on rare occasions she meets someone who has earned it from her. More often than not, however, is mean, rude, and condescending.<br /><br />Intelligent. From having observed how things work in the world from adults, and from watching others, she's become privy to an understanding few children would or should have at her age, and often uses it in the process of manipulating others. Is very street smart, and retains book based knowledge well, though she hates to read.<br /><br />Loyal. Is very devoted to the few that she trusts, and will go out of the way to help them, even to the point of her own detriment. Treats them with respect, and shows a genuine interest in helping them out.

Backstory: Temperance was born in Canterlot, the city of expectations. Expected to be the best, expected to be the richest, expected to be the most successful. Growing up, however, Temperance would be pressed under a family that never met these expectations. As simple waiters and waitresses living on the outskirts of one of Canterlot's higher circles, they were constantly looked down on because of their lack of money and social prestige. It was a situation that was difficult to escape, and though, they attempted to keep it away from the young Temperance, it sunk in anyway, poisoning her against others, the older she'd get, the worse it got.<br /><br />Eventually, this carried on into her everyday life, though most often in her school life. Blaming those around her for the troubles that her parents had undergone, she took her frustrations out on them (though it had slipped by her that those she was attacking had done nothing wrong.). And so it was that the filly who may have otherwise grown up happy satisfied instead grew up to be the callous and rude child know n as Temperance.