Tunnel Nexus

Name: Tunnel Nexus, aka "Nexus" or "Nex"

Gender: Female

Age: Young Adult

Species: Unicorn

Pelt Color: Stone Gray

Mane/Tail Color & Style: Neon Green with Bright Orange Highlights

Eye Color: Emerald green

Cutie Mark: A double figure-8 knot with a carabiner

Residence: Travels, but prefers staying in Appleloosa.

Occupation: Spelunker, also does odd jobs in spare time

Talents, Skills: excellent night vision and coordination in the dark; good balance and agility, and a skilled climber/caver

Likes: darkness, night, ice cream, loud music, sunglasses, salt, cider

Dislikes: touching other ponies, talking about emotional things, bright light, daytime, farms, books

Character Personality: Fiercely independent and supremely narcissistic, she is not purposfully hostile or annoying, but her arrogance tends to do it for her. She prefers to keep her distance emotionally from other ponies, to keep herself from getting hurt (she thinks that it's because she's too awesome.) If you can earn her trust she will do whatever it takes to make good on her word. To most ponies she only gives her name as "Nexus", but to those that she trusts she goes by Tunnel.

Bio: Born into a large family of farmers, she was the only filly (and the only unicorn) among 4 other colt siblings, and to top it off, she was the youngest. Her mother died during her birth, and she always blamed herself subconsciously for that tragedy. Her older brothers constantly made fun of her, and her father always pressured her to be a farmer like the rest of the family. She put up a cocky, self-confident front in order to hide her sensitive side, struggling to maintain her own identity and self-esteem, eventually running away. During her escapade, she stumbled into a small cave and realized how much fun it was to explore them (and so she earned her Cutie Mark). Exploring caves in the dark helps her to forget herself, her troubles, and her past. She only uses magic insofar as it is useful to her while spelunking or fighting off monsters, as she has had to do many times. While she does not really enjoy fighting physically, there is a certain pleasure that she takes in doing physical harm to another living thing.

She always carries a pair of sunglasses, wearing them even when it's dark out, since they give her a sense of security like that of hiding behind a mask.

"Nexy" is rather thick-set and tall for a mare, so she is used to being called fat.