Peach Pestle

[Peach Pestle]

(There is a third picture planned. The cloak is white.)

Name: Peach Pestle

Gender: Mare

Age: Adult

Species: Earth Pony

Pelt Color: Peach-Orange

Mane/Tail Color & Style: Pink medium length mane with flat ends, the sides of her bangs curling downwards. Her semi-long tail is in a backwards S position, the flat ends faces outwards.

Eye Color: Light Green

Cutie Mark: Pink Mortar & White Pestle

Residence: Recently left Canterlot, en route to Stalliongrad

Occupation: Apothecary

Talents, Skills: Herb identification. Her special talent is creating medicine.

Likes:
Her family.
Tea culture.
Helping others.
Gardening.
Sweets.
Making new remedies.
Finding new medical uses for plants.
Walking through natural areas.

Dislikes:
Feeling insignificant.
Danger.
Bitter food and drinks.
Sour food and drinks.
Silence.
Recklessness.
Violence.
Heights.

Character Personality: At first glance Peach Pestle is quite the kind and caring pony seeing how her work’s fruit does involve curing others. However assuming her occupation is just this would be inaccurate. She is also quite protective of those ill or injured, and will even go so far to actually fight to protect them. However seeing how her strength is only average this does nothing aside from buy them a small window of time to escape. That said if there is no one in said quota to defend, or if they already got to safety, she simply flees. On the downside her occupation also makes her feel conflicted about the healing spells certain unicorns have. While she is happy others are getting healed seeing her countless hours of work towards being all for naught makes her feel insignificant as well as slightly envious of the one with the ability to use such spells.

On the subject of cons if something horrible happens she usually bottles it up and only releases said frustrations if the source of them is within shouting distance. Of course this doesn’t apply if said source could, and would, easily kill her. After all she does have common sense. As per her intelligence outside of her talents and survival instincts she isn’t quite smart, but she’s definitely above average. Due to her ingredients mainly coming nature things like telling which direction she’s going based on various factor, gardening to raise said ingredients, and so on. Naturally this has led to her taking some rather calming walks through natural areas.

Despite her talents leading her outside she also has quite the interest in tea and tea culture. This is largely due to her father owning a tea room, and her subsequent use of tea as a form of stress relief. Additionally this has led to a dislike of both bitter and sour food and drinks from incorrect brewing when she insisted on making her own tea and cakes as a filly. One thing she never caught on to was the silence of said rooms. Refined or not lack of sound always seemed rather creepy to her. This has led to her either having some sort of music on at all times, or simply humming to herself to fill that void.

Bio (optional): Peach Pestle was born into a rather large family of average income. However the age gap between herself and the youngest of her four brothers was quite large and they were already set in their skills, and as she grew up it caused a feeling of insecurity. After all her brothers were contributing something and while she knew she had to wait to find out her purpose she couldn’t help but feel a bit insignificant. However this was not due to lack of attention and her family was pretty quick to catch on. Her father attempted to use tea as a coping device for her whilst the others let her tag along to help. Most of these had a variety of failures, but to spare her feelings her eldest brother kept her on as an assistant. In time she began to learn the ingredients he used for his alchemy and simply delivered them upon asking. As time went on she gradually moved away from helping him and starting researching the uses of said plants on her own. With the creation of some sort of simple salve she earned her cutie mark.

After a good deal of research, skill improvement, and of course time to properly grow up she found herself the proud owner of her own apothecary shop. It was fairly standard and there was plenty of competition, but in truth so long as she was able to make some sort of difference she didn’t quite care how renowned she was. However this way of life wasn’t to last. After fleeing during an attack on Canterlot she returned to find her shop had been damaged beyond repair. With a bit of reluctance as well as a good deal of sorrow she gathered what she could salvage and began to look for a new location to start anew. There were quite a few promising locations, but upon hearing about Stalliongrad she simply couldn’t choose another. While the conditions were by no means perfect a location so far off could mean new diseases and ingredients. Though what drove her most was a type of pity. For both the former civilization as well as for the assumption that the delivery times in emergencies could be delayed. Even if she wasn’t helping as many ponies perhaps she could make a bigger difference.

With that in mind she finally set out with a wagon of basic supplies.

[Stygg Whitefeather]

Well this looks pretty good, just one thing you may wish to consider before final approval. Stalliongrad is rather slow right now, not many players may be interested in being there, so may I suggest perhaps having your character start at the point she decides to head out to the city, perhaps she loses her shop in Canterlot following the battle there and decides to venture out. Something like that? Just a thought. If there's no changes you'd like to make than either myself or Red can approve.

[Peach Pestle]

I will admit that traveling to the destination would be interesting. Though should the starting point, destination, or simply stating that she is on the road be included in the residence section?

As per the edits I will get to them sometime today.

Edit: Updates complete. If I didn't word her residence properly I can go back and change it.

[Stygg Whitefeather]

Sorry about the delay, and due to Red being under constant threat of rocket death, I'll approve. You're good to go, welcome to CD.