Post by Crescent on Aug 9, 2006 4:01:11 GMT -5
This is my first character. I am considering possibly applying for another later, but for now this is my one and only on this board.
Character's Name: Soul Sorrow
Type: Unicorn
Gender: female
Age: specific age unknown, but looks young (maybe between 20 and 30)
Physical Description: Her fur is a mixture of black, indigo and dark purple hairs. In different lighting different shades will be visible. Her hair is a "grey-scale rainbow": her mane is striped with five different shades of grey from the black forelock to the white lock down the neck (7 stripes in total) and her tail is a mixture of all these stripes. Her eyes are fully and completey black; no pupil and iris part, just a black surface, if you will, where the eye should be. Her eyes reflect light sometimes as an indication of where she looks at. Her symbol is hardly more than a vaguely defined area of fully black hair which doesn't change shades in the light.
Powers: Her powers, if you will, rise from the shadows. She is able to trap souls in shadows, though at a high cost to her physical strength at the time of using her powers. Trapping a soul into a shadow is a tremendous task for her, and thus something that will strain her. The more powerful and magical the soul she attempts to trap, the more difficult and straining the process is for her. She does not use this power often, in fact she has only used her trapping ability once in her lifetime, and is not easily persuaded into it again. Any soul she traps she will be able to control to an extent, but never fully. She can also draw power from shadow, to either strengthen and repair herself physically or enhance her magic. She can only use this strengthening/repairing power on herself (not on others), and it has its limits (for instance, she cannot heal a lethal wound, but she can extend her youth by slowing her cells from degenerating). She does not know how to free souls she would trap into the shadows, though that power, too, is likely lodged somewhere inside her.
Personality: Soul Sorrow is of a dark heart and soul. She likes to remain in the shadows both literally and figuratively speaking. She hates too much attention and has a solitary streak; however she feels herself drawn to other living beings for she tends to get lonely. She doesn't trust easily, if at all. She is not evil and wishes to harm none, yet she carries scars of past sins for which she feels deep sorrow. Her name once was Soul Deep, but ever since that something happened, she has introduced herself as Soul Sorrow, and it has become her true name.
History: Soul Sorrow does not speak of her past, and would prefer none knew. She has lived a longer life than she appears to have, since she has always used her powers on slowing down her aging. No one knows how old she is, either, though a good guess would be something between 60 and 100. She has travelled throughout Ponyland and though she has certainly not been everywhere and seen everything there is to see, she has seen a lot. Her reasons for her aimless travels are also not known to anyone.
There is only one soul who knows everything.
Originally Soul Sorrow, at the time going by the name Soul Deep, set out to wandering from her birth home because she wanted to find out about the world as much as she could. She wanted to see everything there was to see, and study everything she could, and become wise. Everything didn't go as she planned, however. Early in her travels, she met another pony. His name was Sun Sword, and he was funny, caring and wise. The two ended up continuing travelling together - and falling in love. It was not planned or wanted, but it happened. The two ponies pledged their hearts and souls to one another and thought they would be forever happy, but then something happened.
A terrible accident took Sun Sword's life. Soul Deep, crushed by the prospect of losing her loved one, could not watch his spirit leave his body. She couldn't bear the thought of losing him. And so she called on her power and performed what she still today considers her biggest achievement magically speaking. And what she also knows is her biggest sin. She took his soul as it was about to leave the body and trapped it into her own shadow. He has lived there ever since, watching her, stepping her every step with her, but though the shadow that is now him can at times take an almost pony-like form, the two are forever more unable to touch one another, and he will not often speak to her. He is not what he used to be, for in shadow form a soul is transformed and it forgets part of what it was. Soul Deep came to realise that, in trying to save the one she loved, she had doomed him to an eternal haunting life of a ghost - and yet she could not bring herself to even attempt to free him, for the thought of losing him, even if there is very little left of him, pains her. She changed her name to Soul Sorrow, for the sorrow she must feel to the end of her life.
This is how she comes to this island. The island is but yet another place for her to visit in what has now become an empty quest.
Birthplace/Current Residence: Her birthplace is not known, but she is currently at Coconut Castle.
Other notes: no one generally can see Sun Sword. He only appears at her will, or at his own, though he is always present.
Character's Name: Soul Sorrow
Type: Unicorn
Gender: female
Age: specific age unknown, but looks young (maybe between 20 and 30)
Physical Description: Her fur is a mixture of black, indigo and dark purple hairs. In different lighting different shades will be visible. Her hair is a "grey-scale rainbow": her mane is striped with five different shades of grey from the black forelock to the white lock down the neck (7 stripes in total) and her tail is a mixture of all these stripes. Her eyes are fully and completey black; no pupil and iris part, just a black surface, if you will, where the eye should be. Her eyes reflect light sometimes as an indication of where she looks at. Her symbol is hardly more than a vaguely defined area of fully black hair which doesn't change shades in the light.
Powers: Her powers, if you will, rise from the shadows. She is able to trap souls in shadows, though at a high cost to her physical strength at the time of using her powers. Trapping a soul into a shadow is a tremendous task for her, and thus something that will strain her. The more powerful and magical the soul she attempts to trap, the more difficult and straining the process is for her. She does not use this power often, in fact she has only used her trapping ability once in her lifetime, and is not easily persuaded into it again. Any soul she traps she will be able to control to an extent, but never fully. She can also draw power from shadow, to either strengthen and repair herself physically or enhance her magic. She can only use this strengthening/repairing power on herself (not on others), and it has its limits (for instance, she cannot heal a lethal wound, but she can extend her youth by slowing her cells from degenerating). She does not know how to free souls she would trap into the shadows, though that power, too, is likely lodged somewhere inside her.
Personality: Soul Sorrow is of a dark heart and soul. She likes to remain in the shadows both literally and figuratively speaking. She hates too much attention and has a solitary streak; however she feels herself drawn to other living beings for she tends to get lonely. She doesn't trust easily, if at all. She is not evil and wishes to harm none, yet she carries scars of past sins for which she feels deep sorrow. Her name once was Soul Deep, but ever since that something happened, she has introduced herself as Soul Sorrow, and it has become her true name.
History: Soul Sorrow does not speak of her past, and would prefer none knew. She has lived a longer life than she appears to have, since she has always used her powers on slowing down her aging. No one knows how old she is, either, though a good guess would be something between 60 and 100. She has travelled throughout Ponyland and though she has certainly not been everywhere and seen everything there is to see, she has seen a lot. Her reasons for her aimless travels are also not known to anyone.
There is only one soul who knows everything.
Originally Soul Sorrow, at the time going by the name Soul Deep, set out to wandering from her birth home because she wanted to find out about the world as much as she could. She wanted to see everything there was to see, and study everything she could, and become wise. Everything didn't go as she planned, however. Early in her travels, she met another pony. His name was Sun Sword, and he was funny, caring and wise. The two ended up continuing travelling together - and falling in love. It was not planned or wanted, but it happened. The two ponies pledged their hearts and souls to one another and thought they would be forever happy, but then something happened.
A terrible accident took Sun Sword's life. Soul Deep, crushed by the prospect of losing her loved one, could not watch his spirit leave his body. She couldn't bear the thought of losing him. And so she called on her power and performed what she still today considers her biggest achievement magically speaking. And what she also knows is her biggest sin. She took his soul as it was about to leave the body and trapped it into her own shadow. He has lived there ever since, watching her, stepping her every step with her, but though the shadow that is now him can at times take an almost pony-like form, the two are forever more unable to touch one another, and he will not often speak to her. He is not what he used to be, for in shadow form a soul is transformed and it forgets part of what it was. Soul Deep came to realise that, in trying to save the one she loved, she had doomed him to an eternal haunting life of a ghost - and yet she could not bring herself to even attempt to free him, for the thought of losing him, even if there is very little left of him, pains her. She changed her name to Soul Sorrow, for the sorrow she must feel to the end of her life.
This is how she comes to this island. The island is but yet another place for her to visit in what has now become an empty quest.
Birthplace/Current Residence: Her birthplace is not known, but she is currently at Coconut Castle.
Other notes: no one generally can see Sun Sword. He only appears at her will, or at his own, though he is always present.