Nightshade character application

[nightshade]

Name: Nightshade

Gender: Female

Age: Full grown (early twenties)

Generation: FiM

Species: Pegasus pony

Location: Shadowbolts hideout, approximately a mile into the

forest near Canterlot.

Status: Single, not actively looking

Appearance: Light blue coat, not too unlike that of Rainbow

Dash, though with lower saturation. Approximately average in size for

a

pegasus. Eyes are a low medium saturation yellow. Mane is a dark blue

of high saturation. Cutie mark an image of a nightshade berry, with a couple leafs, to reflect her immunity to nightshade based poisons.

Personality: Strong leader, though has small problem with

authority. At a personal level, Nightshade tends to look down on

others, seeing very few other ponies as equals, even fewer as a

superior. She has the bearing of a pony who's confidant things will

work out in their favor in the end. On a professional level,

Nightshade is not above a degree of hazing for insubordination or

incompetence. This hazing focuses on breaking down the offender with

words about how they are worthless. Afterwards, Nightshade will slowly

build up the offender again with promises of how she'd make it all

better and ultimately empower them in the end. At other times,

Nightshade is the embodiment of a potentially deadly pleasure. A

poison you know will likely end up killing you, but is so irresistibly

sweet and tempting.

History: Nightshade was born in a relatively poor district of

Cloudsdale to a pair of weather factory workers. Growing up, she

attended the same flight school as Rainbow Dash, though the two never

interacted on any level. At this flight school, Nightshade was at the

top of her class. This, after graduation with class honours, allowed

Nightshade to enter the Wonderbolts as a flyer. Nightshade spent eight

months in the Wonderbolts before that year's Summer Sun Celebration.

During the Wonderbolt's performance, Nightshade, against orders, split

off from the flight to perform her own stunt. This stunt involved a

climb, a loop, and a dive towards the crowd. Unfortunately, Nightshade

misjudged her velocity in the dive and pulled out slightly too late,

causing a hoof to collide with several onlookers. This threw her off

balance, causing her to crash into the stands. These stands collapsed

causing some injuries to the spectators, as well as herself. After

making it to hospital for treatment, she was diagnosed with several

fractured ribs and a fractured leg, leaving her with a limp. After

waking, Nightshade found Spitfire by her bed, obviously displeased.

After being broken down to the verge of tears by the Wonderbolt

leader, Spitfire ejected Nightshade from the Wonderbolts and collected

her uniform. Once released from hospital, Nightshade attempted to go

back to Cloudsdale. For a little while, she managed to stay relatively

unknown without her uniform. However, Nightshade was dealing with her

grief by binge drinking and smoking. After somepony recognized her in

Cloudsdale and pointed out who she was, she was forced out of

Cloudsdale due to public outcry. Having left Cloudsdale, Nightshade

settled in the Everfree forest. After a month in seclusion, Nightshade

was discovered by another pegasus, Stratus. A former member of the

Royal Guard. He explained how he wanted to fly in performance as well,

though had been turned down by the Wonderbolts. To re-live old times,

Nightshade agreed to fly with Stratus, performing impromptu flight

maneuvers and stunts. After a couple such flights, Nightshade and

Stratus formed the Shadowbolts, and began recruiting from the pool of

Wonderbolts applicants who, despite being skilled, were denied for

behavior problems or other non-crippling issues. Within a few months,

the Shadowbolts had grown to a team of, including Nightshade and

Stratus, five flyers. Now Nightshade's main goal is to bring the

Shadowbolts to be the top flying team in Equestria, and drive the

Wonderbolts underground.

Other: Walks with a limp, occasionally feels remorse for the

accident, holds contempt and strong dislike for Spitfire, immune to nightshade and other similar poisons. After ingesting nightshade , she may poison

somepony by kissing them. (Effects from poison kiss can range from

pleasant hallucinations, memory loss, terrifying hallucinations, and

even death. The victim will oftentimes have little or spotty memory of

the event, perhaps even none in severe cases)

Enjoys the taste of nightshade berries

Did you read the rules?: Rules were read and understood.

[jackhallows]

I approve! Just gonna tell ya; The nightshade poisoning, use it very sparingly, please. We don't need poisoned ponies wandering around or keeling over just from spending time around her. ^^;

[spike]