Gray Shield

Roleplay Medium (Preferred RP Location)

Private Messages, Forums

Common locations your character will be

Canterlot, Manehattan, Ponyville

Skin / Coat Color

Gray

Eye Color

Green

Cutiemark (If Applicable)

A yellow shield

Design Description

A plain, yellow shield with a bit darker outline is visible at his rear. It represents his connection to protective magic as well as his caring personality.

Detailed Personality

ray is always a cheerful fella. Happy to lend a helping hand and support those in need. He sometimes might seem a bit harsh, but he rarely has those phases and someponies might not even see him like this at all.

But even though he might seem like just a nice pony, he is prone to snapping. When you get on his nerves he is easily driven to his limits.

Gray feels like he is still wandering the world to look for his purpose, but deep inside he knows that this pony was made to become a guardian and tra... View More

Hometown

Manehattan

Detailed History

Gray Shield was born in an average household in Canterlot. During his youth, he didn't have anything to worry about. A happy family, roof over his head, great meals, and a safe home. What else could he ask for?

When Gray reached early colthood his parents paid for a tutor that would teach him how to use his horn properly. For the first year or so Gray was very excited about using his horn and learning even the basics like telekinesis, but as time passed by his tutor kept on refusing to teach him ... View MoreGray Shield was born in an average household in Canterlot. During his youth, he didn't have anything to worry about. A happy family, roof over his head, great meals, and a safe home. What else could he ask for?

When Gray reached early colthood his parents paid for a tutor that would teach him how to use his horn properly. For the first year or so Gray was very excited about using his horn and learning even the basics like telekinesis, but as time passed by his tutor kept on refusing to teach him more and this young colt began to become very ambitious, pushing harder and harder on his parents to let him learn more. After another year of refusal and still learning the basics Gray had enough. He started to ignore his tutor and parents a bit, attending his lessons because of pure obligation. When he was free, however, he would spend every minute of his free time either reading books about magic or training behind closed doors to his room. There were... accidents and he thrashed his room more than once, but his parents were helpless in stopping him so they just made sure he was safe, restricting the magic he would learn to only the protective one. It turned out that it was exactly what Gray needed and from that moment onward he would only focus on one of the spells, mastering it as well as he could. This colt had something to prove both to himself as well as to his tutor and his parents, and Gray definitely proved his point, by mastering this spell on a level that no other colt could do. Well.... Of course, that was with a cost of learning almost any other spell, but hey, at least he had something special about him.

Almost immediately after reaching adulthood(?) Gray Shield decided to travel the world and leave the Canterlot behind him. Why? Because he felt like his true calling was somewhere else, beyond the safe walls of Canterlot. Firstly his parents objected with all their might, but after time, yet again Gray proved his stubbornness and with a blessing and some money he departed on the adventure he longed so much for. Months passed on travels from town to town, looking for a place to settle down. After some time he decided to stop in Manehattan since it didn't feel so much like Canterlot to him and it was... special in its own way.

Buying a house was quite a hassle, especially since he didn't have much money and wasn't planning on staying there for a long time either. However, with help of his friend's help Gray managed to find a small house on the outskirts of Manehattan for a cheap price and even cheaper rent. It was inexpensive enough for him to pay for it even without a stable income but it definitely wasn't something luxurious.

After staying for some time in his house, bringing a bit of his own touch to the place he packed himself once more and traveled further around Equestria, looking for placed he could be useful in. He visited Applelossa, Crystal Empire and even went as far as to the border with the Griffon Empire. He had his share of adventures during his travels. Rises and failures were very common and Gray made new friends and enemies everywhere he went.

Now, he is spending his time traveling mostly between Canterlot, Ponyville, and Manehattan, making use of the time to earn some money and maybe rest from constant travels. Who knows, maybe he will even decide to settle for good. But that is very unlikely. Deep inside him, his heart will always long for adventure and the deeds he can do in other towns to help others. He has this shield on his rear for some reason after all, right?

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Skills / Notable Talent(s)

Gray Shield has one particular ability that makes him stand out a bit. When other unicorns can show off with a wide range of different spells and whole tomes of written goods, Gray has one "true" spell at his armory. The Shield spell in which he specializes is his bread and butter. He can form it into almost anything as long as it is no bigger than about 2x2x2 cube and isn't too complicated. Of course this kind of mastery comes at the cost of not really knowing much more spells.

Lately, he has be... View More

Spells

Shield