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Pinkie Pie | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Re-app/Expired Reserve

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Player
Name: Otis.
Personal Journal: dolphinsaredicks
E-mail: keyword.brainicide@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: humbugger.otis (AIM); pitch_bmhc@hotmail.com (MSN); humbugger (Plurk).
Timezone: GMT -6/Central.
Current Characters in Route: Hiccup Haddock (How to Train Your Dragon) | Lisa Garland (Silent Hill) | Keisuke Takagi (SMT: Devil Survivor)

Character
Name: Pinkamena "Pinkie" Diane Pie.
Series: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Timeline:Post-Season 2 Finale.
Canon Resource Links:
Pinkie's MLP:FiM Wiki

Personality:
For the mostpart, Pinkie Pie is fairly straightforward. Her goal in life is to have fun and to make her friends as happy as they can be--and even happier! While she was growing up, she didn't really have any concept of the word 'fun', having to work with her family on a rock farm. One day, she saw a Sonic Rainboom and wanted to share the joy that experience gave her with others. That was the day she got her Cutie Mark--a symbol of three balloons to show her special talent of planning, setting up, and participating in parties.

Because of her excitable and relatively carefree attitude, there are some times where understanding Pinkie Pie can be difficult. She often spouts random phrases that are completely off the topic, or bursts out into song, which is odd even in their happy, fun, for-children world. Even her regular speech pattern differs from those around her, more speedy and sometimes seeming to never end. Her preferred method of transportation is to go around skipping on her hooves, and she is somehow able to "break" the reality. Pinkie can keep up with a speeding Rainbow Dash when the other attempts to escape her, even though she is going at a leisurely pace with her bounces. She even can pop into the frame or out of places she couldn't have possibly fit in. Initially, others are surprised or confused by such things, but they are generally accepted as part of her oddity. There are times, however, that there is a method to her madness. In all situations, Pinkie Pie is trying to change things for the better and brighter. Even when her friends don't quite understand her strange ways, she continues to march to the beat of her own drum--in the instance of ridding Ponyville from a swarm of parasprites, quite literally!

There are those times that she can't always stick to her upbeat nature, though. Like all people (and ponies!), Pinkie Pie does have insecurities. While her gift to the magic of friendship is the quality of laughter, she discovers that she doesn't enjoy it when others are laughing at her expense or when she is left out. In both situations she becomes the opposite of herself, instead being bitter, paranoid, and a little selfish. During 'Party of One', the pony is very clearly deranged when she thinks she is no longer part of the Mane Six. She throws her own party, having inanimate objects as her guests and talking with them as if they were real. Her hair even deflates to the straight hair she had as a filly, before she discovered how much fun life could be, but returns to its chaotic curly ways when she discovers the true reason her friends were trying to avoid her.

She may not be the type to be easily insulted, but Pinkie Pie does take offense to a few key things. Her main button is promises--when they are kept, everything is fine and dandy, but she takes them very seriously when they are broken. Pinkie even chases down her good friend Applejack when the other pony avoids going through with her vow to tell the truth, and in 'Green Isn't Your Color', she goes out of her way to make sure Twilight Sparkle spills no beans. Another point is how her friends view her. Even when she is overwhelmed by taking care of two newborns, the pink pony refuses to accept help from her friends because they admitted that they didn't think she could handle it all by herself. When the so-called Gabby Gums calls her out of control, Pinkie Pie is reduced to tears because of her "problem".

One thing for certain is that Pinkie is persistent, as shown in her interactions with Cranky Doodle Donkey and her musing about her edible creation of cherries and chimichangas combined, which both could have caused the committing to mental clinics had she not been called off or exposed to an alternative idea. Though it's not always her intention, she's actually also quite manipulative. She can trick shopkeepers into a lower prize, unintentionally cause others to consume sweets with her descriptions, and cause an enemy to imitate her on request.

Pinkie Pie has quite the sweet tooth, and has taken residency above a confectionery, which is also her place of work. She is a talented baker, but is more often seen stuffing sweets into her mouth. This habit of hers appears to cause trouble for several residents of Ponyville, but mostly her housemates and employers, Mr. and Mrs. Cake. Pinkie even "taste tests" every little thing prepared for an esteemed, expected guest, and in a later episode eats said guest's desserts when she thinks that Princess Celestia won't eat them herself. In 'Cutie Pox' she becomes stressed and nervous when she feels she must tell the truth, and fibs a few times before admitting to just how many corn cakes she devoured. Even so, her love of her friends will always conquer her love for sweets.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Upbeat.
+ Full of laughter.
+ Sense of humor.
+ Good-natured prankster.
+ Outgoing.
+ Trustworthy.
+ Great party planner.
+ Good at baking.

+/- Full of energy.

- Random.
- Doesn't always explain self.
- Glutton.
- When she's upset, she's UPSET.
- Oblivious.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder.
Starter: Onix.
Password: Raspberry Lemonade.

Samples
First Person Sample:
[The feed opens up to a lovely view of grass and, oddly, mid-shriek, though the giggles that follow closely behind show that the owner of the fallen gear is not, in fact, being torn limb from limb. She's perfectly fine, with a smile in her tone as she chides the pokemon.]

Chalcedony, you have to put me down, silly! Gotta let everypony know I'm back!

[With a soft rumble, the Onix obliges, and Pinkie skips over to pick her gear up.]

Awh, it's on! Now it can't be a surprise... Would have been a really super surprise, too!

[For those who knew her before, the shock of bright pink, curly hair would be the final confirmation--Pinkie Pie was back in the pokemon world.]

Hey, guys! Has anypony seen Boink around? Where's that silly pig gone off to, now...

[With a final grin as a goodbye, the feed is clicked off. Later, the ex-pony can be found on top of her giant rock snake, calling to those below.]

ALL ABOARD THE CHALCEDONY EXPRESS! We head for Cherrygrove City within the hour!

[Anyone who wants a free ride is welcome to join her!]

Third Person Sample:
Two legs were so much easier the second time around, though it still took the young woman a bit before she was walking like a pro again. Or...as pro as she'd ever gotten, the last time she'd arrived in Johto. It helped that this time, the creature that had popped out of her pokeball was large enough to help Pinkie keep her balance.

She had decided to name him Chalcedony. There were very few things Pinkie Pie knew the ins and outs of--baked goods were one of these things, and the one that everyone knew about. Rocks and gems were the other, and even if she wasn't quite as skilled in that area as her friend Rarity, the pony still felt pretty confident. Growing up on a rock farm had taught her something other than the opposite of fun. Not only was chalcedony associated with harmony, but certain colors of it were called 'onyx'--and Pinkie had jumped on the connection.

As it were, this was quite literally the case. The excitement at finding the one perfect name had just been too much to not show with some bouncing about.

Once she had calmed enough to be at her general baseline of 'happiest mare around', the girl decided it was time to check on Johto life. "I wonder if everypony's still here," Pinkie mused, starting to dig through her bag for the pokegear. "Last time I came here was just after Hearth's Warming Eve. It's much warmer, now! The seasons here change all on their own, Chalcedony, isn't that crazy?"

Though she supposed it wouldn't exactly be crazy for him, being a pokemon and thus from this world, and all. The Onix rumbled a reply anyway, leaning down to nudge his trainer with his nose, which caused another soft pang of sadness in the pony-turned-human's gut. Her last starter, Boink, had been able to communicate with her, being a psychic type. It seemed like Chalcedony got no such luck.

"Guess we'll just have to get to know each other the Fluttershy way, huh...?"

ACCEPTED!

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