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// Shadowhoof Info Sheet 
// Story: Secret OC Origins Compilation 
// by Jeweled Pen 
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Creator: Me, obviously.

OC's name: Shadowhoof.

Race: Unicorn

Appearance: Black coat, purple dragon eyes. Dark purple flowing mane with little dots of silver.

Personality: Shy, kind of a wuss. Loves having attention, but a single bad comment makes him crumble into dust.

Cutie mark: An open book with a ghost head on the cover. Scary stories are his talent.

Job: Ex-spa worker.

Family/friends: His family runs a health spa up in the mountains. Current friend is Pinkie and those she introduces him to.

Romance: None. It's not that he's not interested, but things tend to never work out. He'd probably crush on Pinkie Pie a lot(with a healthy dose of fear), but it would never go anywhere because she'd only ever see him as a friend. He's also kind of a coward and while there are plenty of mares he'd want to ask out, he'd never work up the nerve to ask them for fear of what could go wrong. He'd rather have them as a friend than risk losing them for good. So he'd more or less be forever alone, but likely have plenty of friends who are mares, since he tends to get along better with them.

Story: Just his origin story and how he ended up in Canterlot.

Future: Oh, this is kind of a doozy. While his magic tends to be focused on illusions, he does eventually find out his power tends to revolve more around shadow magic. That's why he can use telekinesis in the dark(even though it tires him out) but he can't even lift a thimble in the day. He was eventually going to become Luna's student.

How did you make this OC: This character is probably my weirdest OC, though also my first. I actually made it before I even saw the show. A friend begged me to do a MLP RP with him and, since I liked this friend a lot I was kinda 'meh, why not?' The friend gave me some guidelines and I made a pony on a pony creator and, this is not a joke, made an almost exact replica of Nightmare Moon, aside from the purple eyes. I had no idea the curved face meant female or that the cloud like mane was princess-only.

I made him an illusionist because I was heavily into the non-combat magic at the time and had no idea unicorns tended to have telekinesis too, so I just made him have that magic and that magic only. A few rps later and I watched the show and fell in love, but I realized having a mini-Nightmare Moon OC was kinda... meh. So I just developed some changes. Namely making the poison joke alter his appearance to explain why he looks like that, making him an illusionist and scary story teller to explain why poison joke would make him look like that(since the story of NMM is his favorite to tell.) The Zecora episode was a real boon to Shadowhoofs back story to explain things.

I've since made plenty of other OCs, but this one was my first and, honestly, even though I think he's a bit Mary Stu-ish, he's one of my favorites. If it wasn't for this OC, I likely wouldn't have decided to give MLP a chance, eventually started writing fan fiction for it(many of my fanfics are ones made up either from Rps or ponified stories of books I'm trying to write). Without me writing fanfiction, I would have likely never tried writing again and found out how happy it made me. So, all in all, this OC is definitely very important to me and I'm happy I finally took the time to share it with everypony.