Limited time offer for Deer Me readers · 11:19pm Oct 11th, 2015
If'n you still want to get something in, send me a pm. However, I won't be as lenient. Keep your idea for the potential sequel(If I think of it) if you really want it to be used.
If you want it, I can add in a single character or monster to be used later in the story that has been created by you. You only get to choose one, not both. Your characters will have secondary roles but occasionally reappear in the story. Rest assured, I'll put the credits and a link to your profile page in the author's notes. I refuse to use anything from another person without giving credit.
If you want to give a monster: Give its name, appearance, habits (eating, active times), powers, personality (aggressive? Is there a reason for that? Passive? Why and/or until when?), and danger class. These classes Range from Class D (harmless), to one star (very dangerous and requiring expert hunters or soldiers to defeat). No. You don't get to make tri-star monsters (Titan class) or Quad-Star (Hecatonchires). I KNOW YOU ALL! I can read your minds!
If you want to give a character: Race (pony or deer), Affiliation plus Race (Reindeer: Anglacite, Effervescence, or Grimliss. Ponies: Crystal Kingdom, somewhere else?), appearance and name, purpose (worker, soldier, student, geologist, etc), abilities, and reasons for being with the reindeer if the character is a pony. As a pony, how do they view the reindeer? Do they hate them? Like them? Indifferent?
If I missed anything, please tell me. These limits are to avoid something I went through in the past where I did a similar thing and was quite literally overwhelmed and couldn't keep up.
Flame Arrow. Unicorn mare, lives in Canterlot (or any other warm pony city), serves in Royal Guard. Petite, with red coat and fiery orange mane. Fast runner, but weak and not very good with magic. Lazy, but with a strong sense of duty. If she has to endure cold, she would be complaining acridly. Likes potato dishes. Her special talent is tracking down living beings. She was spending a vacation in Crystal Empire when she was urgently requested to help find somepony, or maybe some deer.
Update: she bears no ill will toward the reindeer, she doesn't really care about them. What she really wants is to be done with the task at hand, and if reindeer prove obstructive her opinion will quickly change.
3463094 Just added the point-of-view that ponies have for the deer (just got the idea now for some reason
). Interesting character. I'll get an idea for her. I'm already getting two scenarios in head.
Name: Sabre Tyrant
Appearance: fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/042/c/2/smilotyrannus_imperator_by_osmatar-d4pc9pj.jpg
The sabre-tyrant, at over ten meters in length, is the largest terrestrial carnivore on the planet, uncomfortably reminiscent of such lost giants as Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus. Unlike its warm-weather predecessors, however, the imperial sabre-tyrant is a denizen of the deep Arctic. Living in this land of ice is a remnant of the last Ice Age, a massive predator of the only prey large enough to support it: mammoths and a species of extant therizinosaur, the arctotitan.
The sabre-tyrant is one of the few remaining examples of its kind, and has not changed appreciably since the Pleistocene. This massive predator is a runner, not as fast as its smaller cousins, the errosaurs, but easily fast enough to pursue the lumbering arctotians. A sabre-tyrant relies both on strength and agility to combat these heavily armed therizinosaurs. Long legs sweep the body out of reach of the herbivore's manual talons, a thick neck pushes the blunt-snouted face toward the prey's unprotected flank, and teeth as long as a yeti's arm slice past the thick layers of feathers and blubber to the steaming muscle below. Sabre-tyrants are masters of the bleed-to-death hunting strategy employed by their extinct cousins, the tyrannosaurids, as well as their closest mammalian counterparts, the saber-toothed cats. Their incredibly long fangs, coupled with the typical tyrannosaurian battery of D-cross-sectioned scooping teeth at the front, and slicing, steak-knife teeth toward the rear, create a flesh-cutting machine that can gouge huge chunks out of muscle, slice tough tendons apart, and rip a vertebral column to splinters.
Powers: massive bite force
Personality: Normal predatory animal, not particularly aggressive unless provoked or hungry
Danger Class: A
Habits: A sabre-tyrant will inflict the worst damage it can upon its victim, then dash back to safety and wait for the hapless creature to expire from blood loss before returning to feed.
Sabre-tyrants are not particularly social and, indeed, their ferocious territorial instincts keep them separated almost all year. The single exception to their normal aggressive behavior takes place during the spring mating season, when the males range about looking for prospective brides. Courting is brief and the suitor, in mortal dread of being devoured by his lady, departs as soon as possible. The female lays her clutch of 4-6 eggs soon after in a volcano-shaped mound and incubates them with fermenting vegetable matter. The tiny, helpless chicks hatch quickly, and the doting mother takes excellent care of her children. Sabre-tyrant mothers often carry their progeny around in their mouths, carefully spitting the chicks into some secluded pile of brush before going off to hunt. She will continue to care for the chicks all through their first winter, finally leaving them to fend for themselves as the Arctic's brief spring passes. They must then set off to establish their own territories, never to see their parent again.
Clyde of Dale.
Dust Bunnies; appearance, gray rabbit, color darkens at tips of extremities(feet, ears, etc), individuals are apple-sized, but groups can merge to increase intimidation/cuddle factor. Being made of dust and lint they don't eat or sleep, they maintain their forms by passively absorbing dry particulate as they. High humidity makes them sluggish. Vicious in the presence of feather dusters and broom, otherwise docile. Highly inquisitive, can be trained to clean homes; will occasionally demand attention in the form of physical contact. Danger class C, risk of suffocation if swamed by large enough group. Vulnerable to fire or water based attacks and can be driven off by a strong breeze.
3463576 Excellent, but what's his position on the reindeer of the Tundra?
3463740 Ooo. I can put those in the Crystal Kingdom. I like it.
3463177 Thanks for putting it here.
3464112 I wasn't aware of the deer or the Known World when I made him so I don't know. I'll be working with Prince Staghorn to flesh out his bio a little.
3464143 Alrighty then.
I was honestly expecting this to be swamped with requeste so I didn't bother to put my OC in. But sense it's not the case her it is:
Appearance: Mix-up is an average size cerulean blue Pegasus stallion , with emerald green eyes, with generally short unkempt cobalt mane and tail, his legs and muzzle are bleach white and look like a paint splash on his coat. He has shaggy fetlock and his hooves are dark grey blue. His Cutie Mark is two splashing paint buckets mirroring each in which the paint colors crisscross each other and starts to make a new color. Around his neck, he wears a scarlet bandana.
Having to work in the rainbow factory and painting a lot in his spare time, he has a hard time removing all traces of color from his coat. It isn’t uncommon for him to have some paint still left on his cote in public.
Personality wise, Mix-up could be considered an odd blend of Rarity and Maude Pie. Like the Alabaster fashonista, he has a deep artistic passion, and has great ambitions of becoming an artist and he specializes in everything that concerns colors. Being very passionate in his art work, he is a perfectionist by nature and will try to do the best everything he helps create and will focuses all his time and energy of the moment to get every perfect like he wants it, and more often than not in record time. All doe, his single mindedness to a set task, he has a tendency to ignore others around him, and can some time work to his own detriment, as he some time obsesses over very little details to the point that he can’t get work done.
Like Pinkies sibling, he is an Asperger and that is reflected by his monotone and his laconic speech and show little emotions unless it concerns a subject that he is infatuated with, namely art. When it concerns discussing others subjects he tends to be more withdrawn, but will still listen, if only on learning things on the technical aspects. During said discussions, he somewhat tends to take what he is told literally, will often ask for more details and will be honestly blunt in expressing his opinions, if lacking in tack. Baring that he can get carried away in his criticizing others art works, which can be annoying at time, his words are never intended to be malicious; it is just that he wants to point out what can be improved a pond, and is actually trying to help by giving his advice, even if isn't not ask for.
3464240 Aspergers? Never wrote a character with that. Will be a good challenge.
3464286 remember that they don't pick-up easily on social cues or body language from others and on their end they don't they have difficulty to communicate through body language and posturing that is why they often seem neutral or indifferent at first glance.
Monster
Name: Broken Wanderer
Appearance: A Broken Wanderer can hold the basic visage of any sapient species on Equis though the various races of Ponies are by far most common. Their skin lacks any coat or fur and is dryer than the hardest leather. Every orifice and several holes in their bodies are filled with sand which've compacted into stone and the eyes of an Wanderer is similarly replaced with sandstone. Many lacks limbs or parts of limbs and cracks can be seen all across their bodies. A Wanderer is blind, deaf and mute and can only perceive the world through its sense of touch.
Habits: A Wanderer is a rare and tragic creature and the only thing they have been observed to do consistently is to wander(hence its name) seemingly aimlessly and examining things with whatever appendages it has. Some have expressed a sense of searching and suicidal behaviors as some accounts speak of wanderers who've beaten rocks repeatedly against their heads or throwing themselves of cliffs only to stand up and searching its way up the same cliff.
Powers: A broken Wanderer is nearly indestructible and does not tire.
Personality: Docile unless aware of your presence. A Wanderer who is aware of you will often attack in the hopes that you will kill it.
Danger class C: A wanderer is weak, slow, blind and deaf. This all make them rather nonthreatening but due to their unrelenting nature killing one is nearly impossible.
Legend holds that the Broken Wanderers are ancient criminals of the city of Atlantis. Cursed with incredible longevity and turned into stumbling monstrosities, they are feeble in all ways. Slow, weak and utterly incapable of any magic despite themselves being held together only because of it. But even then they have been known to kill and since they are almost impervious to harm and does not seem to tire, it is better to just walk away from one rater than attempting to kill it. The people who got turned into Broken Wanderers were the worst of the worst and no one knows if their minds are still intact underneath the sandstone of their bodies. Their punishment goes on to this day, long after the fall of Atlantis.
I... do have an idea for a character. Her name is Winter Fields (earth pony), from Trottingham, (though originally from the Crystal Empire, though she doesn't know it.) Her talent is the growth of plants out of season and can even enable since, say, an apple tree to produce fruit in the middle of winter. While the Reindeer (save the god-king, there) see her mostly as "useful", she knows that they need help, even if they won't ask. So, feeling kind of empty having no work related to her talent, she heard through the grapevine about the needs of the reindeer and knew what she had to do.
She's alabaster by default, but turns cyan in cold weather, a quirk of her body, to Compensate. cold doesn't really bother her much. She has a two toned mane and tail much in the style of Bon-bon's, but dark blue and light blue.
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3463576 Wait...what's with your extremely similar names?
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Neither of us had any idea that the other existed!
3464703 we honestly didn't know each other existed, and happened to find each other by pure coincidence!
Monster
Name: Kobold
Appearance: Short, vaguely draconic, beady eyed and roughly clothed in rudimentary clothing of their own make, quality varies along with design.
Diet: Mostly carnivorous with the occasional bit of plants thrown in for basic medicines and seasonings for special occasions and rituals.
Society: Mostly tribal and fairly well connected, living in various dark locations like caves where they make a home, tending to make their own goods just as readily as they would steal from other races, purely based on which one took the least amount of effort to accomplish.
Hunting parties would likely aim for larger animals/furred creatures for their hides to make cloaks, coats and the like for the village to survive and thrive should they be pushed out of their natural home, and for the hunting/raiding teams themselves.
Rank: Depending on numbers, anywhere from a Class C when just one or two, to one star when dealing with a village of the pests....In theory, with how surprisingly proficient they are at tactics (They just /love/ shooting from where they can't be shot back at, and all matters of dirty little tricks) a higher star rating could be achieved if either given sheer numbers or a proper figurehead to more efficiently co-ordinate the assaults.
Agression: If found by a hunting team, they'll probably try to kill you for fur if they don't mess up the first shot, after that it proves too much effort for their bipedal frame to really keep up, so they just move on to the next ambush.
But if near the village, they will attack to the last fighter, to at the very least buy the rest of the village time to flee to live another day.
Powers: Opposable thumbs, weak divining magic for locating ores for tool and some trade, a nigh innate capability for tactical maneuvers, sheer numbers, amazing vision in dark locations (And due to this, less than stellar vision in bright light, leading to being mostly nocturnal hunters), and an affinity for setting and making traps and ambushes.
Rarely noted tidbits: On the rare occasion they want or require something they cannot make or easily steal, they are not entirely against sending out a few members of the village to attempt to trade with other races, and as such there are indeed survivor accounts of their rather annoying, high pitched yappy voices and quite surprisingly high quality metalworking.
(If you want an example of the high level tactics that can warrent the star class, these Kobolds are a prime example of what you are looking for.)
3469260 I thought I specified that. My bad. No other civilizations. Civilizations don't have any true classification as well which is a problem...I could use them in a sequel, though. You can leave this here if you want so that I remember them. Hmmm. I even got the idea for a hunting party scouting the tundra.
...That single race just blasted many of my thoughts and could be a major threat in the sequel. They might not get the spotlight but they can still be a big threat. I'll need to have a cross section.
3469269 Honestly they're mostly just useful as a decently smart mook for any villain that has proper order...Or, you know, dragons.
3469642 I thought of that but considered them to have something of their own, like the Goblins from The Hobbit book.
3463576 So did you think of how he sees them yet?
3475033 Dang I'm sorry dude. I got caught up in other stuff.
He is a mostly heroic character. Have you ever watched Hercules the Legendary Journies?
3475452 No, but I know it's in Xena's universe.
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Ok well Clyde is a wondering hero. While he searches the land to piece together his family history he often gets sidetracked by people who need his help. As long as they aren't evil or jerks he won't have any problem with them, and if they are the victims while some ponies are the villains he would easily side with the deer.
3476270 So he's neutral lawful. I see now.
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And easily annoyed by people who don't need his help but ask for it anyway.
3476278 Hmmm. Interesting. I already know how to introduce him, but lack of feedback on the story is draining what energy I have for writing it...
3476292 I know how you feel. All of my stuff is on hold at the moment so I can read yours and leave comments.
3476303 It's feedback that 'feeds' my envy to write. Without it, I don't feel like someone is reading my story, but Deer Me did last long with comments. I was just expecting them all to disappear by the third chapter.