:SA: Persephone the Bard

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Name
Persephone
Pronounced Per-sef-on-ee

Nickname(s): Seph

Herd
Vagabond 
Rank
Bard

Age
Birthday: February 21st, 1682
Starting Age: 18 years old
Current Age: 18 years old
Season Born In: Winter

Species
Mustang x Paint
Persephone's father was a mustang pegasus, and her mother, a paint pegasus.  

Size
Height: 14.3hh [still growing right now, final height will be 16.2hh] 
Weight: 1300lbs

Appearance
Coat colors: Sable champagne base coat with off-white paint markings, and darker gray-brown spots on her shoulders and flanks 
Eye colors: Ice blue eyes
Mane and Tail: Sandy mane and tail with cream highlights
Wings/Feathers: Wings are similar to osprey build/coloring, if more simple in the coloring. Feathers appear on her hocks, and has "tail" feathers as well. *tail feathers not shown in reference image*

Genotype
AtAt, Ee, ChCh, ToTo

Sexuality
Pansexual
-Is attracted more to the horses personality rather than appearance/gender

Voice
Actress: Evanna Lynch
-Noted role in: Luna Lovegood from "Harry Potter"

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• Calm
  [Outwardly, Persephone exudes a calm aura. She is self-assured, and generally level headed, and it shows in the way she presents herself.]

• Compassionate
  [If she has the ability, she will help anyone who needs it, be it equine or any other animal. She will keep bandages and extra bits of fruit on her as often as she can, in case she ever comes across a horse in need.]

• Imaginative
  [Through her travels, she has learned so much from different herds and horses, from stories to songs, legends and myths, tales and epics. As a child, these stories fueled her imagination, and loves to tell stories to any children who stop her and ask. She can weave stories easily, which is perfect for her rank.]

• Resilient/Adaptable
  [Thanks to her mother keeping them on the move constantly when she was a foal, Persephone is able to adapt to new situations, new landscapes, new horses with relative ease. It takes something fairly monumental to shake Persephone up.]

• Tentative
  [While Persephone seems to be able to read situations fairly well, she is very hesitant at first, taking in the situation, and gaging a horses character before letting herself fully relax in their presence.]

• Apprehensive
  [Over the years, her concerns of being around other horses has diminished greatly, but Persephone can still be a little skittish around other horses at times.]
  
  
• Vague
  [When Persephone speaks, it can sometimes not make a lot of sense, as she doesn't go into a lot of detail unless she is in the midst of telling a story. She has always been like this, which sometimes annoyed the living hell out of her mother. You have to know her fairly well to be able to decipher her short speech if she starts speaking vaguely.]

Persephone's parents met near God's landing. Kaira had initially sought only to "relieve" the mustang stallion of a rather fancy looking saddlebag. However, while Gabriel looked easy enough to swindle from, he had actually long since noticed the slender pegasus who had been rather effectively hunting him. Rather than chase her off, Gabriel was rather intrigued by the bold mare. So, he let her think he still had not noticed her. Then, when she finally came, in the middle of the night, he surprised her by offering the saddlebag to her in exchange for her companionship for a week.

Not trusting this odd offer, Kaira at first refused, thinking maybe this stallion was a slave trader, or worked for one. So she fled, accepting the loss of the pretty trinket that was the saddlebag. But instead of leaving the stallion behind, his offer piqued her interest enough for her to follow him for several days. He seemed to be a lone wanderer, she had yet to see him meet any other horses since their brief conversation. On the fifth day, Kaira approached the stallion once again, no longer seeking to acquire the saddlebag, that having long since fled her mind, but rather to get to know this stallion. He interested her like none had before.

After that, the two were never seen far from each other. As their friendship grew, so did their mutual feelings for each other. They protected each other and explored the land together. After about two years of traveling through Sedo to Onea, and the lands between, Kaira realized she was with foal.

Gabriel and Kaira then decided they wanted to find a more permanent residence for them and their child, and made for Skytop Forest. Together, the pair built a small cottage on the western most edge of Skytop Forest, near the river.

Not long after, though, their family would be torn apart. Kaira foaled their daughter with relative ease, and they named her Persephone. She was a small thing, but healthy. Not a few months after she was born though, a small group of Slave traders happened upon their cottage. Gabriel and Kaira were out with Persephone by the river, watching as Persephone splashed around in the shallow bank. The trio of traders separated the family, and started for the easiest target- Persephone. Intending on snatching the foal to sell her off as a personal slave when she got a little bigger, they figured the three of them could grab her and run without much fight from the parents. But Gabriel was quick to react and started to fight the slave traders off, screaming for Kaira to take Persephone and run.

The last thing Kaira saw before she disappeared with Persephone, was one of the Slave traders' firing a cross bow at almost point blank range at Gabriel, the arrow embedding itself in a tree as Gabriel fell.



After that, Kaira kept herself and Persephone on the move, keeping the pair far from the Eithne border. Persephone grew quickly, learning how to pick pocket from her mother, and would always beg to hear stories, about her father, about other horses, about her mother's past, about the Gods', about everything. Her need to hear stories seemed almost insatiable. 

Because Kaira kept them away from the company of other horses, Persephone often found the companionship of animals to be her main source of company outside of her mother. Of course, many animals tended to steer clear of the pair, but Persephone's quiet persistence to gain their trust aided her in acquiring a couple fleeting bonds. 

As she grew older, her mother started chancing more visits to cities, often in Sedo. It wasn't an often occurrence at first, but as her 16th birthday neared, she noticed that they began frequenting a particular city quite often. While she normally minded her own business and wandered the city streets on her own, she followed her mother one time, and saw that her mother was being courted by a blue roan unicorn stallion. It wasn't long after that, that Kaira told her daughter that she was going to stay with him. Persephone was happy for her mother, as she had seen her mother lose some of the fear that was constantly with her, and began seeing happiness brightening her aging mother's eyes. But she told her mother that she could not stay with her. Her mother deserved to enjoy life again, but herd life was not for Persephone. So she set off on her own, her mother giving her the one thing she had left of her father: the saddlebag that had originally brought the two together. It was a little worn from the years, but still fully functional.



Two years have passed since her mother settled down in Osulas, and Persephone frequents that city, visiting every few months to see her mother. While she's not visiting her mother, she makes her way throughout Sedo and Sirith, not staying too long in one place, but having long since shed most of her wariness for the horses in the few cities her and her mother had visited when she was a child. While in the cities, Persephone gains a small following of foals each time who ask to hear stories from her, to which she will always happily oblige. 

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- Persephone has a rather strong love for bodies of water, be it lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, waterfalls.

- Thanks to her calm demeanor, she is fairly good at attracting animals to her, and she finds she enjoys most animals' company.

- Though she is a Bard, she learned basic skills of thieving from her mother, but she doesn't like stealing unless she has no other choice.

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Family
[Gabriel]
Father: Mustang Pegasus
status: Unknown

[Kiara]
Mother: Paint Pegasus 
status: Alive

 Relationships 

Past Relationship
-Outlaw♂

Current Relationship
-None.

As Evalynn tumbled right into Anders' path, Russet just shook his head, watching as his old friend side stepped the calamity-on-hooves with ease. He watched as his little painted filly just bounced back onto her hooves, and looked up at Anders with a sheepish grin. His ears pricked slightly as Anders spoke to Evalynn, and a smile slid across his face. Anders seemed to be a natural around Evalynn while he himself felt like he was floundering in an ever rising tide of the unknown.

"Yes sir! I'll learn to pay attention, you'll see!" the chestnut painted filly puffed up her chest as Anders spoke to her, prancing on the spot as he winked at her. A small, but hot-headed voice drifted out from behind Evalynn, and she noticed the foal that was standing, indignant at Anders words. An immediate smile lit up Evalynn's face, her eyes radiating her innocence, and she stood there, and tilted her head slightly as she took in the other foals appearance. Eden, as Russet has said her name was, was thicker than her, in a way that made her look more powerful than Evalynn could hope to be with her lanky legs and thin body frame. She noticed that she was almost as tall as Eden as well, and she waggled her short tail happily, her previous hesitance for a friend, gone. Finally she would have a play mate who wouldn't take it easy on her! As they stared at each other, Evalynn noticed Eden puff up slightly, and she giggled.

Russet stood beside Anders, a warm smile as Anders' bumped into his shoulder and he nodded slightly. "Not sure how I'm managing to stay on my hooves, to be honest. Evalynn is like a maelstrom. She never quits moving!" As Russet talked with his friend, he noticed the foals just standing and staring each other down, one with an indignant look, the other with a radiant smile. The stallion watched at Anders moved behind Eden, and pushed his child close to Evalynn, and he couldn't help but let out an amused chuckle at Eden's discomfort.

Evalynn watched as Eden moved closer and closer, until their noses were nearly touching, but she did not move away. As Eden spoke, Evalynn grinned, and she bumped her nose against Eden's nose.

"Hello! Wanna play?" and without waiting for an answer, Evalynn bounced to the side quickly, and lurched forward, overtaking Eden in a rush of lanky limbs, and high strung energy.

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Persephone (c): me