NationStates

Your Nation's Nickname: New Aksarben

Character Name (can be different than nation name): Sterling Venture

URL to Character Picture or a few sentences about what they look like: Everything there, including the fez.

Character Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Intelligent Unicorn-Pony

Character Powers/Special Abilities (if any): Unicorn magic. He taps into a well of power within himself, that has a limit to how much he can use without having to rest and 'recharge'. It's focused through his horn, which glows in a golden color when he uses magic. He specializes in levitation magic and light magic(generating light and light sources. HE can learn other kinds of magic, but it tends to be difficult for him as his talent is in organization and working with books. He's a horse. It will hurt to be kicked by him. Especially if he kicks in certain areas.

Character Weaknesses/Flaws: a coward. He's skittish and runs very easy. His powers are quite weak compared to the magic of other unicorns who have their talent in the field. He struggles in learning any new magic, either because he messes up the spell or by the sheer fact its not really his area of expertise to learn more magic. He can be too selfless sometimes, putting the good of others before his own health. His world is behind technologically due to magic. As said before, his hooves can't be used as hands. He makes up for this with his magic, which allows for finer manipulation than most other ponies, but it's not perfect.

Character Background: Sterling grew up in Canterlot, the single child of a pair of unicorns. He tried out for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, before his cutie mark appeared, but just barely messed up enough due to his nerves to be refused by the testers. So instead he went to one of the lesser known magic schools. Sterling spent much of his time at libraries or reading as a colt, which eventually led to the situation of how he ended up earning his cutie mark.

While Sterling Venture was reading in the library nearby his house one day, a group of bored ponies came through and basically threw every book they could on the floor. They told the librarian that the only reason they had done that was because they were bored, and books were stupid, before galloping off laughing. At first, Stirling just kept reading his books, not really caring and thinking that the librarian could handle this on his own.

After an hour or so, The librarian was having no luck at getting everything organized again, especially since books that should be going in the non-fiction section had somehow ended up outside. The fiction section was a massive pile of books on the floor, with more scattered everywhere around the library. Sterling realized that the Librarian needed a lot of help, so, setting aside the book he had been reading, Sterling got to work helping out the beleaguered unicorn in charge of the library. Sterling rapidly figured out the proper place for every book, and levitated them one at a time into the proper places. His magic wasn't strong enough to lift many books at a time, and it was strenuous enough lifting them from the mountain of books so rapidly.

Within about five minutes Sterling got everything back into place, with the library actually being cleaner than it was before. Sterling was thanked for all the help by the librarian pony, and the now-dust-covered unicorn went home for the day. After a good bath, Sterling discovered his new cutie mark, and was overjoyed that he got it from helping another pony selflessly.

Shortly after he earned his cutie mark, he graduated from the magic school he had been attending, with his new-found talents in organization and levitation helping him out immensely. Sterling decided to move out of Canterlot once he was old enough, choosing the nearby town of Ponyville for its size and relative remoteness. He wanted to get out of the capitol and see other aspects of life in Equestria, and he thought moving there would be a good start. But he eventually decided to stick around after making a few good friends there and growing to love living there.

Additional Notes: He's quite shy around new people, but once he warms up to being around someone he's very hyper and enthusiastic about basically everything that entertains him. He tries to help everyone he possibly can, even if they don't directly ask for help.

URL to Apartment Picture: Yes, he basically lives in a Library!

Link to RP examples: (this MUST be a DIRECT LINK to your IC post in an RP, NOT a link to the RP itself. If you don't have examples, make your biography good.) Do I need this?

IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details: A unicorn pony born and raised in Canterlot, he defies the normal 'All Unicorns are Stuck-Up' stereotype as he's very down to earth and kind. He specializes in levitation magic and his talent is for organization and books in general. He can be very skittish and shy, but at the same time loves to meet new and interesting beings.