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       Rain Runner
   DIR By: Rain Runner
       Date: October 24, 2015, 11:17 am
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       Name: Rain Runner
       Race: Pegasus
       Gender: Male
       Age: 26
       Appearance: A blue coat with light and dark blue hair. He was
       born with a much larger pair of wings. This gives him great
       flight abilities, but can be troublesome while on the ground. In
       addition, his muscles is reasonably defined. Part for being in
       the army and part for compensating for the much larger wingspan.
       His body isn't very scarred. He has a few from fighting up
       close. But it mostly serves as a testament to the effectiveness
       of the division he served with. Being able to remove opposition
       with minimal losses.
       Cutie Mark: A cargo crate with a deployed parachute attached.
       Weapon of choice: Rain Runner uses a combination of armaments.
       Being a larger pony he excels at large weapons like great swords
       and spears.
       In aerial combat Rain lack the agility of his fellow soldiers,
       but he makes up for it in strength and durability. He mostly
       engages in airborne melee combat.
       Preferred tactics: If needed attack quickly, strike hard and
       force them down. Offer a chance for surrender 1 or 3 times. IF
       they refuse all three chances, they will perish. Though tactics
       varies depending on the situation.
       Personality: Rain Runner is a nice pony. He values friendship
       and loyalty. He is comforting and reliable. He does tend to
       doubt his own performance when comparing them with his own
       standards. This however, means that he can be expected to do his
       best to complete his given objective.
       Rain Runner mostly keeps to himself, preferring to let others do
       the talking, in addition, he keep a small circle of friend.
       Those in the circle are his childhood or really good friend, for
       whom he is willing to die for.
       In combat Rain Runner was the moral anchor of the unit he served
       with and still retains that his role in combat. He will watch
       over his brothers and sister in arms, do his part for the course
       and, most importantly, doing the right thing.
       Rain Runner has been prone to defy order to help civilians
       regardless of the allegiance.
       Be they friend or foe, they didn’t choose this and thus should
       be spared. Rain Runner is also notorious for showing mercy to
       his enemy. This has earned him some small recognition from
       friends and foes, but this has also gotten him into problems
       with his commanding officer. Knowing their leader Commander
       Hurricane’s look on showing the enemy mercy has made Rain Runner
       dread the commander and caused him to try and avoid Hurricane as
       much as possible.
       This has also caused Rain Runner to be horrified by his mere
       presence and have nervous breakdown if he is required to face
       the commander. While he can steel his nerves while facing him,
       he can only maintain the façade for a certain period of time.
       Once past that time or questioned hard enough he’ll snap and
       suffer a nervous breakdown.
       Backstory: Rain Runner was born in the city of Baltimare. He was
       the younger brother of a pacifistic earth pony father and a
       pegasus warrior mother. Sadly, at the age of 5, the pair
       divorced and Rain traveled with his mother back to Cloudsdale.
       Leaving his father and sister, Trench Runner behind.
       The thing that usually drew attention to was the oversized wings
       he had, often causing him to stumble and fall. This did make him
       a target for bulling by some, but a talk with the parents sorted
       it out. Flying was another thing that was different for him.
       With his large wingspan he had better lift and acceleration, but
       he would sacrifice agility for it. He had also inherited his
       mother’s size, making him fairly bulky.
       Due to his mother's proud warrior tradition and heritage Rain
       eventually joined up with the army of Cloudsdale after his
       mandatory conscription.
       While Rainrunner served in the army he found some of his best
       friends there. They would stay together through thick and thin.
       One incident involving them being pinned and several of the
       pegasi was wounded. Rain Runner couldn’t stand leaving them
       behind and charged forward, saving 12 of them. Despite this, he
       never bragged or told his tale to others, only the ones he
       trusts.
       Another incident that changed his life was on a mission and he
       was hit by an explosive incapacitation spell during an attempt
       at clearing out a cult of rogue unicorns and had been separated
       from the main force.
       The spell hit his hind leg, leaving him incapacitated in the
       forest. The main force was forced to call off the assault
       shortly after and he was marked M.I.A.
       He would have starved there, had it not been for the most
       unlikely rescuer. A griffin, a soldier no less that was willing
       to put the hostilities between the two races aside and carry
       Rain back to the base camp.
       Later Rain Runner found his niche as a delivery pony, whether
       heavy cargo or important information he would transport to its
       destination. For this and he dutiful service, he was eventually
       transferred to the 7th pegasi division, nicknamed the “windigo
       division”, these ponies were among the most effective soldiers
       the pegasi could call upon for fast offensive move.
       While Rain mainly served as heavy aerial support and back-up
       messenger, he ended up becoming one of the moral anchors for the
       group, trying to compromise efficiency with morals and ethics.
       Eventually he was honourably discharged from the division per
       say. On paper he is still registered as a member of the 7th
       division. However, he is now mostly serving guard duty in
       Canterlot.
       Personal quote: War brings out the worst in anyone. Most of us
       don’t want it, but it is unavoidable.
       In many ways, it’s not the death and destruction that is the
       horrible part of war, though it most certainly is, it’s also the
       damage to our mental state… the “them and us” mentality and the
       lack of moral and ethics.
       Residence: Canterlot Guard barracks.
       Occupation: Military guard.
       Special traits
       Strengths: Rain Runner was born with an oversized wingspan. This
       gives him superior aerial stability as well as gliding, climbing
       and acceleration.
       Because of his practice with a large wingspan he is next to
       impossible to destabilized while airborne, and the large
       surface-area of the wing give makes him an excellent glider.
       Also attributed to the large wingspan and part to his muscle
       strength he can accelerate and climb better than others, of
       course fliers like the Wonderbolts will outperform him in every
       category. He has applied his strengths to help him serve in the
       army better.
       Weaknesses: The oversized wings causes Rain Runner problems and
       makes him clumsy on the ground, but he has learned how
       counteract it most of the time. If he should end up being caught
       in them it would normally cause him to fall forward, but now he
       only stumbles forward.
       The large wingspan and his bulky frame makes him less agile then
       others.
       Due to excessive bullying, Rain has next to no confidence and is
       willing to berate himself if it makes other feel better. Not
       only that, he also tends to ignore and all compliments he
       receives. He desires social acceptance, but he just can't see it
       happening and as such he can't see that he was accepted from the
       beginning.
       Rain Runner is a pony that will do almost anything to help
       civilians sadly, he doesn’t always take the time to verify that
       they indeed are civilians, rather than soldier trying to fool
       the enemy.
       Visual reference:
  HTML http://img04.deviantart.net/9eb1/i/2015/188/5/9/mlp_oc__rainrunner_by_lp573-d8ppdp7.jpg
       Rain Runner's theme:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4xNZjqjps
       Theme of the 7th Pegasi division:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXfiffBzFw
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXfiffBzFw
       Rain Runner's voice (Joakim Broden, Sabaton Vocalist):
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_DC5QBmJQ
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_DC5QBmJQ
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