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Sadowi
By: Sadowi Date: July 8, 2016, 8:44 pm
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-Notes:I toned him down a little, but if any of you have any
concerns or complaints about this character please tell me.
-General-
-Name: Jamie Sadowi
-Born: unknown sometime before Nightmare Moon, Horseshoe Bay
-Died: unknown (aged 20) sometime before Nightmare Moon, into
the Unknown
-Returned: c. 1001 AN (After Nightmare)
-Gender: male
-Species: Earth, kelpie
-Occupation: soldier
-Allegiance: Region of Horseshoe Bay
-Service/branch: Naval Reserve
-Years of service: unknown
-Current status: undead
-Appearance-
-Pelt: greyish-blue and always damp; wounds open but not
bleeding
-Mane: rather long sea green mane, when in combat it is tied
into a double ponytail
-Tail: long, sea green, and "thrice braided," one intact, one
loose, and one torn
-Cutie mark: none
-Other stuff (right side): cheek and most of the lips missing --
eye missing and replaced with a glowy yellow orb that functions
as his eye -- eyelid and cornea intact -- mane usually covered
this side of the face and the neck -- hock (ankle) has three
cartilage spikes -- some skin missing near the fibula
----(left side): a small bit of his lips missing -- eye and
flesh around it missing and replaced with a glowy yellow orb
that functions as his eye -- base of the ear also has three
cartilaginous protrusions -- neck has four prominent puncture
wounds -- breast has a large gash -- skin around the radius and
ulna are missing -- laceration near the flank -- some skin
missing near the fibula
----(center/both): a chunk of flesh missing from the bridge of
his muzzle, brown cloth wrappings around his feet (not hooves)
except the right foreleg
-Dental formula: top 3-1-4-2, bottom 3-1-4-3
-Physique: not very large, stockier and a little taller than
what will be Braeburn but still retains the sinewy, almost
feminine build.
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-Background-
No one really knows who Sadowi is or where he came from, and in
the end no one really cares.
Here was a teenaged colt who appeared on the streets of
Horseshoe Bay, now Baltimare, claiming to have been raised in
the complete isolation of a cave by the ocean. Tests and checks
were done by the local authorities; he could stand, walk, and
run, if awkwardly, and say a few words, but with no means of
identification. However, no one was interested as something of
this sort had already taken place in Nuremberg a few decades
back.
Sadowi could swim very well, and he was then written off as some
unknown sailor's by-blow, hardly a rare occurrence. A fisher
named Matrose quickly snatched him up to either be his
apprentice or to be free labour, until the arrival of the
frigate Codrington. With the ship drydocked for reconstruction
and modernisation, Sadowi and others, mostly merchants or
fishers such as himself, were impressed and trained by a Master
Eldoriath for the marine contingent.
A part of the said contingent, Sadowi participated in exactly
one boarding action. Codrington had managed to chase down a
pirate vessel, and as the two ships crept too close for cannon
fire the order for boarding was given on both sides. Sadowi and
others of the first wave climbed up and swung across the watery
gap on the rigging ropes, soon to be followed by the rest of
their crew, and they were successful. Hidden within the remnants
of the outlaw ship strewn with the corpses of her former crew
was an intact chest full of carved doubloons, and believing they
had hit the right stuff, Codrington and crew gave up their
patrol routes and made for all the ports in their knowledge to
spend and trade the new and honourably gained wealth. The more
they gave away, the more apparent it became to them that
something was amiss. Suddenly all the drink they wanted to sup
no longer satisfied. Food broke apart and turned to ash in their
mouths. All the company in the world only had them see it could
not have sated their desires. They fled back to the ocean, where
they languished in unfeeling half life and half death for a
month before embarking on a new crusade to collect all the
tainted gold coins they so carelessly tossed into the air, and
before the crew of Codrington could accomplish the task Sadowi
jumped ship, with one of the damned trinkets in hoof.
He reasoned the vast benefits of undeath and its freedom from
obligations clearly outweighed whatever advantages the living
had.
"I can’t die. That’s great. I also can’t feel pain. I can run as
fast as I want, as far as I want, and as long as I want. I can
climb as fast as I want, as high as I want, and as long as I
want. I can swim as fast as I want, as deep as I want, and as
long as I want. And many more. I can do what I want, when I
want, and how I want. What ‘exactly happened’ to me or us I also
don’t much know and don’t much care. I just wouldn’t have it any
other way."
Sadowi also reasoned his shipmates deserved at least a chance to
see and appreciate what they brought upon themselves.
"Can you believe just how much people place on worldly pleasures
and what they’ll give up just to have them? ‘Oh, for too long
have I starved to death and haven’t died.’ Oh, for too long have
they this more and that again. They feel not these nor those.
Such crybabies, even before it all went ‘to hell.’ ‘Oh, it’s too
hot belowdecks. Oh, the food is gross. Oh, I think I’m going to
be sick.’ Want this and not that, yowling about things they
don’t have, and never seeing what they do have. And to truly
condescend our ostensible plight, cap’n Heck brandished a bottle
of brandy and drank it, forcing everyone to watch the liquor
pour down his bones and stain them crimson before splattering
onto the deck. You think mariners would be the most hardcase
bunch you’ve ever met? Nah."
-Recent-
Today Sadowi usually dresses conservatively to hide the more
obvious, life threatening wounds that mark his body and tries to
find work through a variety of odd jobs, from security guard to
pearl and coral diver.
-Personality and Characteristics-
-Hit: swimming/diving -- duelling/fighting/casual violence --
playful roughhousing -- fishing/fish -- hanging out -- acting
dramatic -- "harmless" disrespect towards authority
-Miss: various arthropods -- rust -- actual treachery --
violence with lasting detrimental effects -- taking more than
five minutes to make a decision -- oceanic whitetip sharks
-Motivation: He is alive again, and not everyone gets this sort
of luxury. Having had a short life, unaware of what truly
happened to him and his "friends," and sentient and independent
for a something undecided on his state of being, he considers
his return a blessing, an opportunity to continue living.
-Personality: Irresponsibly optimistic, suicidally fearless,
bloodthirstily violent yet not one bit murderous, along with a
arrogant streak of no end, Sadowi is a rather gullible and
fun-loving pony, and it earned him neither love nor respect,
only an intact sanity through an abused life and a quick and
painful death.
He is a soldier and warrior, and fighting and killing are what
he enjoys and what he does best and has no problems butchering
anything from soldiers to politicians to armed civilians into
ten catties' worth of lean meat, fat, and bone in extra thin
slices. He intentionally puts himself in danger for duels,
fishing, or fights, as to him there is no life if one simply
does nothing or lives complacently. Having never truly seen it,
he is still naive and carries a romantic notion of battle, doing
it for the thrills.
He is loyal yet independent, disliking authority, patriotism,
and those submissive to them. He is immediately familiar and not
particularly knowing when to speak formally or cautiously, and
also a little rude, like a teasing best friend. He is not
grandiloquent but takes longer to get to the point. In addition
he can be incredibly sardonic and seems to get bored quite
easily.
In short, he's a nonleader plus everything wrong or bad about
Spirit, from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, placed into a
sack of sh1t, with a stick of dynamite.
-Quotes and/or Catchphrases-
-"Don't let anyone tell you who you are. You tell yourself who
you are."
-"We're like, what you say, lottery winners. The old world you
knew and loved is gone, and this is what we have. Might as well
make the best and enjoy it."
-"Never give up. Never surrender. The end comes much later than
you think."
-"And only when you give up do you actually fail."
-making nicknames for others
-Powers and Abilities-
A marine, Sadowi has great proficiency with many weapons, though
he prefers the sword yet is actually at his best when unarmed.
Unpredictable and agile and without the need for food, water, or
air, he never tires. Without true gelatinous eyes connected to
the brain with nerves and instead bestowed teardrops of light
able to assume any orientation for eyes along with a career on a
large but top heavy ship that loved the waves and rolled
miserably, he is more or less an organic gyroscope. His gallop
is fast but unremarkable. His reflex surpasses that of a
c'ockroach, and he sees in bullet time.
He is not a master swordspony. He has extremely quick eyes, but
he cannot run at, say, the speed of sound. His "speed" is an
illusion that comes from his agility and his low mass; enemies
and opponents all like to throw him and have him in the air, and
that's what he uses to his advantage. Agility and adaptability.
He is a great swimmer, then and now.
He is ambidextrous, left hoof dominant.
He can stand, walk, and fight on his hind legs.
-Equipment-
Sadowi is almost always seen with his mismatched pairi of
swords.
A single edged "dao," a curved broadsword or sabre, has cloth
bands wrapped over what was once leather wrappings. It's a dao
and not a prissy katana nor a barbaric machete.
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Sometimes called the sinkhook due to its distinctive, barbed
blade and fishing wire guard, this weapon bears little
resemblance to the talwar, also a type of sabre, it is
originally cut down from. Attached to another fishing line
wrapped around his foreleg, he wields the sinkhook as an
off-hoof weapon for his freeform fighting style.
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copied from the Sinkhook of Infinity Blade II
images not to scale
-How to deal with him...appropriately-
Sadowi can be "killed" just like any other beast. He'll collapse
in a heap on the ground and will return but not until a long
while after. Keep him on the ground, and watch out for his
sinkhook; It's not just a sword. His strength is also his
weakness, should his opponent catch on. His acrobatics increase
the power of his strikes, and thus he's not too strong a
character on his own. Force him to parry; don't let him dodge.
Or just get rid of him:
Kick him into a pit with no means of climbing out.
Open a gateway to some faraway place and push him through.
-Shipping status-
Open, if anyone would like a zombie.
-References and Influences-
In terms of personality, this character is mostly based on the
romantic and evil youth in all of us, in Sadowi's case
exaggerated and perpetual. He is also a nod or caricature or
insult to the numerous unknown soldiers, as mostly seen on TV
and in movies, who are killed and nothing more, while the
beginning of his biography is almost a direct parallel to Kaspar
Hauser. The end of his bio is a copy of Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl but with what I hope to
be a dark twist. His powers are references to various martial
arts movies, such as those of Jackie Chan, including wu xia and
its gravity defying acrobatics, and video games such as Prince
of Persia.
despite the similarities, Kratos (God of War), Scorpion (Mortal
Kombat), and Deadpool did not have an influence on this
character.
-Voice- Starcraft: Brood War - Infested Duran
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-Theme song- David Orr - Final Encounter
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-EQG Bio-
(a test for now)
Once a jock, Sadowi was and, based on times, is still one of the
fastest swimmers of his time in Canterlot High School for both
sprints and distance, but his failing grades and never showing
up for practises saw him kicked off the team. He took his
dismissal with his head held high, expecting to be asked back
sooner or later. The day has yet to come, and he has forgotten
about it as well. Now he just tries to be nice and less arrogant
to his peers and teachers, while avoiding the swim coach, and
even actually study to do better in class, though practically
always coming off as overbearing and crude.
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