Aerith

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Name: Aerith
Gender: Mare
Breed: American Paint Horse x Appaloosa
Genetics: EE/aa/nCr/ZZ/nO/nLp
Age: 3
Arrived in MUSTANG: Spring, Year 12
Coat Color: Silver Smoky Black Pintaloosa
Height: 15.0hh
Eye Color: Blue with flecks of black

Personality: The first thing she learned was how to keep secrets and the second thing she learned was how to shut herself away from the general population. 

But Aerith doesn't seem like a secretive or isolated young woman. She's actually very cheerful, and extroverted, and upbeat; she enjoys cheering up the people she's friends with, and helping, and healing, and healing things - or people - is definitely one of her biggest callings in life. Like the name of one of her themes, she really is a flower blooming in the slums - a usually delicate thing that broke through the gritty surface, surviving off of little sunlight and polluted rain, but still manages to bloom. Her resilience marks her; though physically weak, she's tough, and the fact that she puts on a pleasant face even in the face of danger or dissent speaks to this.

Once you get to know her a little better, you start to realize - you don't really know her at all. Her cheerfulness is enigmatic; she says a lot without really saying anything. Her flirting is sweet and casual, but even if there are feelings beneath the surface, she hides them beneath her cheery commentary. Everything she says is carefully picked out. Even if she is good and sweet and kind, it's hard to call that kind of person naive. She knows who she is, and what the world is like, and chooses to be kind in the face of all of that anyway. She has no delusions about people, or how terrible they can be, and she will never underestimate or overestimate somebody, even if she is polite and kind in their company.

But she's not all smiles and kindness - she speaks up for herself. When someone is overstepping their bounds with her, breaking boundaries, she doesn't hold back. She tells them when she's uncomfortable, she sets limits, she helps but not to the point of exhaustion, and she's very free with her reprimands and scolding, teasing though she may be on occasion. Beneath the enigmatically cheerful exterior is someone who is serious, and quietly focused, and guarded to the world around her.

That said, Aerith possesses a very strong sense of duty and loyalty. Her first loyalty is to the earth itself; her second loyalty is to all of life; and her third is to easing pain. She's an incredibly grounded person, with solid morals for the most part - though she's known to have the ambiguity of deception quite a lot, being her rather secretive and guarded nature.

And, even though she is an enigma and generally a very mysterious person, that cheerfulness she puts out isn't fake. Oh, sometimes it most certainly is, since no one can be that calmly cheery all the time, but she always contrives to be positive, and have a good outlook on things, and be polite or teasing or kind and say what comes to mind. And she's a little more free with expressing her concern about things, acting as a bit of an emotional foil for someone who is pretty much emotionally constipated.

And there is still this beauty of innocence left to her, somehow, like that flower blooming in the slums - as evident from the way she interacted with her first love, whom she loved quite dearly with all her heart. Though she's not the blushing filly she once was around him, and has matured beyond that, she still retains some of that quiet innocence.

Basically Aerith is really complex and far more than just a pretty face and a kind disposition.
History: Back where she had come from, she was betrothed to the colt of a rival herd and their union was to bring peace and prosperity to both herds. What they didn't expect was for her to fall in love with the colt or for disaster to strike. A storm knocked down several trees and one of those trees fell upon her beloved. At only a year old, she had to watch helplessly as his spine was crushed. In his final moments, his words branded her heart and with his final "I love you" lingering in the back of her mind, she made her run with the remainder of the herd, those that hadn't been separated from the rest or killed. She was promised to another when she was two and a half and unable to go through with it, she left in the middle of the night and wandered aimlessly for six months before finding her way to the land of MUSTANG. She's planning to find new opportunities and potentially, even a new beau.

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From a rating of one to ten [ten being the best], what would you rate MUSTANG?: 8/10
What do you suggest we do next/improve?: Can't think of anything.
Where did you find us?: Mmm... google, if I remember correctly.
What would you like to be called?: I prefer Mya but as long as you don't call me late to dinner, you can call me pretty much anything you want.

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