Art by Syn on the Pony-A-Day Tumblr.

Name: Darrus

Race: Pegasus

Gender: Male

Age: Mid-twenties

Physical Description: A rust coloured pony with charcoal grey hair in a rough vagrant style (or lack thereof), just under medium-length matching his tail, and dark green eyes wearing a brown traveling cloak with a hood. His cloak conceals his belt and saddle bags as well as his wings on most occassions. His cutie mark is a few light blue wavy lines shaped into a bullseye.

Special Talent: Ranged accuracy with anything from throwing things to firing crossbows, especially when highly mobile, such as when he is flying.

Likes: Hard cider, the taverns that sell hard cider, the ponies who drink the cider with him, and the occasional hoof fights he gets into with said ponies. Traveling.

Dislikes: Being told what to do or forced to stay cooped up indoors for long periods of time.

Strengths: Very fast and agile, Darrus is a highly skilled flyer with quick reflexes and a self taught method of fighting with his hooves and wings that focuses on speed and movement. Complimenting his fighting style, and possibly contradicting what his usual vagrant appearance may make others believe, Darrus is resourceful and a quick and intelligent thinker that has a lot of "street smarts", as well as an understanding on how to remain quiet and stealthy when he needs to be. Darrus has a very high pain tolerance.

Weaknesses: His resistance to pain can backfire with him pushing himself further than he can actually handle, risking serious injury out of his stubbornness to not give up. While quick to be friendly, and extremely loyal once earned as a friend, Darrus can be slow to truly trust those he meets. Darrus can be very difficult to cooperate with if he comes to dislike somepony.

Bio: A young and fit stallion headed nowhere in particular, Darrus is a drifter who has traveled all over Equestria simply because he can. Born into a rather poor family in Cloudsdale, his education was basic at best with no real hope of higher learning being likely in the pegasus' future, instead a career working in the weather factory or possibly trying to join the guard to take advantage of his talent being the most likely directions his life was headed in. Not wanting to be stuck making clouds or rainbows all the time, and never having been all that good at following orders, the pegasus eventually, once he'd reached the age of an adult, decided to just leave his home one day, his eyes only set on the horizon as his goal.

Using clouds to sleep in, rain clouds to bathe, and fields to graze, what little money Darrus ever needed was earned through odd and very temporary jobs he came across as he wandered from place to place, frequenting taverns and getting into scuffles with local authorities. Never having had reason to remain anywhere for very long, Darrus can be anywhere for varying amounts of time as he looks around for anything interesting before moving on.

Extra Details: Carries a small dagger and throwing knife for self defense, both concealed under his cloak and located on his belt and shoulder respectively. Is a pretty good singer, though has no formal training.

Figured I'd try to give him a voice.

Decided on Jason Marsden, heard here voicing the bad guy(Major spoilers for a game no one cares about, by the way) and starts talking at around the one minute mark:



Clip chosen because that game has a knife fight with a velociraptor in it.

Also, for funsies, I figure this is the kind of thing that is probably playing in his head most of the time: