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Name ➡ Bao
Nickname ➡ She'll
quickly get insulted
if you ask for an
abbreviation, and
for good reason. Who
shortens a three-letter
word?
Age ➡ 8 years old.
She was born in late
spring, on the twenty
-seventh of April in
human terms.
Height ➡ 14.3 hands
high
Gender ➡ Mare (an
adult female horse).
Breed ➡ Mustang
Coat ➡ A tobino
buskskin
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AppearanceBao is a small horse, being only a fraction of a hand larger than the traditional maximum height of a pony. Her body bears a strength and hardiness only gained from many years of living through the hardships of the wilderness. Her hooves are hard and strong, while her mane and tail are not unnecessarily long or thick. Bao isn't really beautiful, but she's as tough as nails. Being a buckskin tobino, her white body is blotched with large patches of buckskin colouration. A white star of an irregular shape sits below her fetlock.┏━━━━━♞━━━━━┓
Dam ➡ Vespera
Sire ➡ Kekoa
Siblings ➡ She has
not met any of her
full siblings, but she's
known some of her
many half-siblings.
Rank ➡ Lone mare.
Herd ➡ None.
Foals ➡ List
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PersonalityBao is a very down-to-earth mare. She tries her best to keep her mental list of priorities straight, with survival naturally being on the top of this list. She has a stubborn streak as her father did, but she prefers to call it 'determination'. Bao can be rather strict. This is for the best, in her eyes. Her respect is not easy to earn but once one earns it, Bao shall be loyal to them for life. She used to quite a social mare. She still is, but with one key difference; she does not trust. Her cautiousness of others is due to several cruel betrayals of hope and trust. Bao hopes to find a horse who won't disappoint her so, but she believes that the chance of that happening is slim.┏━━━━━♞━━━━━┓
Likes ➡
➡ Spring and autumn,
the seasons without
many extreme
temperatures.
➡ Good weather.
➡ Being in the
company of horses
who she can trust.
Dislikes ➡
➡ Most stallions.
➡ Stupid horses.
Seriously, if you've
nothing intelligent
to say, don't say
anything.
➡ Predators.
Strengths ➡
➡
➡ She is a
hardworking and
practical horse.
➡ She does not
complain much.
➡ She's hardy
and strong, rarely
bothered by the
weather.
Weaknesses ➡
➡
➡ She doesn't trust
others.
➡ She finds it hard to
get along with horses
of more philosophical
personalities, as she
strictly values action
over thoughts.
➡ She can be a tad
harsh and unbending
in some scenarios.
Theme song ➡ Dog
Days Are Over, by
Florence and the
Machine.
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HistoryBao was born in a rather large herd of about twenty horses, lead by a wise old mare. However, Bao differed from the other foals in the herd in the fact that she wasn't one of the band stallion's offspring. The stallion, Talon, had snaked Bao's mother out of her old herd. At the time,the beautiful buckskin mare had already been pregnant. When Vespera gave birth to Bao, it was only the foal's gender which saved her, combined with the hope that she may grow up to look like her mother. However, those hopes were all in vain. Bao resembled her father more and more with every passing day. She grew into a gangly two-year old with a sparse mane, coarse coat and small stature, an appearance far inferior to her tall, elegant mother. All that showed Bao to be one of Vespera's offspring were the splodges of buckskin upon her coat. The filly left her birth herd gladly at the age of two, to seek her future on what little wild grassland remained.
During the autumn, Bao came upon a small band of horses; one youthful stallion and three rather weary looking mares. Being lonely and naive, the filly was accepted into the herd. She was delighted, until the mares told her that the stallion was an ignorant young whelp who drove them to the most obscure, barren regions in an effort to avoid other stallions. This became painfully clear during the winter months. Bao managed to survive toiling up remote hills and near dangerous gorges, but two of the mares were not so lucky. One day in early spring, Bao and the other surviving mare were taking a brief moment to rest. The older mare let out a whinny, as she always did when she was at her most desperate. Bao ignored her, certain that no stallion would come to their aid. By now, she'd learned that, for all their madness and unnecessary danger, the young stallion's tactics worked unfortunately well. However, Bao was proved wrong yet again. From the forest, thick with overgrown vegetation, a dark grullo stallion emerged. No fairytale steed was he, bearing greater resemble to a carthorse than an athlete, but he at least looked like a horse who wouldn't drag his mares across a desolate desert in fear of rivals. The stallion called to the mares and they gladly approached him, but their troubles were not over. The young stallion, the horse who'd led them to the most arid regions he could, screamed at the rival in anger. However, Bao could see the fear in his dark brown eyes. For a moment, she almost felt sorry for him. That moment passed in a flash, however, and she snorted in anger. The fool had lead two mares to their deaths through his hare-brained wandering! The grullo stallion and the younger horse quickly exchanged blows, but the winner was clear from the start. The young stallion backed down and raced off into the woods. Bao gazed at the grullo stallion with a queer mixture of relief and fear burning inside her. She decided to wait and see which of the two feelings won out.
The dark grullo stallion, whose name was Thunderclap, added three more mares to his band over the course of that year. He proved brave and determined, and Bao grew to like him well enough. However, as the years passed and he accumulated more mares, his behaviour changed. Thunderclap became suspicious, controlling and extremely dangerous. Bao wanted to escape the herd but she was too afraid. She'd seen for herself what Thunderclap did to mares who he deemed 'disloyal' for one reason or another, and it wasn't pretty. She kept her head down, yet she secretly longed for the day when she could finally escape from Thunderclap.
One day in the last days of winter, a thick, grey fog of nigh impenetrable darkness settled upon the valley where Thunderclap's large herd was grazing. As horses milled around and whinnied loudly to one another, one horse remained silent and determined. That horse was Bao, who slunk out beneath Thunderclap's muzzle to find a path to freedom in the depths of the thick mist.┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━♞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛