[Verdana]

It's completely alright. I will be closing custom entries by Thursday, so get them in! I am only choosing one or two people.

[Monstercat]

Finished.
Gah I hope thats alright c:

[Verdana]

Lovely form. Thanks for submitting.

[Monstercat]

No problem.
I really can't wait intill we can RP with these. I guess I'll just have to wait for a while

[.kestral]

Username:
Kestral&Leo

Desired Equidius name:
Illusion

Gender:
Mare

Colouring:
Light grey coat colouring, with darker grey dapples (basically dappled grey) with white socks on all hooves, a white blaze. Lighter grey mane and tail. Can the horns be black, or are they all grey? Her hooves are different coloured. Her front two are completely black while the back two are pinkish. She has an odd white smudge at the top of her front right leg and has two scars across her rump. She has an oddly shaped dapple on her belly that is shaped like a pawprint, she jokes it is a mark from 'the predator' but in actual fact it is just an oddly shaped marking.

Glow colour:
Purple

Lineart edits:
None

Rank:
Deputy mare or a normal Defender

Personality:
Illusion is an extremely quiet mare. She spends more time watching and thinking then she does talking as she finds she gets to know the others better that way. She is also extremely competative and you only truly see her happy when she is in some sort of contest like a race or a game, because of this she loves playing the foals as they seem to have lots of competitions even if there prizes are silly things like pinecones. The only time you will ever see Illusion angry is if someone insults the leaders or if someone threatens the foals. At that point she snaps and will defend them with everything she has, she is willing to die for the others and would do so without hesitation. She has fought many times and is extremely experianced even if she does't look it.

Story:
Illusion was born to two normal herd members on an extremely cold, dark and stormy night. Rain was pouring and her mother and father were both stood under a small overhang. To her horror moments after she stood for the first time her father suddenly pushed her and her mother, the young foal neighed in fear only to see lightning strike the base of the overhang, the rocky shelf collapsed and her father was killed, crushed to death by the rock. This was one of her first memories as a foal.

In later life accidents seemed to follow her, her mother was killed days after she was weaned by some sort of predator (not sure if there are regular ones here) and her best friend at the time drowned. Illusion hated herself, she had a fear of making friends due to the fact they all seemed to die. She became a loner and secluded herself from others until a herd mate found her. The male was the same age as her and showed her everything she had missed. Her other friends had all grown up and had foals or mates and they were all, miraculously in the mares eyes, alive. Illusion saw just how wrong she had been about herself and managed to regain her place in the herd, she spoke with her friends and they all made her understand how the events in her past were accidents. They bought her back to the happy, confident if quiet mare she used to be. And she has never forgotten it.

During her time away from the herd, Illusion had many adventures. Even though she lacked sight in the normal sense she still seemed to understand the world extremely well which led to some incidents that she jokes about now. The only incident from her youth that bothers her is her meeting with 'the predator'. She only found it by mistake, she didn't realise where she was going and she has regretted it since. She had only been away from the herd for a month, her mothers death had hit hard and she barely spent any time paying attention to her suroundings and so she was caught unaware. One day she was absent mindedly wandering through some tree's when a large shape barreled into her almost knocking her off her hooves. She reacted instantly rearing up before dodging to the side, it was the that the scent hit her, it was one of 'the predators' the same creatures that had killed her mother. Before she could work out where the creature was, and while she was distracted by what she had realised she felt a searing pain across her rump and realised she was bleeding. She reared again and managed to strike 'the predator' with her hooves but she could feel the cuts were deep and she was losing blood. Instead of staying to fight she ran to tend to her wounds. She felt like a coward but did what was best in her eyes. She has carried scars from the encounter ever since.

Why do you want it?:
Because to be honest, I like my idea. I think this could be an extremely interesting character and could certainly be fun to use in her own story or in a roleplay if you make one for the species. I also thing the species idea is very interesting, I haven't seen a horse based one on CS.

Show me that you know about the species (I don't care how):
- Equidius are the only large species that have survived
- They only have normal coat colours
- There horns can be different to the general shape but it is unusual/
- They are one of the few (possibly the only) horse based species on CS

Do you have an Equidius?:
Nope

[Verdana]

Excellent form! Thanks very much. No, horns can be any natural colours. They don't have to be grey.

[.kestral]

Excellent form! Thanks very much. No, horns can be any natural colours. They don't have to be grey.

Ok, and I will possibly add more depending on if I get time before it closes.

[Verdana]

Okay, fantastic. It will close on Thursday, so there is some time.

[.kestral]

Ok, just to confirm are there any big cats in this place? And if so which types?

[Verdana]

I don't know yet. There will be enemy species, but none of them are what we are familiar with. The only animals still alive are the ones which have mutated and adapted to a world with almost no light, so no photosynthesis or green plants. So they will be strange. I will sketch some ideas today.