Goennec Pen #: 8Name: Ford2'6"
Naturally Colored
All HoovesHow would you use him/her: He would join my herd as a more sane connection between the rankings. He will balance Katili and support Aussie and Lazuli, while adding a deeper level to the dynamics of the herd. As a powerhouse of logic, he will maintain order while suffering his own version of chaos and destruction.
In the RP, He will, essentially, be the hidden police force that we as civilized humans have become accustomed to. His participation in the Siv will be reluctant but necessary; he will be a submissive male that will happily take to any and/or all dominating females- such as iBrevity’s Queen, if she so desired. He will, naturally, join the rest of my herd in my art and writing.
Define your Goennec:
Personality:Sarcastic. Ford is extremely sarcastic, whether he knows it or not. His biting tongue has been known to hurt feelings left and right, and cause major emotional damage, whether intentional or not. His snarky, nasally tone is very rarely kindly, even when he’s chastising a young kid for startling an Elder.
Impulsive. Ford’s impulsiveness has caused him some great troubles in the past, and it continues to haunt him throughout his life. Because of his Gender Identity Disorder, his main impulse is to start mutilating himself, especially focusing on his horns and genital regions. He refuses to identify himself as male, though, in order to maintain decorum as a maintenance worker for the order of the law, he must pretend to be at least somewhat satisfied with himself. He often hides the scarring, covering the wounds up with stories involving badgers and hyenas.
Logical. Through his impulsiveness, Ford is a beast of logic. Like Hatter- or, perhaps, unlike him- he is an extreme logistician. He prides himself in being able to, in theory, work out almost any problem given to him, though he has yet to solve his own debilitating situation. He loves trying to solve puzzles, but loses his temper when he meets an impassible barrier that he can’t figure out.
Charismatic. Ford has the image and skills of a wonderful leader, but his mental situation and other detractions make him an extremely dissatisfactory candidate for Primacy.
Submissive. As a side effect of his mental disorder, Ford is much more feminine than average. He is a naturally submissive ram that wants to be treated as an ewe. He greatly dislikes having to be the dominate one in a relationship, and wants a dominate ewe every Siv.
Insomniac. Nightmares about being trapped and/or ridiculed keep Ford awake most nights, allowing him to sleep only when his body decides to pass out on him. However, all of this spare time awake means that he gets to think through his puzzles all he likes, and gets first dibs on the dewiest, most fresh dandelions.
Likes:Sleep. Sleep, when he can get it, is Ford’s very best friend. He sleeps for extended periods of time in one of his various hovels when he can manage to escape his nightmares.
Impossibilities. Impossibilities are both the bane of Ford’s existence, as well as the reason for it. He loves trying to get around them, and has managed to help Katili devise a trap to stop even the most ferocious of hunters, though she managed to ruin the setup.
Order. Ford loves- absolutely, positively loves- when everyone is behaving and order is kept in the herd. When chaos breaks loose, his tendencies and problems rise up to torment him further.
Following. As a submissive, following a leader is much more preferable than
being the leader. Despite his disorder, he still prefers the opposite sex, and thus enjoys having an ewe for a leader much, much more than following a ram.
Dislikes:Water. Ford is highly hydrophobic, thanks to an incident involving Katili, a fallen tree-bridge, and Ford nearly drowning. He refuses to swim or fish, and will only drink when he has missed the morning dew.
Impossibilities. Ford throws a fit when he has reached an
impasse when trying to figure out something that is truly impossible to figure out.
Leading others. Ford believes (correctly) that, though he has the charisma needed, his problems would make him a terrible leader. He hates being in a leadership position, and sometimes half-wishes that the Goennec society would reverse itself, so that the ewes would lead the harems.
Himself. Perhaps one of the largest dislikes that shaped his personality, Ford’s hatred of himself and how his body went against him and became masculine is extremely prominent in his life-story. He bears his scars tiredly, each bite mark of punishment and self-loathing a knife in the heart for being this way.
Background:Green eyes bored into the water, staring ruefully at the growing horns situated just slightly above them. They were the cause for his problems. They had to be. They, and the growing masses that his short tail could just barely hide from view. He wasn’t a she. And he could no longer act as such… not anymore. It was so… wrong.As a young kid, before his horns and genitalia began developing, Ford believed and identified most closely with ewes. The nannies, at first, believed he was getting a head start on being a first-rate stud, especially with his talent for persuasion, despite the fact that his short mane and tail were, at that point in time in that herd, considered a second-rate defect- that is, a trait that made him a high-rank Peasant rather than a Soldier or Prince. Oblivious to this prejudice against him, he began to focus on studying logic, hoping that, through his work, he could figure out how to correct Nature’s mistake. He has yet to come up with a solution.If a rotten tree falls over a river and is used as a bridge, it will eventually break.Thus was one of Ford’s logical hypotheses when he began studying the art of logic. It soon came to the point that he could figure out how to do several things, either by himself, with a group, or with the assistance of one of the local “friendlies” in the area. Unfortunately, there were a few things that he still could not figure out- the solution to his problem persisted just out of reach, and it irritates him beyond reason. He lives for, and will die by, logic and the pursuit of answers.Ford perked up, hearing a call about tasty dandelions. Like any average Goennec, his interest became extremely piqued, and he sprinted toward the voice. With twenty hooves and thirty paws thundering behind him, it was his ivory hooves that reached the decaying wooden log-bridge first. Halfway across, a thunderous crack sounded behind him, and he found himself falling back-first into the whitewater below. Struggling… gasping… then nothing at all.A cruel joke by Katili nearly resulted in his death the year before his first Siv. He had been closer to the river than most of the other Goennecs, and had reached the log first. Interestingly, he is only one of two to date that has nearly perished as a result of her pranks. He and Hatter attribute this to the fact that he has a short tail- a longer tail would have been able to flip him over. However, he refuses to go anywhere near water anymore, too afraid of risking death again. He happily eats dewy weeds and grasses in the early morning instead.Crack! Two yearmates slammed their horns together as the shallow ewe they were fighting over sat nearby, flirting with the blue-colored goennec that had, not too long ago, been nominated as Prince. Ford lowered his head, looking for an ewe that wouldn’t let rams fight for her- an ewe that would choose her mate herself. Unfortunately, seeing none, he slunk off to his hovel to work out the frustration in his system- and satisfy his impulsive nature’s needs.Ford discovered that he was submissive in his first Siv, when he found that he couldn’t be dominating enough to find the guts to take an ewe outright. No, he had to find one that rebelled against the norm. He couldn’t be happy any other way. He has often wondered what it would take to convince an ewe to take him, instead of the other way around, but he has yet to solve this logical conundrum.
His impulses, on the other hand, has caused many problems for him. More than once, he has found himself on the receiving end of questions about the scars and open wounds, or perhaps a limp or headache. He waves these questions off, muttering random gibberish about defending the herd from predators and turning to either hunt or find something more mentally engaging so that the interrogator walks off. In private, he punishes himself further for not being more discreet by continuing his painful attacks on his masculinity, or by starving himself and letting whatever he hunts down rot before him in a masochistic self-torture.Two young Goennecs laughed. They were almost there! Almost to the woods… and then they could- wait. They turned, noticing Ford’s tall form standing behind them disapprovingly. A few cutting words, and they nearly stampeded back, crying for their mothers. Ford, oblivious to how he had hurt them, yawned and walked off, shaking the sleep out of his head.As he got older, his sarcasm blossomed and he ignored how much it hurt those that he verbally lashed out at. This ignorance became coupled with tired indifference, because he was simply too tired from running from nightmares all night to care about anything. When he can get sleep, he often spends an entire day in what is almost a coma, waking only to get the dew-covered weeds and grasses just before sunrise, as well as relieve himself. Aussie’s blue eyes looked at him hopefully, while his green eyes met with Katili’s teal. Could he, perhaps, help her build this monster of a trap needed to save the herd from the approaching hyenas? Absolutely, in theory. He had the knowledge. However, he couldn’t bring himself to be the leader. He couldn’t take charge of something so… so… “Prince-ly”. This was the Prince’s job- but Aussie had yet to pick a Prince. But he had to answer….A hyena attack prompted Prime Aussie to ask Katili and Ford to work together, despite their history- after all, Katili had nearly killed him, and it was this fact that Aussie had assumed would be the reason he’d decline. However, it was instead the issue that Ford was simply not leader material that made him refuse. Though charismatic and intelligent, he simply could not get past even his smallest issues enough to prevent absolute failure. Instead, he joined the third-rank Soldiers as they prepared a backup force. Perhaps a waste of his talent, but alas, it was his only option.
Victory… and yet, still a failure. Ford curled into himself, his sharp teeth pulling at the fur on his lower belly, the skin underneath red-raw from years of brutal abuse.Despite everything… Ford still hates himself. And that seems to be something that will never change.Art- "Hate"