[♥ soft]

username: ♥ twitchy
name: Indra [meaning: "possessing drops of rain"]
gender: Mare
answer: Honestly, her coat reminds me of a snapshot of rain illuminated by headlights on a stormy night. The rain in the foreground is the focus whilst the dark surroundings are a shadowy blur.

I love driving. ;w;

[ellyenchanted]

username: Venice.
name: Tempest
gender: Mare
answer: Her beautiful design bring a stormy sea to my mind. Flashes of lightning, pelting rain, and crashing waves.

[.Survivor.]

username: Mrs. M
name: Matrix
gender: mare
answer: her markings make me think of the sight I see when it's beginning to snow. The rain turns to sleet, which turns to snow. Her white markings represent when this happens.

[Greenfriedenvy]

Username: hellohihi
Name: Through My Eyes 'Alison'
Gender: Mare
Answer: Okay, this may or may not be long.

Ever since reading 'Ultraviolet' by R J Anderson, which is now my favourite book (You should check it out - it's seriously good), I've become interested with synthesia, its effects and how synthetes could see the world differently (Hence the name).

Looking at this mare immediately made me think of the book and I instantly decided that Alison's markings would be a synthete's interpretation of water, or, more specifically, tears.

Now, it is unlikely that you will fully understand my meaning at this point, as synthesia is little-known and very rare. For this reason, I've written a short passage from my point of view. Or, at least, what would be my point of view if I were a synthete.

'Tears. White hot spines spiraling through the blotched darkness of dispair. Bursting like fireworks, the metallic CLANG of rage. Suddenly broken, sour-tasting sobs spear my mind, like the otherworldly flashes of vehicles searing down a highway at night. Vertical lances of emptiness aimed at my heart, ready for the kill. And, behind it all, soft, gentle ripples of hope, peering shyly from behind the torment. Perhaps the least apparent, but most definately there, beckoning almost inaudibly.'

Synthesia is a natural phenomenon which takes place when a person's senses are interconnected. For instance, tasting shapes and seeing days of the week as different colours are some different forms. It has nothing to do with mental health and can cause a person to find it difficult to tell between imagination and reality.
Ultraviolet and all of its characters are by R J Anderson.
Alison is the main character in the novel.

[Arabianwolflove]

username: Arabianwolflove
name: Miza (Japanese for 'water')
gender: mare
answer: her markings remind me of stalactites and stalagmites, things formed on the roof and floor of caves by dripping water. Miza's markings also make me think of condensation on a glass

[foxxbreath]

username:
-- Chainsaw --

name:
Ame

gender:
Stallion

answer:
Well there are quite a few things I see in Ame's design that I could say, since rainy weather is my favorite weather and I spend a lot of time in it when it does happen to rain where I live. But the thing his design reminds me of most, is that the white is the rain falling onto the dark, wet roads while the grey and gloomy sky are surrounding it all; choking out any sunlight. But that's not to say it's a sad setting, for sometimes the most joy can be made from the darkest situations.

[pedunkle]

username: pedunkle
name: Delta
gender: male
answer: after slowly filling a glass, drop by drop, the water reaches the top. One drop more and the water tension breaks, water spills over the edge all at once.

[stabbrielle]

username: captain awesome
name: Alyeska
gender: mare
answer: White waves breaking over a rocky beach at midnight.

[Potato.]

username: Stumpy STMP
name: Endless Beginnings a.k.a. Improva
gender: Mare
answer: Her markings look like the small icicles that form on the edge of our roof during winter. I live in Canada so frozen water is a constant around here, it can make things beautiful though. The markings also remind me of what happens when rocks have cracks and the water gets inside before freezing. When it freezes it expands pushing the cracks so they become bigger. It is what happens to our roads all the time. So in a way it represents the opportunity to have a fresh start, go from being rough around the edges to smooth and new once again. Water is often viewed as a cleansing thing, or the bringer of changes. In Shakespeare's King Lear there is a well noted scene in which Lear is raging at the storm, he hasn't yet acknowledged his own frailty or mortality thinking he has all the power because he once held the title King. When he emerges from the storm he is a changed man now seeing his own mental instability. This storm is also viewed as a divine justice, as the entire world is angry with Lear for bringing such madness into the kingdom. To me this mares markings represent that stage of metamorphosis right before what was old becomes newer, stronger, and beautiful. Everything has to get worse before it can get better, and in the end is completely worth it.

congrats

[ExVenor]

Wow, thank you so much!