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Cheese
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personality. }

On first meeting, Cheese comes across as a fun loving, friendly and overall happy pony. Most of this is true. He honestly wants to spread joy and laughter everywhere he goes, to have ponies feel wanted and important in ways he never was as a youngster. He doesn't want a repeat of his own past in other ponies, so he goes out of his way to make everypony happy. He's wacky and off-the-wall to be certain, but he's got a whole lot of heart to go with it.

He throws his all into making parties, after all that is his calling in life, to the point where he doesn't necessarily notice how others aside from his party subject are actually feeling. He can very easily get swept away by his own enthusiasm. He'll on occasion be accidentally insensitive to the feelings of others. His social skills really aren't that great beyond "make this person smile", so he tends to straight up not notice any emotional issues more complex. Dancing around, playing his accordion and generally being wacky can sometimes make him come across as abrasive and annoying, without him realising it. He's never intentionally an ass, he just hasn't got the requisite social skills to recognise when he's being one.

Despite all of this effort, he still has done nothing to fix the crippling loneliness he's suffered from all his life. He never settles down in one place, to make actual long-standing relationships. As soon as the party is over, he packs up and heads off down the road again. He's great at making himself memorable, at playing to the crowd, but he's not so great at making himself a friend. Seems that you really can fake not having social anxiety when you need to. For all the work he does on making other ponies feel happy, he still remains a loner at heart, once a party winds down, he can be seen on the outskirts, ready to move on. He doesn't seem overly sad about this fact, he's simply accepted it for who he is and is content with his own company.

However, this loneliness doesn't help much with his general state of mind, which is...eclectic at best. He constantly talks to an inanimate object as if it can answer him, and has developed something of a borderline multiple personality. He switches between Wacky Fun Party Cheese and Stoic Drifter Cheese regularly; the former being his regular self and the latter being a Clint Eastwood-esque persona complete with weird cowboy hat. Though it's certainly not a defined multiple personality, there is definitely a stark difference between how he acts when he switches between these modes. He's still obsessed with parties, regardless of how he's acting at the time.

He's worked hard at becoming as good a party planner as he is, and often his pride in this fact can trip him up. He really dislikes it being insinuated that he's in any way cowardly or does not have what it takes to go the distance. As a result, he will rise to just about any foolish challenge and give it his all in order to win, without actually thinking of any potential consequences that would come with his victory.

The similarities between him and Pinkie are important, after all, if it wasn't for her, he never would have found his calling, and he clearly tries to not only emulate her, but go one step beyond that. He highly respects her and everything he does in Pinkie Pride is for Pinkie's benefit, in a "SENPAI NOTICE ME!!" kind of way. He talks of his Cheesy Sense, compared to her Pinkie Sense, he parodies songs she herself has sung and has based his entire life philosophy around what Pinkie has shown him. To say there's hero worship going on there would be an understatement. Their destinies are not so intertwined to become indistinguishable from one another, however. His parties are all about the spectacle, he makes a big noise, then moves on to another. Pinkie provides a more personal service. She remains in Ponyville, where she memorises every single citizen - their names, their birthdays, their likes and dislikes - to the point where she considers every damn one of them her dearest friend, and it shows. Cheese isn't capable of such gestures, he's still learning what it means to be an actual friend, and his wanderlust prevents him from settling down. They're both party ponies, and they both have the same goal, they just have different ways of achieving it.

Eccentric and cheerful, Cheese is the best pony you'd want on the job for cheering you up, just don't expect him to stick around for too long afterwards.

abilities+skills. }

As an Earth pony, Cheese does not actually posses the ability to consciously create magic. But like Pinkie, as a party pony he has certain skills that defy both logic and physics.

Cheesy Sense - A sixth sense that allows him to know when a party is in the works anywhere in the world. It comes across as a weird body tremor. It's unknown if he can use it for things beyond parties, such as Pinkie being able to foretell disasters with hers, I'm going with 'no', unless canon eventually says otherwise.

Hammerspace - What is says on the tin. Cheese can access hammerspace, pulling all sorts of crap out of seemingly nowhere. For the sake of not breaking the game, I'll be sure he can't pull anything useful out of there. Not that he would, anyway. Other than party supplies, the most he'll yoink out of there are his accordion and rubber chicken buddy. Useless reality warping at its finest.

Physics Breaking - The laws that govern everything else ever are just suggestions to party ponies. He laughs in the face of gravity and scoffs at space-time. He's also known to lean on the 4th wall on occasion. How is this done? No one ever asks.

Earth Pony Attributes - these are the racial perks that all Earth Ponies posses:

• Enhanced strength and stamina - Earth ponies are hella strong. They're the only race with the physical capability to tend the land - hence their name. They've been shown to pull full locomotive cars and even goddamn houses with no difficulty. They're hella strong.
• Prehensile tail - Earth ponies can use their tail as a fifth limb, using it to hold and carry things. Yeah we don't know why.

history. }

Cheese was born in Manehattan, the largest city in Equestria, and undeniably the least friendly. (As the name suggests, it's basically Pony New York). Cripplingly shy, Cheese spent his foalhood in solitude, unable to make friends, and too nervous to try. When he reached colthood, he packed up and left the city, not even sure himself what he was looking for, just knowing he needed to leave. Manehattan sucks, never go there.

Eventually, he stumbled into Ponyille, where a filly Pinkie Pie was throwing a party. Seeing how happy the ponies were, thanks to the joy Pinkie brought them, Cheese realised that was the life he wanted to lead. To make others happy in ways he was not. With his epiphany, he gained his Cutie Mark (that butt tattoo they all have), the mark all ponies receive when they discover their destiny and role in life - a mark of adulthood. He took to wandering Equestria with only the rubber chicken (aptly named 'Boneless') Pinkie dropped as company. Using his 'Cheesy Sense', he went wherever he knew a party needed him, always leaving when the party was done.

One day, this sense lead him back to Ponyville, where Pinkie was planning Rainbow Dash's birthiversary bash. Seeing a chance to finally show his idol how good he was at being a party pony, Cheese won the crowd over with his skills, unaware that he was actually making Pinkie feel less able in the process. After her Heroic BSOD, she challenged him to a goof off, to decide who would headline the party, which he accepted after she goaded him into it by calling him 'boneless'. What followed was a polka driven crack trip, with each party pony trying to outdo the other, forcing Rainbow Dash into judging the contest. When Pinkie realised that Rainbow was decidedly not having fun, she forfeited the contest, allowing Cheese to win, much to his confusion.

Pinkie, being dramatic, packed up to leave Ponyville, being stopped in time by her friends. Cheese joined them, explaining to her and he didn't want to take her place as Ponyville's resident party planner, only that he wanted her to see what he'd accomplished in his life. He finally admitted his past to her, and how she'd been the reason he'd found his calling in life. Ecstatic for this reveal, Pinkie agreed to frontline the party together with Cheese, and the most amazing party Equestria had ever seen was the result. After the party was over, Cheese gave Pinkie Boneless as a memento of his time in Ponyville (Boneless, it turns out, being the Rainbow Key of Laughter - it's complicated, just know it helps saves the world later on) before pulling out a second chicken, Boneless 2, and heading off into the sunset. He appears again, after the aforementioned world saving incident, seemingly unharmed, and still travelling the world.

player+ooc. }

name. TF
email. tfwelshwerecat AT gmail DOT com
cplurk. teeff
time zone. GMT

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