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CHARACTER CHARACTER NAME: Cheese Sandwich SERIES: My Little Pony: Friendship is Heresy Magic CANON POINT: The end of S4E12; Pinkie Pride LOSS: Cheese is a drifter, very much a loner, who never stays in one place for any longer than a few days at a time. As such, his loss will be if he tries to go any further than the town (or the equivalent of that distance in any direction), he'll be zapped back into the castle lobby. This will force him, for the first time since he was a colt, to actually live in a place and bond with the people within.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
History
Cheese was born in Manehattan, the largest city in Equestria, and undeniably the least friendly. 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, the mark all ponies receive when they discover their destiny and role in life. Using Pinkie as his benchmark to aspire to, Cheese became a drifter, travelling around 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) before pulling out a second chicken, Boneless 2, and heading off into the sunset.
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. Dancing around, playing his accordion and generally being wacky can sometimes make him come across as abrasive and annoying, without him realising it.
Despite all of this effort, he still has done nothing to fix the loneliness he's suffered from all his life. He never settles down in one place, to make actual long-standing friendships. 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, even eating a cupcake on the outskirts of the party once it's dying down. 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. 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.
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: Oh boy here we go.
As an Earth pony, Cheese does not actually posses magical abilities. But like Pinkie, as a party pony he has certain skills that defy both logic and physics.
Cheese-y 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.
Hamerspace - What is says on the tin. Cheese can access hammerspace, pulling all sorts of crap out of seemingly nowhere. Obviously, he will no longer be able to pull anything game breaking out.
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? Nopony is brave enough to ask.
Earth Pony Attributes - He has all the regular attributes of his race; strength, stamina, a prehensile tail and the inability to fly or make magic.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
Cheese knew a lot of things. He knew how to play a mean accordion solo. He knew how to stuff a piñata full of cake without anything going stale. Heck, he knew how to make an ice cream moat (the secret was in the chocolate sauce). The thing Cheese knew the most though, was when a place needed a party, and boy, this place needed a party.
And so, he'd set to working on the biggest space he could find, which ended up being the ballroom, and working his magic. From the ceiling, he hung enough streamers to make the entire upper space look like a rainbow of crepe paper, and on the windows he hung an array of castle-shaped window charms, catching the light and throwing it around the room. The result was simple, but pretty. He wasn't sure what the strange two-legged-not-pony creatures actually liked in terms of celebration, so he figured he'd better start small and work his way up as the night wore on. Maybe at some point he could introduce them to some apple dunking or something, though how they could pick up anything in their tiny narrow muzzles he didn't know.
He waved happily at any of them who entered, curiously wondering what was going on. He promised them all that in but a few hours, they'd experience the greatest party they'd ever known, and to come back when the music started pumping. Most of them had looked either confused or deeply cynical, but Cheese didn't mind. He knew he had the skills to make good on his promises. As he put up a giant disco ball, preciously balanced on a ladder that was clearly not meant for ponies, he grinned down at his rubber chicken, lying on the floor.
"Well, Boneless Two, I think it's about time to put the music on and see how these guys boogie down!"
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Wow, I've gotta say, I've travelled all over Equestria, and I've never seen a place like this before. The only castle I've ever seen is in Canterlot, and this sure isn't Canterlot. I mean, the lack of unicorns totally gives it away.
Anyhoo, I have a really important question to everyone here listening through this magical book. It's the most important question you'll ever have to answer so you need to think super hard on your answer and make sure it's not lame in any way. Okay? Okay. So my question is this:
How long has it been since you all had a really awesome party and would you like one right now?
Okay so that's two questions, so sue me. I accept answers in all ways up to and including being written on the back of a napkin. So long as it has some sort of delicious sauce still on it.
Thank you!
INTENT: I got sucked into the dark void that is My Little Pony again and there is no hope for me. But no, he's a fun, easy going character to play, and it's going to be interesting taking him out of his comfort zone and forcing him to stay in one place for an extended time.
Cheese Sandwich | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
NAME: TF
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
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CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Cheese Sandwich
SERIES: My Little Pony: Friendship is
HeresyMagicCANON POINT: The end of S4E12; Pinkie Pride
LOSS: Cheese is a drifter, very much a loner, who never stays in one place for any longer than a few days at a time. As such, his loss will be if he tries to go any further than the town (or the equivalent of that distance in any direction), he'll be zapped back into the castle lobby. This will force him, for the first time since he was a colt, to actually live in a place and bond with the people within.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
History
Cheese was born in Manehattan, the largest city in Equestria, and undeniably the least friendly. 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, the mark all ponies receive when they discover their destiny and role in life. Using Pinkie as his benchmark to aspire to, Cheese became a drifter, travelling around 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) before pulling out a second chicken, Boneless 2, and heading off into the sunset.
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. Dancing around, playing his accordion and generally being wacky can sometimes make him come across as abrasive and annoying, without him realising it.
Despite all of this effort, he still has done nothing to fix the loneliness he's suffered from all his life. He never settles down in one place, to make actual long-standing friendships. 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, even eating a cupcake on the outskirts of the party once it's dying down. 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. 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.
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: Oh boy here we go.
As an Earth pony, Cheese does not actually posses magical abilities. But like Pinkie, as a party pony he has certain skills that defy both logic and physics.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
Cheese knew a lot of things. He knew how to play a mean accordion solo. He knew how to stuff a piñata full of cake without anything going stale. Heck, he knew how to make an ice cream moat (the secret was in the chocolate sauce). The thing Cheese knew the most though, was when a place needed a party, and boy, this place needed a party.
And so, he'd set to working on the biggest space he could find, which ended up being the ballroom, and working his magic. From the ceiling, he hung enough streamers to make the entire upper space look like a rainbow of crepe paper, and on the windows he hung an array of castle-shaped window charms, catching the light and throwing it around the room. The result was simple, but pretty. He wasn't sure what the strange two-legged-not-pony creatures actually liked in terms of celebration, so he figured he'd better start small and work his way up as the night wore on. Maybe at some point he could introduce them to some apple dunking or something, though how they could pick up anything in their tiny narrow muzzles he didn't know.
He waved happily at any of them who entered, curiously wondering what was going on. He promised them all that in but a few hours, they'd experience the greatest party they'd ever known, and to come back when the music started pumping. Most of them had looked either confused or deeply cynical, but Cheese didn't mind. He knew he had the skills to make good on his promises. As he put up a giant disco ball, preciously balanced on a ladder that was clearly not meant for ponies, he grinned down at his rubber chicken, lying on the floor.
"Well, Boneless Two, I think it's about time to put the music on and see how these guys boogie down!"
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Wow, I've gotta say, I've travelled all over Equestria, and I've never seen a place like this before. The only castle I've ever seen is in Canterlot, and this sure isn't Canterlot. I mean, the lack of unicorns totally gives it away.
Anyhoo, I have a really important question to everyone here listening through this magical book. It's the most important question you'll ever have to answer so you need to think super hard on your answer and make sure it's not lame in any way. Okay? Okay. So my question is this:
How long has it been since you all had a really awesome party and would you like one right now?
Okay so that's two questions, so sue me. I accept answers in all ways up to and including being written on the back of a napkin. So long as it has some sort of delicious sauce still on it.
Thank you!
INTENT: I got sucked into the dark void that is My Little Pony again and there is no hope for me. But no, he's a fun, easy going character to play, and it's going to be interesting taking him out of his comfort zone and forcing him to stay in one place for an extended time.