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Player Information
Name: Dragon
Journal: dragonoflife
Contact: dragonoflife
Characters Currently in the Game: N/A

Character Information
Character Name: Zecora
Canon: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Canon Point: Post S4e2
Division and Position: Medical, direct patient care (on and away from the station). Zecora's skill with potions and brews makes a valuable supplement to scientific means of care, and can also provide treatments those scientific means cannot. Zecora is also wise and sensible, and thus suited to mental care as well as physical. As a side benefit, her size and quadrupedal nature can offer her physical advantages on some away missions.
History: Wiki wiki

Abilities: Zecora is a master potion brewer, capable of preparing brews for almost any necessity provided she has access to the ingredients. She can also create powders and other substances with supernatural effects such as illusions. She also appears to be, in fact, a subtle and powerful user of magic; though she's only ever been observed conjuring water, Twilight Sparkle states she learns a very great deal from Zecora, and Zecora herself states that she is both powerful and practically unbeatable in magic -- and Zecora doesn't boast casually or talk herself up.

More mundanely, Zecora is incredibly knowledgeable about a wide variety of subjects.

Personality: In broad strokes, Zecora is a classic 'wise hermit' character. She has a great deal of wisdom and knowledge and is entirely willing to share it; she is also quite worldly, having come from a land so far away that zebras aren't even common knowledge to the average Ponyville resident.

Zecora can be quick to anger -- most of her appearances end up with her shooting a look at somepony who's just messed up whatever she was in the middle of -- but generally that look and possibly a wry remark are enough to work it out. She rarely stays mad for very long; even after her entire house is wrecked, she quickly forgives all involved once the reasons come out, despite the reason being that the ponies responsible had decided she was evil on shoddy evidence. Despite these flashes of irritation, Zecora has immense patience, tolerance, and understanding -- particularly for younger ponies. She is quick to forgive mistakes, and quick to offer aid when ponies are in need.

Though remarkably blase about the very real dangers of the Everfree Forest, which likely are not any more fearsome than her homeland, Zecora is not immune to fear. When Princess Luna makes her ill-advisedly-dramatic entrance on Nightmare Night and Pinkie Pie suggests that Nightmare Moon has come, Zecora takes off in a panic the same as everypony else. Clearly, though perfectly prepared to deal with manticores, basilisks, and even dragons, Zecora very clearly draws the lines at ultimate evils.

If Zecora has a major flaw, it's that she comes off much, much creepier than she intends to. She lives in the Everfree Forest, presumably because it is more comfortable and home-like than Ponyville. This behavior is, at least to start with, so feared and incomprehensible to the inhabitants of Ponyville that they closed the entire city down and hid when Zecora camesto town every month. Her home is decorated with creepy, ominous-looking masks that are intended to welcome guests; she wears a cloak that covers her face and makes her eyes shine an ominous yellow; her zebra language sounds like evil incantations, and she has a tendency to deliver helpful warnings in a way that sounds like she's cursing the person she's trying to advise.

Once she gains the acceptance of Ponyville, Zecora seems to value it quite highly -- to the extent that when she returns at a time when Ponyville has coincidentally been locked down and evacuated, she believes it's because of her presence and delivers a shockingly bitter couplet about how she should have just stayed home.

Zecora also tells the story of Nightmare Moon with obvious relish and enjoyment... and just a bit of over-the-top glee. She's somewhat theatrical by nature anyway, but when given the chance to really go wild, she does so with delight.

Motivation: Zecora is looking for more information, more knowledge, and more wisdom. She is curious and the prospect of a whole new world, with a return at the end of her time, was all it took to tempt her. Her contract stipulates that she will be given help cultivating plants and life forms so they can be safely brought to Equestria and transplanted as tame crops for her use.

Questionnaire:

Q: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR GREATEST STRENGTH?

If I had to choose
I would first start with brews.
My potions and mixes
Are useful fixes.
And thought I hate to brag
My knowledge does not lag.
I know a great deal
To be used for woe or weal.
And last, a rare talent where I am from:
I have no small measure of wisdom.

Q: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS?

From your perspective, you would understand
If I said it was that I had not one single hand.

Q: RECALL A TIME YOU HAD TROUBLE WITH A COLLEAGUE AND HOW YOU HANDLED IT.

A dragon friend I happen to know
Was stricken by something that made him grow.
In truth it was his dragon greed
Surfacing, and to fill his need
He robbed my hut from roof to floor.
I cannot guess how he got it all out the door.
However, anger would not do
Though I was angry, it is true.
But I waited till he came to his senses
And apologized with no defenses.
The lesson of this little tale
Is patience and understanding, without fail
Will see you through these rough times.
So forgive a colleague their unmeant crimes.

Q: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF FIVE YEARS FROM NOW?

I will return to the Everfree
With my plants, contractually.
I have no ambition
For any other transition.

Q: IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR SUPERVISOR WAS DOING SOMETHING AGAINST COMPANY POLICY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

The question is not specific,
So my answer is not terrific.
In this case, it always tends
To become, "It depends".
A pony who means no trouble
Might mend her ways on the double
With a word, swiftly heard
So doing more would be absurd.
But someone who would hurt or pain
Another pony, for no gain
Must be dealt with, with all haste.
I would report that, no time to waste.