TDE: Slate Reference Sheet 2.0

Basic Information

ID: #048 
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Physical Description:
Height: 10”
Weight: 11 Pounds
Breed[s]: Miniature Pinscher [75%] x Shiba Inu [25%]
Eye Color: Brown
Fur Color: Black, Orangey-Tan, and White Tri-Color

Personal Information

Personality:

[Optimistic]: “Change, change your life, take it all; We’re gonna stick together, know we’ll get through it all.”
Slate is a very optimistic gal. She chooses to see the glass as half full, and often tries to encourage others to see things this way, as well. She is always certain that things will work out for the better, a firm believer that ‘everything happens for a reason’. She doesn’t dwell on anything negative in her life for very long, and pushes it to the back of her mind until she forgets about it.

[Cheerful]: “I smile because happiness is all I have.”
Slate is cheerful 99% of the time. She radiates positivity and happiness, bouncing around Eden and trying to spread her happiness with others. It makes her even happier if she can make someone else’s day a little brighter and better, knowing how hard happiness can be to come by in the darkness that is Eden. Some may find it annoying, but she would rather be annoying to some if she can make others happy.

[Friendly]: “You’ve lost your faith in love, but I’ll make you believe again.”
If nothing else, Slate is very friendly. She often spends any time that she isn’t working or sleeping out in the Square of Eden or in the Nursery talking to the Furmothers or playing with the puppies. She prides herself in knowing most faces in Eden, even if she hasn’t spoken to them, she at least knows most dogs’ faces. She tries to talk to as many dogs as she can.

[Allegiant]: “We’ll always be together, don’t you worry.”
Slate is a very loyal dog, and it is hard to waver that loyalty. It’s not very hard to gain her trust, but once you do, you have to do something terrible to lose it and her loyalty. She can overlook most flaws, and doesn’t personally care for whatever rumors may have been spread about others. So long as someone is nice - or rather, not unkind - she will be nice to them as well. However, she is defensive of her friends. If she hears someone spreading false rumors about them, she will be quick to put that person down if she knows the truth.

[Bold]: “You’ve got a right to show the world something never seen.”
Slate has never been a shy dog. Quite the opposite, she could probably be one of the loudest dogs in Eden, if she tried. She’s brave, being outspoken in a place like Eden. At her size, she could easily be squashed by someone she may anger, but she never thinks of this before speaking up. She’s fearless in that way, or maybe just not smart enough to think before she speaks.

[Ardent]: “Make sure you give your all.”
Slate is very passionate about everything she does. She isn’t closed off or secretive about anything, and often unintentionally brags about any accomplishments she makes. Being passionate gives Harmony the drive to work, and basically function daily. However, it also makes her stubborn, and can cause her to get into arguments.

[Absentminded]: “My eyes deceive me, but it’s still the same, pretend it’s OK.”
Slate is often very absentminded, and is very good at getting easily distracted. She is known to be forgetful, and it is a reason others get frustrated with her. She’s got a low attention span, and sometimes has to be reminded of what she’s supposed to do on an assignment. Another aspect of her being absentminded is that she tries her hardest to ignore the horrors in which they live in.

[Obsessive]: “All this time, we’ve been crossing off days on the calendar pages.”
Slate can be very obsessive at times, and once she’s started a project, she won’t stop working on it until she’s stopped. While this is good for working, sometimes she has to be physically pulled away before she ends up working for days on end without a break. Sometimes it’s hard for her to start working on a project, due to the absentminded-ness, but once she’s involved in her work, it can be hard to tear her away.

[High Strung]: “I know, I’ll never be perfect, but I’m gonna work it.”
Due to her breed mix, Slate has a predisposition to being high strung. She’s very hyper, and is known to be a frequent presence in the Nursery when not working, playing with the puppies to wear both them and herself out. She’s also known to be one of the fastest dogs in Eden, often found rushing from here to there at a constant run. Considering this, she’s very impatient. She’s gotta go fast like Sanic, and hates being held up. This trait is considered annoying - even to herself - and she’s not particularly proud of it. However, it’s not like she can unwire herself towards hyperactivity, so she’s learned to embrace it.

Strengths:
    + Speed
    + Stamina
    +Optimistic

Weaknesses:
    - Strength
    - Size
    - Absentminded

History:

[Previous to Birth]
Slate’s parents could not have been more of opposites. Her father, Schist, was a kind-hearted Scowner. He was a miniature pinscher, and was one of the fastest dogs the Convoy systems had. Her mother, Enigma, was a shopkeeper. She was kind to customers’ faces, but a total jerk when not trying to sell product. The shiba inu had had no intentions of having puppies when she’d met Schist, and no intentions of having them even after they’d been together for a while. Puppies weren’t something Enigma wanted to be bothered with, and she didn’t want to bring life into the hell that they lived in. It was one thing for average and large sized dogs, they didn’t have it as bad as the smaller dogs. Smaller dogs risked being stepped upon, or being plucked up by birds or being carried off by raiders if they dared to enter the Wastelands.

But a year after the couple formed, Enigma found herself carrying exactly what she wanted to avoid. She wouldn’t try to get rid of them, of course - she didn’t want to risk her own health - but she still didn’t want them. When the four puppies were born, she was up and out of the Nursery as soon as she could be.

[The Nursery + Apprenticeship]

As a pup, Slate, as her father had named her - was not very different than she is now. She was loud and happy, always trying to play with the other puppies. She had two brothers - Shale and Sapphire - and a sister - Granite. Their father always visited when he could, which was more often than not, but their mother only showed if Schist could convince her to come along. Slate had never questioned that her mother never really visited, and always shrugged it off if one of the other pups in the Nursery asked. She never really cared for her mother when she visited, anyways, so it was no loss to her when her mother didn’t visit.

Slate went about her life in the Nursery, and before she knew it it was time to be apprenticed. She’d always heard stories about the various occupations Eden offered, but she was always fascinated by the tentless Technicians. She liked the idea of being in one of the important roles of Eden, though her siblings didn’t see the role as being as important as she did. Shale went to be an Operator, Granite went to be a Radiohund, and Sapphire followed their father into being a Scowner. Undiscouraged by her siblings’ opinions, Slate did become an apprenticed Technician. She learned the ropes from a massive German Shepherd mix named Ace. She learned everything quickly, and was often found to be extremely useful when it came to fitting into tight spots to do repairs. Once, she’d even managed to shave off a strip of head fur in the repairs, and claimed it made her look ‘kinda punk rock’.

[After Apprenticeship]

Slate’s life went downhill after she graduated into being a full Technician. First, her father went missing on a Convoy. To this day, nobody has ever found out if Schist has died or if he’s joined a Raider pack. He’d been presumed dead, and Slate mourned her father greatly. After his death, her family became a downward spiral. Shale began distancing himself, Granite and Sapphire became reckless in the Wastelands, and Enigma fell into a depression. Granite and Sapphire were picked off in the same Convoy, attacked by Raiders and killed within minutes of the attack. This left Shale, Slate, and their rapidly declining mother.

Slate pushed her issues to the back of her mind, choosing not to dwell on them. Instead, she was granted an apprentice of her own to train, Ace hoping that it would keep her mind off of any problems she was having. And it did. Slate trained her first apprentice, Hemera, to the best of her ability, which was pretty well. During this time, however, her world took another turn when Ace himself died, being one of the older dogs of Eden and unable to fight off a disease.

Slate became more friendly, if it had been possible, to keep herself surrounded by other dogs. She figured that if she kept herself constantly busy, either working, socializing, or playing with puppies, that she wouldn’t have time to dwell on losing family or anybody else. Her mother had been murdered shortly after, her attacker getting booted out into the Wastelands. Slate couldn’t say she was particularly upset about this. Personally, she didn’t like her mother all that much. Some may think it to be cruel, but her mother was the one dog in Eden that Slate didn't like.

Family:
Father: Schist; Unknown {Went missing on Convoy}
Mother: Enigma; Deceased {Murdered by a customer she refused service to}
Sibling(s): Shale (Brother); Alive; Granite (Sister), Deceased {Killed by a Raider}; Sapphire (Brother), Deceased {Killed by a Raider}.

Relationships

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

  = Despise/Deathwish
  = Hatred
= Dislike
= Distrust
= Neutral
= Fear
= Acquaintance
= Positive Acquaintance
= Friend
= Good Friend
= Best Friend
= Respect
= Family
= Crush
= Love
= Cannot Live Without

Hemera ||  /  / || RP’d by Growlipsis
Hemera is one of Slate’s closest friends in Eden. She trained Hemera in the art of being a   Technician, so the two have been close for a long time. They’ve been through a good bit together, and Slate considers Hemera to be a part of her family, even if they aren’t blood related. She loves her former apprentice, and would bite the tail off of anything that tries to hurt her.

Ruthus || TBA || RP’d by AutumnalLeaf
TBA

Other

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    Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Playlist:

1. The Voice Within - Christina Aguilera

2. Fearless - Kat Perkins

3. Calendar Pages - We Are The In Crowd

4. New Romantics - Taylor Swift

5. Change Your Life - Little Mix

6. Always Be Together - Little Mix

7. Pretend It’s OK - Little Mix

8. We Are Who We Are - Little Mix

9. Happy - Pharrell Williams

10. Unbreakable Smile - Tori Kelly
    
    

Role Play Example:

Slate sighed with frustration for what must have been the hundredth time in just that hour. The miniature pinscher mix was trying to fix a broken toy for the puppies in the Nursery, but couldn’t quite figure out what was wrong with it. It was a simple spring toy, but the spring itself seemed fine. But when she wound it up, it didn’t do a thing. She knew she should be sleeping rather than tweaking with toys, but she couldn’t sleep with this bugging her. It bothered her to no end when she didn’t know what was wrong with something, so she’d dug the toy out of the box and began fiddling with it again. She sighed again, tossing the toy to the ground. She yelped as the toy bounced to life, bouncing off the walls of her tiny shack. She lept after the toy, smashing her paws against it to keep it from bouncing again. She smiled as the toy finished moving, putting the toy back inside its box. The next day, she could take it back to the Nursery after work. But until then, she needed to work on getting to sleep. She was exhausted, but she couldn’t fall asleep. It was something that she struggled with most days, so tonight was nothing new. She sighed once again, curling up in a tight ball on her old, ratted couch cushion, and hoping for sleep.