Originally posted on: October 27, 2014, 7:04 PM UTC
> RJ| Reference
> EDIT:: RJ HAS A NEW REF and SOME NEW INFO [romyvdhel-art.deviantart.com/a…](https://romyvdhel-art.deviantart.com/art/Reference-RJ-2016-NEW-AND-CHANGED-INFO-593179938)
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> RJ's BIG SECRET IS OUT, SHE IS ACTUALLY A UNICORN~ haha and sorry for this quick reference ;
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> Nickname: Freckels, Wanne-be-Changling (by some ponies used as an insult)
> Age: Young Adult
> Species: Unicorn (Fanged, she is omnivorous)
> **Sex: **Mare
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> Bio:
> RJ was born is a small village close to the other side of the Everfree forest. As a young foal she had already discovered the Art of form changing and became rather obsessed with it. Other foals who have heard the scary stories about Changelings or other evil being, so thought of course that this was either creepy or just weird. "Why would you want that?" "Aren't you happy you're a unicorn" Some ponies even teased her with it. Because of this RJ became a little introvert, and preferred being alone or being with only a few close ponies at the time. But was usually too busy studying anyway.
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> She is a studious and curious mare, but not exceptionally intelligent. She learned by trying, reading, more trying and more reading. Even studying Changeling behavior for a while, and the flaws and tops in their transformations. She had always been a real go-getter and always wanted to know more and more about things she found interesting as soon as possible. Which sometimes could be confused with her being a little pushy or privet space invading, she always was just really interested in other pony and their way of thinking.
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> She has also always liked order, her books and annotations in place, a clear planning of the day and all in her full control. When she was younger she had a lot of difficulties with altering her planning, as this felt like she lost control of a situation, but this slowly got better the older she got, and it has reduced now to more a slight irritation instead of a large frustration.
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> Although her planning and studious character would suggest so, RJ isn't a very serious pony, she loves to goof and joke around when she is around others. By herself studying or with curtain individuals she can be rather serious through. She has a calm nature, but is very sensitive to outside influence, making her behavior somewhat difficult to predict sometimes.
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> While she is currently still trying to learn more about transformation magic, after getting very well at it herself. She's now also writing a book about it, "The magic of Transformation", containing all her founding's about the subject. While travelling all around Equistria.
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> Special Talent/Cutie Mark: Form Changing, RJ could change to any living form she wants, after allot of practice and perfecting the spell . She ofcourse wouldn't be able to just switch to a powerful form like an alicorn or draconequise and use their kind of magic, she can only take the form one and even than she often needs to learn how to handle it, her magic stays the same and when changing to an Pegasus for example she won't suddenly have Pegasus magic, she will need a spell to switch part of her magic to Pegasus magic while still keeping enough to switch back. She will never be as strong as an actual Pegasus/eathpony/griffin etc. and not nearly as strong as anything more powerfull. Her main colours usually stay at least close to her original coat. She is able to also switch colour, but it takes allot of energy. She is currently trying to learn more about it and training it to become easier to use. She can also just switch body parts, it actually takes less energy/magic and uses this often.
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> Pet: Ramiel the snowy owl, who she got from her father (who is an Owl caretaker) when she turned 10 (human years) to deliver post/mail, help her with her studies and as a nice companion who also keeps an eye over her.
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> Her favourite form: A Pegasus with dragon-like wings, lightly feathered. Which she saw on a dragon.
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> RJ is actually one of my oldest pony characters, and used to be my main OC/Pony sona:
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> **Ages: (currently between Youth and adult)
> [romyvdhel-art.deviantart.com/a…](https://romyvdhel-art.deviantart.com/art/RJ-Ages-511376583)
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> **Baby: RJ was quite the tubby little grump at this time of her life. Very noisy, a everything-is-chewable-state of mind and if the square block won't fit into the round hole, than lets try really hard to make the block round, instead of just trying an other hole… already at this time of her life she was learning others that individual isn't always functional, with situations like these. She was a clever little thing and to the great pleasure of one of her parents she was a early speaker. She didn't do too well with others at this age through.
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> Child: **RJ became allot more social around this age, getting a few good friends from which some still are very dear to her at her current age. She was still clever around this age, but not exceptionally intelligent. She did like learning allot through and was always ready for adventure. Being a unicorn, she also started being able to use and practice her magic around this time of her life and because she loved using it, she learned the basics quickly. After this however she became rather used to it, and searched for new ways to test her magic, but found out she wasn't particularly good at anything. Until the day, her teacher told the class the story "Happily ever after" about a changeling that fell in love with a normal pony, and had to hide this from her. After this she became almost obsessed with the idea of changing form. From that day on she started practicing and when finally, about a few months later, her first "changing spel" worked (Turning a mushroom into a flower) she gained her cutiemark.
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> **Youth: **Personality wise she became allot calmer. While still being social, she did found out that she preferred allot of time on her own at this age, and struggled a while finding a good balance. She is still rather obsessed with the idea of form changing and magic. While she was still clever, she didn't have a photographic memory or anything, she had to study hard, to get where she is now. She entered college and choose, education programs (I have no idea how to call it in English) like "Behavior of magical entities" and "Biology". Here she found out, her spells weren't a 100% harmless. Entities, she would change, would still function as it would in it's original form and would not acclimatize. For example, a squirrel wouldn't know how to fly, if it was changed to a bird. It had to be learned how as it would miss the birds basic instincts. After this she stopped practicing on others like plants and willing creatures and start experimenting on herself. In these years she would also enter a program that would observe the changeling society, which helped allot with her studies. After this she decided to start traveling, to learn more from other ponies/creatures around the world.
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> She also found out around this period of time, that she was infertile.
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> (Not going to say too much about these yet 😉 )
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> Adult: **After completing her journey, she became allot wiser and finished her studies on the magic of transformation. After getting recognized for her achievements in the world of magic, she became a teacher at a School for Gifted Unicorns. Years later she adopted a colt and took a few years off to be able to spend more time with him, until she slowly could start working again.
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> Old: **After having worked at the school for 30 years, she finally retired and became a mentor to a * named ***, who she would now teach all she knew to make her knowledge pas on to another generation.