[quote=Imperfectionist](and, to be perfectly honest, I'm not a fan of asshole characters)
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I'm a huge fan of asshole characters. Considering I'm the typical apologizing Canadian IRL I find the change most pleasant.

Name:
Flickering Light "Flicker" or "Burninator"

Race/Subrace:
Unicorn

Sex: Male

Appearance:
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Dark red mane with cream beige coat and yellow eyes, little more is to say about his appearance, his 'Reminder not to make mistake', namely gross disfigurement, taking most of the field of view and being the main thing anyone would describe him physically with.

Age:
24

Background:
Although his cutie mark and main talent was found within pyromancy, namely burning stuff, Flicker found that it isn't because you have a special talent that it means it's useful to society and you can get a job using it. After his studies at the canterlot academy he had thus the choice to work there to further magical studies along with a thousand others like him with talents relating to a generally non useful in everyday to day purpose or to find an alternative. He didn't like the idea of doing 'Those jobs' manual ones or those requiring magic to power something, essentially being only a cog in a machine that if they could replace with another machine they'd do so without hesitation.

The alternative he found was while staying in the magical research field to go in the sectors with much, much less competition, the understanding of foreign magic. From Camelu desert to changeling infested wastelands, he made many treaties about the other species use of magic today used as reference documents in the matter, his most Famous being 'Buffalos and Nature, understanding shamanic magic', 'Hypothesis on Changelings, the magics of friendship and that of love' and 'Sand and Sun, exotic party tricks with lots of lights'. These documents have made him a popular and respected figure within the academic field.

Being one of the rare person that can have casual encounters with Princess Twilight when he's in Canterlot, she managed to easily put his plan for a second and even bolder changeling expedition on hold and convince him to join the Explorers as the group's Foreign Magic expert.