Volley

Volley comes from a world where magic is the norm, and where everyone deserves a chance to be everything that can be. She truly appreciates the efforts of the school system here at Carramba, because it seems they already knew how to try and get along without 'lessons'!

Always a good sport, Volley is highly competitive but not in a bitter way. She would never berate team members or opposing teams for their performance, though she does playfully taunt opponents. Never in a way that would hurt them, she's an exceptional judge of character, and knows when to stop being a pest. She will also absolutely step in when she sees any form of bullying going on, in a locker room, classroom, hall, or on the field.

She is best put in a leadership or coaching role on teams, because she thinks two steps ahead during games. But also because... well, she has hands only when she's in water. If she's in the big pool, watch out: her water polo and other underwater skills are the best in the school. They might even be the best in the league: even against other deep-water born breeds that attend other schools, Carramba's watersports team can hardly lose when she's participating. And since she's a Freshman, she's still got several years to keep them on top!

Volley's goals in life are strong: she wants to be able to coach her own teams, and give back to the locals however she can. She's unlikely to return home to Equestria, as she finds the challenge of working with Humans, Xenos, Angels, and Wizards far more rewarding. Also she's not sure she could find nuclear battery packs to support her land-born floaty pod there...

Her sonic powers are impressive, and she can communicate with undersea creatures easily already. She has a range under water that is able to communicate with dolphins or other intelligent mammals at up to 200 miles away! Obviously this ... proves a bit challenging too, above the sea, because that can shatter eardrums and cause a lot of damage to items that are fragile. So she has learned how to moderate her voice. Back home, she almost was named 'shouty', and did take a lot of ribbing for not being able to 'sing' like the other sea-born ponies in the pod. But here, she's struck gold, in that her piercing shriek serves as a referee's whistle, and can be directed exactly where it needs to be, so that people who might otherwise be out of range or too busy with their game to notice.

But she is an eel pony. Though her four-legged form is pretty standard and looks as shown, it is almost always 'dripping' a bit, and her hooves are scaled with what seems like soft sea-sponge material, so she squelches her way around the school. Eels have... a self-defense mechanism that allows them to create a layer of mucus around their body, and she's no exception. If she's put upon even her pony form can do this, though it will dry her out. She can create it under duress, so if she's really in fear for her life, or really surprised or shocked at something, it will just manifest itself and she slips under a desk, or down the hall... And then that mucus needs to be cleaned up, because it's remarkably slippery and kind of smelly. She's been embarrassed by it in the past, but has mostly mastered it here at Carramba.

Bouncing around the beach, or throwing herself high out of the water from a deep sprint, Volley is quite acrobatic in and near the water. Her favored sport of beach volleyball remains quite fun even when she's head-butting the ball with her pony-form. She can physically bounce very high in that form when she's on moist sand or even mud, and is not hindered in any way by moving water. Rip-tides are nothing to her, she's very strong in the water indeed. From a deep-water start, she can come out of the sea with such force that she reaches over 10 meters above it, which is the same height that most tall diving platforms reach over olympic pools! On land, she can bounce herself about 5 meters straight up, and when she's being energetic about it, around 7 meters high. So she often plays volleyball with the idea of getting really high up to bounce with as much force as she can muster. Landing from those big bounces is nothing to her, but she isn't the type that can just fall off a cliff in the middle of the wilderness and survive it. All of these abilities are keyed directly to the water she's born in.

A lot of the local folks, including the Physical Education staff at Carramba (and at Crescent City Community College, or C4) have it in their head to keep her on as an instructor, and she's very keen on listening to them. Doing what she loves, and being able to give back to the community? Heck yes!

Now there are ... dragonries looking for her? Really? Well, she's heard there is a place, Lantessama, which has some undersea dragons that seem to be a great match for her powers and her personality. Maybe a Nekrat will find her to be the right friend?