Smoky

Other Names: Smoky Stacks (full name), Smokes (another nickname)

Species: Horse

Birthday: June 26

Gender: Female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: Lesbian

Occupation: Steel worker

Physical Description 

• Big buff horsie with a swirly mane and tail
• She's actually got a somewhat mottled coat, but years of working with steel have coated her in soot
• Her fingernails are the same color as her hooves, as expected
• Usually ties the end of her mane into a ponytail or bun so it's easier to contain it all within her mask
• Can sometimes be seen with the ends of her mane/tail slightly singed
• In MLP style, her cutie mark is a spray of sparks

Personality 

• Coarse, rough around the edges
• Very blunt, prefers to solve problems via direct confrontation
• Would prefer it if people would stay out of everyone else's business; doesn't like to get involved in things unless they directly affect her
• Doesn't have the time or patience for intellectual activities, prefers things simple and concrete
  • Considers overly complicated and abstract matters "above her pay grade"
  • She's got common sense, but she doesn't have much of a reference to go from when it comes to "scientific" claims and could be somewhat easily misled by, say, a predatory company selling snake oil in a professional-looking package covered in claims of what it can do
• Stops listening to someone's advice when she feels they're patronizing her and/or think she's a moron

Likes 

• Getting into the rhythm of her job so she can zone out and ponder to herself
• Long lunch breaks, where she doesn't have to try to eat an entire sandwich in four bites
• Feeling the heat and light on the job - it reminds her of the power of what they're doing and how oddly satisfying raw labor is

Dislikes 

• Tight-fitting and otherwise restrictive clothing - she feels like she can't move
• Overly hot days - it's one thing when the furnace itself is hotter than hell's oven, and it's another when you feel like you're broiling even when you're just taking a break outside
• Old, worn-out horseshoes

Personal Info 

• Takes some time to stop and feel satisfied as she's working - she's literally pulling some metal out of the earth itself and shaping it into another form
• Periodically gets new shoes - used to work with no horseshoes all the time but the pavement was hell on her hooves
• Lifts weights in her spare time, enjoys the confidence boost she gets when she feels like she could pile drive anyone who looked at her wrong

Trivia 

• I think that, in her original form, she's literally the blandest design I've ever adopted.  She was a free adopt somewhere in the bowels of Deviantart, and she didn't even have a cutie mark in the original picture.

Date of Creation / Adoption: June 26, 2014

Other Notes: As she was originally an MLP adopt, she can be drawn as an anthro or in the MLP style.