INTRODUCING: REDLINE
Gender: Female
Type: Pegasus
Age: Unknown. Young, but beyond schooling age.
Town of Origin: Bridle Beach
Current Location: Suburbs of Las Pegasus
Profession: Mechanic
Hobbies: Speeding, eating raw garlic and onions (much to the chagrin of her coworkers), helping her boss build racing machines, driving said machines like a bat out of tartarus, being absolutely bucking insane
Redline's story goes somewhere along the lines of this: She's tall (bordering on Celestia/Luna height), but she's thin as a rail. She has incredible agility in the air (given to her massive wings and adept control over them) and reaction time, but due to her size and lack of muscle mass, she is not a fast flyer.
She was scouted by the Wonderbolts for her prodigious maneuverability, but despite Spitfire's best efforts, her speed on flat-out sprints never approached her competition.
...Obsession.
Redline became possessed with a need to achieve the fastest speed possible. She began training behind her instructor's back, climbing to nauseating heights and using divebombs to acheive incredible speed.
She might have achieved a supersonic speeds before Rainbow Dash's Rainboom at the Best Young Flyer Competition if Spitfire hadn't caught her.
It was good thing that she was caught, as her CO clearly recognized that the gangly pegasus was putting speed before her own safety, and while the details are unclear, Redline was honorably discharged and never attempted another divebomb again, at least up to the modern day.
but that hasn't lessened her obsession with insane velocities---merely transmuted it into something stranger
Now she works for Sunset Motor Repair, a strange little business outside of Las Pegasus, Owned by a gray unicorn with a smooth horn and sideburns by the name of Rex Shade.
Besides his rather regal appearance, Rex has been working on self-propelled machines made to achieve unnatural ground-speeds, and needed a pony with incredible reaction times.
while a bit to cagey to directly speak to anyone, Rex admits that the project is mostly Redline's these days, and that she spends hours of her own time in the shop surrounded by blueprints, calculators, schematics, prototype parts, and an air of desperation.
Sunset Motors shuts down every couple of weeks, and its employees disappear off into the deserts to the east of Las Pegasus, and make metal machines scream across the salt flats.
Rex isn't sure where she lives these days, but he knows this: Most mornings she can be spotted atop the garage, eating a sweet-onion raw and watching the sunrise.
TL;DR: I MADE THE SONG "HIGHWAY STAR" INTO A PONY.
She's been kicking around for a story or two I've been working on, and I wanted to flesh her out a bit more, because she's a joy to write for.
She got named redline because of the red streak in her hair. also, her cutie mark:
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NOPONY GONNA TAKE MY CAR GONNA DRIVE IT TO THE GROUUUND
