Nickname(s): Terra (common), Terri, Terri Rosie (dad and close friends)
Family: Twilight Sparkle/SciTwi (mother), Timber Spruce (father), Gloriosa Daisy (aunt), Shining Armor (uncle), Flurry Heart (cousin)
Occupation: Student/Botanist/Part-time Camp Everfree Counselor
(Origin): Twilight Sparkle and Timber Spruce dated through college and it didn’t take long for the ever-gifted Twilight to land herself a job as a computational engineer. After the two married, Timber moved out of Camp Everfree to settle down with Twilight in Canterlot City. Despite the greater travel distance from the family camp, Timber loyally stuck to his job as co-camp director of Camp Everfree alongside his sister Gloriosa.
Once Terra Rosa was born, Timber took over the role of stay-at-home dad and Twilight served as the family’s breadwinner~ He made plenty of weekend visits to Camp Everfree during this time, showing off their cute-ass baby to his sister and presenting the tiny tot his usual stomping grounds~ When Terra was old enough, Timber returned to his work at Camp Everfree. It was a little hard, but Twilight and Timber did their very best to balance out work, family, and the beloved family camp.
Terra is an optimistic and friendly girl ready to have fun and leap into action. While she’s very playful and social, she possesses a quirkiness that makes it slightly difficult for just anyone to keep up with her. She possesses a small group of close friends as a result and affectionately gives her pals nicknames. This includes Dusky (Astral Dusk), Sunny, Chasey, Ellie, and Te! Four out of five would be characters you’re familiar with~
Terra grew up an outdoorsy kid much like her father before her. She was all about scraped knees and catching grasshoppers and jotting down every detail she could possibly learn about every beautiful plant possible. It’s no surprise Terra developed a fixation on plants. Camp Everfree never failed to amaze her in the nature department. Twilight and Timber did everything they could to support Terra’s interests, such as giving her informational books on flora, helping her get into flower-pressing, and joining her in identifying new species. Unfortunately, the extent of her interest would lead to plant-tangents and humor that other kids her age couldn’t quite understand or relate to. Even with friends she loved deeply, this left Terra feeling disappointed and even somewhat lonely. She thankfully found a best friend in Astral Dusk, who suffered from the same conflict in his own dimension.
While raising Terra, the one thing Twilight and Timber always clashed over was the amount of freedom they could give their daughter. It was hard finding a middle ground between someone who spent his whole life freely exploring and running through the woods and someone who spent most of her time cooped up in a room to study. There were times where Twilight would worry over Terra doing something, only for Timber to defend her and trust that she’d be fine. It never lead to heavy arguments, but it definitely created frustrating disagreements. Over time the two had to learn together through trial and error the right amount of freedom and clear safety precautions to give their girl, especially after the events in “Paralleled”.
Terra has had nonallergic asthma (notably exercise-induced and stress-induced) for as long as she can remember, although an asthma attack she suffered from as a toddler exists as the corners of her memory. Her parents take her condition seriously and have kept a plan to help strengthen her lungs and control her symptoms. Along with an inhaler she always carries with her, our girl also possesses a face mask for when the temperature drops due to cold air being an asthma trigger. Thankfully she hasn’t had an attack since.
Terra had a bit of a case of ADHD as a kid that tended to clash with her asthma with how much she loved zooming around. While she’s always had an intelligent mind and could understand concepts ahead of her grade, she also suffered (and still does) from absent-mindedness and a lack of time management. Terra can be unintentionally impulsive as a result, as well as have difficulty focusing on schoolwork. This, plus a dash of test anxiety, can lead to completing work at the last minute and impairs her grades more than what she knows she “should be capable of”. She plays it off with a laugh, but in reality, it’s something she finds deeply frustrating and embarrassing as the kid of two brilliant scientific minds. She works hard to manage her ADD.
A blue/pink/white color combination is Terra’s alternate obsession. If her eye catches anything of the sort, she’ll be distracted in mere seconds and has a 98% chance of impulse buying it no matter the impracticality.
