Briggs-Myers type: ENTP
Lives: Medium-sized semi-detached house, Holder Place, The City
Occupation: self-employed fiction writer
Likes: success, people who can get her success, herself
Dislikes: publishers who reject her manuscripts
Most likely superpower: Projected thermography

Personality

Novella is a small-time fiction writer who dreams of being in the big leagues. Despite moderate acclaim and financial success, her works have only really been sold online and in small bookshops and she wishes for a bestselling breakthrough to lift her fortunes further.

She is empowered and opportunistic. She is more inclined towards business relationships than personal relationships, and willing to make small personal sacrifices if she thinks it will further her career. She is willing to work hard if she thinks it will help her, but is readily dismissive of anything she thinks will not. Acts like a bit of a celebrity diva, despite not really being one.

She is selfish and narcissistic. She is always unhappy with her lot in life (no matter what successes come her way) and always feels that she is deserving of better. She is comfortably middle-class, but still feels like things could not be worse.

She is paranoid and distrustful. She cannot conceive any reason why she isn’t more successful other than there being individuals and external forces holding her back. She prefers this to thinking that maybe she just isn’t skilled enough to actually succeed.

Appearance

Muted red coat. Blonde mane and tail, with darker streaks. The mane style is constantly different, but can always be described as “weekday morning TV show presenter”. Her cutie mark is a solid gold quill.

She’s ever so slightly rounder than most ponies owing to her relative affluence. Instances of weight gain are brought about due to her own hubris, whether because she’s tricked into thinking it enhances social status, or because she (mis)hears that a publisher is a bit of a chubby chaser. It’s always from her own doing or (reluctant) consent that it happens.