Gender: Female

Age: 32

Species: Writing Drider

Info: Heart Singer was born to a pony family in the abandoned sector of Stalliongrad, the section of the city walled off for the “beast” races to live, driders, lamias, nagas, etc. Her mother was a Writting drider and her father was a unicorn. Heart Singer, or HarSi when she was little, quickly grew into a very large drider and began spinning massive spiral webs on any place she could.

Heart Singer found something special about her silk early on, once set, it glowed a soft golden light and if the web was big enough, she could strum the strands and make music, able to mimic just about any string instrument. HarSi caught the attention of Stalliongrad when she wandered out of the abandoned sector and set up a huge spiral web between two factory chimneys across the street from each other. From this perch, Heart Singer tried to sing to the city, a lullaby that her mother had taught her. Many ponies stopped to listen as she sang from her web. It wasn’t long when SS police arrived to restore order, they told everyone to go back to their work, and then told Heart Singer to come down. Heart Singer was still young and knew not to disobey the police, so down she came on a strand of shimmering golden silk to the applause and praise of the crowd. She was very happy to have cheered up so many ponies.

However, upon seeing Heart Singer’s magical silk, the SS decided to not only arrest the child, but to also take away her freedom rights on the grounds of “capitol public disruption.” Heart Singer’s parents were forced to either let it happen, or pay a fee…a 40,000 bit fee. The SS were going to see if her silk could be harvested for textile use and if it could, she would be bred to make more driders with her ability. Heart Singer was so confused and scared when she was imprisoned and forced to wait while mostly biased court did their work. It was here Heart Singer didn’t give up or lash out, instead she sought to comfort her cell mates, weaving better beds and blankets as best she could. It was touching, and against the will of the higher ups, the jail house super visor leaked the story to the press who snapped it up. Stalliongrad was quickly falling in love with little Heart Singer, embodying the average worker, or at least that’s how the papers spun it.

Heart Singer was moved to Factory X-22, an experimental production facility. And despite protests from the public and the science staff, the tests began. Firmly tied down, Heart Singer was forced to stay still and let a machine spool out her silk. It was very exhausting but the tests were successful, the silk glowed warmly on the spool and were stable enough to weave into usable string. There were others at X-22, lamia’s having venom and scales harvested, mermaids for their scales, And several unicorns for charging magic batteries. When the day ended they were allowed to rest in a large cell. Again, Heart Singer did what she could to comfort her fellow inmates, even without her silk, she used hugs and soothing words to calm, or at the very least listen. Again higher ups didn’t want heart Singer’s kindness to get out, she was getting dangerously popular and the elite saw it as a threat to their power. Heart Singer needed to be forgotten. And yet, ponies on the inside thought otherwise and the story got out, a whistle-blower spilled the full story of X-22 with Heart Singer as it’s focus.

The elite tried to silence the workers, get them back to work, but Stalliongrad suddenly halted. Every single factory, store, and work yard stopped and the work forces came out to surround X-22 and loudly protest. Stalliongrad had been oppressive for decades but the elite thought the oppressed were too weak, too stupid to resist, but the X-22 incident was the tipping point that united workers, bosses, even trucks, and tanks together. But it wasn’t just for Heart Singer. The workers were here for revolution.

The police were either overwhelmed or joined the revolutionaries, leaving the elite alone in X-22. The siege lasted for just three hours and the children were released on the condition they get to go free. They never got the chance. The revolutionaries were let in by sympathetic guards. Heart Singer was taken away from the ensuing battle and was taken home to her parents who embraced their daughter. Another drider, Bisma, came with her followers to protect Heart Singer and try to fill her in as to what was going on.

The elite tried to escape, but they were quickly found and captured and happened to them? That’s another story. Heart Singer was happy to be back home.

Time passed and Heart Singer stayed in Stalliongrad, eventually opening up an orphanage where X-22 once stood, giving them a motherly figure to support them and comfort them.

There we go! That’s a better backstory I feel.