[meme] and double plurk: character questions!

don't think I've seen this exact list before

Al: 15, 16, 19

an animal that represents them: the first thing that popped into my mind was a capybara with a small angry duckling perched on its head.

I am not sure I can justify that, or that I want to

their cutie mark: if I don't go with the easy answer of "a flamel", a little tricky... for the sake of not getting more elaborate about the symbolism than mlp itself tends to, I think a period-appropriate pen writing a letter.

writing because he's hella book smart, implied in '03 in particular to be a little more so than even famed prodigy state alchemist Ed, but specifically a letter because letters exist to be read by someone else

which is his actual talent, wrangling the book smarts to serve that human connection

what would they tell their younger self: "Don't be scared to say it. I was."