Name: Helix
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Strait
Relationship Status: Single
Cutie Mark: Red and Blue energy spiraling each other, has been called a pepsi logo a few times :p
Talent: Pyromancy(advanced fire magic) & Hydromancy(advanced water magic)
Helix is a unicorn born in ponyville. When he was young he loved magic shows and was originally inspired to become a showpony when he saw his first magic show.
He got his cutie mark during a school talent show where he got nervous and lost control of his magic and accidentally burned the stage, then later that night there was a fire at his house that resulted in his parents deaths.
between what happened at the talent show and a friend of his father telling him it was his fault his parents died, he later learned it wasn’t his fault at all but still at the time helix was depressed and hated himself and his magic.
after a couple days helixs cousin blackjack dragged him along and took care of him acting as a pseudo ‘big sister’ to him and in time helix stopped hating himself but continued hating his magic, refusing to use it unless he had to, and had no confidence in himself.
for the next 10 years helix grew up traveling with blackjack before returning to ponyville on his own to live.
not trusting himself around others he built a cheap home outside of town so that if he caused any fires he wouldn’t hurt anyone and could fix the damages quick and easy
after heading to town once he was settled in he met pinkie, of course, who threw a party even though helix wasn’t technically 'new’ to ponyville and after hearing he had no plans for work got him a job at sugarcube corner.
after a while helix started making a handful of friends, even having a few marefriends throughout his time, and was finally happy again but didn’t trust himself so he continued to avoid his magic then one day something happened causing many ponies to have their cutie marks swapped, including their talents, and after discovering a note to him left by his mother to cheer him up after the talent show he wasn’t just reminded of his true talent but he was also reminded of how much joy his magic used to bring him and others but he still didn’t trust himself so he started practicing magic again but kept it simple and practiced alone.
after twilights library was destroyed helix didn’t have a way to study magic on his own anymore so since twilight could learn any kind of magic he went to ask her if she could teach him or if she knew somepony who could but before he could even ask she saw the book he was returning and assumed he was having trouble cause he was studying magic he couldn’t do.
after telling her he already learned everything in the book twilight was skeptical till he demonstrated some magic for her and she left right away returning later to inform him she had set up an appointment for helix to apply at celestias school for gifted unicorns insisting that helixs talent was rare and he could learn a lot there
the day helix went to take his entrance exam however there was a poison joke outbreak which had affected him and he failed his test then after discovering the cause of the outbreak he used hydromancy for the first time and after seeing the strain it caused it made twilight suspect there might be some kind of added cost to using mancies and that she would have to keep an eye on helix just in case
currently helix is studying hard for his re-test to celestias school for gifted unicorns and and has a crush on a mare who hes been working up the courage to ask to help him study.
(I decided to try making a complete bio for helix, admittedly its a bit sloppy but otherwise i think i got all the key points.)