uca ocs! like i didn't have enough idiot kids to think about. some info about them, from top to bottom:
horatio pimento - video game geek whose dismal knowledge of horseback riding does not go anywhere past the red dead redemption franchise. bitter asf everyone else got glorified highlights while he got a neon sign of a dye job. gets expelled before his first final exam but it’s ok because he ends up becoming an airline pilot and planes are like unicorns except they can’t kick you off their backs while you’re five miles in the air. formerly bonded to cloud, a unicorn with self-explanatory powers whose last rider retired very shortly before the new school year arrival, leading her to treat horatio like a human punching bag. she’s just like me fr
iris perez - child hailing from the actual perez family of legacies. unbothered by jacinta's identity theft because she stopped gaf about unicorn riding after she learned her retired rider parents mostly got paid in skyberry pies and prayers. bonded to dusk, who has the power of shadow manipulation and the edgiest look possible and centuries of experience and is generally every preteen deviantart user’s dream horse. unfortunately for him iris is a teenage tiktok user who thinks he’s an emo loser and only uses his powers to put on shadow puppet show versions of whatever reality tv drama she’s explaining to her dorm-mates
jordan kolawole - homeschooled horse girl in every way except gender. grew up in a small southern town where rodeos are a big thing so he always dreamed of becoming an equine vet and thought uca would be a solid stepping stone for that path. except like unicorns are practically indestructible (with some grim exceptions) so most of the time he’s just looking for an excuse to try out a homemade stethoscope or something on his classmates’ unicorns. bonded to sterling, who is also too old for this shit but instead of dealing with it through brooding like dusk she just uses her like. metal manipulation powers to chain herself to a faraway fence and sleep in. jordan thinks her horn was broken by some tragic magical trauma but she probably just chained it too tightly once or twice
rahma dash - that friend who’s too woke. parents are retired polo players who work at an actual equestrian club or academy or whatever, so when she got to uca she was horrified by the lack of helmets or workers’ rights and is now too caught up with campaigning for those things to be implemented to care about her own magical horse. lowk glad horatio got expelled because he joked about her being named after rainbow dash. bonded to tempo, who is young and excitable and prone to accidentally using his singular power of slowing things down on his rider and preventing her from going to class. it’s ok though. look at his big brown eyes and tell him it’s not ok
