I’ve already drawn this character; at the moment, I’ve slightly reworked him. I’ve already said that while I don’t have any ideas for new concepts, I’ll be reworking the ones I already have — correcting mistakes, or reworking certain aspects that I personally think are wrong, adding details, or removing them.

Kiba is a student at the School of Friendship and one of Gallus’s best friends. He is from Farasi (according to the comics and canon, this is the homeland of zebras). Kibwe, or more conveniently, Kiba, can be said to be a bridge between two cultures — ponies and zebras — since his father is a pegasus from Canterlot who is a seafarer and the captain of a ship called Credendo Vides.
And his mother is a zebra, a local resident and an artist from the trading city in Farasi, called Meir‑ra Kesh (In the comics, such a city was clearly based on Marrakech, a city in Morocco).

The story of how his parents met is a different story, but the fact is that the young man was raised by his mother and some relatives on his mother’s side.
His father lives in Canterlot, but during his travels, he visits the family neither often nor rarely.
Kiba’s parents were never married; they mutually parted ways because of their different life paths.

Kibwe himself ended up at the Friendship School thanks to a tip from his father, who, during one of his travels, took his son to Equestria. While in Canterlot, he often unknowingly attracted attention due to his rare background, and listening to the snobs’ evaluative remarks or their disdain was anything but pleasant.
Kiba quickly finds himself in Ponyville, where he begins to like it. He meets many residents and makes friends.

Kiba is ionate about animals, and most of all about birds; he’s like Fluttershy — he often treats birds, plays with them, and takes them in to help. Kiba is considered the best friend of birds. He even has his own little courtyard with tropical birds, where parrots of various breeds, sizes, and colors live, as well as chickens and other feathered creatures, and even local birds that come there.

On his own, Kiba is a fairly well‑off guy, thanks to the status of his father, who never rejects his son and is ready to help, and his mother, a popular artist whose works always find their patrons.
And the young man himself doesn’t sit still; he’s capable of earning his own money by running his own poultry yard.
Kiba could well be classified as part of the “golden youth”—the sons and daughters of various officials and other high‑ranking individuals—and in fact, he is one of them, but the thought never even crosses his mind; he’s far from being a snob by nature.
Calm, balanced, and, to some extent, lonely. At least he was before he made friends at school; before that, his only friends were birds and a few maternal relatives among the zebras. Among the ponies, there were even fewer.
And since he was raised by his mother in a simple, everyday atmosphere, without any snobbery, Kiba grew up accordingly, preferring to stick to his own circle and not pry into his father’s affairs or his mother’s personal matters.

Kiba has long been aware of his mixed heritage and tries to avoid meeting people in particular.
For some, he is a bridge between two cultures, or simply a hybrid; for others, he is a half‑breed—for example, for individuals like Chancellor Nesei at the Friendship School, who reluctantly agreed to it non‑pony students to the school, but there was no talk of hybrids or mestizos.

Also, a few words about the object in his hoof. This is a magical glass that his mother gave him; it’s called a “shard of truth.” Its special feature is that it can reveal the secret of an object, uncover a mystery, or show its true nature. For example, if Kiba looks through the glass at an empty apple tree, he will see those very volt‑apples on the branches — which means the tree has its own secret.
If, late at night, he looks through the glass at the bushes and plants and sees yellow glowing eyes, it means there are dangerous predators living here.
If someone tried to erase the writing from the paper or hide a secret entrance, the glass would reveal all of this; it can also easily detect a changeling and any physical deception.
The glass can provide a clue or show the way out.
To activate the shard, you need to believe in what you want to see, or believe in the good outcome of your decision, and clearly pronounce “Credendo vides.”

Overall, the idea came to me after watching two old fairy‑tale films, “The Unicorn’s Journey.”
And the words “Credendo vides” and the phrase “faith is needed for a miracle” represent their family philosophy, since for Kiba it’s a lupa, for his father the ship is called “Cridendo vides,” and for his mother, that’s the name of her main large album with her creations.
That’s precisely why they met — when the zebra saw a ship in the port, a ship from her album, which is named after her album. It was the ship of a seafarer from Canterlot. Perhaps their meeting was predestined, for “faith is needed for a miracle.”

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