Of course! What kind of stupid poll topic is that???
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Cajmera
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:38 pm
Starts: OPEN! Ends: Sunday, March 20 @ 6pm CST
Rules/General Info
This is a user-run contest, so the basket does not count for your freebie for the month. No discouraging people from entering. This basket is from a very special family to me (the basket's grandfather is my stallion Guilian), so I'd prefer you not enter if you just plan to cut and run. RPing/plotting is encouraged! Edit your entry as much as you want up until the contest closes, but please put a note at the top of your entry if you do! You don't have to read all the info we provide, or incorporate it in your entry; but we're rpeople, so we believe in information being out there! While you don't have to follow these, the naming convention for Orpheus' family is Greek names (Nayci's boy will be Alkaios), and the convention for Amary is mashup names from herself/her family (my boy, going with Amary, is Antian from her name, her brother Antony, and her father Guilian)
You will be entering for this basket, the only daughter of the bunch:
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:52 pm
A few notes about the 'Family"
Amary and Orpheus, the parents of this lovely little basket, had a peculiar 'courtship,' to say the least. Amary, a lifelong coquette and mare of easy virtue, was looking for a stallion to father a foal. When she encountered Orpheus, he, like others before him, was taken with her beauty and flirtatious manner. One thing lead to another, and Amary ended up with the desired foal...and two spares. What is a distinctly terrible mother to do?
Well, drop one off with the father for starters; that part's easy. But what about the third? What about the...girl? Sure, she's going to be gorgeous; how could she not be, with a mother like Amary? But Amary isn't ready to yield ANY male attention, especially not to her own child. Worse, what if her daughter turns out prettier than her? It might be best to leave her with the Orpheus, as well.
But on the other hand, imagine the possibilities for currying favor with family, or those softies who value maternal instinct! Or maybe her daughter could help lure in the boys...hmm. Perhaps she could handle having her around after all...
Cajmera
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Cajmera
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:54 pm
So, About your Mother
Though there will be different challenges based on which parent you choose to follow, neither will result in a 'normal' family experience.
The story thus far:
There is no way to sugar coat this: Amary is NOT the maternal type. Born into a loving and close family, she grew up being showered in praise and adoration from her family and everyone who met her. Though she's not mean or intentionally cruel, she is vain, self-absorbed, and self-indulgently lazy. Life, to her, has always revolved around flirtations and trysts; like her parents before her, Amary believes in free love and isn't afraid to show it. However, UNLIKE her parents, she never learned to value responsibility or moral character. She has no qualm using and moving on, being easily bored with constancy and constantly looking for something new. While she makes no qualms about her lack of staying power, it can still be surprising just how short her interest lasts! However, in spite of her behavior, she remained a favorite of her father Guilian in particular, and considered him a favorite in turn.
Her world of shallow indulgence came to a grinding halt a few years ago, though, when she found herself pregnant. At first she was horrified; pregnancy made a mare fat and tired and undesirable! But after thinking about it, she decided that no, she would prove the stereotype wrong. Besides, she'd be able to proudly present her beloved father with grandchildren! Happy and smug in her plan, she imposed a strict veil of secrecy on herself, not even telling her nearest and dearest she was pregnant.
To say the experience wen south is putting it mildly. Overwhelmed and completely unprepared for the hardships of motherhood, Amary was less than a day into mothering her three sons Guirien, Amrien, and Adiago when she realized it was too much. She decided motherhood wasn't for her, and she would bring her sons to family to be raised as soon as possible. But before she was ready to make that move (and really, before the boys were old enough to BE moved), she encountered a roguish stallion while out foraging. Having gone through a longer dry spell than she'd ever experienced and feeling ugly and worn out to boot, the stallion was a gift from the spirits who she readily accepted. It wasn't until days later she finally made it back to where she'd left the boys, only to find them gone. Most mothers would have been worried, but Amary quickly decided no; clearly, the boys had just decided they were ready to live on their own and thought nothing more of it. However, she herself was nowhere near ready to be around her family and friends until she was in better shape, so she decided to take advantage of their departure to take a long-tern vacation herself.
What had really happened to the boys is that, hungry and alone, they had set out themselves to look for their mother or some other form of refuge. Along the way, they ended up separating, with Guirien alone finally meeting up with Amary's older half-brother, Antony and his lifemate Loveless. Guirien was initially ashamed to admit what had happened, so it wasn't until a few weeks into his stay that Antony and Loveless finally determined their nephew wasn't just 'visiting'. Antony, who had never approved of Amary or her lifestyle, was incensed; family was extremely important to him, and he took fatherhood to his own brood very seriously. Attempts to find the other two boys, or Amary herself, failed; even bringing in additional family members to help search yielded nothing. Ultimately, Antony and Loveless took it upon themselves to raise Guirien, and Amary's heartless behavior sent Guilian spiraling into a deep, self-loathing depression.
Amary being herself, her 'vacation' eventually stretched into the range of years. But one day finally saw her return to her old stomping grounds, pleased with herself, her looks, her situation, and delighted with the prospect of reuniting with her parents and being smothered in their certain adoration and approval. Her parents weren't there when she turned up, but her younger brother Laureat was. Younger than Amary and born since her departure, he had no tolerance for or pleasure in seeing the sister who had brought so much despair to the family. Very uncharacteristically for the good-natured stallion, Laureat proceeded to rip Amary a new one, forcing her to see that perhaps she had been hasty in her behavior and explaining the stark fact that not only was she no longer the Golden Child, she was actively disliked by much of the family.
This is not the way things were supposed to work, and Amary was deeply distressed. Deciding it was best to wait to meet up with any other relatives until she had found a way to 'make this right', she took off again to hatch her ultimately 'brilliant' plan: have a new foal, a BETTER foal, a foal who would be the perfect offspring and prove to her family how much she'd changed and how wonderful she clearly was. With that foal, she would Make Everything Right; she just had to create it.
Fortunately, that was no hardship; Amary was on a mission, but she meant to enjoy every minute of it! Eventually, she was successful, but instead of one foal, she somehow ended up once again with three...
Plotline:
Amary, and the foal/foals that go with her, will be diving right into the thick of family issues. Amary will do her best for her children, but they are ultimately accessories to her, tools to fix her relationship with her family. The foal/foals left with Orpheus she does not intend to have any further relationship with; it is simply beyond her to be that involved with that many kids, so by leaving them with Orpheus she is effecting abandoning them...albeit in a safer manner than before.
She and the foal/foals she keeps will be hotfooting it back to her family's territory, with Amary confident all will be forgiven and forgotten immediately. However, there are a LOT of unresolved issues, and it is, obviously, going to be a lot more complicated than that. Her two missing sons are presumed dead; her remaining son, Guirien, has deep emotional and psychological issues pertaining to his youth and abandonment. Antony and Loveless, who consider Guirien their own, are not the sort to shake hands and move on, and there is every indication Amary's new children will be a bone of contention between Amary and her family, with the likelihood of the foal/foals being taken from Amary for their own good. Her family will also be ignoring her attempt to abandon the foal/foals with Orpheus, so there will be a connection between the two families in the end. But it will be a rough road before it's over...
Family: Amary's family is huge; she has...20 siblings, between her mother and father. For a complete listing, feel free to check out my teepee. Or you can pm me, because I love talking about them XD
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:55 pm
There's Something You Should Know about Dad
On the opposite spectrum of this little daliance is Orpheus, the father of these three little ones. Having fallen hard for Amarantine it will upset him greatly when she leaves, not realizing that she was simply using him for her own gain. It will leave him scarred and wary of other females. That being said, Orpheus doesn't quite know what to do with being a father at all. Children are so foreign to him. So there is a lot of nervousness and stress flowing through his body at this point. He is a good soul though, and wants to do right by them, in whatever way he possibly can.
Plotline: Should you choose to stay with Orpheus, it will be a rough road. Orpheus is on a collision course with corpse powder, and will lose himself. In the immediate aftermath of Amarantine leaving your father will be forced to make a decision, one that is very hard for him. He is aware that his blood family, his cousin Hallows Bane, is in the area nearby, struggling to raise his own son Desiderius. The bond between the two stallions was very strong when they were younger, but now Orpheus is unsure if he will be welcome. Orpheus will go to Hallows Bane wanting help, and hopefully reconnect with him. This is where your child's life will start.
Hallows Bane will be a staple in the children's life growing up. He will work with his friends Palila and Nastunye to keep things stable and constant for Orpheus' children. You will take residence in the cave system and the small surrounding forest area that Hallows Bane has taken for his own family. Your days will be spent with your cousin Desiderius under the watchful eyes of the adults. You will not meet Hallows Bane's mate Nymphalidae, or your other cousins Vanaheimr, Ingveldur, or Njola until much later in life. As for your father, Orpheus will struggle to stay around, haunted by their mother leaving, and trying to find his own path as well. Unfortunately things will not work out very well, and Orpheus will disappear. Unknown to his children or Hallows Bane, Orpheus will have been taken under control by the cursedwalker Rime.
During his time with Rime Orpheus will sire more children, pawns for Rime to use or for Orpheus to take and keep them from the evil that lurks in Rime's veins. Orpheus will come back to his family broken, physically and mentally, and be nursed back to health. At this point things will calm down for his children. Hallows Bane will be watching Orpheus very carefully, making sure that his cousin does right by his children. He will be having help with this from your other family as well, Amarantine's family, the family of the mother that abandoned your father.
Orpheus will work with his children to reconnect, to truly do right by them, to ask for forgiveness, and he will be supported by his future mate Raven. But of course, as you know by now things will turn south again as the time for corpse powder is coming near. See, Raven isn't quite mentally stable. Orpheus will be doing whatever he can to keep her from hurting herself or others. However, he loves her from the deepest parts of her heart. He considers her the "light" to his "darkness". And on the other hand he wants to keep his children safe from her. Therefore, dont' be surprised if Orpheus takes off with Raven to protect them.
This will have a lasting impact on Orpheus' family. Raven is set to die. And when she does Orpheus' world will shatter into millions of pieces. He will wander aimlessly with no purpose, having lost even his own will to live. It is at this point the dark shaman Oyahusa will make his pressence known, and curse Orpheus with the pelt of an owl. Your father will have gone down the rabbit hole, and will cause major disruption to all families in relation to him. Orpheus will become the very nightmares children are warned about.
However, even through all this death and distruction, Hallows Bane will work to save Orpheus from the curse, will not give up on him. For he will discover that there are charms that may be able to lift the veil off his cousin's eyes. You will have the choice to follow Hallows Bane in his quest to save your father. Or tell Hallows Bane to shove it, and stay out of the family drama (or try to at least). That choice is left up to you.
Regardless of which path you take, Hallows Bane will be successful in charming your father. At that point Orpheus will come into realization of what he had done for all those years, and deal with the fallout that will come of it.
If you wish to enter, simply fill in and submit the following form! And if you have any questions, please feel free to pm either me or Nayci heart
[b]Username:[/b] (must be the person entering, no proxies!) [b]Name of foal:[/b] (It's a girl!) [b]Temper of foal: [/b] [b]Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?:[/b] (This is just in the beginning. Later on, if your foal decides family is too much, they can strike out on their own, or be taken in by other relatives if they go with Amary). [b]Tell us about yourself![/b] (This is where we want you to let go! What kind of filly are you going to be? Are you going to inherit your mom's effervescence, or maybe your father's focus? Are you going to be close to your brothers and/or other family, or are you going to be your own family for safety reasons? Are you going to be outgoing, shy, a flexible spirit or deeply anxious? How do you think you're going to handle the challenges of the future? The sky's the limit!) [b]Other[/b]: (Anything else you want to add that we didn't think of)
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 3:55 pm
This contest is open!
Cajmera
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Abe no Mizuki
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 4:19 pm
*Edited on 3/19/16, 19:00 EST. Updating entry to thanks to coming upon more information on family dynamics.
Username: Eternal Xantara Name of foal: Azeiri Temper of foal: Guarded Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: She's gonna be Daddy's girl~ Tell us about yourself! Azeiri will be a quiet, reserved child, seeing the harm her mother has inflicted upon her father. She too will witness the damaging relationships her father gets into in the future (she'll find out someway, somehow, what happens to him). This will make her distrustful of others but determined to do whatever she can to comfort her father and, when he becomes Cursed, join Hallows Bane in the quest to save Orpheus. She might even be willing to put her own life on the line to get the charm on her father.
When it comes to a family of her own, she'll probably shy away from having any contact at all with her mother's side initially, since she feels they're partly to blame for how her mother became who she is and almost everything after. Once she actually meets with them, she'll thaw out a bit and at least tolerate being around them, if not welcome the love and stability in her life. Her mother, however, she will do her best to give the cold shoulder to. It's doubtful Azeiri will ever forgive her mother for her sins of the past.
The face everyone will see upon her will be one of sadness and serenity. At one point she'll be torn between leaving her father and striking it out on her own. She doesn't wish to abandon him, since she has a fierce bond with her father (and she's afraid what would happen to him if she did leave). Yet she longs to be free of the stifling family drama she's grown up with. Poor child.
If she were to meet a stallion not related to her in some way, she will be very guarded around him and try to make the encounter as brief as possible. She doesn't want to be used, nor have it seem that she's using others. Azeiri will remain civil, however, no matter her reluctance to be around him. She was raised better than that, and she has no desire to turn into someone like her mother (the user) nor her father (the used).
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:07 pm
Username: SSBrosB Name of foal: (It's a girl!) Amarian Temper of foal: Reserved Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: Mother Tell us about yourself! She is going to be more shy and quiet than her mother. She definitely will not inherit her mother’s attitude toward family and beauty. Amarian, somewhat embarrassed by her name being somewhat close to her mothers, will be more shy and have quite a bit of self-confidence issues, not only because of how her mother treats her, but also because of the quite obvious rifts that her mother has created between the family. For the rest of her family she’s going to try to cause as few problems as possible and try to get to know them and get closer to them than her mother. Amarian is going to seek attention and approval from her mother at first, however eventually she will come to realize that she won’t change her mother’s mind or attitude toward her offspring. Therefore she will switch attention over to being as close to her mothers family as possible.
When she finally gets to know her father’s family, she will start to dislike her mother, possibly turning into hate. This is because Amarian will believe that all of her father’s problems will come from her mother’s abandonment of her father and grow even more distant from her mother. Consequently, becoming more distant from her mother will drive her to be pretty much the exact opposite of her mother, perhaps to the point of being too smothering to her own children. She will eventually grow out of it though with interactions from her mother’s and father’s families, hopefully seeing how to be the right type of parent to whatever offspring she may have.
Other: If anyone needs to be updated on any rping or anything, please tell how we can keep up/tell others for this family so that I would hopefully be on the same page as everyone else.
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:40 pm
Username: Uta Name of foal: Myrian Temper of foal: Adoring Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: Mom Tell us about yourself! There is something to be said about the bond between mother-and-daughter, and while perhaps Amary might find her daughter potential competition, this mare sees nothing but perfection in her mother. No one should speak poorly about Amary -- she is the prettiest, most intelligent, most beautiful, pinkest mare ever. And Myrian has enough attitude and sass to defend her to anyone -- including her relatives!
So it is, Myrian will do whatever she can to keep her mother happy. While she will strive to be beautiful, she will make sure that she does not steal her mother's thunder and will always try to demure herself. If she is meant to show that her mother is a perfect mother, than she will weave whatever story she might to help paint her mother in the best light. Myrian will be so desperate for positive feedback and Amary's attention that she will do anything to get it . . . in hopes that maybe, just maybe, her mother might learn to love her best or stay.
That's what this filly wants more than anything else -- it was hard enough that her father and brother had to leave -- but surely her mother will want her to stay if she is a good girl. . . the best girl. If, when older and should Amary still be around, her mother wants no competition on the stallions, than she will turn her attention instead to mares . . . or at least keep herself from accepting a stallions advances or attention. She will coo and awe over Amary . . . even if it is not within her best interest.
She is blind to her mother's faults, because admitting or accepting them would hurt too much. If Amary finds problems in her daughter, or winds up leaving her children, then surely the fault lies in them.
Myrian wants nothing more than to be useful to Amary. The mare had wanted to put on a good show for her family, and this little filly will play her part too well.
Is it so wrong for a filly to want their mother's love?
Other: Just some possible plot/RP ideas:
Depending on her brother and his personality, I could see them either getting along, or being rivals for Amary's attention -- or maybe a mix of both. Myrian loves her brother, but as Amary is a jealous mare, so is Myrian, and she would likely grow jealous when and if her brother somehow stole praise or attention.
I can see things getting ugly should Amary decide to abandon her foals again, or at least to separate. I'd have no idea how Myrian would respond -- possible self-blame, possible-anger, possible-denial. She might blame her family and claim it's their fault . . . then again . . . she might have to face the reality that at the end of the day, all Amary's praise was superficial. She was a well groomed tool.
If Amary stayed (or perhaps let her daughter tag along, as children are known to do). . .well. . . they'd just have quite the interesting little -if unhealthy- relationship.
Myrian could grow and develop a variety of ways . . . but it all would depend on how things go down with her brother, her mother, and the rest of Amary's family. It's hard to project what she'd be like down the road without actual interaction, or guess how she'd be like if/when reunited with her father and other brother.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:25 pm
Username: spelldancer Name of foal: Sethunya Temper of foal: Blossoming Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: Mother Tell us about yourself! Sethunya is a shrewd creature that quickly picks up on her mother’s lack of desire for competition. But that is all right because Sethunya is just a filly...for now anyway. Instead Sethunya plays the dutiful daughter that attracts just the right kind of stallion for both her mother and her. She gets doted on and loved, if by strangers and in passing, and keeps her mother in good spirits.
But the passing doting only strengthens Sethunya’s desires for permanent love and care. The extended family is all well and good, but they aren’t her's. Combined with another desire to show her mother up and prove that she is better than the mare in every way, Sethunya will begin her own campaign for stallions. And she has lots of practice at attracting them all ready. She has no idea how to keep a stallion around though, and that is the sticking point. Well, Sethunya does know that she will be a million times better at it than her mother. No matter what it is.
Other: Plots! I love to plot. Please please please contact me about plots. Sethunya would at least play at getting along with her brothers, or really get along depending on what they are like. But she will try to use them in her ploys. And to defend her honor.
When she is an adult, she will want to try to run her mother out of the herd. This can go any way we want it to at that point.
Obviously, Sethunya has a chip on her shoulder about her mother. She will compete with her mother about who is liked more by Guilian.
Username: Rinial Sisterdragon Name of foal: Euridyce Dialauran (Dia to her mom's side, Euri to her father's side, and Euridia to her friends later on. For stuffs.) Temper of foal: Distanced Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: Mother. Tell us about yourself!
At first due to her mother's naming ideas, and though her mother does not totally enjoy her younger sibling, in trying to appease him, she mashes his name into the filly's name. Often the young one is simply referred to as Dia. (Dia from Adagio, Laur from Laureat, and An from Guilian.)
Dia is disconcerted by her mother, figuring out very early on that her mother is affectionate, but only so far as when others are watching. Especially since Dia is very very reserved in her affections due to an early interaction where she was trying to be close to her mother, but instead was ignored for the attentions of someone else.
As she grows Dia becomes more distanced from her mother, somber in her interactions, almost cold. Whispers of her father reaching her easily she comes to the conclusion that she would like to meet him. see if he is as her mother says.
The meeting is...less than warm, as Dia is a reminder of a hard betrayal that her father suffered. However, she is gifted with a name from him. One he'd picked while mother was still pregnant. Euridyce. She goes by Euri for this part of her family.
She stays for a time, till her father disappears. This...is somewhat a crushing blow for her. A mother who pretends to care, and a father who...is too broken hearted to stay.
She takes it in stride, coming to understand that while she may hold affection for both her parents being the bringers of her life, they are not able to build a loving place for her.
All of this in the period of her foalhood and past leads to her as an adult, being very distant from others. Disillusioned about love, and viewing it as something she has no desire for. It also leaves a deep seated fear that should she ever find herself with foal, she would repeat her parent's mistakes, and come to find that she was unable to care for another.
In the end she is distant, but selfless, and does not see the beauty of herself, regarding her outer skin as merely a facade that is to be ignored, and her inner workings to be kept to herself.
Other: So, the idea of her personality also, kinda became something like plot ideas as well....*sits on muse* >w> don't mind me!
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:30 pm
Username: nekolulu Name of foal:shanti Temper of foal: wise Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: dad Tell us about yourself!Shanti is harden mare she has little trust for those that are not family. She is also a little insane giving that her father dissapeared on her when she was young she and her brothers are close but she has a habit of leashing out on anyone that asks her questions about her family.
when she was young she was the apple of her fathers eye. Her father and his friends Palila and Nastunye whom are like second moms to her she had learned a lot from them and likes them a lot. they are family. Shenti will follow her cousin Desiderius around and a little bit of heroship of him.
As adult she will look for her father and the reason why he disappeared. She will be mad and betrayed when she if she meets up with him in the furture she will like Raven and try to connect to her father and his mate. Other: thanks for the chance
Username: Fatal Irony Name of foal: Perennial Temper of foal: Resilient Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: Mom Tell us about yourself!
At first Perri seeks her mother's approval desperately, as most children do, and each time she fails to get it her self esteem suffers as a result. She grows up knowing that her only worth is as a pawn in her mother's schemes, but despite this she has a strong desire for her family to be intact. Despite the emotional cost to herself, she says and does whatever her mother wishes and tries to aide in her mother's quest to become favored with her family once more. Growing up dealing with the sort of narcissistic tendencies her mother has, Perri suffers from depression and has low self esteem, but she fights it and tries to seem happy on the outside.
As she grows into adulthood she begins to realize she will never get the sort of love or attention from her mother as she always wanted. Her family is broken, and maybe that's ok. It occurs to her that she needs to get out from under her mother's toxic influence and decides to seek out her father, thinking there may be a chance to find the family she'd craved all along with him - however slim that chance might be. While she has grown close with the other family members around her, she feels distance is needed from Amarantine to begin to heal. She also is intensely curious about the stallion who sired her, so she makes up her mind and leaves. (anyone who wishes to accompany her on this mission is welcome!)
What she finds is not at all what she expects, of course. She had low expectations to begin with, having had less-than-stellar parental influence her entire life. Still, she was not expecting to spend so long searching for her long lost father just to discover he had become a skinwalker. Luckily, she finds Hallow's Bane first who explains the situation. Her sense of duty to family is too strong to ignore this situation, and she agrees to help seek him out and charm him.
Working on this important goal she finds that she has a great many talents she was never recognized for before. Each day is one of self-discovery, and before she knows it she is built up and feeling good about herself. After her father is successfully returned to them, she is able to meet him for the first time. She stays with him for a time, helping to ease his pain as best she can.
Eventually, though, there comes a time where she feels she must strike out on her own journey. For most of her life she has considered her family's well-being over her own, putting everyone first. Now is her time. She leaves on a solo spirit journey to seek out her true self. Eventually she returns, a happier, healthier mare who is ready to face her mother once more. She reconnects with all the family members she had gotten close to as well. She confronts her mother and forgives her totally. She's pretty sure her mother never felt that she had done wrong, but that's ok. Perri wasn't forgiving Amarantine to make HER feel better. She also checks in with her father and seeks to develop a relationship with him as well, making sure he's transitioned well back into normal life and hoping he's forgiven himself. Other: I have lots of ideas! I love plots and there's so much potential for greatness here!
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 7:15 pm
Username:
ATh e a r t
Name of foal:
Iliana - 'bright' in Greek (I was thinking either Amarantine named her after her father to show her favor of him, or Guilian named her himself) [[ IT'S GREEK AND A MASHUP... sort of XD ]]
Temper of foal:
(I have a tendency to leave this off certs now, because I don't think one word/phrase does them justice). I think I'd choose 'weak-minded', at least in the beginning :3
Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?:
Amary for a good part of her life. A bit stuck on her mother, feeling special that she was kept (unlike the other brother).
Tell us about yourself!
Iliana was proud that her mother chose to keep her. Yes, there was her brother as well, but at least she wasn't abandoned. It wouldn't have been the same with her father - he didn't carry her until she was placed in the basket. She grows up being very attached to her mother and wanting to help and please her in any way she can. Iliana doesn't see herself as a tool or accessory, but a beloved helper (to her mind, anyways). She's in a love-hate relationship with her brother, Antian. Iliana wants to love him for the sake of being siblings (and the kind-hearted soul she is underneath), but she dislikes how useful he is to Amary. As a young mare, Iliana doesn't see her own beauty, but her mother probably will. She doesn't notice how others look at her and feels instead of them looking at her mother - she feels like her and others bask in the glory of her mother. Amary, however, could try to use her innocence in her favor. (Possible plot) Her mother meets a stallion that catches her fancy. Part of her wants more foals, more tools and accessories to help her improve the relationship with her family. However, Amary doesn't want the burden of pregnancy. Amary, knowing Iliana's weakness for her mother, convinces her to carry children for her. Essentially, Amary will 'start' the night and Iliana would 'finish'. (Could be more than one stallion? Iliana won't tell you~) (Possible plot) Iliana will comply with (well, from an outsider's point of view 'serve') her mother's wishes and end up pregnant (by at least one stallion? who knows... maybe more...). Amary will take Iliana on 'vacation' with her, making her feel more special. In reality, it would be the course of the pregnancy and Amary will take the foals once they are in the baskets, claiming them as her own. After the first pregnancy, Iliana's personality would become weaker. She sees the foals as her 'siblings' not children. Whenever her mother asks her to, she will watch her 'siblings'. It would be interesting for her extended family to see something is wrong. Even if Amary was confronted about the children, Iliana would defend her mother. ( Added 03/18 ) Iliana wanders a lone for a while and stumbles upon her brother (and maybe father?). The mare definitely looks unwell, so she tells her secret to her brother (and father), thinking that the rest of her family would never know. (This could lead to a confrontation from her brother? BUT WHO KNOWS...) (Happy ending...?) Maybe she'll meet some stallion that she doesn't want her mother to 'share' with her. Maybe she's finally wants the truth out in the open about her 'half siblings'. Either way, some event(s) will lead Iliana to be able to step out of her mother's shadow - showing the 'brightness' of her own being. (Not so happy ending...?) Illiana never quite managed to find herself. She ends up either staying under her mother's 'guidance', or another takes over and is even worse. I can see this becoming a cursed walker plot, if she loses herself XD Her father could help with this one :"D
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Thanks for the chance <3 I adore Guilian and his family! I stuck a lot of the 'other' with her personality, I think XD
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Username: stormflower Name of foal: Adrasteia (Greek: Feminine form of Greek Adrastos, meaning "inescapable" or "not running away." In Greek mythology, this is the name of a nymph who cared for the infant Zeus, and also an epithet belonging to the goddess Nemesis.) Temper of foal: Redeeming Who do you start out with, Mom or Dad?: I'm more leaning toward being with Dad, I get more plot or in depth plot avenues going with dad. Tell us about yourself! Affectionately called 'Tia' she would be left with her father and be raised with his side of the family. She would be able to tell her father loves her and her brother deeply but knows he is unable to be around. As she gets older she learns more of her fathers distress and the main cause being her mother who she hasn't met. She holds a slight disdain for her mother, but still wants to think it cant be all that bad. She is one that believes in 2nd chances and wants to believe all souls can be redeemed.
As a filly she is always laughing and smiling and when her father is around she likes to try and spend time with him as much as possible and wants to make him smile. She would want to play a big part in helping her father heal as she grows older and his decent begins. She would seek to perfect her healing abilities to heal better and in her training and experience with healing her father it will bring out her nurturing tendencies and she will be a very motherly and loving mare.
She is a soft speaker as an adult, but when her father hits bottom she will blame her mother and her narcissistic ways. She will want to seek her out and try to have her redeem herself, repent, realize how her ways hurt her family more then she could know. Whether she succeeds in this is TBD, regardless she will later return to aid in the efforts to charm her father as he was not himself when he spiraled down that path.
She will seek to heal others mentally and physically, I can see her finding those that have should that are broken and bruised and she will wish to heal them and show them they can be saved, they can redeem themselves and that its not the end for them. She will want to show others there is still light in day, a rainbow waiting to shine through the clouds and someone who will always care.
Other: I kinda incorporated plot potential in her about above, but would love lots of family interaction to really develop her personality more. Otherwise they are an amazing family and would be an honor to be able to be a part of it. Thanks for the chance <3
