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 Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 12:02 pm
SoA's Name: Kafara'baya - "sacrifice evil" in Swahili
Personality blurb: Kafa is a loner, suffering from the traumas of his childhood. He spends his days seeking out males who harm or abuse their mates or children. When he finds such a male, he hardens his heart and kills them in cold blood, using whatever trick, cheat, or underhanded move he can. He feels there is no salvation for himself for doing these things, but remains sure that it must be done to set things to rights for others.
Extras: Kafa was an only cub, and traveled with his mother. When he was a late juve, very nearly adolescent, his mother met a male. He was handsome and dashing and made his mother feel special. His mother took him as her mate, and they traveled all three together. Things went well for a time, until the day she announced she was pregnant. For some inexplicable reason, this set the male off.
The male turned out to be cruel and hateful. He struck and clawed his mother every night, telling her how stupid and useless she was. Kafa could not stand it, but his mother begged him not to say or do anything, for fear he'd be hurt as well. It got so bad though that first the cubs were lost, unborn, and shortly after that, his mother died, wracked with great pain and blood loss. Kafa left that night, fleeing into the darkness that his coat blended so well with, terrified and feeling helpless and guilty for not having done something to punish the monster that had killed his mother.
(Sorry for the extended bit of story-telling. He insisted I share it. In the future, I'd like him to meet my druid leopardess, Awani'shairi. He'd find in her a fellow fighter for the weak and needful, and would join her in entering the Chokwe troop. She'd convince him that this was a better method to put things to rights than going about murdering abusive males.)
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:05 pm
SoA's Name: Badr Al-Abdel ("servant of the full moon" in Arabic)
Personality blurb: Badr Al-Abdel is what many would call a sage. He appears to be distanced from everyone and everything, moving through life as an observer rather than a participant. The honest truth is that he has simply become so focused on watching and understanding the complex relationships between other species to the extent that he has forgotten that he too can interact and partake in the act of living. He is like a forgetful old man, one day he will spend hours watching the heavens, struggling with the abstract ideas of fate and the probability of chance and circumstance, then the next day he will be in deep contemplation of the energies of life and just what immortal forces are at work within each creature's life. But above all of his idle 'old man' musings on the workings of the world, he is a talented philosopher and a truly dedicated astrologist. He uses his affinity for the stars to direct his own life, using himself as the ultimate test subject for his theories on life, fate and free will. But ultimately he is a kind and wise, if rather eccentric, leopard and will chatter on in an old man-like way to anyone who will sit still long enough to listen to him. His pearls of wisdom are often hidden within cryptic comments and abstract mumblings. But he is exceptionally brilliant and not a leopard to be dismissed as simply senile.
Extras: I would love for him to brush up against one or two prides, both those who would consider him a burden and more or less useless, and will run him off their land with threatened violence, and a pride who values his convoluted comments and wise insights into the stars and fate. Eventually I would like to find a pride in which he can settle down and live out the remainder of his years in relative peace and safety (and most likely a semi-hermit lifestyle). He would be a scholar and sage to the pride, a grandfather type figure to the youngsters and a mentor to those who wish to pursue the knowledge of the heavens and of life itself.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:15 pm
SoA's Name: Jerle Shannara
Personality blurb: Jerle is a secretive and quiet male with a kind heart. Having lost his parents as a cub he grew up in a place teaching him to be suspicious of nighttime hunters and problems. He feels all feline species are equal and has a soft spot for cubs.
Extras: Jerle is my girl Ilses brother, and they were separated near birth. He would meet her again after so long, as a priest to their pride.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 2:04 pm
SoA's Name: Katsu
Personality blurb: Most cubs are born. He was made, designed, by parents who sought not a loving family but an army to serve in their lust for power. The eldest son, he bore the brunt of their expectations and struggled beneath the weight of it. Growing up under rigorous training stripped the ‘weaker’ ideas of kindness, love, and mercy from his young mind as well as the ‘foolish’ ideas of vengeance, pride, and ambition, leaving him empty inside but more than proficient at the task he was created for. So talented, in fact, then when his parent’s plans for conquest went horribly awry, he was the single survivor of their war. Lost without someone to lead him, he became a mercenary and a deadly one at that. Being ‘heartless’ meant he could be trusted to never hesitate, never spare a target, and he is certainly ruthlessly efficient. His loyalties are malleable, but he is yours until his task is finished. Attachments have little meaning for him, and once he’s finished with you, he can be ‘bought’ by another…even if that other is your enemy. He has no friends, no desires, nothing but the power to kill and the willingness to be commanded. Some small meek part of him wants to find something more meaningful than this cold emptiness, but it would take some doing to let it speak up loudly enough to be heard. Because if he ever ceases in his cold killing and accepts that he can seek more to life…he’ll always have the blood on his claws to remind him of the monster he once was…or maybe always will be.
Extras: An eventual romance plot of course, where he finds someone to help soften up his cold, hard exterior and rediscover his lost childhood sweetness. Would also love tons of enemies/fights, he’s a killer after all and those dead folks must have had friends and family…he’d work well for a ‘you killed my father’ sort of backstory and could fill in other people’s plots like that. Mercenary work too, maybe a pride wants a leader overthrown or something. He can do that too. He’ll probably never wind up a happy cheery sort of person, and will always be standoffish and reserved at best, but maybe he could find a meaning for his life.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 2:58 pm
SoA's Name: Tasemnice (means tapeworm)
Personality blurb: Tase is very interested in the world around him, or so he says. Most people would simply call it being nosy, and he always seems to know the juiciest gossip. But he does it out of kindnes since he's concerned about the well being of those he meets. Yes really! That's his story and he sticks to it! He's got lots of superficial connections but few true friends that doesn't share his love of gossip.
Extras: He'd probably be too impatient and curious to stick to just one pride, but I think he might apply to become a follower of the Goddess of messengers. What better way to learn the most recent gossip than to carry news and messages between prides after all?
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:04 pm
SoA's Name: Tynan; Greek: the dark one
Personality blurb: Shy, quiet, reserved, Tynan has made a life of trying to fit in with his family and be accepted. They've always considered him trouble so he spent most of his time trying to be a perfect angel. Now that he's grown up and on his own he's tried to smother the part of him that would like to be exactly like his great grand father but slowly he's allowing himself to be off his family's apron strings.
Extras: Tynan was born to a family of bright leopards, only he was as dark as his great grandfather, a renowned rogue and thief who was constantly borrowing trouble and not giving it back. Tynan's a natural at thievery even though he's never let that side of him show. Now that he's on his own. There's only one problem. Deep down, so far that not even his parents or siblings know, Tynan is afraid of the dark.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:22 pm
SoA's Name: Charon Personality blurb: He comes off as a little distant, but that's because he assumes everybody he meets is a ghost. Ghosts with flesh and blood bodies, but ghosts none the less. He lives near a river and is an excellent swimmer, spending most of his time on the side of the dead (the other side is the soon-to-be-dead side, so he doesn't consider it to be all that different) and is a bit of an apathetic loner. Oh he'll talk to you if you stop by to say hi, but don't be surprised if he wanders away half way through the conversation. He won't remember you later, or show any happiness at seeing you again. Extras: One day when he was prowling the river banks he saw a lion cub getting swept downstream. He watched her for a bit before going on his way, but when she washed up on the soon-to-be-dead side of the river, something in him stirred and he swam over to check on her. She was still breathing, although unconscious, and for whatever reason he decided to care for her. He kept her in a den on the soon-to-be-dead side of the river, spending the day on the dead side of the river before swimming over every night to bring her some food and care for her. When she confessed that she had strange dreams about another blue lion like her, he urged her to seek him out, even if it broke his heart to lose sight of the only other living creature in all the world.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 5:33 pm
SoA's Name: His name is a title known only by those from his past
Personality blurb: "Chasing our yesterdays, we sacrifice our tomorrows."
It's this observation that best describes he who lost his identity and his past in one sweep. This boy has been plagued by a sense of urgency and frustration for the knowledge he lacks. Who am I? What happened to me? Ever since waking up alone and badly broken this leopard hasn't been able to remember anything about himself or how he'd ended up in such a battered state. With his focus set on uncovering the memories of who he was before he neglects who he has become. A distant creature shrouded in mystery, quick to dismiss those of no relevance to him. Obsessed with a time in his life that he can never change or get back to, he abandons those who could be potential friends long into his future.
Extras: Sooo many ideas for this character, a lot of the plot ideas would probably end up being combined somehow.
+ He could be the last surviving member of a small group of seclusive leopards known for their unusual coloring that were killed off or died out due to disease or something. Maybe he was sent for help, but something happened along the way.
++ He could have gotten into a fight with another leopard over the love/possession of a female and either could have been the bad guy in this battle or the good one before he's pummeled and left for dead. It would be interesting either way, if he found out his love was taken from him he would try to get her back.. but it''d be even more interesting if he tried to get her back and found out she didn't want to be with him!
+++ He meets someone later on who gives him a name and tries to stick by him despite how distracted he is and focused on the past, it helps him to realize he's losing time in the present by not acknowledging those who would build connections and new memories with him.
++++ He could run into people who either try to help him on his journey, tell him it's a chance to start with a clean slate oooor.... malicious strangers on his journey who my insist that he's better off not knowing, because he might not like what he has to find.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 5:53 pm
SoA's Name: Sariyah (“Clouds at Night“, Arabic)
Personality blurb: Sariyah is a calm, wise leopard of few words. He tends to keep to himself, and though he is kind and harmless, there are few other creatures who can boast of knowing him on a personal level. Sariyah keeps his life simple and free of attachments while he wanders from place to place, believing that fate or the Gods will guide him where he is needed. Sariyah travels only at night because he was taught to read the stars as a young cub by his mother, and he uses them to navigate. No matter how much he moves around, in this way he can always find his way back. Sariyah is searching for purpose in his life… he believes he is destined for something great, but he doesn’t know what it is yet.
Extras: - Sariyah’s grand purpose is a future plot that could involve many things, but probably I would choose to have him overthrow the tyrant leader of some leopard pride, start a religious pride of his own or something along those lines. In short, all his travels will lead him to the right place at the right time, as if it were destiny. Before all that happens, I plan to have him wander all over and experience all sorts of things.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:52 pm
SoA's Name: Seyfert - " Seyfert's Sextet" is a group of galaxies Personality blurb: From looking at him, most SoA come away with the impression that Seyfert is a somewhat otherworldly soul ... someone in tune with the cosmos, a spiritual and mysterious fellow. This is not the case. Despite his exotic looks, Seyfert is of below-average intelligence. He is often belligerent, and will pick fights with creatures many times his own size. His favorite phrase is "Do you want a piece of me?!" If Sey were a human, he'd be that obnoxious little guy at the bar that tries to start a fight with anyone and everyone, and eventually gets kicked out along with his very-embarrassed bros. Extras: Sey doesn't get along so great with the ladies. Mostly because he's clueless. Poor guy is definitely a virgin. ._. I'd like his bros to try and fix him up with ladies, giving him terrible advice. Like telling him not to say a word and ruin his elegant good looks, leading girls to believe that he can't speak, or telling him to only ask girls questions about themselves, leading them to believe that he's even more of an idiot than he actually is.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:35 pm
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:51 pm
Winnar! moineau bavarde SoA's Name: Charon Personality blurb: He comes off as a little distant, but that's because he assumes everybody he meets is a ghost. Ghosts with flesh and blood bodies, but ghosts none the less. He lives near a river and is an excellent swimmer, spending most of his time on the side of the dead (the other side is the soon-to-be-dead side, so he doesn't consider it to be all that different) and is a bit of an apathetic loner. Oh he'll talk to you if you stop by to say hi, but don't be surprised if he wanders away half way through the conversation. He won't remember you later, or show any happiness at seeing you again. Extras: One day when he was prowling the river banks he saw a lion cub getting swept downstream. He watched her for a bit before going on his way, but when she washed up on the soon-to-be-dead side of the river, something in him stirred and he swam over to check on her. She was still breathing, although unconscious, and for whatever reason he decided to care for her. He kept her in a den on the soon-to-be-dead side of the river, spending the day on the dead side of the river before swimming over every night to bring her some food and care for her. When she confessed that she had strange dreams about another blue lion like her, he urged her to seek him out, even if it broke his heart to lose sight of the only other living creature in all the world. It just sort of... stood out to me. xD I dunno. Congrats!
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:55 pm
*dies* Thank you so much!
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:35 pm
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:39 pm
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