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Character Name: Seathra
Current Location: Matori
Journal: Journal
Growth Point Links:
Initial Thoughts 2
Shape and Form 1
Fall Harvest 2
A Favorite Book 2
Nightmare 1
Broken Arm 1
Pen Pals 2
Rite of Passage 3
A New Book 1



Physical Description:
A bikini similar in style to Hrafns in the black and yellow wasp/feather coloration/pattern. Dangly thin rhombus jewels wrapped with cord around her torso. Necklace with Teeth and Lime Green and Royal Blue beads. Keeping the center part of her current necklace with the beads and feathers just add two canine teeth and the beads to either side should be perfect please.
Hair wavey, half up half down with a fancy asian style dangly hairpin.

Body Type: Curvy (medium) but muscular fit

Preferred Artists: Lines Kana or Scar, color Tas or Ely
WIPs: Yis

class affinity

She knew, had known all along what she was going to be, who her people were. Bloodlines were very important, but only to keep the family strong, they were not really picky otherwise. However, she figured the strong family background in taming would come in handy. She had been right too. Her family had set her up with a difficult task. If she could tame this headstrong bull Janarim, she could keep him and would become a beast taming apprentice, which would net her the tutelage she so badly needed to excel at her chosen craft. She had a whole bunch of honor to uphold, and no less than one sister whose face she had to rub in that accomplishment. She had gone head to head with her eldest sister since she was hatched. She had places to be.

For now, though she really had to focus on the task at hand. The huge male glared at her, red eyes glinting as he too sized up this pint sized challenger of his. It had taken three large men and a very large quhar to convince him that the stark freedom had not been in his best interests. He was the largest thing out here. He could smell it. She was insignificant, but she had a pointed, determined look in her eye that made him feel quite wary. It was nonsense to worry about it. What could she possibly do to him after all? She watched, she hunted, and she spit the kill over the fire until the smell of the meat settled into the air like a great guest at a dinner party.

She grinned evily as she heard large feet crunch over the gravel sized stones.

"Fancy meeting you here come to share and at least hear me out old boy," she spoke as if to a long time friend.

Charisma has always been her thing. She offered him a sizzling leg from the catch of the day, and he wasn't sure what to make of it. No two leg had ever been this polite before. He was bemused and in turn, baffled. What could she possibly want from him? He took the proferred meat and disappeared back into the darkness. Sharing kindly with something families did. She pulled the other leg off and bit into it. Step one; share a carcass, was already complete.

He would come back tomorrow, perhaps with a treat for her, some cool feather or other gift. They were polite like that, at least the ones where this wild guy hailed from. They, like so many others, had set patterns and rituals, sometimes more than likely behavior, and her family knew all the secrets. One just had to know who to ask, not that there was only one source per critter, and she had been sure to ask the experts about their research favorites.

She had been born to do this, and she had the experience of her people. She curled up snug in her camping tent at night, comforting, safe. Not everything worthwhile could be done in a single day, no matter that it had been gentle introduction today, it was good to leave them a bit curious. That way they might just be interested in staying around just a little bit longer. That was the other trick that her grandpa had told her. He was super helpful as always. So much experience, just like grandma Nin, she could have asked anyone, but he did have the most experienced records, she had looked and her dad had catching up to do.

She slept deep like she had not a care in the world. She had been studying for this for a long time, she was more than ready. Unbeknownst to her, the young male had come to sniff around and learn about the newcomer. She was interesting, but he did not learn much. Expect that she was an omnivore, which seemed odd, who wanted to eat seeds, fruits and vegetables.

The next morning, found Seathra wrapped in a blanket against a chill morning poking her fire awake. Once she had it established, she put the coffee on the fire and let the heat sink into her bones. Ah, now that was better. She tilted her chin up with a beatific smile on her face, just lovely. Hard to believe that this was an actual test. The way to tell if she was prepared for the rigors to come. Of course, she already knew the answer. She had been born to do this. She reckoned she would show them what she could do. She had always had a certain way with animals, right from day one. It was good when you were around animals from a young age. Gave her a few more years of experience than most other people.

A twig snapped and she nursed a hot mug of coffee with honey.

"Good to see you back so soon, my friend, she casually tossed him the leftovers from her meal the other night, sharing the same portion. Rule two, enhanced comradery.

He snatched it out of the air, eyeing her curiously. She watched him hesitate and then settle down. She side eyed him over their coffee. They did speak the same language then, very well, she accepted his company with little rustle as was polite. It would be time soon for him to bring her something to her that he felt she would appreciate somehow, she would be amused at what he came up with.

She was halfway through eggs and bacon when her critter came back with a medium sized rabbit type of thing. He dropped it at her feet and nudged it toward her. She put down her food. After sneaking him a bit of the bacon, she gutted the fresh kill and presented him with liver, heart and lungs right off the bat. Waste not want, not, she skinned the creature and would tan the hide later, and then processed the carcass to simmer in the cook pot all day for dinner.

Step three, accept the gift. That only left step four; touch. Over the course of the day, she'd go about her business until there came an opportunity, but this was the part she would have to be most patient with. It was the easiest piece of the dance to muck up, and it would have pushed her over the time limit if she botched it. She didn't want to risk having to ask for an extension, she might not get it. Plus it would be shameful and would likely bruise her ego, which she could do without. No, it be in her best interest to go slow, even if she wanted to ride on his back like a princess on her royal steed. It would be so good to execute this right and show them all how truly special she was and he was for she could tell he was a special beast, an extra spark of intelligence flashed in his reptilian eyes.

She grinned evilly, that would show her big sis just how seriously she should be taking her. All glory, no apologies.

The morning seemed to go quickly and Seathra dug out her best book and flopped down flat in the field. Perhaps in his eyes, her oddest, most curious behavior yet. Eventually, he couldn't take it anymore, and he padded over to see what she was doing. He sniffed her book, and absently, she reached over to pet his nose, just like she had a million times with her dad's janarim mount, so many times she did it without thinking, and was shocked to look up and see that it was her wildie.

She swallowed. Step four. Lacking any other options, she kept petting before slowly retracting her hand. He hadn't trampled her to pulp, so she was hopeful that her little accident had worked. She flipped the page in her book and told the Janarim, in a patient voice, the whole plot line, and that it was by a local author. The janarim for his part, understood almost nothing. However, her steady voice sounded safe, so he relaxed after the pet.

Most unusual these two legs, though, admittedly, it had felt pretty good.
"Are you going to help me out by not being a weenie tomorrow when I show them how far we came?"

So long as he behaved docile and seemed to be listening, and they would win and she would pass either way, this handsome thing would be her new bestie. He and her snaptrotter would look so very good together. Their dad had great taste in critters, and no doubt it had taken him months to find this particular beautiful specimen with just the right temperament and experience to be a challenge and still be very worth following through on the training. Plus he was an absolutely beautiful specimen, proud, young and with a seemingly solid mind, a very fine male indeed.

She was proud that her dad set such challenge. It showed his face and faith in her. And if he had faith in her, she did too, and she had faith in her critter. So much work had gone into this, she was sure it would be fine.

The next day, she showed the judges how comfortable he was with her. I would take food and that he didn't mind touch. He even nudged her subtley, which made her dream even harder. That was sure a sign of trust. She didn't believe in rushing training. Fortunately, neither did her kin, unless it was a weird circumstance. Proof of touch meant that everything was going well, and she could continue to work with him to expand her experience and add to her portfolio. But most importantly, this meant she got to keep him, even if she failed.

As it turned out, she did, in fact, pass Seathra accepted her dues and then spent the next two months working day in day out with her new janarim. The biggest issue she had was that her large male snaptrotter wanted nothing to do with the Janarim and vice versa. Neither male was impressed with the divide of her attention. In a way, she was lucky that the love of her was the biggest issue. But how did she get them to behave? Putting them together, failed, bonding exercises, failed. Maybe would take more epic effort or more drastic measures to get them to work together as a team. One could not make a triangle one of the strongest shapes with only two sides. She would continue to try new ideas until she figured it out. Perhaps she would have to try a long road trip, or perhaps time was simply the answer.

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Bonding
Over time she got to know her new snaptrotter friends. Funnily enough they both bonded to her and got along better with the janarim than they did with each other. This worked out for her for sure. Her Dad had shaken his head and pinched the area behind his eyes but even he could not deny that the apple didnt fall far from the tree. This pleased her greatly. He also helped her start their training. Which with two wild bulls was a heck of a lot more intensive. This got to thr point where for a whole month she slept in the stable with them. It made chores, bonding and everything else that much easier. Her mom had brought a matress out and she was considering making this arrangement permanant. It was very comfortable now.

Trainig was going well but today she was ready for another adventure. So she went through the motions, stole some hearty cheese and bread from the main house stores and a scone. It wasnt really theft but she practiced her stealth while she was in there so she got points for that. She saddled up Diablo and tied the other two along in a pony trail. They were at least calmer standing beside each other despite the hot eyed glares. Red gaze met yellow and turned away aloof. Both of them got a treat for their good behaviour. Sometimes it was as simple as that training and other times it was a great big to do with a dustup and occasionally some mild bleeding and angry feels. She supposed not being able to predict any of it was what made her profession fun. It truly set her alive even though her skills as her father told her were just budding. She had the basics down and the rest would come with time. At this point he and Thall had trained more critters than she had even seen in her short life and she wanted to stand among their ranks as one of thr best. Her family lined carried pride determination and ambition. She was pretty surr that those were the words written in ancient writing on her families sheild. Upon it a rampant wolf danced over a blue sea. Ushiwa's sigil and the flag they flew at training games.

Once she had a mate of her own one day, she could make her own shield, one that would represent her at the training games and she and her good critters. Her goal was to be well renouned by the tome she had seen thirty winters. Her elder sister had been notorious by then because she had focused really hard on her career for so long before finding her mate. Seathra bet she could do better. She would make her papa proud of her accomplishments and her Mama too, she adored her Mama who was always there for her kids whenever they needed to talk. Seathra honestly couldnt understand the hostility between her Mom and Kechiri. Her Dad told her time and again that they were just too alike but she thought that it might be jealousy over Dad that was the root cause as to her knowledge like her, Kechiri actually took after Ushiwa.

They snuck away from the busy main thoroughfare, she was sure that her older brother knew she had gone, he was awfully clever with such things. She presumed he used Ultears help more often then he let on as being blended into yhr shadows was more useful that great squidfish creatures on land. She wondered what super powers her sisters new kids would get. They were unassumingly small right now but with their regal bloodlines they would bear watching. She was not about to let her guard down based on thr fact they were family but she would see how they developed too. All was fair in love, war and blood ties. She had ribbons to earn.

Their trip so far was going suspiciously well. The boys were quietly bickering in thr back but not enough that it was impeding the progress of the janarim in thr lead. Diablo snorted at their silly antics and swung his head around to growl when one or the other crowded into him but they were learning and as they were not even his own species he didnt mind babysitting them too much. They would not go after any of his females after all.

Seathra thought that this had been a rather clever idea, right up until a bird flushed from thr undergrowth and things went just a bit sideways. The black and red snapper lunged for the bird, the other tried to bolt as he was started and Diablo lurched a bit being connected to both of them. Seathra who had been quite deep in thought was thrown from the saddle and bumped her arm. It hurt, she could tell it wasnt broken but she was quite unhappy. She organized the critters glad to see that the snapper had indeed caught thr bird.
"I hope you enjoy that snack my arm is going to take a few days to a week to heal because you got hungry." She was a bit proud of his agility though. At least all her critters were fit, trim and young. All for the better in times like these. Her trip was somewhat dampened but this still beat the crap out of any regular book learning she would have had yo do had she still been at the ranch.

Speaking of which the rest of this ride was not nearly so attractive as when she had started uninjured but would she be doing her courage justice of she threw in the proverbial towel now? No she would go around a few more bends and decide if she needed Granny Nin to look at her arm or Einsol if Granny wasnt around. Seathra liked admiring the hair color she had gotten from her grandma. It was rare and iconic in the famil and she was thr only granchild with it so far which had been a bit surprising considering both of her parents sported the more traditional blue hue. Quite dominant genes from the ice side from her observations. Her family was vast and powerful and quite niche. They had a few new magic users. She would continue the beast taming tradition though since her brothers and sisters had totally dropped the ball. How dare they not see how important taming was to Dad. Plus younger beast tamers mean that the ranch would not fall to ruin when Daddy and Uncle had to retire. She had Tathy but he was a swarmkeeper and was always tied up with honey production, sales, his small critters and spending time with Talria. Which fair, she was super cool being a lightning and stuff. The only lighting residing at the ranch though they had a couple from leaf and Oban and alk type lineages the main force was ice and water or a mix of the two. It was funny how so many strings of luves had intertwined to create the unique tapestry that was the ranch. She would include the critters too as they were the other half of what made the ranch run. Without critters they would be a family camp and nothing more.

She would never ever let that come to pass. She had too many ambitious plans. Before she knew it the next three bends had gone, her arm ached dully and she had to reach a decision. She hopped off and submerged her arm as Mama had told her to do to reduce pain and swelling. The water was cool and refreshing so she dunked her head too and flicked her mane of wet teal hair back yhr water soothing her dry skin and trickling its coolness down her back. This was living. This was freedom. This was who she was mean to be. She could feel it in her bones. Wherever else her feet might take her she would always be after she graduated a beast tamer from Matori from a tamer family and daughter of her elegantly dangerous father. He always made sure to spend time with them all even if it was a tea time in the afternoon. He worked so hard to keep all of his kids and grandkids comfortable. She was trying very hard to keep her jealousy under control and only compete with her sister. She had no quartel yet with the kids and she would toe the line.

The sun was beginning yo hang lower in thr sky and she figured she should start heading back before it got too dark out here. Yes she had large protective scaled body guards but she lacked a weapon of any kind or nearby family to come save her butt if there were any unsavories out here. She had been warned and warned again. Elaxi had not been so luck and Mom hadnt been able to stop her kidnapping despite valliant effort. Being stabbed multiple times had made it more difficult. The big point was that her mom and sis were together again. Now Seathra too better make it home for late tea.
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She had done it. She had put an order in for a radaku pup using her own coin earned from chores and extra errands around town and at the ranch. She had worked her booty off too. Now she was on the ship her brother owned and it had just reached port of the coast of Jauhar where she would be able to pick up the very special puppy that she had bought. Excited was putting it mildly. Diablo looked amused at her pacing back and forth on the ship. Her two snaptrotters had chosen to swim not ride and they had just pulled themselves out onto the beach and were rolling in the sand.

Once she was able to get off the ship she headed directly to the meeting point and met a young shifter that sometimes helped the family with errands in town. She was somewhat disapointed that he was not blood kin to the people from which the radaku came but them were the breaks. The critter was a silvery gray in color with pale white dapples and dark blue eyes. He was gorgeous and was a tad older than the proper puppy she had been expecting but her guide assured her that that meant he had been trained more than a pup would be.

She handed over her hard won coin with a flinty eye. It still hurt to pay. But she knew what he was worth coming from a beast taming family and it would definitely be worth it in the end. His father was proven at hunting and protection and his dame came from a long line of hunting companion stock that was versatile both on the couch and in the field. She would be happy with this one.

On the voyage home she worked hard on coming up with a name and finding out exactly how much training this new boy had, under the ever present watchful eye of diablo.

"I think I will name you Wolf. After all that is what they call my father and his twin; wolves. Apparenlty and now this is heresay but there was once a wild and furry creature that roamed this world back about a zillion years that was once called that but the records are a bit shotty and no one has seen anything quite like them, no matter how far they travel. I wonder if you are somehow perhaps a long lost descendent or a sister line. Who knows what life's tapestry weaves over the many many eons that the earth exists." She tried not to think too long on it as it might give her a headache but sometimes when she couldn't for the life of her sleep at night due to one reason or another she would ponder things like that.

The voyage home was long and she got to know her new friend. It had been a good family outting and a bit of trade had been done too. It was much faster than trying to do the trip over land and it was good practice for her to be on the boat as well. She had her beast taming yes but she fully intended on being a sailor like her brother and sister too and so she put in hours learning on the boats too. She was at times very very busy but the extra experience should pay off once she was a fully fledged beast charmer.

The more work she put in now she reasoned the better off she would be later when she didn't have as much support when she was off in far off exotic places to teach stupid people how to deal with their critter problems. Not all of them were dumb of course but her daddy said that some people didn't have common sense with critters and that was where she came in.

She couldn't fix silly but she could educate when she needed to. She thought that might just be the hardest part right there but she would try and do her best anyway.

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