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Applying for: Vestip x Sunniva
Name of SoA: Sigryn
Meaning: ninja
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Father's wing marking, with the inner wing and the outer. CC colors based on rest of cub.
Red to orange fade mane with a black or white streak in the braid
Black body.
Some sort of under-eye marking.
Everything else I leave to CC, possibly based off her namesake :'D
Visual reference: N/A
Personality: A vicious little fighter at heart, she seeks to gain approval from those she thinks she needs to impress. This can lead to her running into situations where she will come out with a few more bruises than if she'd thought things through. Feisty and sassy, always quick with a one-liner or an insult. She tends to remain calm during a crisis and are not easily traumatized.
Any additional requirements that the family has: Nawp

Applying for: Harakhty x Senka Hjordis
Name of SoA: Shakäste
Meaning: Kind of a bastardization of Shikasta, from the Persian word shekasteh meaning "broken"
Gender: CC! Personality will remain the same.
Appearance:
Mother's pretty midnight-y body color, same black pawtips, ear tips, back legs and tail.
Black mane/tail with a white streak.
Mother's stripes on both front legs, localized like dad's. Sort of emenating from the back marking and the back leg markings, but not fully. Almost like vapor coming off them.
Bigger back stripes, same color/type as mother's though.
Mother's stripes also on the face, but localized on the nose/muzzle
An under-eye marking like daddy, thicker to be like mother's stripes.
Grandmother's teal-blue eyes
A grey-blue chest splotch.
Visual reference: this is VERY quick and VERY poorly done cuz my wrist is in pain but i cant describe well so.

Personality:
A pacifist, they can be considered a doormat. Sometimes it seems like they're spacey and a bit oblivious.
Full of love, they're too afraid to show it. So shy and withdrawn are they, that most people think that they're mute, they never speak up.
The exception is, of course, their family.
Around those they love dearly, they ramble nonstop about things they're currently interested in!
It's hard for them to come out of their shell at all in public, and can often be found curled up beside mom or dad, or hiding behind one of their siblings.
They try to see the best in every situation.
Any additional requirements that the family has: I have half a mind to try and make them go through some kind of trauma to get them to stop being such a doormat at some point. Maybe a bully? A run-in with another pride? Just something for character development! Leading to them becoming much more confident, but still quiet and so loving to others. I won't allow them to leave the pride, however, unless their mother leaves. They're going to be a total momma's kid.

Name and image of Father: Tycho

Name and image of Mother:

Number of cubs currently in litter: 4
Number of cubs you're allowing to custom in: 2
Pride/pack/etc they will live in: Vita'Alizaliwa
Any Requirements: None
List of all Throwbacks:
Golka's older half-Brother
Golka's younger Sister
A bit of history about the family: Golka is the current High Warlord of the Vita'Alizaliwa and their uncle is the currend Warchief/leader of the pride.
Extra: Be sure to read up on the Vita'Alizaliwa! heart
Closing Time: TBD when cubs arrive!

Applying for: Tycho x Golka
Name of SoA: Rashona Stormseeker
Meaning: Uh....Orc...ish?
Gender: Female
Appearance: See refs, I drew a lot from Golka's siblings but still looks like a nice mix of the parents~
Visual reference:

Personality:
Freedom is the key to her personality. She loves travel, adventure, variety and meeting new lions, and she longs to experience all of life. She also loves to be involved in several things at the same time as long as she is not tied down to any one area. Change is constant in her world, requiring adaptability and courage.
With her upbeat and often inspiring personality, Rashona makes friends easily and attracts people from all walks of life. She has a way with words and an uncanny ability to motivate others.
She is multi-talented and possesses a variety of diverse abilities. However, discipline and focus are the true keys to her success. Without these, many of the tasks she begins will remain unfinished and she will fail to realize the true fruits of her abilities. With hard work and perseverance, however, the sky is the limit.
She may be perceived as a wild child by adults and a source of concern by her family. However, she will not be obliged to hurry her choices. Rashona's challenge is to learn the true meaning of freedom-from-within through her journey.
As an adult, she is sensual and loves to taste all of life. Sex, food and other sensory experiences are essential to the enjoyment of hers.
She will find it difficult to commit to one relationship, but once committed, she will be as faithful as an old dog.
Any additional requirements that the family has: She's going to aspire to be a Champion of the pride. Make her family proud.

Applying for: Zjarri x Mkhai
Name of SoA: Skuld
Meaning: Means "future" in Old Norse. She was one of the three Norns, or goddesses of destiny, in Norse mythology. She was also one of the Valkyries.
Gender: Female
Appearance: Twin but with pink eyes
Visual reference: As shown above.
Personality: Skuld was born blind, she is unable to see anything to do with the current world around her. She uses her ears and her nose to make her way in the world. She tends to stay close to home since she is still trying to get her paws under her. She isn't a pushover she will claw anyone who threatens her. The famine has torn at her since before she was born, so, later on, I feel she will have a spine of steel and be a powerful seer since fate has taken away her mortal sight.
Any additional requirements that the family has:

Applying for: Mkhai x Zjarri'fol
Name of SoA: Róta
Meaning: One of the Valkyrie, her name is "possibly connected to the Old Norse noun róta (meaning "sleet and storm")"
Gender: Female
Appearance: Twin to the grey camo-patterned girl but with the darkest grey and the white colors switched.
Visual reference: N/A
Personality: Róta will have a small stature in comparison to other stormborn, but thinks her stubborn self-confidence makes up for it. An unusual frailty in her youth coupled with high expectations placed upon herself given her mother's position will result in a young lioness who will often bite off more than she can chew. Training to become a young reaver despite her frailty, Róta will suffer a crippling injury after which she'll have to do some soul searching and will either overcome her injury or bloom into a bright tactician.
Any additional requirements that the family has:

Applying for: Harakhty x Senka Hjordis
Name of SoA: Saskia
Meaning: "valley of the light", Dutch
Gender: Female
Appearance: Base color taken from Dad's front paws, stripe pattern from Mom; end result is a cubbin with a pelt like birch bark. Dad's dark hair with a stripe in like Mom's. Dad's adorable forehead stripe. All other details CC.
Visual reference: n/a
Personality: Saskia will take a great many hints from her mother, and grow up with a proud and unyielding confidence in herself. This may very well take a couple knocks as she grows older, but will not truly waver until she hits adulthood. She will adore hearing stories of her parents' pasts; both Harahkty's as a Dawnwalker, and her mother's as a rogue, and as such will see a certain glamour in the potential of life outside the pride. She'll have your typical questions about the Great Lion's plan for them all, and may seek to go on a "finding yourself" quest as an adol/adult - and while she'll certainly return better for it, the journey would be fun to play out. Due to her love for strangers and stories, she's probably not cut out for her parents' job as a guard; she'll fall into a hunter's role instead, and come to love it almost as much as traveling.

Potential plots include:
- those knocks to her confidence I mentioned earlier, taken in cubhood/adolescence, and her subsequent rebuilding of her surety in herself;
- a run-in with a member of the upper-class that goes poorly, maybe even a rival situation?
- I'd also like her to learn from other pride members about the Tianxia, and other prides that the Mwezi interacts with for that matter - she'd eat up that information.
- Maybe getting in trouble with her parents for having an exceptional leniency toward visitors, to the point of a breach in safety, because the visitor plied Saskia's ear with an exceptionally tasty story.
- The journey to find herself, and see all those prides she's only heard about, is basically a whole thing on its own. I'd like her to find traces of the Dawnwalkers, maybe learn where the pride's old stomping grounds used to be, and make her goal to find it. In doing so, she may very well learn that not all prides are as welcoming as those she's heard about.
Any additional requirements that the family has: Certainly not evil - maybe a bit of a wildling and a pain in the butt sometimes, but not evil.