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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately, Matahari, it has been brought to my attention through staff that . . . well. . . you've been black listed from the shop.




So unfortunately I am going to have to nix your entry with Kisa and your eligibility for the advertising contest.

I'm sorry to have to do this. Kisa, you are still eligible to try for the contests or get a new partner for the mate-game, but unfortunately Matahari cannot.

Don't shoot the messenger, please, it's just what I have been told.

XD Of course I am!!!!!! -had a couple f really busy days- But Im free today!!!!

ROFL if these guys don't get more than 8 applicants I'll eat my hat!!! -Goes to attempt to reorganize siggy- Ugh.. gaia limits are a pain.

I WAS TOTALLY REFERRED BY SOMEONE!
Username: Amirynth
Who Referred You? Kaisanti


Kisa: I'd love to try for the male if you wanted to try out together ^-^~

then for the black/white cub it's all done!

Everyone's A Hero
Username: Amirynth
SoA Name & Meaning (if applicable):
Desired Future Rank and Why: Hunter or guard... or maybe babysitter
Is she diseased (and if so at what stage do you intend for him to show symptoms?), a carrier or immune? She is diseased but has been lucky so far in that it either progressed slowly or hasn't been that far in. (the only showing so far is the markings/sores on her nose and that she get's weak if she pushes herself too much)
Personality: Adventurous and full of life right now, *insert name* is devastated when she starts to realize she isn't the lucky one of the litter she was born from. She will become rather secretive about that part of herself and find ways to push herself more to try and prove she isn't one of the diseased. If confronted she might try and snap at people who tell her to 'take it easy' and while she doesn't dislike the others, there will be moments when she feel like she wants to lash out at the sicker ones of the pride. On her good days however, she is a sweetheart on the inside and is loyal to a fault. I hope that she ends up attaching to someone (be it a 'blood sister' or a best friend or maybe a hunting partner) who she will end up revealing she is sicker than she lets on but that is something for the future.
What is her relationship like with others in the pride (both adults and cubs her age?): As a cub she is a bundle of joy. Full of energy and prone to getting into things. As many of the pride hope that as she was the one survivor from her litter, she is actually immune from the disease, they may be a little more protective of her. She might think she is 'destined for great things' and when she finds out this cannot be so it'll be interesting to see how things turn about. While amongst others she is very friendly, almost a social butterfly, she is also secretive. She will even go so far as to try and hide the fact that she is sick from others as she will feel that it will make her less in peoples eyes.
Where did she come from? Born in the pride, she was one of four and was a great joy to the pride as they seemed to be perfectly healthy cubs. Her mother, however, never seemed to get better after all the stress of birthing and soon passed away. Her three siblings each slowly became more and more listless until they joined their mother in the spirit realm. Even so, she was still loved and cared for, many hoping that she was the survivor of the group and would be immune to the disease. At present she seems quite healthy and full of energy though as she grows into her teen years and started to train as a huntress of the pride small little tale tell signs point the other way. After a long hunt she found herself out of breath more often and it is starting to get harder and harder to rise in the morning. Heavy stress seems to tie her down but she is trying to hide it as much as possible, not wanting anyone to know that she is sicker than they think.
Any other notes of interest about the cub? The red markings are actually part of the disease manifesting.
Link to one or two completed or current RPs - Just to get a sense of your writing style! Soquili teepee, Rynn and Zev's story
Why should we pick you? Just curious. . . I applied for this pride a while back with a re-worked Rynn (whom one day I'll get! *shakes fist*) I love the idea and would be honored to take a part in the building of it's members.

XD Awsome! Got a referal!!!

-threadbumps- ninja

What a Man's Gotta Do
Username: Redbud-Tree
SoA Name & Meaning (if applicable): Alama na’Kifu (Marked for death)

Desired Future Rank and Why: Priest of the goddess of Souls. Having lost his mother and siblings at the time of hiss birth, Alama is often drawn to think about what their lives would have been like had they lived, and where they might be now. Hoping to get to see them again someday (though he knows it will only be once he has succumbed to the disease himself), he will learn to follow the ways of the goddess of souls, to hopefully ease others’ passing and honor the loss of the mother and littermates he never knew.

Is he diseased (and if so at what stage do you intend for him to show symptoms?), a carrier or immune? Alama is diseased and will begin to show the first symptoms while still a young cub. He’ll stay in the first stages, with occasional bouts of more extreme weakness and coughing, up to adolescence, where he will start to teeter between the first and second stages. He will last some way into adulthood before his health finally fails him completely, hopefully having sired a little of cubs in the meantime.

Personality: A thoughtful and often introspective cub, Alama is prone to periods of self-pity and general snappishness, particularly at those lions and lion cubs that are (or at least appear to be) healthier than he is. To those as sick as or sicker than him, however, he has only the greatest respect for, and even sometimes envies those that are close to death – after all, with any luck they won’t be suffering for too much longer.

In some ways he even envies his lost siblings, and is particularly curious about the sister he had. She had seemed the strongest of his littermates, as he’s been told, so why did she die and he survive? That’s a main focus of his cubhood and time as a juvenile – he tries his hardest to figure out why some are marked for a swift death while others must suffer, and still others are completely unaffected.

Growing older, however, he comes to accept the disease and suffering that surround him, and as his own condition worsens he becomes less self-pitying and more focused on helping others who suffer to achieve a peaceful rest – hoping that in helping others to do so, he might earn such a rest for himself.
What is his relationship like with others in the pride (both adults and cubs his age?): As a cub, Alama is considerably jealous of others that seem to be healthier than him, and if he’s caught on a day where he’s feeling particularly unwell he is quite likely to strike out, both verbally and with claws. As he grows older this jealousy will die down due to his growing understanding that the healthy lions didn’t choose to wind up that way any more than he chose to get sick.

His attitude towards other diseased lions, particularly those worse off than he, is especially considerate, and he will do what he can to make the worst-afflicted just a bit more comfortable, in whatever way he can. Being too weak to roughhouse or play very much, Alama is distant from other cubs, and it will take an especially patient and persistent cob or two to get past his defensive walls and become his friend.

Where did he come from? Alama was born into the pride, but his mother was too weak to survive the birth, orphaning him immediately. His three other siblings (two other males and one female) died shortly after birth, the female holding onto her tiny life for almost a week before finally dying and leaving Alama the only survivor of the family.

Any other notes of interest about the cub? Ironically, Alama was the runt of his litter and was thought to be stillborn for the first few minutes of his life; for a while his chances of survival were deemed minimal and he was given his name.

Link to one or two completed or current RPs - Just to get a sense of your writing style! SoA RP 1 SoA RP 2

Why should we pick you? Just curious. . . Because I adore the Kitwana’Antara, the entire concept of the plague, and because I need to have a lion in there who’s not as hyper and naïve as Kubwa’na’Kiburi is.

Thanks for the entries guys!

But guess what?

Nerpin, bless her heart, made us three more lions! (Two lionesses, including one with some small edits, and a male!)

I'm going to have to figure out what to do with these guys. Some of them may have a more specific role involved in future plot.

Let me mull and think about stuff for a little bit. I'll get to updating entries and whatnot soon.

I'll Stand By You
Username: Redbud-Tree
Which SoA Are You Gunning For? Green Male
SoA Name & Meaning (if applicable): Kijani Machozi (Swahili for ‘green tears’, a reference to the dark streaks of green extending from his eyes)

Desired Rank and Why: A Scout or a Spy, for he is intelligent, capable of listening well, and easily passes for your random rogue rather than a Kitwana-born lion.

Is he diseased, a carrier or immune? Kijani is one of the rare few that are immune to the disease. As such, he feels it’s his duty to try and help the pride hold together - and also tends to keep a little apart from the rest of the pride, simply because being immune makes him either a target of envy or pity from the other pride members, depending on how you look at it. His immunity allows him to travel outside the pride lands on missions for the King or Queen, and so he feels that his duties are best served away from those he cannot emotionally connect to.

Was he born in to the pride or did he join later? Kijani was born into the pride, as the odd-one-out of a litter of three cubs. The other two, both females, were of the usual browns, whites, and blacks of those born within the pride. Kijani, however, was born as green as the grass during the rainy season, a genetic throwback to a rogue ancestor three generations prior to his. Both of his sisters were diseased; one didn’t live past cubhood and the other was just a few months shy of reaching adulthood before she too succumbed. Kijani’s mother was too weak to raise the cubs, passing away by the time he hit juvenile, so he spent most of his time with a Nanny, a cheetah who eventually died of old age.

Personality: Kijani is intelligent, calm, observant and emotionally distant from others. He’s polite to everyone but a friend to none, both because of his potentially dangerous rank and because of the fact that he is immune, and would rather not get attached to those who he will eventually have to see die. A quiet lion who prefers to listen over talking, he nevertheless will speak his mind when he feels that his opinion is truly pertinent to the conversation at hand.

If he has an idea to help the pride in some way, he will wait for the appropriate opening and mention it, rather than keep it to himself out of embarrassment. As a healthy, strong lion he is likely expected to take a mate, or at least sire several litters of cubs in his lifetime, but he harbors a fear of doing so because he doesn’t want to see a mate or cubs die; thus he is more likely to accept flings as a matter of duty, and not look back.

What is his relationship with other members of the pride?: Kijani is unfailingly loyal to the royalty of the pride, but keeps himself emotionally distant from everyone, particularly those that are clearly diseased. He doesn’t want to get involved because he doesn’t want to get hurt any more, and he knows that in this pride, relationships will always, always lead to heartbreak. This isn’t to say that wooing him would be impossible, just that it would take a great amount of persistence and reassurance.

Kijani is a bit closer to the non-lion pride members, purely because they, too, are immune from the disease, but not so close that he spends any great deal of time with them. He is particularly wary of Cheetahs, because the Nanny that raised him was a Cheetah and being around them tends to wake the pain that he still carries for her loss.

What is his history up until now? Raised in the pride as an immune cub, Kijani has outlived both of his sisters, his mother and his caretaker. If he’s met his father at any point in time, he doesn’t know it, and mostly he writes him off as being either dead or dying, and doesn’t bother searching for him. Growing up he was quiet and watched others, but kept his distance because he knew his immunity to the disease was a sore spot to some.

Due to his distance from others, along with his intelligence, observational skills, and green fur, he sought out the training it took to become a Scout or a Spy so that he could spend most of his time away from the main pride and avoid having to get attached to those he was bound to lose.
Link to one or two completed or current RPs - Just to get a sense of your writing style! SoA RP