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 Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:46 am
the bundle
 So, Artemis and Mephistopheles were incredibly prolific for a couple with no prior relations and no interest in future relations, and we can't keep all the cuties. Which brings us to where we are.
the rules
- No whining that you won't win
- Anyone may enter
- Don't discourage others from entering
- This contest runs for one week. If less than three entries are received by the closing day, the contest will be extended by one day until there are three or more entries.
the prompt
Your earliest memories don't reach far enough back to provide you with an image, or even an impression of your mother, yet you know you didn't just come out of thin air. Other palui say your parents didn't want you, and that's why you were left at such a young age, despite the fact that you were left in a safe place with people who would care for you. As a kit, how do you react to this suggestion? Also, were you left in a safe place with humans or in the wild?
You may wish to include the name and gender of your palui.
This is an RP contest, but we, the owners of the parents, are not really looking for RP between our pets and the little charmer above. Which is why our prompt doesn't involve interaction with family. Which is not to say we'd be totally against it at a future date, but for the moment, you're dealing with two palui who aren't interested in having a family.
This contest officially opens June 24th at 9:00am GMT and tentatively ends July 1st at 9:00am EST.
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:24 pm
Can we post? Its cute! *Will try in a minute*
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:51 pm
*is super excited* This was my favourite bundle from Artemis and Mephistopheles' breeding! I'm definitely going to enter! *goes to scrounge up her ideas*
Do we need to come up with a name and stuff for the contest, too?
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:04 am
^^ Yea, you can go ahead and enter!
If you can make it work without naming the palui, that's fine, but equally giving it a name is fine ^w^
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:04 pm
"Look it's the Palui orphan" teased a few Palui kits. They sneered at Leiani and laughed at her, whispering amongst themselves. They all had families. But Leiani had nothing.
"I'm not an orphan!" she cried, glaring at them and bristling her fur in an attempt to look tough. She was still rather small though, and her voice was high and childish. They just laughed at her.
"Your foster parents don't count. It's not the same Lei-loner. Your real parents are gone. What's it like to be abandoned?" The largest one snickered, as the three circling her and pacing around her.
"Feels like I'm gonna rip your face open!" she threatened, lunging at the largest kit with her jaw wide open, showing a few dull baby teeth. A large paw stepped in her path and she skidded to stop. However, she didn't react fast enough and ran straight into the wall of a leg. "Mmph" She looked up and saw her foster father looking down at her, a little disappointed. Her ears fell against her head and she glared at the three kits who ran off laughing. "They were making fun of me" she mumbled as her foster father escorted her back to their home.
"Don't let them get to you, then" he said, calmly.
"Why? Just let them remind me that my parents don't love me? And pretend that's okay?" She could feel tears welling up in her eyes and her voice cracked and felt sore from trying not to cry. They approached an empty hut, though it was clear humans lived there. In the corner were three pillows on the floor for Leiani and her foster parents. She remembered waking up on one of those pillows and seeing her foster parents. She remembered noticing she didn't look anything like her foster parents. She remembered the first time they told her what happened. But she couldn't put faces on the shadowy fragments of her long lost memory of what her parents might have looked like.
The two of them sat down on their respective pillows and were silent. Leiani turned to sulk, facing away from her foster father and heard her foster mother come in. She heard them whisper to each other, but payed it no mind. More of the same she thought. "How come they didn't want me.." she asked finally.
"How do you know they didn't want you?" her foster mother asked back.
"Cause they abandoned me..why else would they just leave me?"
"They left you in our care. If they truly didn't love you, they would have left you to die alone in the wild, but they left you at our doorstep with purpose. They knew we would take you in. I never saw the act, only two shadows running away in the night, but I knew that they waited until I took you inside." she replied, moving closer to Leiani to nuzzle her. Leiani's face softened at this, hearing truth in her foster mother's words. She knew that they must have cared somewhat for her if they put the effort into finding a place where she would be taken care of.
"Perhaps circumstances came up. And they couldn't take care of you. You never know, Leiani." said her foster father.
"Maybe.." was all she said, as she was still too stubborn to accept the reality given to her.
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:16 am
Riza stared out the window of her home at some of the other little Palui outside. They played around under the watchful eyes of their parents, all beaming at the sight of their children having fun. All of this was going on while she sat, alone, in her owner's small dwelling. She sighed, longing for a reason as to why she couldn't be one of those other palui. Why she couldn't frolic about in the sun and then imagine going home to parents. That was when the door to the room creaked open. Riza turned to see Kiki standing in the doorway, her faithful human companion.
"Hey Riza. You wanna go outside and play?" she asked in her typical cheerful tone. Riza looked out the window, then back at Kiki with a single 'Pal' which was a calm, yet somewhat forceful 'no'.
"Why of course I do! It just looks like so much fun!" Kiki's voice turned high pitched, a little thing she did when she was talking to Riza. Because the little Palui (or any palui) couldn't be understood, Riza would fake her desired response in a very annoying high pitched tone with that same stupid smile on her face. At this point, Riza knew it would be better to just give up. Kiki walked over, picked the little palui up, and headed out the door.
Once outside, Riza sat quietly just watching the other palui kids play without her. No one wanted to play with her. They all got this delusional thought that just because she had no parents, that just because she had been abandoned, that there was something wrong with her.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't little orphan Annie," came a snide voice from behind her. Riza turned to see a young male palui. He would always do this, come up and bother her when they were out. She kept her face calm.
"How many times do you have to be told that I'm Riza?" she asked.
He ignored her, "If your parents didn't want you, what makes you think any other palui does, even just to play?"
This burned Riza up inside. She hated when they said that. That her parents didn't want her. She just wanted to die sometimes inside because she knew he was right. No one wanted her. No other palui wanted to have anything to do with her. She was a reject, a loser, a nobody. She couldn't let them win though. She had to make sure they couldn't have complete control.
"So what?" she asked with a shrug, "If my parents, or you, or anybody else doesn't want me; if no one will ever want to play, or if I will never be accepted in this place then I don't care. It's your loss, not mine." she stuck her nose in the air and waved her tail gently back and forth, "I don't need anyone but myself, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong." She stood up now, walking away towards her human. Kiki was the only person who had been there for her, the only one who didn't care about her not having parents.
"You'll never be as good as the rest of us! Never ever!" called the little boy palui in defeat. Riza ignored him as best as she could and kept walking.
When Kiki brought her back inside she stared at the window again as she laid down in the sill. Her ears were down, tears in her eyes. From here on out she was alone in the world. She was going to make them all go away so no one could do this to her again. So no one could leave her to be abandoned. And she was going to do it all with a sneer on her face even if inside, all she wanted to do was break down and cry.
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:16 pm
Patchwork, a Palui kit, nosed around a ways outside the human settlement. His human was off at work, so he was free to roam for the day. Suddenly five other kits bounded up to him.
“Hehe, look, it’s the misfit!” the largest one crowed gleefully. A little one looked up curiously at his older brother.
“Palu? What do you mean?” he asked. The largest kit, who looked as if he’d be an adult soon, sneered at Patchwork.
“That Palui doesn’t have any parents. They abandoned him on a human doorstep. He isn’t related to any of the Palui we know!”
A female Palui kit had been edging close to Patchwork like she wanted to poke him. Patchwork fluffed up and growled, and she scampered away to hide behind one of the other Palui.
“Careful, Naya, you don’t want whatever he has. If you get it, your parents might forget about you, too.”
“My parents could never forget me!” Patchwork hissed angrily. “They loved me, so they made sure I’d be safe!”
“That’s what you think,” another big kit, a female this time, smirked. “You probably have some kind of defect or disease if they were so eager to abandon you!”
“Take that back, that’s not true!” cried Patchwork, advancing angrily toward them. Suddenly a lower pitched voice echoed through the environment. “Kids? What are you doing?”
Three adult Paluis, two females and a male emerged from the surrounding vegetation. Their eyes sharpened when they saw Patchwork. He was relieved. ‘Surely, if anyone will help me, it’s the adults!’ he thought to himself.
However, the females began whispering to each other, sending glances to Patchwork that were a mixture of pity and contempt.
“It’s time to leave. Now,” the male commanded in a tight voice. Patchwork cocked his head. ‘Why aren’t the adults telling them off?’ Patchwork began to catch strains of the females’ conversations.
“Abandoned....” “No committment....” “How shameful....” “Poor thing.....” “Never happen in my family....”
Patchwork bristled as he realized they were insulting his parents! But he couldn’t really do anything, they were adults, so they were supposed to be right. But they weren’t! ....At least he thought they weren't.
As the leader of the kits was being led away, he sneered over his shouler, “See you around, misfit, but I’d be careful if I were you.” The younger female, Naya, however, was staring at Patchwork with a shy smile.
Suddenly Patchwork realized that it only mattered what he thought of himself and his parents. Even if the adults were wrong, Patchwork didn’t need to try and prove that. He just had to be confident in himself, and somehow he'd find Palui who liked him. There had to be other Palui out there who were different, somewhere!
Winking at her, Patchwork turned around, deciding to not even bother with answering the big male. He trotted back to the town, after all, his human was probably back with lunch by now.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:53 pm
Alpha awoke to find her normal grassy sleeping home in disarray. She groggily glanced up to see that her grassy bed had been trampled on, and her small living hut she had built just yesterday broken down. Pilot jumped up with a start, and was furious within seconds. She knew who it was. She had lived her short life of only a month and change next to a pack of other Palui. The kits her age had sneered at her and the adults had turned the other direction. Pilot was outcast of humans and palui, but a certain gang of kits had always taken care of making her life miserable.
She had been born and abandoned, and the humans had taken her in to take care of her for the few weeks she was feeble. They named her Alpha for her size and noticeable leadership, but she didn't feel she deserved that name. Alpha to who? She thought to herself, and kicked a stump of grass.
Her makeshift home damaged, she rose up to a standing position and stretched. It was around midday, and she was hungry. As if right on cue, her stomach growled ferociously. Her anger evaporated, and she sighed,
then padded her feet around the big tree she had slept next to. Suddenly, a quick motion caught her eye, and she jerked to a stop. Her large ears pricked up for any sign of movement, and she sharpened her vision. She finally spotted something by the small pond a distance away.
She squinted her eyes, and saw that it was one of the palui from the gang. Her eyes narrowed into slits and her ears lay flat. She was going to get him back for what he did. She slowly backed up, then charged straight for the pond.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:23 am
Sunlight flickered through the open window, its casting rays lightly bathing a young female kit, whom had taken the intiative to lay on the windowsill and slumber. Her fur was a gorgeous color, brightly painted with swirls and markings. She woke, her mouth openeing into a luxurious yawn, showing a fine row of baby teeth. Looking through the open window, the kit soon found herself masked with boredem.
She was curious.
Sitting upright, now, the kit looked at the outside green. Her small, soft paws itched to tred the land and discover what it might hold. She took a stand. Slowly, she reached a paw out, and before she knew it, the clumsy kit had fallen, taking a short tumble and landing with a thud onto the thick grass. Oh, but her curiousity prevailed and she was soon on her paws again, loudly trodding through the thickness.
It didn't take long for her to stumble into a group of rather familiar group of palui. She blinked, her eye's curious drifting past all of them, although she had been taugh that staring was rather rude. Her ears twitched; she heard a whisper.
"O-Oh! Isn't that... That orphaned kit?" An older female whispered to a companion next to her.
"Yes... I think it is... poor thing..." She whispered back.
The she-kit flattened her ears. The sound of pawsteps troddign up to her made her come back to her senses. Instantly, she turned her head in the direction, and saw a pair of kits, the same size as she was. They stared curiously at her, that is, until an older adult, whom she presumed was the mother, ushered them away.
"Look, there's more kits over there." She murmured, casting a stay-away glance at the young femme. Her ears drooped again.
By now the entire group was hasitily muttering to eachother, carefully glancing at the poor, melancholic she-kit.
"She'll give our kits the wrong impressions!"
"Her parents probably had better things in life anyway"
"Wonder why she's still there... dumb orphaned kit... Doesn't she have a foster home to run to?"
The female fluff glared at the group, and with a loud, sharp sigh, turned around and bounded as fast as her paws could carry her. As she approached home, she heard voices, her humans, calling her name with anxious, anxiety layed voices. She gently trodded over before collapsing from exaustion. Her little limbs couldn't carry her very far, and then now ached, protesting with every move.
Another one of the humans spoke before rushing over, holding her in there big open arms.
Just because she didn't have parents, didn't mean others didn't care. Her heart swelled with loved for the ones who took her in.
People cared.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:08 pm
Name:
Kukka, which is Finnish for “flower”
Gender:
Female
Prompt Response:
It was a bright sunny morning, particularly on the eastern side of the island where the humans dwelt. It was on mornings like these that Miss Sofia Lindman liked to tend to her garden. When she was a child, she had acquired a liking for gardening, and, over time, she had developed the finest garden in all of the settlement. She grew roses, tulips, daisies, lilies, orchids, and other various flowers in a wide array of colours. Many of her neighbors admired her garden and often asked for tips to help their gardens become more like hers, but none ever did. Today, she’d begun her work on the left hand side of her garden, just as she always did. She knew that she would need to water her flowers, so she brought her freshly filled watering can with her. But, what Miss Sofia didn’t know was that this morning she would have a great surprise on the left hand side of her beautiful garden. As she made her way towards her perfectly tended orchids, she saw something brightly coloured. When she got to the edge of the flower bed, she realized it was a bundle. Miss Sofia knew exactly what it was when she saw it: one of those pesky palui that roamed the island and had somehow started to become domesticated. She had no tolerance for these horrible creatures because, ever since she was a little girl, they had repeatedly come and wrecked her delightful garden, the only thing that had brought her great joy in the world. It wasn’t very long after Miss Sofia chased palui after palui out of her garden and threatened all kinds of harm on them before the residents on the island, humans and palu alike, began to stay away. Before she had tolerated the animals, but now she had grown to loathe them and made sure none of them so much as glanced at her garden. She was very angry that one of the blasted things had left one of their kin here, of all places, in her garden. She could only imagine the damage it would do to her garden once it emerged from it’s little bundle. She wouldn’t have this. She put on her gardening gloves, not wanting to so much as touch the little demon, and proceeded to storm about the neighborhood, asking her neighbors to take the hideous thing off of her hands. As should be expected, none of Miss Sofia’s neighbors were willing to lend her a helping hand, and she was left with it, at least for the night. She decided it would not be allowed in her house, something she was almost as proud of as her garden, and left the bundle on her front porch for the night. When she arose the next morning it was still there, even though she had wished the whole thing had just been a bad dream. Miss Sofia decided to take it into town and try to get rid of it. Again, she had no luck. She tried this for many days, and, every day she returned home with the awful bundle. One day, the bundle opened and there, laying on the little piece of cloth, was a darling baby palui, and, as Miss Sofia stared into it’s little eyes, she began to change and, soon enough, she began to love the little thing. A few days later, she took the newborn to the local vet’s office, where they told her it was a girl. She beamed with happiness, as if the little palui were her own child. “Kukka,” she whispered the kit later that night, ”is what I will call you.” It wasn’t very long before people began to see the sudden, drastic change in Miss Sofia, and, before long, palui were happily playing in her extraordinary garden, making friends with Kukka and her.
As Kukka began to grow up, she wondered about what her real parents were like. She knew she was lucky to have Miss Sofia to take care of her and love her, but she just couldn’t help being curious about her parents. She saw many of the other kits playing with their palu mommies and daddies, and she wondered what had happened to hers and where they had wandered off to. Some of the other kits had said that her parents had decided they didn’t want her anymore, but she just couldn’t bring herself to believe that. It seemed so unlikely that her mommy and daddy hadn’t wanted her. She was a bright, lively little kit, why wouldn’t they have wanted her? So, instead, she told herself that someone awful had been after them, and they’d left her because they were in danger and had loved her too much to put her in harm’s way. She often dreamt about finding them one day and rescuing them from whoever it was that wanted to hurt them. She couldn’t help but think that when they met her, they wouldn’t be able to ever leave her again, and she would have a happy family that played with her in Miss Sofia’s wondrous garden, just like everyone else.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:00 am
Thank you all for entering. Tawny and I have been reading through and discussing entries as they were posted, so that we would be able to have a winner chosen when the contest closed. It wasn't an easy decision, since each entry brought something different to the equation that we particularly liked. However, we only had the one bundle to give away, and were forced to choose but one winner.
And so, after much deliberation, Tawny and I are pleased to proclaim The Adorable Panda the winner.
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