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 Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:47 pm
((Note: Self-RP))
Boy how time flies when you're having fun!
No matter what kind of fun it is you are having, the years seem to never want to stop and smell the roses. Or...whatever that phrase is supposed to be. Bliss sat alone in his little hoof-made patch in the forest, reminiscing about the past....
How long had it been since he arrived in these lands? Surely it had been years upon years, upon years....but how many exactly? And how many friends had he made over those years? There was Mahiri and her lovely family...her children Bairn and Aruna. Oh, Aruna...he missed her so much! She was always very kind to him before he was able to establish a home and a family of his own, Aruna had been a true guiding friend. And then there was Astia...the poor dear! He didn't know what happened to her as the years past, but he remembered hearing that she left Bairn and no one has ever seen her since. Haha! Had Bairn finally got what he deserved? Bliss frowned...no, no one deserved to lose the one they loved....not even someone who was mean to you on a consistent basis. And then there was Milkshake. Oh, lovely, lovely Milkshake. Gosh they were so young when they first met! Bliss couldn't remember a time before in his life that he didn't remember not knowing Milkshake. But he knew she wasn't there the whole time - he remembered the first day they met...
It was morning when they first laid eyes on each other. Neither of them knew what they were doing in the world, and neither of them really seemed to care. She was the very first soquili he ever saw and boy was she beautiful. Milkshake was always very nice to him, even when his innocence came off as stupidity at times (and boy have the years changed that). He loved her from the very moment he saw her and he didn't ever want to let her go. They became fast friends...faster than anyone could expect to make a friend. And that friendship lasted quite a while, they trusted each other with every inch of their bodies....but stuff like that doesn't last long. She got pregnant! Pregnant! Bliss had actually gotten a mare pregnant, and neither of them were prepared for what was to come. They were too young...too ignorantly innocent in their own lives to worry about someone else. So not long after the birth of their foals did Milkshake disappear...and he hadn't seen her since.
So that left him with Vanilla Swirl. Soqui, his son, took off at a very young age - probably along side his mother...and Bliss couldn't do anything about it. Just him and his daughter. She was a hellion trying to raise - he had absolutely no idea what to do on that subject, but at least she didn't seem to mind. He raised her the best he could - he raised her like a friend. He treated her like she was the only thing in the world that mattered. But it's kind of difficult dealing with the 'only thing in this world that mattered' coming home three different times, pregnant from different stallions.
Then came Evelyn.
Sweet, gorgeous...insecure Evelyn.
If there had ever been a mare more gorgeous than she, he would have liked to meet her. Hell, he'd still like to meet her. The first day they met had been a decent amount of time since Milkshake left. Bliss could remember it like it was yesterday. It was a day that he thought would live on as the one day in his life he ultimately would regret. The first day he met her, he swore he loved her at first sight. It was the night he had decided to go off and look for Soqui, to catch up with his only son but instead he found her. He found a glowing purple light in the darkness of the raining skies and he had to find it's owner. He found Evelyn, with her gorgeous eyes that matched his own. Oh! She was so sweet! And so mysterious! It only takes one night together to make a mistake, and boy did they do that! It was raining hard so he had Evelyn spent the night together in a cave. That was the night his life changed forever. She got pregnant just as quickly and easily as Milkshake had - but this time she stuck by him! They had a decently happy pregnancy between them, until the boys came. Ian, Connor and Jamison they named them and she began to grow cold with the passing days. She wasn't around that much anymore - and she found another stallion, that cursed Kureno instead. Damn that stupid...stupid stallion with all his stupid female-stealing ways. She fell hard for Kureno and left Bliss in the dust with three boys. Well....two because technically she took Connor (her supposed favorite) and took off with the two of them. There he was again...stuck with foals he wasn't really interested in raising. But he raised them all the same....
Ian. He was a good kid. And he grew to have a lovely family. As far as a proud father could go, consider Bliss happily at the finish line. Ian hadn't quite turned out like Vanilla Swirl had and for that he was grateful. He didn't know if he'd be able to handle that all over again.
But life didn't stop there. No. Bliss smiled as his mind wrapped itself around all these thoughts. There was so much more to the story than just that. Hell, there was even another mare!
Lyssa. Need he say more?
The day they met had been like any other day - just two passerby's that happened to strike up a conversation. He thought she was beautiful at first glance and apparently, she thought the same as him. A casual conversation, that's all it was, but he got her to trust her so willingly and so fast. Lyssa was much younger than he at that point...he was already a Grandfather and she was barely old enough to have children of her own! It didn't take that long until she herself had gotten pregnant. Again. Bliss had done it again and all three times he hadn't meant it. Although this time he promised himself he'd fix things. He have a family with these kids and their mother and he wouldn't let her run away or another stallion steal her. But...Lyssa grew tired of Bliss's ways of life...his adoration for his children but not the adoration for her....and she moved on as well. Straight into the arms of someone else....
So that left him with Blessita. His youngest and only other daughter second to Vanilla Swirl. Of course she lifemated very quickly after adulthood passed by and took off as soon as she could. Three groups of children, three different mares. Eight children all together and only one of them saw him on a regular basis. The rest he didn't know what they were doing in life and he hardly ever got an update, but at least he could assume they were happy in whatever they were doing. At least he could assume that the mares he spent nights with were also happy with whatever they were doing. As he sat there in his makeshift home, he could only hope that Milkshake was alive and healthy in her old age, just like he, reminiscing on past experiences, just like he. Bliss could only hope that Evelyn had found true and honest happiness with Kureno, if anyone at all it might as well be with him. And he hoped that Lyssa didn't hate him for not loving her the way he promised himself he would. He hoped she'd always be there for him if he needed someone to talk to.
How could he let it come to this?
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:31 pm
Boy how time flies when you least expect it!
These lands were new to the old mare but they were the lands she was supposed to grow up in. Might as well pretend like she'd been here the whole time! Happiness walked along a lonely moon-lite path for what seemed like a few hours now and not yet a soul seemed bothered enough to stop her and say hello. Were these 'new' lands that much different than her own? She grew up on the outskirts of the Soquili Lands as she learned they were called and the Soquili there seemed nicer. Perhaps that was because it was such a tight-nit community. No evil, no harm and no strangers. But not everything good lasted forever.
As she walked along the path, the dainty old mare couldn't help but drift her mind back in time, to the past when things were normal and happy. At a very young age it was just her and her mother, Lecia. Her mother took her from the heart of these lands because of the potential danger that could happen tot he two of them and decided to live in a place where nothing could happen to them. After what seemed like months of travel, the young mother and her very young daughter came upon a group of soquili...about twenty or so that lived together in a pack. Each of them there for the same reason - to get away. Most of them grew up around different parts of the land, very few came from the same place Lecia and Happiness did. Most of them hadn't even ever heard of the Soquili Lands. The group of soquili welcomed the pair of females into their group with open arms and they lived there ever since. Happiness hadn't ever once ventured more than a few minutes away from her home...she was far too frightened something might happen to her mother if she left. But as the days turned into months and the months passed by, Happiness no longer seemed to care. She liked her close family and the safety it brought her! The number twenty turned into thirty and forty as more of the mares got pregnant. She herself tried it once....the whole wooing with a stallion by your side type thing....but it didn't work out. Oh heavens if she even remembered his name! Mother always said it wasn't good to flirt around with just anyone, that it took time and effort to fall in love and she shouldn't just let it go to waste on someone handsome and young.
So Happiness stuck by her Mother's side instead. Sure she had friends here and there but nothing too serious and nothing worth trading her Mother's guidance for. She had a purpose, protecting Lecia and she wasn't about to destroy that purpose.
But then Lecia got sick. It had only been about a year or so ago that the two of them found out she came down with something strange and Lecia wasn't able to move around that much anymore. So Happiness and her packed up their life with the 'herd' and moved into a small cave for the last year of her Mother's life she took care of her. Every waking moment was spent leaning over her mother There wasn't any time for foolish games with silly stallions. There wasn't any time for children or happiness of her own. Her mother deserved her every attention and she got it. Happiness was getting so very old as the years past and that last year spent with her mother was the most tiring of all. It wasn't selfish of Lecia to want her daughter by her side as she was dying, but Happiness needed to get out there and enjoy herself BY herself before her own time was up! Hell, she should have already been a grandmother by now!
But life hardly ever works out the way you originally planned it to go.
As Lecia eventually passed, her last wish to her daughter was this : Find Bliss. Who was he? Her brother, apparently.
Find Bliss.
All she knew was that his name was Bliss and he was old, as she was, and had her eyes. Her hair. Her Mother told her that he looked like her father. Whatever that was supposed to be. Her mother passed and with nothing else in the world to live for except fulfilling that wish, Happiness took off. She took off toward the lands she was supposed to grow up in to find her brother, if he was there. If he wasn't well then she'd keep looking and looking until she found him. If it drove her to the grave at least she'd know this was her life's purpose and nothing more, but if she found him before she passed then perhaps there was something else left in her old bones worth having! Haha!
So there she was now, months after starting her little quest and still no success....of course that was to be expected, but Happiness wished that somehow it would be easier than what she knew it was going to be. There was a 99 percent chance she was even looking in the wrong places at all the wrong times, let alone the wrong lands! She sighed as she continued down the path, somewhat lonely and worried that the quest and her mothers dying wish my never be fulfilled. She tried not to think of the life she could have had if her mother never wanted her to stay by her side. But really, she couldn't blame Lecia for being protective after losing a mate and a son to the same Kalona. Honestly, it was heartbreaking, but it was even more heartbreaking that Happiness had to suffer her childhood away based on her mother's own sadness.
She was just a foal at that time...her mother shouldn't have leaned on her so hard. Now the days weren't really all that nice to the old mare. But only one thing came to her when she thought about her past and the possible future she had in store for herself.
How could she let it come to this?
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:45 pm
There was only one way to answer that question - Bliss never quite knew what he was doing. He let things get out of hand because he didn't know just how out-of-hand things got until it was too late. It wasn't as if he meant for his friends to become his lovers and for his lovers to eventually become strangers. He hadn't mean to bare children so early in life without having a steady background beforehand. Things just...happened and Bliss had no way of stopping any of it.
Things just happened.
"These kinds of things just happen, Daddy. They just do." As he sat there in his makeshift home, still focused on the past, he remembered something his oldest daughter once told him. It was the day she came home and the two of them found out she was pregnant for the first time. From a stallion she hardly even knew. Ronen...was that his name? He had tricked Vanilla Swirl into sleeping with him and she never saw him again. Hell, Ronen probably didn't even know he sired two colts that grew up into wonderful stallions...he probably didn't even know. But she told him, these things happen. It happened with Bliss and Milkshake and now it was happening with Vanilla Swirl. There wasn't anything either of them could do about it, they just had to wait out the births and hope everything went smoothly. She seemed rather pleased with the decision she made that led her get pregnant, and when the boys came she couldn't have been happier! Of course, Vanilla Swirl is and probably will always be the least fit mare to become a mother - but....these kinds of things happen without any reason. So at that time Bliss helped her raised her sons and they lived contently until it happened.
Again.
Bliss wasn't sure on the time span between his daughters first pregnancy and her second, but it didn't seem long enough. Not at the time, at least. Once the boys were older and gone, Vanilla Swirl felt it in her to spend the night with yet another random stallion. This one was....at least...a tad bit nicer than her first. Bliss wasn't aware that this particular stallion never had a name....'Nilla never told him...but he heard first hand that he was cheerful. And he knew of his kid's soon-existence. But when the two of them were born, he took off with the boy and left 'Nilla with the girl. She was alone again, hopeless in raising a daughter by herself. Yet...these kinds of things just happened. And neither of them could do anything about it. So Bliss helped her raise 'Bertie and the three of them were happy once more.
But things happen in cycles. Bliss wasn't finished with his mistakes after just two...so why did that make Vanilla Swirl any different? Like father like daughter. She was the first thing that he put all his trust in and she was the first thing he ever really cared about. She grew up the only way he knew how....so she learned how to behave from him.
So there was Kiefer. Oh! Bliss chuckled as his thoughts shifted to that part of the story. Bairn's son, of all things! Really? To this very day Bliss couldn't figure out why in hell his daughter would mate with his 'enemies' son, but to each their own...he supposed. These things all happened and they happened for a reason. And this particular 'thing' led to Bliss's greatest treasure in life beside his first born daughter. His granddaughter!
Kiefer later disappeared along with the boy that 'Nilla had given birth too and boy did that tear her a part! The poor girl....her youngest son just up and leaving her for good! The old silver bay stallion felt sorrow for his daughter when he could tell she still thought about him, but at least she still had Tiramisu. The poor dear! She was so tormented by Vanilla Swirl, she was afraid to speak or do anything outside the comfort of her own home! 'Nilla's resentment toward her youngest daughter caused Tiramisu to spend most of her time with her other grandfather...Bairn. Hahaha! As if Bairn would be more fun to hang out with than Bliss? Oh well...it was her decision to make and Bliss didn't want to stop his favorite granddaughter's happiness.
All of it just happened without so much of a second thought and before he knew it, Bliss had eight children and six grandchildren....from one child alone! There were more, as the years past...but at least he had been prepared for those. What he wasn't prepared for he couldn't stop from happening. That was how things started to spin out of control, he couldn't maintain absolute happiness when something in his life was constantly off. Order wasn't a part of his lifestyle and he grew to understand that it was just how he was meant to live it....chaotic...but fun. Entertaining but stressful.
It was his life.
And he wouldn't really change it for a thing. Too many years had passed to worry about what had happened. Too many things changed him to worry about fixing them. All he could do was hope it stayed that way.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:45 am
She couldn't think of any other way to answer herself that question except for one - she had no other choice. It was the life she was given and she didn't have any way of changing it. Well....technically she could have run away from her 'herd' any day if she really wanted to, but Happiness didn't have the ability to break her mothers heart. She could have left as soon as she hit adulthood but then there was the risk of living with regret that her mother was alone. The mare wasn't sure she would have been able to deal with that.
And so there she was. Walking along a path late at night, completely ignorant of the lands surrounding her and completely alone. It was her choices in life that brought her to this very spot and there wasn't much she could do about it. Besides, time passed too much to worry about going back and fixing everything to give herself a life. This was her life. Now she had a goal - finding Bliss - and if that was the only thing in her life she had to do then so be it.
It was her life. Hers. And it really wasn't all that bad.
Continuing along the path, Happiness couldn't help but dwell on the past a little bit more. No one was around to watch her or listen to her sighing to herself, so why did it matter? If she had someone to talk to, her thoughts would be elsewhere, but she was alone....and so her thoughts drifted...
It was early adulthood, almost days after she learned she was 'of age'. It was the one and only time she ever came close to leaving her life and starting anew. There had been a small fire within the comfort of the small herd's grazing lands and chaos had ensued. The fire had engulfed everyone's attention except for her own and the slightly-older stallion herdmate that she occasionally found herself staring at. He was a free spirit and he wanted out more than anything in the world. So he saw that fire as his only breaking point.
He asked Happiness to go with him. She accepted.
She was so young and so naive of her own feelings back then, she would have done anything to be with such a handsome stallion as he! So the two of them took off while everyone else tried to stop the fire from growing. It had been about a two hours walk away from their home before Happiness realized what she had done. Lecia was left there, by herself, honestly and most likely probably scared to death that Happiness died in that fire. She couldn't do it! She couldn't leave her mother to start a life with this -handsome- stallion, no matter how badly she wanted to! So she told him she had to go back and she did.
No one ever saw that stallion again. Happiness believed to this day that he had something to do with the starting of that fire. He wanted to get out so badly, it seemed like he didn't care who he hurt. But that wasn't her - she cared who she hurt. She cared that her mother was constantly worried for her daughters safety, she cared that the herd depended on every one of it's members in order to survive. She was young at that time, she didn't stop to think that one time would have been her only window of opportunity....she had no way of knowing her life would turn out the way it had.
But everything happens for a reason. Perhaps her life so far had given way to her wisdom that came with age. Perhaps she was meant to do something with her life after the passing of her mother that was bigger than anything she could have ever dreamed. Perhaps there wasn't any room for a happy mate and children because she wasn't meant to go down that path - her goals in life always seemed to be pleasing others rather than herself...so why should she waste everything she had done in the past just to have a happy life now? Even so, who was to say what a happy life consisted of?
Happiness was being selfish! Of course she had a happy life! Her whole life had been protected and guided by those much older than herself and her mother loved her dearly enough to leave everything behind and find that protection. Her father loved her enough to risk his life for her! She hadn't known any better than the life she lived and well frankly, it was a fantastic life! Sure she never bothered to make any real friends, or find any handsome stallions to love....but this was her life.
And this is the way things were meant to be. Everything just happened and she couldn't stop it. She shouldn't have wanted to stop it. She could only hope that everything stayed that way. Happy.
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:47 pm
He had always wondered what it felt like to remember your past.
Milkshake had been the first to ask him who he was, and he didn't have an answer. His only response was, "Bliss", and even then, he didn't know how he knew that. He didn't have a family or a backstory like she, he couldn't recall anything from childhood. Before meeting Milkshake, Bliss assumed he just didn't have a childhood, hell....the thought of starting off as a foal didn't cross his mind at all! He was simply placed on this earth as Bliss, the bumbling adult stallion, and that was that.
But Milkshake assured him everyone had a past. She did. And hers was utterly dreadful! She had chosen to run away from her past and at that point in time, she was starting anew. Bliss, on the other hand, had nothing to go off of - he was just Bliss! Just Bliss! That was all he knew, and that was all he needed to know to keep him happy.
That was the way he held himself to believe for many of the years that followed. He was always, just Bliss. Upon every new meet-and-greet, he was just himself. He never had a story to tell, he never had anything interesting to say. He was...him. Even when he had children, he was always just him. Vanilla Swirl had brought up a question one day, far into their time together, that brought on a new frame of mind. Who was her grandmother? Her grandfather?
.....Bliss had parents?
Well of course he had to have! There wasn't any other logical explanation for his existence! Every living creature on the face of this earth was brought forth from the womb of their mother. Vanilla had parents, Milkshake had parents...even Bairn had parents! Why didn't he? Or, at least, why couldn't he remember them? What made his 'story' different from everyone else's? What happened while he was a child that made him forget? Would he ever discover the truth? So many questions ran their course over the years, all of them rendered unanswered. Bliss grew to forget those problems he had, and began focusing on what was the now. No matter who he was, he became somebody new. He became Bliss, the stallion he is today, and that's what really mattered.
He had established himself as an individual, unaware of what was still out there, searching for him.
If only he knew. If only he had the opportunity to find out who he is, and who he was supposed to be. Thing would have been vastly different - perhaps none of his current friends or family members would be alive. Or worse, if he had remembered his past, and his past was horrible, would that have ruined him? Would that have altered his personality in such a way that he could never truly find happiness again? If he was different than the stallion he was today, he couldn't really imagine what he life would have been like.
He guessed it was best to forget your past.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:19 am
She had always wondered what it felt like to forget your past.
The thought seemed simple enough - wake up one morning and not know who you were or where you came from. Previous memories all gone - the mind forever a clean slate. The imagination was free to run wild with stories of your past, it didn't matter if they were true or not, they were special because they made you who you were. You could fashion them any way you'd like, without anyone questioning you. There wouldn't be any room for excuses such as, 'Oh...my mother did such-and-such to me as a child, that's why I act like this'. Who you were as a Soquili could be based on whatever you wanted it to be, perhaps you were a pirate? An alien? Perhaps you had no family at all!
There wouldn't be no need to worry about where you were going in life, because well, you had the power to do whatever you wanted. It was your life, given to you much, much later than most creatures, but you would be able to make your own decisions. There just wouldn't be any prior knowledge or experiences to interfere with those decisions. There would be no judgement, no second thoughts. You'd be free.
She'd be free.
Free from remembering what had taken place. Free from realizing (too late) that she never really had a childhood. Free from remembering that stallion and what he meant to her. There would be no pain, no sorrow. No wondering what might have been. To this very day, it drove Happiness crazy thinking of all the possibilities she could have had at a much younger age had she just made a different decision. She most certainly would not be standing at this very spot, pondering if it was better to forget your past! Haha! Instead, she would have probably been off somewhere deep within the countryside with a loving mate and beautiful children all running around. Hell, at this point in her life, she might have even been a grandmother!
And to think, specific decisions she made took that all away from her. Happiness was given the chance to be herself and she denied it, so now she had to live with that. She was burdened with the always nagging thought of, 'what if?'. What if her mother had died way earlier than she had? What if her father was in her life? What if her brother was too? There were too many possibilities, too many reasons as to why each decision had ultimately been the wrong one.
And it wasn't fair.
Happiness dwelled on those thoughts a little longer, while her legs dragged on and on, carrying her further away from familiarity. Bliss didn't remember his past, did he? How could he have? Mother said he was just a foal....just a tiny, tiny foal. If he was still alive, which she believed him to be, there couldn't be any possible way he knew who he really was. Quite frankly, it would be a miracle. Then the question had to be raised : Who was Bliss? Did he even know?
Did he pretend to be something he wasn't? He had no family for pete's sake! Did it ever occur to him that maybe he did, he just couldn't remember? Did it ever drive him crazy at night, pondering over who he was and where he came from? Wouldn't he have wanted to know? He was alone in the world, very much like her, but even more-so than her. She at least, knew that she didn't belong and she knew that she once had creatures who cared for her. Bliss, on the other hand, knew none of that. He was left to fend for himself. He was left to make up his own background. Surely it had to give him multiple sleepless nights.
Happiness chuckled to herself, not knowing who you were or who you're supposed to be isn't fair. Almost as equally not fair as it was to have a horrible past. But at least with a past, she knew. She knew the mistakes she had made, she knew what had been done. She knew it was over and none of it could be fixed.....she was never left wondering what had taken place. It was all laid out in front of her. She was, however random it may be, considerably happy.
Ultimately, she figured it was better to remember your past.
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:18 pm
There was something about the way the light from the sun hit the trees....it made Bliss feel at home. It had been a few weeks since he stopped by that little grove in the clearing. It had been a little while since he saw his family. Oh well, though, it was for the best. All of them were grown and out of the nest anyhow, so there wasn't any real need to spend all his time at home. No matter how old he got, he needed to keep a social life! Right?
Right!
Or at least, that's what he kept telling himself.
As the large stallion continued to trot down the path, he noticed something that caught his eye immediately. It was a mare! Or...something in the shape of a mare, and she was coming right toward him!! From afar, she looked absolutely breath-taking, so he assumed she was just as pretty up close, if not prettier! Oh-ho-ho! Was this the gods way of asking him for his forgiveness? He needed a break from his life, and he took it. Now there was a beautiful mare walking straight at him. For all those years of pain and hardship, the gods were now willing to give him happiness? She most definitely looked like a mare who needed a friend, and Bliss was way more than willing to be that 'guy'.
She didn't seem to notice him, her eyes fixated on the ground before her. That wasn't a problem, he'd just use this to his advantage! She'd more than likely be excited for seeing a new face, especially when that new face came out of the blue! Aha! Oh! He was going to have so much fun with this mare, he could just tell.
As she got closer, he smiled to himself. There was something warm and welcoming about her, as if Bliss was supposed to know her all his life. But he knew he didn't - there was no possible way he could! Maybe she was just overly friendly? Or...something. Ack, whatever...he'd find out eventually.
"Hello!" Bliss pipped, still grinning from ear to ear. "My, whatever is a beautiful mare like yourself doing alone on a day like today? It's too nice a day for you to be wandering by yourself! Perhaps you could use some company? And by that, I mean myself!" He laughed whole-heartedly as his words came together nicely. He was used to making speeches like this one. And he hoped one day they'd work permantely.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:43 pm
There was something about the way the light from the sun hit the trees....it brought on comfort for Happiness. She imaged the ray of light was her own mother guiding her to the destiny she was to fulfill, and it only made her journey that much more exciting. Yes, her mother was guiding her, whether it be by the rays of the sun, or the spirit that resided within Happiness. Either way her mother and her were connected; bonded forever.
It was a voice that brought her back to reality and away from her haunting thoughts. A voice...booming in her ears, just begging to be heard. The voice belonged to a stallion, and she hadn't looked up from the ground until after he was done speaking to her, so she assumed by the voice that he was a young, innocent stallion just coming around to adulthood.
But no. Not by what she could see. This stallion before her was much, much older than any stallion she'd seen in her travels, he looked to be graying in all the right areas...Happiness had to guess he was...her age? Older? And she thought she was the only one still kicking it at her age. That thought made her laugh to herself; perhaps there was much of this world she didn't know. The words the stallion spoke sunk in, and the grin plastered onto his face was all she could see - he looked unbelievably happy to see her there before him. Why? What did he see in her so quickly, that she barely ever saw in herself since her years past her? And why was he so eager to get to know her? Didn't this stallion know it wasn't wise to just talk to anyone, she could be a bloody murderer for all he knew!! Not likely, but that wasn't the point.
"Hello, sir. I am by myself simply because I chose to be. No other reason." Happiness smiled warmly at him, staring into his eyes as he got closer to her. They were...her eyes. Her mother's eyes. They were captivating. She wondered how this stallion didn't have a harem of mares at his side at all times, with eyes like that. Then again...she hadn't had many admirers simply based on the color of her eyes.
But his coat...and his mane. They were the same, or at the very least, very similar to hers. Could it be? Or was her mind just playing tricks on her? Happiness voted for the latter, there was no way she could come across Bliss so quickly and easily. The task had to be harder than this. Hadn't it?
"Come to think of it, I could use some company, thank you. My name is Happiness, I know it's rather silly but my mother had a thing for naming her children after her emotions when she had them. Couldn't help herself, that mare," dare she try it? Dare she ask him what his name was? Happiness was almost too scared for the answer. "May I ask who you are?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:34 pm
Happiness.
Her name brought a smile to the old stallion's face, his mind racing with a million different things.
One - her name matched his!! It was wonderful to have someone else who he actually had the pleasure of conversing with have a similar name to his own. He loved the name Bliss, it was a complete pleasure to have his name mean joy and utter contentment, because when he was young that was always how he felt. Blissful. And every mare he met very much enjoyed his name once he told them. They were always very excited that his name was so happy and fun, rather than boring and typical. Bliss never knew where his name came from, or who had named him, he just always knew it was the name he was given. Or did he name himself?
Either way, he loved it.
Two - she had spoken her name with the same amount of enthusiasm as he does when he says his own. The word 'happiness' seemed to dance off her tongue, the sound of it almost as joyous as the meaning of it. And the old stallion appreciated that there was someone else out there who liked her name as much as she.
"My name is Bliss, Happiness. Our names are so similar, isn't that spectacular? Unfortunately I am not sure who named me Bliss because I don't remember who gave birth to me, but I am Bliss!!" The words bounced around, a light-hearted and fun tone surrounded them as he spoke, trying to bring back the way he once felt before all his children had grown and moved away. It was high-time he felt happy once again.
Happiness. That was strange, that her name be the very thing he yearned for. Maybe it was a sign that this mare would finally bring him that happiness?
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:26 pm
Bliss.
His name brought a smile to the old mare's face, her mind racing with a million different things.
He was the one she had been searching for, she just knew it. There was no possible way his name could match her brother's, and him not be the one. They had similar mannerisms, she noted, beside the fact that they looked considerably alike, and his name had been the one she hoped it would be. It just had to be her Bliss. He just had to be.
And Happiness just knew it. A sister, although far apart for so very long, could tell if someone was related to her or not. Her mother wouldn't guide her to a stallion, out of the blue, who wasn't actually related. she knew it was her mother who brought her here, after a short travel, and it wasn't a crazy random happenstance that she had found him so quickly. It was fate. Fate beyond anything she could possibly fathom.
And there she was, just staring at him.
The stallion represented everything that she and her mother held dear. He was their spirit when they were both sad, lost...or even lonely. He was the reason why Happiness was finally able to get away from the herd and off on her own. He was Bliss. A name like that meant that everything came with a laugh or a smile; even the most tragic of news couldn't knock away blissful feelings forever. He was her shining star; the one she always dreamed of finally meeting, and he was here, right in front of her.
"Oh I've forgotten myself, I do apologize," Happiness frowned, catching her breath after a few short moments of shocked silence. How would she tell him who he was, if he didn't remember? Would he believe her, or think she was some crazily obsessed mare? Oh...maybe this wasn't such a good idea...oh...
"Bliss. I...have something I need to tell you....," she trailed off again, and kept staring into his eyes - her eyes - in order to guide the words out of her mouth. Looking at him gave her strength. "I believe you are my brother, Bliss. Our mother's name was Lecia, unfortunately I do not know who our father was, but our mother told me that she had a son, whom she named Bliss. And you are a Bliss. We look very much alike, you and I. I could be mistaken, but I do not think I am..." The words just began to flow, without so much of a second thought, "you say you don't remember who you are? Do you remember how it was you came to these lands? Oh, Bliss...our mother...she is dead, and she sent me to find you as her dying wish."
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:28 pm
The world comes crashing down on you when you least expect it. Whether or not that crashing is a good or a bad thing was up to you. Change was a constant occurrence and one could either role with the punches or try to run for higher ground - either way it was bound to happen. Nine times out of ten, this particular stallion would have tried to stop change as best he could, or run from it....but this...this was something much bigger than anything he could have imagined.
This was his life. And not just the life he was leading, but the life he had before coming to these lands....all those years ago. This is who he was before he became, 'Bliss', the flirty, silly ignorant stallion who knocked up mares then never saw them again. No...this change standing before him was the stallion he was always meant to be but never got the chance. Whether or not he realized just how much of a change this was going to bring him, to the both of them, really, was unknown. All he knew right now was that this gorgeous, happy mare standing in front of him was his sister. Or so she said, but Bliss saw no reason to disbelieve her.
His sister. He never even knew he had a sister. A mother? A father, even? Happiness just said she never met their father, but even still....the very thought of Bliss having a father out there was beyond his own thoughts. A family; a family of his very own. Bliss was always under the impression he just appeared from nowhere and given a name. He never...it never....nothing ever occurred to him that he actually might have belonged some where.
That fact might have changed his mind about a lot of the things he did in life. He never had a family, but it never bothered him, and now that he knew he did in fact have one, he was sorry he missed out. He was sorry for his sons, the ones that never had a father in the way that they deserved. He was sorry for the mares he mated with, that they never fully got the mate in him that they deserved either. He wasn't worthy of any of their love, because he never provided them with a real, honest family; the way that it was supposed to be. Mahiri had a family, he thought, she and her mate and all of their children were utterly happy to be together, even if they didn't see each other every day, it didn't mean they were any less of a family. That's what it was all about - just loving unconditionally and without a second thought.
He wished he knew how to do that. He loved Evelyn, he was sure of it, and he loved his newly found sister, but did he love them in the way a family should? Were they a real family?
"My sister..," he whispered, walking closer to Happiness. "I never knew I had a family. I don't remember much, all I can remember is waking up one morning and remembering my name. That's as far as I've ever gotten."
His sister. It felt so good to say it. It was a whole new beginning to his life and he'd welcome it with open arms.
"Sister!" Bliss suddenly shouted, grinning from ear to ear. "I have a sister!! This is wonderful, oh Happiness you must come meet my family!!"
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