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XxX 6
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Going Fishing Thal x Ushi x Einsol5
Pickpocket! 5
Beast Master 5
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Blossoms In The Rain XxX 5

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Poaching Never Pays 5
Blood of My Blood 5
Janarim Shopping 5

Cephalopod Tug O War

Ushiwa sipped tea by the fire. It was a cold, misty and rainy day, most of his family were reading or doing other quiet things. Needless to say, he was kind of bored, as young children often get. One could only poke a stick in the fire so many times before he ran out of stick. He wondered where his father had gone, he was not in his office, or the barn, or the paddock. Ushi wondered if his dad had gone off on an adventure. He wanted to go on an adventure too! He got up and wandered to the back of their property. The woods hooted creepily, but he wasn't afraid, he came from a family of beast tamers after all.

He stepped below the canopy and was swallowed up by the darkness, so this was were Dad went every day. He had to admit that it was a bit more mossy in here than he had been expecting. Humid too, hmm, he grasped a branch, it was cool and damp. It was awesome in here no wonder why Mom and Dad loved it so much. There were all kinds of bugs and squishy things, just what he liked to play with.

He had gotten quite a ways in the direction that he thought his Dad had gone in, judging from the edgy trail that was the only truly passable path through this thick part of the jungle. A twig snapped and Ushi froze. His hair stood on end, it was a predator out there, he could feel it. A hissing base growl confirmed his suspicions. He knew the call, it was a snaptrotter, likely a bull from the base not baritone call. A big one. This was just great.

He dared not breath as he looked up and leaped into a low hanging branch just in time the snaptrotter charged and lunged for him. Ushi clung to the branch with one arm, legs braced, a wild grin on his face. How exilarating had that been! So this was what it was like to be a wild beast tamer. He felt for all intents and purposes that he was a superhero, meant to save all the animals of tendaji from certain doom. A make believe volcano threatened them all. He wathched the beast stomp angrily below, this wasn't so bad. He swung on to the next branch and quickly lost his scaley stalker who he believed deep in his gut had been more territorial than hungry for his flesh.
He was unwilling to find out for sure. Further on. he came across beautiful orange lilies with black spots in their throats. They somehow reminded him of his mother and her startling grace and beauty. It was here unfortunately that he slipped and ended up on his bum. Thankfully the ground was soft. He looked up only to stare into the broad and terrifying snout of a wild Yaotl.
His day just kept getting better and better, even he knew that this beast could seriously hurt him. His heart raced and he scrambled sideways like a crab, the great claw came out but he was small enough to avoid most of the blow. He got a scratch on his arm but managed to elude the creature until he could get into a store cave that even a Yaotl couldn't break down. There he sat, shaking a little bit, catching his breath.

"Calm Collected Together Serene."

He hadn't been eaten, all was okay. He clapped a hand to the scratch on his arm. Now at least he had time to inspect his injury as he would not be leaving anytime soon. Getting nearly eaten did that to a person, his knees were still knocking together a little bit. And to think Dad had ridden one of those as part of a job. Ushi felt like it would be okay if he never saw one of those again. He peeked out at the entrance and couldn't see anything, but he was so not going out there.

Dad was even cooler than he had thought that beast had been so long that it seemed to just go on for forever. And that stare had been bone chilling, like it had looked through him and all that. It was like a giant had chased him, he wished his parents were here, even his older brother or Ny.

He was pretty sure it wouldn't eat Honi on principle, she was too sweet. His twin was no bigger than he was, and thus would be of little help to him. He huffed and curled in on himself, wishing he had a blanket.

Eventually he fell asleep for a while, luckily for him, nothing had come into the cave looking for him. When he woke up, he was certain that enough time had passed to bore the beast, he checked three times before he went out and continued up the path. Hungry now, he looked for delicious fruit trees, it took a while before he finally spotted a grove in the distance, the path crossed a broad beach. He stepped out onto the sand, found a sunny spot and rested in the light for a bit. Once he was warm he continued on down the beach, noting new footprints and pretty dark purple shells. It was very pretty here, he had to admit, it kinda was his new favorite place. The only problem was it was awfully toothy out here, so maybe next time he could just come with his Dad. That way he could just enjoy it, instead of being worried about being eaten by whatever hungry creature came along.

He was more than a little opposed to being an orderve. He waded into the ocean and felt the usual comforting presence of the ocean. It seemed to swirl within his chest, a surge of energy, making him feel more settled and in control. he wondered if he would feel the same way in his fathers homelans, maybe not. That would be a bit cold. He didn't think he would like cold, he enjoyed the sunshine too much. It was rather hot out, maybe a nice seim, he waded out deeper. He dove in then and scouted about to see if there was any likely food about to be harvested. Looping back and forth he comed the reefs; there could be oysters or octopus about. Both were deliscious travel snacks that his older brother had taught him to catch. He was squirreling out an octopus when a loud thump startled him. What now?

What fell beast cometh forth? Oh, freat, he saw the large flat paddletail squick away. A zanteer. Only the most maneuverable of the opponants under the water, couldn't have been a school of guppies, noooo.

The zanteer cried out a challenge they loved food, it obviously wnated his octopus. He was sad because it was a big one and he was pretty sure that he would not be winning this fight. Oh well. He could at least try! He was so hungry. He continued to poke about at the rock, startlling the octopus into emerging part way. Suddenly the zanteer was there, yanking on the other end of the octopus. Ushi grabbed a thick tentacle near the base and held on. The good news was that between the two of them they got the octopus off of the rock; the bad news was that he had a full grown, extra large, grade a zanteer on the other end of his octopus. It dragged him around for a while through the water, until Ushiwa inhaled some water and choking irritably had to give up on his prize. The good for nothing creature rose with him and smugly ate his octopus right there in front of him. He was not impressed.

"Fine, be like that, add insult to injury." He turned and began to head back to shore, after all that had happened today he was not about to drown himself fighting with a zanteer over a cephalopod.

He was worth more than that. He tilted up his nose snootily and was none too pleased when he brought it back down to see the river rat had followed him.

"What do you want, I have no additional octopi on my person.

In reply the zanteer chuffed and purred before headbutting him playfully.

"Go away thief." he kept swimming for shore. The zanteer frolicked about him being able to swim at rediculous speeds.

"Show off!" he muttered. Crawling out onto shore he sighed and flopped down. That was probably enough adventure for one day. He was tired and still hungry. The zanteer bounced about before pelting off down the beach. What had been in that octopus? He regretted even more not eating it. He huffed and turned for home. He was relatively sure that he would not find his father out here today. Tiredly he trudged home, when he was nearing home the zanteer dropped a big oyster in front of him.

Probably the biggest oyster he had seen ever. The zanteer nudged the oyster closer to him and then backed away with a lowered head.

"A gift? You're sure?" he squinted at the animal before bending over and picking up the proffered oyster.

"Thank you." he nodded his head. He supposed he was quite lucky after all and bowed shallowly to the zanteer.

"You are forgiven, you may go now." he turned away and continued on. Somehow in an impormptu game of sea creature tug of warm he had potentially made anew friend, or at the very least an aquaintence.

It was a scary huge jungle out there and he breathed a sigh of relief once he crossed the boundary of his yard. No one seemed to be home and sheepishly he thought they might be out searching for him. He was going to be in so much trouble later when they all got home. He would most likely be doing the dishes for a month. And perhaps even more. He hoped his twin wasn't too worried. His stomach rumbled loudly and he wandered into the kitchen to prepare a sandwich. When he looked up it was to see the zanteers curious face framed in the window.

"Found me did you?" He raised an eye brow and fed the zanteer the first sandwich.

"Guesting rules and all that you should look them up." He raised an eyebrow and took a bite out of his own sandwich and truly felt like it was one of the best tasting things that he had had in a long time. he made a few more sandwiches and shared them with his new familiar. He figured if it had followed him all the way out here that it was probably going to stay.

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Ushi was out on a self professed scouting mission. The day was clear with a cloud or two marring the horizon off to the East. He inhaled a breath of sweet freedom. No chores today because his older brother had been caught sneaking out of the house while he was grounded for a more minor infraction. His parents were nothing if not fair.
Thus Thallassa was doing all of his siblings chores for a week, ths having no time to adventure, what an absolute pity for him. Ushi was oing to live it to the max. What should he do? Huh. He had to admit he was kinda bored. He whistled loudly and summoned the zanteer who had refused to leave when Ushi had returned home from that long ago terrifying adventure. Anbu came bounding over to him like he had sunshine caught in his fur.

"We are perky today arn't we?"

He stroked the soft, rich fur, that smoothed over Anbu's broad forehead, even his father said that Anbu was a big zanteer. This made Ushi proud. It hadn't been all that hard to tame his first beast. Though the adventure over all had been a bit much at the time. Though his dad had taken it upon himself to teach his son about bushcraft so that he would not get into such desperate straights again

For example he had a pocketful of helpful healing herbs from his Mother's stash, a small pocket knifr, a fire starter set, food, water, paper and a pencil, a warm cloak and treats for Anbu. He was so much better prepared, and as promised he would not wander far without someone else. Grinning he raced off down the beach.

"I hope we are not going to meet as many scary creatures as we did last time, I could go for like a smallish fish. I had more than enough of almost dying during the day I met you."

He had to admit that he talked to his zanteer an awful lot, and like the beast would answer him, he wasn't sure why he started to do it, it just seemed to happen. Then he noticed that his whole family liked to do it. So he obviously came by the habit honestly. Besides he felt that animals were way smarter than people gave them credit for. Zanteers were pretty loyal once they bonded with you, they told you if there was a fire, if there were intruders. Many loved to have them for travel as an insurance against surprise attack, and they were such happy beautiful things. So soft and joyful. His grandfather had one that helped raise his Mom and Aunty Rista.

They wandered out over the beaches, they had gone quite far when he felt something wet splat on his arm, he looked down quixotically. Looking up he gasped. It was going to pour and quickly. They were way too far back from home.
He raced Anbu to the treeline just as the sky released a pounding rain in an absolute fit of fury.

He thankfully found a rain palm, a sturdy plant with the broadest leaves in the jungle. He crawled underneath it, holding a leaf or two down to further shelter himself. Anbu crawled in after him, swathing Ushi in his warm super soft fur. He was now quite warm and comfortable sheltered from the onslaught of a torrential downpour as only the tropics can provide.

"Then again this might not be that bad after all."

They sat quietly, defeaned by the downpour, he couldn't even see the water anymore and they were barely within the treeline.

"Quite furious out there isn't it? The frist of our Monsoon rains arrived upon the winds at long last."

Matori would be grateful for the water, giving everything green a hearty boost, The rains just made day to day living a little tricky. Trees would have to be felled or removed. Banks would be treacherous with the deluge. Soon it would be over and the land would be properly soaking wet along with any of its ill prepared habitants.

His mother cheerfully called it the time of leaky roofs. He disliked the noise it made when it was inside. He preferred his bedding at least dry.

Since he felt they were going to be here for a while he broke out the snack for himself and the zanteer.

He fed Anbu first, enjoying the interaction more than he would ever admit. Also Anbu had such cute little ears and he like to rub them.

He broke into his own food, bread and some well arapped cheese. His stomach rumbled and he smiled, adventuring sure took a lot out of him at least fuel wise.

"Hrrng, yum." His Mom made just the best cheese. It was one of her hidden talents.

"Good thing zanteers don't eat cheese huh?"
He gently poked Anbu who purred.

"Who is the sweetest zanteer ever? You are?" he sunk his fingers into the thick fur. It had become like a comfort blanket for him. Well, if one could get used to the smell of fish breath. He smirked, he didnt mind too much, it was workt it for the companionship. With Anbu he could go anywhere.

He wondered fi thew as the same feeling that his father felt with his bonded animals. He also wondered whether his older brother would choose beast path or hunter ranger. He knew there were no other choices for him either. All lay in the balance of the blade.

The rain seemed to go on forever, pounding relentlessly over the canopy.

Where would he be ten years from now? Leader of an army? Lord of the land? Innkeeper? Now that would be funny.

He wondered a lot of things. What his parents had been like as kids, why had they chosen to stay in Matori and not Oba or Zena, besides maybe how pretty it was here.

Perhaps he should try to get home after all? He had been here a while, but he had promised his mom he would be careful no matter what on pain of a sore butt. And he didn't want to hurt her feelings either so the safest thing was just to stay put until such a time as all the beasties couldn't so easily sneak up on him in his vulnerable state.

So much for his fire starting kit, that only worked when your shelter wasn't quite so flammable.

"I wish I had a thick fur coat like you. Oh well we can not all be the perfection that is a zanteer."

He settled in comfy and played with the dice his father had given him, he rolled them over and over. The carved shell bits tinkled prettily together against the backdrop sound of the storm. He found it comforting.

He was ashamed to find later that he drifted off to sleep. Though he did remember his Dad's advice on getting sleep when you could on adventures because it was never guaranteed. He was so happy that his family had given him some training in survival, it was so fun to be out here with only his wit and experience to guide his steps.

He made a resolution to spoil his zanteer when he got out of there.

He couldn't wait to grow up and go on real adventures into far off places and see what he could see.
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He tightened the cinch on his saddle, he was leaving for a while to train with a tamer his dad recommended. He knew why his father had done it, one was more likely to take to heart. lessons taught from someone not in one's own direct family. Ushi could see the merit of that and had not felt offended. He was more excited than nervous, thankfully, he did love a good adventure and this would be the first adventure where his beloved janarim was finally his. His father had given him the beast he had not had to pay. He swung handily up into the saddle. He had been practicing that now he could perform it smoothly. He rocked the saddle back and forth a bit, letting it adjust and settle over the thick armor plates. Then he retightened the cinch and gathered his reins. He squeezed his feet tighter to his mount sides and set off on a comfortable jog. Ushi was seized with a sort of excited contentment as they set off. This man his Fathter had told him about must live in Jauhar. It wouldn't be the easiest trip but a janarim made it comfortable enough. His heart was full and he felt like he was meant to do this, was meant to be here on the road to further study.

This made sense because he meant to be the best at what he did. He knew he was special. He knew he had talent. He just wished his twin could come with him. But sadly this was a solo challenge. The journey went well for the most part.

Wildlife mostly left janarim blundering into their territory well enough alone once they got a look at the size of the intruder. It was much less stressful traveling this way. He was touched deeply by the big gift. His dad was probably happier this way too. Ushi knew that his father would have kept way more animals if they had the resources for it. There was always that uncertainty that maybe they were not going to decent homes. This constantly stressed his family out to one degree or another. It took days to reach Jauhar, another day to get his bearings, then he was ready.

It was then that he started to follow the map of the town that his dad had given him with ink arrows pointing the way to the guy's place that he was supposed to find. He arrived at a modest tree house. It was very naturalized with vines dripping over everything and enchanting pollinating insects closer with their luring fragrance,. birdsong echoed hauntingly through the forest, motes of sunshine caught on dust particles that seemed to shimmer and glow faintly. In a word was enchanting and wild and he immediately liked the place, it put off good vibes.

As he continued to look, he saw the saddle and leather draped over railings, rustic feed and water buckets tucked neatly away, all tools of the beast charming trade. He felt that he was definitely in the right place but no one was home so maybe he should find a place in town and come back at a later time. Beast tamers usually drifted if they could, part of their nature. Always looking for the next find. He turned and started because there was a man staring at him hanging upside down from a vine like he'd been there the whole time. There was no sound. He had to admit that he had made a sound a small meep of surprise. He resented it. Still though, he expected that even his father had gotten frightened at some point when he had been young. He couldn't even picture it.
" Hi, my father sent me here to look for a beast tamer who would train me."

This man was obviously an alk earthling hybrid. Judging from the proud feelers likely a 50/50 mix very, very cool. From the bluish skin that was quite dark, he was a Water Tribe descendant too. Alk markings swirled prettily over his skin.

Fascinated, he suddenly very much hoped that this was the man he was supposed to find. The male grunted and flipped gracefully to the ground. He was well muscled and looked very at home in his own body, lithe power and grace. Ushi wanted very much to be like him, able to command attention without too much effort and hold people spellbound.

" In that case, my name is Misha, I will be your trainer Your father told me that you show great promise even at such a young age," the man stared off as if thinking about something far off or long ago. Ushi eyed the man, he wasn't that much older. Ushi was nearly an adult. This guy looked young, not Prentice young, but still.

"First you have to do a test, you have three days to prepare. The hint is stamina."

Abruptly the man walked away and she was stood still quite stunned. This guy had to be the strangest person had ever met. Misha hmm, he was in for a headache, he could tell. For three days he practiced running, pushing himself to go further every day. The morning finally came that he got his assignment. It felt like he had been waiting for forever. His teacher appeared suddenly behind him again. The man was like a ghost and Ushi really wished he would stop doing that

He vaguely wished his sister Nykinae were here to suffer with him, she would give this man a tongue lashing. No one should be able to creep like that.

"You're mission." The hybrid put a piece of art with a gorgeous radaku painted on top. "Is too train this specific radaku. Be careful they bite."
"That's it. That's all I get?"
" Yep," theman said cheerfully, smiling so hard that his squinty eyes all but disappeared.

Ushi set off to bebait a radaku. Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, this was not going to be easy. Radaku who like to hunt in packs, he huffed. Beast bait except he might end up being the bait.

The first thing he did was hunt down a small furry game animals. Then he set up a pit trap and suspended the bait over the trap. Then he moved up and out of scent range, he would hear the cacophony if something took the bait because he had tied like six little bells to it. Rigged to fall with a good tug. He was exhausted but proud of himself and he settled down to snack on a bit of fruit. He was quite mortified to be woken up from a nap nearly falling out of the tree which probably would have killed him. Such childish mistakes, he would have to do better. He swung down to the pit eager to see if he had caught any animal really. He had to kind of hang over the edge a bit to properly see into the pit.

There was a radaku down there but the color and markings were off. Better luck next time he would put the ramp down and let the beast go. He turned and came face to silently snarling face with the very radaku whom had been trying to catch. "s**t." was all he could get out before the radaku latched onto his forearm, he hissed in pain but tried not to cry out. It would only upset the matter further. The radaku growled, it was a disturbingly intimate moment. He stared into the fiery eye.

"I assume that it is a blood family member down there. I will let them out. We can continue our fair competition without involving others but you have to let go."

He held still despite a rapidly beating heart, his only encouragement was that despite constant growling the radaku had not yet shook his head. Suddenly another radaku slammed into the one that held him. Startled the radaku let go and slipped into the pit. Ushi stared at the new threat; the older Radek who just looked at him. Ushi slowly leaned forward into a bow never taking his eyes off the radaku. He was not sure what posessed him to do it, and if anyone was watching, like he thought the supposed hybrid teacher might be doing, he would probably look like he was greeting his own death. The body language was wrong for an attack he felt but the beast was still front and center in front of him.

" I will get your friend out and finish my business with other I will not hurt anyone. Just give me a moment he tossed a looped rope over his target's neck. Who glared balefully out at him before he put the ladder down for the other to climb out.

All done with third radical watching him.
" Give me a chance with this one, I will take care of him I promise. He's old enough to leave home now... is that why you are not eating me? Is he a pest?" Ushi, inspired, flung a hunk of meat off into the bush.
" Payment for your time, he dabbed his arm and turned back to the young radaku, which was just the right age to leave and start his own pack.
" I will call you Ooka, you will have a grand exciting life if you come with me. I'll give you lots of females, you'll be fed and brushed. Just please don't eat me now."
It took him three days, but he finally won over the radaku. He even gave the beast the option to return home. But Ooka hadn't left, seeming to accept his job at Ushi's side. Ushi had personally never felt this very special bond.He was a little floored at the implications. The power of spirit that could be had when you work together was astounding. What others out there might wait?
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(Ayushi)

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Character Name: Ushiwa
Class Promotion: Beast Charmer (Beast Master)
Current Location: Matori
Journal: XXX
Growth Point Links:
Growth 25/25
Going Fishing Thal x Ushi x Einsol5
Pickpocket! 5
Blossoms In The Rain XxX 5
Solo 5

Class Affinity/Choice Solo: Class Choice 5
Class Quest Solo: CQ

Physical Description: Same Hair,Same Colors but shirless with maybe a sash around his waist of soft fabric with a mild blue or green pattern and dark brown or black pants with mild pattern in blue or green (Keep necklace and diadem <3)
Body Type: Classic T shape for males extra muscle a bit cuz beast taming is hard
Preferred Artists: Scar Full, Scar/Ely Collab, Kana/Ely Collab, Kana Full, Scar/Tas, Kana/Tas
WIPs: [Are you open to having wips or livestreams posted/sent before the art is finished or do you want it to be surprised?]Up to artist ^^