[SunnyStreets]

this child makes up a large chunk of the plot so very glad to have them,,, a cutie

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Username + ID:
Sunnystreets • 823430
Name: Leora
Gender: nonbinary

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about.

Leora is a curious little kalon with a big heart. Most of their time is spent pursuing education and then food, water and other supplies, but when they're able to take a break they enjoy playing snap with their friends and swimming in the shallower rivers. They're fairly convinced that they're highly intimidating, but most older kalons will be able to tell you they're just another one of the rag-tag kits, hardly even noticeable at this point, let alone a threat.

They live at the outskirts of the largest city in the country - Almidale - in a large but old and partially destroyed building, with a group of other kits. Where exactly these kits came from, most of the citizens don't know. Leora, however, is quite aware, at least of where they came from. They don't talk about it much, because it's a little too painful - Leora was the first one of these kits to make a home in the ruins. When they were around ten, or maybe eleven (they never knew their actual birthday), their family finally decided they were, quite simply, too much work. They'd told them they were going on a holiday, given them a bus ticket and dropped them off at the bus stop. Confused and disorientated, Leora had missed their bus, spent the night there and been driven away in the morning by an angry bus-driver. After a week and a half of sleeping where they could and walking when they couldn't, they'd stumbled across the first of the ruins, a heavily monitored area that was subjected to numerous school trips. They'd gathered that they couldn't stay there, due to the heavy crowds and many adult kalons already eyeing them in confusion, and therefore progressed past them and further into the scrubby grassland at the edge of city. In the far distance, they could see the vague outline of the mountain that bordered the city (which was in a deep valley). Eventually they followed a river along to another set of ruins, not too far off from the city but far enough not to be scrutinized by kalons about their day-to-day business. They settled in within a few days, finding a few plants that were safe to eat, and one that gave them bad stomach cramps.

Over the years, they've developed routines of gathering food from the wilderness and sneaking back into the city to steal from shops, barter with stall-owners and scavenge dropped coins and snacks. It was on one of these trips into the city that - around three months into their new life - they found the pink kit. Aïda was eleven at the time, and had bumped directly into Leora, apparently running away from something. Or someone, it turned out. Leora had leant down to pick up the pair of glasses Aïda had dropped, and held them out to her. The glasses had been snatched away immediately, Aïda had looked behind her shoulder before she'd pulled herself up onto a nearby wall and scrambled onto the low roof of a small grocery store. It was a frequent haunt of Leora's, in fact, and as such they followed the strange kit up there immediately.

There'd been a short, clipped exchange during which Aïda had admitted to being on the run from an old foster family, having stolen the glasses, and needing to escape. Certainly, Leora didn't understand why she'd steal glasses of all things - wouldn't food be much more important? - but they did understand not having anywhere to stay. Consequentially, Aïda ended up living in the ruins as well.

This turned out to be a good thing, because Aïda was much more ambitious and had more awareness of how things worked than Leora did. It was her who bluffed their way into a nearby school, and who sorted out their plan - do exams, get a job, find a better place to live. Sure, it wasn't exactly detailed, but they were both confident.

After a while, their group built up to include five or six other young kalons, and Leora and Aïda became unofficial leaders. It wasn't a complex situation - their life, even now, just consists of school, looking after and teaching the two youngest kits, gathering essentials and - if there's time - relaxing. Leora is closest with Aïda, seeing her as a sister. The other kits are all like family to them as well, definitely, but Aïda is the one they have the most memories with, and the only one who knows the full story of their past and what led up to being abandoned by their parents.

You see, Leora wasn't necessarily what one would call a good kid. Or a normal one. Throughout their childhood, Leora did their very best to impress and please their teachers, friends and family. Every time, their scheme backfired and they ended up taking the blame for whatever went wrong. They had, and still have, a bit of an obsession with things that weren't quite real. Now - at what they think is age 15 - they can look back and see it as an escape mechanism, a way to cope with their family's treatment of them. However, at the time, this interest in fantasy, monsters, aliens and the like, crept into their everyday life a little too much. Every class project got intermingled with it, every friend decided they were just too weird, even their parent's couldn't understand them.

So they ended up running wild, looking for things like what they saw in her head. They filled sketchbook after sketchbook with drawings and paintings from their imagination, even painted their bedroom walls with murals of strange creatures and unearthly landscapes. They'd find feathers, bones, sticks and stones and assemble them into models of their made-up animals, displaying them proudly around the room. At the peak of this, there were times when they had trouble separating reality from fantasy. And eventually, it all got too strange and too much for their family. At first they just tried to throw out all of Leora's sculptures and artwork, and re-painted her bedroom. This drastic removal of their imaginary world was a crushing blow to Leora, but - determined not to let their parent's down - they took it in stride and devoted themself to their studies, simply concealing future sketches and models around the house and city. However once their parent's found those, they blew up and simply removed the terrified Leora from their family.

Now, though, they've managed to find this new home, with other lost, abandoned and hurt kits, and they've made it their real family. They would protect these ruins and the kalons who live there with their life.

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bonus.

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credit.

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song lyrics: jordan clarke
seal drawn by me <3

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