
Goennec Pen #: #6
Name: Barbaro
How would you use him/her: Barbaro would be very well used, he'd get a home in my special goennec character thread, I'd try to get as much art of him as possible, I might RP him, he'd be my second goennec, Vienne's mate, and I would try to use him as much as possible because I really feel a connection with him. His appearance reminds me of one of my friends in real life, I know it sounds odd, but it's true, for some reason, when I saw him, it just clicked, even the name clicks, so I do hope I am able to receive this wonderful goennec as a character. I literally can not explain how dearly I wish to own this goennec.
Define your Goennec:
Barbaro is: Sarcastic, loving, daring, humorous, and mischeivious at times.
Likes: Making jokes, talking to friends, playing 'rather' games such as 'would you rather-', realaxing, having attention, and being with his mate, Vienne.
Dislikes: Work, silence, seriousness, unlovingness, and not being with his mate, Vienne.
Background:
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In a dark, shallow, cave, a small goennec was born to two estatically pround parents. They had been awaiting his birth and now he had finally come. The goennec opened it's glossy eyes and stared curiously at his parents.
"What shall his name be?" Asked his mother.
"Well," Said his father. "It must be unique, like his markings. We shall name him Barbaro."
"Yes," Answered his mother. "That's a perfect name."
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Vienne was one of the great gods of Osirus, but she often visited Earth to escape the lonliness of Gosephia. At this time, Barbaro was almost two years old, and Vienne just so happened to stumble across him while strolling around. He was simply laying in the grass, doing absolutely nothing except staring at the sky. Barbaro had moved out of the desert once he left his parents, for he prefered the lush valley over the harsh, dry climates of the desert. Luckily, his family had been living near the border of where the desert transforms into the valley. Being quite lazy, Barbaro only hunted when he really needed to, and he only worked when it was manditory, the rest of the time, he usually traveled slowly or simply lied down and observed his surroundings.
Vienne fell in love with Barbaro. In her eyes, Barbaro's glistening coat was like a jewel, his eyes were beautifully shaped sapphires, and his horns looked as if they were made of obsidian. The dark shapes and designs against his stunning coat seemed to dance in the light as he shifted, but the most beautiful detail about Barbaros to Vienne was his floppy ears. Since Vienne had floppy ears, she always had a soft spot for floppy-eared goennecs. Granted, she was seven years older than him, but when you're a god, you can pretty much transform into any age, shape, or form you want, depending on what you're the god of. She dodged behind a tree, she wanted to observe Barbaro, so she lied down and waited, hoping to get to know a bit more about him.
After about thrity minutes of watching Barbaro do aboslutely nothing, Vienne began to get bored, and she started to feel like a stalker, so she figured she might as well approach him.
Walking up to Barbaro sloly, Vienne tried to think of what to say.
"Um, hello, there." She said as she reached Barbaro.
"Hello, there, I am Barbaro, what is your name?" He replied.
His voice seemed to have an accent almost, and Vienne loved it. Vienne was also very good at reading emotions, and she could tell, that by Barbaro's reaction, he admired her.
"My name," Vienne replied in her most seductive voice possible. "Is Vienne." She added with a smile.
"I like your name, Vienne." Said he.
Vienne couldn't help smiling, she knew, that for some reason, Barbaro and she were meant to be together. Maybe it's because she's partly the goddess of destiny, but maybe it's because it was true.
Vienne realized that she should tell the other gods about this remarkable goennec she had just met, so she quickly thought up a plan.
"Okay, Barbaro, I must leave now, but shall we meet again tomarrow at high sun?" She rambled.
"Okay, see you tomarrow, Vienne." He replied.
Something about the way he said her name just made her melt.
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"But, Father-" Vienne pleaded.
"Vienne," Fierus said. "You sha'n't see this mortal goennec anymore, if you fall in love, you'll probably decide to become his mate, and you know what will happen to your powers if you do that."
Vienne replied, "I know I will have to give up my powers, but it may be worth it, it's fate."
"Hmm..." Cumicus mused. "You belive in fate, Vienne?"
"
Believe in fate?" Vienne practiaclly shouted. "I
am fate!"
"Cumicus, she's right." Oceanus added. "She is partly the goddess of fate and destiny, she knows what's right for herself."
"Thank you, Oceanus. At least someone sees it my way." She muttered.
"What?!" Fierus roared. "Are you saying it'd be best for my daughter to give up her powers for some mortal goennec? Vienne, what do you even find so special about this goennec?"
"Father, will you please stop calling him
'some mortal goennec'? His name is Barbaro." She said firmly.
"Okay, what do you find so special about
Barbaro?" Fierus replied irritably.
"His ears," Vienne murmurred while slowly reaching up to her ears with one forehoof. "They're floppy, and his markings seems to dance in the light. There's nothing that's
not special about him, Father."
Fierus sighed. He didn't know what to do. Either make his daughter miserable and do the right thing, or make her happy and do the wrong thing.
"Very well, then," Said Fierus. "We shall vote on this. All in favor in permitting my daughter, Vienne, to see Barbaro say 'I'."
Granted, there were only five goennecs in the room, Fierus, Vienne, Oceanus, Cumicus, and Gosirus, who had been silently watching the argument.
"I," Said Oceanus. "Happiness is more important than law."
Fierus looked shocked.
"I," Added Cumicus. "Your daughter knows her destiny better than we can ever hope to know."
"I." Said Vienne slyly, knowing she had just won the argument.
Gosirus spoke up, "So, it has been decided, that Vienne will be able to visit Barbaro whenever she wishes to.
A smile spread across Vienne's face.
"Father," She said. "I must go now, I'm supposed to meet Barbaro soon."
Fierus stuttered, but did not deny his losing.
And with that, Vienne happily left the throne room to meet her lover, Barbaro.
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That night, Barbaro was dreaming of Vienne. It seemed as if she was everywhere he looked, with her bright coat and shining eyes. He was impossibly impatient for tomorrow to come, for he wanted to see Vienne again.Her fiery coat was his favorite thing about Vienne. As a child, Barbaro had always enjoyed the sight of fire. Most goennecs thought of fire as destruction, but Barbaro had a different perspective. To him, fire was not destruction, it was life and beauty. Many times he had told goennecs about his opinion of what fire truly was, but they could only see Barbaro as a goennec who had lost his saneness, instead of what they should've seen, which was the truth and wisdom in his words. Although many goennecs did not know it, fire brought life, not only death, Barbaro had explained, too, that fire makes the soil rich and therefore more healthy plants can grow for food, but still most goenencs refused to believe his way.
Barbaro was laying on his back, staring at the bright moon, when he thought he saw Vienne's gorgeous face. "Am I hallucinating?" Barbaro asked him aloud. He decided he was simce it seemed her face faded away from the moon, but he wasn't hallucinating entirely. Vienne was a god, she was partly the godess of shapeshifting, so she made her face slightly appear on the moon, just for Barbaro's pleasure.
A few minutes later, Barbaro fell asleep. When he slept, he always was a very heavy sleeper, and he always had the most strangely vivid dreams, and he got to experience one that night.
"Where am I?" Said Barbaro, as he looked around the strange dream world.
The sky was a red as Vienne's coat, and there was nothing in sight at all, just the empty, foliage-deprived landscape. However, the ground was the color of Vienne's eyes, but the oddest part of all was that the moon was in the very middle of the sky, and it was black. The moon was like a black, sphere of nothingness.
Barbaro looked around, and realized he was dreaming. You see, Barbaro was one of the rare goennecs that could tell when he was dreaming or not, yet even when he knew he was dreaming, he could not control his dreams. It was if they had a mind of their own. Barbaro started running straight, figuring there wasn't much he could do other than travel in this bizzarre dream. He had gone about ten yards without a sight of anything when he heard his name being called by a voice. He recognized it as Vienne's voice.
"Barbaro?" Her voice seemed far off and unplacable, so Barbaro continued to trot.
"Barbaro..." This time, her voice seemed closer, and it appeared to be coming from ahead of him.
Barbaro continued, determined to find Vienne.
He had just run out of breath when he saw the meadow he and Vienne had met in, Vienne was in the middle of it.
"Vienne?" He murmurred.
He started to run towards her, and had almost reached her when everything just dissapeared and he was surrounded by darkness and nothiness, and Barbaro was falling.
"I'm falling..." Barbaro woke with a start, it was late morning, if not early mid-day.
Barbaro got up, dazed, and looked around. He wasn't in the field anymore... He was in the woods that lay off to the north side of the field.
"What?" Barbaro asked himself. "What- I must've sleep walked! Yes, that must be it."
Barbaro was happy he found an answer to the strange occurance, but it wasn't the least of his worries.
Now, he had to get back to the field.
"Well... I guess I'll just go south, then." He stated.
So, with that, Barbaro headed back to the field, and it took him about an hour to get to it.
He had just arrived around high sun.
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It was precisely high sun when Vienne arrived at the field she and Barbaro had first met in.
Vienne trotted over to the miniscule creek that ran through a small part of the field to chack her reflection. Her appearance was imaculate, but she didn't seem satisfied.
At first, she didn't see Barbaro, and her hopes died, but then she saw him come out from behind the woods on the north side of the meadow.
Vienne's heart soared, so did Barbaro's when he first saw her after trudging out of the meadow.
"Vienne!" Barbaro joyfully said, but then he realized that he didn't want to sound
too desperate, so he immediately lowered his tone.
"I'm very happy to see you, Vienne." He added with a smile.
Again, Vienne, was too intrigued by Barbaro's looks to utter a single word, but she eventually found her voice.
"Hello, Barbaro," She said in a civil manner. "I'm quite happy to see you, too."
What followed the short converstaion was one of those awkwered silences that happens whenever two people like eachother but don't know what to say.
"I-I made you a gift." Vienne stammered.
She slowly extended her paw to give Barbaro the small metal charm necklace she had ordered to be crafted the night before.
It was a small leather rope with a pendant hanging off of it.
The pendant was a picture of Vienne's profile carved into nightstone. Nightstone was supposed to be a gem that only the gods possesed, it was constructed of Night itself, and was very rare. Vienne had managed to chip a small portion of it off of her throne, which had some of the base of it.
"It's gorgeous," Barbaro said. "just like you."
"Thank you, I'm very glad you like it." Vienne replied with a nervous laugh.
"Would you mind putting it on?" Barbaro inquired Vienne.
"Sure." And with that, she delicately clasped the amulet between her jaws and slipped it over Barbaro's sleek neck.
"Now I'll always have you with me one way or another." Barbaro said gleefully.
"Barbaro? Do you travel with anyone, or are you alone?"
"I have traveled alone my life, and as of now, I have no relatives willing to join me."
"Oh... I could join you."
"You'd join me in my travels? That'd be amazing."
"Yeah, I could be a traveling..." Vienne didn't know what to end the sentance with. Mate? Friend? Partner? She thought about her choices before deciding, but barbaro picked up his end of the conversation before she could continue.
"My traveling mate? I'd be honored if you'd be my traveling mate, but would you be willing to leave your family or anyone else you know just for me?"
That question hit Vienne like a lead weight. She realized that joining Barbaro would mean leaving the gods, and losing her powers.
"I would, but I must go now," She said quickly. "I'll be back in an hour, maybe."
"Okay, I'll be here, goodbye, Vienne." He said, sounding a bit sad, which made Vienne feel meloncholy for having to leave him.
"Bye." And with that, Vienne ran off, wondering what she was going to do.
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"Vienne, have you gone insane?" Fierus asked, irritated.
"No, Father," Vienne replied. "I've simply fallen."
"Fallen?" Fierus questioned. "Into what?"
"Love." Vienne replied strongly.
This surprised Fierus, and the other goennecs, Cumicus, Oceanus, and Gosirus.
Feirus remembered when he fell in love with Vienne's mother, he remembers feeling like he always had to be with her, that there was something special about her. He felt was Vienne was feeling.
"I know I must sacrifice my powers to be with Barbaro, but it is worth it, Father." Vienne urged.
"I suppose," Fierus started. "That you might be right, and so I grant you my permission to let you give up your goddessness."
Vienne smiled. "Now, father, how exactly am I supposed to give up my powers?"
"That same way you got them, Vienne." Cumicus stated.
Vienne remembered the day she became a goddess, each of the gods, Cumicus, Fierus, and Oceanus had given her a piece of their powers, she could physically see her powers, and she felt stronger as they entered her. The powers had looked like northern lights, but they were gold.
"Okay, I am ready," Vienne started. "But before my powers are taken I ask for one wish. That I can become Barbaro's age, as of know, I am seven, whereas, Barbaro is not even one."
"Wish granted." Oceanus said with a smile.
The three gods, excluding Vienne, concentrated. Vienne saw her powers leaving her, they trailed out of her heart and returned to the gods. Feeling weaker as her powers left, Vienne began to worry, but she knew she would be all right.
When all of Vienne's powers had been rescinded by the gods, Vienne realized she was youner than one again. She looked at her reflection on the floor of the throne room, she appeared smaller, and her eyes were brighter and full of more life.
"Thank you." Vienne said to all the goennecs before she left the throne room, it was almost an hour after she had entered.
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"I wonder where she goes when she leaves." Barbaro stated.
Barbaro often talked to things that couldn't reply, such as grass, flowers, and butterflies. Right now, he was talking to a rosebush near the woods. The rosebush was short, but it was extremely large, and it beared blood-red rose bigger than a goennec's head.
"Well, I wish I could get her something." Barbaro said, looking down at the pendant Vienne had given him.
An idea struck Barbaro just then, as he gazed at the rosebush.
"I know, I shall get her a rose." And with that, BArbaro inched towards the rosebush.
Wondering how he was going to get a rose without getting punctured by thorns, Barbaro studied the rosebush, looking for an excellent rose taht wasn't surrounded by deadly thorns.
He found one, eventually, it had thorn on the stem, but he thought it might be easy to remove them.
Carefully, Barbaro gripped the stem loosely with his strong jaws, and pulled.
The rose wouldn't come lose.
Barbaro, pulled, and pulled, and pulled, until he pulled with all his strength and forced all his weight back.
Snapping, the rose came lose, and Barbaro tumbled backwards.
Holding his trophy rose tenderly in his paw, Barbaro started the painstaking task of slicing each and every thorn off with his claw. This took about thirty minutes, and Barbaro just finished in time to hear Vienne call his name.
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"Barbaro!" Vienne called, looking for him.
Just then, she saw Barbaro trotting over to her, with a magnificent rose in his mouth.
"For you." He mumbled as he set the rose at her forepaws.
"Thank you, Barbaro, would you mind setting it behind my ear?"
Barbaro picked up the rose, and slipped it behind Vienne's ear, now, with the rose, Vienne looked even more beautiful than before, and Barbaro thought that was impossible.
"So, Vienne, are you willing to travel with me?" He sort of left the question hangin, since he didn't want to get his hopes up too high.
"Yes, Barbaro, I'd be honored to, and I will." Vienne replied happily.
"That's great! I'm so glad you'll travel with me, as my mate."
"Me, too."
Just at that moment, Vienne and Barbaro looked into eachother's eyes, knowing that nothing could separate them, and knowing they'd be together.
Forever.
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Here is a drawing I made of Barbaro:

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I hope you enjoyed my form for Barbaro and I hope his background didn't take too long to read. :3
If you're wondering, high sun if referring to noon, I used the tern 'high sun' instead of noon because I figured goennecs wouldn't use the term noon, and at noon, the sun is at the highest point in the sky. :3