[Amberlilli]

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Dᴀʏ 02: Tʜᴇ Ox
Tell about a time your kalon's loyalties were tested, and how they resolved the situation.
juliet - danika
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"Alright everyone, that's a rap! Good shooting today!" Juliet gently shook her hair out of its tight bun, the model had been working since early that morning and was ready to just leave. She had made a dinner reservation with Danika, her best friend, for just after work ended. If she wanted to make it, she would need to finish work quickly and head out. However, the shoot they had today was one of the most important of the year, and Juliet had already been staying a bit too late. As she hurried to get her bags together to head out, she was stopped by her group of work friends.

"Eeee! Julie! You looked sooo good out there!" One of them squealed, as Juliet sheepishly scratched the back of her head, "Ah, well you know, its just work?" She smiled, continuing to put her coat on and her bags away as quick as she could. While she loved these girls, she didn't have time for their antics. "Ay Juliet, do you want to join us at a party tonight? As a kind of congrats to ourselves for the season and the shoot today?" She may not have know the group of girls for too long, but man did they know how to appeal to her emotions. "Well, I'd love too but-"

"Come on Julie! You never join us for anything" One of the girls pouted, pulling on Juliet's sweater and dragging her out of her dressing room. "It will be fun! Promise." She said looking at Juliet as if daring her to argue. With a roll of her eyes Juliet pushed past them and out the door, calling back behind her, "I'd love to go, but I'm actually quite busy with things that are important.
Thanks!"

As she entered the restaurant, Juliet was instantly warmed by the smells of the pastries and the hum of her best friend. She was right to have turned them down, she wouldn't pass up an opportunity with her friend for the world.

[carpe noctem.]

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featuring pip and lilarie (made up) in a medieval kingdom au

Pip stood silent vigil, his body tensed and alert as he kept guard. In a fleeting moment, Pip was prepared to be spurred into action, to stop anything and anyone that tried to get past the towering doors that led to the princess.

Although his body remained rigid and tense, at the thought of any harming the beloved heir to the azurali throne he fell into a bubbling feeling of protection for the elegant kalon. He had sworn on his life to protect her at all costs, to ensure that her life would never be at risk to potential enemies.. He knew the dangers of following the path of becoming the princess's guard. But he wholeheartedly complied.

"Pip,"

The smooth voice broke him out of his thinking, earning his head to turn round to face the direction of speaker. Of course, it was the princess that had spoken, and their was a rather large door separating the two from face-to-face contact. Nonetheless, Pip listened intently all the while keeping himself alert.

"Pip, won't you mind accompanying me for a moment?" Her honey coated voice ran through his ears like a song, capturing his attention completely.

"Certainly, your majesty." He replied respectfully, gently pushing the door open to reveal the spacious bedchamber of the heir of the kingdom. His eyes centered upon the kalon, who was staring out onto the kingdom that was spread out along the jungle on the balcony.

She didn't turn to face him as she continued, reminding him softly of her preferred name. "You know you can call me Lilarie."

Pip carefully padded to the balcony to sit next to her, smiling softly as he watched her look out onto the kingdom. "Well, yes.."

"Your my best friend, I don't want you to know me as your majesty but your friend." She glanced over at him, her jade and blue flecked eyes serious. "I have something important to tell you, Pip."

Pip nodded his head. "I'm listening, Lilarie."

"The azorena kingdom isn't happy with our recent decisions, they have been pushing their limits and are starting to terrorize the kingdom.. They're headed straight for me. I have been given signs from the prophet that I need to leave if the kingdom survives. I am the single heir to my parents, and I know that if I fall all will be lost," She paused, her eyes grave. "I need to leave. You needn't come, Pip, it is your choice. There are enemy warriors out for my head, and you will be in serious danger. You can choose to leave and resume to life of a normal kalon, you can see your family again and be free from all of this."

Pip thought it over for a moment. See his family again, live the normal life once more? He wouldn't have to worry any longer.. He shook his head. "I'm coming. I can't just abandon my duties, and I can't just abandon you."

Her aqua eyes swelled with emotions, a small smile broke through her features. "We haven't any time to lose. Let's go."

[Areater]

prompt two. // areater // " the concert " // 505 words // starring ambrose & amadeus (briefly featuring pip)

"hey man, i really need you to cover my shift tomorrow, my mom's really sick and i need to take care of her. nobody else took me up on it and the boss said i can't call in sick or he'll fire me." the young kal looked at ambrose with a slightly pleading look. ambrose wiped the sweat off his brow with an oil-stained rag as he searched his mind for anything he was doing tomorrow night. "please?"
ambrose half-smiled and went back to work. "alright, i've got you, i could use the extra pay anyways. i'm saving up to buy amadeus a new violin for christmas. he's always complaining about the cheap one he's got now and i wanna buy him something special."
he was halfway home after his shift nearly an hour later when his son called. as soon as he answered, he figured he knew what he wanted, and he was right.
"hey, what's for dinner?" amadeus asked.
"i'll be home in about ten minutes, you can order a pizza if you want and i'll pay for it when i get there."
"yay! thanks dad. half pepperoni half pineapple right?"
"all pepperoni if i had my way, but yes, you can get your weird fruit topping," ambrose joked back. "love you, bye."
"love you too. i can't wait for you to hear my solo tomorrow!"
his orchestra concert. it was tomorrow. amadeus had been raving about it for weeks, but he'd just been so tired from working so long that it slipped his mind. but he couldn't let his coworker down - he didn't want him to get fired for taking care of his mom. but his relationship with amadeus seemed distant sometimes, and he didn't want to let the kid down. who was he supposed to pick?
that night they each enjoyed pizza together and amadeus didn't bring up the issue. he didn't want to hurt his feelings if he could figure something out. that night, he contacted everyone he could who might be able to pick up the shift, but nobody could. finally, he called his boss. "i'll work overtime for free the rest of the week if you cut pip some slack on missing tomorrow as long as you don't tell him i called you." his boss might not be the nicest guy, but he was always eager to save himself a dime and he knew ambrose was planning to stay late all week, so he took him up on the offer.

the concert was gorgeous. amadeus nailed his solo, even though his violin wasn't as nice as some of his classmates, and ambrose knew that his time was more important to amadeus than a new violin would be - although he still planned to pick up some extra shifts on nights amadeus wasn't around to get the money, even if it came a little after christmas. it was nice to know that amadeus had never had to worry, and that he could trust his dad to be there for him.

[Unleashed Squiid]

Prompt 2. Featuring Ember and Glim.

He turned slowly, looking coldly at his twin. She blinked back, staring with those soft rouge eyes. Her narrowed posture, hair sniffed away from her face, and angry expression burned into his soul, and it was as if she could read his mind. Anger was jolting through her and she felt disgusted, holding up the little red book given to him by the man in white, and thrusting it I not Ember’s face. The traitor.

He knew what she must have been thinking, but it wasn’t that way at all. He would never work for that evil man so long as he lived. But what Ember couldn’t explain was his fascination he had with his adoptive father. He hated him with a fire backed up by an entire life’s enmity, yet was drawn to him like some sort of sick magnet. And now his sister had caught on, but was thinking only the worst of thoughts.

“Please,” he whispered into the frosty air. They had only just escaped. He couldn’t..no, he wouldn’t go back now.

She sat pondering.“Explain yourself. Show me who you are, Ember. Even having this book could wind us up six feet under.”

“I know, I’m sorry.”

“Prove it. If you keep stealing from him, going back to his house, you’ll get us caught. Ember, we both know what he did, but our brains were spared. You must be loyal to only one person now, and that’s me. He doesn’t control you any more, but you must stop being lured back again and again.”

It was too entrancing though. His father’s magic called out, and it made him almost wish to return to the spot of torture. Yet he also knew Glim was right. No amount of persuasion could draw him away from the only person that mattered in his life: her.

[iuno.]

Prompt 2
Loyalties Tested...
Featured Kalons: Isaac



Isaac and his boyfriend, Hypnos got in an ugly fight earlier that night. Regardless of his anger and stubbornness, Isaac bought Hypnos a flower and is going to apologize to him.

[spirit • daydream]

Haunani - Star Traveler

XXXXHaunani always has problems with trying to keep her secret away from her mother. She was still a teenager when she found her "falling star" and she knew she wasn't able to tell anyone about it. She quickly learned how to work with her time traveling, but many got suspicious of her whereabouts. Sometimes she was found in a history book however she quickly changed that. Though one time she couldn't change anything when it came to her friend.

XXXXHaunani had gotten into a lot of trouble after time traveling once. The trouble she got into had something to do with a mafia group and they weren't any kind she wanted to deal with. Well, by accident when she was going back to her own time she brought a mafia member with her. She had realized her mistake when she saw them trying to find out where she was. She had made a plan to bring them back to the past, however something happened and caused her friend to go as well. They were then taken away by the mafia and Haunani had to figure out a way to get her friend back. She befriended multiple people who would help her with this problem yet she couldn't change the fact that she had brought one of her greatest friends in danger. Once they had started the plan to get her friend and quickly leave everything went wrong. Many of her new group were taken and she had a choice between grab her friend or help the others escape.

XXXXShe had raced to grab her friend and just as she was about to leave she had second thoughts. Saying that she was sorry she dropped her friend back into their own world and went to help the others. Her friend told her not to, that she would only get hurt, but she couldn't stop herself. She made them get caught. It was her fault. Once she got back she devised the only plan she could think of ever doing. Get caught herself so that they all could escape. Once she started her plan they all escaped and even got her to come with them as well. That was one of the hardest parts of this random plan. After that entirely tiring adventure Haunani was happy to go back to her own time to find her friend. And, man, there was a lot of explaining to do.

APH Siantia --> For Finding Post
This also makes no sense yet again rip. Can't think riiiiip

removed toyhouse links

[whim]

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Prompt #2 - Loyalties tested
(531 words)
Symphony's story

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Pressure... That's a thing, isn't it?

Symphony was always a very musical kalon, living up to his name and appearance. It seemed that there was nothing that came between him and the subject. He had learned his passion for music at a very young age through his vocal ability and perfect pitch. Later on he had moved on to learning other instruments, and strives to improve on them all. Or at least it seemed...

Eventually Symphony had hit a fork in his path. To stay loyal to his passion that was music, or become what his parents aspired him to be so they could be proud of him. Symphony had wanted more than anything to have music as his profession when he was on his own, imagining himself performing as the lead in whatever it may be. Though, that wasn't exactly what his parents wanted of him. They owned a small music-oriented shop, and were expecting their son to eventually take over when they were unable to.

"Are you almost ready to take over the shop, son?" His father mused one evening, Symphony becoming tense at the question as the fur on his neck rose a bit. He bit his tongue for a moment, figuring out what he was to say. This is the question he had been dreading almost his entire life. Should I stay loyal to who I am? My parents would be so disappointed... But I know I can't do this. Symphony argued in his own mind silently.

"No... Dad, I'm sorry, but I don't want that. I was made to be more, to do more. I can feel it." Symphony spoke up, his gaze firm as it settled on his father in front of him.

"Symphony... Who will take over the shop? It's been in our generations for years." His father replied, a bit of a sorrow gloss coating his eyes as his cheeky smile soon drooped to to a much more dismal expression.

"I... I know, trust me. You're just going to have to sell it to someone else. Maybe it's time to move on." Symphony declared, bits of sorrow touching his own voice as he spoke. The shop hadn't been doing great in the first place, so Symphony wasn't even sure if he could handle the task if he were to take ownership of the shop. Either way Symphony knew he had to stay loyal to who he was, even if it meant hurting his parents in the process.

His father paused, giving a sign in the process. He seemed to be deep in thought before he had answered. "You're right, Symphony, maybe it is time for our family to move on. I could never make you do anything you didn't want." He had answered, though pain and reluctance in his voice.

"Thank you, dad... It's just something I have to do for myself." Symphony replied, his eyes traveling to the various frames containing pictures of him when he was a kit. It was always of him with an instrument or at some musical event. I know this is the right thing to do... I can feel it.

[cocogerber13]

Prompt two



Scorpio had been in multiple different weather situations, mostly rain, and instead of heading for shelter for himself in even the most dire of situations we would stay to comfort a stray dog that he had befriended. He had considered the dog family since he had run away from home, so that was where his loyalties stayed.

[Mima]

prompt 2. the ox

you didn't simply leave the order.

now this was true of almost any cult-like pseudoreligious group, to be honest. but any cult that had the type of sway to start raising orphaned kits to be personal assasins, like yuriko was? yeah, they were definitely not a place that would be taking a two week notice.

and it wasn't like yuriko had been planning such an escape her whole life, or anything. up until very recently she had never even thought of leaving. to think, all that needed to happen to flip her worldview upside down was to meet such a shy, weak girl... even if that shy, weak girl was unusually kind, and hopeful... like she was some sort of supernatural spirit of pure optimism.

seraph's smile beamed at her as they whispered in some hidden corridor, plotting.

even just for a day... there was no way they could return, even if what seraph wanted was just a day of freedom outside. and there was no way to bring asherah with them- it would be leaving her behind. the order would never let them take her out, even just for a moment. they knew better.

but as seraph looked out the window at those glowing orange lanterns, the street lit up in the warm hues of new year even amidst the snow, she brushed up closer to yuriko. and just for that moment, yuriko's fear and trepidation seemed to melt away.

as the two stole out of the great church and out onto the street below, they donned the fiery colors of the new, and masks to hide the old.

[SkyGold]

♕ Prompt 2: "Tell about a time your kalon's loyalties were tested, and how they resolved the situation."

Using Nikolai

-She yelled at him, cursed at him while he stared blankly at the floor. It wasn't his place to interfere. His parents would have to notice the unrest in the people. "When I'm king," He told himself.-