[snowbutt.]

good luck. c:

[NARANDA]

Good luck everyone! I love this girl and am very nervous,
but I know whoever wins will love her as seen by the amazing forms!

[PurpleKakashi]

*deep breath* Alright.. rather than avoid posting the winner, because I don't want to have to tell people no on this one >< because I've decided there wouldn't be any runner ups for this set of GoT Kami.. Our winner is Zmei. I love your art, but mostly I love the story, it set up really nicely and I personally love how it flows.
Thank you guys for entering, dealing with an extension, and being cool in general ;u; good luck in other Rukami guys.

"Would have
Could have
Should have
But did not"

username :: Zmei' Vulpe
owner of one handsome rukami, mocking
rain - formally known as annie.

name ;; Fluttering Bird
a frail, yet lady-like name that I feel fits
this old kami perfectly. womanly but old
fashioned.

gender ;; Female
in fluttering bird's time it was not even rarely
accepted to be other than what you were
born as. while this didn't stop others and
surely didn't stop her motherly instinct towards
mocking rain, fluttering bird would never be
but female.



words of wisdom ::
Let those you love know you love them.
Today.
Not tomorrow, for it could be to late.
Let them know you love them now,
while you have the chance.

Lots of Rukami used to ask me about my potions. Nowadays, most just brush it off...since they've become a lot more common. But in my time, only the highest of Kami had potions like mine in my possession; and I would get questioned about my ownership a lot.
I was usually on the run a lot because of this; and let me tell you, it didn't prevent these old bones from rotting beneath my pelt.

It all started one day when I was gathering herbs to store over the winter in case of sickness. Granted, it was only spring then....oh I can still smell the sweet wildflowers. I can still hear the sound of the brook and feel the wind through my pelt. And....her.
I never really was one to believe in the whole "love at first sight" nonsense, but just her. She was beautiful. I can still remember what she looked like, how beautiful she was and sounded - and how she smelled better than the flowers after a morning's rain. Oh, I could go on forever about my love. As fragile as a dandelion but as sturdy as the oldest oak.
She was truly the only one for me, but in my youth our numbers were still few; and same sex relations weren't so smiled upon. Of course they were still widely accepted, but repopulation was of utmost importance.

I remember making up any excuses I could to see her. I want to go sit by the brook, I want to check how the plants are growing for next year, I want to go for a walk...all these excuses to get away from my family and see her. She didn't have a pack, yet she refused to join mine fearing it'd put me in danger. It was the closest to a forbidden love I'd ever heard of.

As the years passed, my love for her only grew stronger and in turn so did hers for me. I still smile at the memory of how her eyes shimmered when we talked about our future together. How the air sung with the sound of her laughter...I'd give anything to hear her again.
As all couples do, we eventually began discussing kits! Oh, oh how I dreamed of having kits with the only one I could ever dream of loving with my entires being and more. We hadn't even discussed mate ship yet, but I believe we were far past the point of mates - we were mates from the moment we exchanged names.

Though...of course we couldn't have our own kits, and we were to kind to take someone else's as our own. That only left one option; Nectar of the gods.
Back then, potions were rare to come by and this was the rarest of them all. Only Rukami considered highest in command usually had them, and were surprisingly quite possessive of them, so it was almost impossible to get your own without their direct blessings.

That left us - or rather me - with a single choice. To steal, or forget my family with the only girl if ever truly love.
Of course, I could never choose the latter.
But after the steal and after the chase I never saw my beloved mate again.

Fluttering Bird is a frail, old soul. Even she wouldn't deny it.
She is your average old lady - sweet, like a grandmother, and it always warms her heart when children or her family visits. Almost, that is.
While she does care about others and the above is generally true, because of how the last person she let get close she never saw again(and the next was only because she couldn't let a baby be abandoned), Fluttering Bird is afraid to show kindness towards most strangers without first knowing their intentions towards her, it does make her come across as the opposite of who she really is.

Mocking Rain if course knows she's not cruel, but others see her as a witch due to not knowing the story behind her potions or even just because she's an old lady who lives generally alone in the middle of the forest.

Her personality really depends on whether you look at her or her reputation.

This didn't stop me from raising a family, however.
Granted, I never found anyone else is let myself get close to and develope a romantic relationship with. I never had biological children, however one day I did run across a single mother Rukami and her four kits - two older and two younger.
One of the older kits was a male, and he was weak and sickly. I could tell the mother needed help - and she made it clear(however kindly) that caring for him and making sure he didn't wither away was tiring and drug her and her other kits back as much as she loved him. After trying to help her, the little male took quite a liking to me.

After talking it over with the mother, she asked me if I would mind taking care of him until the winter was over and her other kits were stronger and could take care or each other, she could welcome him back.

Honestly I feel it was quite a rude thing to do on her part; abandoning a child just because he was weaker than the others. But If I hadn't accepted her plea, spirits know what could have happened to the poor boy...e could have been left at the river's edge, or in a field for a mother hawk.

I move to much to stay in one spot all winter, however, so even if the mother had returned for her son - and believe me, I checked for her scent in that are constantly - she likely wouldn't have found us rather than us finding her.
His name is Mocking Rain, though he seems to prefer Annie.
Ah
That was her name
My mate...she had always liked the name Annie, and upon learning it was her name I learned to love it too.
So I'll protect my Annie as if he was my own son - just the two of us, taking care of eag other like mother and son should. And when I die, he will choose what to do with my potions. They're all I have with him - and were all he has.

I miss my Annie.
But I'll raise Mocking Rain as if he was my own, until the end of time.

[koegami]

congrats keeping my sketch

[NARANDA]

Congrats. You may have my art, please let me know when it's saved.

[foxxbreath]

Ahh thank you so much <3 I promise to cherish old Fluttering Bird qvq

And thank you for the art, Naranda! I just saved it so. <3