[MySpoons]

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This lion is based on the black and tan points of breeds like Dobermans and rottweilers. They have great protective instincts. What is this lion protecting, and why? 500 words max, Ends the 15th of August at 6pm CST.

Username: AwkwardAnxiety
Lion name: Fusco
Lion gender: Male
Pride: PoIR
Pride Status: Greater Lion

[Nia The Elf]

Username: Nia The Elf
Lion name: Ulfin (little wolf)
Lion gender: Male
Pride: Red Eagle
Pride Status: Knight
Prompt:
Ulfin had been prideless for a while now. The banishment from his pride meant he was stuck wandering the wilderness aimlessly. There was no chance he would be accepted into another pride, and he hadn't felt like settling down alone anywhere. So, he padded steadily over hills, water, snow, sand.

Until the monotonous repetition of his daily life was interrupted by a small surprise that showed up under his paws.
A mewling cub, so small it must not have opened it's eyes until recently. She was curled up in a small shrub that Ulfin was about to step over, but he stopped in his tracks.

Cubs were meant to be bigger than the little one before him, he could see her ribs which was not a good sign. It looked as if she had been abandoned there for a while. Ulfin looked for a while at the cub's shallow-breaths and listened to her weak noises. He couldn't just leave her there, it was obvious no one was coming back for her.

And so, that was how Ulfin ended up with a ward to keep protection over. He hadn't a single idea how to look after her; she was still at the age of nursing from her mother, so he had worked a long time to eventually discover that mixing water with oats and barley could make a sort of milk substitute.

He had taken to carrying her by the scruff as he travelled - though he moved at a much slower rate now - finding that as she grew a little stronger and a little older, she would start to wriggle off of his shoulders where he had originally carried her.

After a long while, they had made it to a wide red desert, the grass underfoot dry and scratchy, the heat wasn't too bad though, so he carried on further in.

In the distance, nearing closer, Ulfin could see a small group of lions - running and fighting a pack of jackals - they looked equally matched and they were nearing closer and closer to Ulfin and the cub. He braced himself, there was no way he could run away, he wasn't fast enough and he would be leaving the lions behind to deal with it, but he had no idea what to do with the cub.

"On't oove, 'aright?" He grumbled through the scruff in his maw, before setting the cub onto his back tangled in his mane, and kept his head tall as he joined in the fight.

It was tough, keeping the cub - mewling fussily in fear - on his back, whilst not letting any stray claws or teeth near her; he swiped at the jackals that came too close and clamped down hard with his jaw on any limb that got near to him and twisted his shoulders to balance out his movement with the cub's.

The fight was over relatively quickly and the lions before him , welcoming and kind, came over to fuss over the cub alongside him.

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[QueenOfWyrms]

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[minifun990]

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[AwkwardAnxiety]

Username: AwkwardAnxiety
Lion name: Fusco
Lion gender: Male
Pride: PoIR
Pride Status: Greater Lion
Prompt:

Fusco is generally a gentle lion, matched well with his mate Mirum, so the whole pride was surprised with his viciousness protecting her when one of the others suggested that she didn't belong because she wasn't born in the pride and she hadn't been with them on their original journey. His fur had stood on end, his tail swishing violently, while he tore into the other lion verbally, berating them for every slight problem they had and demanding to know what right they had to talk that way of his mate. If Mirum had not signaled him not to with a shake of her head and pleading eyes, he might have literally torn into that son of a hyena.
Even afterward, when he'd calmed down and returned to his gentle self, the other lions were wary of him. They walked cautiously, worried about provoking him, for several days.
It showed it was not a one time occurrence, like they'd convinced themselves, when a snake managed to make it's way into the cub den where Mirum was teaching and keeping an eye on the pride's cubs. Again, the pride was shocked when, at the sound of his mate's alarm, he bolted from his own den where he'd been resting from a night patrol and into the cub den. He scanned the room, quickly identifying the snake as the threat, and mutilated it until he was certain that it would rise and strike no more. Threat gone, he walked to his mate and assured her that he was fine, regaining his normal posture as the definition of gentleness.
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[ToxicShadow]

Username: ToxicShadow
Lion name: Rasha
Lion gender: Female
Pride: Oddity Pride
Pride Status: Second Commander

"Everything."

The question is too complicated for someone like Rasha. That is, she cannot possibly be bothered to give a more specific answer, and her answer holds some truth to it, anyway. What she values the most are the things in front of her, and the things around her, so she will protect those things, in the given moment. Of course, undoubtedly and dauntlessly, she will protect her home and her pride mates, those that have become her dear family. That is something that one with the title of "Commander," will do, and she will do it. She was trusted with it, for very good reason. Protecting them, to her, is more important than her own life.

But even strangers, small creatures, unfamiliar places, someone else's harmless ideals, she will give her all to protect. Because life should be protected, and objects, thoughts, and places are, surely, valuable, important, and so very precious to someone out there, so they should be, too.

There was a time where Rasha lost that which was important to her. She couldn't protect it. So, now, she will protect everything she can with all of her might, unwilling to lose anything else and unwilling to let others experience the same tragic despair that she did without even trying to fight to prevent it.

[MySpoons]

Username: AwkwardAnxiety
Lion name: Fusco
Lion gender: Male
Pride: PoIR
Pride Status: Greater Lion
Prompt:

Fusco is generally a gentle lion, matched well with his mate Mirum, so the whole pride was surprised with his viciousness protecting her when one of the others suggested that she didn't belong because she wasn't born in the pride and she hadn't been with them on their original journey. His fur had stood on end, his tail swishing violently, while he tore into the other lion verbally, berating them for every slight problem they had and demanding to know what right they had to talk that way of his mate. If Mirum had not signaled him not to with a shake of her head and pleading eyes, he might have literally torn into that son of a hyena.
Even afterward, when he'd calmed down and returned to his gentle self, the other lions were wary of him. They walked cautiously, worried about provoking him, for several days.
It showed it was not a one time occurrence, like they'd convinced themselves, when a snake managed to make it's way into the cub den where Mirum was teaching and keeping an eye on the pride's cubs. Again, the pride was shocked when, at the sound of his mate's alarm, he bolted from his own den where he'd been resting from a night patrol and into the cub den. He scanned the room, quickly identifying the snake as the threat, and mutilated it until he was certain that it would rise and strike no more. Threat gone, he walked to his mate and assured her that he was fine, regaining his normal posture as the definition of gentleness.
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i love the 'scary to anyone who threatens my favorite person' to 'gentle giant' trope so much.

[AwkwardAnxiety]

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