[-Isabella-]

To adopt this lion, you must either:
1. Have a founder, be at least level 1, and have enough space to accommodate this lion
2. Or, you can adopt this one as your founder!

To win this lion give them a personality ~ 300 words max

Ends 6/1/21

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    [b]Username:[/b]
    [b]Lion Name:[/b]
    [b]Lion Gender:[/b]
    [b]Pride:[/b] (Link to thread)
    [b]Pride Status:[/b]
    [b]Prompt:[/b]

[SilentMelody]

Username: SilentMelody
Lion Name: Kaulana ("famous")
Lion Gender: female
Pride: Divine Pride
Pride Status: caregiver

Kaulana is greedy and likes to hog prey or knick-knacks to herself. She isn't usually assigned to cubs because she limits their food to herself or steals from them when they're not looking. She's also a little narcissistic and egotistical. She doesn't think that anything she's doing is wrong, and no one can prove her otherwise. Truthfully, most lions believe she's not really suited for the rank of a caregiver but in a sense, her odd parenting style helps cubs to learn to fend for themselves sooner. It almost helps them to grow up faster, although this isn't always a good thing. In any case, all of the cubs she's taken care of have grown up to be very strong.

[Chanceuxcat]

Username: Chanceuxcat
Lion Name: Morello
Lion Gender: Male
Pride: Senova
Pride Status: Connoisseur
Prompt:
The stench makes him reel, lip curling. He turns to the old couple, nervously hoping their wine will be approved for sale. It's crude but all they know how to make. No one said this job would be easy, though it has been for Morello.
"It's awful," Morello says, dropping the bottle in the trash. "Sorry, but I can't bring myself to drink it. The wine's gone past the point of fermenting. It's vinegar."
The couple's faces fall. Morello adjusts his satin tie, face as expressionless as the best poker players. He turns away before he has to see them cry. Emotions have never been his forte, and yet they seem to hit him at the most inconvenient times lately. Like when he was visiting his mother's grave, he suddenly remembered another young hyena's shop he had to shut down. He wasn't actually doing the shutting really, just being hired by landlords who want to shift the guilt away from their shoulders and onto his. There wasn't actually anything wrong with they hyena, and that really bothered him. But the hyena couldn't pay rent. So they had to leave.
But Morello can't shake the thought. Did they really need to leave? Everything was cut and dry until then. He knew they all deserved what they got, many of them trying to sell goods that were scams and the like. But Morello's morality has been getting to him lately. These jobs... these lions and hyenas didn't deserve this. He isn't sure what to do. He loves his posh life, but at the expense of others? That's something he'd have to think about as he's never considered it before.

[277/300 words]

[zoocyte]

Username: zoocyte
Lion Name: markelle
Lion Gender: trans-man (AFAB)
Pride: the heart-tongues
Pride Status: advisor
Prompt:
hot-blooded youth often find that brazen confidence will lead to inevitable downfalls. markelle as a youth was yet to learn patience, to learn restraint, and to temper his need to be entertained at all times. he has an independent mind that is good for problem-solving (a mental acuity that he is quite proud of), but also makes him ruthlessly arrogant and stubborn when it comes to being receptive to ideas that aren't his own.

his rashness led to a lot of disciplinary action (which he detested) from his seniors, and forced on him was what he hated most: restriction of his freedom. wanting it back, he felt destined to run away from his pride and build his own life. however, he underestimated the harshness of the wilds. he was a teenage lion with nobody to rely on except himself to be fed and find shelter. it was also very lonely. eventually, with much shame, a new burden of terrifying experiences that had brought him close to death, and a renewed sense of humility, he returned to the pride he had forsaken. all his life he now would spend revising his personal philosophy and identity, redirecting his energy to serving his community - not just himself and his own interests.

his thundering spirit has slowed and calmed with his age, much like the dark rage and beating of a storm being gently ushered into calmer, slower skies. he is the elder to go to when taming rambunctious adolescents, which is easier for him than others because he knows what motivates their senseless immaturities. they listen because they feel understood by him, and thus he can guide them on a better path with a lot less pain and hardship than he had to go through to find his own way, long ago.

[299/300]

[snapshot]

Username: snapshot
Lion name: Spot (gotta go classic on this spotty boi <3)
Lion gender: male
Pride: Ngozi
Pride status: healer
Prompt:

Spot had always been a bit odd, for a lion. While the other cubs tussled and nipped at one another, he would wander off into the fields and find injured birds and rabbits, which he would work to secretly heal in the caves at the edge of the territory. He couldn't save all of them, but with some trial and error and spying on the pride healers, he managed to teach himself the basics of medicine. He is a healer at heart, gentle and compassionate, and he prefers the sounds of birdsongs over the snarls of wrestling. Being a healer means being tough in your own way, though. There's a tricky balance between compassion and protecting your own emotional state, and that can be hard at times. Spot tries to never become cold and robotic the way he has seen some healers become, but he also can't let himself be overwhelmed by grief at the things he sees the way he has seen other healers become.

As a teen, just before reaching the age where he could apprentice as either a hunter or healer or guard, Spot healed a rabbit that had lost one of its legs. Fearing that it would get snatched up by a predator, Spot kept it as a companion. His pride thought it odd that he would keep a snack as a pet, but they left it alone, and it became something of a mascot for him when he took up his apprenticeship. Frightened cubs certainly feel more comfortable going to the healer with the fun rabbit there to distract them.

[265/300]

[-Isabella-]

Username: Chanceuxcat
Lion Name: Morello
Lion Gender: Male
Pride: Senova
Pride Status: Connoisseur
Prompt:
The stench makes him reel, lip curling. He turns to the old couple, nervously hoping their wine will be approved for sale. It's crude but all they know how to make. No one said this job would be easy, though it has been for Morello.
"It's awful," Morello says, dropping the bottle in the trash. "Sorry, but I can't bring myself to drink it. The wine's gone past the point of fermenting. It's vinegar."
The couple's faces fall. Morello adjusts his satin tie, face as expressionless as the best poker players. He turns away before he has to see them cry. Emotions have never been his forte, and yet they seem to hit him at the most inconvenient times lately. Like when he was visiting his mother's grave, he suddenly remembered another young hyena's shop he had to shut down. He wasn't actually doing the shutting really, just being hired by landlords who want to shift the guilt away from their shoulders and onto his. There wasn't actually anything wrong with they hyena, and that really bothered him. But the hyena couldn't pay rent. So they had to leave.
But Morello can't shake the thought. Did they really need to leave? Everything was cut and dry until then. He knew they all deserved what they got, many of them trying to sell goods that were scams and the like. But Morello's morality has been getting to him lately. These jobs... these lions and hyenas didn't deserve this. He isn't sure what to do. He loves his posh life, but at the expense of others? That's something he'd have to think about as he's never considered it before.

[277/300 words]

Winner! Something about the idea of this lion being a satin-tie-wearing connoisseur filled with moral conflict really stuck with me^^

[Chanceuxcat]

Ahh oh goodness thank you!! Morello will definitely not have fun with all the moral conflict he'll have to face lol, can't wait to develop him!!