[♥ fefetasprxte ♥]

precious child omg??

[jayus]

So many pretty babes recently, congrats! oUo

[ElementStar]

omg what a precious glowy baby
congrats you guys! ;v;

[jern.]

This is so pretty! Congrats!

[wickedbvnes]

i need it

[yeena]

for one thank you all on the congrats ! i would just like to pop in to say:

this bell baby is going up for adoption !
the only catch is: this is a two plumies or less contest
meaning if you own more then two plumies you cant enter
this does not include past plumies you've gifted/readopted
*****its not being too enforced i should add though*****

ill be hosting this one and corgi will be my trusty guest judge through this.

okay so this contest is gonna be all like the others, an impress me ! though this one has an art limit of six pieces, one having to be a family piece (it can be a sketch because this family is full of complicated designs) writing/words have no limits and the more development i see the more ill be interested in your form <3 it is suggested yet not required, that you include family relationships yet i could care less honestly. so since theres nothing really more to say about this so i mean lets go onto the family.


Bill Cypher; dad; CocaColaCorgi


"Make my children even the slightest bit of upset and I will hunt you down" is basically how to sum up Billo. Corgi hasn't exactly been active on CS and I will request you pm me questions about him and I'll answer them best I can (skype with corgi)



Enfer Black/Cypher; dad; d-dave.


to describe it in short Enfer is just a guy who's has some anxiety and can get flustered very easily, he just recently finished off college and managed to get a career of being a professional piano player. Nothing truly interesting about him if anything.. except the fact he manages to put up with Bill and Bell's tempers. Just PM me about any questions/concerns or things on his behalf.



Bell Cypher; older sister; d-dave.


Bell's attitude takes most after her father, Bill's. Being quite snappish and rude to those that she first stumbles upon. She can't help but get a kick of making fun of others and is.. an almost definition of 'bully' yet she is often just taking the fun of making someone upset to push their limits. She isn't the most friendliest to stangers and will most likely will snap at strangers and people, regardless of age or wealth. She owns two guinea pigs and despite having a very harsh side, adores the little rats a lot to where if someone stole them she would probably hunt that person down. As well as having the interest in guinea pigs. She doesn't exactly trust too quickly but she will start to stop snapping at you after a bit. Becoming more of a person that has some bad humor and is just very protective of friends.

BASCIALLY SUMMED UP SHE'S A JERK
PM me again for more info as well



basically if you need more info on the family itself just PM me please ||D
and lastly to sum up the explaining part let me give just a few notes you might want to keep in mind, just copy/paste and view



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• the Bill x Enfer ship name is bell and the family's last name is Cypher

• the family has two guinea pigs name Fluff and Spot, describe them as you wish just spot has a brown spot over his right eye, to claify this bell owns these guys, enfer owns the hamsters yet they leave everything off as 'family pet(s)' make sense ?

• wait and hamsters okay all the rodents.. two hamsters jim and hammy

• Enfer is a professional piano player

• human form Bill is probably 6"3 (i need to check hang on), Enfer is 5"4 and Bell is.. an eight year olds height uh

• Enfer is twenty-one, Bill is twenty eight

• Enfer has this voice trait to where if he gets stressed out his voice will get very high pitched and start cracking, he can't control this effect and it takes half an hour to half a day for this to wear off

• both Bill and Enfer are often seen in tuxedos, Bill's being a golden one with a floaty top hat and tie, Enfer's being the casual black and white one. Enfer only wears his when he's off to a concert, if he's home he's probably in a turtle neck sweater or large hoodie

• Enfer has a huge fear of drowning and anything to do with the ocean/large bodies of water, Bell is scared of storms of any type and so is Bill

• Both Bell and Bill have short tempers if you didn't notice ||D

• This family is nomadic due to Enfer having to move around with his piano concerts and stuff

• Enfer can speak German and some French

• Bill is wanted in some places so be warned

• Both dad's hate snow/winter so ???

• Enfer is the cook of the family

• It takes a lot to make Enfer mad okay ? Although he gets jealous very easily

• Enfer's hometown is Saarland, Germany. Bill's was Oregon




okay so onto the form if your still interested okay



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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Sex:[/b] female, gender can be any
and have fun guys ! extras are unlimited !



End date: somewhere in july, don't worry, i'll post a warning when its near <3
Extensions: ill post a warning to ask for them if they're needed
Key things: development over art, if anything have the art show development. make things creative ! and mostly just have fun guys <3 also i would prefer no website forms please ! prefer though, if anything you can do a form on a different thread etc.
Questions/concerns: just pm me and I'll explain best I can u w u

[Lady Sif]

About me and my form:

Hello! My name is Lady Sif, but please call me Sif. Before you start on my form, I'd like to introduce myself, I am a avid RPer, I have 2 other plumies, Ritika and Corbin and I love them both very much. I want to both join the Cypher family and add Amadine and Emily to my own.

Papa is Enfer and Bill is Dad to both of them. Also please take note that in my art Emily is draw with red eyes or a red dot on her head when her eyes are closed. While that's actually what it looks like when the two of them are in their mind meadow, when in the real world no actual change happens, it's just drawn that way so you can keep them straight.

Basics

Names/Nicknames:
Amandine (a-maw-deen) and Emily Cypher, originally, Emily was Amandine's middle name, but when the second personality formed, Amandine gave her that name since neither of them knew what else to call her.

Amandine is often call Amaw by Enfer when it's just family around.

Name Meanings:
Amandine means worthy of love and Emily means rival

Sex/Gender:
Both are female and both of them use she/her pronouns since they haven't explored gender identity very much, this might change when they get older.

Age:
6 Years old

Why does she have two names?
Amandine and Emily are two personalities living in one body. Amandine is the original and dominant personality, and Emily first appeared when she was 4 years old. It's a form of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but her's works a little differently than most. Unlike with many cases where the personalities aren't aware of each other, Amandine and Emily can talk with each other, and can even meet in their head. The main reason for this is that their condition isn't just mental, Emily wasn't created out of stress, there's a nearly unnoticeable split in their brain's personality area that caused a secondary smaller area to grow closer to normal size, thus the second personality, or Emily. They share the same sensory input, but only one can be in control of their body at a time. They can also remember each others memories whether or not they were watching at the time, same goes for learning things, even if they don't know them consciously. The other can choose to either be following the sensory input and 'speaking' to the one in control, they can sleep or they can enter the Meadow. I'll talk more about that later.

Personality(s)
Amandine's a nice girl, she sweet and charismatic, a charmer like her dad, but she also gets overwhelmed easily. Even if she doesn't show it. Like most little kids, she's easily excitable but when she grows older she'll mellow out some. Much like her dad, she has a talent for magic tricks and uses silly pranks to show her affections. Pranks that don't make sense like leaving hoards of tiny camels all over your house or taping pictures of Nick Cage over all your pictures. Never really anything that can hurt. She can be a worrier, but she does it all internally while talking to Emily, so it doesn't show on the outside. This leads to her biggest weakness, she internalizes almost all of her problems, mostly due to Emily's presence.

Emily is not a nice girl, she's mean spirited and upset most of the time. She lacks any form of natural empathy, and for the most part isn't fond of anyone. With those select few she would never admit she cares about them, but she will watch out for their physical and emotional health. To her, this means severely damaging anyone who causes them harm, particularly Amandine. It's surprising how much damage a 6 year old can cause with the right inclination and know-how. The only way to really tell if Emily likes you is to see how nervous she gets around you, the more shy she seems the more comfortable she is around you. She also has issues talking about her feelings with anyone, even Amandine, but if you can get her started, and that requires some very particular things to happen (Nobody else is around, she's in a place that makes her feel safe, you aren't someone she could take on in a fight), then she'll pour her heart out. Getting her started is very hard though, and has only happened once.

What is "The Meadow"

This is a rough adaption of places in the Meadow, but the Meadow itself isn't really a place, it's a dream. When either or both of the girls goes to the Meadow, they enter a state of lucid dreaming. If just one goes to the Meadow, then the other can stay in control of the body, but if both of them enter the Meadow then their body falls into sleep.

They can meet in the meadow, and they have to enter it to sleep, but they can also fall into a dreamless sleep in the Meadow, sleeping within a dream if you will.

Who are you?

So who is Emily?
She's the girl who lives in my head with me. We fight sometimes, and she can be very mean. But she cares about me and my family. I think. Sometimes I don't know. She can be very tough and doesn't like to say she cares about people. I just think she cares about us because she laughs most of the time when someone gets hurt, but when one of my family gets hurt she just goes quiet. When I get hurt, she gets upset because when I get hurt so does she. My parents always say that she's just a part of me, but she's not. Emily is a different person from me. She really hates it when my parents tell me she isn't. Once she even cried.

So you can talk to her?
Yeah, when she feels like talking she'll talk to me in my head and I can think back to her. We can both see and hear things, but only one of us can be in control. We tried to share because Papa said sharing is good, but it didn't work. I got all dizzy and things would move that weren't suppose to. Emily kept trying though, she said she panicked. When I woke up Dad told me I had a see-sure. We deiced to take turns after that.

You two take turns?
Kinda. It's mostly just me, but sometimes when we're alone Emily will take over to walk around and feel things for a bit. Or when I get really scared or angry, she'll take over from me. Every now and again she'll take over when I'm not paying attention. Mostly I just go meet her in the meadow and we'll snug-.Talk. We talk.

Are... Are you Emily?
Yes, and I want you to leave. You're bein' nosy and I don't like you.

O-okay, I'll come back later.
Don't bother.

====> Get a Rabbit.

Amandine and Captain Stardust By |Blossom|! (Click it to be taken to my first story)

Relationships:

Bill

Amandine sees Bill as her role model, and as more of the fun parent. Sure he's still just as protective when it comes to other people, but he's more willing to let Amandine and Emily try new things, and things that are a little more risky. He's also the one both girls will go to when they want to try and get around Enfer, be it to get out of a punishment . He tends to be a bit more soft on them, and fall for their puppy eyes. Emily is also a little closer to Bill than Enfer, his tricks and magic make her feel just that much safer around him.

Enfer

Both girls see Enfer as more of the rule maker. He's the tough parent who has to say no, mostly because Bill keeps saying yes. In those times when the girls have been unable to go to school due to the house changes, he's the one in charge of homeschooling them. Both of them know that he loves them, but Emily's more cautious around him than Amandine is, mostly because he worries that something is wrong with Amandine whenever he finds out it's her, and it can send the wrong message to her.

Bell

Amandine loves her sister, but like all siblings they fight. A lot. Between Amandine always having to apologize for her sister's insults and feeling threatened at various points by the other's hostile aura.

Emily cares about Bell, much like the rest of her family. But at the same time she's afraid of her. Bell has stated before that she doesn't think Emily is real, once even to Emily's face. Although Emily still sees Bell as her sister, Bell doesn't quite see Emily the same way. It's the source of one of Emily's main fears of not being real.

Captain Stardust

Captain Stardust is Amandine and Emily's pet rabbit, and a hard won pet. Both girls love the fluffy rabbit, Emily will even take control of their body sometimes just to cuddle the little bunny in the dead of night. He's basically the only think Emily will admit to caring and learning about, even going so far as to have Amandine check out library books about rabbits so Emily could read them in the night to better care for him and to teach him new tricks. Those few times Emily will be having a really severe panic attack over not being real, she'll go cuddle with Captain Stardust to help calm herself down.

Corbin

Corbin and Amandine don't know each other very well, but she does like him, if only because of how happy he makes Emily.

Emily, on the other hand, knows Corbin very well. Despite their age difference, the two of them are close friends and Corbin is one of the few people who Emily has been willing to open up to, after his forest walks became one of the few places she felt safe being in control of the body in. His willingness to accept and understand that she's a separate person earned him a special place in her heart and although she might not admit it, she sees him as a bit of an older brother.

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Family photo, by me (Sorry this is awful, I only had about an hour free to do it in >.<)

Therapy

It had been a week. And I was feeling awful. A week since I had started ignoring Emily since the man told me to. Not that long ago, there'd been a voice in my head. The voice had been nameless, but when I went to my special place, the meadow, I had found her there!

They had said that they had woken up here after sleeping for a very long time. We talked for a little and after discovering that she didn't have a name, I gave her one of mine. Emily. I didn't really need my middle name anyways.

Later on, we found out that she could control my, our, body too. She preferred to stay in our head though and comment. We talked and I taught her all sorts of things. I liked her a lot, even if she could be a little mean. About three weeks later, when Papa asked why I was being so quiet lately, I told him about her. He wasn't as excited as I was.

Papa asked me a lot of strange questions, and later he and Dad got in a fight. There was lots of yelling and Bell and I ended up curled up together. When I went to the meadow, Emily was worried too.

The next day I didn't go to pre-school like normal, I went to an office. I didn't like it there. There was a man and he asked me more questions with a fake smile. I hate fake smiles. Then he and Papa talked alone. When they were done they sent me back in to talk with the man alone.

He said that Emily wasn't real. That she was just a part of me I was pretending was someone else. I was stupid and believed him. The man said that I needed to ignore her and she'd stop existing. I didn't want to, but when I asked Papa he said I had to try.

The week was awful, Emily started by tell me not to listen to him, but I didn't answer.

Then she got tough. Said if I didn't want to talk to her she didn't want to talk to me. I didn't answer.

After that she got mean, told me I had to talk to her or else. She took control of the body twice then, but I didn't answer.

Three days ago she begged me. She sounded so broken. I wanted to answer her so bad, but Papa said I couldn't.

I couldn't go back to the meadow. I knew she was there.

Two days ago she stopped talking to me. I hate it. I want her to talk to me, I need her in my head to tell me what I did was stupid or help me deal with Bell. I need her. I didn't care what Papa said anymore, I had to find her. She was more important than papa being angry with me.

I returned to the meadow where I had seen her last. She was there, she was crying. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say.

She heard me, she looked up. She seemed so desperate.




Art by the ever lovely captaincaprag.hircus

Fireflies

It had been a rough week already for Amandine. Moving was always hard, though at this point in her life she was getting used to it, but changing schools was the worst part of all of it. Normally it’d all be the same, say hello with a smile on your face and make sure to introduce Emily too, chat up the kids next to you, make a silly joke or two and she’d at least have a few people who wanted to talk to her. Not this time though. Sure, there were always kids that thought having another person in your body was weird, but for the most part the others would get over it pretty quickly. Some of them would even think it was cool and want to meet Emily, even if she didn’t want to meet them.

This place was not the same. When the teacher had introduced “Amandine and Emily” and Amandine had explained why she got two names, there’d been nothing but kids giving her weird looks some bordering on hostile. Later when she had tried to talk to a girl sitting next to her, all she’d gotten was a growl and something about not talking to crazy people. It was at that point she had to focus more on Emily to stop her from getting out and yelling at the other girl.

Nothing got better from there on out. Despite her charm none of the other kids wanted to talk to the crazy girl, some going so far as to call her names when the teacher wasn’t looking. Amandine had wanted to talk to her Dad or Papa about it, but they were already stressed with the move and Papa’s shows. She didn’t want to make them yell. She hated yelling.

Finally, after a full week of nothing but getting called crazy and the other kids being mean, Amandine was fed up and ready to cry. If they didn’t want her at school, then fine, she wouldn’t go. Her mind made up, she ignored the alarm clock as it blared throughout the meadow where she and Emily lay.

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Something was wrong, the alarm clock was ringing throughout the Meadow, but Amandine was still just laying there in their nest. Clearing the sleep from her eyes, Emily leaned over and gave Amandine a harsh nip on her ear. “Time ta’ get up. We got school today.” But rather than a cuff in return, all the red-eyed girl got was a groan as Amandine rolled away from her.

Emily rounded Amandine so she was at her front again, now concerned for the other. She stuck her face against the other’s nose, blowing at Amandine to try to get her to move. “What’s wrong with you?”

That got a reaction. Amandine snapped up her head and glared at the other. “Nothin’ so leave me alone!”

Emily paused for a second, pulling back to a sitting position. Hesitantly, she spoke again. “Is what the other kids are sayin’ hurtin’ you that bad?”
If it had been anyone else, Amandine would have lied, but Emily would know better. Her anger dropped and she gave a nod, hanging her head.

There was a pause between the two, lasting several seconds. Suddenly, Emily spoke.

“I’ll go to school today for you then.”

Normally, had Amandine been feeling well she would have said no, she would thought about what Emily might do. But Amandine was so tired, it seemed like such a good choice. Lowering her head to return to sleep she muttered a few drowsy words. “Thank you…”

And with that, Emily woke up. Moving around in the body was always a little shocking, but she shook it off and glanced over to the other bed, it was empty which meant Bell was already downstairs. Carefully placing on paw ahead of the other, Emily made her way down the stairs of their little rented house.

Everything was odd to her and her nerves were building up, but Emily didn’t let it show. ‘Hold your head high keep a straight face, it’s okay.’ The breakfast table was already set with food, eggs and toast with Papa and Bell both sitting at the table, Dad must still be sleeping.

Quietly, she took Amandine’s normal spot and began to dig into the food, she didn’t have very long before she had to leave and she hated to be late. Papa looked up from where he was sitting, a concerned look flashing over his face as his daughter being unusually quiet.

“Amaw, are you feeling alright?”

Emily, lost in her own thoughts didn’t notice Amandine’s nickname being called.

“Amandine.”

The raised voice wasn’t enough to get her attention, as Emily was used to ignoring others talking to Amandine.

“Amandine!”

The near yell was enough to startle both Emily and Bell, the first of whom snapped their eyes to Enfer but didn’t reply and the second shook her head and glared moodily into her cereal. Enfer knew something was up now, but it took him a few seconds of the deer-in-headlights stare to figure out what had happened. His tone changed to something softer and more questioning as he carefully asked “Emily?”

Emily gave her Papa a nod, keeping her eyes averted, almost as if she were ashamed to be out when she normally kept herself hidden. Bell’s glare had changed to a wary stare now directed at Emily.

This left Enfer with a tricky situation, he didn’t want to make Emily feel unwelcome, it was rare enough that he saw her even if Amandine would keep them informed on what was she was saying, but at the same time he knew something was wrong with Amandine for Emily to come to breakfast. Keeping his tone light and friendly, he started talking to her.

“Well it’s not often we get to see you for breakfast! Not that I’m not happy to see you, but is everything alright with Amandine?”

For a moment, Emily considered telling the truth about the bullies, it would make sense and Amandine would probably thank her later… But Emily also couldn’t let some of the things they had said go. She needed to deal with this herself, besides if she couldn’t even protect Amandine from a few other people then she’d eat her… well she’d eat Amandine’s really silly cowboy hat. So she lied.

“She’s just tired today. She spent all night awake in the meadow and didn’t wanna wake up so I thought I’d go to school today instead.”

It was a little weak but Enfer accepted it without comment, and before she knew it Emily was on the bus to school with the other children. She sat in the middle where there had been a free seat and waited. It was barely a minute after she had gotten onto the bus when she heard the boy behind her start.

“Why are ya’ sitting here A-ma-din? Everyone knows crazy people have ta’ sit at the front a’ the bus.”

Had Amandine been in charge of the body, this would have gone on until they reached school with her keeping her eyes firmly ahead as Enfer had taught her, don’t give a response and they’ll lose interest. But it was not Amandine in charge today, it was Emily, who didn’t even have Amandine’s normal commentary to keep her calm and on the right track.

So rather than looking forward, Emily spun back with a fire in her eye and stretched on paw over to yank the other kid’s head against the back of her sit. The whole bus fell silent but a glance told her that the bus driver hadn’t noticed. Keeping her voice as low as a six year old can, she began to speak, using lines she had heard off shows that her Dad liked to watch when he thought they were napping.

“Let’s get somethin’ straight, first off her name’s A-maw-deen and I’m not her. I’m Emily and I don’t like the way you’ve been talking to her.”

At this point she raised her head up a little and sent her glare all around the bus.

“If anyone calls her any mean names ever again then you’ll have me to answer to.”

And with a harrumph, she released the boy and turned back to her own seat with her head held high.

The rest of the day progressed in a similar manner, one brave and awful kid would try to start a fight only to be either scared off or easily defeated by Emily, who while not in the strongest of bodies had no qualms with hurting anyone who started anything. When in a child’s world willingness to fight is much more important than the ability to do so.

By the end of the day, Emily was feeling proud of herself, she’d managed a whole day out in the real world all by herself. She’d answered the teacher's questions (only when the teacher remembered to use the right name, Emily wouldn’t answer if the teacher called her Amandine.), and she’d scared off all the kids who’d been picking on Amandine before. Now all she had to do was go home, maybe give Papa or Dad an excuse for Amandine still being in the meadow, and then she’d get a nap.

But things don’t like to work out that way, do they?

When she got back, Bell was right there in the living room, and while their father always had trouble telling which girl was out, the same could not be said for Bell. Somehow, Bell always knew which one of them was which. Emily could feel the glare she was getting, but she tried to just keep her head down and get to the stairs.

No such luck. She didn’t even need to look up to know that Bell was blocking her path. There was something about Bell that made Emily nervous, maybe it was the fact she knew she couldn’t fight back. Whether or not she’d admit it, she cared about Bell and she didn’t want to hurt her.

Glancing up with, she calmed down a little when she noticed the other looked more worry-angry than mad-angry. For a moment, neither of them spoke. It was Bell that broke the silence.

“What’s wrong with Amandine?”

There were many choices that Emily could make here, but in the end she went with the truth. Bell would understand.

“Some a the kids at school were pickin on her, so she didn’t want to go to school taday. But it’s okay, I took care a it.”

Bell’s reaction was instant, her worry turned to an anger that was clearly not towards Emily.

“What?! Tell me who they are and I’ll fight ‘em.”

Emily’s demeanor changed at that, her head went up and she puffed out her chest before replying. “You can’t. I already did!”

Bell looked taken aback at that, she sized the other up with a more respectful gaze, Emily was staring back, her chest still puffed out with her little bowtie proudly displayed as she waited to see how the other would react.

It took a few moments for Bell to decide that Emily was telling the truth, so she pushed for a little bit more information.

“You did? Really? How? Did you get hurt?”

“I acted really big and tough and the few kids who weren’t scared by that I knocked ‘em down ‘cause they’re all super slow. I told ‘em if they ever called Amandine any mean names again they’d have me to answer to! And none of them were fast enough ta hurt me!”

Bell was looking quite proud of the other, and it was making Emily want to do a lap around the house with how happy it made her. She was so used to getting nothing but glares from Bell, this was a first and hopefully not a last.

“Alright. That sounds like it’ll do the trick. But why hasn’t Amandine come back out yet if the problems gone.”

That put a halt on Emily’s almost happy smile. Her pride deflated and she looked down.

“I dunno. She’s been quiet the whole day. I think she’s sleeping in the meadow, but normally she’d have come out to talk to me at the very least.”

Now while Bell did not understand the Meadow or how any of that worked, she did understand Emily’s worry, and she also knew something was wrong. As much as she wanted to talk to Amandine herself, she knew the odds of that happen weren’t very good, so she talked to Emily instead.

“Well, when you talk to her, tell her that if any a’ the kids are mean again that she needs to tell me, okay?”

Emily gave a nod and that was that.

Later that night, when Emily had gone through dinner, homework, tv time and taking care of and playing with Captain Stardust, and finally settled down for bed, Amandine still hadn’t spoken a word and she’d had no time to nap or get to the meadow like she’d planned to. But now they’d have to talk. She closed her eyes and drifted off into the meadow.

Why she got there, it took her some time to find Amandine, but when she did, it was by the streams of thought. For a little bit, the two of them sat there, just watching thoughts and ideas going by, It was Amandine’s stream and it didn’t take a genius to see the change in flow. Everything was slowly and the ideas and thoughts were about bad things. Things Emily knew that Amandine didn’t like.

It took awhile for the two of them to start talking. Emily started it for once. “You don’t have to worry about the other kids anymore, I took care of ‘em.”

That got a reaction, Amandine looked up with wide, worried eyes and Emily realized how that sounded.

“You didn’t…”

“No! I just beat up the kids that tried to beat up me. Nothing that they didn’t start.”

Amandine still looked a little suspicious, but let it go. Now her worry was gone, her head went back down and her face slipped back to sadness. Emily didn’t know what to do, so she just sat with her twin and they passed the time watching the thoughts go by until Emily could take it no more. She turned to her alternate and started yelling because she didn’t know what else to do.

“I don’t know what to do to make you happy. I hate seeing you sad because it makes me sad and I want it to stop. Tell me what I need to do.”

Amandine didn’t answer for a while. And when she did it wasn’t helpful.

“I don’t know either.”

They didn’t talk again for the rest of the night.

Once again, the next day it was Emily who was in control of the body, she gave a similar excuse about Amandine having trouble sleeping and promising that tonight she would take a melatonin to help get the other to sleep.

The same thing happened again, neither of them could talk it out. So for the next two days, with various excuses were given and Emily once again was the one to go to school. She hated it. It was overwhelming her and she didn’t know how to handle all this contact with people. You couldn’t talk aloud to yourself, you can’t insult people without them hearing and you always have to think about something!
It wasn’t until the last day, Friday, that Emily figured it out. Amandine needed someone else to talk to at school. She needed a friend. And as much as Emily was going to hate to do this, she needed to make that friend for her.

There was a girl sitting all alone at the playground, she seemed shy and lonely. Perfect. She walked up to other other girl, trying to keep her face out of a scowl. Plopping herself down, and noted that the other was looking nervous. Good. No, not good. Stop that stream of thought right now. Trying to not roll her eyes as she said it, she asked.

“Who are you?”

The two of them talked for while till it was time to go back inside, and by the end of it, the other girl was smiling. Emily hated her. Still, she sat next to her for reading and helped her practice her words, until she finally got home.

When she got to the meadow that night, she walked straight up to Amandine and started telling her about her day, when she got to the girl she had meet, she changed the story a little.

“Then a girl at school came up and said hello. She called me Amandine so I think she was lookin for you. We talked for awhile and did reading together. You should talk to her monday ‘cause I think I’m scaring her off.”

That got Amandine to look up. “What was her name?”

This one, Emily could answer honestly. “I don’t remember.”

She got a glare for that, but she could tell Amandine was thinking it over. Emily was hoping this would work, that if Amandine had a friend she’d be willing to go again.

It did.

“I should probably go in on monday and make sure you didn’t scare her.”

“Probably.” Agreed Emily.

That was all that needed to be said, they knew the unspoken words just as well. Emily curled up against Amandine and fell asleep almost right away, she was tired.

Amandine stayed awake awhile longer, she watched the color and light Emily had brought into the meadow fade until it was back to the night that it had been all those times she was gone. But something was different. Little fireflies, shining in her colors.

Slowly, in wonder, she reached out and touched her nose to one, her touch gentle and when she did a warm feeling spread through her.

Suddenly, this dark that she’d been alone in for so long wasn’t so scary, she looked out into it, and everywhere she saw those little lights, little bugs flitting around.

She remembered awhile ago that she was taught that butterflies were the sign of hope, and as she looked over her little glowbugs she decided they were wrong. It was fireflies. Because when she them, she thought of new things.

Maybe she’d really like her new friend. Maybe other kids would be her friend now too. Maybe it would be okay.

Amandine slowly lowered her head over Emily’s, keeping the little lightning bug on her nose, and she settled in to sleep properly at last.

Amandine and Emily snuggled up in the Meadow, ready for true sleep at last, by Mimimimaroonie

Likes, Dislikes, Fears and Goals

Rather than do this the classic way, where I make lists of the little things for the girls, I've made this Ask.fm for them, and you can look there to find out little (and big) parts of them:
http://ask.fm/AskAmandineAndEmily

You're real.

Set not too long after the week

When she had grabbed the little poster from the board outside school, something about nature, Amandine had been acting on one of Emily's impulses. The other girl had wanted to see the poster more closely but the bus had just pulled up to take them home, so Amandine had snatched it.

Later, at home, Emily took over the body for a little to check it out. She turned it over in her hands as she slowly read it. She and Amandine started to read together. They had to work together to figure it out, but since it was a short poster with mostly only words that they knew, they figured it out. The poster was for lead nature hikes in the woods, woods that Emily had been wanting to explore even after Papa had told they couldn't without an adult.

Well this way they'd have one! Amandine brought it up over dinner and Dad agreed right away. Papa took a little more convincing but after he checked the place out online and made sure it was safe he agreed.

Amandine was out all the way through the car-ride there. Emily was a little worried about coming out right away, she had to be sure that the instructor would be okay with her. When they got to the meeting point for the hike, there was only one other plumie there, he had a hat and a smile, but he didn't seem to notice them until they pulled into the parking lot, and then he looked a little surprised.

Dad got out first. "Amandine, wait in the car for a minute." He said, looking a little worried. The other plumie greeted him happily and Amandine had to press her ear up against the door to hear what they were saying.

"... thought there'd be more kids."

"Well normally I can have ten or twenty of them in a group, but most of them are out sick right now. Haven't you heard about the flu going around?"

"The school said something about it, but I didn't think it'd be this bad. Is it dangerous?"

"Nah, it just keeps the kids in bed for a week or so then they're fine. Hopefully it'll have passed through soon.:

"Thanks for the warning. I'll have to tell my husband, he really can't be sick right now."

This was the point where Amandine stopped listening. Emily was telling her to get out the car. Everything seemed to be okay so she did. When she got out, both adults turned to her, the other plumie looked happy surprised and Dad looked just a little ashamed he had forgot she was there. The other plumie was the first one to speak.

"Hello there! Are you Amandine?"

She nodded. She wasn't sure how she felt about this other plumie, but she was polite anyways.

"Yep! What's your name?" Amandine asked.

"I'm Corbin. Are you ready for a forest adventure?" The other plumie, apparently named Corbin replied.

"Yeah!" Amandine answered, actually starting to get a little sad it wasn't going to be her going on this trip. Still, she got to do a lot of things and she knew it was only fair.

"Ah, I've got to be off, just one thing I need to talk to you about first." Dad said, pulling Corbin aside. He was talking quietly but Amandine and Emily both knew that he was just telling him about Emily. It was alright, some people didn't really understand or sometimes got a little scared of them if they didn't know what was going on.

She waited for him to explain, and Corbin just seemed to smile at her Dad and as a few questions, that was good. Sooner rather than later they had set out on their hike, Corbin was talking about a lot of things and Amandine was doing her best to keep up. She was, however, distracted by a voice in her head.

I think I'm ready.

You sure?

Yeah.

Alright, I'm gonna take a nap then, I dunno why but I didn't sleep well last night.

I'll wake you up before Papa comes to pick us up.

And with that they swapped. Most people didn't notice, Corbin did.

He looked over at the girl and noticed that something had changed, little things like the way she walked or the way her head went up. Only a moment passed and in that moment, she looked at him in the eye and he figured out what had happened.

"Emily?" He asked.

It was surreal for Emily, she wasn't used to other people using her name. Her bravery faded away. He was much bigger and stronger, she couldn't fight him if he got upset!

"Are you alright?"

Wait, those weren't fighting words. They were good words. Nice words. Okay. She could do this.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

It was that that started them with talking, and talk they did about all sorts of things. Something about Corbin made her feel safe to talk, and it was pretty much the most she'd ever talked with anyone. Emily couldn't help how words feel out of her, the forest protecting her and allowing her to speak about things she would never normal speak of.

When they reached the cliff, she was crying.

"What if I'm not real?"

She cried out, worry beyond belief flooding through her. Corbin wrapped her up in a hug, and spoke two words, two words she would cling to later in life, two words that she would always return to.

"You're real."

Art by Sixbane

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xxxusername: aviate
xxxname: lennox pluto cypher
xxxsex: female
xxxgender: bigender, they/them/he/him

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✦✦ about the user
hello, my username is aviate and i am the owner of two lovely plumerians, korowai and heru. i'm hoping to add lennox to my family as my third plumerian, and the second one i've won. their character is in more ways than one based off of myself, especially in terms of quirks and personality. working with their family members and seeing how they react around other plumerians has been a great pleasure, and i wish all the other contestants good luck in trying out!

✦✦ behind the name
lennox is a name of scottish origin, meaning 'elm grove.' i chose this name after being suggested the name 'lennon,' which i never felt truly fit them as a character. although the character itself isn't built around the meaning of their name, i suppose it does portray some of their personality, albeit it being in a one-dimensional way that doesn't shine on the character in an all-rounding manner.

✦✦ gender
lennox is dfab, however after coming of age, they have settled on the term bigender as they have not yet completely settled down on a specific gender, but still feel certain that they are not cis. for the most part, they use bigender and although they don't clarify it, they identify as both male and agender or genderless. they prefer either they/them or he/him pronouns and presenting as either androgynous or masculine, and tends to get ticked off whenever they are misgendered, but they do not lash out when they are put in such a situation, instead preferring to educate the person and politely request them to use their pronouns correctly.

✦✦ age
although canonically, lennox would be a younger character, about six years of age as bell is canonically eight, they are portrayed as older in my form for the most part, being about thirteen in current tense and in some sections of the form, an older teen [ say, eighteen-nineteen years ] and a young adult in their mid-twenties. along with this of course, other character's ages are also bumped up, along with character development for characters such as bell, who does go through some changes growing up alongside lennox.

✦✦ sexuality
growing up, lennox realizes they never really feel attraction to others, romantically nor sexually [ or even platonically hAh ], and has eventually settled down with identifying as a gray-aromantic asexual, as despite feeling like they won't feel attraction towards anyone soon, they still have some hope to find someone for themselves even without a sexual attraction to anyone at all. this doesn't really bother them much, however.

✦✦ personality
personality-wise lennox is a more closed-off and introverted person, mostly because of the hierarchy of their house, but it does leave plenty of room for creativity and thought. being a lover of books, origami, music, and marine life, lennox has found hobbies in all of those. however, being alone for so long does leave them thinking a lot, often dwelling on thoughts, namely 'what if i'm not important? what if i don't matter?' they even have a whole realm in their head that constantly shapeshifts to fit their emotions, personal characteristics, dreams and memories, all in their mind when lying on the bed with their face planted in a pillow isn't enough.

✦✦ enfer
enfer being lennox's most beloved family member isn't much of a surprise when you think about his personality and how well it clicks with lennox's. they share a strong bond and spend at least an hour together each day, with enfer teaching lennox how to play the violin via several classical records, duets, and so on. the fact that they bond together so well over music doesn't mean they don't go well about other things, though. lennox agrees with most of enfer's words and tends to favor and side with him, especially if that means they have to go against bell in some of their family quarrels. he understands lennox the best and is also the one they talked to when they faced gender dysphoria and countless other issues lennox faced as they grew up. he's just a loving and righteous dad as far as lennox is concerned, and sometimes he can comfort them by playing a few upbeat songs that lennox tends to appreciate greatly, unlike his occasional jokes.


✦✦ bill
just because he isn't lennox's favorite dad doesn't mean len can't take a liking to him at all. in fact, when they were younger, they spent more time with bill than enfer, usually with bill performing some simple magic tricks to the enchanted eyes of a four year old lennox. they remember the first time bill pulled a stuffed rabbit out of a hat and made napkins come from thin air. their favorite part about bill is just how much of a great dad he enjoys proving himself to be? he's so protective of both lennox and bell that it can sometimes make len tear up. he's also the one responsible for lennox's fish tanks, bed facade, and entire room design, being the one who gives lennox more freedom in general. sometimes he stays up at night to accompany lennox when they're not feeling good, or just when he wants to show he still cares for his kids. he's just a great father to lennox in a different way that enfer is, being someone who will always acknowledge them as a person and not just a child [ or dorito ].


✦✦ bell
oh my god. when you hate your older sister so much your dreams literally take the form of her with demonic features, you should know your family is dysfunctional one way or another. it's like your subconscious is trying to tell you that a certain someone named bell is watching out for you and is ready to mentally and even physically destroy your very core. it might be an exaggeration [ although it might as well not be, too ], but lennox wouldn't pronounce it any other way, preferring to leave it that way. they don't know when it first started, their toxic relationship with bell, but in real life it's not as venomous as it seems. despite lennox painting her as more than your local bully, they have to admit they still love bell... if you hold a knife to their throat maybe? try giving lennox truth serum, they might end up admitting it at last. they aren't sure if bell feels like she enjoys torturing them, maybe she isn't even aware of it, but if she was she would have stopped... there are admittedly a lot of gray areas when it comes to the relationship between these two.


✦✦ tendai
enfer's long lost sister eh? if it wasn't for lennox, none of their family would have been aware of tendai's existence at all, and for the most part lennox ponders if they ought to regret or feel happy for how they first met on a whim. they find it... interesting how tendai will often preach regarding the god[dess?] she worships, eywa, and also wonders why enfer doesn't share that belief with her. however, len has nothing against it at all, feeling as though they should respect her still. sometimes they feel like tendai is pushing them towards her religion into their mind... but so far, she has not been successful. they don't see each other as often as regular family members would, but that's probably because enfer tends to joke about how tendai has to babysit lennox since she's part of the family. not that len themself would appreciate being watched over by the strange figure their mind often refers to as a faux-enfer, or enfer's shadow. she unnerves len a lot in that way.


✦✦ korowai
one of enfer's friends, and someone lennox sort of looks up to. they didn't really know korowai well but it looks like enfer did, and he visits somewhat often even though it's more to talk to enfer than to check out his kids. nowadays, though, lennox knows him and sees him as a friend, if not an older brother/foster father figure. what len finds interesting about korowai has to be his foreign accent, and how he still slips in english once in a while, telling lennox he's indonesian and that english just isn't something he's been able to fully master for real. in return to lennox giving him speaking tips, korowai will give lennox some indonesian foods he cooked himself or just some words from his own language, giving lennox examples of a wide language variety by showing the difference between the official language of his country and the local dialect he grew up using. it just goes to show how lennox can change when they get the offer to learn something about their predominant hobby.


✦✦ perth
korowai's husband and an english teacher, lennox feels towards him in a similar way that they feel for korowai, except instead of exploiting words in indonesian, the two of them exchange information about the english language and analyze a bunch of word problems together. sometimes perth brings a crossword puzzle book and they can spend a long time trying to figure things out together. they will sit and stare at word books for hours, sometimes to the point that the both of them forget that perth has to go home. lennox finds perth's disability to be an interesting thing to consider, as his deafness can make communicating hard, even if perth has the ability to read their lips to find out what they're saying to him. they don't mention the deafness often, out of respect, but when perth actually brings it up, they're willing to listen closely, even if they know they'll never truly understand what it's like to never hear the sounds of the world.


✦✦ darwin
perth and korowai's first son, and a laid back young adult who seems to still act chill even when he's got children to tend to, darwin isn't as much of a role model to lennox as his fathers, but he still has a place in lennox's book of interesting people to call friends. the way he's so relaxed and jokes around often doesn't mean he's always the one not to care. in fact, acting younger than he actually is means he can relate to lennox pretty well. he takes them out for a walk around sometimes and will even treat them for lunch, and he gives lennox some life advice they would never hear from anyone else. he can be a bit nonsensical to len, but for the most part, he's just a great comrade and friend. one time, they even went out and harvested the day's fun by playing a game of truth or dare and humiliating each other for so long till lennox felt like they would either burst into tears or explode in laughter, or both at the same time.


✦✦ heru
perth and korowai's youngest, but still someone lennox hates. why's that, though? well, the fact that bell would throw herself in front of heru in any given situation should say enough. him being slightly older than bell [ a teen, probably ] and also bell being his essential guardian means he could care less about len, probably viewing them in the same way bell does. he scoffs at darwin whenever he comes over to visit lennox too, even if the older brother of the two doesn't really care it does affect lennox as both an insult and as a way to make fun of them. he's just so snotty and stuck up when he's with the cypher family all in all, even if darwin says he's got insecurities in public. sometimes lennox wishes heru had darwin's confidence and didn't need bell as a friend, because that means perhaps they could have had a better relationship instead of this confusing muddle.


✦✦ tazia
bell's... datefriend? len hates her, probably not a surprise though. bell, as a teenager, does leave home often to go out with tazia and she does once in a while harass lennox [ either that or len is just really easily insulted ], if any reason is needed for how they feel for tazia. sometimes lennox has mixed feelings for how she's responsible for them having free time without bell around the house, probably because hardly anything else can lead her outside so easily, but when they're in the same room together with or without bell a fight usually ensues. tazia probably only acts spiteful when it comes to lennox, but still... a friend of bell's is almost always an enemy of len's. if lennox was given the chance to get rid of tazia, they would still hesitate, though, even if her jokes can sometimes bring them to tears.

✦✦ quad appearance
floaty dreads, snazzy bow and a lot of glowing. there's really not much to say about lennox's appearance here except for noting their build, skinny and pretty tall. they don't usually wear any attire outside of their bow, unless bill wants them to wear their hat, in which case they will do so and even keep it on till the end of the day when it feels comfortable. they only have sleek fur on their belly, but their chest and tail fur seems to have a similar tendency to easily smooth out when lennox strokes their own fur. they have a shorter snout compared to the average plumerian and have some of their dreadlocks tucked behind their ears. those dreadlocks usually don't move anywhere else, but they do occasionally get in the way when lennox is running or jumping, both things they don't do too often.

✦✦ anthro appearance
between their human and quad appearances sits their anthro one, where they usually wear the same clothes and accessories as their humanized appearance. this version of lennox typically appears with sleeker fur on their torso and only some fur on their head and neck, and depending on whether their anthro version is drawn with paws or hands they have either gradient pawpads like their quad appearance or painted gradient fingernails like their humanized one.

✦✦ humanized appearance
they have darker skin, sometimes drawn with or without freckles, and dimples when they smile. sometimes they retain their ears and feathers, even their tail depending on an artist's preference. for the most part, len wears their hat and sticks to darker colors for their attire to match their bow. they dreads still have a blue gradient and their eyes still have their vibrant blue and purple colors, and they have their fingernails painted to match their quad pawpad colors. they typically wear a binder underneath their shirt to appear more masculine, and have at least six fall out boy themed shirts. they have two pairs of shoes, one for sports and one for just walking outside or hanging out, and sometimes sport fingerless gloves. they sometimes switch out their hat for a beanie. despite lennox's bookwormish tendencies to read even when it's dark or their eyes are too close to the book or screen they're reading from, they have been lucky and have never needed to have their eyes checked and therefore they don't need glasses, which means their literate side of life isn't that represented in their appearances. if anything, they just look like your typical brooding teenager, which they hate and try to change, sometimes putting on jackets or hoodies with bright colors to match their hair, glow bracelets, and so on. they sometimes dress feminine when they feel like it, although it's only for a few days in a month, and then they go back to their regular attire while at the same time always on the lookout for something new and bright to wear.

✦✦ how i will draw them
for the most part, i try to stay loyal to lennox's written attire and their own reference image when i draw them, although sometimes the small size of the ref image and the amount of glow can make it hard to see their markings. what i'm sure of is that i will draw them quite often, as they are one of the characters that i hope will bring me back into plumerians despite not usually sticking around the community. along with lennox i hope to be able to draw my other two plumerians, maybe even drawing scenes depicted in the stories or descriptions in my form. lennox is probably one of my most in-depth character concepts, if not the most in-depth character concept out of them all. so if i win them, i will draw them as best i can to keep them active both with full-blown art pieces or just simple sketches.

by me, me, frost★, and balto. respectively.

[greyy.]

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"You cannot rob me of free nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face."
- James Thomson

Username: hufflepuff.
Name: Aurora
Sex: female

Still trying for my first plume. Thanks for the opportunity.

[quitting,,]

Ideas?;;

- DFAB agender when older. [Will tie in with everything later on. Prefers 'she' or 'they']
- Mysterious and quite antisocial
- In school is often seen alone, prefers to stay inside and read about stories of enchantment and romance
- Often speaks gibberish, muttering under breath
- Speaks honestly, most of the time quite brutal
- Not the nicest person
- Intellectual and practical
- Shows no pain or sadness, core is as hard as a rock
- Plays the Harpsichord
- In to old fashioned clothing, movies, and books
- Name will be Europa, after one of Jupiter's icy moons.