[Canis2954]

Remember that you can only win up to 1 kalon per week!

Kalons-- a species with soft manes and even softer hearts.

Monitored in forests across the globe for years, these animals
have recently been declared naturally tame as well as sentient.
Scientists are asking the general population to consider adopting
Kalons for further study in their capabilities of intelligence.

This 50th Kalon is 50% strawberry sauce, 50% shortcake, and 100% rare!
They are the first shorthaired Kalon, and have a forked tongue and heterochromia with an uncommon back mane.

To win this Kalon, fill out the form below. This is an impress-me contest, and extras are encouraged.
Contest ends April 20th at 11:59pm EST.



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Gender:
Their opinion on sweets:

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. . . . . . .Poppy

. . . . . . .Female

. . . . . . .She loves sweets! Poppy loves anything and everything that has anything to do with dessert, ranging from dark delicious chocolate to sweet lemon cakes. But her favorite sweet has to be strawberry shortcake; She loves how light, fluffy, and irresistibly sweet it is!

. . . . . . .Poppy's most prized possession is her garden. During the spring time she loves planting different fruits and berries (especially strawberries) and watching them grow. Her friends know that if she isn't in her house baking sweets or reading a book, she's usually out in her garden tending her plants and dreaming about the different deserts and snacks she'll be able to make with them when they're finally ready to be picked!

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Caruso's Forum

Name: Caruso
Gender: male
Age: 16
Quirk: When ever Caruso gets nerves he stutters.

Their opinion on sweets:
Caruso loves anything sweet, especially chocolate. He enjoys making chocolate covered strawberries with the chocolate.
Personality: Caruso is shy and quiet. He doesn't talk much, but when he does most people listen to what he has to say. He is willing to risk his own life for someone else's. He hates it when people fight. He is honest and curious. He lives to care for others, it gives him great joy. Though sometimes he does get depressed, but in a matter of minutes he will be jumping and laughing like nothing had happened. He is also loyal and calm. He loves to give to others, it makes him happy to see their smiles.

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username ;; fawn

name ;; malinka

name meaning ;; "as sweet as a little berry"

gender ;; female

sexuality ;; pansexual

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"sweets are a beautiful thing. they don't only taste good, but they can bring kalons together. they can create friendships and relationships that could have never been there before. they really do bring the sweetness to this world that it needs, and to me, i think that that is pretty good." - malinka

━━━━━━━ life in the farm ━━━━━━━

malinka had grew up on a farm with her mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, and brother. they didn't exactly have a lot of animals like a regular farm does, because they mainly sold crops; they only had one cow, three chickens, and wild cats that would stalk the mice in their barn, if that even counts. the barn had been passed down for 3 generations and was slightly out of date, but they coped with it.

malinka and her grandmother had a special bond that no one else in their family had. they would share stories, write poems, knit clothes (although malinka could never figure out how to do it until she was 9!), sing old country songs, and her personal favorite - baking. baking had always been an activity that she would do when she was bored; she loved to get creative and create new foods and desserts. one time, when her and her grandmother were baking strawberry shortcake for malinka's birthday, they challenged themselves by not looking at their cookbook recipe while making it. of course, malinka "accidentally" dumped the entire bag of sugar into the mix. she didn't even sleep very much during the night due to being on a sugar high!

at the age of 12, malinka's grandfather had become ill, and he was immediately taken to the nearest hospital. he had returned to the farm healthy, but he decided that it was his time to move to a retirement home; along with malinka's grandmother. she remembers her grandparents loading their torn down tow truck, and right before they left, her grandmother gave her and her sibling each a handmade pillow filled with tiny plastic beads representing their shines. with final goodbyes, malinka had held on to her pillow, squeezing it to her chest, and watched as the two elders drove off.



from then on, life continued as any normal one would. malinka often would stop by the retirement home on her way back from school, even though it risked her accidentally staying too long and having her parents get mad at her. every summer her grandparents would take their family on a fishing and camping trip. one of their traditions that malinka thought of was planting an apple tree. although it was illegal to do, as it was owned property, they planted it. no one would even know who did it, anyways. it still stands there now, an 8 foot high tree, the green leaves and strong branches bare of any fruit until it would grow older.

by 23, malinka's grandfather had already passed. her grandmother had moved back into the barn, yet the bond between her and her grandmother had snapped like a weak branch baring too many apples. her grandmother had been blocking everything out due to her depression, and not knowing what to do, malinka would rather stay away from her completely.

because malinka's brother was older than her, she knew that the farm would be passed on to him. he had already started to do most of the tasks that their parents would usually carry out. instead, malinka had moved to a nearby town, where she hoped to find a job that she would both enjoy and make a profit out of. it was time to move on, away from the place that she knew as home for 23 years. it was time for her to move out into the strange and unfamiliar town.

━━━━━━━ to the town ━━━━━━━

malinka drove all the way to the nearby town in a small, worn down red car that was given to her by her parents. the paint was peeling, and the wheels had dried dirt stuck to them. as she entered the town, she parked at the apartment building that she would be living at. her parents had insisted to let them help her pay for the room, but she couldn't come to an agreement with herself to let her accept it. working on a farm, they were already pretty poor, and she couldn't bare to have them lose some of their profits that they worked hard for.

a few hours later, all of malinka's stuff was neatly set up into the apartment so that she was satisfied. the first thing she did was sit on the couch and open up the laptop that she had bought for college, although the farm didn't have any internet connection, and connected to the free wifi that the apartment building had to offer. she opened up the browser and started to look for a job. after awhile, one job caught her eyes. a nearby bakery was hiring a few bakers! she clicked on the link that led to the bakery's website, and saw the time slots for auditions. but the last time slot was no other than today. at 4:00 pm. it was 3:45 pm. maybe she could make it in time! grabbing a notepad and scribbling down the address of the bakery, she closed the laptop and rushed out of the building to hop into her car.

after ten minutes, she arrived at the bakery. walking in, she saw that it was completely empty, except for a pink kalon that reminded her of jellybeans standing behind a counter. malinka walked up to the counter and asked the kalon, "are you still accepting job applications?"

the kalon looked back at her with a confused face. "job applications? who told you that?" his tone wasn't rude, just friendly and normal.

"on your website! it says that this bakery is accepting-" malinka started before she was cut off in her sentence by the kalon.

"bakery?" the kalon raised an eyebrow, "you mean the one right down the street? this is a candy store," he smiled, pointing in the direction that the bakery would be if there wasn't a wall there.

"but... the address led me here! i'm so confused," she argued back, giving out a nervous laugh for about half a second before shutting her mouth. she took the notepad out of her pocket and showed it to the kalon as proof.

"that's our address! weird. maybe someone typed in the wrong one?" he theorized, before stating, "no one else has shown up here, though."

taking a quick glance at the watch around her wrist, she saw the time. 3:57. "aagh, sorry! i've really got to go, the auditions end in 3 minutes! um... see you later, i guess?" she said, nodding a quick nod at the kalon before rushing out the door. she thought that she heard the kalon say something, but she was already out the door and away from his voice range.

malinka looked in the direction that the kalon has pointed in, and saw in huge letters the bakery's sign. rushing over the to small store, she walked inside. there were two kalons; one sitting at a table that she could've sworn she'd seen before, and another elderly kalon sitting in a chair at the counter.just like she had done at the candy shop, she walked up to the kalon.

"i would like to apply for a job here."

━━━━━━━ life in the town ━━━━━━━

apparently no other kalon had wanted a job at the bakery, so it was pretty easy to get one. the owner of the bakery was quite impressed with malinka's cooking talent. she enjoyed her job and finally putting a use to all of her cooking skills that her grandmother had taught her; making other kalons happy by enjoying her pastries.

when shopping, she met up with the kalon who ran the candy store. his name was castor. often malinka would run over to his store to buy some raw ingredients if the bakery ran out; it was nice to have a nearby "ingredient store", as malinka would call it. castor and malinka would usually hang out together, sharing different recipes and just doing random stuff as normal friends would. the thing that malinka thought was the weirdest about castor was that he would always pause for some reason before telling malinka jokes - he said that it was "because you might not like the joke", but malinka didn't buy it. she would always have to press on cas to say it, by either chanting or trying to politely persuade him into doing so.



she also befriended the kalon that she had breifly saw at her first visit to the bakery, who was named rosie. although their was quite a gap between their ages, they got along together well. malinka found out that rosie had a hobby of baking cookies, and they tasted really good too! one time, while rosie was making cookies, she left to use the restroom and malinka took the opportunity to jokingly mess around with her recipe. she added a ton of salt - who knows how much - and mixed it in so well that even rosie with her keen eye for baking wouldn't notice any difference. malinka had recorded rosie taking a bite out of one of her cookies, and her reaction was priceless. she still has the video, and often shows it to rosie, which of course annoys her but in sad times it lifts her mood.

just a few months after she had started to work at the bakery, she had found out that the owner was retiring and closing up shop! while no other kalon who worked there seemed to step up, malinka did and offered to take roll as the owner of the shop. the former owner accepted with gratitude, and malinka is now the proud owner of "sweetsy bakery". rosie once in a while would make some of her own cookies for the bakery - yet malinka would always test one of them to be sure that rosie wasn't trying to gain revenge by dumping a whole container of salt into the mix!

occasionally malinka would visit her brother's farm, as he took full ownership of it in the past months. her grandmother had opened up a bit, and shown some happiness for malinka when she announced that she now owned the bakery. of course, her brother bragged, "well i own a farm!" to her. he really does try hard to be funny.

every night when malinka returned to her apartment, she would glue a single sequin to the pillow that was given to her by her grandmother. she had found out that her grandmother had been doing that to her scarf ever since her grandfather had passed, and decided to join in with her to mourn everyday of his loss. today, the sparkly pillow still sits on malinka's bed, awaiting for a new sequin to be stuck onto its velvety pillowcase.

━━━━━━━ her secret talent ━━━━━━━

at a young age, malinka had been inspired by popular songs. although her family liked country songs, as it made them feel as if they were more into the "farm theme", she had always secretly liked the songs in other genres. not wanting her family to think that she was different than them, she would sing whenever she was alone. she has never told anyone, not even her close friends or the one closest to her; her grandmother.

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Mark with corn, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, and corn sugar allergy

Furthermore

B/c of their allergy their parents had to make a lot of things for them from scratch at home (so they could enjoy eating the "same" foods that their friends did), and they grew up making much of their food, especially sweet things, at home. They learned to appreciate the process of making candy, and they love sweets, but not as much when someone else makes them or they're just bought at a store

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Name:
Lorene

Meaning:
Sweet Bay Tree

Pronunciation:
lore-eeen

Gender:
Female

Birthday:
April 12th

Zodiac:
Aries

Chinese Sign:
Ox


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Lorene's Opinion on Sweets:
If you asked young Lorene about this, you would probably hear an ear
piercing squeal of excitement followed by begging to know where more
candy is, since she ate it quite a bit as a child, at most of her meals in
fact. Her favourite was white chocolate as a child.

However, as Lorene got into her teenage years, sweet started tasting
not so sweet. Lorene has something to do with her tongue. After she's
had so much of one thing, it'll taste flavorless to her. This is excitely
what happened to her with most sweets with the exception of gummy
stuff(bears, worms, sharks, etc), and some kinds of ice cream, which
she now enjoys both combined together at dessert once a month.

So, at the moment, Lorene doesn't really have a full hearted opinion
on sweets, as she can't really taste them correctly.
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Career:
A confectioner. This is someone who MAKES sweets. This is probably
odd considering Lorene can't taste sweets properly, but it doesn't
mean she doesn't like being AROUND sweets. It gives her a nostalgic
feel to be in this environment.
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Personality:
A huge energetic bundle happy mess is the best way to describe Lorene. She is always bounding around with a smile plastered on her muzzle as she happily greets everyone she sees. She is always moving around, unable to sit still for too long unless it's absolutely required. She is someone who will welcome any kalon with open arms and help them with whatever they need. She typically puts others needs before her own, considering them more important than herself.

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