Username: Isabella45
Name: Terran (Meaning, 'Earthman')
Gender: Male
Element: Life
Rank: Healer
Personality: Terran is very intelligent, very skilled, a not overly humble. He certainly has his share (Maybe more than his share) of pride and he doesn't bother to duck his head or feign modesty when complimented. If someone were to say to him, "You are a very talented healer, we are lucky to have you," Terran would likely reply with an, "I know'.
He has always been mature and serious for his age, and rarely one to join in the games the other cubs his age liked to play. Terran can be brusque and short with his patients, but only because it is his way of keeping them from panicking and keeping himself from getting emotional. Even if it doesn't show, he is always happiest when using his healing ability.
One couldn't exactly say he has a way with cubs, but he is as kind to them as he can be. Honestly, cubs make him nervous.
Terran has a sharp tongue and a quick wit, but being poetic or romantic are not his thing. Neither of these things bothers him particularly though.
Terran is very good at telling what other lions might be thinking or feeling.
He is observant, a skill that often helps him as a healer. Terran isn't terribly social outside of his job. He doesn't really ever know what to say to other lions and prefers to keep to himself anyway. He doesn't let his emotions show if he can help it, and it take a lot to really effect him emotionally.
Terran is more than willing to offer advice or his opinion, whether wanted or not. Sometimes he seems harsh, but brutal honesty tends to seem that way sometimes. Blunt is just his nature and he is perfectly happy being himself and doesn't plan on changing for anyone.
History:Terran was born to nomads. His mother and father were both Healers, and Terran had always wanted to follow in their footsteps. His parents taught him a lot about Healing when he was a cub, and the three of them were very close.
For years his parents had traveled, looking for Terran's lost sibling. His older sister. She had been taken from them as a cub and they had never given up on finding her, even leaving their pride behind to find her.
At first Terran was happy with his life, traveling a bit, healing those that he met who needed it. But eventually he began to feel a need to belong somewhere and really be able to help other lions, and when he expressed this to his parents they seemed troubled.
They didn't really react at first, but when he mentioned it again they said that he would have to make his own choice and go where his heart led him. Terran asked them if they would come with him, but they said they wouldn't. They couldn't.
Terran was confused and asked why. They said that they simply couldn't give up their search for their lost cub. At first Terran felt guilty, maybe it was wrong of him to wish to leave his parents to search alone. But it was something his mother said that gave him confidence to go out on his own. She told him that he had his own life to live, and as much as they enjoyed having him with them, he had to go out into the world and crate a life for himself, not theirs, or his sisters. She explained that she and his father didn't want to give up their search, and truth be told, enjoyed their nomad life.
Terran left the next morning with instructions on how to find his parents old pride. He found it, and they accepted him, both because of his ability and because they remembered his parents and their parents before them. Terran found his place among his new pride, and hasn't seen his parents since. But he likes to think that they are as happy as ever, and maybe found their lost cub. Sometimes he misses being with them, but he doesn't regret leaving and he is certain he has made the right choice to stay here and help the pride.
His relationship with Iseult:It was a day like any other it seemed, when Iseult was in her fortress lounging in queen like fashion, every inch the goddess she was.
That is, until she saw him. A young lion who had the slightest bit of resemblance to her, and perhaps someone she had once known, though she couldn't recall exactly whom just then.
Something about him roused her curiosity and she wondered what tales he might tell, what information he might have if she were to descend and arrange a casual meeting.
And that, is just what she did.
Terran first saw his ancestors as she walked in the woods, her very presence seeming forbidden, dangerous, and wonderful all at the same time. As Terran observed her, sure he was unseen, he caught a glimpse of the power she weilded, and he decided then and there that he would give anything else to acquire knowledge of how to use his own power in the same way.
When Iseult was sure he was watching she set the scene. Just a little power to make him curious and hopeful, and of course, she would feign ignorance of his presence, if only to lend to help further draw him in to her web. After all, how could he resist? And when she approached him in all her splendor and power, offering him a chance to learn what only she could teach him, he fell right into her snare and inwardly she cheered herself at this victory, already planning her next move.
Despite not being the most sociable or amiable lion around and being more than a little proud, Terran is not selfish or obsessed with himself, and he hold himself to a high moral code as his pride expects. However, his distant ancestor, Iseult, is all of the things that he is not and more.
Ever since Terran met her he was drawn to her power, but at the same time wary of her less noble qualities.
Terran admires her for her abilities and strength, but at the same time he finds her ethics and overall personality a bit wanting.
While he wants to learn from her, some of what she would teach him he wants nothing to do with. Iseult has tried to encourage him to feed what power he has, to always aim for more, and while that is not bad in itself, her suggestions on his use of such power are not entirely in line with his standards or morals.
Though the two have managed to exist peacefully, there was once a time where Terran irritated her almost to her limit and Iseult threatened to leave and cut off his training, and Terran glimpsed, not for the first time, the danger that hid beneath the surface where her beauty and silver tongue charmed and wheedled with a practiced excellence . Terran’s was more careful after that, not to anger the powerful lioness, and she was pleaed, because her threat had merely enforced her facade, being there only to train him. Her true purpose, to gain from him what she could while she could, remained unseen by Terran who too often forgot the truth beneath what she sometimes appeared to be.
Terran’s somewhat sarcastic nature annoys her and when combined with his relentless refusal to simply listen and not question it can push her to limits she never knew she had, or has at least forgotten she once had. Of course, she also brings out the emotional side of him, usually in the form of anger or frustration.
Iseult seems to find something in him that she deems worthy enough that she keep teaching him, though she tells him only what she wants him to know and keeps many things to herself. She seems confident that she can make him see her point of view on power and how it is best wielded, and he seems determined not to let her pull him away from the standards and morals he holds dear.
It was Iseult’s supernatural power that drew Terran to ask for her knowledge to begin with, and Iseult and Terran both doubt that the temptation of bettering and strengthening his use of his power will make him give in to her darker teachings. . . . But, whether he can remain immune to the power that her words, backed by all the force of her intelligence and craftiness, is less certain.
She confuses him, and the more he is around her the grayer and blurrier the line between good and evil seems to get
