[sprig]

[list]This lucky little girl found her way to Bluebell's barn, and she wants to find a loving home for her!

Competition: Tell me what her lucky charm is and why!
Limitations: You have 300 words to tell me her charm and why.
Edits & Extras: Feel free to pretty up your form, with one extra! (200 words or one art piece, either must be done by you)
End Date: Extended to September 7th

Username: Zippo
Name: Chonsie
Gender: Heifer

[Steven_Universe]

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mork

[Iridize]

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Username: Iridize
Name: ilysa
Gender: Heifer
Collar Color: green striped with a smol dark green clover c:
Lucky Charm: Her lucky charm just so happens to be
A Rabbits foot soldered to a piece of twine!
Why: The reason why the rabbit foot is so lucky
to ilysa is because when she was just a young calf she
was drinking by the reservoir where she had met a
peculiar creature, the bird like form had landed to
drink next to her and her mother, the small bird
slowly but surely hopped up onto her mothers back
and almost whispered something into her mothers
ear. Now to this day ilysa still doesn’t know what
the bird had said but whatever it was it left her
mother feeling sick to the stomach. Almost instantly
they began searching for a rabbit, reasons still
unknown to Ilysa. Shortly before ilysas mother
passed she was given the rabbits foot as a parting
gift and It’s said that rabbit’s feet are lucky because
of their reproductive habits, so carrying a rabbit’s
foot was thought to help with fertility, which led
Ilysa to believe the bird had predicted ilysas infertile
future and the rabbits foot would some day allow
her to produce offspring of her own. (ilysa is
unfortunately infertile and hopes to have offspring is
just a dream of hers)
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[Micki.]

ended up not having the time to enter for this babe, sorry !! I know she'll be going to a great owner, though <3

[stormzien]

Username: kiffell
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Gender: Heifer
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wip

[sparrow,,]

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Layla was wandering through the tall grass of a field. Her heart empty, she trudged on, staring at the floor. She was very thirsty and hungry. She had already forgotten the smell of her mother, remembering the accident. She felt like collapsing when she saw something shiny, protruding out of some stalks of corn. What is that?, she thought. She walked up and found that it was a golden chess piece. She decided to make a pouch for it (which took a while considering she has hoofs). She tucked it in their and began to walk without thinking. She ended up at Bluebell's Farm, and now considers the piece "lucky" and carries it wherever she goes!

[mynameisbacon]

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mynameisbacon

Clover

Heifer

Like her eyes <3

Her lucky charm is a pretty little emerald!

Well it all started when she was alone. Nothing good was happening to her! She stumbled over rocks, got scared by birds and loud noises, even got so dehydrated she almost fainted! She was walking through the grass when she spotted something shiny...
It was an emerald! After she found it, everything went her way! She walked for so long, but nothing bad happened to her. And to her surprise, she found Bluebell and her barn! Yay!


just a sample of some of my "good" (aka bad) art! XD

[bakuraas.]

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[Synerie]

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lucky charm and why ;;

A rusted silver cowbell, the clasp that once held it to a collar missing.

The rusted bell once belonged to her mother. It had already begun to form rust when she had known the comforting smell of her mother and the soft fur brushing against her side as they rested together in the fields. It caught the rays of the warm summer sun, glittering a soft light over the fields, attracting the attention of the younger calves. The bell once had made a beautiful chiming sound with every breath and movement her mother had made. But now the rust has taken away that graceful sound, eating away at the bell slowly as time moves on. She remembers resting against her mother's chest in the midwinter, shivering as she kept her head tucked directly beneath the bell, listing to the soft "tink" it made everytime a deep breath lifted her mother's sides.

They had been separated not long after Luciela had learned to eat proper food. Despite their struggles, nothing was able to keep the two together. She was latched on tight and tugging at the bell as she attempted to remain with the only heifer she had known, crying past the metal that rested in her mouth, the sharp tang of the iron and rust burning her tongue and bringing more tears to her eyes. Though luckily, it was all she had left to remind her of her sweet mother, which in the end, is far better than nothing.

Luciela considers this rusted old cowbell to be her lucky charm as she believes had she not had had it when she did, she would have never been brought to Macaroon, the second heifer in the world she was finally able to bring herself to trust and love like a mother.


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The sun was just beginning to rise, its gentle rays glittering over the crest of the mountains of Black Rose Cove, carrying a soft breeze with that. The sky was painted in a magnificent range of pinks, and oranges. The sound of the waves lapping at the edges of the shores rang out alongside the soft cries of the occasional bird that fluttered to the treetops.

A small form rustled the grass as the breeze began to manipulate the brilliant green blades to tickle the calf's nose.

Luciela giggled out in her sleep before she suddenly sneezed, jerking her head back. Blinking her eyes, she twisted to sit up, not remembering where she was. Yet, there was someone beside her. They didn't carry the same vanilla smell her mother had. They carried a sweeter, fruitier smell. Tropical, hanging in the air like a comforting blanket.

She turned to face them.

It was Macaroon, the older heifer still sleeping peacefully in her spot. Luciela smiled tiredly and went to nestle back into the warmth Macaroon provided, relaxing joyfully. As her heavy eyelids fell, the thing she saw before she fell back into her slumber was the bell resting between her hooves.


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[zippo.]

Username: zippo
Name: chonsie - good fortune
Gender: Heifer
Collar Color: lady bug red with black spots and a golden bell

Lucky Charm: Chonsie doesn't have a lucky charm she carries with her always, instead it's a living thing that always seems to pop up around her. Ladybugs!

Why:

There is multiple superstitions behind the ladybug. Perhaps the most popular believed among children that if you kill a ladybug you will get bad luck, and if one lands on you that means you now have good luck. There is an old children's song in Serbia "Fly, fly, ladybug, bring me the happiness" as well. The ladybug also has a very significant symbolism, as the seven spots are tied to the seven sorrows of Mary. In the middle ages it is said farmers would pray to Mary for protection, and then ladybugs would appear to defend the crops. This is how the ladybug got it's name, as it was once called "Beetles of Our Lady" in reference to Mary and her protection.

Chonsie is protected by ladybugs too, just like the farmers' crops. She is an orphan, so she has no family or friends to defend her and guide her on the right path. However, in times of dire she can always find a ladybug friend nearby. Now these bugs do not necessarily talk to her, though Chonsie does spill just every detail about herself to them. Instead they tend to act as a source of comfort, and sometimes point in her the right direction. A major weakness to this calf is that she has absolutely no sense of direction, and more often then not just rushes with the wind without thinking. This results in her getting lost constantly and having to then snuff out a ladybug that she can follow back home. Chonsie is a lonely little calf who craves intimacy and yet fears rejection, so she doesn't reach out to others often. The ladybug is not just a lucky charm - they are her friends. {286}

1 Extra:

"Come on!" Starling grumbled, nudging the calf.

"But -" The calf whined and begrudgingly followed behind the older heifer. Starling needed the help with collecting specimens on the beach and everyone else was busy - all but little Chonsie.

"But what, come on - this is far more interesting then chasing ladybugs around!" The heifer smiled proudly as the two slid down the lavender bank to the main part of cove.

"If you say so, Star-Star" Chonsie mumbled, gazing around the circular beach for the rare amethyst hermit crab that Starling rambled on about. "What's this supposed to look like?" she questioned, struggling to walk through the hot sand.

"Well, it's purple! and the shells are shiny like the amethyst" Starling explained with a smile, just to turn to the younger calf and already see her wandering off towards the Amethyst cavern. She would allow the departure simply because the crabs had the possibility of living within the pools of the cave.

"She's a weirdo" Chonsie rambled off to the ladybug that fluttered around her head as she stepped inside the cavern. Within seconds, a shiny hermit crab scuttered across the cave floor.

"Starling~" she shouted, "The ladybug found the crab!" {198}