Pet's ID Tag:Kennel #6 - Lilac
Image of Pet:
Name You'd Choose for It:Lavender Eglantine Asali
Name Definitions and Origins:Lavender - A Purple Flowering Plant - English
Eglantine - Sweetbriar - English
Asali - Sweet Like Honey - Swahili
Species/Breed:Winged Canine
Gender:Female
Reason You Want Her:The moment I laid eyes on her I knew I'd fallen in love. I felt bad for her, and wondered how an exquisite character such as her could just be thrown away. I saw her and thought, "Oh, what a sweetheart! Why in the WORLD is she stuck in this agency?! Someone needs to take care of her and love her. And that someone will be me!"
I love her design - the beautiful light shades of purple and the darker shades really compliment her overall look, and her big eyes are soooo sweet! Her tiny paws are so beautiful, as are her gorgeous wings. Her downy fluff indicates she's a baby, and I just ADORE baby animals.
Accessories:Lavender absolutely ADORES jewelry, and her favorite kind of jewelry is earrings. She has two favorite pairs; one pair resembles two silver crosses with bat wings and one large purple stone in each earring. The other pair is a little more fancy - they a gold base, and tiny diamonds surrounding one semi-large blue gem per earring. Underneath this gem is a link that links the top part of the earring to the bottom part. The bottom part is a mixture of sparkle and shine, with tiny sequins along the bottom of the earring and a large purple gem directly above the sequins.

Lavender also sometimes wears a wig - she enjoys dressing up and pretending to be someone else for awhile. Her favorite wig to wear is a lavender-colored one with pale pink ends. It's wavy, not curly nor straight. When she wears it, the wig doesn't cover Lavender's eyes - even the low bangs rest just above her eyelids.
Favorite Flower:Lavender loves many types of flowers, but roses are her favorite. She also likes lilac, orchids, and lavender, but she prefers pale purple roses to any other flower.
History/Background:"My name is L-L-L-Lavender Eglantine Asali."
The class snickered.
"Wh-wh-what?" Lavender asked, tilting her head in confusion. "Wh-wh-what did I do wrong?"
"Oh, n-n-n-n-nothing!" jeered a student.
"Chuck!" scolded the teacher. "Don't make fun of Lavender."
Lavender hung her pale head as she stared at the ground. "W-w-w-well, I'm done, T-T-T-Teacher."
"But you haven't finished the assignment, Lavender. You won't be excused until you do so."
Lavender gulped. "W-w-w-w-well, my favorite color is purple, and I l-l-l-like l-l-l-lilacs, l-l-l-lavender, orchids, and r-r-r-roses."
Particular students were unsuccessfully stifling laughter, while others stared, stony-faced at the pup at the front of the room.
The teacher sighed, rubbing her temples. "Lavender, one last question and you're done."
"Okay."
"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
"I don't know...maybe h-h-h-help other students w-w-w-with speech p-p-p-problems l-l-l-like me?"
The teacher smiled for the first time in days. "That sounds like a marvelous plan. You may make your way back to your seat, now, Lavender."
Lavender nodded, a smile on her face as she turned and started walking back to her chair in the middle of the room. She'd nearly reached it when a Hippalectryon stuck out her hoof. Lavender didn't see it until she'd run into it, tumbling forward and getting her head stuck in a plastic chair. She howled, trying to pull her head free.
The teacher was on her paws in seconds, flying over to help Lavender out. After trying to pull her out of the chair without any success, she growled as she glared at the Hippalectryon. "EURYALE!" she screeched. "You're expelled for two whole days! Don't show your face in this classroom until that period is over!"
"But what about homework?!" Euryale protested.
"Talking back to a teacher? Two more days of required absence!"
"You'll hear from my father about this!" Euryale called as she got up and flew out the door.
"Do I hear THREATS from you?!" the teacher yelled. "Three more days of missed school!" She sighed, panting as she calmed down. "Class is dismissed," she quietly stated, her snake-tail drooping.
The students hurried out of class as she sighed. "Lavender, my poor darling. What are we ever going to do with you?"
"P-P-P-Please don't bite me!" Lavender said, squirming. "I've h-h-h-heard you let your tail bite students w-w-w-when they're bad! Oh, and don't breathe fire on me, either! You're smoking now..."
The teacher rolled her eyes, snuffing out the smoke pouring from her ears. "I may be a Chimera, but that doesn't mean I'm cruel to those that don't deserve it. And you're not deserving of any punishment, Lavender. Your classmates, however, ARE."
Lavender nodded sadly, staring at the ground as she tried tilting her head.
"Oh, don't do that!" the teacher yelled. "You'll break your neck!"
Lavender stopped moving. "Sorry."
"It's fine. I'll call the professionals."
"I w-w-w-won't be expelled for this, w-w-w-w-will I?"
"Why would you be? This isn't your fault."
"Everything is my fault."
"H-H-H-Hello, my name's L-L-L-Lavender."
"Your last name?" the professor asked in monotone.
"Asal-l-l-l-li, Sir."
"How do you spell that?"
"A-S-A-L-I."
"Thank you."
"You're w-w-w-welcome."
"We would love to have you attend our college, Ms. Asali. However...we do not have any spots open."
"Oh."
"And with your...speaking -"
"Wh-Wh-Wh-What about it?"
"We're not be willing to open a spot for you. I'm sorry, but we'll have to decline your admission. Try again next year. NEXT IN LINE, MOVE FORWARD!"
Lavender gripped the papers in her mouth, moving out of the way for the next person in line. She flew back to the dormitory, saddened by the bad news. She flew in through an opened window, tripping on the window's ledge and tumbling onto her bed. She bounced off, flipping through the air until she landed on her back, back legs flipped up above her face and wings pinched uncomfortably underneath the weight of her body. She quickly rolled to her paws, shaking her head to clear the dizziness.
Chuckling came from the corner of the room. A pegasus stepped forward, smiling as Lavender tripped about the room. She held out a wing, steadying the pup. "Easy does it, Lav."
Lavender stood still, leaning against her roommate as she waited for the spinning to cease.
"What's wrong? Why all the rush?"
"Oh...nothing."
"That's a lie, and you know it! What's wrong, Lav?"
"The college didn't accept me. I can't believe it. I spend hours t-t-t-trying to get in, and THIS is h-h-h-how they t-t-t-t-treat me?!"
The pegasus sighed, leaning her head against Lavender's. "Everything happens for a reason."
Lavender shrugged her off, pacing about the room now that it had stopped spinning. "I'm t-t-t-t-tired of others making fun of me! Yeah, I can't speak the best. SO WHAT?! I still h-h-h-h-have feelings! I shouldn't be ostracized!"
The pegasus looked down to the ground. "I don't make fun of you, do I?"
"No, of course you don't! You're my friend, H-H-H-Helen."
Helen smiled. "As a good friend, I need to tell you something, Lav."
"Sure, H-H-H-H-Helen. Wh-Wh-Wh-What is it?"
"I have to go."
"Wh-Wh-What do you mean? Wh-Wh-Where are you going?"
"I've been...sponsored. Someone decided to pay for me to attend a different college."
"You're in the middle of a semester!"
"No, I finished early. I'm leaving tomorrow." The pegasus sighed, her wings drooping. "Lav, I tried...I tried SO HARD."
Lavender whimpered, watching tears stream down her friend's face.
"I tried so hard to get them to help you too...but they simply wouldn't agree. NOTHING I said to them made them even consider you...and it's not as if you have bad grades, or anything! I don't know why they refuse to accept you!"
Lavender's eyes filled with tears as she hugged her friend. "It's okay, H-H-H-H-Helen. You t-t-t-tried."
"I'm sorry...but I have to go. I can't just sit here and waste my life doing nothing....You understand, right?"
"R-R-R-R-Right. Yeah. Of course."
Three weeks later, Lavender left the dormitory. "First elementary-school-age student t-t-t-t-to get into a big-wig college...and then they decide to kick me out. Some accomplishment THAT t-t-t-t-turned out t-t-t-to be."
Snickering met her ears as she flitted out the door, carrying two bags in each paw and one in her mouth. She rolled her eyes, knowing full-well how silly she probably looked.
"What's a shrimp like YOU doing here?" hissed a student flying past.
Lavender used her back paws to dig out her admission ticket from the previous year, and held it up for the student to read.
He laughed. "That's probably forged! You're to freakin' young to be here!"
Lavender shook her head and motioned to the piece of paper again.
"Don't care 'bout a stupid piece of paper. You're gettin' off campus, which is where you CLEARLY don't belong, SHRIMP!"
Lavender frowned, mumbled something insulting, and continued flying. She wasn't watching very intently where she was going, however, and ran straight into a patch of lavender.

She shook her head, making sure she was still holding everything, and set off again, ignoring the raucous laughter following her at every turn she made.
I'm lost, so lost...will I be able to see the sky again?
Oh please, one more day...
Wishing, praying...wont someone allow this shadow of a girl
To see one more day?
Remember, remember, please remember who I used to be!
Who am I, who am I? I'm a puppet in their game...
Dreaming of a life I never had.
Remember, remember, please remember who I used to be!
Who am I, who am I? My reality has slipped away.
~
Xion's Theme
Lavender sighed, burying her head in a pillow, her dirty fur feeling awful against the clean sheets. "I need a bath," she moaned.
The German Shepherd nodded, setting down the towels he was carrying. "Sure. Bathroom's that way." He gestured with his head to the left.
"H-H-H-H-How much?"
"...What do you mean?"
"H-H-H-H-How much do I owe you for the bath?"
"Not a penny! Your rent covers your room, water usage, and food."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. Now, go take a bath. You even said you need it."
Lavender rolled off of the bed, cringing as she put weight on her back leg. "Must've t-t-t-twisted it," she murmured, hobbling down the hall. She grabbed a white towel, being careful to not smudge it with the filth on her fur or wings. She closed the door to the bathroom, ran the water, set the towel down, and gingerly placed herself in the water.
An hour later, she had completely bathed her grime away and was practically sparkling as she dried off. Being careful of her back leg, she gathered up the towel and took it back to the kind German Shepherd who had offered her a place to stay for a couple months. "Thank you, Sir."
"You're most welcome. Something wrong with that leg of yours?"
"No, Sir."
"Why are you hobbling, then?"
"It h-h-h-h-hurts, Sir. Nothing else wr-wr-wr-wrong w-w-w-w-with it."
"May I look at it?"
"Fine." She turned and lifted her leg.
The German Shepherd looked at it for a moment and sighed. "You'll owe me more for rent next month."
"WH-WH-WHAT?!"
"I'm taking you to the hospital. C'mon."
"NO! Not until you tell me wh-wh-wh-what's wr-wr-wr-wrong w-w-w-with me!"
"I'll tell you on the way."
Lavender sat down. "I'm not budging, Mr. Auberlein."
He sighed. "Your back leg hasn't been twisted, Miss. It's completely broken - snapped in two."
Lavender stood, not putting weight on that leg. "Fine. L-L-L-Let's go."
As Lavender lay upon Mr. Auberlein's couch, cast upon her leg, she sighed. "I'm so t-t-t-tired..."
"You may sleep after I ask you a question."
"Go ahead."
"What exactly happened to you?"
"Wh-wh-what do you mean?"
"Your leg is broken. How did it get that way?" He set down the newspaper, looking intently at the pup before him. "You can't be more than elementary-school-aged, right? How did this happen to you?"
"Others make fun of me. They don't like my stuttering."
"You didn't stutter at all in that sentence."
"It's just certain sounds that I find difficult to p-p-p-pronounce p-p-p-properly."
"'P' being one of them."
"Yes."
"Any other sounds?"
"I'd r-r-r-rather not say."
The German Shepherd nodded. "I understand. Now, after your contract expires in 6 months, you're going to need to do something else besides get hurt. You need a safe place to go."
"But...wh-wh-where w-w-w-w-would I go? My only friend left me for a better college...and I don't even know where she is."
"Give me her full name and I'll track her down."
"P-P-P-P-P-Promise?"
"Promise."
Two months later, Lavender visited Helen, who was staying at a dormitory in another city. "Knock Knock."
"Who's there?" came the muffled reply from behind the door.
"L-L-Lavender."
"LAVENDER?!" Helen exclaimed, throwing the door wide open. "My friend! You've come to visit me, and - OH! Whatever happened to your leg, Lav?"
She gulped. "Broke it."
"Who did this to you?" Helen demanded, fire in her eyes. "You gimme the names, Lav, and I'll show them what they get when they mess with my best friend! Ooooh, I'll pummel 'em! I'll -"
"There's no need, H-H-H-Helen. Mr.Auberlein is t-t-t-t-taking care of it. H-H-H-H-He's my landlord."
"Oh, well, I'd still like to get my hooves on whoever did this to you."
"Thanks. May I come in?"
"Certainly!" Helen held the door open as Lavender limped through it. "Why're you limping?"
"The cast came off t-t-t-t-two w-w-w-w-weeks ago. The doctors said I should've h-h-h-healed by now."
"But you haven't."
Lavender sat upon Helen's pistachio-green couch. "No, I h-h-h-h-haven't. The doctors say I p-p-p-probaby won't ever heal p-p-p-p-properly. I'll have those scars for the r-r-r-r-rest of my life."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. It isn't your fault."
Helen nodded, still looking cross as she stared at Lavender. "So, any reason you decided to stop over?"
"Yeah. Mr. Auberlein r-r-r-r-requested that I ask you something."
"What would you like to know?"
"Do you know of any schools that may take me in? L-L-L-Like, with scholarships and everything?"
"Schools? No. But I DO know of one place, if you're interested. It's not a school, but it may do you some good to stay there for awhile, especially since you're getting bullied so much. Let me see if I can remember the name of it..."
Lavender smiled for the first time in months. She looked up at the sign above the doorway, reading it aloud as she set her luggage down upon the ground. "'The New Agency.' It sounds l-l-l-like such a l-l-l-lovely p-p-p-place."
As she walked up, she noticed the lavender growing alongside the steps in planters and patches of dark brown dirt. She smiled, leaning forward to sniff some of the beautiful, delicate flowers.

Once inside, she signed in. The staff assigned her a place to stay for 6 months. "After that point," they said, "if you're not well enough to leave yet, we'll have to boot you out."
"I understand." Lavender said, smiling.
But that moment never came. After Lavender had been living in her tight room for weeks, someone came by. "A h-h-h-h-human!" she squealed happily, her fluffy tail wagging and her wings sticking out at weird angles as she looked up into the human's face.
It tilted its head, patted her ears, and moved on, saying, "I would prefer an animal that's not so hyper."
Time and time again this happened. Lavender would get her hopes up just to have them crushed the next moment.
Finally, a woman with brown hair and glasses walked in. Her eyes were light brown, and she was wearing a nice dress. She peered down into each living space, took out a fluffy pony, and wrote up the adoption certificate for her. The pony whinnied, smiling as a white crown was placed atop her head. The woman stroked the pony's mane, bending down and rubbing her nose against the pony's. The pony trotted off to the waiting room, where she stood and peered through the glass door, her turquoise eyes wide with wonder and happiness. She watched the woman as she walked around the room, observing different animals.
She stopped in front of Lavender's room. She looked down into it and smiled. "May I see this one?" she asked the clerk.
The clerk ran over and lifted Lavender out of her room. "I must warn you, Miss," the clerk apologized, setting Lavender down on the ground, "this pup has been through a lot. We haven't had time to do a physical on her, or a psychological test, either. We don't know how mentally or physically stable she is. You can see she's got a bad scar on her back leg, and that her wings aren't quite as fluffy as they should be. Also, she stutters. A lot."
"I don't care about any physical deformities!" the woman snapped, turning around and lifting the hem of her dress. "Do you see that? Do you see that massive scar?"
The clerk was silent.
"I don't care HOW she got the scar or if she still has it now. I only care that she survived through whatever caused her to have to have something performed in the first place. She's living, and I am grateful for that."
"And the stuttering, Miss?"
"My grandfather stuttered through most of his childhood. He no longer does so."
"This pup will most likely not grow out of her stuttering."
"Maybe she will."
"She most likely won't, Madame, and I don't want you going into this adoption with incorrect ideas."
"If you tell a goose it cannot fly, will it ever try?"
"Probably not."
"Then don't tell me she won't ever stop stuttering, because the minute you say that is the minute you've lost hope."
The clerk nodded, running a hand through his hair. "Understood, Madame. Would you like to see her?"
"She's right there. I can see her perfectly fine, and I'll adopt her right now."
"You...you don't want to play with her, or anything?"
"Nope. Thanks anyway, though. C'mere, girl," she said, crouching down to pick up Lavender. "What's your name, sweetie?"
"L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-"
The woman laughed. "You're so excited you can barely speak!"
"L-L-L-LAVENDER!" she finally barked out.
The woman smiled as she stroked the head of the pup she held. "Hello, Lavender."
"Are you h-h-h-h-here to take me somewhere?"
"Yes, I am. Do you see that pony over there, with the wings and horn?"
Lavender nodded.
"She's your new sister. I'm adopting both of you."
"R-R-R-R-Really?!"
"Yup."
Lavender started squirming, happily wagging her tail.
"If you don't calm down, I'll drop you!" the woman said, laughing a she swept her hair back with a quick motion of her head.
"Madame?" the clerk called.
The woman rolled her eyes, an exasperated look upon her face. "What?"
"Your adoption certificate. You'll need to fill out some paperwork before your puppy can go home with you. Please, let me take her off your -"
"You aren't touching her."
The clerk blinked in surprise, and smiled, motioning towards a room next to where the pony was waiting. "She'll be placed in there, and then transferred to the waiting room where your pony is now. Then you all can leave peacefully."
The woman looked at the clerk, glaring at him slightly as she walked over to the room that he'd specified. She gently put Lavender down, patted her on the head, and walked off, latching the door behind her.
Lavender looked over at the pony. "H-h-h-h-h-hi!"
"Hello," she said, bowing her head as she looked at the pup. "Hey, you've got wings, like me!"
"Yeah!"
"Are you getting adopted, too?"
"Yes!"
"That's great!"
The door creaked open, and Lavender trotted out alongside her new owner.
"C'mon, girl," she said, a smile on her face. "I've got to introduce you to your new sister: Marble Diadem."
Lavender lives in a house with lots of other creatures, now. None of them make fun of her stuttering. Marble Diadem often goes flying with Lavender, and loves the pup like her own daughter. Lavender isn't the smartest dog in the bunch, but she still loves playing and hanging out with all of her adopted brothers and sisters. The woman who adopted Lavender ended up being a rescuer - a person who rescues animals and takes care of them. And every time the woman brings a new puppy, kitty, or pony into the house, Lavender is always the most enthusiastic - she's always welcoming and happy. She often gives tours of the house, and helps the new recruits get situated into bedrooms, often offering up her own bed for a new puppy to sleep in.
And outside the house lies an entire garden filled with only four types of flowers: Lavender, Lilac, Orchids, and Roses.

Sleep soundly safe in his heart,
You no longer have to face the evil in the dark.
Just rest your mind, and leave your pain behind.
Remember softly of a time when the world was so bright.
You've fought so bravely, my dear,
And so you can rest, for now there's nothing left to fear.
Fighting onward, you dreamed unreachable things,
But now your dreams carry you to a place where these things come true.
I'll hold your hand while you sleep,
So don't be afraid, I won't let shadows touch your dreams.
Maybe in time, we'll leave this all behind;
We'll look up skyward, and the stars, they will shine in your eyes.
Promise, you'll wake up in time.
When you awaken I will be there by your side.
There's a person, he'll fix the broken mistakes...
I'll find him and journey on, I will save you, whatever it takes.
~
Ventus' Theme
Art:May or may not make some.
I understand that by adopting this creature I take full responsibility for it.