Username: ToxicShadow
Pride: Oddity PrideLeader: NeroLeader's Personality: Generally warm hearted and benevolent, patient and persistent. Incredibly physically strong and well known for both her battle prowess and her strategic mind. She's willing to settle things politically, with words, but will fight if given a reason to do so without any hesitance. For protecting her ideals and those she cares about, she is willing to risk her own life.
Pride Description:The pride was built on the concept that they would take in anyone, those that had no where else to go, especially, practically no questions asked, as long as they don't hold any ill intentions. Commonly, Nero, Makuvu (the second in command), and a few others can sense malice in the hearts of those that enter their territory since their land is teeming with divine energy. They don't tolerate any in fighting among members and needless violence.
However, each member undergoes strict combat training, as they are enemies with a pride known as the Demon Clan (npc pride from Nero's backstory), which are essentially heartless murderers that thrive on violence; even the pride members of the Demon Clan kill one another on a regular basis, since their ranking involves taking one's life in order to take their status. All members of the Oddity Pride cultivate divine energy and, thus, eventually end up with unique powers and limited immortality. Nero, although she has restricted violence among her members, is willing to fight to protect what she believes in or if she is given a reason to. For example, she entered the war zone between two prides with the intention to help any survivors which resulted in her fending off another lion to save a recently orphaned cub, the last survivor of the losing pride. Members are pretty much all considered equals; they respect Nero as the leader, but are also not afraid to verbally challenge her and correct her, if need be. She listens to opinions of all members, even the young ones, and decisions are usually her final say, but involve meetings with the entire pride to voice their concerns and ideas.
Other: Nero would be in favor of the alliance primarily because of the Guard's good nature. She only has an interest in allying with prides that are fundamentally good and, in this case, since Nero is known to stick her nose in issues between other prides if it means helping someone, well, it would potentially be useful to be allied with a pride that is known for handling diplomatic issues. Her group isn't terrible at such, but is willing to fight if diplomacy fails. Likewise, the Oddity Pride could be seen as something as the Guard's go-to if they need help when it comes to combat, since every single member is combat trained just for safety and the practicality of it. Better to be prepared than to not be. The only issue Astrona might have with Nero, battle prowess aside, is that she is also known as the Demon King, a title that clings to her from her day's as the leader of the Demon Clan and is something of a legend. (She TRIED to reform said pride, banning in fighting and violence, but when she could not change the ingrained malevolence and violence of the pride, she eventually left and started her new pride, so as to be true to her own self and morals. BUT, she did have to take her own father's life in order to gain his status as the Demon King, although she had been raised by him to do just that, as his selfish manner of "living forever," by leaving the pride to his only flesh and blood child.) Her past is a bit complicated, as she was raised in a violent pride, but she is doing her best to to good. She's also very open about her past and her views, though, when asked, so she's not trying to hide her darkness from others, she's just trying to overcome it.