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[Pengu.]

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This is adopt No. 154 of Version 5 of L.O.C! To be eligible to adopt you must mark the main thread, and fill out the form below! You must fill out a form for this LoC. This community is focused around participation and just really being a part of the group. If you are not up for being active in the community, please do not apply :c
Feel free to also join our Discord!

Took some suggestions from the LOC Discord for some of the next adopts I will be making. The suggestion for this warrior male was albino. Albino lions I had searched appeared mostly white, brown, and had blue eyes, yet due to the simplicity of his design I added a few accessories to him - which I have incorporated into his prompt.

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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]LOC Name:[/b]
[b]Gender :[/b] Male
[b]Element:[/b] Metal
[b]Allegience & Rank:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History (Optional):[/b]
[b]Relationships (Optional):[/b]

[quote][b]Legends held that the spider web design of the dream catcher would allow good dreams to pass through and float down the hanging beads and feathers to sleeping children. Bad dreams, however, would be caught in the web. ... However dream catchers are believed to work, their underlying meaning and symbolism remains the same.[/b][/quote]

[b]Why does this lion wear a dreamcatcher? Are they very superstitious? Does it protect them from bad dreams or evil spirits? Is it a sentimental gift? Did they craft it themselves, and if so, why? [/b]


Unlimited extras are allowed in this impress-me competition. However, please watch with unique and fancy coding, it always messes up on my browser and makes it very difficult to read. Thank you ^^

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To bridge the gap between non-owners and owners, this competition encourages all new / few-lion owners to reach out to senior members of the community and work with veteran owners to assist in their form making. This is entirely optional. If you choose to gain assistance from a long time member of the LOC community, who has a grasp on the species and lore, while making your form, both you AND the veteran member (x1 max) will earn 30 tokens - whether you win, or do not win, this LOC.

It is perfectly ok to seek help from multiple members, but to prevent a high influx of tokens being given out AND to combat people helping just for the sake of tokens, the 30 token prize may only be awarded to one senior member who you feel has helped you the most.

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Closes June 8th @ 5 PM EST

[Stonefly]

Marking to watch, want to see where this boy goes.

All my lions are open if you want any kind of relationship. I also have a dream lioness if you want to use c:

[ophanimera]

Feel free to PM me for help! I own 3 lions and have a good understanding of LOC lore.

— Also, if you can’t view the image, join the discord! The images are uploaded in the #new_adopts channel.

[Mechanic Drone]

Marking to help and watch <3 am going on a trip but can help once I get back c: ally lions are free to use

[A̡͞B̶US̢͞E̶D̵]

marking to watch~

[Kassypen]

Currently building and working on the layout of the form.

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Username: Kassypen

Name: Stellan
Meaning: ‘bright star’
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Element: Metal
Allience: Nomad
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Element;

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“A lion with the gift of metal can:
Bend metallic objects to their will,
creating or destroying pre-existing items such as armor.
Can be used to Kill, wound, protect or disarm enemies.”

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Stellan does not use his element often. Whenever he does, it always ends up being more powerful then he expected, inflicting pain and suffering to those in close proximity. Stellan’s close friend Tenebris always advised against the use of his element for unknown reasons. This caused him to never be able to master his element. Perhaps she feared for his safety?

• Inflection Stellan is able to warp and bend metal at will. This is useful in battle when the opponent’s armor is made of a metallic substance. The albino lion has the ability to pull the armor away or just destroy it all together. He can accidentally take the armor of his own side, though. So he must be careful to use great caution and focus.
• Metallic Barrier In the midst of battle, some lions need a barrier. This is when Stellan uses his ability to create a cover from claws or teeth. He will often use Inflection and then take the armor, creating stronger armor for himself or another lion. This is especially useful when an injured lion is being taken from the battefield by a healer. He can protect them from oncoming attacks.
• Battling Ram In the midst of battle, a tight knit squadron can cause a lasting, strong attack. But Stellan has the ability to take large sheets of metal and create a wedge of sorts, forcing the attackers to split up, and making them easier targets. The large piece of metal can also be sent to either side, hitting opponents with enough force to kill. The con to doing this, though, is that the wedge can be lost behind the other side’s front line. When this happens the attackers now have a new metal resource.
• Shards When pieces of metal come off of armor, they can often be disregarded even though they should be a valued resource. The pieces can be bent and folded to create weapons that resemble bullets and spearheads. Of course they are not actually these things, but are just as deadly. They can be shot across the front line and create damage.
• Metal Friction If Metal is bent and twisted enough, it can creates friction to heat itself up. The metal pieces that are hot can get up to 500 degrees fahrenheit. These pieces can create deadly burns to an opponent.

A Friend, an Ally (History Part 1);

The young cub ran through the woods, tears streaming down his face. He felt as if the forest was a safe place, as if the trees were closing in behind him and protecting him from the harsh words. He didn’t understand. Why did the other cubs hate him so? He just wanted to be one of them. A friend. But they called out words to him instead, clawing him and telling him to go back to his hole. Was it his voice, his pelt, his face? The albino lion didn’t know why he disgusted them.
Finally finding a place to hide, Stellan crawled under a young bloodwood tree that was weighed down by a larger branch. He whimpered and sniffed, still upset. Though the twigs and needles dug deep into his skin, creating small cuts, the cub didn’t dare move. He feared they had followed him.
“What are you doing there?” The voice made him jump. Stellan tentatively peered between the twigs and leaves, expecting Dorin, a cub of his group, to be sneering at him. But his shaking gaze was instead met by a black lioness. Her eyes were unlike anything he had seen before. One, a bloody crimson. Warm, and friendly. The other, the color of ice. Its contrast to her other gaze was shocking. The eye seemed to be trying to freeze him in place. And it worked. He stayed in a crouched form, his paws starting to shake. How was this possible? How could this lioness appear so warm but frightening at the same time. Stellan started to panic. Why was her form growing? What was she there to do? Had she been sent to kill him? To torture him?
“Why are you so frightened?” Her voice made the albino lion pause. It was so soothing, so sweet. Surely she wasn’t here to hurt him? Why was he so frightened? This lion brought peace and safety. With these thoughts her form started to shrink. His view of her shifted until the black lion was no longer towering over him, but instead a cub. Her tail tucked securely to her side. She looked shy, but Stellan felt safe with her.
“W-what’s your name?” He asked tentatively, started to crawl out from under the young tree. The black cub smiled, not replying at first. When she ran into the woods, Stellan followed her, not wanted to loose this new sense of security. It took him minutes to find her, but when he did, she was on her back, looking at the stars. He joined her, right as she whispered,
“My name is Tenebris. We shall meet again, young one.” The albino cub thought it was odd she called him ‘young one.’ But he soon left that thought when his newfound friend stood and charged further into the woods. The black lioness seemed to disappear. He stood, alone, for many more minutes before walking home again. This time though, he felt as if he could stand up to Dorin and his friends, for Stellan had a friend of his own now.

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“So we met right after her brother was born! It was the first time her mother let her play on the outskirts of the pridelands, can you believe it?” Stellan hopped along while Tenebris trailed behind. The two had been inseparable the last couple of weeks on Lochren. The second it was light enough to see clearly, the albino cub would run to the same forest of bloodwoods to visit the black furred cub. Though he had yet to introduce her to any of his other friends. He only had one, really. That was Caeli. A pride cub who often visited his group with her mother, though she had started to visit by herself, she hadn’t told Stellan why.
“Why are you introducing her to me?” Tenebris’s voice kept the soothing tone, but she was fidgeting more then normal. Stellan just assumed she didn’t like to meet new lions. But all thoughts were forgotten when he saw Caeli’s purple fur down by a rock. He quietly ran over, leaping on the rock and looking down at her from above. Tenebris clumsily followed. Regardless of the black lion’s unsure steps, the pebbles never moved. Even when she tripped. And fell rolling down the rock, landing on Caeli. The purple cub didn’t even flinch, just looked up at Stellan. Her eyes were full of light and he smiled when he saw her. But when he looked back up, Tenebris was gone. She must have been embarrassed. He thought, turning his head and calling,
“I’m not sure where you went but I’ll see you tomorrow!” He then jumped off of the rock and landed next to Caeli. She raised an eyebrow at him before tackling him to the ground, the two continued to play for a little while. And for once in the last couple of weeks, Stellan wasn’t thinking about the black furred cub named Tenebris.

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“You can’t catch me Tenebris!” Stellan sprinted as fast as he could through the trees. His best friend charged behind him. The black cub just smirked, not saying anything. She rarely ever did. Stell thought it was because her voice was annoying or something. He had told his friend countless times that he didn’t care what her voice sounded like, he just wanted someone to talk to. But the black cub always just sat there in silence. Though she didn’t talk much, the albino lion had to admit she was good company.
All the other cubs in his group still hated Stellan. They would throw rocks and sticks at the pair. But for some reason the ‘weapons’ never seemed to hit Tenebris. Only the albino cub.
They would call him things like ‘creep’ and ‘crazy.’ The albino cub never understood why they completely ignored Tenebris like she wasn’t even there.

She was.

Stellan could feel her.

Could hear her breaths.

But others never noticed these things.

Imaginary World (History Part 2);

Stellan spat out the fur from the Amani Tenebris and he had tried to catch. The black, now lioness, chuckled behind him. He turned, expecting the joy to meet her eyes but of course it didn’t. Her icy stare still sent shivers down his spine. How odd it was that one side of her face held joy and happiness, while the other never held any warmth. Tenebris still gave him the same sense of security that she had given him as a cub, but Stellan noticed she became less friendly with each passing day, she never even made eye contact with him anymore.
“What? Are you not going to talk to me ever again?” Stellan meant the comment to be lighthearted but Tenebris just ducked her head. The albino lion was about to apologize when Eisig, another nomad from the mountains who was staying with their group spoke.
“Nice conversation you got there.” He laughed and walked away without speaking another word. More voices chimed in. Stellan heard,
“Grow up.”
“What’s in your head, mate?”
Or just plain laughter when he walked by. He was about to look for those who had spoken when Caeli’s purple fur appeared amongst the crowd slowly gathering around him and Tenebris. She stared at every single one of them before ushering Stellan away and into a nearby cave. “I can protect myself, Caeli. I don’t need you.” The lioness just shook her head and ignored him. Tenebris sat against one wall, watching carefully, but she made no move to join the conversation. Stellan was getting frustrated. Just because his group didn’t like Tenebris or him, didn’t mean he couldn’t protect himself or need Caeli to swoop in and fix everything for him.
But the purple lion just turned and spoke angrily, “Who have you been talking to since you were a cub? Everyone thinks you’re a lunatic you know. I tried standing up for you. I told them you weren’t crazy. But you made even that hard to believe. I would say ‘He’s just humming.’ But then you would come up behind me in the middle of a conversation with no one.”
“You never realized I was there for you. Never realized how I stood by your side. You stayed in your dreamland and kept the doors locked from the inside. Tell me, Stellan, were you trying to lock others out keep yourself in?”
The last word came out in a furious whisper and the albino lion flinched. But he didn’t reply. His gaze locked on Tenebris. His best friend. “You-you don’t see her?” Stellan blinked harshly, sticking out a paw and poking the black lioness’s shoulder. His pad met fur and muscle
Tenebris stood still, not moving when Caeli uttered, “See what Stellan? There is nothing there.” The purple lion walked surely forward until she stood inches away from Tenebris. The albino lion set pleading eyes on his best friend, willing it not to be true. Tenebris just looked like she was in pain. Her face was twisted and her muscles taunt. It almost looked as if she were trying to get away, but her feet were stuck in something. She spoke a thousand words, she looked like she was yelling, but no words escaped her mouth. When Caeli pushed against Tenebris, the black lion changed. Her form grew and both of her eyes turned black. The mixed gaze that had confused him for so long reached both eyes. She turned on him. Everything else disappeared in a black mist that seemed to surround Tenebris.
Her voice rung out, scarily clear. As if she were screaming right next to his ear. “You know what Tenebris means, Stellan?” She crawled towards him, scraping a claw down his leg, “It means dark, fool.” Stellan screamed and sprinted out of the cave, into the crowd that waited. Eisig tryed to stop him but Stellan just fought until the old male let him go.

Run.
Run as fast and as far as you can.
But I will always find you.
I am you.

Dreamcatcher (History Part 3 - Prompt);

All Stellan could hear were those words, chanting like a thousand drums. His head hurt. His paws ached from running. He didn’t know where he was. It felt as if his whole world was a lie. How much of an idiot he must have looked by talking to himself. He was crazy. He was insane.

AGH

Stellan slammed into something. He stood, shaking his head. His movements were slow and mechanical from the impact. He made a move to start running again when he realized he hadn’t run into a tree, but a lion. The lion stood, shaking their cloak. “Are you alright?” Was all they said. For some unknown reason, Stellan sensed this lion would understand. He needed someone who understood. He could no longer hear Tenebris chanting in his head after the fall, so he soon found himself talking. He couldn’t stop. He didn’t want to stop. The cloaked lion just stood silently and listened to the entire story.
Once he was finished, Tenebris started to snake closer to him between the trees. He screamed again, looking to this new lion for help. The lion spoke again, “Follow me. You need to see Damara.” They sprinted off into the forest, Stellan followed. He was willing to try anything to get Tenebris’s voice out of his head.
The duo soon made it to a cave. The cloaked lion led Stellan into it. Inside sat a beautiful golden lioness, who turned and greeted the two, “Aithea, who have you brought to me? Hello.” She smiled to the albino lion. ‘Aithea’ left him at the entrance to greet the lioness. Stellan only heard snippets of their conversation. “Dreamcatcher...” “Demon...”
The two came back to him and the lioness spoke first, “My name is Damara. We don’t have long since you only learned of your demon’s existence recently. If we do not do anything you will be stuck with her, and she will only get more powerful.”
Damara rushed Stellan deep into the cave, pulling together antlers, feathers, and yarn. When she finished, a beautiful dreamcatcher sat on a slam of rock. She quickly pulled it over his head. When she did, everything went black. When Stellan finally came back around, Tenebris’s voice was gone and the two lion who had helped him sat together, tails entwined, at the mouth of the cave.

Personality;

Untrusting | Quiet | Respectful | Kind | Selfless

As a cub Stellan was confident and chatty. He would make conversation with whoever would deal with him the longest.

This was often the adult lions though, as the cubs would much rather be play fighting or sparring. The older lions respected his mature, uncowardly nature. But unfortunately lions of his own age saw him as different for these reasons. When young creatures find another different, they often react by bullying, which is what Stellan had to put up with most of his early life. He kept a smiling face through it all, though, telling himself it would get better.
His confidence got an even larger boost when he met Tenebris. Tenebris seemed to understand him in everyway. She would listen to his talks and wouldn’t get annoyed at his colorful way of seeing the world. She was his only friend besides Caeli, who also understood him.
Stellan’s cheerful outlook on life carried though to his adult form. But he started to question himself when other lions continued to laugh at him and call him names. He had been able to stay smiley as a cub because it seemed as if it would get better. But as an adult Time was running out for lions to understand him.
But everything changed when Stellan was told that Tenebris didn’t exist. The demon became a negative thing, torturing Stellan on a daily basis. The dreamcatcher that dream lioness Damara crafted for him helped, but Tenebris was strong. Stellan started to trust no one except Caeli, Damara, and Aithea. He wouldn’t go outside for fear that Tenebris would find him. He never made eye contact and didn’t speak much. He lost his positive outlook on life that made him special. Everything changed.
But what he never lost was his selflessness and kindness.

Alliegance and Rank;

Stellan is neutral. He doesn’t trust his powers and abilities. Because of this, he doesn’t want to hurt either side. He fears that he’ll see Tenebris. When Tenebris appears, Stellan looses control of his element metal. This causes him to bend and manipulate without meaning too. If this happens, he can unintentionally destroy armor, or anything made of metal. If this lion where to loose control on a battlefield, it is unknown to what extent he could hurt either side. Armor would bend and warp, becoming useless. It would fly, causing and creating havoc. If Stellan were to choose a side, there is no telling who he might injure or impact.
Though it is unlikely that this all would happen, Stellan has imagined almost every negative outcome possible. These thoughts are full of death, blood, and despair. Often Tenebris appears when he gets deep into his mind. The more distructive his images, the stronger Tenebris is. She will poke and jab at Stell, causing his element to erupt. When his element starts to destroy, Stell gets angry, causing his ‘spirit’ to punch or kick him. Everything gets more and more dangerous until Tenebris soothes the lion into sleep. But this is when everything reaches the tilting point.

Relations;

Stellan’s relationship with Caeli is a positive but confusing one. He always saw her as a friend, an ally, but that was all. His time as a cub was instead filled with Tenebris. And as cubs Caeli accepted Stell’s, “imaginary friend.” She would even play along, thinking it was a game between the two, Stellan and herself. But Stellan never saw it as a game. For him, they were a trio. They had an unbreakable bond.
As the two grew older, lion started to notice Stellan’s strange conversations. The older cubs in his group always made fun of him, but now the adult lions were starting to notice. But Caeli continued to protect him, believing he would still grow out of it.
But it was when Stellan started to push Caeli away that she started getting frustrated. She had spent her entire life protecting him, but now he was forgetting about her. And over an imaginary friend named Tenebris.
Fast forward to when Stellan was coping with the knowledge that Tenebris wasn’t real that the two started talking again. Caeli felt terrible for how she had acted. It hadn’t been Stellan’s fault. Tene was just all he knew. Stell forgave her though. Now the two are working to recreate their positive relationship.

Credit;

Keen - for all of the art and, well, literally everything
Armoury - for helping me so much with research for Tenebris
Vrask is trying - For answering my many, many questions
Stonefly - for allowing me to use Damara and letting me ask her millions of questions

Thank you guys! Stellan wouldn’t be who he is if it weren’t for you.

[NizoLuv]

Marking to watch! (:

Most of my lions are open (Some are MIA for plot reasons atm) for any kind of relationships you may need! Just shoot me a pm here or dm on discord @ nizo [ #8906 ] (;

[NARANDA]

Marking to watch, and also to offer my assistance to anyone who wishes to try for him.
I've been a member of the species since version 3 and have a good understanding of the LOC lore.
I also have lots of lions that could be used as potential relationships: https://toyhou.se/NARANDA/characters/folder:90152
Please DM me on Discord at NARANDA#9976 or PM me if you'd like my help or to ask about using my lions.

[Rohan.]

Very cute ^^

Reminder to check the availability of names though! Kassy that name is already in use cx

[whisky]

I like him tons, but I couldn’t come up with a fitting name. </3