Name: Delilah
Gender: female
Sexuality: bisexual
Zodiac:Delilah's birthday falls on August 31st, making her a Virgo.
Favorite Companions:Delilah's eyes lit up like neon signs as she watched the tiny creature accept her offering - little pink paws scurrying and hurrying to stuff the small mountain of seeds and vegetables deep into huge, fluffy cheeks. The hamster squeaked and chattered away excitedly at it's newfound feast, while she gazed calmly from the comfort of her favorite armchair, positioned just so - she wouldn't want to miss any of the cute moments of the ones she shared her home with! Her gaze wandered down the line of tanks, making sure everyone was safe and well-fed, as she let out a contented sigh.There's no doubt what Delilah's favorite creature to be around is - ever since she was very young and asked for a pet, and her parents rewarded her with a small gray dwarf hamster, she was hooked. As she's grown, she's only gotten more and more into their care and raising them properly. She even takes in hamsters other people can't care for any longer, or ones that were abandoned.
She spends the majority of her time rearranging their tanks and creating lavish landscapes for them with colorful bedding and lots of hides and toys for them to play with. Delilah also socializes with them frequently, making her hamsters extremely docile and friendly when being held or played with. She's constantly doing research into what can make her a better caretaker, and improving upon her own methods. Some would say she prefers the hamsters to other kalons, and they're probably right.
Delilah's pride and joy is obviously still the first hamster she ever owned, that little dwarf hamster she had affectionately dubbed "Stormy". Even though he's well into old age for a hamster, Stormy is still quite energetic and doing well. Delilah gives him extra care and love, knowing that she has limited time left with her beloved little boy.
Future Dreams:Currently, Delilah is taking classes and studying to become a veterinarian. Her love for animals extends far beyond just hamsters, and she'd like to be able to care for as many ill or helpless creatures as she can. After all, vets have helped her precious pets more than a time or two, and she'd like to be able to do the same and save someone from heartbreak by healing their companions. It's a hard road, and she'd be lying if she said that the studying and tests get stressful and boring extremely quickly sometimes.
However, her friends and the idea of being able to help others out - especially cute little hamsters - always spurs her back into her groove. She's not the top student in her class, but she gets good grades and always turns things in on time.
After she becomes a vet, Delilah plans to open up an official rescue for hamsters as well with her new skills and earnings - instead of just a ragtag one out of her bedroom and a forum on the internet. She wants to foster them, get them healthy, and find them forever homes with people who will love and cherish them as much as she adores her own personal pets.
Likes:
~ Plushies & blankets
~ Collecting seashells
~ Drawing
~ Windy days
~ Stargazing
~ All things blue/cyan
Dislikes:
~ Overly pink things
~ Hot weather
~ People with overly soothing voices
~ Horror movies
~ Bland food
~ Non-fiction books
Random Facts:~ Delilah wants to get a tattoo when she's older, or possibly several. She thinks they're really cool, and often sketches out what she might get in one of her drawing notebooks. She is, however, slightly afraid of how painful it might be.
~ When she was younger she used to enjoy horror themed things, now, they just scare her.
~ Through much teaching from her parents and those around her, Delilah is actually a pretty good cook for her age - but she can't bake to save her life. Many poor cakes have emerged from the oven in a cloud of smoke, the color of a stormy gray sky, straight to their fate of the trash can.
~ If she can't become a vet for whatever reason, Delilah would like to be a cosmetologist.
~ She's won several school and child-level competitions for her watercolor paintings.
Personality:Delilah is a sweet girl, but easily frustrated as most youngsters can be - especially when it comes to difficult math problems or not being able to do what she wants to do. She has a short fuse, although her temper isn't anything too bad, and she usually ends up crying rather than blowing up at someone. She's happiest when focused in on one of her hobbies or interests, and incredibly hard to get attention from when she's doing this. Delilah can be quite outgoing when she wants to be, and isn't half shabby at making new friends, even though she prefers to just keep her small circle of close partners in crime. When she gets too stressed out, she tends to become more introverted, and speaks less and less until the problem is solved. She's a rather sleepy girl, and sometimes has problems keeping enough energy to get everything done that she wants to do - in fact, she's passed out on top of her school books more than once, and is often hard to wake up in the mornings even under the threat of loud music or cold water. Delilah is horrible at organization, and you can always bet on her room to be a bit of a mess - "organized chaos", since she always seems to be able to find whatever she needs even if someone else would never be able to seek it out for her. She can also be quite anxious, but has gotten good at hiding it most of the time and only those close to her would know about it very well.
Theme Song:La Vie En Rose by IZ*ONE
Story:The cages were stacked neatly on the shelving units that Delilah had so lovingly assembled by hand, double-checking each screw to make sure it would be nice and safe for her little ones. They were hand-made cages from plastic bins, to assure they had plenty of room to run and scurry and hide, each one decorated in a different theme or color. Willow, for example, was slumbering securely in her shades of green, her hide shaped like a tiny tree and a plastic background of a lovely forest plastered to the back of the container. Next to her was Bean, his cage much more colorful and childish with alphabet block chew toys for him, a tiny slide, and a hide that resembled a child's playhouse.
Gently, she grabbed ahold of one on the middle row and pulled it out, setting it in front of her on the rug as she undid the latches and tugged the lid off. "Hi, sweetie," Delilah crooned, dipping one paw in to gently pat one of the newest additions to her little family.
Sugar was a tiny thing, a little pure white dwarf hamster she'd gotten from an ad online. The family had been moving and didn't want to bother with the trouble of lugging along a hamster and it's cage. They hadn't even asked for money or any proof of being a good owner, and Delilah had pounced like a fierce mama bear to ensure she got first dibs and poor little Sugar wouldn't go to someone who wouldn't care for her - or worse, use her as food for something else.
When she'd gotten there, Delilah remembered how her eyes had almost pricked with tears as she looked at the conditions the tiny hamster had been kept in. The cage was filthy, the water bottle empty, they'd been feeding her sunflower seeds instead of actual food. Her teeth and claws were overgrown, and her fur was matted and full of things Delilah didn't even want to guess at. Sugar had skittered away anxiously as soon as she got close, and she realized even the wheel was too tiny for such a small hamster to use.
She'd barely been able to keep her emotions under wraps as she quickly snatched the cage and ran home to where her parents were waiting. Knowing little about the creatures, even they looked worried and stunned at the sight - even more so when their daughter burst into tears.
It took Delilah twenty minutes just to calm herself down, and she immediately went into what her friends liked to call "mommy mode". The cage she had made just days before was already waiting, and she scooped the dwarf hamster into her paws - knowing full well the scared creature might bite her, but not wanting her to wait any longer. She gently dabbed at the mess of her fur with a wet washcloth until it looked somewhat presentable, then set her loose into her new home while glaring daggers at the old one, all cracked colorful plastic and reeking like it hadn't been cleaned since Sugar had been put in there.
The little one immediately scurried for proper food and water, and Delilah sat and watched in relaxed silence.
"I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'll make sure you never go through it again!" She declared, tossing the old cage into the trash with a rather victorious flourish.
Just like that, Sugar had earned a forever home - although Delilah found many of her charges new homes, she couldn't even consider it knowing that the dwarf could end up in a spot like that ever again. Better safe than sorry, even if her parents weren't the happiest to know that their home had grown by one more pet.