[SilhouetteStation]

username: SilhouetteStation
kalon name: Anchi

why is one of their paws black?:

The life of a sprite is not chosen, rather, a role they are born into. What is chosen, however, are the rules they are supposed to live by.

Do not appear before regular people unless necessary.

Do not fall in love.

There is no time for the distraction of love when you have something to protect and focus on.

Anchi had always been a rather mischievous weather sprite. He enjoyed causing spots of bother for people, like making it rain on them, or the wind messing up their hair. Fun, for him, but nothing to cause any harm. He had no real interest in the people he played with.

That is, until he came along.

There was something about him. His smile, his laugh, the way his eyes crinkled, his charming personality. He was wonderful.

Suddenly his previous desires to cause mischief were put on hold. He followed his interest around, learning about him, sighing to himself with a stupid grin on his face.

He couldn't help himself.

He appeared before him. They talked. They met up many times in the coming months, getting to know each other, feeling warm in one another's company. Anchi felt himself begin to fall in love, and it was the best feeling he'd ever experienced.

That, and discovering that the feeling was mutual.

Each reached out to hold the others hand -

and that's when he felt the burning.

He pulled his hand back and, to his dismay, saw the blackened paw. A warning, he knew. It was with great pain that they distanced themselves.

Anchi still follows him around.
His love still feels the sprites presence.

His black paw is a reminder of what he's risking but he believes that, if he can feel this way about someone, it cannot be wrong.

(299/300)

[bakuraas.]

username: Golden-Boy
kalon name: Colrin Brooke
why is one of their paws black?: [300/300]

"Hey, love?"
"Yeah, babe?"
"Tell me what's wrong with the baby."

The male looked over to the small, rainbow colored child, happily cooing on top of the coloring book that had his own picture on it. He bat at his own hair on the image with one pink paw. The adult kalon looked over to the angry looking mother, who was seemingly still waiting for a response.

"Uh... Nothing?" The male said with a bit of confusion, only for the female to pick up the small kit from the coloring book, revealing that one of the paws had not been colored in, while also revealing what that lead to as the small kit tried to reach out for the papers again with his tiny front paws.

He made a bit of a hissing sound of both embarrassment and disgust in himself as he saw the small one's pitch black paw, only to hear the small one laugh happily and try to bat at his father's face, trying to get him to make the sound again, though He was still trying to find a way to say sorry without setting his wife off.

"Um, Whoopsies?"
"WHOOPSIES? You had one job! Color in the baby! And you couldn't even do that right! Out of all the things you could have forgotten to color, it had to be the paw? Oh god our child is going to be bullied in school- I can hear it now, 'black paw! black paw!' Oh my god are we classified as failures of parents already because of this-"

The male put one paw over the other's mouth, softly moving his eyes to bring the other's vision down to the happy kit who was just as happy as he would be with a colored paw.

"It'll be okay."

[☆ star child]

username: ★ star child ★
kalon name: Endymion Arke
why is one of their paws black?:
How strange it was to love something with such a passion that to touch the untouchable suddenly became a reality.
If you asked her, Mion could name the constellations and tell you their precise location during the day, with her eyes closed. She could tell you a hundred different things about the universe above her head and still have more to tell. She loved it dearly, spent every night gazing at the sky, even the nights when the clouds would cover the stars and blot out the moons gentle and loving light.
She spent those nights, when it was hidden, confessing her love - as though if she could not see it, it could not hear her or the words she spoke with dreamlike wonder. To be among the stars was all she'd ever wanted - to be sun-kissed, to bathe in the cold embrace of the moon, to dance with the stars to a silent rhythm that promised forever, we will love you. forever you will be mine, and forever I am yours.
she reached out to those stars, the ones who winked and laughted with delight at her attentions. reached out to the moon who shone full and merry some nights but others shied from her bold declarations of affection. reached out to the blinding sun who went away each night in fear of hurting her. reached out into nothing.
she earned their love one by one.
a cosmic kiss first, then the suns warm glow, the moons ever-changing heart.
the night came last - she reached for it with promises, and it reached back.
she gave it a part of her, the soft colours of her paw, and it gave her a piece of itself to carry for eternity.
there was nothing tragic about it.
it was simply... love.

[299/300]

[uηsρεcifiεd ¢ryҏtiɗ]

username: Drasheep
kalon name: Fala
why is one of their paws black?:
"Do you think you can cure it?" The young thylacine stood beside her companion, a frail looking kalon, lacing her tail around his shaking sides. Rei took a step closer, examining the paw from afar. The kalon let out a cry, and clutched his arm as he sank towards the ground. Rei was still rather new to a career in herbalism and magical healing, his knowledge going only as far as the library could oblige him.
"Here, come with me, you can lie down and I'll take a closer look and see what I can do."
Rei laid out a blanket atop a small cot designated for patients, an amenity he hadn't ever previously needed to use. As the inflicted patient lied down, accompanied with groans of pain, his companion quickly pattered to his side. Rei wondered what their relation might be, but pushed the query out of his mind and set to small talking. "So, I never caught your name."
"It's, ugh.. Myir." A rather common name, Rei thought to himself, though primarily in Altrix, not so much here. "What brings you here?" . "I told you-augh-already. My paw." He held it up feebly as Rei examined it further. "I think a witch cursed me. It started turning black a couple days ago, and it keeps hurting really bad." He winced. Rei remained stumped as his analysis concluded. "I'm afraid that you'll have to stay the night, I'll consult some friends of mine and be back tomorrow. I'm sure your-er-friend here can take care of you until then. Food's in the pantry."
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The two sat jovially in the large tree, counting out coins as they chatted excitedly. "I'm surprised that herbs and potions could fetch that much, Fala." "I know. It's amazing what genetic mutations and chicanery can do."

[gloomurai]

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[CSMintCat]

username: CSMintCat
kalon name: Aria
why is one of their paws black?: Nya!!

[honey bees]

username: honey bees
kalon name:
why is one of their paws black?: wip

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[Poplar]

username: Poplar
kalon name: Nico
why is one of their paws black?:

It always the ones you'd least expect
The bright, colorful, happy ones that hold their hearts close and secrets closer
Who write their words upon the wall in dark black ink
Whose paw will forever be stained with their past
Their message
A cry for help
Is put out for other to read
Their pain ignored because their smile never fades
Their eyes hidden
Behind a mask of whispers and lies
So as they write their secrets out
In ink that never fades
Their small voice is overlooked
Because they must be okay.