[zoocyte]

To adopt, you must either:
1. Have a founder, be at least level 1, and have enough space to accommodate this lion
2. Or, you can adopt this one as your founder!

to adopt, tell me about one of this lion's greatest regrets (200-300 words).

Username: MySpoons
Lion name: Obecarus
Lion gender: Male
Pride: The New Guard
Pride status: Wandering Rogue

end date: december 7, cs rollover

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[Kitten-Girl-500]

Username: KittenGirl2005
Lion name: Pembe
Lion gender: Male
Pride: Summitfall Pride - link in my signature
Pride status: Member
Regret: It had been a particularly dry season. There hadn't been much rainfall, and all the grass was as dry as tinder. Pembe was out hunting with his brother, Maren, when suddenly a bank of dark clouds rolled in.

Maren worked the ground with his paws. "Please, can't we just go home?" he asked, voice trembling with nervousness. "I don't like the look of those clouds."

Pembe flicked his tail at his brother. "Just one more catch," he begged. As soon as he said the words, there was a crack of thunder overhead.

"You know what Dad said!" Maren shot back. "We can't be out in the savannah if there's a storm coming."

Pembe sighed, then stood up from his hunting crouch. "Alright. Let's head back."

The two brothers started off at a walk. Their pace soon grew to a jog as the peals of thunder grew more and more frequent. There was no rain, but the dark clouds overhead roiled and churned.

Just as they were in the middle of a thick field of grass, a bolt of lightning struck the ground a few feet away. Pembe jumped forward, hurtling through the grass. His eyes were wide with terror, and his paws pounded the ground. Fire raced along behind him, ready to devour Pembe like a hungry crocodile.

Pembe plunged into the watering hole, wading into the center. There were no crocodiles or hippopotami here.

"Maren!" he shouted, waiting for his brother to emerge from the plain just as Pembe had. But after a few minutes passed, Pembe had a sinking feeling.

"Maren!" he cried.

There was no answer. The only sound was the crackle of the flames that had devoured his only brother.

[TheUnsinkableShips]

Username: TheUnsinkableShips
Lion name: Cassiopeia
Lion gender: Male
Pride: Anthousai Vale
Pride status: Petal Leader
Regret:

I had a brother.

His name was Orion, like the constellations above, the mighty hunter, they said, and that he was.

We deviated that way, hunters each in our own right, I a hunter of the lost, and he, a hunter of the Pride.

Together, we blossomed, as winter turned to spring, and thus to summer, from cubs to buds to adults.

I fulfilled my dream, and I was there, and I had done it, I had been one of 2 selected to join the Sepal's, and then I was there!

From behind the curve I sped, full force ahead, speeding, and running, flying faster than a bird, and perhaps that should've been my warning, because all highs have a low, but I was soaring moving exponentially up and-

And then the downfall came.

My brother, my own blood, went missing.

It was my job.

It was my job to find him, but a blizzard came through, and the snow covered every scent we thought we had, visibility limited by the swirling rows of snow and cold and-

We never found him.

To this day, we have not found any trace of him, in bone, or hair, or mark.

I remember how my Mother cried. Short and choked, with a love lost to the bluster of snow.

I remember how I cried. Long and slow and agonizing.

I remember how I should've found him, how my job, my one job was to search and find, and I could find so many others but not the one that mattered most.

In the lonesome winter night, I stood alone on the frozen river and let the wind engrave the cold into my bones so I would never forget how I had failed the one that had done so much for me.
(300 Words)

[MySpoons]

Username: MySpoons
Lion name: Obecarus
Lion gender: Male
Pride: The New Guard
Pride status: Wandering Rogue
Regret:

Obecarus remembered the disabled rogue who helped him and his family escape the Kin-killer. The scarred black male who had raided Obecarus' old pride and slaughtered ever male in sight-- even the adolescents, like Obe was at the time.

Some quick thinking had Renia, his mother, Obe, and Azilika, his young sister, fleeing into the gorge behind the rogue's den-- and before they were fully out of earshot, they heard the sound of the rogue being thrown into the gorge. Renia didn't turn back. Obe followed out of blind fear.

But he went back that night, so late it was early morning, and found the rogue half-dead, battered all to hell from the fall. Renia couldn't say 'no' to helping him, not when they owed the rogue, Blue, a life-debt. But once he was healed enough, Renia insisted they leave.

Obecarus could not stop thinking about Blue.

Why did they have to leave the rogue? They found safety in the valley, away from Kin-killer and any whisper of his kind. It was just the three of them, alone. Blue would have been a welcomed addition. He could have watched Azilika and kept her safe so Renia and Obe could go hunting together instead of his mother stressing over leaving them alone or fretting over Obe's hunting trips.

It killed her in the end, the worrying. Her heart must have grown weak from constant fear. Renia died in her sleep one night and left her son and daughter alone in the world.

Perhaps there is still time to make this right. Obe is practically grown now. He wanders the valley, searching for Old Blue. Azilika is almost a year old now and her chances of surviving grow ever day. But she needs pride... a pride would be safer.


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[zoocyte]

Username: MySpoons
Lion name: Obecarus
Lion gender: Male
Pride: The New Guard
Pride status: Wandering Rogue
Regret:

Obecarus remembered the disabled rogue who helped him and his family escape the Kin-killer. The scarred black male who had raided Obecarus' old pride and slaughtered ever male in sight-- even the adolescents, like Obe was at the time.

Some quick thinking had Renia, his mother, Obe, and Azilika, his young sister, fleeing into the gorge behind the rogue's den-- and before they were fully out of earshot, they heard the sound of the rogue being thrown into the gorge. Renia didn't turn back. Obe followed out of blind fear.

But he went back that night, so late it was early morning, and found the rogue half-dead, battered all to hell from the fall. Renia couldn't say 'no' to helping him, not when they owed the rogue, Blue, a life-debt. But once he was healed enough, Renia insisted they leave.

Obecarus could not stop thinking about Blue.

Why did they have to leave the rogue? They found safety in the valley, away from Kin-killer and any whisper of his kind. It was just the three of them, alone. Blue would have been a welcomed addition. He could have watched Azilika and kept her safe so Renia and Obe could go hunting together instead of his mother stressing over leaving them alone or fretting over Obe's hunting trips.

It killed her in the end, the worrying. Her heart must have grown weak from constant fear. Renia died in her sleep one night and left her son and daughter alone in the world.

Perhaps there is still time to make this right. Obe is practically grown now. He wanders the valley, searching for Old Blue. Azilika is almost a year old now and her chances of surviving grow ever day. But she needs pride... a pride would be safer.


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congrats!

[MySpoons]

Aaaa thank you. Your lions are always *insert chef's kiss*