username; TheEternalPlague
lion name; Falleg
lion gender; Male
pride; The รskilamunirpride status; Scout
prompt; โI just want the earth to swallow me up!โ
Falleg is a very prideful lion that focuses on his image way too much. He can be seen grooming his gorgeous main at least three times a day. If he notices even a speck of dirt on his silky coat, he will immediately stop what he is doing and try to get the dirt off. This has caused a little tension in the pride considering he is their scout and he is supposed to be patrolling around the outskirts of their territory to keep out unwanted visitors.
One day as Falleg was stalking the boundary of the territory he noticed something odd, as he went to investigate two large birds swooped down and started clawing at his coat and main.
(What Falleg and the pride didnโt know at the time was that the โconditionerโ that Falleg used to keep his coat silky and smooth, was made of berries that caused the Rikko birds to go crazy. Thus, why they attacked a full grown lion.)
Falleg swiped at the birds with his wicked claws, causing them to flee, and then booked it back to the hรกr rokk to tell the others what happened. Little did he know that the birds did more cosmetic damage than he thought. As he entered the clearing where the pride slept, he was met with lions bursting out laughing whenever they looked at him. He couldnโt figure out why, so he ignored them and made his way to the leader to let him know what had happened. When he got there, the leader looked at him with a straight face and asked,
โI see you took up my suggestion to get a haircut. Itโs a little choppy, but we can make do.โ
Thatโs when Falleg noticed what had happened. He was so embarrassed by the fact that his pride had seen him with his coat in disarray that he hid in his den for the rest of the day, and he didnโt come out until some of the lions from the pride came in and told him that they didnโt mean to make him feel embarrassed. They just laughed because it was unusual to see him like that. He still didnโt go out of his den much, beside to eat and drink, until his coat had regrown enough that he could hide the bald patches.
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500 max - Jan 1