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Cub 1: Maned, small mutation
Adult: finished

Cub 2: no mane
Adult: finished

Cub 3: no mane, small mutation
Adult: finished

Parent 1: Borealis

Parent 2: Nexus

These cubs can grow September 7th.

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[Spotted.Newt]

Keeping Cub 1, other two will be contests

Username: Spotted.Newt
Lion name: tbd
Lion gender: male
Pride: The Cosmos
Pride status: Jedi Knight

[Spotted.Newt]

Contest Prompts

You may chose to do an IC prompt or an OOC prompt. You can enter for each cub, but you must do a prompt for each (you may do them both as IC, OOC, or one of each). Max 500 words. Ends 8/24 23:59 pm, though I may extend this if needed.

In Character:

Nexus and Borealis, the parents, are Time Walkers. They are able to travel through time and space, to any galaxy and any time. Their children have this ability as well. Some cubs decided to stay alongside their parents, residing in the same home pride, but other cubs decided to build their lives elsewhere in the universe.

Why did this lion decide to leave home? Do they use their powers to travel the universe, or have they decided to settle down entirely and live a normal life?

Out of Character:

Who is this lion? Tell me about them- their personality, dreams and aspirations, role within their pride, etc.

[AwkwardAnxiety]

Username: AwkwardAnxiety
Lion name: Meridiem
Lion gender: Female
Pride: PoIR
Pride Status: Cub

Prompt: IC

Meridiem always wanted to be noticed, to stand out. Among her birth family, she was simply normal. To others, she was overshadowed by her parents and older siblings. Everything she did, everything she could do, had been done before. So, she left.

She traveled through space and time and discovered that she could merge the two paths, traveling to places where Jedi had never existed. The Force was absent, yet still present, like this world’s version of it was altered to fit not Jedi but something else.

She was struck with immense curiosity at this discovery. What creatures lived here? Who here harnessed the not-quite-Force and what could they do? And most importantly, would she be able to stand out here?

She traveled around this world, which she found was called “Earth” by those who lived on it. She learned about this world from those who saw her as just a weak, wandering cub, using them for knowledge and food and leaving when they had taught her all they could. She wasn’t heartless though, she left gifts at their doors as she left. Gifts that this world wouldn’t know or understand.

Eventually, she found herself in a huge indent in the Earth. It had walls so high, it was extremely difficult to enter, and nearly impossible to leave. Here, the not-Force was stronger than anywhere else on this globe. It responded to her Traveling but she wasn’t able to truly harness it, which frustrated her sometimes and intrigued her others.

She met other lions there, in the place known as Valley of Kings. And many she met drove her off when they found out about her ability, fearful of the unknown and raging that she’d hidden it from them.

She hadn’t hidden it intentionally the first few times but she learned that it was necessary to be accepted. Every pride she joined wore her down until she had to leave, desperate to stop hiding and stifling herself.

Then she met Apricus. He was a Traveller like her, although he could not move through time. He told her of a place that was just beginning to accept abilities like theirs, a place where she wouldn’t have to hide, where she’d stand out. So she went with him, and there she stayed. [380]

[AwkwardAnxiety]

Username: AwkwardAnxiety
Lion name: Blatta
Lion gender: Female
Pride: PoIR
Pride Status: Cub

Prompt: IC

[minifun990]

Cub 2
Username:minifun990
Lion name: Alohi
Lion gender: Female
Pride: Mystic Isles
Pride Status: Explorer

Alohi was in love with Travelling. Every time with her family had been exciting, dusty planets and the birth of civilisations, deep meaningful moments in time, teaching Alohi the danger of her powers, the harm they could cause but also the good.

It was nice enough. Definitely nothing to scoff at, yet strangely boring. It was like reading a book because your teachers said so, picking apart symbolism and reducing an interesting tale to words showing the flaws in our society.

It was nice, Travelling with her parents and siblings. But just nice.

It was nothing compared to the realization that by herself Alohi could go anywhere, anytime. Be anyone and see anything. She spent hours buzzing with excitement, unable to choose where to even start. Frozen lakes with golden trees emerging from the depths? Civilisations who only communicate mentally? The town where everything was spiky or slimy?

But those were places she had been before, Alohi wanted new experiences. But that was the problem. How was she supposed to adventure to unknown places without knowing where or when to go?

She got told to be patient, and that in time she would figure it out. Time was something she had in excess, after all.

She was patient for all of two days before she couldn’t stand it any longer. She needed to get out of here. Adventure at her own pace. She was sick of being dragged to places to learn things and dragged away from places she found interesting. She wanted more control.

Unfortunately, study seemed the only option. She picked up the first book she found, hardly taking notice of the cover. But as she did so a piece of parchment fell out. Not again. She could hardly remember the amount of times she had gotten in trouble now for ruining these ancient books and -

It was a note. In her own handwriting.

“Trust the force, it will take you where you need to be.” Alohi’s face split into a grin. Of course! She didn’t need to control it and think of where she wanted to go. If she was alone, if she was free, she could go anywhere the force led!

She started running, eager to say goodbye and start on her adventures. She would miss her family, but she could probably come back at some stage. She stopped and laughed to herself. She could just Travel to where they were now.

And so she did, tears of farewell and good lucks and all those things. All Alohi could hear was rushing in her ears, the surrounding energy excited and ready.

The first place she went wasn’t quite what she expected. It was the library, a pen and parchment in front of her and the sense she was days in the past. She grinned anyway, scrawling a message quickly, then putting it back in the book.

It was bound to cause a few paradoxes, but isn’t that the fun of adventure?
(494 words, 500 including title)

Cub 3
Username:minifun990
Lion name: Bahira
Lion gender: Female
Pride: Mystic Isles
Pride Status: Guard
Bahira enjoyed Travelling. It was fun, it taught her a lot about the universe. She was close with her family, always trying to make them proud. But she also had more love for history than fighting or exploring planets.

It was incredible, Travelling there and watching historical figures as they truly were, no misconceptions or lies to cloud reality. Just individuals doing things for reasons that often seemed so difficult to understand, yet more understandable in the moment.

She often recorded these trips, stating with as much neutrality as she could, seeking to record everything perfectly so history books could be fixed up and rewritten.

She was especially excited for the next time period. A huge turning point in both lion and space history. She was so intent on watching the negotiations, she didn't notice the figure approaching until it was too late.

She yelped as she was marched into the discussion room. No, no, no! She wasn't supposed to be seen, nor leave any traces of herself. It could alter history!

It was the first rule of time travel. No meddling. No accidental things left behind. See but dont be seen. Bahira struggled more, managing to rip herself from their grip, running to a corner where she quickly Travelled home, calling it a day.

But the book was different from the last time. Paragraphs that hadn't been there, others things edited. She looked and gasped, bookcases where they hadn't been, architecture modified. The butterfly effect at its finest. Bahira had to fix it.

Her next attempt had her distract the guard, saving past her but revealing an assassin who was supposed to succeed. The next attempt, she got caught with her past self, the next, she teleported in plain sight. Tears of frustration started burning her eyes, but travelling to the future just showed her the dire consequences of her mistakes. Everything changing, changed. She tried again, again, again.

She wasn't sure what attempt it was that resulted in the jedi library not existing, nor the one that meant wherever she looked she couldn't find her family. She had messed up abysmally. She couldn't give up, maybe this time slightly earli-

“Stop.” A solemn voice spoke. It was at that moment Bahira noticed she was shaking, limbs weak and eyesight blurry with tears, she was so exhausted. So much Travelling had taken all the energy she had. She couldn't just give up though. She couldn't return knowing the things she’d done. The large black lion just smiled softly at her, resting a paw on her forehead, she could already feel herself Traveling under his control.

“Ill fix this young one. Rest.”

“I can’t go back.” She sobbed. “They’ll never forgive me.”

It wasn't home the black and gold lion sent her. Some odd pride, unaware of her meddling in the timeline. She couldn't face her family, unsure if the black lion had succeeded and knowing it was all her fault.

(493 words, 499 including title)

[Nia The Elf]

Cub 2
Username: Nia The Elf
Lion Name: Gwenivere
Link to Pride: Red Eagle
Pride Status: Hunter
Prompt: (I haven't actually got a romantic interest of her in mind so this is an anonymous lion I describe)

Gwenivere was considered by her family, a Hopeless Romantic. She had heard stories of love and romance, the Princess gets saved by the knight, the Dragon gets saved by the Princess, the forbidden lovers meet out under the stars in secret. It rung deep within her, a story she could only dream of having herself.

In the privacy of her room, she would recite romantic poetry and stories to herself as she lay on her back in a dreamy state. Sometimes she would hold one sided conversations with herself, "Oh Gwenivere, I have awaited all day to hold you again. My duties keep me away, but I always come back as fast as possible to you," she lowered her voice as much as she could in imitation of this anonymous dream husband,
"Oh how I wait all day for you to return to me, my love!" she sighed in content, "I am glad we have these little moments to ourselves."

Needless to say, it was quite embarrassing and frustrating when her family walked in unannounced and interrupted her roleplay or jeered at her for such childish behaviour.

So, as soon as she could, Gwenivere decided she would leave her home behind and go searching. She would find her true love, no matter where they were in time and space. There wasn't much of a goodbye, being too excited to leave, so she began Time Walking - though more like time running - and searched for her soulmate.

Her first stop was a planet of just pure rock. There was no flora anywhere and it was quite dark and cold. It definitely wasn't the most romantic of locations, but if her soulmate was here then she wouldn't complain...

Well, it was decided that true love wasn't available here, she had decided as a clan of odd and aggressive rock creatures chased her through deep crags.

She tried the next couple of planets to no avail. It seemed romance brewed very rarely in these places she had the misfortune to find.

Her spirit had cracked a little. Gwenivere felt tired and hopeless; her soulmate was nowhere to be found, it was the thing she wanted most in the world and yet she could not have it.
With hesitation, she headed to another world, focusing on a beautiful oasis - she found herself in desert plains. It was warm, but not too hot, and the landscape around was very varied. It would probably have made a nice place to live, what with the different climates within travelling distance to explore.

Heavy paws kept trudging through the dry grass and red sands, until she reached a large rift in the ground - and a beautiful sight to her vision.

A lion, silky fur, smiling and laughing with the a few others around them; they looked joyful and a great person to be around, and Gwenivere couldn't help the attraction she felt deep in her stomach.
Their eyes met, locked; they smiled softly in slight confusion. She smiled back.
500 words

Cub 3
Username: Nia The Elf
Lion Name: Belacane
Link to Pride: Red Eagle
Pride Status: Templar
Prompt:

Being born with the gift to travel wherever one would like, is something to be treasured and appreciated. It was an abnormality that you would want to make the most of, which is why Belacane had decided to leave home. Though, truth be told, she was quite worried to leave.

Although she had inherited these abilities from her parents, she had never used them before and worried of getting lost in some scary world that she couldn't escape from, or going too far and forgetting where her original home was.

She choked down the doubt, smiling at her mother and father reassuringly before taking off. She had no real idea what to expect; having never Time Walked before, she was in awe when she ran. Swiftly, airily with no weight to her, Belacane ran through an endless tunnel; interwoven threads twisting and creating the appearance of a galaxy on all sides, the stars on her pelt shimmering as she travelled. Through the walls of this tunnel she saw different realms, worlds and times of all possibilities.

Though not entirely sure where she wanted to go, some things did start to stand out to her. It was some sort of abnormality, a complete lack of anything and these anomalies seemed to be spread across a select part of time.

Belacane definitely wasn't aiming originally to explore anything unusual such as that, but it drew her interest, and she had all the time in the universe to go wherever she wanted.
So, she broke off from the stretching path ahead and turned to practically throw herself at the wall of the time tunnel.

Warping around her, the galaxy look of her Time Walking changed to an orange landscape, relatively flat; sand and dry grass. She landed, the stars on her pelt dimming. Her eyes were immediately drawn to the anomaly she had noticed before, it was shimmering and twisting, it looked almost like how you would imagine a portal, but instead the void was filled with shards of some crystalline substance.

Behind the portal, a patrol of lions stood in a defensive position. Ah.
She introduced herself quickly to dissipate the tension, explaining "I have an ability to travel through time and space, I noticed an abnormality in time and decided to come take a look, I mean no harm."

They seemed sceptical, that was a definite. She was guided back to their home to meet the founder of their pride, though she wasn't too worried. Though concerned, they seemed to be a friendly group.

"You say you are able to travel to different galaxies?" The striped lion asked her, "I... have never heard of this before, but I am intrigued. Please feel free to stay here a while before you leave. Though if you can help with these anomalies that have been appearing, we would be very grateful."

Belacane definitely could help, her abilities would be useful to them. She supposed she could stay for now at least.
497 words

[Chanceuxcat]

Cub 2
Username: Chanceuxcat
Lion name: Kyber
Lion gender: Female
Pride: Veren's Pride
Pride Status: Time Walker/Jedi Apprentice (not exactly going to be a Jedi, but will be trained almost like one)

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Kyber looks back.

They told her not too, that it would be easier if she just kept her eyes ahead. She understands why now, gazing at the home she's leaving, the only world she has known. She could've stayed. But no, Kyber couldn't do that. She didn't understand why then, only knew she must.

She had sat in her ship that morning, expertly maneuvering the controls. Although she couldn't learn much at her home, the ships were one exception. It was as if her parents knew even before she did that this day would come. Knew she would leave them. Of course, she didn't need a ship to travel, but she knew it would be the best home on her travels. Heart wrenching and tears pricking her cheeks, Kyber pulled the ship into the sky and quickly left the planet's atmosphere. Her sadness and apprehension melted away like it always does in the stars. She takes that quick look, turning her ship around to face the galaxy.

It was a bad idea. But she's glad she did it. She'd never forget it. The galaxy, a swirling storm of color and light in the ebony black of space, looks more beautiful than she remembered. Taking a shaking breath, she types in the coordinates her parents had given her and goes into lightspeed. She's gone in seconds.

-

The coordinates led to The Middle, a tiny planet acting as a rest stop for weary travelers. As it's name suggests, it literally is the middle, a center-point with galaxies in all directions. Kyber decides to stop and rest. She was tired, but when Kyber enters York, the original "City That Never Sleeps", she's instantly awake. There's no sun near The Middle to light up the skies, but York's the brightest place Kyber's ever seen. Creatures Kyber could never imagine walk the streets, some shop vendors trying to sell authentic "Jedi" weapons (whatever Jedi are), others selling blue milk for double and triple it's normal price, and children chase each other with sticks pretending to be those "Jedi".

A shadowy figure suddenly catches her eye, a odd darkness in this world of light. No one else seems to notice it but her. Kyber decides to follow it. She doesn't know why. A hunch? A feeling?

She promptly reaches the end of an alley. What!? This can't be the end. This isn't the end. She feels that same tug that pulled her to the figure. A warm and... familiar sensation. She grits her teeth and space jumps through the wall.

The feeling was right. A lion, as black as space itself, sits in front of her.

"The force is strong with this one," he says, a smile splitting his dark, hooded face. Kyber feels eerily calm, but how? She has so many questions. And had she heard those words before? Whatever it is, Kyber knows that this was why she had to leave. And she's strangely excited to discover what this lion means.

[500 words]

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Cub 3
Username: Chanceuxcat
Lion name:
Lion gender:
Pride: Veren's Pride
Pride Status: Time Walker

wip wip

[Spotted.Newt]

After much thought, I have decided to award Cub 2 to chancexucat and Cub 3 to minfun990. It was definitely hard to chose, these stories were all wonderful and if this was a regular adopt I would be awarding RUs. Nice job everyone, and to the winners, enjoy your space kiddos! <3

[Chanceuxcat]

OH MY GOSH AHHHHHHHH!!!!! THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!!! I will take super good care of Kyber!!!! Thank you!!!

And everyone's entries were so amazing!!! Congrats Mini on winning the other cubbo!!!!