by ChaosDreamer » Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:04 pm
Oh this was a hard choice.... If we could only go for two at a time... lol
Name: Dras'bain (Know Wrong, In a strage language)
Pen: 3
What will you use it for: I've been looking for a good feline-type male character for some role-plays. And potential personal storyies Ive been toying with for a while. But I havent found a good character that has given me any idea's to use. Instead of writers block, its been character blocked. I also would like to use him for a base for some art idea's. I havent done much feline art, mainly horse, dragon, and canine, so having something like this, with the intricut design and simplistic, yet original body style will make for a great distraction.
Why do you want it: Actualy I was torn between this one and the female he is related too. If the female had a black streek running the legth of her spine I would have jumped on that and probably offered all the pets I own for it, as that has been a coat style I've always used. But this guys dark tones scream "I'm usefull!" to me. I've been stalking your characters for a long while now, and I almost went for one of the last batch, but desided against it at the last moment. I'm glad I didnt, this little stunner is even more my style. I like the deep dark red, and the lower dark tones. Besides the silver is a great contrast without being overly obvious, and with my story style and plots he will work best, than say a more brightly or strangly colored character would.
Personality: (be aware this would change with character development, but for now, as he stands I would peg him) Loyal to a fault, with moments of what appear to be deep brooding, when in reality he is simply more aware, and watchful than most, and can appear almost aloof in character. But he has a devious playful side, like a young kit, and can even be goaded to play with others in a lull of activity. He prefers to hunt alone, and rest alone, but has on occasion sought out the weaker or injured to comfort, seeming indifferent to his own comfort. He would make a good second in command, or healer. He is often asked to watch females as he doesnt show over interest in them, and they hold him in high respect, for his slow use of his claws and fangs, until truly nessesary, and his diplomatic words in a tissy. Dont mistake him for a weakling, or a coward, he is large, quick, and brutal with his battles. A skilled hunter and fighter, he has on occasion, entered into mock battles with the younger upstarts in his clan, and after only a few challanges, now more than ever if an opponate sees his name listed to go against Dras, he will withdraw. Dras'bain has a special offenity for young, some of the other males find strange, but he often seeks them out, to watch their play and sigh in wistful envy.
History:
Dras'bein was born alongside his siblings, a dark mire in an otherwise light silvery nest of mewling kittens. He was often pushed away from the lighter, prettyer kits by his sire, but his dam always allowed him back, this being her first litter she had yet to grasp his dark colors as being any other than odd. He was a strong mewling kit, finding his voice and sight soon. As he grew he lost the youngest of his littermates to a flash storm that savaged the wintery forest his dam and sire chose for their den area, when he was but a few weeks old, just old enough to amble about the cave with his siblings. He took the death the hardest, as his dam carried the still body from site. He sat and watched as his mothers crystals dissapeared into the dusk. His long tail curling around his paws as he tryed to figure out where she was taking his tiny sister. But the thought soon excaped him, as the young forget easy. When he was months older, he and his three siblings where gamboling about the outside of their den, springing around the snow like drunken rabbits. It was a fun sort of game, and required a slight amount of control, which his other siblings didnt quite have, and as proud as his tiny kitten self thought he did, he ended up snout first in drifts as much as they did.
It happend suddenly. A slight russle of wind, a snarle from his dam, a loud ear shattering bang, and a gutteral gasp. The smell of iron and copper clouded his cub nose and he snuffled, trying to see his mother in the deep banks that surrounded their den. He let out a mewl and more gutteral crys could be heard. Then sloshing through the snow came the most strange creature. It was tall, taller than he was by half, with long gangly arms, and only two feet. He didnt have time to growl before he was snatched, grappled and stuffed into a metal crate. It was a cramped and horrid feeling, even to one who lived in a cave. there was slight room, and he could hear his siblings crying to him and to their parents, who Dras did not think would come, for surly if they where to come, they would have been there.
The sounds of his siblings cut off, he heard the grate of metal on wood, and with one last plaintive cry, heard the last of his sisters cry for him faiding into the distance. But still he lay, stuffed and cramped. Hungery and thirsty. He slept when he could. Raged when he couldnt, until bruised and broken he lay in a tight ball in his dark prison. He could hear the two legged beasts outside, like a whispered dream he couldnt wake from.
But it would not last, finaly, when he could bear it no longer, and was considering slipping into the void, a sure freedom from this enfored darkness, his prison shell cracked in two, and lifted off the top. Leaning over peered the most eary violet eyes. They where not eyes of his kind, but they spoke volumes. He took deep lungfulls of the fresh air, grateful for that at least. He did not even notice the two leg had leaned away from him, he didnt care. Closing his once vibrant red eyes be breathed the air, taisting the differences from his piny snow laiden forest, to this sodden, mossy forest.
Suddenly a pair of pale white arms reached into the box, grasping him under his rear and arms, lifting him like he had never felt before. He tryed to mew, hiss, or snarle. He choked instead. Hacking his hackles raised as the creature pulled him to her chest. She spoke in a strange gutteral noise. Yet it was calming none the less. He knew what she was, Elvendurtha. His race had long ago held an alliance with them, back when they had been at war, and all of their kind was whispered stories of the Elvendurtha, but this was the first he had ever seen. He stilled his noises, as she held him against her chest, and a faint whisper met his ears, almost like a humming birds wings. It took him a moment, because she was still talking in her weired voice, but he placed the sound. It was her heart, and that, more than her whispered song magic, or her violet eyes, or the fact she held him with no appearent care his not yet strong claws where tearing her skin and strange pelt, that calmed him.
This was to be the start of a pair bonding, a friendship, and a story to last a lifetime.
Other: Oh gods, this is a freaking lame attempt... arg, lol. Well if I fail, Ill try again some other time... Thanks. (by the way, danno if these critters have any sort of other creatures living with them, but I hope we are allowed some creative freedom when playing them as characters)