[❌ DYNAMIGHT ❌]

You are amazing Qualeo! I've been sick the
past week so this extension should really
help c:
<3

[Taybri]

I forgot to include this picture in my form, so my art count is a bit off.

[❌ DYNAMIGHT ❌]

Hey Qualeo, I hate to ask
but is there any way I can
get another small extension?
Some things came up this week
so I haven't been able to work
on my form at all /:
<3

[Qualeo]

Closed for judging.

Sorry Kismesis , I aleady extended it once. I won't be doing it again ^^;

[Qualeo]

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" The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. " ― C. Joybell C.

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- -υѕєяηαмє ;; tangle. (formerly november.)
- -кιт ηαмє ;; Hestia Pyridae
- -ηιcкηαмєѕ ;; Lady Queen, Lady Pyridae, Queen Hestia
- -яєαѕση ;;
- -- - - - -I chose this name because I felt Hestia's pelt looked not only like
- - fireflies in the night, but also like stars. 'Hestia' means 'star' in Persian. Hestia
- - is also the Greek goddess of hearth and fireside. Since goddesses were some
- - of the only women in Greek times with any power, I felt this was fitting. As for
- - her last name, since she's a Queen, I knew it had to be important and unique
- - sounding. Family names are very important in a kingdom. Lampyridae is the
- - scientific name for fireflies, so I played around and ended up with Pyridae
- - (Py as in pie, ri as in riddle, dae as in day). I believe it sounds proud and worthy
- - of respect. So Hestia's surname was born.
- -ρσѕιтιση ;; 11th Queen of Dae Kastia



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ѕтяσηg ;; σριηισηαтє∂ ;; αяgυмєηтαтινє ;; σвѕєяναтινє ;; cσмραѕѕισηαтє ;; ιηтєℓℓιgєηт

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- - - - -ℓιкєѕ
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- -♛ Books
- -♛ Fireflies
- -♛ Forests
- -♛ Hidden Passageways
- -♛ Warm Baths
- -♛ Heights
- -♛ Rainy Days
- -♛ Rivers
- -♛ Starry Nights
- -♛ Painting
- -♛ Adventure
- -♛ Being listened to
- -♛ Dreams

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- - - -ѕтяєηgтнѕ
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- -♕ Reading
- -♕ Painting
- -♕ Memorization
- -♕ Strategy
- -♕ Climbing Trees
- -♕ Thinking Critically
- -♕ Public Speaking
- -♕ Observative
- -♕ Strong in character

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- - - - -ωιѕнєѕ
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- -♛ Parents were alive
- -♛ Treated like an adult
- -♛ More books
- -♛ Nice advisors
- -♛ Crush would like her
- -♛ Read forever
- -♛ No visitors
- -♛ Some freedom
- -♛ Had some friends
- -♛ No more paper signing

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- - -єχρєcтαтισηѕ
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- -♕ Needs help taking
- - - care of kingdom
- -♕ Beautiful
- -♕ Kind to everyone
- -♕ Poised and proper
- -♕ Graceful
- -♕ Polite
- -♕ Naive
- -♕ Damsel in distress

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- - - - ∂ιѕℓιкєѕ
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- -♛ Abnormally hot days
- -♛ Meetings
- -♛ My Advisors
- -♛ Being treated like
- - - a child
- -♛ Day time
- -♛ Being told what to do
- -♛ Nightmares
- -♛ Archery
- -♛ Bats
- -♛ Visitors
- -♛ Being ignored
- -♛ Being done up

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- - - ωєαкηєѕѕєѕ
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- -♕ Physical strength
- -♕ Archery
- -♕ Kind People
- -♕ Aleck (embarrassingly)
- -♕ Hospitality
- -♕ Staying silent
- -♕ Holding my temper
- -♕ Being friendly
- -♕ Patience

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- - - - -ƒєαяѕ
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- -♛ Dying
- -♛ Kingdom attacks
- -♛ Orb Stealers
- -♛ Death on her hands
- -♛ The Dark
- -♛ Nightmares
- -♛ Being alone
- -♛ Small Spaces
- -♛ Being thought of as a
- - - tyrant

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- - - - -яєαℓιту
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- -♕ Takes good care
- - - of kingdom
- -♕ Only kind to some
- -♕ Stubbornly herself
- -♕ Ungraceful
- -♕ Only polite to friends
- -♕ Intelligent
- -♕ Capable of taking
- - - care of herself

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Why, hello. I'm Hestia Pyridae, but you already know that, don't you? I don't much like the introduction process anyway. I'm here to take you beyond my queenly demeanour.

Well, since I was eight years old, I've been alone. My parents were killed by thieves who stole orbs. They died trying to protect me. Sure, I have my advisors and servants, but there are few kits who as powerful as I am. Power is lonely and ruling a kingdom is the most difficult tasks to place on the shoulders of a child. I had power thrust onto me before I even knew what power meant. My early life was hard. If I wasn't as strong as I am, I'd have collapsed in on myself, refused to leave my bedroom and let one of my annoyingly arrogant advisors to take over for me. Instead, I fought passed that stage to reach where I am now. I may not be easily upset or hurt, but that doesn't mean I can't be. There have been times when I just wanted to hide in the dungeon maze and disappear entirely.

For many years, reading was my coping mechanism. Books brought me into different worlds, taught me different things. Whenever I wasn't being beautified by the maids or asked to sign hundreds of papers by my advisors, I would be in the library, reading. Its not like I enjoy every book, they just distract me from my responsibilities.

Around my advisors, noblemen, and visitors, I can seem quite haughty and aloof. I've never liked my advisors, and I make sure they know that The noblemen aren't much better. They always treat me like a naive child, even though I'm already an adult. On the other hand, I love Millicent, my personal maid, and she treats me like I'm her daughter. The rest of the servants aren't bad either. I say my "please"s and "thank you"s to them whenever I can, which is far nicer than how they're treated by most visiting noblemen and my advisors. I'm not just temperamental and snappy though, I'm very compassionate and make sure that my servants aren't entirely suffering. They may not know it, but I'm constantly fearing for their well being. I'm especially compassionate towards my kingdom. I work hard sure that they're safe and as happy as can be, but since I'm locked away in a castle, it's hard for me to figure out what they need. It's frustrating, and probably where my bad mood comes from. I try to help whenever I can, but I wonder what my kingdom thinks of me. Am I a courageous young Queen, or a tyrant? I hope it's not the latter.

My kingdom is my responsibility, and I like to imagine myself as responsible enough to take good care of it.

I also try to be as adventerous as I can inside the claustrophobic castle walls. I can't stand remaining stationary for too long. Although I hate the darkness, the secret passageways around the castle have become one of my favorite places (besides the library) and whenever I just want some peace and quiet, I'll often head out to the castle's private forest. I love exploring the recesses of the dungeon maze and the forest is just so peaceful. When I'm in either place, I feel as if I don't have the weight of an entire kingdom on my shoulders. I don't have to care what people think of me or what I can do to make other's lives better.

One of my least favorite things about being a Queen are the meetings. I have to talk to some of the other most powerful adults in my kingdom as well as compromise with adults from others. It's very frustrating to be surrounded by a bunch of men and women who look at you as if you're an incapable child. I sometimes feel like I'm completely ignored. It's not as if I'm entirely clueless about the topics we discuss, in fact, I make sure I know them inside and out before the meetings. I'm not an idiot. Yet, no matter what, I'll always only be the "little kid" who doesn't know what she's doing to the rest of the nobles in the meetings. This annoys me like nothing else can, but I don't go into a tantrum about it. Instead, I'll show my anger through my speaking. I can be blunt and whatever I'm thinking normally comes out, whether other people like it or not. I'll argue whatever they say that I disagree with, and debating has become a skill of mine. I have won many arguments in the meeting room, which pleases me and annoys everyone else. It's far more satisfactory than complaining about their ignorance straight out. I've heard some of the nobles calling me selfish and argumentative. I completely disagree with the first statement, but grudgingly accept the second. It's not the worst trait to have. Argumentative means "characterized by systematic reasoning." I don't find it very insulting.

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- -νσιcє ;; Hestia's voice is strong and can easily fill a room. It's between alto and soprano and holds the feeling of authority, but that doesn't stop other royalty and her advisors from treating her like a helpless child.
- -мσνємєηтѕ ;; Hestia moves with trained grace, but over the years it has become natural. She sits up tall and never slouches, another trained action, but one that has become habitual.
- -вυιℓ∂ ;; Hestia isn't strong and doesn't have much endurance. She's built move for speed and is thin with powerful hind legs and is capable of long-term flight. Not visibly muscular.
- -ѕιzє ;; Hestia is smaller in structure than the average milky way kit. Although she's not noticeably short and does stand taller than the shorter parts of the population, she is forced to look up at most other kits. Because of this, she has learned the ways of looking down on others without literally looking down upon them. This could be due to her ability to fly.
- -нαη∂ωяιтιηg ;; Hestia's handwriting is unique from years of knowing how to write. Her capital letters are about the same size as her lower cases and for time's sake, some of her letters are in cursive. Some of her letters are loopy and others angular. ѕнє ωяιтєѕ ℓιкє тнιѕ.
- -∂єχтєяιту ;; Hestia is quite agile and quick. She can maneauver her body through tight spaces with graceful ease, but she lacks a bit in speed.
- -ιηтєℓℓιgєηcє ;; Both Hestia and her father, Rowan, were particularly adept at problem solving and comprehension.
- -cнαяιѕмα ;; Hestia doesn't bring out the best reactions in those around her and doesn't make friends easily, however, she could be quite charismatic if she tried.
- -ωιѕ∂σм ;; Hestia has an average amount of common sense. Like most others, she can be very unwise in her decision making as her decisions are often affected by outside matters, like her pride.
- -ωιℓℓρσωєя ;; Hestia is a stubborn character and has been able to withstand years of Queenly responsibilities pressing down on her shoulders. She's also stubbornly fights what she disagrees with no matter how long she must wait.
- -ρєяcєρтιση ;; Hestia is very observative and adept at reading other's emotions. In some cases, once she feels a person is one way, she will never look at them differently. If she saw someone as evil, she'll only see the negative things they do from that point on, no matter the positive.

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- -кιт ηαмє ;; Alexander Black
- -ηιcкηαмєѕ ;; Aleck, Prince Black
- -ѕтσяу ;;
- -- - - - -Aleck arrived at the palace with older brother, Nickolai. His brother
- - is the king of Storming, a kingdom to the north of Hestia's kingdom, Dae Kastia.
- - He is similar to Hestia's age and enjoys reading and adventuring the outskirts
- - of each castle he goes to. He often annoys other Kings and Queens since he
- - feels the need to explore ever room in a castle, sometimes walking into private
- - scientific name for fireflies, so I played around and ended up with Pyridae
- - bathrooms during his searches. Aleck's parents died when he was young, just
- - as Hestia's did. After his first week in the castle, Hestia begins to crush on
- - him, something she has never done before, but Aleck can only stay a month
- -ρσѕιтιση ;; Prince of Storming, second in line to throne



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нιѕтσяу σƒ αη αgє σℓ∂ кιηg∂σм

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♛ нєѕтια'ѕ ρσν (in anthro)

- - - -I'm walking through a dark room that hasn't seen light for ten years. I've always known it existed, yet today is the first day I've reached it on my own. Different from all others in the castle, this hallway is closed off. It leads to no doors. Only through two secret passages can it be entered, one on the ceiling, and one behind the intricate wood carvings that line the walls. I entered through the latter today. I discovered the passageway's entrance inside a hollow tree in the private forest. It led me up dozens of hidden staircases, so I guessed the room was high up in the castle, but I wasn't sure how high.
- - - -As soon as I stepped inside, I knew this was the Sanctuary.
- - - -I'd only been in this room once before, the night of my parents' deaths ten years ago. I was told it was the safest room in the building, but that's not all it is. It also held the Pyridae family tree.
- - - -My orb and tail lit it up the shadows as if I were a walking lantern. The room's walls were carved out of a mixture of many different tree woods. Much of it was made from dark ebony, but each of the portraits of my ancestors was carved in mixtures of aspen wood, mahogany wood, and oak wood. Some of the more recent ones had been painted. I could trace the pathway of kingly power from generation to generation by following the portraits ringed in shimmering gold. There were easily hundreds and hundreds of portraits on the walls around me. Maybe even thousands, the room was vast.
- - - -I wasn't sure how long I was in there, but, for once, I didn't fear the darkness around me. I felt as if I were surrounded by a protective force, created by the spirits of all those I'm related to.
- - - -Then, I found my parents' portraits.
- - - -They were in the corner near where I entered, which is why I hadn't noticed them until now. Kaede and Rowan Pyridae. Their portraits were painted with love, Kaede's grey and yellow swirling patterns and her bright blue eyes couldn't have been painted better by a god. I could say the same to Rowan's black, red splattered pelt and his crystal grey eyes. Just underneath them was me, my border, formerly the color of ebony, was now circled with gold, just as my father's is. My dark grey and yellow pelt looks far better than in does in real life. I frown at the young features of my face. I wonder if I can ask one of the servants to redo it. I refuse to go down in history as the eight-year-old ruler of Dae Kastia.
- - - -My eyes flick up to Kaede and Rowan again, and I can see the events that led to their death as clear as day.



♛ тнιя∂ ρєяѕση ρσν (in anthro)
- - - -The kingdom was celebrating the birth of the King and Queen's newly born daughter when the news came. Millicent, one of the most hardworking servants, entered Kaede and Rowan's chambers only a week into young Hestia's life, carrying a small note.
- - - -"Your Majesty, this just came in from Dae Mekka," Millicent said, her wisteria purple fur sticking up around her neck. She'd been required to read any note before the king and queen to make sure it wasn't filled with poisonous powder or something worse. She had already heard the news.
- - - -Lady Kaede studied Millicent, clutching her baby as she studied every line on the servant's face. Rowan wasn't so observative. "Hand it over, Millie." He didn't wait for the servant and instead grabbed the note out of her hand, ripping it open. The note was in code, but Rowan had long since mastered it and could translate it with unnatural speed.
- - - -"'Dearest King Rowan. This is King Sommer's chief advisor. I'm sad to say that Dae Mekka can no longer be trade partners with Dae Kastia... because Dae Mekka no longer exists,'" Rowan read, frowning and staring at the note. "Am I reading this with the right code or is this some sort of cruel joke?"
- - - -Kaede frowned at Millicent, who had still not left the room. She was originally from Dae Mekka. "Rowan, could you stop complaining and continue reading?" she said, her voice soft as silk.
- - - -Rowan looked back down at the writing. "You and my king have long been worried about the sudden growth in our neighbor kingdom, Storming's army. King Sommer claimed it was for protection, but it seems he was wrong. Today, at three am, King Sommer and Lady Mirtha were murdered."
- - - -Kaede and Millicent took in a gasp, even though Millicent had already read the note several times herself.
- - - -King Rowan read stubbornly on. "Out royal line is over and chaos has arisen. We were able to capture a single member of the murder squad, and, although he is dead, we have discovered he is indeed from Storming. Only an hour ago, the Storming soldiers enterred the kingdom and renamed Dae Mekka. We are now under the control of Storming. Storming is declaring war on all other kingdoms. I'm writing and sending this note illegally and am probably dead by the time you are reading this. Thank you."
- - - -Rowan stared at the parchment, frowning. "I repeat, this is probably someone's terribly messed up idea of a joke," he muttered, but no longer sounded so sure. He read through the note several more times before slamming it down onto the table. "Millie, tell the nobles to meet me in the war room as soon as possible."


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- - - -Just as Storming's army had grown, Dae Kastia's did to. The next year was incredibly busy. King Rowan was constantly training the army for war and forming ties with nearby kingdoms, while Kaede, already busy with baby Hestia, supervised the fortifying of Dae Kastia' castle. Normally a castle was small to keep heat in during the winter, but since their castle had been built around a hot spring, Lady Kaede had planned out an intricate design of tunnels and passages that brought this heat all throughout the castle, as well as dozens of secret passageways for sudden escapes. Although the army could be well trained in a year, these castle upgrades Kaede estimated to take a decade, which they didn't have.
- - - -Eighteen months into Hestia's life, the orb stealing gangs formed. No one really knows who they worked for, but many were made of criminals from Storming, Dae Mekka, and Destin (another kingdom Storming had recently taken over). They were given a second chance at life if they returned to their home kingdoms with at least five stolen orbs. Within a few months of chaos in the streets, King Rowan realised his army was beginning to dwindle from the amount of kits with broken or stolen orbs.
- - - -Hestia is three years old when Dae Kastia declares war on Storming.
- - - -The war lasted five years and was known as the War of the Deadlings. Many of the kits who had stolen orbs had gone mad from the power the many orbs had given them and became known as Deadlings since they were basically zombies that feasted on others orbs instead of brains. Four years into the bloody war, Dae Kastia was near falling. Rowan played a cruel but vital trick that would go down in history. He captured hundreds of Deadlings and released them on Storming land. It was slaughter. Hundreds in Storming's troops died and too much blood was shed, but it evened out the playing field. Storming surrendered a year later.
- - - -Rowan was near broken inside. He knew he'd been the cause of so many innocent kits' deaths. Only Lady Kaede and seven year old Hestia kept him from falling into madness like the Deadlings. His last act as king was to rename Storming. It became Dae Santra, which meant Light's Triumph. The former king was placed in prison and his brother, who had been far kinder to Dae Kastia, became king. Rowan retired later that year, forcing Lady Kaede to become the ruler of the kingdom until Hestia was old enough. After nearly eight years of war, there was peace.
- - - -Only several months later, a group of Orb Stealers infiltrated the castle using the nearly complete passageways. Kaede and Rowan were trapped in the Sanctuary with eight year old Hestia. They died later that evening, Rowan from a sword through the chest and Kaede from blood loss. Young Hestia Pyridae was the only survivor.

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тнє qυєєη'ѕ тαℓє

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There is a lot of writing. I wanted to put in a simple story about how Hestia and Aleck met, but my
overactive imagination transformed it into a sort of mystery story in which Hestia discovers who killed
her parents as well as realising she still had some living family. I apologise for its incredible length. If you
wish not to read through it all, you only have to read through the first couple sections. That should be
enough to get a good feel of who she is, how she spends her days, and how she reacts to others.

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- - - -αят cσυηт
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- -♛ Hestia's Portrait
- -♛ Aleck's Portrait
- -♛ Jar of Fireflies
- -♛ Escape
- -♛ Kingdom from Above

all my art is for the winner

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α вιт αвσυт тнє αυтнσя
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- - - -First off, I'd like to thank you, Qualeo, for doing such a beautiful job on this kit! She's better than anything
- - - -anyone could have hoped for as your staff kit! Well, I'm Tangle, but you can call me anything. I joined this
- - - -site years ago. I started digital drawing six months back and I work with a trackpad. I've been watching
- - - -Milky Way Kits for a while now, but have waited up until this point to try out for any. When I saw Hestia, I
- - - -knew I had to try. Many of my ideas were inspired by the Graceling series by Kristin Cashore, especially
- - - -its third book, Bitterblue, which is about a young Queen who has to cleanse her kingdom after her father's
- - - -violent reign. I created a fictional love interest for Hestia because I wished to use him in the story.

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Congratulation s - she's all yours! <3

[Taybri]

SQUEEEE!
Thank you so so so so much! She's absolutely beautiful<3 and I'm so happy right now! She was certainly one of my dream MWK! I can't believe I'm her owner!
Thank you Qualeo for such a magnificent staff pet!
EEEEEEEEE!

Quick question though:
I'm hoping to fax that un-coppa letter soon (been lazy), and I was looking into roleplaying. How do you think I'd roleplay her? Just a regular MWK or still a Queen?