♥ErinRose♥ wrote:I am applying for the Couran Cove Contest
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Name of Teuthida you are applying for: Amaryllis
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Other/Notes etc.: Amaryllis is very smart, loves to read, and is a Princess. Her family calls her Amy or Rilla for short. I also did a bio for Amaryllis.
Amaryllis is a sweet and kind young Teuthida. She is wise for her age, and always eager to lend a helping hand. She makes friends very easily, and is very curious about the world around her, even the human world, but she isn't quite so adventurous as to go and seek out a human. She'd rather read about it.
Story: It might be a little over the limit, but I'm not sure. Idk, am I the only one that has applied for Amaryllis?
Amaryllis loved reading. It was her one true passion. Adelardo was a leader, and he was good at it. He’d be a wonderful Emperor someday. Aleyda was a debator, she was a wonderful negotiator and good at winning arguments and getting what she wanted. Cadmus was a Warrior, and a good strategist . Amaryllis---well, she was a reader. She was wise, and sweet, and compassionate. She remembered the day her parents gave her control over the Teuthida Archives. It was the best day of her life.
“Oris, I just don’t think we can keep it running. There’s no one to run it,” Thea persuades, her normally honey-smooth voice corrupted with sadness.
“Thea, don’t you think I know that?!” Oris snapped, but then he sighed, and rubbed a tentacle across his brow. “It’s just that the Archives are so important to our culture. All our schools are based off that information. It’s practically more important than our Treasury, dear. If we close the Achives, we condemn our people to ignorance.”
Amaryllis overheard all this by listening outside her parents’ door. Her mouth formed an ‘o’ in horror. They couldn’t close the Archives! It was her favorite place in the entire Kingdom! The young Princess swam away from her parent’s door and threw herself down on her sponge bed in tears.
Then, the door swung open, and Aleyda swaggered in. Now, Aleyda was pretty tough. She was stubborn, headstrong, a bit bossy, but capable of being very sweet and usually meant well, despite her rough impressions. She was a ‘This is me, take it or leave it’ kind of girl, and most people loved her for it. “What’s wrong Rilla?” she asked, a bit of concern in her voice, but mostly ruled by a bored drawl.
Amaryllis looked up at her sister with tears in her eyes. “They’re going to close the Archives,” she said mournfully.
At this, Aleyda became noticeably more concerned. “But---our entire Kingdom benefits from the Archives!” she exclaimed.
“Mother said that there’s no one to run it. Aleyda, you’re good at winning arguments. Please try and talk them out of it?” Amaryllis asked, hope shining in her eyes.
Aleyda softened, and patted Amaryllis’ head wordlessly, then exited the room. Amaryllis knew she was going to talk to their parents.
Soon, Amaryllis heard shouting from her parents’ room. The most dominant voice was Aleyda’s.
“Father! We can’t close the Archives. Without them, our entire Kingdom will go from educated, bright Teuthida to being bumbling idiots who can’t take care of themselves. Our entire life story is in that room, and you want to close it? What if we forget? History will repeat itself without all those books full of our mistakes to stop us. And I know just the Squidlet to keep the Archives running,” she said, fired up at the beginning of her speech but sounding rather smug at her last statement.
“Who?”
“Amaryllis. She is very responsible and loves the Archives. She’d take wonderful care of it and you know it,” Aleyda said.
There was silence, and then the door opened, and Emperor Oris stepped out of the Study, and came into Amaryllis’ room, holding something behind his back. “Rilla,” he crooned. “I must ask you to keep a promise for me.”
In the moments that followed, Emperor Oris handed Amaryllis a key, and made her undergo the Archives Oath. It was rather binding, but Amaryllis didn’t care. She had the one thing she wanted most. The Archives—and the best part was, she was in charge of it all.
@ WillowRipple. I hope you get Aleyda!