Username - CatsLeavePawPrints<3
Name - Raju {Meaning Fierce in Finnish}
Gender - Male
Please note that all other characters in this story/art are not real Viscets! Their personalities, names, and/or designs are made up for the purpose of this.
Please don't steal this story/idea!
Also, I'm so sorry this is so long! ;A; I reduced the amount of detail because I didn't want this to be remarkably long to read!
The art is the 2 x's placed beside the paragraphs/phrases they're based off.
text text Raju was born on a sunny spring day, in a large clearing with a small pond surrounded by a dense forest. Unlike his sibling, he was much smaller than his brother. Some would go as far to call him tiny, even. His mother was kind, but could be a bit hot-headed, not unlike his brother. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?
text textBeing small compared to the others, his mother named him Raju, meaning "fierce". She believed that although he was small, he would grow to be fierce and honourable; fighting for what he believed.
She was right, but not in the way she planned.
text textRaju and his brother, now named Azkar, continued to grow over the next few months. In that time, Raju was repeatedly assaulted by his brother. He was constantly called "Tiny". He was pushed. Shoved. Mocked. He was the last to eat, the one whom no one listened to, he wasn't even called by his own name. To his brother and the other young Viscets, he was known as "Tiny". His own name became a negative connotation. There was nothing 'fierce' about him, he was weak. He was vulnerable.
He was tiny.
text textThe next few months were the same. And the months after that. It was constant, an around the clock schedule of put downs. And he had had enough. He was done. He couldn't take it anymore. So, he left.
Of course, no one knew he did before that morning. He heard his mother's cries from the other side of the forest. His mind was chanting, screaming from inside his head.
Go back, You should head back. Turn around. Go back to your family. Head back. text textRaju learned to survive, with what he had. He was by himself, after all. He needed to learn or he would die. It was how things worked. There's no room for mistakes, no room for calculation. You have to be strong, you have to be big, you have to look menacing, you have to be
fierce. He had none of those traits. But he made it work.
text textWhen he wasn't hunting, he was training. Running, fighting, anything to grow bigger. He would purposely seek out small packs, just because he knew they'd be territorial and try to fight him. He earned his first scars that way, fighting a larger female. She'd almost ripped his ear off, and gave him a nasty scar on his neck. Despite being beaten, he was proud of those scars. He thought that maybe he could go back to his family, just to show his brother that he wasn't weak. Someday he'd go back. Someday.
text textHe met a couple other lone Viscets throughout the months he was surviving. He wouldn't call it living, more so surviving. They'd exchange a few words, introductions, sometimes. He always hesitated when they asked his name, but every single time he said Raju. Before, he would've given anything to change his name; It was a constant reminder of how fierce he wasn't. But he kept it. It was the only tie to his mother and family he had left. The other Viscets had been nice enough, hunting with him and sometimes even sleeping with him for protection. But he always left before the morning.
text textHe met a girl, once, who went by the name of Jayde. She said she had left her pack to get away. Said pack life was too suffocating for her. She had seemed pretty interested in his scars and getting to know him, she even offered to spend the next couple days with him. For "Protection", she claimed. Raju agreed, it would be nice to spend a couple days with another Viscet. It got kind of lonely, being alone all the time.
text textThey spent the next two days telling each other stories, having sparring matches, and hunting when necessary. She even helped make him some armour, as well. She said she thought it'd look 'cute' on him. He disagreed, but once he tried on the tail armour they had made, he was actually quite impressed. Jayde really wasn't half bad. She could make armour quite well, and definitely held up her own while sparring. She even gave him a scar along his tail. Accidentally, of course. Raju thought it was kind of funny, the way she sputtered apologies afterwards. He dared say cute, even. However, on the third day, Raju had doubts about staying with her. Not that he wouldn't like to, but he was mission oriented, and she was not. He didn't want her to get hurt when he found his brother. He intended to get his revenge, to give his brother a taste of everything he had put him through.
He left Jayde that night, sneaking away with nothing but the tail armour she had made him.
And for the second time in his life, he did not turn back.
text textAbout a year later, he was finally ready. He'd fought, sparred, trained, in preparation for this day. He'd even added to Jayde's tail armour, making matching leg and head pieces. They weren't as good as hers, of course, but they worked nonetheless. He spent the next week looking for his brother, but he eventually found him. Azkar was travelling with his mate, a female named Kylie. Raju remembered her from childhood; she too had teased him. Even in adulthood, Azkar was bigger than him. But Raju was there to prove that size didn't mean everything. He was there to prove his brother wrong.
And that he did.
text textAzkar was sorry for what he did, trying to talk Raju out of the fight. Azkar told Raju about what had happened after he left. He said their mother was devastated, so much so that she stopped eating. He said that
he had to take care of
her. She wouldn't eat for days on end, having only a few small meals throughout the course of a week. Azkar said that eventually he couldn't do it, he couldn't take care of her anymore, and he left. She supposedly died days later. Azkar clearly didn't want to fight his brother, and did everything he could to stop him. But Raju was determined to get back at Azkar for those torturous months.
text textThe fight lasted for a long while. Kylie was clearly worried for her mate, staying by the sidelines and whimpering at times. Azkar was clearly the favourable win, being larger than Raju. But Raju wasn't giving up so easily. With future scars already painting Raju's face and tail, it seemed clear that Azkar was only fighting to protect Kylie. Not that Raju would hurt her; his brother was his real target.
Raju eventually pinned him down, his piercing gaze set on his brother. Kylie screamed, begging him not to hurt him. His brother looked up at him with pleading eyes, his face and body splattered with scars and wounds. Raju's head was spinning; he couldn't breathe. He wouldn't kill him. He couldn't. Sure, he fought others, but he wasn't a killer. He stepped off his brother, giving Kylie an apologetic look before running off. Once again, he did not turn back. He couldn't face to see his brother bettered and beaten with wounds he gave.
text textHe ran, to the place he was born. The large clearing and surrounding forest were all too familiar. He stayed there for a while, laying in front of the small pond, lost in his memories, when a tail brushed his shoulder. A familiar face appeared, a smile plastered on the Viscet's face. It was Jayde, who's eyes asked why he had left and how he got his wounds. He didn't answer the unspoken question. A minute passed, before she lay down beside him, murmuring about how he kept the armour, and critiquing his own armour work. She joked about how she'd have to fix it up later.
text textThey fell into a comfortable silence as they lay there, the rustling leaves of the trees the only sound. They eventually fell asleep that way, giving Raju's wounds a chance to repair. Hours passed before he woke up, to find Jayde still beside him, fast asleep. The moon was out by then, high in the sky, signifying it was about midnight. His gaze looked towards the forest, before resting back on Jayde. It would be easy to leave. Easy to sneak away, and even easier to never turn back. But he was tired of running.
And for the first time in his life, he stayed.
xI felt like I needed to add a nice little ending there and a romance aspect, because I felt so bad for him while writing this. Poor baby ;n;