Username: minifun990
Lion name: Amruta
Lion gender: Female
Pride:Mystic IslesPride status: Moni
Amruta is a demon. There is no avoiding it. She wasn’t sure what she had done in her mortal life to deserve, or perhaps earn it. She couldn’t remember anything from Before. Was she a truly selfless lioness, one that was renown for her kindness, such that the gods thought that she could convert these cursed souls back to the light? That she was so virtuous that their anger wouldn’t be able to drag her down?
Or worse, did she deserve this because she was cruel as a mortal. That she perhaps deserved to spend most of eternity with souls just as nasty as she had been. Constantly retrieving those who escaped, not to save those still on the mortal plane, but instead as a cruel and unusual exercise in futility.
This was what Amruta guarded herself against. Knowledge. Ignorance was bliss and Amruta wrapped herself in as many layers of it she could. After all, you cant learn horrible things about your state of being and past if you never learn anything about it at all.
Every day Amruta walked past the memory rooms, never entering. She contacted her superiors, asked them to lock down her memories so no one else could learn anything either. She stayed in the deepest parts of Below, always doing paperwork and cleaning and other such tasks that everyone hated, avoiding going into the mortal plane in case she met someone she had known in her life Before.
And for the most part, it worked, she avoided learning about her past. She lived in ignorance, avoiding the disappointment and dismay that could come with knowledge. But this guarded nature didn’t just affect her past, it affected the way that she spoke with other Moni, she never wanted to speak of more than what she already knew.
She never questioned what was behind locked doors, impressing superiors. But she also never asked how to improve at her job, or what other moni were doing the next day, or what their past was like. Amruta lived in a statis, too afraid to change, too guarded to accept new things.
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