[-Isabella-]

This lion certainly looks like they may have something to do with matters of the heart.
To win this adopt tell me, do they have some sort of role to play involving romance? Or is their appearance a coincidence, or perhaps something they don't even like?

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End Date: 2/17/21

[beebun]

Mark! Maybe a reincarnation of the eros on earth....

[Mercuré]

Username: irockwaffleking
Lion Name: Anteros
Lion Gender: female
Pride: Pantheon
Pride Status: demigod, erote
Prompt:

Anteros believed her appearance to be a bit soft, often giving others the wrong impression. While her fur often made her appear to be one of the more delicate erotes she was not. Avenger of unrequited love was Anteros' title and she did her best to adhere to it. Although she was an erote, Anteros found that she had a different impression. While the other erotes represented thoughts of love and desire Anteros was the silent punisher behind the scenes, making sure lions did not abuse or use romance in wicked ways. Although Anteros believed that love was something sacred she also knew from her position that love could hold darker undertones. Manipulation, greed, and jealousy, could all creep into romance and it was her job to prevent love from becoming ugly.

[Firedancer77]

Username: Firedancer77
Lion Name: Eilidh
Lion Gender: Female
Pride: Isle of Roses
Pride Status: Demigod
Prompt:

When you're a member of a pirate crew, it's hard to keep in contact with your loved ones; you can only send letters if you're at a port, and even then there's no way of knowing how quickly they'll reach them. You might even end up getting back before it arrives, and even if you don't, attempting to get any sort of reply is a fool's errand, because there's no way of knowing where your ship will be on your route (and that's if it hasn't gone off course for any reason).

Luckily, the Scarlet Crew has Eilidh to help with those problems.

Eilidh is a demigod, the daughter of the god of love himself and a normal lioness. To say their love was explosive would be an understatement; it burned bright, and when it fell apart, its destruction was spectacular. As soon as Eilidh started showing signs of divine power, her father returned, whisking her away to raise her. She doesn't know what her mother thought, too young to even really remember her, but she likes to think her mother still thinks of her. Still, her father, despite the distance he kept before learning of her powers, does seem to care about her. In fact, he said she was the solution to his followers' prayers, and so she met the Scarlet Crew.

The task was easy: Eilidh would follow the prayers requesting her assistance, take the letters written, and deliver them to the intended recipient. It was generally romantic love, but not always; plenty of children and parents exchanged letters, sometimes even separated siblings, and there were plenty of good friends with a healthy, platonic love who wanted to remain in contact. It allowed Eilidh to travel, seeing plenty of places as she appeared to those who needed her. She got to meet so many new people and see so many connections be forged (and, on the rare occasion, had to be the barer of bad news and see relationships crumble).

And if she happened to stop on the White Cutlass a bit more frequently than necessary (or than she stopped at any other ship, if she was being honest) and stuck around to chat with a certain lioness, well, Eilidh wasn't hurting anyone by flirting a little, was she?

[snapshot]

Username: snapshot
Lion name: Luke
Lion gender: male
Pride: Ngozi
Pride status: Healer
Prompt:

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Oh my love, my love,
Your heart so broken long ago
Left you wonderin' where to go,
How could you move on?

Oh my love, my love,
He left you standing in the cold,
Just like the tragic tales of old,
How could you move on?

Could you ever move on?

There is a healing
Beyond that feeling.
It's a long hard road
And it's a heavy load
But you don't have to walk alone,
Oh my love.

Because life and love
Are more than just a fairytale.
And life and love
Are more than unreachable dreams.
They're for you.
And they're waiting.

So you can take your time
And I'll take mine
And we'll meet up at the end
When we're each ready to try love again.

Oh my love.

Luke is a healer of the heart. It is his role in the pride to support those who are hurting, not in body but in mind. Those who have experienced heartbreak and loss, who feel as though they will never be loved or never give love again. Luke walks with them along the winding road to healing, whatever that means for them.

(edit to note that the song is an original poem/song by me c: )

[Runnersback]

Username:Runnersback
Lion Name: Ukware (Swahili for Lust)
Lion Gender:Female
Pride: Realms of L’Oasis Lo
Pride Status: Demon
Prompt: [531/550]

“Ukware,Ukware come down from your parapet.” A voice silk as satin called out to the lioness.

“Coming, my love!” Ukware had said running down the steps with her cute little bag filled with trinkets she had invented for her lover.

But as she came down, she came down to seeing her mate Cupid making out with some other lioness that wasn’t her. As she looked over whole the world spun around her violently, she glanced to her friend who had called her down. “You were in on this? You all were in on this!!! How dare you! How dare all of you!” Ukware shrieked flying off into the winds. She didn’t want to see it, she didn’t want to see any of them. But yet the bloody fools chased after her screaming there sorrows and that it was a mistake. Yet they never were mistakes, they were intents.

They chased and they chased, and they chased till she made it to a volcanic island that created her a safe haven. A safe haven that soon managed to waste her weary bones and screaming mind away. And nobody new what had happened to her, all they knew is that Cupid had gotten a new sidekick.

As Ukware awoke to hellfire and smoke, she was confused. All she did was make people happy and now she was trapped in hell like landscape. The poor lioness choked on the putrid air till a small but nimble greeter who picked up her bag and placed a small cup of water in front of her. But that was all as she was offered until the god of death himself appeared in front of her. She was frozen to her core as all she had wanted in life was the comforts of a mate and the comforts of making those happy.

“Do not be afraid, you were destined to come here. You have done so much good in your life dear Ukware, but I feel your purposes is simply not over yet.” Chuki Safi said showing the frozen lioness nothing but gentleness, there was a catch to it though. And Uwkware relaxed before lapping up some water and shaking the water droplets from her whiskers.

“How do you feel about getting revenge on Cupid?” The God of death asked as he circled her coyly.

“I want to make him pay! I want to make them all pay for breaking my heart. My life was beautiful, my life was perfect.” She said with a hiss as she flung her bag of trinkets into a small lava pit and stared as they were engulfed in flames.

“Good. Now fly from here and when your mission is done you will return to me and I will give you more.” He said with a dip of his head.

Ukware was back and she was back for good. But the goodness of her heart and soul had left the cavern of her body. She spent her days destroying Cupid’s work, playing psychological tricks on couples to pit them against each other, and most importantly making them all lust for her. With matters of the heart, Ukware will always be the villain.

[Meekins12345]

Username: Meekins12345
Lion Name: Indira
Lion Gender: Female/lioness
Pride: The Cloud Coalition - Sub-pride of The Pride of Wikimak
Pride Status: Corporal
Prompt:

"Stupid... Why am I always tasked with handling these darn love letters?" Came the soft little grumble as Indira began her trek to deliver the letters of her pride. Her ears were pinned, slightly, to the back of her head as she stomped her way through the two-foot deep snow of the mountainside.

She hated the way life seemed to throw her such a curve-ball. She was born with the looks of a goddess, as most of her pridemates often said. With the beautifully intricate markings about her and the fascinating color they were, along with the small little 'mane' she appeared to have, she was deemed the prettiest lion within the pride... and, of course, she enjoyed such a title, but she didn't enjoy what came after it.

Being so close to a goddess that she was, everyone in the pride thought it would be a wonderful idea to be the mail carrier. They'd get to see her face every day and, once that particular time of year came around, she'd be able to hand out love letters to all. After all, a heart was basically stamped upon her pelt so it wasn't like she wouldn't be matching.

But she didn't want to do this. She had told multiple pridemates that she had other plans for her life, and she wanted to do more than deliver letters to and from the pride (although she did like the prospect of her being able to stretch her wings, she'd admit that). And yet everyone kept on trying to convince her it'd be a good thing. They all said just about the same thing.

"Oh, you'll learn to like it! Just wait and see."

"At least give it a try."

"Not everyone gets to do just what they want. Be lucky you got such a nice job."

Well.

She tried.

She still didn't like it.

And she wasn't going to like it.

And yet... she felt tied to it. Tied down to this despicable job and forced to pull the workload.

She hated this job.

She hated her markings, her looks that got her into this mess.

She hated her life here!

Part of her just wanted to leave it all behind. Perhaps go and fly away, to some cute little town somewhere and settle down. Maybe find somebody that would love her for more than her looks... Or maybe she could just wander, explore the world. Heck, anything would be better than being stuck here, doing absolutely nothing with her life other than delivering bloody love letters around this particular time of year.

None of them were even for her, anyway... and even if there were any, she often threw them out because she knew what they were looking at more than her personality.

She just wanted to run away.

Maybe someday, perhaps someday soon, she actually would. (477 wc)

[ToxicShadow]

Username: ToxicShadow
Lion Name: Setsuka
Lion Gender: Female
Pride: Oddity Pride
Pride Status: Undecided Member
Prompt:

Everyone has a role in love, at least when it comes to their own.

Unfortunately for Setsuka, her own parents did not love her, and left her to die when she was but a tiny little thing. She can only theorize why, but she suspects that it had something to do with her appearance. She can only assume that she was very different from them and, thus, she was rejected.

Now, however, she has taken matters into her own hands. Though she often dislikes her appearance, feeling that it does not at all reflect who she is, she can't say that she entirely hates it, either. It's just that she is the sort to enjoy the dark and even macabre things of this world, and is most certainly the type that is capable of protecting herself. However, those that only give her a quick glance assume that she is soft and fragile, a girl that is certainly obsessed with cute and fluffy things, and, especially, love.

Though, they would be right in assuming that her own love, in and of itself, is very precious to her, although she could hardly care about anyone else and their love lives.

[Galeslash7]

Username: MacawWildGirl
Lion Name: GentleBlossom
Lion Gender: Female
Pride: Ndege Pride
Pride Status: The Owl
Prompt:
GentleBlossom is known as the Messenger of Heartbreak.

She is the sweetest, most kind and gentle lion, yet she has the worst job possible. She has to deliver words and letters of break-ups to lions when one does not want to face the other while telling them they are not right for each other. She must deliver these sometimes cruel notes to lions and watch as they break down. She wishes she could just fly away once she has delivered the note, but she must wait in order to receive a reply to bring back. Yet she still keeps her job by choice, because she knows she is the only one who could do it without making everything worse.

GentleBlossom was chosen because of both her personality and looks. She looks sweet, calming, and beautiful and her personality is the exact same way. This makes her be able to "soften the blow" of the break up and be able to soothe the lion and try to make them feel better. She can comfort the lion and her appearance makes it easier for her to do this, as she is seen as a harmless sweetheart. Which she is.

Some lions try to hate her for her job, but she is always so caring to the recipient of the break-up note or words that they know it is not her fault. If anyone else did her job, things could go much worse. This has happened before with mean notes and a heartless messenger. GentleBlossom does the best she can to make each lion still feel good about themselves even when their heart is broken.

[-Isabella-]

Username: Firedancer77
Lion Name: Eilidh
Lion Gender: Female
Pride: Isle of Roses
Pride Status: Demigod
Prompt:

When you're a member of a pirate crew, it's hard to keep in contact with your loved ones; you can only send letters if you're at a port, and even then there's no way of knowing how quickly they'll reach them. You might even end up getting back before it arrives, and even if you don't, attempting to get any sort of reply is a fool's errand, because there's no way of knowing where your ship will be on your route (and that's if it hasn't gone off course for any reason).

Luckily, the Scarlet Crew has Eilidh to help with those problems.

Eilidh is a demigod, the daughter of the god of love himself and a normal lioness. To say their love was explosive would be an understatement; it burned bright, and when it fell apart, its destruction was spectacular. As soon as Eilidh started showing signs of divine power, her father returned, whisking her away to raise her. She doesn't know what her mother thought, too young to even really remember her, but she likes to think her mother still thinks of her. Still, her father, despite the distance he kept before learning of her powers, does seem to care about her. In fact, he said she was the solution to his followers' prayers, and so she met the Scarlet Crew.

The task was easy: Eilidh would follow the prayers requesting her assistance, take the letters written, and deliver them to the intended recipient. It was generally romantic love, but not always; plenty of children and parents exchanged letters, sometimes even separated siblings, and there were plenty of good friends with a healthy, platonic love who wanted to remain in contact. It allowed Eilidh to travel, seeing plenty of places as she appeared to those who needed her. She got to meet so many new people and see so many connections be forged (and, on the rare occasion, had to be the barer of bad news and see relationships crumble).

And if she happened to stop on the White Cutlass a bit more frequently than necessary (or than she stopped at any other ship, if she was being honest) and stuck around to chat with a certain lioness, well, Eilidh wasn't hurting anyone by flirting a little, was she?

Winner!