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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:17 pm
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Name: Xaivary
Gender: Female
Age: Adult (I tend to think of her as just past teen-hood, maybe just a touch older. In all actuality she should probably be quite a bit older than that but... whatever. XD)
Breed: Regular
Temper: Nonchalant
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: Diedren, adopted brother (Nisshou Hakuyaiba)
Mate: None yet, though I'm not opposed to offers.
Children: None.
Breeding: 3/3 -
I'm all for interesting color combinations, so looks, breed, or edits really don't matter to me, possibly even less to her. I am mostly concerned that they be able to put up with her quirky humor, love of wandering, and penchant for good natured mischief. No one evil.
She may or may not play around with a stallion offering some equally playful flirting in her direction, but she rarely takes anyone flirting with her at all seriously. And if they're only after a night-time romp they will be shot down, probably quite rudely. She might be willing to enter a "friends-with-benefits" situation even if there's not an outright romantic interest, but she has to know and be comfortable with a stallion before she'd even think about it. So far nothing of the sort has occured.
If there were to be baskets, I would require a life-mating for her. She would not take a fling well, even if the stallion were prepared to help raise the foals before leaving. Her own family, or lack there-of, and seeing what similar situations have done to others have made this the one area in particular that she really is touchy about. If a stallion were to pull a love and leave on her, she would hunt him down and kick his tail five ways from Sunday.
Background:
Xaivary's never really had a family of her own, and tends to watch others interact from afar. She vaguely remembers having a mother, and a brother, but never a father. From what she was able to piece together her father either never knew, or never cared, that she and her brother existed. Her mother disappeared when she was still very young, though mostly able to feed herself. Her brother went off looking for her and never came back.
The small herd in the area were very suspicious and closed minded about outsiders, and stupidly superstitious, and so felt that since she was old enough to manage without assistance in anything other than protection, but too young to really send off with a clear conscience, Xaivary became something akin to a misbehaving pet that no one really wanted around but didn't want to get rid of, either. When she was a little older she realized that she didn't have to stay there any more than they seemed to want her, and left.
Rather than growing bitter or angry as one might expect, Xaivary remained fairly easy-going and friendly, if... distant. Emotional distress between friends and family are a pretty foreign subject for her, and worries about looks and who's a good catch or other things one might expect a young mare to be concerned with never cross her mind. She's open to conversing and interacting with others to a degree, though she's most comfortable around the innocence of foals. She's even a bit more inclined to approach others for conversation or curiosity's sake after being out in the world and finding that the behavior she grew up around is not necessarily the norm. Still, if there's more than one or two Soquili around, particularly if she's not familiar with one or more of them, she'll probably vacate the area as quickly as possible. She might like watching others interact with each other as friends and family, but when she gets dragged into the middle of it she becomes uncomfortable. It doesn't really feel to her like she belongs there, invited or not.
Xaivary hardly ever seems to take things very seriously, and between a bad case of wanderlust and a penchant for mischief some might label her a trouble-maker. She has a good heart, though, and in spite of any teasing or pranks she would not intentionally bring harm to another. She's not one to pick fights, but she will fight if it's necessary to protect herself or someone else that she wants to protect. And if she's protecting another, she won't back down even in the face of a skinwalker or a kalona.
In short, Xai is loyal to a fault to those who win her over, and a class-clown hiding deep emotional pains behind joker antics and mostly indifferent behavior... even from herself. That all said, she is not uncomfortable with who she is and tries to be.
Her favorite things are running, her trinkets, the sticks of sugar-cane and occassional bit of booze she "borrows" from the Kawani traders, and her handful of good buddies. |
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:21 pm
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Name: Kushanu (Hindi for "fire".)
Gender: Male
Age: Adult (ICly awkward teenish)
Breed: Wind (mixed bloodlines though)
Temper: Persistent
Parents: Althalus and Nivriti
Siblings: Puchi Puri, Chetan, Kodah, Atreiu, Nalani
Mate: None.
Children: None.
Breeding: Not yet.
Background: One of two boys from Althalus and Nivriti's second breeding, Kush is both energetic and quiet in turns. When encountering something new, be it a person, place, or thing, he will investigate it thoroughly and usually with enthusiasm. Once he is satisfied he will fall back a bit, so to speak, and continue to watch more quietly. He enjoys physical activity, but he is not particularly competitive, and he engages in more scholarly and philosophical pursuits as an occasional hobby. He hasn't discovered what his "thing" is yet, but he's definitely looking for it!
Kush will engage in conversation most of the time if it seems appropriate, but he is just as happy to sit back and allow others to talk around him. He doesn't always have a lot to say, but he tries to find things worth speaking of when he does say something. (Not that it always works out. XD) He does tend to be his own version of a chatterbox when on his own with one or two others, but when he is with his brother (which is often) he will usually allow Atraiu to do most of the conversing when they meet others.
He is fairly close to his family, particularly his brother Atraiu, who tends to be even more talkative. Kush seems more than content to let his brother take the spotlight as long as he is not ignored when he feels the need to interject himself. As family oriented as he is, Kushanu is rarely ever seen on his own. He prefers to hang around the people he knows, even if he's only in the background watching them. |
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:25 pm
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Name: Aduial ("ah-dwee-ahl" Tolkien elvish for "evening")
Gender: Female
Age: Adult
Breed: Alicorn (Uni/Wind)
Temper: Vibrant
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: Unknown
Mate: None.
Children: None.
Breeding: Not yet.
Background: The first thing one will notice when interacting with Aduial is her rather vibrant personality... and rather obvious lack of vocalizations. Due to an infection when she was a foal her vocal chords were damaged, and while it left no outward sign it all but ruined her voice. When she does speak it is barely above a whisper, and that's if she's trying. It's also a rather harsh sound, especially compared to how it was before. She loved to sing once, but now she pretty much hates her voice and since no one can hear her anyway... she just avoids using it.
Kind hearted and a bit naive in her idealism that Everyone Has Some Good and all she has to do is try hard enough to get them to show it, she's actually been hurt rather badly by those she trusted in the past. In the end it led to her separation from her family herd and subsequent journey to find a new place to call home... as well as a second chance. Or at least, she convinced herself she was the one who needed a second chance, rather than the one owed an apology...
Quote: Her mother died shortly after giving birth to her, and her father lost his emotional footing after that. Being somewhat important in hierarchy of the herd, but lacking any other real support and having to try and raise a newborn son and daughter on top of it, the stress of it all eventually cracked him mentally. It was downhill in the hierarchy, and personal regard, of the herd at that point. Her brother (don't know if I'll try to custom him or recruit someone to play him in the future...) was a calculating and ambitious little thing much like their father had once been, but the circumstances of his life and being forced to look after his sister and a very broken father at such a young age made him bitter... and ruthless. Due to their mother's unicorn blood, Aduial was the only one with the healing horn in the herd of winds and considered something of a prize for future marriage arrangements, and she was easily under his power because of their familial bond. He slowly used this to eventually twist her mind to his will to the point that if he'd told her up was actually down, she'd probably have believed him. And through taking responsibility for her and eventually assuming his father's abandoned role in the herd council her brother slowly rose in power. But the herd Alpha was getting old, and a bit feeble, and had yet to name an Heir... and he wanted that. A conspirator from a nearby herd decided to help him ruin Aduial's arranged marriage with the smaller herd's Heir and use the opportunity to assert themselves as the new candidates for the futures of both by "repairing" the peace afterward. They recruited a wandering stallion of questionable morals, had him convince Aduial that he was a visiting dignitary from a distant herd and to keep him company for the day while they arranged a proper arrival for him, which her brother neither confirmed or denied in artful fashion, in a manner that made her uncertain whether to doubt or believe the stallion but kept her willing to try and do whatever she needed to to keep him happy until her brother came back for her. When he eventually asked for sex, Aduial's confusion over the situation but absolute belief in her brother led her to almost go through with it... just in time for her brother to show up with some of the herd elders. She was humiliated and berated, particularly by her brother, for being so "promiscuous" with a herdless stranger. He gained favor in their eyes, and basically control over what little freedom his "reckless" sister had. He underestimated her emotional distress and the response his years of mental conditioning would lead her to, however; never would she have left his side again, except that she was utterly convinced that he hated her now and that she'd done irreparable damage to his reputation, which was of course more important than her in every way. She fled, thinking herself horrible and no longer worthy, hoping that she might either find some way to redeem herself eventually, or find an appropriately horrible doom to punish her. |
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:28 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:36 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:39 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:41 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:43 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:45 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:46 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:50 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:51 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:03 am
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