You Didn't Even Have Names Until Last Week (Jai pups)
"That's it," she snarled suddenly, standing with a sudden violence that nearly knocked her head on the low ceiling, interrupting whichever one of her offspring had been chattering this time. "All of you, outside." She shoved the three little bodies out the den door. Squinted at the wide expanse of grass around them, then reached back in and snagged the stuffed rabbit Viviane had made for them as a baby-gift that she'd promptly thrown in a corner and forgotten about. It was dyed a cheerful pinkish red color that stood out nicely against the grass, so she rammed the toy down onto a stick and jammed the stick into the dirt overtop the den, like a macabre flag. "Look, you little assholes, you see this? Go the fuck wherever but if you can't see this then you're too far away from the den, and if a bear doesn't eat you before I get hold of you I'm going to beat your ass. Got it? Now scram, go play so I can get a fucking nap. Don't come back until the the sun's going down." On that last snarled note, she turned and stomped back into the den to go to sleep. If there was a door, she'd have slammed it firmly shut behind her.
Then locked it.
There wasn't a door, of course, so she settled for disappearing into the dark hole and leaving her offspring to fend for themselves. Wasn't like they could go far at their age anyway, and they were well within the patrolled boundaries. It would be fine.
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It was warm in the dark place, maybe even too warm with all those bodies crowded in, growing bigger by the day. He had just been wrestling with the milk one’s fluffy tail when suddenly there was a loud noise and his ears folded back against his skull. At first things had been quiet, but then his ears had unfolded and everything was amplified. He didn’t quite understand the words yet, but obviously they had made the big mad.
Next thing he knew there was a nose under his butt shoving him towards the bright. His eyes widened, then squinted against the sudden glare. He just sat there limply while his eyes adjusted and the loud noises continued behind him. Eventually, the surrounding plains came into sharp relief. The grass was so high, and the sun was so bright, everything was so loud and the smells!
His attention had already strayed from the milk ones directions, he didn’t even see the rabbit placed over the den. His whole body wriggled, there was so much room! With an excited growly bark he leapt forward, digging his nose (and small tusks) into anything in reach. That may or may not have also included his siblings butts.
"speech".
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Once she had grown somewhat accustomed to her surroundings (at least, as much as she possibly could right away), her attention refocused firstly to Arne. Well, she tried to spin around to see him, but not before feeling tiny tusks colliding with her behind. First she let out a little shriek, dramatically spinning and flopping over sideways in an attempt to avoid his grasp. Maybe her other brother would be the next target, and save her own butt from being assaulted. Though he didn't have tusks of his own to retaliate with, so maybe that wasn't so fair either. Hmmm. Scrambling to all fours she made an attempt to bound away, excited at the feeling of the grass tickling her paws and belly, the feeling entirely alien to her.
Aurielle
Master Intellectual (240)
Master Fighter (255)
Professor
10 Years
Female
212
BrienaSkysong
![The Ooze Participant](/images/awards/events/TheOoze.gif)
![The Ooze - Variation 3](/images/awards/events/Sparkles.gif)
![Critical Fail!](/images/awards/fighting/CriticalFail.png)
![Valentines 2020](/images/awards/events/Valentines20.png)
Aurielle Adravendi |
She’d been working on tracking with Ardyn. He was getting good at sneaking when he was on task, though his frame suggested he was going to be huge as an adult, and that, coupled with his black coat, the fiery tones shimmering in every hair, and the glow the flared like a bed of coals and tongues of fire with every move or twitch or gust of the wind, said he’d have to utterly master the art of stealth to escape notice when he was older.
Shouting up ahead that sounded like Justice ended the lesson early as the hare bolted out of sight into the tall grass. Aurielle was aware by now that they had three new additions to the pack. The pregnancy was a surprise, more because of the fact that it was Justice. She knew the woman was not one for small pups.
She and Ardyn arrived in time to see the last pup booted out of the den and the fuming woman stomping back into the dark. Aurielle’s lips twitched in faint amusement before she studied the three pups. Two boys, one girl. This was her first look at them. The umber markings seemed familiar, and two showed tusks.
Her head cocked with interest as she padded forward, smiling down at the children as she greeted, “Hello. I’m Aurielle, this is my son, Ardyn. First time out of the den?”
She lowered to her belly in the grass, tail sweeping gently over the ground.
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
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At first glance, Aurielle's coat is pure white.. Her fur has an iridescent quality (like moonstones) where the fur shimmers different colors under various angles of light: in this case, the colors shown by rainbow moonstones. Not one hair on her hide is a solid unnatural color, but, ya know, it's really hard to convey that in still art :P
Aurielle's English is heavily laden with an Irish, Swedish mixed accent.
Her family is allowed to crash all her threads, Private and Open.
As of Autumn Year 14, Aurielle glows with a bright blue-white bio-luminescence in her fur, and bears a marking over her left eye - see profile and reference.
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
BrienaSkysong
![Samhain 2022](/images/awards/events/Samhain.png)
![The Ooze Participant](/images/awards/events/TheOoze.gif)
![The Ooze - Variation 3](/images/awards/events/Sparkles.gif)
Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He’d been creeping up on a hare when it bolted suddenly as a shout reached their ears. Justice? His head cocked but he followed his mother with a last glance after the hare.
He watched with puzzled wonder as three pups he’d never met were shoved out of the den, and his eyes flicked to the stuffed rabbit as Justice stomped out of sight. He didn’t think he’d ever seen her mad before. Snarky, yeah, but shouting mad was new.
But after a few seconds he was thoroughly entranced by the three pups, bouncing forward with playful stomps of his front paws, claws sheathed as his tail drew fiery blurs in the air. “H’lo! Wanna play?”
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.
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Arne giggled as his sister flopped over, torn between pouncing on her chest to lock tusks or go after their brother. Before he could decide one way or the other, a strange voice drew his attention away from his siblings. The boy blinked baby blues as the shiny woman approached, eyes quickly flicking from one glowing wolf to the other in wonder. He wondered if they would glow like that when they got bigger? But the milk one didn’t glow like that, so he guessed maybe they wouldn’t. His answer to their greeting started as a high pitched puppy growl of "Aaarrr-Arne!" No doubt a grumbled note that he would become more familiar with as he continued to grow.
The darker one was big, but seemed funner than the big white one already. On paws he hadn’t quite yet grown into, the boy stumbled forwards with a playful growl, swinging his little tusks as he went.
"speech".
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