All-time Favorite Characters!

[Yllan]

Good, Neutral or Evil, there is always a character of our 'collection' that becomes our favorite, for one or many reasons. Generally (but not always) it's a character that you start from an early stage and work all the way through their lives, developing the personality, tastes, what they like and dislike. So, to get things rolling on this forum, I decided to start a new thread with this topic in mind...

[glow=red,2,300]What is/was your favorite character (that you played) thus far? Where did it first appear (was it on a MUCK, Fiction, Artwork..)?[/glow]

I'll share mine!

Shahila
Out of all the leonine characters I've had (and I had MANY, mind you), my very first character was Shahila. When I started drawing TLK-esque cats (I was around 13 by then), I created a lioness that was based off me, at least personality-wise (since I'm not albino with blue eyes XD).. since I AM rather pale, I decided to make her white (at that time I didn't know white lions existed FOR REAL...yeah, I was dumb, I know!). I remember my poses were like.. 2-lines-long. I first created her over The Lion King MUCK, though she became pretty much my nickname, my alias.. my artistic name, my username. Everything. I've been known as 'Shahila' for.. over 7 years now. Many times, this character was Queen on a MUCK. She was Queen of the White Lands in African Legends, Queen of Glacia in Guardians of the Sirist, Queen of Jambala'Xu in Demi Haze and Queen of Kimondo in African Tails/Sunrise MUCK. Thankfully I had time to keep up with all these demands.. but, when I created Sunrise MUCK (and we moved all of African Tail's characters/prides there) my interest on the character started to dwindle.. and I fell in love with another character. However, Shahila will always hold a special place in my heart for being the first character I created, and the character I used for my first RPs. Her Nickname always was 'Snow Queen'.[/color]

Xian
Xian.... wow. Xian IS my favorite character and probably always will always be. I firmly believe only once in your life you have the chance to chance to create something great, and that's what Xian is. Something great. Xian was my first Lion King character (and, sadly, due IRL keeping me busy these days, probably the last).. He's the firstborn son of King Cairo (barbary lion) and Queen Feleti of Kivuli, and thus Heir of Kivuli. At first I didn't pay attention to the character.. in fact, I RPed only a couple of times in his cubhood.. I fully started RPing him when he was an adolescent. His story is filled with challenges, plots, happiness and sadness. I'm working on writing the novel based off his story. He fathered.. MANY cubs.. Had three litters of seven kids, and adopted even more. These days he's an Elder in Kivuli, offering advice.. though in a month or so, he'll pass on. His nickname (ironically, compared to Shahila's) is the Fire King.[/color]



Pictures of Shahila;
www.deviantart.com/view/2099370/ (2002)
www.deviantart.com/view/2261330/ (2002)

Pictures of Xian;
www.deviantart.com/view/2544511/ (2003)
www.deviantart.com/view/2657508/ (2003)
www.deviantart.com/view/3883823/ (2003)
www.deviantart.com/view/4617169/ (2004)
www.deviantart.com/view/9465529/ (2004)
www.deviantart.com/view/13160386/ (2004)
www.deviantart.com/view/13818897/ (2004)
www.deviantart.com/view/19848771/ (2005)
www.deviantart.com/view/20587173/ (2005)
www.deviantart.com/view/21385354/ (2005)
www.deviantart.com/view/27836038/ (2006)

Thassit!

[kisala]

Mine is definately Kisala. I've tried her out in several places but she stuck the best at TLKM where I started out, as my first muck. She's still there but not too active anymore. Umm again at Er where she became a Kwasi Lioness and still is but here now! Yay!

Kisala was a name I pulled out of no where, I was told my name had to be african like when I was young starting out on TLKM and had no idea about the Yale sight. Kisala's personality is based alot on me when I was in highschool. Kinda flirty and goofy but can be serious when needed....

[Msasi]

OK. Let's see if I can do this WITHOUT rambling too much. XD

Anubis
Annie. Oh, he's my darlin'. When I got Annie - to be one of /8/ cubs in Kivuli's royal litter - I'd planned on making him the brooding, silent type. But soon after I started RPing him, I decided that just didn't FEEL right. So he became the loud, troublesome son who loves nothing more than running around playing and, of course, playing in the mud. He had conflicts with his cousin of sorts, Maiza.. he met Sakitu, the heiress of Kimondo, and the two of them went off and got attacked by the evil Barbary Tyrant himself, Mviko. And then it was Anubis who led a little riot amongst the youth of the MUCK.. and cubs from all the prides joined him in the Forgotten Lands, where they planned to live forever without the stupid rules of the grown-ups! *giggle*

After returning, Anubis and Xian were in trouble with their father, Cairo. During their absence, their mother, Feleti, had been kidnapped by Mviko and their sister - I think it was Sinyaa? - was believed to be dead. Upset, Annie and Xi' - bestest of buddies - decided to prove to their father that they DID care about the pride. So they spent one whole day trying to hunt for him.. and eventually they were successful and took their kills to Cairo to show that they cared. My memory gets a lil' fuzzy around this point.. put somewhere in there Feleti and Sinyaa did return and whatnot.

As an adolescent, Anubis was LAAAAZY. He hated responsibility. He wanted to lounge around all day and flirt with girls, not work on patrols like he was supposed to (since he would one day be Lord of Kivuli and have to help Xian). Cairo left to do stuff, Annie had a thing for Tanafusi - and also ruined it when he LIED to her about dying - but it wasn't until one of his trips to Kimondo that he came across a now adolescent Sakitu (who Annie believed was now "very hot"). They did the whole FRIENDSHIP INTO LUV thing.. and Annie even helped out when an earthquake caused a massive flood in Kimondo. After debating the issue for a while, Annie finally decided to move to Kimondo to live and become Sakitu's mate.. and thus, the King of Kimondo. Annie was taking responsibility! He was growing up! <3

Anubis and Sakitu had 7 cubs in their first litter. Life was happy. Then, Mviko came along and RUINED IT by forcing himself onto Sakitu and making her pregnant with his kids. This only deepened Annie's hatred for Mviko (who had previously hurt him and Sake as cubs, and held his mother and sister captive). When the cubs were born, Annie didn't know what to do. He loved kids.. but at the same time, these were MVIKO'S kids. When Annie made up his mind to kill them, he went in to face Sakitu.. only to have his mind changed when little Mtesaji was all squeaking and cute (hey, Annie's a softie, leave him alone!).

Life continued all nice and happy until.. Feleti's death. Annie was a big momm'as boy, so this hit him hard. Especially when he discovered that his mother's murderer was none other than Mviko. He held his mother until she died.. passed on the news that she had died.. and then went into a period of deep despair. While out wandering, the big doof hurt his paw and couldn't walk, so he took shelter in the desert caves. Mviko used this opportunity to take over the pride a lil. WHen Annie came back and saw this, he was /ticked off/. Luckily, he had the good sense to go to Kivuli to gather his two brothers (plus Mahiri).. and together, they killed the tyrant.

Annie stepped down as King not too much later, his son Demissle taking his place as King. Annie and Sakitu had another litter of cubs.. about the same time as they became grandparents. Anubis enjoyed his final days playing in mud and being with his family. He died in Kimondo, happy, and surrounded by his family.

.. OK. That was rambly. BUT. Gosh, I love Annie SO MUCH. He just went through so much.. and he changed and he was still a big, loveable doof despite it all. <33 He is so loving and carefree and he cares SO MUCH about those around him. <3 And he loved MUD and it was so funny because Sakitu is the Queen of Clean and Annie is just totally NOT. XD And I just picked his name randomly because I love Ancient Egypt stuff.. and he was first nicknamed Anu' or 'Bis but then SAGIRA started calling him Annie and it just STUCK and I love it because ti totally fits him and is weird and girly and stuff. XD I.. seriously, cannot even begin to describe just HOW much this character means to me. He is definately one of my favorite characters on ATM/SR.. and one of my all-time favorites out of all the MUCKs I've been on. Since this post is so long, I won't talk about the others just yet.. but I will (and they won't be as long.. promise!) XD

[Subiani]

Well, crap. I can't pick just one, I don't think ..

Feleti[/u][/color]
I think Feleti was the first character I really got INTO. Know what I mean? She was a very close representation of myself as an actual person, so she was -- and is -- still very important to me.

She was born into the Kivuli Pride, the only surviving cub EVER of Machwa and Sheena, granddaughter of Ewali. Sheena disappeared shortly after her birth, and she was rather close to her father until he, too, vanished. She quickly took to Sodawi (the Kivulian heir at the time), and also developed an extremely close friendship with a similarly-aged cub named Cairo. In general, Feleti was raised by the pride as a whole until reaching her adolescence. And, like most teenagers, she took off -- left the Kivuli to explore on her own.

She returned just shy of full adulthood, and upon being reunited with Cairo, their friendship blossomed into an intense love.

When Sodawi was King, he was unexpectedly killed by a snake bite -- and with little alternative, Cairo and Feleti stepped up as the pride's King and Queen. They ruled well for some time, and Feleti had her first litter of cubs not too far into their leadership -- bearing a litter of EIGHT cubs. Yikes. The two struggled to maintain Kivuli through a lot of hard times -- the worst being the constant threat of King Mviko in Mbaamwezi. At one point, Feleti was kidnapped by the Barbary -- and held captive in his territory for weeks, where she was beaten and starved.

But Cairo followed the same fate as Feleti's father -- disappearing and leaving her alone to rule Kivuli. But one lioness can only do so much on her own -- and so when Xian, the chosen Heir of Kivuli, was only an adolescent, she asked him to step up and take his place as King. She kept close to her eldest son, guiding him and offering advice, until he became a magnificent and legendary King.

Time passed, and after finally giving up on the hopes of Cairo ever returning to her, Feleti departed for Kimondo -- where Anubis was ruling, to take up a position as an advisor to the pride. While there, she had a second litter of cubs with Nishati. And at the very end of her pregnancy, Cairo did return -- but the Barbary couldn't accept Feleti's reasons for letting another lion father her cubs. Feleti's heart was shattered when Cairo would not accept her decision, nor the cubs in her belly -- and it was the last time she ever saw him.

Feleti ultimately died upon Kimondo lands. Her long-time enemy, Mviko, came into the Kimondo territory -- and, upon finding the aging lioness alone in a rather isolated section of the territory, ripped her to pieces. Anubis found her just after it happened, and Feleti passed on in the circle of her son's arms.

Feleti as an adolescent:
img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/MazdaSPD/Random/AdolFeleti.jpg
Feleti and Cairo, both as adolescents:
fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Lore/CairoFeletiSmoochie.jpg


Mviko[/u][/color]
He is, without a doubt, the best creative work to have ever come out of my brain. To be completely honest, I haven't the slightest idea WHERE he came from. He was just .. there. He is also the only character that I can genuinely say disturbed me. When he was at his greatest, RPing him was actually exhausting -- when I was writing his poses, I wouldn't even KNOW what he was going to do until my fingers started moving over the keyboard. I never experienced that sensation before, and I seriously doubt I ever will again. It was like there was some 'Mviko section' of my head that was only tapped when I was RPing him. It creeped me out.

Mviko was a monstrosity, in every aspect of the word -- physically, mentally, and emotionally. I would love to write about him, but I just don't think I can do it. There's just .. too much there, and it would take me hours -- maybe even days -- to get it all down. For those of you that RPed with him closely, you probably understand what I mean.

Maybe some day, when I have enough time and energy, I'll put down his story. But not now. Despite the fact that his character has been ICly dead for quite awhile .. He's still stuck in my brain. If you do a 'find Mviko' on Sunrise, you'll see that he's still there. I can't seem to get rid of him. The thought of @toading him actually scares me a little.

So. Maybe someday. But, yes. Mviko was definitely my favorite .. simply because I think he'd come back and chew off my legs if I said otherwise, heh.

Pics --
Mviko and his sister, Rajua, as adolescents:
fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Onya/Mvijua.jpg

Fully grown, as King of Mbaamwezi:
fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Kalyca/Mviko4.jpg
fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Shahila/Mviko.jpg

Size comparison sketch, between Mviko and another lion:
fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Kalyca/Mvimah1.jpg

[Msasi]

Hrmhrmhrm. Well, since Yll' mentioned fiction/art and such as other places for first character appearences, I'm going to guess that this isn't going to be limited to ATM/SR characters. So I'll add the other four characters to round out my top five favorites (the other being Anubis.. who I already rambled about). And no, my top five do not fall into any certain order.. so there really is no number one favorite. I could never choose! XD

Luna
Luna was a character of mine on Yukon Trails/CrossRoads. She was a timber wolf (later M. Valley wolf) and the 4th-born of 7 pups to N'queum pack alphas Keisha and Rikar. I don't know WHY I came to love Luna so much. She has a pretty cliche "I want to be the most dominant!" personality and I was so lazy with her looks that I just stole Keisha's and added a white forepaw. But I did fall so very much in love with Luna. Although Anubis loved his mother too, Luna more.. worshipped.. hers. Luna wanted to be the alpha of her own pack.. but eventually ended up as N'queum's next alpha female. She had two litters of pups with her belvoed mate, Baridi. She had brothers she loved.. as well as a sister-in-law. <333 So, really, I don't know WHAT it was about Luna that so endeared her to me.. maybe because she went through so much in her life (the shock of finding out her 'first lover' was a jerk, having to take over the pack after her mother started to fall apart a bit, the fact that her mate was from an enemy pack, the supposed death of her mate.. and then his return...) but she will forever remain one of my all-time favorites.

Stenachorie
Ah, my Stenny-boo. Sten was a wolf hybrid character of mine on Yukon Trails/CrossRoads. Her mother, Arida, was a Pitbull/Wolf, while her father, Tsavor, was a Newfoundland. Sten took on more of the Newfie-looks.. but with a slightly more Pitbull-ish face. And she had the wicked intelligence of the wolf. She had a brother, Cythes, who she loved (though, y'know, she would never actually SAY that aloud). Stenachorie (I think her name was Greek for "thorn" or some such) was.. well, a b****. Stenachorie grew up a street dog of Nome/Dawson/whatever Alaskan town and grew up hating humans. She was shot numerous times by humans (which only cemented ehr hatred of them) and her entire life she had an ongoing rivalry with Ivy, both of whom fancied themselves as the top dog about town (which they never did settle). Stenachorie loved to fight and the like and ended up losing an eye in a fight (the other dog lost his life). The only human she ever tolerated was Caprice. Stenachorie - though she never really approved of Cythes going off to be a SLED DOG of all things - did enjoy the pups he had, and Sten loved her nephews dearly (and, later, her niece, who Sten took care of afetr Cythes' death). Sten herself had two litters of pups.. but none survived. Stenny died all old and alone in the forest of old age. I LOVED Sten for her b****iness. I've never played a character with her attitude for too long because I don't think I play them well and always lose interest.. but Stenny just wormed her way into my heart and has remained there. <3 I miss her terribly, but everytime I try to recreate her somewhere.. it's just not the same. There can be hundreds of characters with the same name and personality, but for me, there is only one Stenachorie.

Alexx
Alexx is one of my two favorite human characters. Alexx hails from PokeMUCK, where he was a member of Team Rocket with his partner, Luna. He started out slightly rude.. but a womanizer and he didn't mind other people too much. Several years, several partners and several MUCKs later.. Alexx is /extremely/ anti-social, to the point that I only ever RP him with one person - his last partner and current girlfriend - Catherine. He's been through SO MUCH (I won't even BEGIN to get into it here) and it's like life keeps kicking him.. and for some reason, even though he doesn't WANT to.. he keeps getting right back up. I don't care how hateful, how rude, how incosiderate he is or how difficult he is to RP in groups or if I'm not in the mood.. he's a lovely character anyway and I'm so glad I created him.

Karen
Ahh, Karen. Of all my top five characters.. she comes the closest I will ever get to declaring a number one favorite. And, technically, she isn't even mine! Karen is an FC on Pokemon Neo. She started out as an Elite Four from one of the Pokemon games (for all you non-Pokemon people.. it means she's one of the more powerful trainers in the world.. pretty much second-in-command in the Pokemon League, which is the sort of government). All that was known about her when I applied for her character was that she is female, an Elite, trains Dark-type pokemon and her name is Karen. That's it. I've taken that, expanded on it SO MUCH - from her background to her looks to her personality - that, to me, she's more an OC than an FC. I don't like to create characters to represent me.. because I don't want to play /me/. But all of my characters do have bits and pieces of myself in them. Karen, however, is more how I /wish/ I could be. Karen is outgoing and flirty and doesn't care what people think about her. She doesn't think before she does anything.. she just speaks and acts, going by her gut. She's very opinionated and will not hesitate to speak exactly what is on her mind even if it would be slightly wiser to keep her trap shut. XD She loves being around people, she's a total chatterbox and a complete party girl. I love how she acts, I love how she looks, I love how she relates to people, I love how she loves. She is /so/ in love with Morty (another FC, the Gym Leader in her home town) and it's just so sweet to me how much she cares for him... and that she appreciates that he's so different from her and that she doesn't want to change that. That even though they were seperated for almost 7 months.. when she got back home, their relationship was /stronger/. Karen has been through so much - she's been stabbed and shot and beaten - and yet she bounces right back. She's retired now, engaged to Morty and just so happy with her life.. I could go on and on and on about how much I love this character. She's my baby. <3 XD

[Potea]

My All-Tymey favorite? ... Hmm...


Zwimie - An Impala, over on TLKMUCK.. way back when TLKMUCK was -fun- to play on.
You probably wouldn't think that a herbivore could be a great character, but with the right crowd, she was a blast. :>
..We used to get a couple herbies together and have 'Background RP's'-- where it was all posing and no diologue.. I tell yeh', takes a special type of crazy to enjoy that. ;>


Farakano - Kaare Hyena, also from TLKMUCK. She had a bit of a.. multiple personality sort of thing going on. One of them thought it was a lion. o.o

No pictures up, sorries. :>

-'Tea

[Tilyn]

Oh god ... lets see.


Tisea

The FIRST Tisea. When SR was AT. *tear* She was the first leonine char I'd EVER play'd, like, at all. First time I hadn't play'd anything that wasn't canine. I got her as an Adolescence, and whats funny is at first she had a crush on Soda', until her and Twazii were running from what they thought was AKeeto and she ran head first into Kiapo. XD Love at first collision. Her and Kiapo went and formed Tufani [ Tyne ] and had BABIES. Inda and Kausha were first [Holy crud i may have got her name wrong] then Kasama. After that she had a litter by a rogue, so in all she had three litters. =D . Then when Kiapo dissapered she totally went nutso after she got really old. I remember she actually went to Kivuli after Soda' died, Kasama having to trail her, and slapped Cairo in the face. >D She died by Mviko's claws going to save her baby Zephyros, but she was still a kicka** char. My first ever. ;_; Why i keep her name alive. XD


Ivy

Omg. Ivy. My pit dog/street mutt over on YT and then finally on CR. She was. Teh_Awesome. I don't really remember her exact past - I got her as an early Adult i believe. In YT she had a somewhat ... thin lined friendship with ... Ah crap I frogot his name. o_o; bada** dog from .. one of those stories. Ah who cares. He was cool XD. And she had... two puppies, left them both behind when she ditched the town. She made her lifes goal tormenting Lazaii and the sled team she was part of - old childhood rival/jealous trip - and of ripping Blake to shreds. n_n She had another litter on CR, a little more loving to them. I don't remember what exactly was in her blood - Pittbull, Boxer, Malamute, Husky, Shepherd, some distant wolf, distant distant mastif, distant Rottweiler and Akita - and thats all i found in her desc. Anyway. She was a mutt. Bahahah. Her and Sten' had an on going rivalry to see who was top dog of the town. Good times. <3


Latani

Ah. Good Ol' Lat. My AT version of Ivy is what she was. Latani was - I believe - one of the main ones to coax Mviko to go home and take up his right as being King of Mbaamwezi when he was in his late adolesence. He didn't trust her, and she thought he was smart. >D Latani was, to put it simply, sick twisted and sadistic, yet very very smart. She became the Council Master of Mbaamwezi and did it well. Lat' hated children, even her own. Her first litter of one boy she attempted to drown him and killed his father. When she was giving birth to hers and Mviko's babies she was screaming that when she was done giving birth she was going to eat every last child. And in the end she attempted to kill her own daughter Shahila.. yet failed. Cause she was old. And Shah' whipped her butt. XD Latani had a good way of using those around her, and really didn't care if she did.


Ronan

RONNIE!!!! Baby boy of Cairo and Feleti's litter. Xian and Annie-bus' little brother. However... far from little he is >D Ronan was never an emotional or sensitive lion. From day one, the moment he was born, he was different. He's always had a dark sheild about him, in the beginning it was bad. When Xian and Anubis left on their adventure, Ronan staying behind when Cairo got sick and his father telling him he may be king Ro' flipped. He has NEVER wanted any type of authority whatsoever, and especially not being a King. He grew up, found a mate - Kieleaji - adopted two babies, and had a son of his own, then had two daughters with another lioness, went psycho, killed a lioness, then killed his father. Ronan was exiled - this was the first time XD - and took his son and daughters and soon his mate followed, to Kimondo where his babies would be safe while he hid in the desert oasis under both his brother noses.. course he knew Annie had to know he was there, point is he was GOOD while he was there XD. In the Forgotten Lands he met Unzumi and had yet another son. [Yes. Ronnie was a pimp. *cough*] Ronnie came home, and for revenge, continued teaching Malik, Xian's heir, to be EVUL and rule the WORLD. ok. just Kivuli. He EVENTUALLY noticed the error of his ways and took a right path. When he admitted to turning Malik against his father - when Malik had grown and been thrown down - Ronan was banished to the barbary lands. He eventually was allowed to leave again and when his neice took up the throne, vowed his life to her and her family and became the first Royal Guard of the Kivuli Royal Family. *dance* He's now plauged by Malik's son and will soon fall before his and Zira's groups claws, but he's still AWESOME. OH Did I mention he also took over Tyne while Binstari was ruling and had Yehom get Kasama - the Queen then - pregnant? *cough* Yeah Xian had to whip his butt for that one too. XD

[kesh]

Whew... I've had so many... Let's see:

Dawa
He may not have been my first creation, but he was my first step into the realm of lions. His fate was quite different on the various MUCKs I played him on: Died from a crocodile attack on TLKm, Became co-ruler of Amani's kingdom only to then die in a rockslide on ATM, Ruled a huge, thriving kingdom before the muck suddenly died on a MUCK I've long forgotten the name of. He's probably been the closest thing to 'me' that I've played and deeply regret having given him up so long ago. I hope to someday revitalize the character when the time is right.

Tia
My second venture into lions, this time as a female. Her life, both in youth, prime, and death, as have been played several times on several MUCKs (She's in her prime here on Sunrise), has been a constant struggle and tragedy, but I adore her appearance and her personality, even if she is so misled and misguided. She's the only character I've played out every stage of her life from birth to death at an old age.

Tia in her prime:
fanart.lionking.org/Artists/KwikKuliwa/Tia.jpg
Tia in her later years:
www.deviantart.com/deviation/22933592/


Kesh
She's a relative newcomer to the scene, having only created her on TLKm for the first time 4 years ago as opposed to 9 years and 8 years respectively for the last time, but she's gained a special place in my heart due to her natural progression and rich back story. Going from a lion-hating, mischievous trouble-maker to a loving and devoted caretaker to cubs of all species was not easy, but delightful and adventurous. Hopefully I'll be able to bring her elaborate plotline from ER over to here soon.

Karise
He's not TLK, he's not even wild, but the deep and complex storyline the anthro fox from Sherwood MUCK has inspired me to write a novel about his life, which I'm currently working on when I have the time and drive. I fear I may never be able to RP him again due to the lack of places that fit his character, but I can still dream, I suppose.

So many others that should be mentioned! Ah, the memories.

[Pallu]

Whee! For animal chars--

Chambua: a character of mine on TLKMUCK for awhile, before I was a jerkface and disappeared because it was getting too frigging irritating. XD She was the mother of Mdhamana, and hailed from a very--- nggg, very -stern- pride. She was very keen on propriety and also very stiff and a little on the bigotted side towards non-lions (a lot of my characters are like that, I've noticed. Wtf.) She kinda forced her son, even as a cub, to behave like an adult-- that is, very stiff and polite and such. She was a -lot- of fun to RP, and I'd have liked (I'm such a nut for romance, it's reallyreally sad) to get her a guy, because rping them sloooowly getting to know one another and stuff would have been really fun, and also-- because she wasn't very emotional-- I suspect that she had some omgangsty emotional trauma in her past (as I -recall- she was in lurve with one of the kings of her old pride, and it was very cute, and then he was-- killed, I believe, or something. Not fun.)

I'm really glad that Mdhamana let me play her (he came up with her and was all 'o hay i dunt wnat a orfan wil u play mi mommee?!1 -- yes, JUST like that), in conclusion. n.n


Kai: I had him in a few incarnations, and the one I had the most fun with was when he was a lion. He was kinda skinny-- well, svelt-- and very much a lady's man. Kinda a mansleeper, or he would have been if I had had the courage to rp him as such. XD He wasn't very bright, I think, and had a tendency towards being an arse. But I loved him anyway. XD He was another one who was loads of fun to RP, and also in retrospect there were some delightful gay undertones (sh'tup, I like slash) to his relationship with... bugger. Kivitos. YES. That was who he hung out with. n.n

--

Human chars:

Hutriel : A'nangel! XD Haha I suck. BUT. I did research and stuff, and there were these angels of vengeance, and Hutriel-- 'Chotriel', I believe, is the Hebrew-with-romanized-alphabet spelling, but it's pronounced Hutriel, with awesome Hebrew/Yiddish 'h'-- was 'rod of the lord', and misty smite-y. And in -my- rp, he got kicked out because he was like, 'whee I love my job WAY TOO MUCH' and the--bugger, seraphim, I believe, are higher in rank than his caste, which was the Thrones-- the superiors were like, 'ick, we're new testament, hello?!1' and Hutriel was all, 'screw you guys! *waves around whip and firey sword*' And -they- were all, 'oh no you didn't! *wingclip* *toss down to earth*' And it was a lot of fun. He started out because I wanted to try out slash rp, and he turned into this fantastically unpleasant guy. XD Like, he was very -repressed-, very, 'omg I am a manly man who is very not gay!' except he totally was. And it was loads of fun rping out his figuring that out and he got stabby instead of angsty. Hah. XD

God, I feel like the most tremendous loser EVER. XD


Only pics I have are of Hutriel:

www.deviantart.com/deviation/27142419/ (Hutriel is the non-glasses one, on the left)

[Shomoro]

There was only room for one king in that thar pride, Wa! XD

...And yes. He was killed by some uppity outsider via a gaijin smash. XD

ANYWAY. Onto mine, in more-or-less chronological order.

Kivitos

Kivitos was my very first "real" lion character, I think. As I recall, I tried starting out with a couple of lion cubs (consecutively, not simultaneously) on TLKMUCK, but I never had the patience to let any of them age, so none of them lived past adolescence. XD Kivi I got on African Legends around...2001/2002, I guess? I used to have a bunch of old logs with timestamps on them, but I lost 'em when I switched computers.

Anyway, I created him for a plot that I'm a little fuzzy on now, but he was pretty much supposed to just be Kai's buddy; we were vaguely planning to model them after Tulio and Miguel from The Road to El Dorado, but that only worked out if you saw the version where Tulio was an utter sleazebag and Miguel had a big heaping plate of existential angst. He was a little two-dimensional, I'm afraid, but I liked him enough that he had incarnations on Matrix MUCK and GotS Rebirth to a much smaller extent (he was the familiar of Kvel, starving writer extraordinaire).

His backstory was always <i>very</i> vague, but I had some real fun with him--after the plot he was created for was wrapped up, he and Kai wound up helping the Zari Bara take their lands back from a barbary named Adhabu, along with the White Lands pride, and after that they kind of moved in as border guards in exchange for their assistance. He hooked up with a lioness named Tulia at Tawakali's behest, but he was really bad at romance, and shortly afterwards he really started to stagnate (along with the rest of the pride, as I recall). I didn't want him to just fade away--the lack of closure seemed very cruel, somehow--so he left and, like a good little idiot, decided to cut through the desert towards the Pridelands.

And died en route of heatstroke, I recall. XD; Probably knew what he was doing, too. Pffth.

On Matrix he was the second-in-command of one of the ships, and he had an unhealthy dependency on the captain, Hikojirou. Speaking of which...

Hikojirou

He isn't really an African-based character unless you count the fact that he was a panther, but I ADORED him. His first incarnation was on FlipSide MUCK as a spoofed character in the Egyptian realms--he was the captain of a platoon (also spoofed) that had been hired to guard a merchant and his wares. He was based off of Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG-1, and I'm afraid that I was quite unable to resist the urge to have some of his platoon be similar to other SG-1 characters--I can't remember any names, but there was a loomy leopard who was so obviously Teal'c, and a Daniel cheetah. XD

Then I moved him to Matrix, where he was a ship's captain, and dishevelled, sarcastic, and utterly lovable. <3 He had a background roughly the size of Lord of the Rings to make up for Kivi's lack of one (a slight exaggeration, but whatever!), was said Kivi's personal therapist, and to this day I regret that I had to stop RPing him due to some OOC drama that led to me quitting MUCKs altogether for awhile.

So, yes...somewhat off-topic, but the Hikojirou goes with the Kivitos, so tough.

Ehuka

Everybody's favourite maneless lion! Ehuka was never really intended to be a serious character, but I had loads of fun with him (and, judging by the OOC responses I got, so did other people). He was formerly a really evil dude--general/second-in-command figure to a tyrant king, who did some pretty despicable things. Killed old ladies and ate cubs, that sort of thing.

...And then he lost his memory when he got conked over the head during an uprising, and also lost the majority of his braincells in the process. He wandered around with his mate (Wa, what was her name? H-something?) for awhile, boggling over vegetation and generally driving the poor lioness crazy, until he finally sauntered into Kivuli and took up semi-residence there because Xian promised to show him some non-evil flowers (don't ask). XD When it started snowing, he went with the pride to the Forgotten Lands and gave poor Fuadi an ulcer because Kiet told him to go bother the nice Tyne folks when he tried to get too close to the royal cubs. He got washed away in the flood, and that was pretty much how I retired him; I needed to free up an AML slot for something (Rosabis?), and he was my sacrificial lamb, poor boy.

I loved him, though. XD

Najisi (Shituko)

I haven't had Shituko very long, or RPed him very much at all, but he's staked out maybe half my brain and started chewing on it almost nonstop, so I guess I get to list him here. He's a tad cliched, and I knew it when I made him, but he's just too much fun for me to care. He was abandond by his mother as a cub because he was fathered by somebody really bad (shut up, I haven't quite decided how his father was really bad yet XD) and taken in by a pride called the Kitambi, because the heir at the time, Kisambare, took a shining to him and didn't want to leave him to rot. He wasn't really favoured by anyone else, though--he was big, clumsy, and belligerent, and gave the youngest prince a good scarring on his face because he talked back to Kisambare. They only kept him around because he was Kisambare's best friend and the kid would have thrown a fit if they'd kicked him back out.

So he grew up unhealthily protective of Kisambare, and unhealthily dependent on him--a little like Kivitos, actually--going so far as to permanently adopt a nickname that Kisam' made for him: Shituko ('twitch,' because he was a very fidgety child, but Najisi isn't exactly a name with nice connotations either--it means 'unclean,' pretty much. His mum wasn't very happy with him). Some drama in their adolescence (over him! ...The king basically told Kisambare that he could keep his title or his unpleasant little attack dog) wound up with Kisambare's younger brother, Mdukuo, assuming the throne instead of him, and after their father died via a little familial coaxing, everything was hunky-dory for awhile.

Until Mdukuo totally went off his rocker and became paranoid and mistrustful of them, anyway. Kisambare decided that he had to go because he was becoming too much like their father, so he and Shituko set out to kill him while he was alone on a border patrol--but Mdukuo, being mister oh-my-god-they're-out-to-get-me, had pulled the guard over to guard HIM instead of the other borders, and Kisambare wound up dead and Shituko wound up mostly-dead, which is why he's so scarred up. And then HE went off his rocker. XD

So now he just kind of wanders around searching half-heartedly for Kisambare, and quietly hating on everybody because why aren't they his man, dagnabbit?! He's also got problems with eating--he wants to die but doesn't quite have the gumption to do it, so he just goes hungry until he loses his nerve and then freaks out because oh my God he ate something!

So, in brief: he's unpleasant, arrogant, and very much traumatised.

Boy needs a hug.


This got very spammy. I'm so sorry. :x

...I'll spare you the pictures. XD

[Msasi]

Aha. XDD The lion that squished Jamilah and forced her into early pregnancy.. and that Undine killed? That was Adhabu. XD Momentarily reincarnated just to be killed in a somewhat violent fashion. Fun times!

AND.. AND.. Undine was originally meant to be based off of Jack from SG1 too! XDD That's why he has Jack quotes in his description. XD I loves Jack. <333

And I personally loved Ehuka.. and it really is too bad he and Annie didn't get to meet. They would have gotten along swimingly.

[Shomoro]

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*DED*

omg. XD Kivitos had NO emotional investment in the fight...but he would have LAUGHED. XD

I loves me a Jack, too. <333 He's fabulous. If I had one I'd keep him in my closet!

And I knooow. We kept putting it off and then Annie died. ;.; Or Ehuka went bye-bye. I think that happened first. *wanders off-topic*

[Subiani]

.. OMG. I completely forgot about the hissy fit that Fuadi had, when Ehuka wouldn't leave his cubs alone. And it pissed Fuadi even off even more when he tried to reason with Ehuka -- and Ehuka would just ramble on about things that made NO sense. The only reason that Fuadi didn't try to kill him on the spot, was basically that he didn't wanna be dumping buckets of blood on the floor where he had to sleep. <3

[Yllan]

LOL! I remmeber Kivitos and Kai.. over African Legends, we RPed 'em with Shah a few times.. it was neato. Also, Annie is right'o! Last week I brought Adhabu back from the dead (remember? I was the one that played 'im..!), only to be killed again.. he's the reason Jamilah lost 5 out of 7 cubbies (sadsad), but Undine killed him off. XD

And, Hik' was totally NEAT.. I still have the picture I made o' him www.deviantart.com/view/2309779/ He was like.. SO NEAT. XD We should arpee 'em sometime for old times' sake!

[Shomoro]

I remember when you drew that! I've got it in my favourites over on DeviantArt; it's still fabulous. <3

And YES, we should.