Blue or White: Blue
Name: Sama'Mali'Akkara (Just Akkara for short)
Meaning: “Sky full of clouds” in Arabic
RP Links: These are the most recent Gaia-logged RPs, and they're not complete, but you didn't say they needed to be or not so I assume this is alright? If not I can fix them.
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Link 3Personality: Akkara and her sister have always seemed like two halves of the same whole. Or, that's how Akkara thought it was, anyway. She and her sister have their obvious differences in personality and looks, but they share the important things, like a family, a history, and general likes and dislikes. There is no one who knows her sister better than Akkara, and she knows the same is true of herself. Akkara is a quiet, sensitive cub, often daydreamy and spacey. She often wonders what her life would be like if her mother hadn't died, and although she never really knew her mother, she often pretends that her spirit is following her, watching and speaking to her. This figment of her imagination may not be anything like Tsubame actually was, but it's good enough to make Akkara feel comforted when she's afraid or alone. The only living soul she's ever told about this odd habit of hers is her twin sister. Akkara is a very private cub, rarely speaking about herself to anyone unless she has to. As far as her other family members go, Akkara loves them all but often feels disconnected with them, often feeling that they could never possibly understand her. Only her twin ever will.
Pride or Rouge? Rogue
Prompt Number: 3 (OOC Note: It's kind of a combo, but I also included some angst about her twin leaving as well! Obviously if whoever wins the twin wants her to be a rogue too this won't happen, but I thought it'd be interesting to write about!)
Prompt Response: She was... leaving?
Akkara didn't feel like she understood what was happening. She knew that her family belonged to a pride, before she was born, but they had lived here in the rogue lands her whole life... why did they decide to leave it now?
Father was going, and some of her siblings as well. She would not be alone – there were one or two who would also be staying. But her sister was leaving, and to Akkara that was almost the only thing that mattered. This was HOME. Uprooting herself into a strange new pride was about the last thing Akkara would have wanted. So why did her sister want to go?
Akkara could have asked, but she somehow didn't feel as though she could bring herself to talk to her right now. Or any of them. While the rest of them said their goodbyes to their father, their sisters and brothers, Akkara hung back silently. It made sense for father to leave... it was his pride. He knew it's ways. But her siblings had only heard stories, hadn't they? They no more belonged there than they did anywhere else. The fact that they had been born into the pride, to Akkara, meant nothing. They had spent their whole life in the roguelands.
Akkara felt a presence behind her and knew what it was without having to turn around. Her mother often came to her in times of distress, like this. She always exuded peacefulness and strength, the embodiment of everything good and maternal and wise.
“Akkara,” said her mother, her voice echoing and disembodied, “Aren't you going to say goodbye to them?”
“No.” Akkara told Tsubame with certainty, “They are leaving me. They should say goodbye to ME.”
“Well, perhaps they would if you weren't sitting so far away,” Tsubame told her daughter gently, and Akkara sighed. Her mother was often right about these things. Even now, she could see some of her siblings and her father glancing her way, probably assuming Akkara was upset and wanted to be left alone. Why did her mother always have to be right?
“I don't get it. Why won't they stay? This is our home!” Akkara grumbled, but she knew the answer already even before her mother's voice pointed it out.
“Because this isn't home to your father. And your siblings have their own reasons. Some want to stay with him, others want to see the lands of their birth. But it's not because they want to separate from the family, or from you.” Her mother's voice sounded gentle, like always, and it calmed Akkara. She sighed again and got up. She supposed she'd have to suck it up and say goodbye... Downheartedly, she trudged over to her twin...
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