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Daddy's little Duplicate
Cub name: Aoibheann (pronounced EE-van)
Meaning: "beautiful sheen" in Irish Gaelic, used by some Irish royalty.
Personality: She's a little proud, happy to look so much like her daddy, but she still believes in a fairy tale type life. She wants to find love, and be happy with her family, like her daddy is happy with her, her siblings, and half siblings. She enjoys being around her family, and they are an important part of her life.
Any future plots/ideas:
Daddy, why did you agree to this?
Aoibheann asks her dad why he agreed to bring new cubs into the pride, and how exactly she and her siblings came to be. (Not the birds and the bees per se, but how it is he found a female who would willingly give up her cubs.)

So much for my happy ending...
Aoibheann is disappointed that her parents didn't have the love she'd expected and wanted them to have, and the disappointment leads to her giving up her original plan to fall in love and make a family within the pride. As he grows older, she would think about petitioning the Queen to send her on the same mission her father was sent on: rogue breedings to bring new blood into the pride. She would think that if she can't have her fairy tale love, she should help her pride and bring new blood in. If she's not allowed to do exactly as her father did, she could perhaps roam the boundaries and bring new blood in that way.

An Unforeseen Happenstance
After a litter or two of cubs, Aoibheann could be looking for a new male to aid her pride. She would find one...but it would be almost like love at first sight. She'd get...twitterpated, something she never felt before. I don't mean this to be an "insta-romance" kind of thing, but I want her to find her fairy tale ending, or a version of it.
Diseased? Diseased, Beginning to a little intermediate stages. She mostly gets the achy joints and fevers, and occasionally there are days where she can't eat.

Prompt #: 1
Prompt Reply: It was a beautiful sunny day and Aoibheann was having a good day. The disease the plagued her pride was taking it easy on her today; no fever, and her joints barely ached! It was days like this that had her up and around, visiting her friends and making new ones. Today though, she realized that a lot of her friends had what she thought she wanted; two parents who loved each other. It made her wonder where her mother was, and if her daddy loved her.

So she asked. And the answer she got was...not what she expected. She frowned and nodded, sort of understanding. The pride needed new blood constantly but...it upset her. She wanted loving parents, parents who loved each other, and their kids. But hers didn't. It...colored her perception of her family. She still loved them all, of course. But she hated it. She hated that her family wasn't what she thought it was. Wasn't what she wanted it to be.

As a young cub, Aoibheann resented the pride's disease for making her father go out and bring new blood in. She grew up to hate the disease, and wonder if the God of Pestilence would ever see fit to free them from their fates. He would constantly be in her prayers, a mantra that becomes second nature to her.

But as she gets older, she begins to understand the need for the new blood and she wants to do the same in the hopes that the new blood she helps to bring in would be immune, if only she could find the right combination of hybrid...

Daddy's Blue Star
Cub name: Niamh (pronounced NEEV)
Meaning: "bright" in Irish, Niamh was also the daughter of the sea god in Irish legends.
Personality: Optimistic. One could say annoyingly so. She always looks for the silver lining and points it out to others, especially if they're down. On her own down days, she still smiles, her favorite thing to say is, "No worries, tomorrow is another day~".
Diseased? Diseased, intermediate stages.
How will the cub deal with the sickness, both of herself (if diseased) and the other pride members: Niamh learned early on about the disease of the pride, and despite (or perhaps because of?) the stage of her own disease, this little cub refuses to be pessimistic about it. On her good days, she goes around the territory visiting others and talking to them trying to distract them from their pain a while. She plays with the younger cubs when she can, and when the disease has taken her down with fever and nausea, she still has a smile for everyone around her.
Future plots/ideas:
What's so good about that?
I'd want her to meet someone negative, someone who tries even her patience and optimism by finding something bad about everything she sees good in. Someone who thinks their disease is a curse.

Is this love?
I want her to meet a lion (or lion hybrid) from outside the pride while she's wandering around the borders as a cub. They'll meet every day and she'll start getting a crush on him.

I love you so much, I won't hurt you
She grows to love someone outside the pride (probably the cub from the above plot, but can be someone else as well), but the closer they get emotionally, the more she wants to stay away from him physically. It's the first time she'll see her disease as something negative.

Daddy's Little Surprise!
(note to self: Caoimhe)

Daddy's little Duplicate
Cub name: Nora
Meaning: Honor (given as a way of honoring her father with a cub so similar to him)
Personality: The moment she was deemed immune she has been given a certain responsibility to have the pride interests at heart. She will be the one taking care of her sick family, hunting for the pride, putting finding her mate on hold so she can have flings to bring fresh blood back to the pride. Most cubs would have felt burdened by this responsibility but not Nora, she believed in her name sake. She was going to be honorable and someone the pride could look towards for help. She would make her family proud.
She is kind and loving to all those who seek help from her and will savagely defend anyone who is in need. Some people find her a little hard to deal with, she's not exactly the lioness that is going to lay back and relax by the watering hole, you're more likely find her with the healers or getting her next assignment from the pride. Her duty to her family, her pride are what keep her going but its also what keeps her from making true, lasting and deep connections.
She has a lot of people that ask for her help, or find her devotion to the pride wonderful but in all honesty she doesn't have many friends. She thinks its cause they resent her for getting off Scott -free from the disease, being born with immunity but really its cause a lot of them don't feel like they can live up to her sense of duty and the things she does. That she won't like them because they don't do as much for the pride.
She talks little and laughs less, making her seem a bit cold at first. Once you warm up to her though you may just fall in love with how much she loves the world. You'll begin to understand why it seems like a sense of duty is all she has but her sense of duty is fueled by her love of all the people in her pride.

Any future plots/ideas:
Cub

The Call of Duty
Nora will one day eat a small kill with her sibling who has the disease, her father will be worried and scared that she will also get the disease but as time wears on and he takes her to the healer she is deemed immune to the illness. Her father then tells her what being immune will mean to her, the family and to the pride as a whole.

Adolescent

Responsibilities
Nora will begin to train and learn more of what is expected of her, often mentored by her father. She learns to hunt, some healing and learns that she will most likely me expected to bring in new blood by mating with rouges and bringing the cubs back to the pride.

To Give up Love
Nora falls in love with another member in the pride with not much time left before having to leave to breed with the rouges for the pride. She will truly learn what putting duty ahead of everything else in life might mean. They deal with her upcoming "deployment" and hopefully agree that when she comes back he will be waiting for her (perhaps he won't and she will be heartbroken)

Adult

Attracting a Rouge
Nora, a lioness where most of her life was centered on duty and for a brief time on her love back home is now faced with the conundrum of being seductive...... something she has no experience with. (here she will meet a rouge and learn how to let herself go. He will teach her to relax and how to have fun. Followed by getting her knocked up XD )

Reuniting
Nora's home coming, she is welcomed home by family friends and perhaps....even the love of her life. Pregnant and so used now to life on her own. How she deals with re-entering her pride and dealing with her pregnancy.

New Blood
The cubs have arrived. How Nora and hopefully her lifemate will deal with the new cubs and how it will effect their relationship.

Deployment
Nora is sent on her second and last trip into the rouge lands to find a male to mate with and bring the resulting cubs back to her pride. Nora will deal with missing her family, wanting to go home and struggle to find her duty again.

DiseasedImmune, she will carry on her father's legacy of bringing in new blood to the pride. Weather she settles down with a fellow pride member or an outsider that follows her into the pride is currently uncertain.
When it comes to her pride members that are diseased or carriers she is very loyal and due to her immunity when not looking for new blood to bring back she is often working in the pride healers room. She dedicated her time to taking care of the sick, hunting for them or even running simple errands and watching cubs.

Prompt #: 1
Prompt Reply:


Nora walks down toward the watering hole on the pride's lands thinking to herself about the information her father told her of her mother. "I know I am just like my father, we have the same coat and mindset... we're both even immune. But I couldn't help but hope that a piece of my mother was still present in me but how could I still want to be like a lioness that didn't want her own cubs." She thought to herself as she walked the path to the watering hole. Nora was conflicted between her emotions and sense of duty, her honor. "My father was doing his duty to the pride by bring home fresh blood, strong blood like me. I can't hold that against him. Who knows maybe one day I will be asked the same, I mean my immunity suggests that I will. Not anytime soon but one day, it's my duty and part of my destiny." As she reached the watering hold and took a drink she looked out over the land. "I love this place, our lands and I'm sure I would do anything to protect this place to ensure that it continues. As much as I wanted to think that my mother loves me and wanted me, I can't ignore that my father was admirable and it could have been worse. She could have tried to keep us and then my siblings born with the disease would have unleashed the illness upon all the lions of the savannah." Nora sat there looking out into the sky as the sunset deciding that her father who she was so much like, is exactly who she wanted to become. He did his duty and she would do hers. Even if her mother didn't want her she had a whole pride who needed her and that was all she wanted.

Daddy's little Duplicate
Cub name: Sabrina
Meaning: "Legendary Princess" in English, but it was the name of a celtic maiden in a welsh tale.
Personality:
As a frailer cub who would generally be regarded as 'runt-esque' by outside lions, Sabrina has never been capable of the boisterous games and activities that other cubs have had the pleasure of taking part in. Too easily exhausted, she has never been one for stamina and as a consequence, is not the most sporty individual you will meet. Instead this cub sought out other interests and has become rather studious as a result. With a love for legends, song and the occasional dance (even if she might only be able to watch) she finds enjoyment in the more peaceful and less exhausting activities in life.

A self professed brainbox, she likes to stick her nose in to every little thing of interest to her, whether it be for science or merely her own personal development. It doesn't matter if it's simply another story or something more complex, such as healing.

Due to her illness, she has also developed a very philosophical approach to life. While she prefers to remain optimistic she knows this is not always a possibility. If she's meant to die young then she believes she should live hard and well - a decidedly mature approach for one so young.

Nevertheless, despite her preference for more studious pursuits she does regard other cubs with a certain amount of envy. After all, no cub doesn't want to tag at least once in their lives or to have a chance at those rough and tumble games...
Any future plots/ideas:
I'd quite like the idea of her suffering a near death experience during adolescence. A point in which her illness becomes so bad that the healers assume it will prove fatal. This could prove to be the turning point in her life where her body starts to fight back; but I'd find it utterly adorable if she had a best friend at this point who stuck by her and encouraged her to fight hard against it. After this experience and the fact that she'll pull through, she'll suffer a period where she's torn between two roles - a desire to pursue the role of a healer as a mark of respect for the creatures that tended to her, or as a bard in order to tell tales and inspire those around her.

In addition, sometimes I'm a sucker for angst (oh noes, bet you saaw that coming ;D)! Even if it only remains as a crush, I would love for her to potentially fall in love with a rogue male of any feline species, even better if it was a lion. She'd be torn between an incredible desire to try and leave so she could be with him (though she wouldn't dare) and the possibility of trying to persuade him to join the pride. However, if she did that then could she really live with herself if he fell ill and it proved to be fatal? In the end, she could either find herself rejected or elect to sever ties for his benefit - this would all be done while adolescent/adult of course as she'd simply be far too ill for any sort of cub crushes.

Another idea is a desire to travel and a probably failed attempt at persuading the queen to let her explore the rogue lands (even under escort) as she picks up various tales from other lands to entertain her pride with.

Diseased? Sets out as a diseased cub who is decidedly unwell at a young age. She's initially assumed to be a permanent member of the diseased faction for the rest of her life, but as she approaches adolescence her surpressed immune system appears to gain strength and fights off the disease. From that point on she's regarded as a carrier but remains small, petite and frail with a potential to relapse if she over extends.

Prompt #: 3
Prompt Reply:
They had done it again - they'd completely ruined it and while they didn't necessarily mean any harm by it, it rather upset the tiny cub. She'd put so much work into it and she'd only been gone for a little while, but by the time she'd returned they'd already set up their little trap. Unfortunately for Sabrina she simply didn't have the reflexes to prevent what happened next and as a result she tripped, tumbled and then slid unceremoniously into her own little creation. Her rump was deposited quite comfortably in the very centre of what had been a little twig hut and one might have been as bold as to observe that it almost appeared to have been set up that way.

Ah ha ha ha.

So hilarious.

Unsurprisingly the cub's little cheeks puffed out in frustration and a touch of anger. Why was it that the twins, her own brothers, never seemed to understand the importance of other individuals' things! It was as if they had a total disregard for everything and their only concern seemed to be that they could have as much fun and cause as much chaos as possible. While the 'fun' part of this was perfectly acceptable, the more studious and quiet sibling did disagree with the desire for chaos. Argh, but all boys were so exasperating! Why'd they have to be so stupid? Her nose wrinkled a little in distaste at this thought and she pulled herself away from the now destroyed twig hut - it was ruined, there was no recovering it. As the devastation of her little hut seemed to dawn on her, she was overwhelmed by a rather bizarre emotion... she wanted revenge and she didn't just want normal revenge, she wanted to make this completely unforgettable.

PENANCE! Penance for all the upset they had caused to other souls such as her, but how exactly was she meant to set about doing this? She sat herself down again, this time away from the fallen twig model and heaved a contemplative sigh. Her gaze shifted about for inspiration and it was only as one of the apothecaries wandered passed that she was struct by an idea. Oooh, but what if she was able to 'borrow' some of the ingredients they harvested? She could develop a weird little paste and rub it all over her brothers whenever they were dozing. When they woke up, they'd say such strange rashes that they might think they'd gotten ill.

...Better yet, she could orchestrate it that it didn't look like the pride's usual affliction.

It seemed perfect, it would give them a scare and it would only be when the healers had seen them that they would realise. Hmph, that would teach them to ruin her twig models again! She'd just make sure to drop a line in there about bad luck and karma before they went, it seemed like a reasonable enough plan. Unfortunately, the cub didn't give any consideration for the fact that the twins might try to like their 'rashes' off, in which case, her prank would fail miserably. Alas, she as no well practised prankster and it wasn't something that had crossed her mind, if it happened then it would be a learning curve for next time!

This in mind, she set to work.

To here. <333

Daddy's Little Surprise!

Daddy's Little Surprise!

Daddy's Little Surprise!