Zero the Seraph
Kevin Andrews
Physical description:
Kevin is a somewhat short, skinny individual. He doesn’t look like the strong kind of guy, but he is a bit stronger than he looks. He has grey eyes and short brown hair, having decided that keeping the long hair like he’d had in college was far too uncomfortable for Africa. He has pale skin and tends to wear earthy toned, white, or black clothes as the occasions called for it. It is not unusual for him to have a backpack and a gallon of water with him. He does not normally travel with his fancy camera unless he is specifically looking for something to shoot, but he always has his cellphone on him, which has a pretty nice integrated camera so as always to be ready to get a good picture if the occasion arose. However, even without the camera, he always had a pencil, a good eraser and a journal with him to write and draw inside of.
Background:
Kevin is a young photojournalist who’d just achieved his degree in the art when he was sent off to Africa with a team of researchers for some work. The team of five were delving into the deepest parts of Africa on the fringe between something that resembled civilization and something completely wild. The research effort was to find out what was going on in the area. Naturally, there had to be some press coverage and that was what Kevin did best. He wrote the articles about the things that were being discovered among the tribes in the area and the political situation on the fringe.
After spending a couple years in Africa, Kevin grew attached to the wild out there, uncertain of what he wanted to do besides actually join in on the research. He wanted to see what was further out there, now that the area had started development into a small city. Due to his efforts and the value of his currency in the area, Kevin bought a small house and a nice sized piece of land on the outskirts of town. Kevin lived very comfortably, and had a pretty monotonous lifestyle.
One day while he was returning home from the local bar, his life was changed when he found a small lion cub on his doorstep. It was something that he found very unusual, since lions tended to stay away from his place for whatever reason, not that he minded the occasional big cat roaming his property. He decided since the cub was alone and the mother was nowhere to be found he should probably take care of her until she needed to be turned over to the wildlife refuge on the other side of town. The refuge seemed to be growing larger and larger as they moved further and further into Africa’s wilderness.
Kevin was never much one for the heat, but it was a small price to pay when he had so much experience and lovely photographs to go along with his time. He raised the small cub for a year before even getting any questions about turning her over to the refuge. After having gone through all of the channels, and finding that his lioness friend really had no desire to leave him, he decided to keep her and continue to raise her as his companion. He respected her power and knew that she was a wild animal, and so he treated her more like another person than a pet… not to say that he didn’t dote on her with loving affections when she was in the mood. Another good thing that came out of the situation was the successful journal that came along with raising a lioness. People always asked him questions about her but he kept it very professional and always explained that she was more of a companion than a pet.
So after a few years, Kevin is still living in the same place, with a nice bit of money and a lioness at his side. He really wanted to go out into the wilderness and continue his journal, documenting plants and animals that he saw out in the wild. Mostly, he just wanted to get away from all of the town gossip and politics. Still fairly young at 28 years old, Kevin has become a well-respected member of the city and his ties to the civilization there, including his job and everything else related to the place have kept him from being able to escape.
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Name: Kirjhalla
Physical description:
Kirjhalla is a very well toned man when not in lion form, and his left eye has become useless after many fights with those who would rise up against his throne. He looks quite a bit younger than he is and often shows off his muscular form to keep people from challenging him, despite his rule over the lion kingdom. In both human and lion form his eyes are an orangish gold colour. In his lion form, like his brother, he is a white lion. He is a very large lion, bigger than most and clearly the king of his land.
Background:
Kirjhalla was the smarter of the two brothers and since he had not been brought up to be the king he didn't get the training needed to hold the position. Naturally, he was jealous that his brother had gotten the title of king simply because he was born first, and while he asked Kirjhalla for advice it wasn't enough. So Kirjhalla came up with a plan. A devious ploy to overwhelm the kingdom and gain support with several enemy cultures, promising land and food for the animals. Of course, he had assumed his lackey's had gotten rid of his little heiress problem, but alas she was still alive, unbeknownst to him. He had set a trap when his brother had gone off to try and negotiate with the humans and got him assassinated, assuming the king's daughter was going to die with him.
WIth that no other person was in line for the kingdom and by his blood right he became the next king, fulfilling his promises and paying back the favors he started a pact between several tribes in the area. With the humans pushing on the edge of their land he intended to force them out. His allies had been causing turmoil in the land to keep it undesirable for anyone else to move in but that little town of Diamondrock was impenetrable. There was already so much corruption going on in that town that Kirjhalla was just a small fish in the human world of arms dealing and drugs. This is where he learned the concept of money and found that he could save his people and continue to rule them if he embraced what he hated most: humans. It drove him mad that he had to stay in human form just to conserve food and water resources. He was a proud lion king, after all.
Kitsuneko Suzuki
Pride Name: KalinyPhysical Discription:
She has silver eye's soft and with a faint emerald circle around the iris.Her fur is pure white and the rarest type of lion. Her fur is soft and coarse in her adult. She is barely in her teens as a lion in her human for she would appear in her 20. Her human form her fur mostly becomes her long flowing white hair. The rest forms an outfit of her choosing, once she learned how to control her powers, but for the first few times it is a white dress.
Background:
Kaliny left her pride when she was little so many things had been going on she had seen her father die. She felt his death was her fault. He uncle had got him to save her from a the herd for Buffalo. She cuddled up to her fathers body after he had tried to save her. Her uncle told her to run that it would be better then the fate that awaited her once the pride found out that she was at fault. She then ran towards the human areas.
She soon stopped at a human home trembling as she met the human male when he came home she hadn't been told much about humans just to stay away from them and that they could not be trusted. She didn't fell she had much of a choice she couldn't just go try to join another pride.
As she grew up with her friend she forgot about her past, but not only that she never learned to change and about her power to transform into a human form. She grew close to her care taker she loved laying next to him as he read a book. As she got bigger she began to learn to hunt for food she was very bright and smart. She could play with her friend with out hurting him. The scariest day came when it seemed like the other humans were going to take her away from her friend. She made it difficult on there part and tried to get it a cross that she did not want to leave.
Since then she has happily stayed with her human friend. She didn't make it easy for other to come over she felt as if she had an extra sense on who she felt she could trust and who she couldn't.
N a m e // Cutantira (meaning "Independent")N i c k n a m e // Cat,Tria,
Physical Discription:
In Lion form her eye's are an emerald green, fur is a dark brown and her underbelly is a lighter color. In human form her hair is a long black. She usually wears a leather outfit when she around the tribe. She is eighteen years old. She has the gift to change her eye color in her human form.
Background:
Cutantira played with Kaliny when there were really small. She felt that she could be herself with Kaliny. Not long after one day of playing with her close friend and they had let their curiosity get the best of them and they got in trouble. She knew Kaliny would get most of the scolding being the daughter of the leader of the tribe. She had not seen Kaliny at all the next day.
Later that evening Kaliny's uncle gathers the tribe together to tell them that Kaliny and his brother had been killed. She was the most saddened by this news. The uncle then declared himself the leader of the tribe no one would challenge him because he the closest blood relative to Kaliny and her father.
Cutantira grew up learning to hunt to help find food but there once lush area had seemed to wither away since the Kaliny's Uncle had taken over. She was one of the strongest and she was in charge of finding food for the tribe.
