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Tears are Water

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Leilani wasn't sure what to think of him. 
Elenor, her mother, had taken him in after his mother disappeared. Elenor kept telling her that he belonged to them now. 
His name was Solban.
Leilani was only 2 years old, and he had the same age as her. 
Elenor at first hadn't pied much attention to Glydam and her son of unknown father. She was slightly jealous when she heard Glydam did get a son, while she had a daughter.. But, Elenor didn't start to notice Solban till after Glydam vanished. The poor fawn kept wondering the caves - not knowing neither or not his mother had left him, got killed or was taken captured by a stag... 
Leilani had first felt sorry for the little boy. She wouldn't know what to do if something happened to her mother...  After a hole month, Glydam still hadn't returned.. Elenor wasn't a good friend of Glydam, nor did they often meet. It was a mystery to Leilani why her mother suddenly wanted to adopt this little boy. 
He was taller then her. He was slightly older. And he was bitter.
Leilani wasn't the biggest fan of her new brother. Elenor told her to be nice, he belonged to them now. So she did.

She walked toward him with a smile, and secretly, she did like the fact she now had a brother. Someone to play with. Someone to share secrets with. 
Solban would soon shatter that secret hope. Regardless what she tried, the fawn-stag remained almost emotionless towards her. 
Elenor left Leilani not much changes - she had to continue training, and since Solban now belonged to them, it meant training with Solban..

Over time, Leilani couldn't make up her mind over Solban. She could never see if he cared about them. If he cared for anyone or even himself..
And as for herself .. She couldn't even figure out if she liked him or not. He would talk back to her with she spoke. If she didn't speak, he wouldn't either.
Leilani did know how her mother felt about him. And it annoyed her. Her mother saw him as her new way of getting into a higher rank. He would become a stag. And stags could climb up the social ladder higher then does. If he became known as her son, she would raise in status. Perhaps even arrange a high ranked mate for Leilani. Yes, this was perfect for Elenor. Leilani hated her mother's plan. She encouraged his bitterness. Leilani, naive like a child, wanted to try and help him - break the bitterness in his heart.

She was kind to him. She brought him food, the ones she suspected where his favorites. It did help when she asked him, he didn't seem to mind telling her. She searched for the most beautiful glowing  funghi and algea, so they could play with the paint. She spoke to him, often. She told him her dreams, her hopes, her fears. She hoped it would encourage him to warm up to her. But he never seemed to warm up at all. She kept feeling that the stag that should be her brother, was a stranger to her.

She tried and tried, refusing to give up. Why couldn't she get trough to him?
One moment, she had it. She couldn't take it anymore, and burst into tears, in front of Elenor and Solban.
Elenor didn't understand where her daughter's outburst suddenly came from. She told her daughter not to show such weakness.
With tears in her eyes, she rose her head high, and said: "No, mother. You are wrong. Tears are Water. And water is magic. This is my strength. " 



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EDIT: I won? I really won.. I wrote something ... and I won with it? :la: :woohoo: I feel like I'm dreaming! :excited: Where's my pencil where's my pencil!

I'm nuts that I'm trying, I suck at writing .. but that design is just what I've been waiting for for Leilani! :D And maybe my writing will improve by trying the literature challenge ... right? My mother language isn't English, so my English friends please tell me if you see errors! I wouldn't like to be disqualified for spelling errors or something ^^; And on the even brighter side, No backgrounds! :XD: Maybe I should write a little more often ... Ow, and did you know about the journal skins? I was writing, got random, noticed a button and went like ... that's possible? A journal skin on a deviation?

My bid for nr 10 ^^
March Imports: 2 Week Literature Auction Winners
March 2013 Imports: 2 Week Open Literature Auction
Auction is closed.
- This auction is open to all members
- Gender, type, personality etc. are up to you
- If you do not want your design please let me know so I can open it for public adoption
- Any fawns who have not been claimed (registered with the group) within two months stand the risk of being resold to another player
- Send all bids in a note to the group. Bids in comments will be IGNORED.
- Bids are limited to 1000 words a piece; part of being able to write well is the ability to conscisely put your thoughts onto the page. There is no requirement for what an auction piece should involve, however creativity, character, personality and new ideas are what we are looking for, your piece should showcase these features.
How I will be judging:
A good character and good research is weighted as much as being able to pen a good story. Marks are given on character, personality, overal


Name: Leilani
Gender: Doe (female)
Age: 7 years
Height: Short (8hh-81cm)
Type: light
Use: RP in the Western Isles
Herd: Oakfern
Color: Smoky Cream Fawn
Genetics:EE/aa/CrCr/fwfw/rzrz
Charms/Jewels:
-Necklace with a sapphire gem and an owl-feather
-Jewelry around her horn with turquoise gems
-Tail-bracelet with amethysts and owl feathers

In-game Stats:
Fighting
Speed: 5
Stamina: 3
Strength: 1
Experience: 2
Herb Lore
Basic
0 points
Magic
Water Magic
Basic She's too young for a medium XD
10 points

Character:
Curious - Smart - Reserved - Sarcastic - Passionate

Personality:
Leilani believes and prays to the Moon God, Gealach. Like her mother before her, she honors them by providing the priests fawns for sacrifice.

Leilani is proud to be who she is, and she's not about to change for anyone. She's smart and curious, and the latter can easily be abused as a bad quality. Curiosity killed cat, and Leilani's curiosity will get her into trouble sooner or later.. She's a passionate lady, but prefers to hide what she feels. Only to those she trusts, she will open and speak. She doesn't easily trust, especially after what happened to her mother and brother. Solban (played by ~nerwen-wilwarin) is one of the few she trusts, trough she feels rejected by him. She often tries to talk Solban into helping her track down the Jaguar, to kill it. Solban is also the one she will turn to for advice or water training - even trough he hardly seems to tolerate her around, she feels he is all she has left.

In her interactions with others, as little fawn, she loved playing with other fawns. Trough not the most social fawn, she wasn't picked on or rejected. She had few friends but had close friendships. She was always a little reserved, but after her mother's death, she becomes much more reserved.
Trough Leilani loves the watch the stars, flowers and the moon, something she can't do in the caves, she does love water. She loves swimming, even as little fawn, she was often the first to jump into the water.

History:
Elenor was born in Oakfern. Her parents were of common rank, never ever had a special or high position. The young Elenor grew up and quickly learned how life was working, but also what she wanted from it ... her goal! Though Elenor wasn't a beauty. A big horn was growing on her head ... and sadly she wasn't wanted for it under the stags. none of them ever fought for her ... she was just .. a doe. the wrong gender to make it top ranked. Though what she missed in beauty, she made good with other things: Skills, being smart and a lot of guts!

Elenor started to study the herb, her first goal, being a herb lose and in the mean time, she also developed her own magic, making her skills grow and with that, also her rank in the herd. She could say proudly that she didn't feared to poison the water of neighbor herds or even steal young fawn for secret rituals for the full moon. the herd starter to see her power and slowly she gained more fame.

Nevertheless, she was still a doe with no offspring. At the age of 15 she still had not mated to bare a foal. Though maybe it was because her personal preference. A royal stag, high ranked guard or a shaman was on her list, though sadly it was a deceiver that caught her and made her pregnant. A scandal ... she had been fooled.

And it only became worst when the fawn was born: a doe. A girl, another fawn that had to show what she could to make her rank in the herd. How could this happen to her?! Hate for the stag that did this to her and sadness for the young fawn of where she knew she would have a hard life she created her next goal. Elenor didn't cared anymore for her own rank, now she wanted to give the best for her daughter, to secure her future as a high ranked doe and she would do everything to bring her that far.

Elenor had to stop with the sabotage of the herds to take care of her daughter, which she had named Leilani. Slowly the herd started to forget the powerfull doe and many even didn't knew about her daughter. On the day when Leilani could finally follow her mother without trouble, her teaching began. Elenor started to teach her everything she had learned about plants and herbs and she was more then glad to see that her daughter had the same magic abilities as herself.

Around this time, Elenor adopted Solban, a young fawn who lost his mother. Elenor recognized herself in him - and trough she would never admit it to herself, that was most of the reason she adopted Solban. She truly cared for him, but saw his male parts mostly as the way to gain more status. If he could grow into a strong, powerful stag, he would increase her status, and was likely to arrange a high ranked mate for Leilani. Yes, this plan was perfect .. Solban had a bitterness in him that would work perfectly for her plans.

Though bad luck had to struck her child also, cursed with a horn. Though it didn't became as big as Elenors horn. Elenor was glad, and even found her daughter's horn elegant and beautiful.
To show that her horn could also be a mark of beauty and power, she made Leilani rub it into the luminous moss from the caves, showing that she did not feared.

When Leilani became older, she got more power and her knowledge about herb became bigger and bigger. even the stags started to look at her, since she wasn't afraid to show herself and Leilani gladly accepted their interest. Seeing that Elenor had brought a strong daughter to the word, Elenor got more and more attention the other stags and for the first time in her life, she found a mate. the season after, more joy came into the family when Leilani saw her young brother for the first time.

Everything was going well for the family, untill faith had to strike again.
A jaguar had dared himself into the save were leilani's brother was sleeping. with all her power, Elenor tried to defend her young son, but the small doe had no change ... Neither survived ...
Leilani cried next to the ripped body of her mother and brother and with sadness in her heart, she took the necklace from her mother, repairs it and wears it herself. she hadn't heard anything from her stepfather after that day ... he had blamed her for the attack, telling she was bringing bad luck ...

From that day leilani swore that no stag, fawnling or other creature would walk over her. She had lost her faith in the herd and only grew hate against other creatures.
Her own goal would be to kill that jaguar and take back what she had taken from leilani and to show the herd, that they better didn't mess with her ...

Future plans:
:bulletwhite: RP with ~nerwen-wilwarin's Solban - training, bonding (conflict brother-sister-romance)
:bulletwhite: Story with the Jaguar - will she kill him, can she find the right Jaguar?
:bulletwhite: RP around the Jaguar - She will go around trying to find fawnlings to help her track down the Jaguar - regardless of their herd! And naturally, get into trouble ;) She goes for either for a Blackwood or a Silverthorne - Winborne if she can find one.
:bulletwhite: Find a Silverthorne willing to play her childhood friend (the story can be read in my previous bid for Leilani)
:bulletwhite: Write out the story of Yildrim and Leilani.
:bulletwhite: RP with *OxStudio's Zhaenn

Timeline
Year 749 of the New Age - Summer - Leilani's birth
Year 751 of the New Age - Spring - Solban is adopted by Elenor and becomes Leilani's brother
Year 752 of the New Age - Summer - Leilani's training starts to pick up, and she begins to learn magic
Year 755 of the New Age - Autmn - Elenor and her son are killed by a jaguar
Year 756 of the New Age - Winter - current time - 7 years old

Other
Leilani is accompanied by a Yellow-footed Antechinus, named Yildirim.
She found him while searching for the Jaguar, his mother was killed by the jaguar she was tracking, and couldn't leave the poor creature behind.

Credits
Leilani, char, written piece ~ *Forget-Me-Not-Fields
#Fawnlings, designs ~ =Ehetere
Solban ~ ~nerwen-wilwarin
© 2013 - 2024 Nynke-FmnF
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DragonPud's avatar
Your writing is perfectly fine, hon! It's awesome to read your world :D