I never thought i say this but, eay... i shall join this RP just because of the snow, i love snow.. i eat snow... snow is my life... snow is my soul... snow is beautiful... snow is too fluffy not to resist... join the snow side BI
~snow track gimmi a minute to continue this RP

I'll take a whack at it. Using Tochza, to get him started while I wait for his picto to grow up.
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A large elk-like being came from the darkness of the tree line, his eyes an icy blue in what little light the late-night sky offered. He ducked his head down to avoid getting his tine tangled in the frozen branches. However, a tine hit with a crack that lightly echoed out towards the lake. Snow fell from the vibrating branch onto his head. Tochza snorted in agitation, shaking his head hard to rid himself of the clumps that clung to his long winter fur. The stag continued forward, stopping mid-way between the pond and the trees, to watch the figure out on the ice. He was rather impressed as she seemed so happy without a care in the world, her laughs and giggles lingering in his ear.

He hasn't been in the forest yet. Just waiting for his picto to grow up before doing that. I want him to start already an adult. Still a work in progress. My husband thought about coming here to take him over, but I already told him this guy is mine, haha. He might join eventually.

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He didn't smile back, as it was difficult for anything to make him smile. He watched with soft eyes as the uni-doe approached him. He could sense the magical blood in her veins, not unlike himself. A unicorn with no horn? No, a halfbreed, like himself. Internally amused at finding another similar to himself in this strange wood. Tochza stepped forward once she came close enough, bowing down on one knee with his antler nearly touching the snow before standing upright again. "Greetings, miss. I hope I didn't disturb you any. You looked like you were quite enjoying yourself." His voice was mature and a little on the deep side, but not quite baritone. It was smooth and flowed well, warm with kindness. His cool eyes contradicted his tone just slightly.

He quirked an eyebrow at her statement. And to know it's real? What? Everything is real. At least in his mind. Facts. Yes. Still, he also took a seat where he stood, letting his guard down just a touch and to show he wasn't a threat. "Tochza. I guess you could say I'm new in these parts. You are the first I've spoken to here." He lets his eyes wander over her lovely coat before turning a cautious eye to the dark deep in the woods. He knew he wasn't usually very approachable, but he was working on it. A bit socially awkward, perhaps. He turns his gaze back to her. "But it is nice to meet a friendly here." his gaze then turns to the ice, looking over her tracks left in the snow. He didn't understand the concept of fun. It was a very foreign feeling to him. "You say sliding on the ice is... fun?"

Something honest came out of his expression. Curiosity. Perhaps if she piqued his interest enough, she might get him to open up more. He seemed like he needed it. "Nice to meet you Tochza. Welcome to the forest!" the doe greet rather ecstatically. Her eyes followed the movement of his head and face, as his attention was shifting. "It's quite enjoyable- especially with someone else." she explained, standing up yet again. She shook out her body, removing loose snow and drying off a bit. "And it keeps you warm!" she laughed, prancing in a circle around the buck before sprinting back to the pond. She glanced back, grinning. "Come along now, I'm sure you'll like it!"

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OOC: sweet :3 I'll reply to you soon phantom

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As she came to the bank of the pond and leapt into the air, a figure went sliding on the ice under her. She landed with perfect balance, skidding to a halt and watching the other deer slide across the pond with amusement. Pushing off, she began skating to him and used a hoof to gently guide him and slow his speed. Bother of them came to a thicker part of the bank, just barely sliding enough to touch it. "Hello!"

Atiq's not-so-graceful flight across the ice was brought to a gentle halt at the other edge of the Pond. He heard his giggling savior giggle a greeting to him as he began to struggle to get his feet under him. He groaned, the fall on the ice had aggravated his bum right shoulder a bit, but he tried to shrug it off as he looked up at the doe.
" mmmppf-Hello there, miss."

Haha, I thought you were replying to us separately. It's ok. I wasn't sure if we were all in the same story line or not.
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Tochza looked over to the other stranger as he slid. Clumsy. He rolled his eyes, stepping out onto the shallow part of the ice. He was willing to look a fool for her when they were alone, but not now that another male is in the area. He held his high posture even moreso than before, trying to make it look easy to walk on the ice. His footing was very careful. Letting her have her time with the other male, Tochza tried to understand how walking on ice was fun? Of course, he wouldn't let his hoof slip even a bit. A sign of weakness in his eyes. But even as he mulled this ice thing over, he kept an eye on the doe to make sure this new stranger wasn't a threat to her. Being that clumsy though, he hardly seemed a threat.

OOC: Well I didn't make that clear from the start, so it's my fault as well. No worries c: I'll be merging the role plays together.

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Those dark eyes of hers continued to follow Tochza as he stepped onto the ice, noticing his posture changing. Hiding. Fear. Pride. His change in demeanor was noted, though she kept her expression the same. Her smiling features glanced down at the smaller stranger who now stood beside her, having gained his footing. "Sabel is my name. I'm glad to have more company around here." she replied, releasing him. She pushed off from the bank, moving foreward rapidly as she spun around and around. "Wheeeeee!" the doe cried, flinging past Tochza. Her tail latched onto his side, causing him to slide along with her. "No need to be so uptight! Have a little fun~" she giggled, knowing full well he probably didn't want to be taken out of his calm stature. "Surely you don't fear humor?"

"Whoah!" Tochza cried out as she slid him along with her, his legs spreading a bit for stability and his hooves splaying for traction, but finding very little. Much like Bambi on the ice, but as a full-grown adult. His expression stayed surprised, fighting to keep some control over the fear creeping up his spine. The hairs on his back bristle slightly. He wanted to back off, to fight out of her tail's grasp and get back to solid land. But no, that would be cowardly. Only the weak would turn tail and run over something as simple as sliding on ice. As they got over the deeper end, he heard the ice creaking under his weight. No breaking though. He gave an inward sigh of relief. It's thick enough, if only just barely. He watched her as she pulled him along, seeing her joyous expression. Is that what fun is? Tochza slowly attempted a smile, showing omnivorous teeth with slightly elongated fangs. Looked a bit more like a snarl than a smile, but he was trying for her sake. "I umm...I'm really not used to this kind of thing."

He shrugged, finding his footing again. "We didn't fall through, so there's that at least." That's it, Mr Negative. Find a positive. He glanced over to the smaller stag. "I'm Tochza." he said in a short greeting, nodding his head politely. May as well introduce if Sabel was going to keep them together.

Sabel paced around the two of them, examining their differences in color and height. A slightly surprised look came across her face when she heard Atiq's accept a little better, as well as the word he used to greet them. "S...salâm?" she asked rather uncertainly. She'd never heard his accent before, nor that word. She was having trouble pronouncing it. Foreign.

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OOC: Sorry for the late reply. I had a bug bite on me and needed to disinfect it x-x" that aside, I'll continue role playing with you two tomorrow c: okay?

OOC: Gooood afternoon~
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Sabel's surprise reverted back to that rather calm, warming smile that she seemed to constantly wear. He was rather amusing with the way he reacted. "You've nothing to apologize for. As for your 'native' tongue, it sounds rather lovely. Does anyone else speak it?" she asked softly, walking on the ice with a slower and much less energetic rhythm. How curious. He was probably from a land outside of the forest. At least, that is what it seemed like. Who knows how many languages had been added here while she'd been 'gone'.

Her eyes flitted back between Tochza and Atiq, carefully surveying how they were viewing one another. Her hoof steps made quiet, eerie clacks on the ice within the short silence that had been created within the conversation. She took a seat in the snow beside the two, watching the ice rather carefully.
"How long have you two been here?"

Atiq felt a little taken aback by the sudden spotlight put on him, after so long spent in hiding it felt quite odd. Yet it wasn't a bad kind of odd, really, he decided. "Ah, thank you," Atiq shifted a bit nervously on his feet. " and I do not know anyone else who speaks it here, I am not even sure where it comes from. For me it's just been something that I've always known..."

Tochza sat and simply listened quietly, keeping watch for... well... anything. But all he could see now was snow and darkness. even the little bit of light in the opening of the pond was shrouded in darkness. It made him uneasy. It was too quiet. He tried not to think too much of it, keeping an ear on the conversation. When she asked about how the stranger got there, he started thinking about his answer. What he would tell them, against the truth. If he were to have any chance here, no one must know of his pre-forest life. If you could even call it a life.

OOC: Sorry for the delayed and late replies. I did not expect one of my week days to be quite so busy. xD
I'm writing up a response.
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Aware of Tochza's lack of an answer, Sabel felt little surprise at this, though she had hoped for something. Deception was what he held himself with, and thus he would not so easily give away anything. She wondered if she had anything that she held so closely as well. Perhaps not... not that she could remember. Her eyes flickered away from him towards Atiq, the soft barely audible sound of his reaction to the cold drawing her attention. Perhaps it was because she moved around often or had thicker fur- despite how thin it might look- but she found the cold enjoyable and hardly ever bitter. Only during storms of rain, hail, and ice did she ever truly waver. Carefully, the doe stood up and quietly walked over to where the stag sat, earnestly listening to him. Sabel sat beside Atiq, lightly allowing her tail to gently fall upon his shoulders to halt his shivering. "I see... you are very similar to someone I met recently. they too have a lack of memory for how they came here. But they did mention they came from a world of sand and hot weather!" she giggled, comfortably allowing her eyes to drift towards the snow falling above them. It had returned to its hazey lightness, and almost seemed as if it would stop after a while. But that was still a long way up. the sky had also taken on a very light purple shade, with the tiniest sliver of orange peeking above the ground. Not enough to highlight anything, but enough to make the color change noticeable. Dawn was approaching. Sabel's chuckling died down a bit and she batted at the air playfully, trying to catch some of the flakes with her outstretched forehooves. "It is a happy dream, for you and I. No sorrow or loss or memory. But should you want for that memory, that will be your only loneliness." she laughed, treating it as a little joke. Yet her words held some truth. For the moment, she paused with her forehooves in the air, standing on her hind legs. She was contemplating remembering. Yet when she did this, nothing came. And thus the deericorn stared off into space, leaving a strange silence to follow that little monologue.

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OOC: For a few hours I was occupied with a visit from a family member I had not seen in a while. c: I was happy to see him once again and thus forgot myself in that time. Forgive me.

_{OOC: I don't quite know if it's my turn but I'm not neglecting this, just trying to think of a response |D
My brain doesn't want to write today lol}

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OOC: yeah today was just me fighting my brain because it wanted to put more thought into doodling than writing haha
and lol that's fine, that makes it a challenge~

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Atiq continued his survey of the eerily silent Forest around them, mostly out of habit, while still keeping one ear intent on the others as they talked. Seemingly satisfied with finding absolutely nothing amidst the trees, he turned back towards the doe and the larger buck.
"This place is indeed quite peaceful, and so full of memory itself it's almost tangible. No matter if you came here carrying your own memories or none at all, the Forest soon replaces them. Whatever past there may have been, under these trees it no longer matters, only the moment you are in does. I've been here a long, long, time...I would know." Atiq flashed another warm smile their way, before shaking himself as if to rid himself of the sudden somber mood. It was too cold for wistful nostalgia and philosophy.

"I wish the sun would hurry up and rise, the night is too cold for my tastes." As the dark stag sent a glare towards the stubbornly falling snow he paused, "Is...is it just me, or was the snowfall not lighter just a little earlier?" Atiq frowned at the sky.

Tochza turned her words around in his head, pondering on them as he rose to his hooves and casually followed after her. He didn't bother shaking the thin layer of snow off his coat. It would just pile up again. If her words were true - and he had no reason to doubt the other - then perhaps living here would be easier than first thought. Plenty of opportunity to stay on the good side of his nature, to make sure he disobeys his father and stay here rather than to go back 'home'. "I don't mind moving about. It keeps the body warm in this cold air." He wasn't used to even mild cold, but his body adapted well to it anyway. Toch looked back, making sure not to leave the smaller male behind too far.

Sabel hid very few of her giggles as she watched the unsteady, smaller blue stag go sliding past Tochza. Oh, how silly he was. She carefully slowed herself, allowing the stag to catch up to her and slide beside her. She began correcting his posture, using his tail to allow him to keep his balance. She rested it on his back, using a hoof to straighten his neck so his head was held higher. "Relax a little, timid one. Think of it like standing still or walking. Better yet, learning to walk as a fawn... you slowly find your center of balance by putting your hooves in the right places." She explained, her eyes and focus completely on the little one. She flicked her ears, signalling Tochza to follow them. The pair glided under the bridge, and began going along the ice at a slower pace towards the Crying Idol.

Atiq was again rescued by Sabel the Safety Net, as she corralled him to her side once more and tried to instruct him on proper ice-related maneuvering. He allowed her to adjust his posture and his footing, too nervous to move himself, anyways. He put her instructions into careful execution, and ever so carefully followed her up the frozen stream. Atiq put most of his concentration on his hooves, only slipping a little now, but twitched his ears towards Tochza's vantage up on the bank, just keeping mental note where everyone was, and grateful for the vigilant watcher.

"Alright, so perhaps I'm not quite as awful at this as I thought," Atiq chuckled a little.

Tochza circled around the back of the stone, then settled on the opposite side he had been walking, looking down onto the two of them as he tucked his hooves under him to keep them warm. His antler was close enough to knock down the ice from the eyes to free the water. He seemed to pick up on what she was thinking.

"I was just walking around. This is my first time to this area. So far I've been to the spring in the birch, then found the huge slabs of rock, and now here." His answer was simple, and his tone soft to not pierce the silent snow too sharply.

Noting Tochza's body language, she decided to put her mischief to good use. Quickly, she moved on the snow beside Atiq and used her tail to lift him up. He was a little heavy, but not enough to cause her to slip and fall. She put him down on the bank next to Tochza before circling around the Crying Idol, rearing on her hind legs, and slamming her forehooves into one of the frozen streams of tears in the Idol's eyes. The ice was thinner than that of the pond, and thus easier to break. As the ice shattered, water spilled out over the frozen stream, lacing it thinly and continuing to travel under it as well. "Easily fixed- but I wouldn't advise getting wet!" the doe laughed, leaning down a little to gt a taste for herself. She hadn't realized how thirsty she had been until the water touched her tongue. Withdrawing, she stood on her hind legs examining her forelegs. Wet from the ice shattering, but that was expected. Leaning back down onto her forelegs, she knelt and began rubbing them vigorously within the powdered layer atop the thick snow to attempt to dry them off. Even if she was not bothered by the cold, anything frozen could become a problem later on.

"Atiq and Tochza..." she said rather absentmindedly as she walked through the snow, back and forth- pacing. "I hope these names remain in my mind. It would be a shame to forget..." she mumbled, pouting a little. But her rather carefree grin easily returned as she started hopping in the snow, disturbing it and looking for any lively grass underneath.

(then you should take a break for the night )

Atiq couldn't help the chuckle that escaped his throat as he watched the smaller doe break loose the ice from the Idol, sending a stream of fresh, ice cold water to the frozen stream below. With a satisfied sight, he bent to sate his thirst, feeling the cold water surge through his system, giving him a little more energy. When he was finished, he turned his gaze upwards, towards the open space next to Tochza, momentarily gauging the height. Keeping in mind the tips Sabel had given to him, he readjusted his footing, so the jump would be as easy for him as it was when the ground was not so slick with ice. Then Atiq sprang out of the ditch and onto the snowy bank in a single, graceful leap, his new-found energy returning the deftness to his muscles.

"It'd also be quite hard to forget us if we do not leave, the Forest is not that large," he grinned as he gently shook some ice and water from his hooves.

Tochza could tell there was much more on her mind than she was letting on. He figured he would wait, and see if he could get her to open up to him if they ever got the chance to be alone. When she swept the snow onto them, he simply turned his head down and shut his eyes tight, as if she were brushing pebbles at them. He then stood, shaking off the snow in a big white cloud, then bounded after her. Part of him was concerned she was running into a dark forest without concern of what may be lurking in the shadows. Then again, he had always needed to be careful before this place. It was in his nature to be cautious. His form, though heavy, seemed actually quite light in his fast movements. It was only in appearance though. He made it look easy. It didn't take long before his antler got stuck in some low branches. "Fuck" he said under his breath, twisting and pulling and trying to shake it free. When he realized it was of no use, and the tree was too thick and healthy to break, he sighed. A thick cloud of iced breath puffed out from his snorting nose. 'Well isn't THIS great. I chase after a doe and look where it gets me.' Tochza is not amused.