Auni
Awn-ee
The Good Demon
Male
Two years old. 6.29.12
Appears much older
Closely resembles a sitatunga male in coloring with lesser kudu in build.
With some hints of kirin & musk deer.
Real Deer Mask | Real Deer Dark Pelt | Space Beluga Antlers
#21
Omnivore
Anywhere
Musk deer fangs-designed for killing demons; Body has short hair save for the spine and long two-tone curly tail; Blind.
- Was once fiercely independent. The slow poisoning in his system has made him rely on others for food, shelter and protection. This is especially true with hunting.
-Despite his illness maintains a fairly positive attitude. He does get down when he feels especially unwell, though.
- Reacts negatively to demonic entities as it is his job to "kill" them.
- Once had a quick wit and an even sharper tongue. Still has the spunk for the latter when he feels well enough.
- Extremely patient and mellow. A good cuddle buddy or conversationalist.
-Loyal. It takes a lot for the stag to no longer see someone as a friend. Will never turn his back on a companion and will fight to the end to help them.
- Does not see himself highly; believes he is a monster that gets what he deserves. Gives nearly as much, if not more, than he receives. Will never expect anything in return. Gifts and kindness are remembered.
Deceased. Loved once. Fought to save, but lost.
Kept company on few occasions; was given food. Remains grateful too even if he doesn't see very often. Considers a friend.
"Lona". Seen more than Shahla; Given comfort, food and protection from the weather. Snow especially. Considers a friend; Feels he owes her a lot.
An acquaintance; Kept him company once.
Protected Leona and himself from aggressive deer. Wants to get to know better; indebted to.
An acquaintance.
Was once an extremely powerful magic wielder- especially with dark magic. Now he is physically too weak to do much of anything, but can still sniff out demonic blood and sense when other strong magics are present. Anything involving Auni's magic can be discussed over Skype. Is unable to wield magic in present time. Devout spell burns him as does light magic.
Auni is blind. He cannot see actions in game and may act like he is ignoring your character. Certain emotes are "ignored" unless he's close enough to hear your character's presence.
Bio art is heavily referenced, but the painting and character is © me.
The Oak Guardian nodded
WOO I OWN FIRST PAGE
"That's...interesting." She
The stag shook his head, "No. I've seen nothing and Jester hasn't been here either."
"That's even more surprising. Maybe you found a place where the demon won't go?"
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"Demons seem to be an
Phoenix shook her head, "I do
" Even Alabaster and Zash?"
The doe nodded, "Even them. They're the weakest ones of us, and she's left them alone. It's not like her to change her heart. If she even has one...but there are others you say? Do they...I don't know...meet each other? Talk plans to destroy everything?"
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ZiraBay shrugged. "No, I
The doe looked thoughtful,
"Maybe we're supposed to stop them, Phoenix," Auni muttered quietly.
"What? No! We can't do that. You'll die... they'll drive you so far down the road you won't know fact from fiction anymore."
"Then what's my purpose otherwise?" he challenged, bringing himself to his feet to glower at the doe, "Why am I here?"
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"You can stop them," ZiraBay
The little doe looked up at ZiraBay, surprised. "Y-you had a demon?"
"I did," the wise doe replied. "You see, when I was born, another doe in the forest had died at the same moment and in that moment of my soul's creation, a soul from below and the rising soul from the doe latched on to me. I was supposed to be created "bad," however the doe's soul interrupted that, resulting in me being forever torn between the two. From that day forth, I had two voices in my head- one of an angel, and one of a hellspawn. Half of my life, I was being told by a voice in my head what to do, what not to do, how to act, who to be- by the angel. Overall, she was teaching me how to be like her because she didn't want her life in the forest to be over. The demon's voice brought out my inner demon, but with my angel there, I didn't know who to follow.
"I realized my life was so ruled by the two of them that I couldn't be independent of truly be myself. After shunning the angel into silence for an unusually long time, the demon took his chance and slowly began revealing himself to me in my nightmares. Eventually I summoned him out of my head and thrown into the forest from ashes, like the dirt he was. Amazingly, he was small and had no antlers, but he blended with the shadows of the forest like no other stag I had seen. For a long time I would flee from him and his trickery, but I couldn't keep my family in jeopardy for so long, I knew I would have to kill him. I defeated him with the help of my guardian angel, with her I had the power of pure light. However, once I had killed the demon, he turned into a black butterfly. He explained that I had gotten rid of his bitterness and anger that he had been engulfed in all these years. He thanked me for saving him and flew off to someplace where hopefully he is at rest. Afterwards, my angel left. She finally realized her time was up, and willingly she went into the high heavens to rest in peace."
The red doe looked sympathetically to ZiraBay. "You have been through so much, Mother."
She paused for a moment, looking at the ground as if reflecting on the past in nostalgia. "Mmm... yes. Every now and then I miss my guardian angel... Even the troubled demon, after all he did have a sense of humor."
ZiraBay looked to Auni and Phoenix. "I don't know much about demons. But I do know a lot about good and bad, and that everyone, even demons have both. I am an example of it."
*That is an awesome concept!
Phoenix looked thoughtful, "So...they can be destroyed..."
"I don't have any guardian angel speaking in my head...I just have voices that want me dead, things that want me dead..." Auni muttered tiredly.
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(Oh, heheh xD
ZiraBay paused to think before replying. "Like I said, all demons are different and serve different purposes... I'm not even quite sure if they're all bad, mine wasn't. But, yes, I believe they can be destroyed the right way."
The red doe began to nudge herself closer to ZiraBay. Zira had always been like a mother to her, so all this troubling talk of demons began to scare her.
Good and bad demons? Auni
Phoenix on the other hand was excited at all these possibilities. And here she thought she would just have to put up with Jester until she moved on... No, she could get rid of her sooner! All she had to do was play her game...
"So...what about destroying the physical demons...the ones not in your mind?" she asked.
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"When a demon is limited to a
Auburn looked down at Auni. She leaned her neck forward and breathed on the ground in front of him. Up sprouted the little root that began to quickly become a more vibrant green. Small white fluffy blossoms bloomed into blue and pink flowers that hung from the tall root. A forget-me-not flower.
"You hear that Auni? All we
"But Jester isn't the problem," Auni muttered back, "You just give her a reason to stick around."
"But she makes your demons worse than they are. Get rid of her, we could find ways to help you cope."
"Stop kidding yourself, Phoenix, you know as well as I do that that can't happen. I'll have them until I figure out how to die, probably even after that," the young stag was looking at the flowers to avoid looking at his friend.
*ehhh..too lazy to put the color in code...*
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(It's okay hehe, I just
ZiraBay looked straight at Auni, with a serious look upon her face. "My dear, how can you say you are living if you have such a dead outlook on life?"
"I'm living and just going
Phoenix trotted over to his side, dropping down beside him and laying her head against his back. She twittered softly, which somewhat sounded like a purr. "You have us, don't you? Look at it this way, you could be Alabaster: Sick, lonely and confused. Or Zash: blind and deaf on one side, doesn't have a leg and must suffer every moment for a mistake he made in a previous life. Kerwin's trying to hide a past behind a veil of happiness." She paused, "Or you could be me, someone who doesn't know how to help drag her best friend out of a sinkhole of gloom. Let us help you."
*I love my doom and glood characters so much. lol. And I don't even know how to change the size...*
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*xD Oh you change the size
The little doe watched admirably. She wished she could have a friend to comfort, and someone to comfort her. There's always ZiraBay, but she can't depend fully on her... or anyone for that matter.
"Listen," the red doe spoke softly and gently, but her gaze was intense. "I know it feels horrible to have to control and work through emotions, we've all felt them. Some more than others. But the worst mistake you can make is push others away when they're your only hope. If you do, you will regret it in the end. And when you're walking the forest alone you will look back, with warm nostalgia, the ones you turned away because you thought you could do it alone. There is not a feeling in the world that is worse than the stinging loneliness of cold nights. Trust me... I know."
*Oh..../face palm/ That's not
Phoenix nudged him, "See, listen to her, Auni. Some of us won't be around forever. You got to open up. Or in the end you'll be left with your lonely miserable self. And you know, you'll learn to hate that part of you."
"I already do."
"Great...we have somewhere to start."
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*XD It's all good, I rather
The little doe shook her head and gave a chuckle. "You'll need to do some excersizes to get rid of that self-hatred. It's not good. And not to mention your negativity... Mhm, you do need a bit of work." She gave a giggle at the end.
*Oh they're so much
Phoenix added a chuckle of her own, " Doesn't he? Don't worry buddy, we'll figure you out!" she shoved her head playfully against his shoulder. Auni didn't respond.
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The little doe gave a small
ZiraBay slowly rose to her hooves and scraped at the ground with her antlers, scooping up dirt in her antlers. With one sweeping motion, she flung the dirt into the air as the red doe breathed upon it. Within seconds, the dirt transformed in mid-air into a shower of pink petals. Like endless rain, the petals descended upon them. The little doe giggled and pranced like a little fawn in the hollow of the tree as the petals floated down gently.
"Look, Auni. Look how much beauty life has to offer."
Auni just stared...flower
Phoenix on the other hand, had more than enough excitement for both of them. She sprung to her feet, snapping at the petals and chirring in happiness. She fanned her crest and flapped her wings, making the petals swirl even more. "How can you not love this!? It's like snow, only better!"
The stag's pelt shifted, changing to white.
*Well...you just made Phoenix's day. :D*
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*xD Haha, woo! -dances like a
The little red doe giggled and pranced about, frolicing in the swirl of petals while ZiraBay smiled in awe as the flowers endlessly cascaded down upon them like an endless waterfall. Then the little doe sat beside Auni. "How can you expect for your life to get any better if you only see blacks and whites? Looks at the world and take absorbs its' colors as if they were emotions."
xD "Yeah Auni," Phoenix
"Yeah Auni," Phoenix ganged up on him, "Look at the color! What does it say?"
"Pink."
"Well...good you're not colorblind. We got that down. Okay...now...now...how does it make you feel?"
"Nothing..."
"Well...that's good. I guess... now, now how does it make me feel?"
"Happy. I can't feel happy on my own Phoenix."
"Then take mine."
The stag's snout wrinkled, exposing the extent of his fangs, "You know I won't do that to you. What if I can't give it back?"
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"Don't worry," ZiraBay
The little doe rose again to turn the pink petals to a deep blue. "All of these emotions are infinite!"
She rose a few feet in the air, levitating off of a mini pillar of wind to keep her up. She swirled around in the air. Immediately thick green vines with ivory leaves grew along the sides and covered the inside of the Oak. It attracted a few butterflies that flew in from a crack in the hollow and perched on ZiraBay's antler and grasped the vines that stretched higher and higher inside the hollow. Even tiny daisies and pansies surrounded a sleeping fawn. She floated back down and looked around. The inside of the Oak had a new happy glow, with sunlight streaming in from the small cracks.
With an accepting nod, she said, "Ah, that's better."
"I like the blue better!"
*Yeah...he hasn't felt any good emotion yet. Poor baby.*
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*Awww, well that will change
The little doe looked worriedly after Pheonix began running after Auni. She looked to ZiraBay anxiously. "Should we go?"
"You go, Auburn," ZiraBay responded as she lied down. "I'll wait here, dear."
The red doe nuzzled her and said, "Okay, I promise we'll be back with Auni as soon as we can."
And with that, the doe took off running as fast as her small little legs could carry her. She quickly caught up with Phoenix, although she was so very small compared to Phoenix.
The bird doe glanced at
"Get off of me! Let me up! Take this...this emotion back! You weigh a ton!"
"I'm a lady, I don't weigh a ton." Phoenix countered, ignoring his plea.
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The little doe skidded to a
"L-let him go," she hesitated. "We can take him back to the Oak."
Phoenix didn't look like she
"Get over here, we're going to take you back. Have you regressed down to a tiny fawn now? Huh? Can't talk anymore?" The doe snarled, taking a step toward him.
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The little red doe trotted
"Will you please, please come back with us?" she pleaded. "No one will hurt you. I promise."
Auni looked from the doe to
"Sorry," he muttered as if that settled everything.
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The little doe stuck close to
The bird doe snorted, "Oh you
"It feels....so weird. Like...I'm all weak inside, like my heart's about to rip apart. Pain is just one emotion, but happiness is paired with so many...how can you stand it?" Auni asked, ignoring Phoenix's statement.
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The doe looked at the ground
Auni just shook his head, "I
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"How could you stand to live
She looked back down and her face grew sad. "Then again... I know what it's like to feel too much, I am the emotional wreck. Must be nice not to feel anything for a change... But still. I'd rather feel, than not."
"Auni, if you learn how to
"I can feel Anger and all those other feel bad emotions at will. It's the good emotions I can't feel. At this rate, who would want to? Happiness feels...awful on its own. Love...who needs it? Who cares about it if the one you love doesn't feel the same? It's a pointless emotion."
"Auni...you're just not feeling the emotions in the right context,Phoenix muttered softly, her previous anger forgotten.
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The red doe nodded. "She's
Then the Oak came into view. ZiraBay was there, lying down and sleeping against the edge of the hollow. The blue petals had settled on the ground. The little red doe trotted a bit faster and entered the inside of the hollow. It was later afternoon now. She directed the blue petals over ZiraBay's body, creating a soft blanket for the doe.
"See, now I want to do that!
"Oh shut up, at least you can feel emotion at will. You're normal."
The doe slammed her head against his shoulder, unbalancing him and causing his legs to buckle, "If I was normal I would have ran from you the first day I met you, stag."
"So...in what context do you feel happy?" Auni asked after a few moments.
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"Aw, Pheonix. I like your
She scraped her hoof at the ground to get some loose soil. Then she turned the little clump of dirt into a cluster of red petals that she then moved over Pheonix's body, creating another blanket. As she began to scrape up more dirt, she pondered over Auni's question.
"Well," she said thoughtfully. "I can't really describe why one is happy... I mean, you feel happiness when you are pleased or when one does something to please you or when you're doing things that make you... happy."
Phoenix ruffled her feathers
"Like she said, you're happy when something...goes how you want it to. Or something makes you feel good. Take me for example, did you notice how happy I was when the petals were everywhere? That's just a little thing. Do you know what makes Kerwin happy? Well...anything could make that stag happy. He's insane. But, he's really happy with fireflies and butterflies. Do you like those?"
Auni seemed to contemplate that, "I...I don't know." he confessed.
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The doe made confused face.
Out of curiousity, did you
*Seriously needs to be more on the ball as far as plot-fights go, lol.*
Certainly! I can RP a fight
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"Well I have the emotion and
Sorry for shortness.And lack of color.
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It's all good^^ By the way,
"We'll just have to get you exposed to different things," she said simply, lying down next to Pheonix. Her feathers made it nice and warm. The tree shadows grew longer as the sun set and the chill of nighttime was setting in. Soon, the forest would be asleep. "Tomorrow, we'll go to the blue bowl."
I won't be able to be in
I'll answer to the RP in a little bit. I don't have time right now.
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Ah, mkay! And no problem ^^
And no problem ^^
"Wait you're just going to
Phoenix chirred, ruffling her feathers and fanning a wing over Auburn(strange... She's taken a motherly side to your doe...maybe cause she's little!) "Well yeah, maybe if you spend some time with it, it'll speak to you."
"You're kidding."
"No I'm not. Give it a chance, Auni. Goodnight." with that she lowered her head, tilting her face as to watch out for the stag. He seemed...confused, lost almost. Before she closer her eye, she chirred again "Goodnight Auburn," she watched the stag lay down, turning his head away as so it was just his strange tines shadowing the air.
*Gah sorry again for lack of coding. And in game Phoenix would be probably be happy and Auni distant, at least until he recognizes the scent. :)*
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"Goodnight," the little doe
(overnight, fast forward to next day)
The sun began to rise, bathing the forest its bright yellow shine. The red doe was not yet awake.
Auni was gone by the time
"Auni, where could you have gone now?" she muttered to herself. She nudged Auburn with her beak, "Auni's wandered off, I need to hunt for him."
Unbeknownst to them the stag was deeper in the forest, resting with an oddly content expression on his face, his pelt white with a few blue swirls placed sporadically over his fur. Peace.
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