Tl;dr: Pride x Nassir's dead stone; Dread x Fireheart's dead stone; Dread x lost Raspite; Dread x Kalama's Flint

Parent: Pride
Giving: Give Life x1
Health: Healthy
Element: Energy
Stone: Diamond
Had any previous litters: Yes; Jampa here, Thalia here, Arsu & Azizos, and Charity
Randomize Litter?: No
Link to Conception Thread: Here

Note: Pride has one Give Life too many; I need to vendor-sell that one

Parent: Dread
Giving: Life x3
Health: Healthy
Element: Fire
Stone: Obsidian
Had any previous litters: Yes, 3 in one litter Bug, Svartis, and Bone here
Randomize Litter?: No
Link to Conception Thread: Fireheart's Clinohumite, Comet's raspite, Kalama's flint

Parent: Fireheart (profile)
Giving: Dead stone
Health: Dead
Element: Fire
Stone: Clinohumite
Had any previous litters: No
Randomize Litter?: No
Link to Conception Thread: Here

Dread x Fireheart's Clinohumite:
Child Name: --
Gender: undecided
Species: Dragon x Wolf
Appearance: White-furred and -scaled, with plate-like scutes down its chest and belly but a wolf's mane, back-fur, head, and tail. Clinohumite forms a diamond shape on the forehead, and primitive dragon horns jut back from skull and jaw. The tail is longer and slender, and the limbs draconic, with grasping talons; its torso is a mix of its parents', long and sinuous but lean. It is a large creature, closer to its dragon parent's size but not attaining it, some five or six feet at the shoulder on all fours, perhaps ten when sitting fully upright on its haunches, and 11-12 long from nose to rump. It bears startling ember-colored eyes that match its stone.
Element: Must share the element of the parent using Give Life.
Stone: Must share the stone of the parent using Give Stone.

(concept art, not set in stone)

Pride x Nassir's Quartz:
Child Name: Up to adopter
Gender: Up to adopter
Species: Red Deer x Melanistic Leopard
Appearance: Much like a leopard, albeit with longer ears, a larger size (about three and a half feet tall at the shoulder, and 275lbs), and the long, elegant spikes of starter antlers. This creature bears very long legs, and Pride's pale eyes, along with rosettes mottling a thick coat. Its long, deer-like neck bears thicker fur, like a red deer's mane. (This char can be pale grey/white, or shades of black, as follows, depending on adopter's choice.)
Element: Energy
Stone: Quartz (location up to adopter)


@Comet will own the Raspite baby and can design/adopt/etc. that one. Tagging @Kalama (Gortys) for filling out Kalama's portion; @Pallas (Hawkweed) will own/design/adopt that child and should fill out the baby form. Tagging @Orthoclase-Alpha (Navy) for Nassir's form.

Parent: Kalama
Giving: Stone x1
Health: (Was) pretty alive
Element: Fire
Stone: Flint
Had any previous litters: /showthread.php?tid=7967
Randomize Litter?: No, designed by hawkweed
Link to Conception Thread:/showthread.php?tid=9450

Parent: Nassir
Giving: Stone x1
Health: Dead
Element: Arcane
Stone: Quartz
Had any previous litters: No

Child Name: Feng?
Gender: Undecided
Species: Hybrid (chikgon, dracken, wyven, chicvern)
Appearance: Taking primarily after its magic-giver, this being will grow to be nearly twenty feet long from head to tail, standing on its front wings at a rough five and a half feet at the shoulder. Its dark leathery skin is saddled by black iridescent feathers. Its head and tail fade to a bright orange. Overall, its body structure is more wyvern than chicken, with bat wings (covered topside with feathers), two talon-tipped legs, and hard horns. Adorning the top of its head is a thin comb-like horn that allows it to vent heat out from the skin that covers it. Leading from this is a bright red mask of skin.
Its flat flint gem rests along the roof of its mouth.
Element: Fire
Stone: Flint

Child Name: Undecided
Gender: Undecided
Species: Hybrid (Dread (dragon) x Flame Angelfish x Capybara x Cat)
Appearance: Imagine a bright flaming orange hot cheeto cat with a head that's shaped like a Capybara. Well, except it has cat ears and black horns. There are also gills on the side of its neck that allows it to breathe underwater. At the end of its tail is a fish fin that allows it to propel itself through the water. There are black stripes on the sides of the belly while the tail and paws fade into black scales. The nose has a patch of these black scales too. Oh wait I forgot to mention it has wings. The wings are a bright cheeto orange too and and edged with a bright blue. There are claws on the edge of wings and they can be used for knuckle walking and hanging onto things.
When fully grown it is 20 feet long not including the tail which makes it an additional 5 feet longer. The wingspan is 40 feet from tip to tip.
The raspite is situated in between the ears like a fin.
Hatches at 1ft and grows 6ft a cycle until it hits 25ft at cycle 5
Element: Fire
Stone: Raspite

This conception was Successful! The litter will emerge February 21st.

Dread, Pride and Kalama will not be able to conceive again until May 21st. Nassir and Fireheart are still dead lmao

The Pride x Nassir child is up for adoption! (Note that if Navy changes her mind, priority will likely go to her considering Nassir was her child... ;( )

Child Name: Up to adopter
Gender: Up to adopter
Species: Red Deer x Melanistic Leopard
Appearance: Much like a leopard, albeit with longer ears, a larger size (about three and a half feet tall at the shoulder, and 275lbs), and the long, elegant spikes of starter antlers. This creature bears very long legs, and Pride's pale eyes, along with rosettes mottling a thick coat. Its long, deer-like neck bears thicker fur, like a red deer's mane. (This char can be pale grey/white, or shades of black, as follows, depending on adopter's choice.)
Element: Energy
Stone: Quartz (location up to adopter)
OR
(adopter's choice)

Other Info: This child will likely be raised alongside the Wolf x Dragon, by Pride. Pride will INTEND to raise both children with patience, love and firm but gentle supervision; Pride has raised kids before, and is a respectful, understanding parent, not pushy, and puts his kids' happiness (and laying a solid moral groundwork) before anything else. He is likely to train them as they grow, but not in a militaristic way--more from the perspective of helping them protect themselves while gaining confidence, exploring their talents to be the best that they can be. He's good at encouraging without being demeaning or holding high expectations. They're likely to be brought to Mercurius, if he's not sleeping atm, and told stories and sung to sleep... Maybe brought to Attikias & co. to meet and hang out! They may be brought to explore the caves with Dad, too. As much interest as you have, I'm happy to RP it all; I can be quite active with Pride and with the sibling both.

Personality: That being said(!), the character can turn out literally however. Conflict, strife, differing personalities, backstabbing; or love, tragedy, whatever--I'm down for any drama. If the child chooses to run off after a cycle or two, I'll totally take that IC; it's fine. So don't feel restricted by the life start of "this is the family" (though boring, happy family is just fine too)! That's just the framework laid to start with!

Application Form:

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<b>Char name:</b>
<b>Which color!:</b>
<b>Personality:</b>
<b>Writing sample, OR potential plot concepts, etc:</b>

Char name: Ganymede
Which color!: White!
Personality: Proud, beautiful, has one hell of a temper. He's beauty, he's grace, he will punch you in the face (if you deserve it). Absolutely full of himself, but has a mind for ethics and philosophy. He'll argue with you about anything and yet, somehow, rarely ever wins. Exploring, having fun, frolicking in fields -- all excellent. Probably will grow up to adore music, might try to invent a crystal piano if I feel like it. Solves too many problems by getting pissed off, I imagine his voice gets high when he's angry bc why not. Also, let's throw in a little bit of hopeless romanticism, that feels like a good idea. Would definitely have a bird familiar at some point because come on, his name is Ganymede, how could I not?
Writing sample, OR potential plot concepts, etc: When one was the product of a stag and a wild cat, there was a certain level of grace that was generally expected. Ganymede certainly had it -- he could leap and run with the best of them, and held himself with an air of... well, pride that tended to look like arrogance from an outside perspective, or perhaps even narcissism. Maybe it was -- he wasn't one to argue about such things. But what he was not graceful at was stalking.

His legs were just too long for it, much to his distaste -- while stags were excellent at plenty of things, stalking through the undergrowth was not one of them. Especially when you were brilliantly white. He was meant to stand atop some kind of pretty pedestal or rock formation and look regal, not try to ambush unsuspecting walleyes. The hare in question had startled when it heard him, and was now staring directly at him from well out of his leaping range as if to say, Really? This is what it's come to?

"I could outrun you," he said stiffly, squinting at the rabbit as if this was somehow her fault. "I am regal and built for frolicking."

The rabbit did not reply; it just hopped off to somewhere safer, and Ganymede did not, in fact, give chase. It wasn't worth the effort, really. He probably would have let it get away anyway, and then whined at himself about ethics and humane hunting and do you need to eat meat, really? have you ever tried being vegetarian? there are carnivores who eat exclusively plants via the use of magic, what about ethics and morals and-- And he could talk himself in circles for hours. When it came down to it, he really just liked to chase things, and reasoned that it was less cruel to chase Lessers than to chase real people.

He tucked his paws in and rolled onto the ground, laying on his back with his chin tucked uncomfortably to his chest so that he could actually lay flat with respect to his antlers so he could watch the birds, high in the trees of Pegasus. Sometimes, he wondered what it would be like to fly -- to go up and up and up. Sometimes, Ganymede even wondered what it would be like to live somewhere with no ceiling -- it was a silly thought, he knew. What would it have even looked like, just a terrifying and incomprehensible void of nothing above him?

But... still. The thought warmed him, sometimes. Even though it really, really shouldn't have.

Char name: Temperance (where 'pride' is a sin, 'temperance' is a virtue, specifically of restraint)
Which color!: Black!
Personality: Kind, selfless, soulful. Even to strangers he offers a kind smile and soft spoken words, his head held low rather than up high most of the time, walking with a soft, delicate sort of beauty. One might even call him shy, in his early days, where he tends to watch from afar or from behind Pride's legs (not hiding, according to him, just observing from a place of safety). As he grows, so will his morals. Violence is never an option, even if that means taking hits over and over until he chrysalizes, and will only defend himself using defensive spells or actions. To fight back means to stoop as low as your enemy, though in extreme circumstances, like death or protecting a loved one, he will reluctantly lash out to protect them. He's a poet, not a fighter. Even eating the occasional rabbit to sustain his diet makes him feel queasy.

Though none of this came easy. As a youngling, he was quick to annoyance, even anger. It took a lot of work to change that part of him, and though it wasn't easy, he'd changed,, and for the better.
Writing sample, OR potential plot concepts, etc:
Plot: Perhaps Temperance can have a temper after the first few days to a week, and a fiery one at that. He won't like it if things don't go his way, and if he was to have an outburst at Pride, either verbally or magically, he could have a stern talking to or punishment to turn his attitude around. There could be an explanation of who his stone previously belonged to, or the meaning of his name, or even taking him by the shoulders, turning him around, and showing him the consequences of whatever he ended up doing to try and knock some sense into him.

Rp Sample: It was a few days since his outburst. Shame hung over his head like a shawl, making it sag past his shoulders, unlike the proud, headstrong stance he'd generally took, with bared fangs, ready to take on the world. He felt... he felt small. Tears constantly welled up in his eyes as he walked back his father, tail between his legs, ashamed to be his son. He'd taken advantage of his father's gentle nature, his teachings, his love, and he'd lashed out on him, causing a rift between them.

And in the ground. The energy spell had cracked rocks, and before he even realized what had happened, he saw the face of his father, his face displaying shock mixed with anger and disappointment. That was the moment he knew he'd messed up bad.

His own name should have reminded him. Temperance. To show restraint. His father had to remind him of it, and he just felt... stupid. But at the same time, he was determined to change himself, to rewire his brain and to make his father proud of him. He'd be kind like he was, smart like he was... and he wasn't ever going to use one of those nasty spells again if he could help it. He was too scared of the rage that had burst out, turning him into something he just didn't like.

With his mind made up, he turned, head low, his tail almost dragging on the ground, off to ask his father for help. If anyone could help him show restraint, it was Pride.

Okay, so I REALLY like both of these! They're both very well-written and both characters and concepts are compelling. I wish, honestly, that I could choose both.

But I CANNOT. In the end, I think the second does a lot of justice to the (RIP) former owner of the stone, Nassir, and for that reason I'll be adopting this child out to Charlie! @James He's all yours!