Beyond Good and Evil (Emote clutch hatches)

[Zephyr]

Liv nearly squealed with excitement as the first eggs hatched. First a little blue then a gorgeous little bronze. The little girl was beside herself with anticipating, wondering who the babies would impress to. First the bronze flew off, attaching to some boy she didn't know. The girl didn't allow herself to pout, because the blue was still standing there, looking meaningful. Then he too flew off, straight into the chest of a girl Liv didn't know. She looked at the little girl, confused for a moment. Now. Why DIDN'T she know this girl. She didn't look to be too much younger than herself.

Another egg hatched, drawing Olivia's attention to the little green that stared out at them from the edge of the basket while she walked over to the girl. Tilting her head at the little brown flit, Liv's face broke out in a wide grin. Pippin followed his master close behind, tail wagging wildly at the sight of the firelizard. " Wowwwwww, congrats! He sure is handsome! What're you gonna call him?" She realized that she probably seemed terribly rude and corrected herself. " Sorry, I'm Olivia. Who're you?"

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Of course Kaius wouldn't notice someone about to bump into him. King was busy watching the hatchings with a detached coolness. He didn't actually care about the little fake dragons themselves. He just thought the eggs looked nice and that his would appreciate looking at them. When Sydney bumped into them, the salamandyr took to the sky with a little trill, glancing down at the girl as she greeted him. Giving a delighted trill, he flew straight down to Sydney's shoulder, nuzzling her neck delightedly. Helloooo. Prettypretty lady likes me. King likes lady too! He wrapped his tail around her while he smothered her neck in love.

Kaius, for his part, sighed at his salamandyr's reaction, after a moment, grinned at Syd. " It's okay. No one died." He looked over. A bronze firelizard had impressed, and the blue wasn't far behind. There was a green sitting in the basket. The boy gave a half cocked grin and shrugged a little. " Not really. King dragged me here. He thought I'd like the eggs. They are...unique looking." He said, studying the rest of the clutch for a moment before looking back to his companion. " What about you? Want a flit?"

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Well, this was all very well and good, Gus thought, but he didn't really want a firelizard. He sighed and was about to leave when he noticed a very familiar presence standing not too far off. Sydney was here? Why hadn't she said anything to him. HE was the one known for being oblivious, not her. For a moment, he was going to leave her be, until he saw who she was talking to. One of the candidates, some kid younger than both of them. Pondering his current course of action, he decided to go see what was up and walked over to his sister. " Hey Syd." He greeted her, giving his sister a grin of assurance. They hadn't spoke in so long. If he regretted anything about impressing, it was the fact that he barely got to see his sister, it seemed.

He turned his attention to the kid she was talking to and regarded him calmly for a couple seconds, raising an eyebrow. " What's going on?" He asked his sister momentarily, looking back to Kaius. " Who's this?"

Way to go, Gus.

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Before Ithanna or Miguel had a chance to answer him, Buram noticed a familiar boy walking up to them. Waving happily at Erno, the apprentice beamed at his friend. " Erno!" When his friend mentioned the eggs, the younger boy nodded enthusiastically. " I know! They're so much fun...I mean..." He said quickly, glancing back and for between Ithanna and Erno. " When people aren't getting maulted and stuff." After all, Firelizards were a lot less dangerous and menacing than dragons. Not that they couldn't hurt you if they tried, but...

...and his attention was pulled away by the bright little green that say on the basket. The boy's eyes widened. " Wow. She's a gorgeous one, isn't she? I wonder who she'll choose."

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Draik scanned the room, ignoring the firelizards. He didn't care about them whatsoever. When his eyes landed on his conversation partner from before, however, and in the company of another gorgeous lady, he rethought his reason for being here. The man glanced to the breakfast table, grabbing something quick and then walking over to the Tenlie and Nephele, flashing them one of his most charming grins he could muster. " Hello there ladies. Enjoying the hatching? The little buggers sure are making an entrance." He said, looking over to the basket. Two had already impressed, he noticed, and one was chilling in the basket. Good for her. She didn't have to find someone just because the humans told her she needed a human. After a moment, he turned back to the two ladies in front of them, giving the pair of them his undivided attention for the moment.

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Saphor doesn't have much to do, she leans against the wall, watching Phai and the basket and grinning happily when Annatolli impressed the blue firelizard.

Yay hatchings!

[Ember]

Nephele watched the two impressions go by like they usually did and almost turned to her miniature draconic companions to chatter (in an almost literal sense, really) but got waylaid by Tenlie approaching. She offered the other greenrider a pleasant smile. "Of course. Can't get enough of these little darlings," she commented. Charming piped up with a cheerful flute and Mother's wings flipped open. Baaaaabies! So cute! The bronze's name was rather apt in the sense that he mothered more than he fathered anything.

"You after another one?" She asked in return, knowing it was really only a formality. Anyone who didn't want one on some level or another was usually headed out the door when they discovered they were in range of hatching draconids. Well, except for the odd people who still didn't quite get how impression worked. The greenrider hid her reaction at the arrival of a stranger to her. With his charming grin and his choice of words...undeniably flirting with them. She glanced briefly at Tenlie. Did she know him?

Well, either way..."I am, thank you. These 'little buggers' are just too cute for my poor old self to resist," Nephele said, pretending rather well to be affected by his presence. Really only friends of hers would be able to catch that she was in fact mocking the man. It amused her that she found male advances so funny now that she actually had K'sel all to herself. She wasn't entirely sure about Tenlie's status, though. Hmm...

((Dy is there just...not doing much of anything.))

[Requiem]

It kind of happened like it always happened. These hatchings. Miguel found social situations somewhat tiring, but the nice thing about hatchings was that there was such a crush of excited people that if he stayed still long enough they'd move on to someone else to chatter to, and he wouldn't have to think so hard about what to say. Ithanna was the first to approach him, and more or less the only one who noticed him apart from Mo'rya up to that point. The boy waved to her in greeting and attempted a smile for her. It was easier than trying to explain Lord's death two turns ago, or how much his timid blue flit had loved to come to hatchings to watch the babies. Miguel had watched almost all of them. Almost. Not that there had been many here until all the people from his home came here.

When Buram started to introduce himself, Miguel opened his mouth to respond, just in time for Erno to say something to Buram and Ithanna. He got out a, "I'm-" and ended it with a mental not that important, apparently when Buram seemed to forget his existence in the space of a breath. That was okay. Now he wouldn't have to try to maintain a conversation with him, either.

At least with Phaiden, Miguel already knew her and she was more his age. She was in the kitchens a lot. The boy nodded agreement to her question. Yes, he could see much better from up here. He wasn't in the kitchens as much anymore but he still saw her and liked to be near the other kids. Adults could be scary. Especially the adults who were part of the group who had...killed his cousins...and who his flit had protected him from. Daddy was upset that Shoal was dead, too. It made Miguel sad. He thought he'd helped Shoal, but Shoal died, too. Earthquake. This was why it wasn't good to talk to Miguel. He blinked suddenly, and smiled at Phaiden. "I know you, Phai," he responded, gentle laughter behind the words. (Most people would be able to see some of the uncle in the boy, when he chose to speak.)

The young boy smiled as he followed her line of sight to where Annatolli had just Impressed a lovely-hued blue. Good for her. He waved at her, calling "Anna! Over here!" There was meat for her new firelizard over here, and he'd get a chance to talk to her now. Or...listen to Phai and Anna talk (which was more his habit).

[Rowana]

"Ok!" Annatolli was having a very hard time standing still. She was eager to see the baby razorclaws and dearly wanted all her good friends to get one. Maybe if they all stood together, they could attract more of them! She followed Erno and Phaiden over to Miguel's table but was stopped half way there by something blue flying at her chest. At first, she thought it was Nhim, but Auntie Mae's blue was soaring over head, trilling a greeting to the new little blue. Anna scrambled to catch the baby in a hug "You picked me!!" she squealed, almost dancing in her excitement. "You're the bestest fire lizard ever!" she declared, eyes shining with happiness. "Come on, let's meet my friends! I bet you're hungry, aren't you?"

The little blue crooned with relief and happiness. He had definitely picked the best human. She was so full of love, that he knew she would never look down at him or make him sad. She had even promised to get him some food! Anna beamed at Phaiden and Miguel, managing to scramble onto the table while still clutching her new friend. It was hard to carry him while being careful not to squash him, but she was a responsible child when it came to such things.

"Isn't he handsome!" she gushed out in a rush. Her cheeks turned slightly pink then. Phaiden and Miguel hadn't Impressed yet, so maybe they wouldn't want to see him. But they were sure to get one too, right? Miguel had offered to share his meat. "Thanks, Miguel!" She reached into his bowl to give the hungry blue a few chunks. "Don't worry!" she went on hurriedly. "I'm sure his brothers and sisters will like you! Right?" She glanced at the blue baby hopefully, but he just chewed his meal. Once he was fed, he had plans to put on a good show, so just wait!

Olivia spoke up then, and Anna turned to grin at the older girl. "I'm Anna!" she said brightly. "And this is Phai and Miguel," she pointed to each of her friends in turn. Erno looked busy, so she wouldn't bother him. "And this is..." she wrinkled her nose in thought for a moment. "Xelos!" she declared at last.

~

Hoayamae came out of the kitchen with two large bowls of meat. Nhim came to greet her, chattering excitedly and showing happy images of Anna's new friend. "Well, I'll be," Mae shook her head. A fire lizard would do the girl no harm if she took care of it. It was just amazing one had found her so quickly. Since her adopted niece seemed to be surrounded at the moment, Mae ventured over to set her load down a table near the basket of eggs. "If yah insist on having the hatchings here, least yah could do is give me more warning to get food ready," she chided Mor'ya with a wink. She didn't know the boy well, but he seemed decent enough. Now to escape back to the kitchen. Tae and Nhim were more than enough in her life.

[Kisha-Ra]

The :S green gave her sire a searching look, then suddenly raised her head and gave an excited, high pitched chirp. Hi! She was sooooo pleased to meet him at last. So very pleased indeed! The slightly chubby female shuffled forward a bit to bump her nose against the bronze’s before a loud cracking sound behind her made her sit up and look back over her shoulder. Behind her rose a terrible creature in shades of blood. Looking at the former occupant of the O.O egg the green instantly knew he was a changeling child who had murdered her rightful clutchbrother and taken his place in the egg so he could have his wicked way with the poor humans. The bright green didn’t hesitate to confront the brown with these suspicions, not bothering to go with a more dignified pose from which to do so.

The O.O brown bore these incredible accusations with a look of slight confusion about him. Eventually his wings flared and his thickly muscled neck turned about as he examined his body carefully. He looked like a firelizard to him, and he was brown and red, if he had, as his sister so elegantly put it, murdered the original occupant of his egg, wouldn’t he be covered in green?

Confounded by her brother’s inexorable logic the green found the shattering of the :K egg to reveal a pale blue to be a welcome distraction. The :K blue was obviously so pale because he was a ghost, the vengeful spirit of one of the changeling browns former victims no doubt. Both the brown and the blue gave her disbelieving looks at that, and a sharp chattering sound from the :K blue affirmed that he was very much alive, thank you.

Made nervous by his sister’s accusations the O.O brown bounded down to the table top with as much grace as a newly hatched firelizard could be said to have. He wasn’t going to bear with his unreasonable sister one moment longer. He was going to find his right now. The red brown firelizard paced up and down the table a time or two tilting his head to one side then the other. Ah, apparently this was harder than he thought.

With his every move commentated by his chubby sister the :K blue stepped with supreme elegance from his broken shell and cast her a withering look. Fool, fool and blind. Folding his wings tightly to his back the pale blue looked around the room with distain, as if he didn’t expect much there. How right he was, it was all worthless. Well he supposed that one might do. The little blue reared onto his hind legs to make eye contact with Draik and crooked two of his front claws at him in an imperious gesture. Come on then. Get over here, and bring food.

Before the O.O brown could make up his mind the >D egg and the x.x egg crashed together in a spectacular shower of pink and teal shards revealing a pair of green hatchlings. The x.x green let out a squeal and launched herself in fury at the >D green, who evaded her and smacked her sister firmly on the rump with her tail. To the >D green’s shock her sister fell nose over tail backwards, squealing some more for good measure, then ran, still shrieking, away from the nest, and her approaching dam, launched herself with more emotion than grace into the air and promptly vanished.

Ghost let her oversized wings droop slightly in disappointment, the x.x green was the first hatchling of hers to go wild. Would all her babies go that way now? The gold looked over at the indecisive O.O brown, the :S green, who was still chattering away to herself, and the seemingly shocked >D green.

The O.O brown looked up, feeling his golden mother’s eyes on him, and sighed soulfully, of course he’d stay and make Ghost happy. The brown considered again, then his eyes seemed to light up as he spotted someone he really wanted. The heavyset blood coloured firelizard trotted down the table determinedly, skirted Miguel, and butted his head softly against Phaiden. Hungry. Food?

That left the :S and >D greens looking at each other silently, apparently even the lively :S green had nothing to say for the moment, which provided a perfect backdrop for the egg to crack right down the middle and fall away from another blue, and a huge crack to suddenly develop in the 0.o egg showing green hide within, but no other detail.


Mo’rya smiled at Caden, glad to see she was relaxing a little, even if it did take the combined efforts of all her mindmates to influence her. However Samael got his attention back very quickly by talking. ‘Oh don’t worry; I don’t think I ever told you my name. I sometimes forget things like that.’ Mo’rya grinned bashfully, attempting to meet the milky blue eyes, and totally forgot to tell Samael who he was anyway. ‘It’s not like I asked for your name after all, I just went out of my way to overhear it. I hope you haven’t missed your firelizard too much lately.’ The bronzerider gave a little chuckle, almost a giggle really, at the thought of the adorable pair that was Ghost and Freyr.

[Kisha-Ra]

:K blue

Looks to: Draik
Name:
Species: firelizard
Colour: blue Base: #DDFBFB Markings: #97DAFD
Born: August 3017

Appearance: This blue is a dainty looking little beast, almost stylised in his streamlined appearance. It seems every line on him has been pulled out to the longest, smoothest extent that it can be, a delicately long muzzle graces the head, which in turn is set on a neck so long and elegant that the overused term swan like springs instantly to mind. His body follows the trend, being long and lean, leading to a tail of improbable length. His limbs also bow to tradition, slender and lean with dainty little paws and shining talons to finish the picture off. The only thing that doesn’t follow the trend are his wings, which are perfectly average for a firelizard of his size, and consequently look awkward and clunky, something which he hates.

His colour of icy pale blue seems the perfect shade to compliment his sleek lines, it’s only his markings that keep him from looking white at first glance. His back is speckled with a powder blue shade, with most of the markings gathering between his wings before the powder blue shade fills in his wing membranes, making his wings all the more noticeable. Other than that he has one clear and distinct facial marking, a mask of powder blue ringing both his eyes.

Personality: This blue has been blessed with a cold personality to match his sub zero colouring, his gaze is freezing fire, filled to the brim with arrogant self assurance, mind you, he doesn’t consider it arrogance because he’s obviously in the right. If other people can’t see his rightness, well, they must be utter morons then.

Sadly he’s really unlikely to get the arrogance knocked out of him, because he does have an annoying habit of being right. He has a positive talent for seeing right to the heart of a situation and giving advice in his own unique, that is to say condescending, way. Unfortunately his advice for almost every situation is bound to be something about sex. If there’s a fight, well obviously the participants should get a room. Someone’s upset? They need to get laid. When it comes to humans sex is obviously the answer to everything, and thus will be incorporated into most of his conversational imagery along with a tone of condensation that adds a whole new level of mortification to the whole thing. With this blue around his bonded may never be able to look anyone in the eye ever again.

Amazingly enough when it comes to his own emotions this blue in extremely reserved, icy cold even. He’s not the type to own up to his own emotions, and in fact he’ll barely express more than a passing affection for his bonded, he’ll be more likely to treat his human as a personal skivvy than a beloved bondmate. In matters of chasing as well, he’ll be totally reserved, never chasing any female he feels close to, only those he actively dislikes or is indifferent to. No one will mock him the way he punctures others’ fragile egos.


O.O brown

Looks to: Phaiden
Name:
Species: firelizard
Colour: brown base:#560A0A Markings: #AB0707
Born: August 3017

Appearance: A fearsome sight indeed, this brown is simply huge, a bigness of heavy bones and ropy muscle rather than of flesh. It’s not that he’s out of proportion, it’s just that he’s, well, huge, outsizing smaller bronzes with ease though not matching any queen but a remarkably tiny one. More than that, every movement made by this brown is perfectly under his control, even as a growing youngster he won’t be prone to clumsiness, as an adult he’ll be perfectly graceful. The one area of his body that lets him down is his wings, they’re somewhat undersized and can’t really support his massive weight well, in long distance flights he might well have to get creative to go the distance.

His colour is also rather sinister, the dark red brown shade of drying bloodstains coats him from nose to tail tip, and his markings don’t make his appearance any less dangerous. A bright red shade plashes liberally over his legs and belly, and coats his muzzle as well going all the way up and ringing his eyes before vanishing. All in all it makes him look a tad like a murderer fleeing the scene of the crime.

Personality: His appearance betrays him for this brown is actually one of the good guys. As well as being huge in body he’s also huge in mind and heart. Perhaps not the most conventionally intelligent firelizard but what he lacks in instant comprehension he certainly makes up for in contemplation, If he can’t work something out first time he’ll just keep trying until he gets it, patient as the grave. Frustration has no meaning for him as long as he works with inanimate objects, however when a lack of understanding on his part upsets or disappoints someone he very soon becomes alternately anxious and despondent about the issue. At least when he finally understands his joy will be boundless.

When he’s not puzzling over things he won’t hesitate to attend his bonded in whatever the most important pursuits currently are and while he’s not always hot of the mark in understanding he is very finely tuned in to the emotions of people around him and his bonded in particular. Negativity gets this poor brown all in a tizzy and he’ll do anything, anything at all to spare his bonded a little sorrow or suffering, and no, he hasn’t heard of tough love at all so whatever his bonded wants from him, he’ll give.

Truly a creature of great heart this brown has love enough for all and sundry, not only will he collect and treasure friendships the way some of his kin do with shiny objects, he’ll also collect and treasure females, greens and golds, firelizards and salamandyrs, he just can’t get enough of them, and he’ll never be unfaithful, at least not in his own eyes. Can’t they see? He’s the most faithful firelizard in the whole Weyr, no one else is faithful to as many mates as him.

[Rei]

Sydney kept smiling up at Kaius until a trill greeted her and King glided to her shoulder. “King! How are you doing sweetie?” The candidate would admit, although she wasn’t keen on breaking any rules, the little bronze mandyr was just about the coolest thing ever. She would kill for one just like him. Tracing his golden markings with her fingertips she stroked his metallic hide. “Well of course I like you!” She said with a bright smile almost laughing as the mandyr ticked her neck with his enthusiastic nuzzles. Using one finger she started scratching under the mandyr’s chin, not even caring that he had his tail firmly wrapped about her neck. It was then that she caught Kaius’ grin and returned the gesture. “True that. Though I bet it would take more then me to knock you over.” Watching as her fellow candidate turned to look at the clutch she continued to stroke over King’s hide and half turned her head too.

Wow these hatchings went fast! A bronze, two blues, and a brown had already impressed. And that one green looked like she just betweened for no good reason. There were no keens though. So that meant the thing had gone wild right? That left what? One blue two greens and one unhatched egg left? It was a huge crowd too. Her chances of impression had just dropped by a lot. Reluctantly she tore her emerald eyes away from the remaining babies and back to her friend. “Ah so it was all his doing? That’s funny. I heard that most mandyrs don’t really like firelizards. They seem to have this species war or something going on from what I have seen.” With a shrug Sydney continued. “Honestly I thought about it? We aren’t supposed to impress mandyrs and I kind of do what a pet. So that kind of leaves flits. Most of them seem okay anyway and they do look like miniature dragons.” Not that any dragons had even liked her last hatching. But it was her first time right? Surely next time a gold rose she’d have a better shot?

Sydney was going to continue her conversation when a familiar figure approached. August! Or rather Au’st now. For a moment the young woman was shocked in seeing her brother. Then she simply smiled back at him. Even if she hardly got to see him, felt a little ignored, and maybe a tad bit betrayed, she still loved her brother. To extremes. He was still the only family she had in the world and their bond went deep. “Hey Gus.” She said warmly stepping forward to give him a quick hug before she noticed her brother’s eyes go to Kaius and then his eyebrow raise. Uh oh. He wasn’t going to do that whole protective big brother thing was he? It sure looked like he was threatening it.

Smoothly Sydney subtly shifted to place herself in between the two boys. She had basically only had male friends at the hold. No sense for Gus to get all worked up about her doing the same in the weyr right? “What’s going on? I’m here trying to get a flit.” She said cheerfully her green eyes flicking to Kaius before going back to her brother. “Guess I should have introduced you two. Gus this is my friend Kaius. He’s a candidate too. In fact you bunked in the same barracks with him remember? And Kaius this is my brother August…err Au’st. The one I’ve been telling you about.” There now maybe they could try and not to kill each other? All friends right? Probably not but it was a nice thought anyway.

[Aftershock]

Freyr crooned a happy response to the :S Green, bumping noses with his new daughter, but then was a bit taken aback to her response to the hatching of her brown brother. He was about to chirrup a welcome to his new son, happy to note he had gained a variation of his father's red coloration, when the :S Green began her accusatory tirade, followed soon by the hatching of the :K Blue.

Freyr was busy trying to deal with the :S Green and her accusations towards her blue and brown brothers when the the x.x Green and >D Green hatched against one another, and his head twisted around at the sound, watching the x.x Green immediately attack her green sister, then trip, get up, and flee, betweening away. He did not feel her death, so knew she had only fled, but also knew she was not going to Impress a human, having gone wild. Leaving his brown and blue sons to Impress away from their chattering green sister, Freyr trotted over to Ghost, nuzzling her neck and sharing her sorrow at their daughter having gone wild. Turning around to stand beside his mate, Freyr looked back in the nest, watching the Blue hatch, and seeing the crack in the O.o Egg reveal a bit of green hide, and stood ready to assist his newest green daughter if she seemed to have issue freeing herself from her shell.

Samael, for his part, answered Mo'rya with, "Oh, it's all right. Er... what is your name, out of curiosity?" When asked if he had missed Freyr, the confusion was clear on his face as he responded, "Er, I know he wanted to be a devoted daddy... but why would you apologize for that?" Not knowing who Mo'rya even was, he apparently did not realize that Ghost was Mo'yra's firelizard.

[Zephyr]

Olivia was nearly bounding with happiness for her new friend. It didn’t matter that she had only just met Anna, Liv had decided almost immediately that she liked the other girl and that she wanted to be her friend. It had little to do with the firelizard, because even if she hadn’t impressed, and Live met her, she would still have wanted to be friends with her. “ Oh yes!” Olivia said happily, eyes on the little blue. “ He certainly is a gorgeous little blue.”

“ I like that name! It’s so pretty!” At length, the girl gave a wide grin, beaming with joy. “ We should be friends! I need more friends. I don’t have many. You’ll be my friend though, right?” With that, she turned to Miguel as well. “ And you? Will you be my friend?”

After the boy answered, providing he did answer, Olivia’s attention would be pulled away by a flash of brown as another firelizard flew towards them. Eyes widened as she saw it land near Phaiden. “ WOW! Look guys!” She said suddenly, scrambling over to her friend. “ Phai impressed too! And he’s so pretty! I like his red! What’re you gonna name him, Phai?”

Pippin, who had been standing at his mistress’ side had had enough of not knowing what was going on. Snuffling, the canine took a step forward and lifted his head to Xelos, who was still clinging to the girl’s chest. The canine snuffled loudly as he sniffed the blue creature, tail wagging. What was itttt? He whined, paws twitching restlessly.

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King was still clinging to Syd. He liked girls, liked them a lot. He wasn't the type to just cling to one girl. He was an equally opportunity lover, unless he somehow managed to catch a gold female. Like his sister. He had been waiting for Levi to run for a long time now. He had to keep that stupid Shells from winning. Shells was older, sure, but he was no king. When someone else approached, the greenbronze salamandyr looked up at the weyrling boy with eyes flashing red. Who was he? Why was he bothering the pretty lady? King hissed at Gus, frills extended and wings wrapped around Sydney's head. Yeah. No one messed with his and his' chosen girls (not that there was anything going on between Syd and Kai, but try telling King that).

Before Gus came over, Kaius was enjoying talking with Sydney. It reminded him how good it felt to actually talk to people. He had spent so long on his own. He gave her a knowing grin. " Actually, I tend to knock people over. They seem to bump into me a lot. I didn't know I was that unforgettable." He laughed at her words about King, eyeing the salamandyr critically for a moment. " He doesn't really like firelizards, which is why I didn't quite understand. He usually ignores them." Pretty eggs, King Trilled, as if in explanation. At this, his bonded sighed deeply. At least he was distracted again by Sydney. He shrugged lightly. " I didn't mean to impress King, but I wouldn't give him up for anything...most of the time." King glared at the boy. " If you're into following the rules all the time, then awesome, but a few of the candidates have mandyrs, all we get is extra chores. Not that I'm trying to pull you to the dark side or anything."

Then the weyrling walked over and Kaius eyed him critically for a while. It took him a moment to realize that this was Syd's brother. The one she told him about. Kaius was ready to be civil, but King didn't seem to think the same way and instantly was on guard, threatening the boy. Kai shrugged. If he was threatened by a little Salamandyr, that was his problem. " Hey, Au'st, right?" He could understand a brother being protective of his sister, he had been that way towards his own sister, but he and Sydney had only been talking.

Gus, was indeed not threatened by the salamandyr. He blinked at it, even as King twined his tail around Syd's neck more. Oth piped into his mind. Crush it? He asked hopefully, but Gus managed to push his dragon's thoughts back. He didn't think Sydney would appreciate it if he killed her new friend's salamandyr. He watched it blankly for a couple more minutes before ignoring it completely to look over to its bonded. " Hey man." He greeted Kaius before turning to Syd. " I hope you get one, really. They'd be stupid not to love you." He grinned comfortingly at his sister. King noticed the complete and utter refusal by Gus to notice his presence and hissed again. He did not like this weyrling, not one bit. Oth growled where he was standing outside, projecting waves of pure hatred towards the salamandyr.

Oh boy.

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Draik grinned broadly at the girl. Step one: icebreaker was completely. He wasn't surprised she was here, really. Girls were a sucker for such cute little creatures. " I'm glad you're here." He grinned mischievously. " Lucky me." He said, about ready to say something when he suddenly felt something enter his mind. Confusion set in. What was Draisk doing here, he wasn't supposed to be out in the daytime...then he realized that his wher was still within the safety of their apartment. The tugging at his mind had awoken the wher, and he was inquiring lightly into Draik's mind. What was that? Blinking, the man's gaze shifted to the egg table, gaze settling on a ghostly blue firelizard that was looking expectantly towards him.

Food! Slavething! Now! You and that humangirl can get a room AFTER food. Draik grimaced lightly. So. One of the little beasts had wanted him after all. He hadn't wanted one, but it seemed like the little blue wasn't taking no for an answer. Glancing to Nephele slightly apologetically, he dipped his head in a deep bow. " Sorry, my lady. Seems like even I can't escape." FOOD! The blue blasted pictures of that delicious meatstuff into his mind until Draik had little choice but to oblige. Taking his leave of Nephele, he grabbed some meat from one of the bowls the boy had brought out. Claws digging into his shirt, the blue hoisted himself up and snatched the meat clean out of Draik's hand, uncaring if he snapped at the human's hands.

Draik frowned down at the flit. " I guess you need a name. Can't call you 'you' forever." You most certainly can not! The firelizard intoned, still snapping up meat. The man thought for a moment. " What about Icy. You look like ice. That's a nice name?" Suddenly, the firelizard stopped eating and looked up at his new bonded. his eyes bespoke his irritation. Awful name. Awful, awful, awful. Did I choose a moron? No? Draik was taken aback by the force of the beast's dislike for that name. " Bloody hell, fine then! What about...Wendigo?" It sure is a little monster... he added as an aside to Draisk, who chuckled lightly on his end. This was going to be amusing. The flit seemed at least mildly more pleased by this and went back to eat his meat.

Draik sighed. This was going to suck. At least firelizards were good for getting girls though, right?

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Saphor was aware of all the happenings of the hatching. Eyes landed on firelizards as they hatched and impressed, and when one of the greens went wild, she glanced sympathetically towards the gold. Only a mother could understand the implication of losing a child, even if the green hadn't died. Ghost wasn't likely to ever see her hatchling daughter again. Sighing lightly, she looked over to her own daughter in time to see a burly brown firelizard headbutting her lightly. What? She had impressed? Saphor sighed lightly, hoping that she wouldn't end up having to care for the thing when Phai lost interest. Likely though, the firelizard wouldn't let her lose interest.

Grinning widely, she walked over to the kids, patting Anna on the head as she did. " Congratulations you two. What are you going to name him, love?" She asked her daughter, passing one of the little bowls of meat to Phaiden.

[Ruby]

Well, the theory about standing near the clutch to impress seemed to be working quite well. Phai had only just turned to Anna to congratulate her on her blue when some new drama started in the nest, pulling her eyes instead. One of the newly hatched Greens took to the sky and went Between just before that one lurking razorclaw could stoop down and grab her - Kami promptly retreated to her rafter when she failed, but the action could hardly be taken as anything less than her hunting - and Phaiden's face fell, only....

Only. The brown from the egg with the O.O markings was coming her way. Maybe he was going for Miguel, but somehow Phaiden didn't think so. She shrunk away at first - his markings looked like so much blood - but the she realized that a firelizard's blood was green, not red. He was big, too, but somehow she just knew he wasn't vicious. And then he bumped his head into her chest, and she saw the whirling rainbow eyes, and felt him, over there on the table. Gathering him in her arms, the little girl kissed him solemnly on the nose, her eyes as big as saucers. "You're..." she started, totally in awe, before the Brown licked her on the nose, wiggling in excitement. She loved him! He was going to stay, like his mother told him, and he had made a good choice. So what if it had taken him some time?

That made Phaiden laugh, and she looked from Olivia to Saphor, grinning fit to split her face. "I was going to name him Prince, cause he's so nice, but he looks like he's got blood all over, so I though I should give him a scarier name? Princes wouldn't be covered in blood, villains would, but he's not a villain, either. He's big, and noble, and strong... What about Lion?" The brown licked her again, eyes whirling green now. Yes, Lion was a good name.

((Rest are coming after shower/lunch))

[Kisha-Ra]

Ghost leaned silently into her mate, taking comfort in Freyr’s presence. But the Impression of the O.O brown served to distract her from her absent daughter. She chirped happily after him, then turned her attention to the two hatched greens in the nest, telling both of them it was time to go and pick someone.

The >D green hissed spitefully, suddenly furious and flared her wings, revealing how huge the appendages were. Oh Ghost thought she was just going to go and pick someone did she? Well maybe she would and maybe she wouldn’t, and what did Ghost think of that?! In reply to her enraged child Ghost snorted, conveying that she thought very little of this display of temper.

Well! The >D green flared her wings again and flapped them a few times experimentally, and got far more lift than she really wanted. The green’s sudden rage quickly gave way to sudden surprise as she found herself unsteadily flying without really planning to. O-kay, the green managed to get herself organised into a glide, now…

Before the >D green could organise herself any further she found herself knocked off course by the bumbling flight of the still wet winged 0.o green who’d broken out of her shell almost silently while her sister raged. The 0.o green offered a cheerful chirp and was rebuffed by a terrible hiss as the >D green totally lost control of her flight and spun away, eventually slamming into Miguel’s back and clinging there, her giant wings flopping against the boy’s back. Hello beloved. Food please. The green requested as if she hadn’t been throwing a major wobbly a few seconds ago.

The so far silent blue suddenly threw back his head and uttered a despairing moan. Oh tragedy, oh calamity! This was surely the worst event he’d ever witnessed in the absolute worst day of his life so far! Despite the cheerful look of his egg and the bright colours of his hide this firelizard seemed determined to look on the dull side. The :S green glared at him. She was the commentator here thank you so much. He was a usurper, a liar, and probably an imposter as well! He should just get back where he came from!

The blue looked mournfully at the shards of his egg. Oh but he couldn’t! It was gone, all gone, broken, destroyed! How could such a thing happen? Oh how terrible! Snorting with a mixture of disgust and contempt the :S green hauled herself upright and dropped gracelessly off the edge of the nest. Errr. Ah yes. That one, surely the most worthy of the creatures assembled here, and certainly not deserving of a whiner like her brother. The rather chubby green fluttered her wings and took off with moderate grace to land on Sydney’s shoulder. So…Did she want to hear something interesting?

Oh. Oh How awful. The blue made the worst of it, rather enthusiastically. He lumbered into the air at first but got the hang of flying quickly. His landing , however left something to be desired, it was more of a plop, that left him sprawled on Dy’shi’s shoulder. He was starving. It was dreadful.

The 0.o green meanwhile had been zooming around the room at an insane speed. It was only when she caught sight of the empty nest that she recalled what she was doing. Oh yes! Sorry! Errr… that one! No that one! No this one! The green bounded across a couple of heads until she ended up on Liv’s head, peering down into the girl’s eyes from her vantage point. It made her look rather silly but she didn’t seem to mind.

Ghost chattered happily to Freyr. It was over, rather sad but at least most of their babies had stayed. It was a shame about the wild green but she’d be fine, Ghost would be sure to keep an eye on her.


‘Oh sorry.’ Mo’rya apoligised with a slight flush. ‘I’m Mo’rya, and , well, he has been hanging around my Weyr all the time recently. I guess I could have thought of moving the eggs earlier, Ghost wouldn’t have minded.’ Mo’rya paused in his chatter, reminded about the eggs, only to find they’d all managed to hatch while he was chatting. ‘Well, you might have him back now. It’s all over. Already. It always happens so fast.’ Mo’rya looked distinctly sulky at this.

[Kisha-Ra]

>D green

Looks to: Miguel
Name:
Species: firelizard
Colour: green Base: #E0FF81 Markings: #6A7547
Born: August 3017

Appearance: There’s something sinister about this green, it seems everything about her is angular, her body is whippet lean, and will always remain so not matter how much her bonded tries to feed her up. The legs are all scrawny affairs that make her feet look too large and perfectly highlight the matte black of her overlong needle sharp talons. Her tail is long, but thin enough to make her look ridiculously unbalanced. Possibly the most bizarre thing about this odd little firelizard is the size of her wings, they’re massive and apparently only marginally under her control, they usually hang unfurled, crumpled around her like she’s sat in the middle of a destroyed umbrella.

A pale citrus green is the main body colour of this firelizard, it quite pleasant but none too remarkable. Her marking colour is not as pleasant, it’s a deep sage green tone that gives her the common mask marking of her clutch, however her mask doesn’t stop at her eyes, it continues on down the sides of her neck, along both sides of her body under those enormous wings, and one down her tail where the lines down each side of her body meet just above the tail fork.

Personality: Temperamental is the word for this little firelizard, either that or brat. She goes from perfectly calm and sedate to raging in an instant and over the smallest thing. Anything that’s not going precisely the way she wants can expect to be hissed at, subjected to threats and displays of aggression, and then attacked if it doesn’t submit to her plan of action, and that’s not just living things, it’s inanimate objects too, let no spoon lie in her path, let nothing cast a shadow upon her glory, lest it die!

When she’s not throwing a wobbly this green is really quite sweet. She’s affectionate to hers and isn’t above running messages or fetching items for them, and it has to be said that she would never actually bite her person, only threaten it. Other people may feel her wrath but she’s also passingly affectionate and helpful to them when the mood strikes her, she’s even playful with other firelizards, salamandyrs, and the occasional domestic feline or canine, at least until they upset or offend her.

She’s also a terrible flirt, in fact half her mood swings will be over someone not acknowledging her flirting, and since she flirts with literally anything alive, from newborn herdbeasts to the bronze dragons themselves, no one of any species or gender is safe from her advances. In her Flights she’ll spend half the time flying and the other half scolding and attacking both her own chasers and non participants for imagined affronts.


:S green

Looks to: Sydney
Name:
Species: firelizard
Colour: green base: #7EFF51 markings: #2A9E06
Born:

Appearance: The word to describe this girl is cuddly, or chubby if you want to be mean about it, she’s not fat, exactly, but she does have a bit more flesh than is perfectly elegant. She doesn’t see this as any kind of disadvantage, in fact although she has a rounded figure and a slight clumsiness to her movements she simply uses this to her advantage in appearing cute, because she is adorable, isn’t she?

Her hide is an obnoxious bright green shade that’s just a shade or two too light to be considered neon, but somehow highlights her essential cheerful nature, and she need never worry about catching anyone’s attention with colouration like that. She’s marked with a deeper green shade that rings her eyes, though unlike most of her siblings her mask is broken down the middle into two darker rings around each eye, these rings are linked by a short thin line almost dead in the centre. In addition to her eye marking this girl sports dark green front legs, the left covered with deep green past the elbow and the right leg marking finishing just above her wrist in an almost comically uneven marking.

Personality: Well hi there! She’s just so totally thrilled to meet you! Indeed she is, whoever you may be, and whatever attitude you hold toward her. You just can’t escape her excited overeager cuteness, and she’ll go out of her way to act cute. In fact if someone doesn’t like her (for some insane reason) she’ll go out of her way to stalk that person, find out what they consider cute, and duplicate whatever feat they found pleasing. You see they absolutely must adore her otherwise she’ll just die.

Why yes, a little melodrama is just her thing, provided she still looks sweet while she’s at it. Gossip is most often her melodramatic vice and she’s not above manipulating her version of events to make them sound far more interesting, even though the basis for those manipulations of truth appears to have been a soap opera from ancient Earth. If you let her she’ll lay sphinx like before you and spin in elegant images and emotions tales of betrayal and anger, of love rekindled and hearts reformed, life writ large through the eyes of a green firelizard.

One might wonder why she prefers telling dramas to making her own drama but the truth is that this green is simply lazy. If an activity doesn’t involve being sweet and adorable she’s simply not interested in performing that action. She’d always rather sit and chat than actually get involved with any of the strenuous activity that fights, affairs of the heart, and all the other good gossip requires. Why should she? Talking about things is so much better than actually doing them.


blue

Looks to: Dy’shi
Name:
Species: firelizard
Colour: blue base:#0162E5 markings: #09EBFF
Born: August 3017

Appearance: This blue is on the large end of the size chart but he’s on the thin side, and no wonder because he never stays still. To see him motionless is a rarity indeed. In the rare moments when he is still it’s possible to see the shape of his bones beneath his hide, no amout of feeding will make him put on weight either, he’s just too active. Thankfully he manages to avoid looking as sickly as his dam.

Part of his healthy look is his bright hide. It’s eyewatering, either of his two shades would be bright enough on its own but the strong mid blue colour that’s his major shade is slashed up the left side by a jagged line of pure summer sky blue that make him stand out a mile, this marking runs from the left shoulder, under the wing, and terminates on his flank. The only other marking he sports is a simple mask, like the one sported by terran racoons, over his eyes.

Personality: PANIC! It doesn’t matter what the situation is, that’s the appropriate reaction in this firelizard’s opinion. He lives and thrives on the catastrophe curve and if there’s nothing to panic about don’t worry; he’ll soon find something. If there’s nothing happening to him he can make an insurmountable problem out of he’ll make one on someone else’s behalf.

His habit of panic in any situation is an outgrowth of his fanatical perfectionism. Everything in this blue’s life must be just so, and if it’s not prepare for histrionics until it is. In fact, just prepare anyway, because his idea of what’s perfect changes from day to day. Mostly it’s suspected so he’s got some molehills to make mountains out of, either that or he’s just very absent minded with most of his effort being focused on finding disasters to fret over.

Don’t expect to make his day by understanding him either. You can’t possibly understand him! No one can! It’s just tragic and heart rending, and totally drowning in nauseating self pity! Yes he loves to mourn over his disaster ridden catastrophe of a life, and he doesn’t appreciate people interrupting, or trying to cheer him up. The only person he’ll allow to (slightly mind you) understand him without objection is his bonded. Despite all the outward appearnces he does adore his bonded, even when they’ve cause strife and calamity. It’s their disastrous life, sometimes, not just his.


0.o green

Looks to: Olivia
Name:
Species: firelizard
Colour: green Base: #033717 Markings: #8BFFBF
Born:

Appearance: She’s almost perfect in form for a green firelizard, smack dab in the middle size wise and very neatly proportioned, though maybe just a bit on the rounder side around her middle, but she arranges herself so neatly you’d never notice such a thing. Her spinal ridges are smooth and rounded, perfectly fitting to her body, and nearly vanish altogether as they hit her lower back and head, subtly, toward her tail.

As if to make up for such an average, if attractive, figure nature has bestowed a gift of wonderful colour to this firelizard. A backdrop of near black green is scattered with specks of a pale seafoam green that glitter like jewels against the darkness. The same pale shade appears again over her feet, her tail tip, and the very tip of her muzzle, and forms a small diamond marking on her chest. Her face is not adorned by the mask marking around the eyes worn by most of her clutch siblings but rather she has a line of her pale colour around each eye.

Personality: If this green was a human she’d be diagnosed with narcolepsy, it seems she can fall asleep anywhere, doing anything. It’s actually quite comical the way she suddenly pitches forward into her food, or lose control of her flight because her eyes are closing in spite of herself. In spite of her habit of dropping of at odd times this little lady’s naps never last long; a half hour at most. There’s just too much to see, why if she stayed asleep any longer she might miss something! Therein lies the reason for her sleepiness, though she sleeps anywhere she never sleeps for long, in fact she considers it something of betrayal of her body and is always in a foul mood after waking up because she’s angry with herself for sleeping and therefore missing things.

The very essence of her urge to stay awake is her unending curiosity. Must. Know. Everything. She’s constantly flitting from one place to another just to find out what’s going on. Every sound will send her zooming off to investigate the source. If it’s a commonplace she’ll be dreadfully disappointed, but that won’t stop her from rushing after sounds she’s heard a dozen, or even a hundred times before. this time it might be something different.

If her bonded has patience, and learns to sift all the images this green passes along and garner useful gossip items from them. The only thing is that she does have a positive passion for romance, anyone who looks remotely like they might be in love will get their brains stalked out by this green until she discovers just who and why they love. Consequently most of her gossip will revolve on this issue.

[Aftershock]

Freyr screeched a reproach as the >D Green hissed at Ghost, reminding his daughter to be more respectful towards her mother, then watched silently as she took to the air, chirruping a bit in worry as she and the O.o Green collided in midair, but then seeing both greens recover and the >D Green find Hers.

At the sorrowful moan of the Blue, Freyr took a step forward worryingly, remembering the recent fate of his now-wild green daughter, and chirruped encouragingly at his newest blue son, letting him know if he went to find His, it would make things much better for him. He watched the :S Green fly off to find Hers, then finally heaved a sigh of relief as his depressive blue son finally left and found His.

Watching his final green daughter, the O.o Green, find Hers, Freyr turned to Ghost and crooned as he nuzzled her yet again. Their children were all beautiful, and he, too, would keep an eye on their errant wild daughter to make sure she stayed safe.

Samael, meanwhile, finally seemed to comprehend what was going on as Mo'rya said his name and explained he was the bonded of Ghost. "Oh, I didn't mind. I was just glad that Freyr got to find his own version of love. At least one of us should," he added, a bit of a sadness behind his smile. Hearing the news that the hatching was complete, Samael said, "Well, I don't mind at all if Freyr wishes to see Ghost in the future. He sent me a picture, they make a cute couple. Perhaps they'll make more pretty babies next time she Rises."

[Requiem]

It was beginning to feel a little crowded to Miguel. He liked Anna and Phaiden well enough (Anna particularly because sometimes he thought Phai just came near him because Anna did) but this other girl he didn't know, and there was Phai's mother and...instead of allowing himself to get overwhelmed, he just concentrated on Annatolli. A nod and smile was given to her thanks, and he wanted to stroke the little flit but settled for curling his fingers into the material of his pantleg instead.

Soon enough, Phaiden had her own, the brown sibling of the blue. "Yes, Phai Impressed." He flashed the girl a smile despite not being entirely sure of her. The boy was a bit taken aback, though, at Olivia's direct question. She was a lot older than any of them. A candidate. Miguel couldn't even be a candidate for another four turns. Nevertheless, he managed a rather shy smile for her and nodded. "If you want."

It was at that moment that something crashed into his back and he felt something he'd experienced only once before: the binding of a small mind to his. Miguel couldn't see her from this angle, but he silently picked up a bowl of meat and held it in his lap. He wanted to see her. This response apparently pleased the green well enough for the moment, for she released his back to come around, strutting a little on shaky legs with her huge wings trailing behind her. Wasn't she just the best firelizard...no, best creature...ever?

Miguel smiled and trailed a finger down her spine, sliding the bowl a little closer to her and fishing out a piece of meat himself so she could take it from his fingers and not have to get all dirty climbing into a bowl of meat. The little green arched her neck and trilled to her brothers. Wasn't she the most beautiful green? Her brothers should admire her. They could be her loyal followers and she would reward them handsomely with her favors. Didn't that sound lovely?

"I think I'll name her..." The green's head came around to focus on Miguel. Better pick the right name. "Annabelle. Belle." Her little jaws opened as if tasting the name, then she must have decided it was suitable, because she crooned. The boy glanced sidelong at Annatolli, a trace of color on his cheeks, but he doubted she was even listening to him. There were far more interesting things going on than Miguel.