Kesh's family

[Chintu-bean]

As I already asked about it on the MUCK, I'm joining the spotty family too. ;D

I'll be a brother of Kesh. I'm not sure yet if he should be a littermate or older, but I'm leaning towards the second. Any thoughts, Mom and Dad? :3

As for names, I'm hovering between Faraj and Lateef (or Latif...but I think Lateef looks better. :])

[Isoba]

Wheee! Another vict- er, child to lavish loads of love upon! ;D

For the age-bit of it, I'm not of a particular mind, either way. I s'pose it's up to Kesh, really, as she's going to be your sister. <: And Saeed's preference, too. Like I said, I personally don't care.

As for the names...I like the former slightly better (heh, I actually think Latif looks better than Lateef. <x), but it's completely up to you. If you want the meaning to have, well, meaning, I suppose you could base it off the personality you want the character to have? Once again, your call.

<3

[Kesh]

Great to see there's interest in spotty kitties!

I'm leaning towards Latif m'self, that way Kesh can call him Teeth ;D

I beleive Isoba and I concluded that the family would be a pretty young one, Diata having had her litter with Kesh and Teeth (hee hee) pretty much as soon as she was able to bear cubs and now Kesh is just a little beyond the point of being considered adult.


As far as backstory goes, I'm thinking that Diata's mother was either a close friend or a cubsitter for Ahadi. When that serval was killed Ahadi welcomed Diata to remain under the protection of the pride, though she took no interest in tending to someone else's cubs and, instead, went and had her own. When Kesh was born she was exposed to lion youth and, thus, grew an affinity towards them and became the pride's cubsitter when she was old enough to strike out on her own.

The rest of her family stays within the borders of the Pridelands, happily befriended to the pride, though perhaps not as involved as Kesh has made herself out to be.


You guys are welcome to run with your characters in whatever direction you'd like so long as we have a BBQ every other weekend

[nekratini]

does she need an assistant cubsitter? she could blame everything that goes wrong on her assistant then ;D

[Kesh]

I'm sure Kesh would love a scapegoat

[nekratini]

are you starting her off as a cub?

[Kesh]

Nope, this Kesh is a different critter from ER or TLKm Kesh, though quite similar in personality and such. The other Keshes where older, too. KoV Kesh will be fairly fresh into adulthood, perhaps one year past her turn to adulthood or so.. still quite young, but not a cub or anything.

[Chintu-bean]

Okay, littermate it is.

Hmm, true, Latif doesn't have a very personal meaning; kind and gentle he may be to some degree, but those don't really describe him. But I'm just loving the Teeth nickname. ;D Maybe he was named for a granddaddy or uncle somewhere up the line?

I could go either way on the spelling. :3

Personality's in the works; I wrote one up, and then realized I had just described Zazu, only as a jobless layabout.

[Gwala]

Don't worry, dude. I got halfway through my sketch and realized that it was a fairly accurate description of Santa Claus.

xD

[Kesh]

I eagerly await the chance to meet all these fine spottys

[Kesh]

Was sitting here and got to thinking about all the non-serval parts of Kesh's family and went on a roll with various character concepts. Here's what I came up with.


Rembaluse

Male Panther

Unknown age, though acts as though he's quite ancient with his low, ragged voice and slow mannerisms, though the reason for his befriending of the Kesh family clan was his part in the flood that claimed the life of Kesh's predecessor as a cubsitter in the Prideland pride, having rescued Kesh's mother while she was still pregnant with the litter that produced Kesh and her siblings.
Typically black though has some graying cropping up around the edges with all manner of scars that help to show off his experience.


Kreeli

Female cheetah

Once and abandoned runt of a litter of a cheetah pair that were at odds with The Kesh clan back before Kesh was born. Is of similar age now to Kesh's mother and was something of a cubhood friend since Kesh's grandmother raised her as her own for awhile. Typically happy and chipper, if a little dimwitted due, possibly, to her stunted growth which makes her a good bit smaller than most cheetahs.
Tends to be fairly solitary after it became clear that she was the 'adopted one', but still gets along with the serval gang despite their involvement with 'icky lions'


Borsh

Male turtle

One of those things that just sort of came along and stayed. Supposedly got washed away from his home by the same flood that killed Kesh's grandmother, but he's not one to really say for sure as he went to sleep and woke up with a 'yellow growth' tickling his nose when it emerged from his shell. Seems content to just have some friends that say 'Hey Borsh' when they walk by. Tends to find himself as plaything for the cubs that Kesh looks after since she likes how confused Borsh acts with a giggling cub squirming around while he tries to waddle around and get it off. Moderately grumpy, if only because he's slow to figure out just what's going on.


Turmin or "Mane"

Female golden colored bird (Not sure what species)

There is, apparently, a history before Mane's flock and Kesh's family, though no one's really quite sure how, exactly. Kesh's father is convinced the bird just up and decided one day to claim she was important to the servals to prevent getting eaten, but everyone else insists the bird's flock did them good a long time ago. How? No one can remember for sure. For some reason she loves to perch herself on a serval's boney foreshoulders and nestle in, giving the vauge impression of the serval having sprouted a mane suddenly, hence the nickname. Isn't above pecking around to be annoying, but serves as a majordomo of sorts, though is far from reliable.


Etch

Male cheetah

Brother of Kreeli but very much the opposite. Convinced that the servals 'stole' his sister and while this has little ramifications on his own life still holds a grudge that just won't go away. At one time he stole Borsh away and threatened to eat him if the servals didn't 'let his sister go'. This, of course, made no sense since Kreeli didn't live with the servals. His plan was then foiled when Borsh just hid in his shell till Etch gave up in a huff. Sour attitude and very much disliking of anything leonine. However, if he spots a means to 'get back' at the serval clan, he's likely to jump at the chance. Looks normal for a cheetah, though has a lot more scars than most of his age due to his aggressive behavior.


Ziz or "Awk"

Male Raven

Annoyance and overall pest that delights very much in annoying the servals and foiling every attempt they make to catch him. Assaults Turmin every chance he gets, though is a bit slower than the golden bird so she always gets away. Tends to be generally disliked due to his efforts to caw loudly at the most inopportune times with the pure intent of being a pest. An agile and annoying bully that just won't go away and gets dirty if he gets ignored.



Just a few ideas for those that don't want to go the serval route. If anyone has a character similar to one of these already they could be Incorporated into the back story in a similar manner as I described. Names are just stuff off the top of my head, so those can be changed as desired. Any other ideas you might have are welcomed!

[Kesh]

So, where are we sitting here? Roll call, please! I'd like to get some family RP goin now that Holloween events are done with.

[Gwala]

Saeed has been requested and validated, I just need to finish writing out his description and history. So, I'm ready to go as far as RP goes.

[Yaro]

Etch is Seran and he's met Ahadi already.