NOTES :: When ELF's Xenophobe first dropped, I was arrested by his blazing green on black - and couldn't help but be reminded, with his scheme and sharp markings, of an Xbox. XD;; I didn't have an Xbox at this point, but it was irresistible. Less than a month later, I won my darling Dark in a blind contest - and as soon as I saw her red-orange blaze, I knew I had to breed her with Xeno for RROD-Xbox'meti. The Festival of Abundance rolled around, and dear ELF agreed to my proposition, and even wrote up a wonderful Love Letter confession that had Dark falling head over heels (never finding out, in her lovably obtuse way, about his darkly bigoted side). XD But Dark had some character development to go, and in the meantime I threw my lot in for All I See's planned breeding. Fast forward half a year later, my attempts had been hitherto unsuccessful, a moratorium had been placed on edited breedings, and, finally, I lost the big edited breeding auction event by 258k - one bid. I had been running on empty and fell asleep an hour before the auction end, with a prior bid of 23m. *cry* To be honest though, I didn't think I was going to win anyway, and I'd had a plan brewing in the back of my mind: blue had finally (okay, it'd been a month, but it was terrifying!) reopened for RLC, and I had plotted over RROD-Xbox'meti for so long that I would need to keep three in total (with Maxx) to be able to use all the names I'd wanted; the only way to mitigate the guilt of that was through paying real moneys for it. So the email went out...and blue did them almost straight away. ಥᗣಥ(cross-posted to Cry's Notes up to here) I. Need. More. Bucks. There are too many gorgeous does out there for me not to expand this withered portion of my herd! Prior attempts had failed and...and...let's face it, every time I'm confronted with a choice... DX *squishes Re-wind* This intent spurred my way to RLC, where real moneys could take the edge off the guilt of keeping two - probably the only way I could force myself to keep a buck. To set up the field, we opted for twins and chose buck for a determined sac - that should give me options, for I needed a good option to breed. ...Hathathat. There were plenty of bucks to choose from alright - the buck now known as Parlay, with his perfect colour balance and incredible marking strips, the buck now known as Heat Rises, with that amazing blazing green and red, the buck now known as Red Ring of Death (actually the first name I wanted to use, but thought it would suit Maxx so much better XD), with those. Super. Markings. Come on. Yeah, right - my eye went straight to the one monotone buck, with a relative minimum of markings. 'You can't take him!' my mind rebutted, 'you need a flexible buck for maximum breeding options!' Mind: 0 Irrationality: 1. I just could not get over the neon stream from his eye for Cry More, and once Maxx pointed out he was a perfect counterpart to Death, I flipped. So much for my resolution - but it's a moot point now: I've become so enamoured with him as a character that he's officially super-picky largely-RP-only breeding now, and I don't know which girl in her right mind would go through all that for a dark green buck with a highlighter-neon streak and sharp hind-stockings (to be fair, I doth protest - I am obviously crazy about his sharp neon streak, stockings and contrast hoofs aaaaargh). And the kicker? I adore Cue, she is exactly what I'd hoped for from this breeding and more...but if push came to shove, I suspect I would've taken Cry - I am sunk by the character that sprung almost immediately when I first laid eyes upon the clutch. I know, I know - CRY MOAR N00B. ಥᗣಥ
PETS :: I hope that you will ever have the chance to receive the grace, benevolence, generousity, and pet from ane, because the PM I got Own in was epic. Beyond imagining. And so incredibly prescient too! I'd never thought to seek a foxbun, largely because most of my herd are more in the habit of eating than owning them, but the number of very attractive lovely natural-coloured foxbuns lately have been turning my head and making me covet - missing Abs' amazing foxbun hunt during my week without computer was an especially sore point. I'd also noticed that Gypsum and Fluster had been picked up by Abs for a breeding, which excited me since they were two of my favourite soft lovely natural foxbuns, and I'd been eager to see what buns may come. But I'd never registered at the foxbun directory to telegraph my desire...so imagine my surprise when I saw what bun had come to meee. And it was the most perfect little bun for a grey-addict, with the most beautiful little head. I no longer cared that most of my herd would rather eat it than keep it - some'meti had better keep it because by gum I was not going to give it back. No prizes guessing what occupied me for the next 20 minutes. Throughout my travails, my mind kept returning again and again to Cry...so he was part of a crack team...so they were callous hunters from youth and beyond deadly...so Death is slotted to own a cheetah someday...so the cool tones of the foxbun went rather well with his green. OWN IT IS. Maxx and I have sadly made the executive decision to postphone Own's entrance till after the slated cheetah, because it will be 200% funnier that way - so now I have to get that cheetah ASAP because I can't wait. Thank you so so so much, ane! I really really really adore my foxbun! ;A;
