Nothing (Timeline 2)

Nothing is a disabled African lioness, Hover's love interest, and the main protagonist of *My Pride*.

Nothing was born nameless in Starmane's Pride at the Sisters Steppe to Powerstrike and Starmane alongside her two brothers, Fire and Spark. After a No-Mane attack on Starmane by Quickmane, Starmane and Spark were killed; Nothing was able to survive, as she fought back against Quick, but not without receiving permanent injuries to her face and left foreleg.

Following her huntress assessment, she was named Nothing by Powerstrike due to her injuries. She would come to meet in secret with Hover, a Prideless lioness, and eventually fall in love with her.

## Personality

Nothing believed she was a burden on her Pride. She seemed very confident at first, but after her huntress assessment, she became increasingly concerned about her abilities. She told Proud that he should tell the Pride that he killed her, assuming that the Pride will not care about her death, and will easily move on. However, she has a great deal of bravery, which was shown when she lunged at Quickmane as a cub and scarred the right side of his face, causing him to be half blind.

### Adult

Nothing is cream colored lioness with pale fur around her paws, belly, muzzle, and eyelids. She walks with a limp. She houses a permanent scar over her left eye and is permanently disabled and scarred on her left foreleg, which shows three claw marks. She has yellow-amber eyes.
### Cub

As a cub, Nothing is cream colored mixed with pale cream around her paws, belly, muzzle, and eyelids. Later, she was attacked by Quickmane, giving her a scar on her left eye and leg.
She is also shown to be quite friendly, almost immediately befriending Hover after meeting her. Additionally, she is very determined, insisting on taking her huntress assessment even after her mother, Powerstrike, had selected a name for her. Nothing seems to be embarrassed of her name, she's also sometimes quite unkind to lions that she dislikes and is very protective of the ones that she loves.
Nothing is also cunning, able to plan out clever solutions to a problem. She has also never held a grudge; she does not hate her family even after all they have put her through, despite feeling hurt.

## History

### Season One

#### Episode One: No-Mane

Nothing, Fire, and Spark are with their grandmother, Sharptongue, while she tells the story of the Goddesses, Cansu, Sunce, and Asra, and the story of Lite's great battle against Karabi.
After a while, Nothing's mother, Powerstrike, calls Sharptongue for a hunt and leaves Nothing with her father, Starmane. Nothing continues the story when her father asked what Fire was talking about being unfair, and protested along with Spark when Starmane said he wanted to have a word with Sharptongue about her stories when she returned. She attempted to lighten up the mood and tried play fighting with Fire, who retorted that all females were too weak to become Manes and that he didn't want to play with her. Noticeably sad, Spark snaps at Fire and says that they were only trying to play with him and that he always took the rules too seriously.
Seconds later, a No-Mane calls for Starmane, and her father tells them to hide in the tall grass, but her brother, Fire flees away instead. The No-Mane appears, easily taking Starmane down and wounding his neck, killing him. He finds Nothing and Spark hiding in the grass and kills Spark by adding an intense amount of pressure on his skull. He then creeps up towards Nothing, saying that she'll be joining her father and brother soon. Tears streaking down her face, she tells him that Asra may take her, but he will never win before slashing his at his right eye, blinding him. The lion then scratched Nothing's eye and elbow before he tosses her against a tree, which breaks her left leg. After she appears inside a dream about The Shifting Place, she spots a young lion cub around her age, Ghost, staring at her from the other side of the river. Before she could ask anything, Fire wakes up Nothing. He takes her to their mother who was with the half-Mane, as they discuss what will become of the cubs and how he was bested in combat by a cub. Eventually, Nothing and Fire are given the right to live in the Pride and the episode ends with Powerstrike leaving with Nothing and Fire.
#### Episode Two: Nothing

Fire is talking with his sister about how she doesn't have to do her Huntress assessment today, but she refuses, saying that she wants to. When Sharptongue questions if she was going to accept the name her mother planned for her, she firmly stated that she didn't want to be called Hobblestep, and wanted a name that reflected on her own abilities. Quickmane then calls her over to begin her assessment, and she limps ahead towards her mother. She reflects on how 2 years have passed and how things in her Pride have changed. Her grandmother had fallen ill and Powerstrike had been her replacement as the Hunt Chief. Her mother bore two lionesses with Quickmane, Farleap and Silentstalk, making them Nothing's half-sisters. She remarked on how they had their Huntress assessments when they were only 1 year old, and how were the best Huntresses in their Pride despite their young age. She then reveals that Waterhunter also bore Quickmane's cubs quite recently, giving birth to two lionesses and one lion, Sister 1, Sister 2, and Feather. Nothing is going through with the assessment, as she didn't want to be named Hobblestep and wanted to prove herself worthy in her Pride. While seeing if Sunce has blessed her and actually doing rather decent on her leaping portion, she remembers Spark and Starmane's death during her speed test, distracting her and causing her to use her bad leg. She falls and doesn't get up again due to the pain, so her mother names her Nothing. Fire gets angry about his sister's new name, but gets shushed by Quickmane, telling his step-son that they made a deal and that he is to leave right now. Angered, he snaps that he will, though says goodbye to his sister and promises to come back for her before leaving the Pride.
Later, Nothing's grandmother tries to console her by telling her she was brave, but Nothing leaves, saying she needs to be alone for a while. When finding traces of a crocodile at the watering hole, Nothing saved a lioness from getting dragged into the water by the crocodile. Although angered at fight, she relaxed after noticing the crocodile Nothing was talking about and gets off of her. When the Prideless lioness notices her scars and asks how she got them, Nothing said that it was personal, causing the lioness to believe that they gave her a 'funny name' for her and tried guessing. Nothing then tells her what her actual name is, caused the lioness to laugh on how cruel and awful it was before introducing herself as Hover. They talk for a while before they are spotted by members of their Pride, and Powerstrike scolds Nothings for associating with a Prideless lioness. This causes Hover to tease the Pride lions and remarks on how 'fun' they seemed, telling Nothing that she'd try to meet with her again before leaving. When Powerstrike remarks on how that was the worst Prideless lioness she had ever met, Nothing states that she was great, though stammered that she meant hate when questioned by the Hunt Chief. She is then seen staring off into the distance at Hover, showing both of them looking back at each other and smiling.
#### Episode Three: The Calling

Nothing is running through the unknown jungle with a healed leg, and she comes across a big waterfall, finding Ghost on the other side of it. He tells Nothing to answer the call of The Shifting Place, as that it's 'the only way it will end'. Nothing asks who he is, but is awoken by Hover before Ghost can answer. As Hover takes her to a tree to watch the sunrise, Nothing talks about her dream, but Hover laughs and says that dreams don't mean anything. Nothing tells Hover how Sharptongue is getting sicker and asks if Hover would want to join the Pride. Hover tells Nothing that she knows how she feels about Prides, so Nothing says her idea was probably stupid and returns to the Sisters Steppe. The Pride holds a meeting about No-Manes near their border and that a Herd of wildebeast has stopped to graze in their territory. The Huntresses move out to hunt and Quickmane goes out to mark the territory, leaving Nothing and Sharptongue to watch Feather and his two sisters. Sharptongue starts telling the story about Sunce's fires in the Emerald Valley, but gets a coughing fit halfway through the story. Between her wheezing breaths, she tells Nothing to find The Shifting Place, where Sunce's eye is blind. She tells Nothing that only she can end the cycle before she coughs more, eventually dying from her sickness. Nothing is seen roaring to call for Asra, so that she can take Sharptongue's spirit to the stars. When Hover and Nothing meet once again, Nothing cries and tells Hover she feels alone now that Sharptongue is gone. Hover does her best to console Nothing before telling her that she is going to join Nothing's Pride. Nothing speaks with Powerstrike, who allows Hover to stay if she can perform a successful Huntress assessment and take a Pride name. Afterwards, the two rest their heads and go to sleep.
#### Episode Four: Outsider

Nothing is seen at first talking to Hover about her decision to enter the Pride, and Hover was nervous and was talking about the Huntress assessment until Farleap and Silentstalk appear, asking if Hover wanted to train with them. After a little conversation and getting snarky remarks from her half-sisters, Nothing is left alone as Hover goes with Farleap and Silentstalk to train. Nothing sits for a few seconds with her head down until Quickmane calls out her name to take care of his litter until the assessment begins. After Quickmane leaves with Waterhunter and Powerstrike, Fire appears to go to see her. When she gets there, the two greet each other until Feather appears. Nothing picks him up and almost takes him back to his sisters, but Fire asks if they want to go with him to meet his friends, after a while they go to The Prideless Stretch and Fire introduces his friends; Proud, Root, Meadow, Scruffy, Stub, and Tangle.

Proud asks Nothing and Feather's names and Fire introduces them. Proud asks if Nothing has her Huntress name yet, to which Nothing responds yes, then states that her name is Nothing. Proud then states that the name is accurate, adding that lionesses are named after their abilities. Tangle interrupts him however, then introduces himself to Nothing. Fire mentions the story of Nothing battling Quickmane as a cub, and Tangle and Proud are surprised by her courage. Seeing that Nothing had lost track of time, she and Feather rush back to the Sisters Steppe, but on the way, Feather asks to drink some water. Nothing says they're late, but allows Feather to drink some water from the watering hole.
They manage to make it back in time for Hover's ceremony, with all the cubs.