Anubis

(HISTORY HAS A TRIGGER WARNING FOR ABUSE)

NUMBER (12) Owner: FallenStudios (Helper)

Name: Anubis

Goddess Of: Lost Souls

Under: Diarmuid

Upload Date:  August 18th, 2020

Gender: Female

Parents: Unknown x Unknown (Both were Keurals)

Cubs: None (and good luck getting some from her)

Abilities: Can see the spirits that still roam Arilyan and communicate with them. She can (and often does) use shadows as ‘portals,’ which allows her to get around quickly (shadow hopping). She can make grans become extremely paranoid or drive them insane by making them hear voices or make them think they’re seeing things/being watched. She can turn into a variety of shadow creatures to ‘blend’ into the environment (often becomes a shadow bunny).

Personality: Highly intelligent and very stubborn with a hot streak. Anubis often comes off as snappy, distant, and sharp of tongue. She doesn’t want to get close with others, especially mortals, due to trust issues and her fear of losing those she holds dear to her heart. If you don’t like her because of that, she could honestly care less. She is very blunt with the truth and will speak her mind if she so wishes. Though she rarely shows it, she has a very soft and motherly side to her that she only shows to cubs and a select few individuals. If she sees or hears about being threatened or hurt, she becomes extremely defensive and protective of them. She doesn’t tolerate bullying or abuse whatsoever and often ‘haunts’ the bully/abuser.

History: Anubis was never born a god. The beginning of her life started long before the gods had their slumber in the mortal realm, born with her brother to a pair of large keurals. Her mother was a gorgeous fluffy white and tan keural from far up in the mountains while her father was a muscular dark brown and grey keural from the plains. Because of the environment he was raised in, Anubis’s father had developed violent tendencies and a very controlling personality. He had his mate on a very tight leash and often yelled at her for the slightest mistakes she made, but they still somehow managed to love each other to the ends of the earth, and with the new additions, the pair was even happier. But the peace and happiness was only a thin covering to the feelings burning within. Her father was immediately disappointed with how small Anubis was compared to her brother, having wanted a litter of big and healthy offspring to raise but suppressed those feelings for the good of the family. Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, and Anubis’ brother was getting stronger and stronger with each passing day. But Anubis was lagging, and in turn, that fragile covering was growing ever thinner. With each mistake Anubis made, her father’s scoldings slowly became louder and more abrasive. He would belittle and berate her in front of her mother and brother, or even strangers, and tell her that she was a worthless pile of bison dung and that she would never be anything when she got older. Still, it wasn’t until Anubis was one that her father started to become physical. Every missed catch on hunting trips, every word that was spoken out of turn, every little mistake that would be considered no big deal by others would earn Anubis more scars and bruises from her father. Others tried to get him to stop, but he would just wheel on them and start berating them as well. Her brother eventually stopped trying to help her, afraid of what their father would do if he continued, but her mother never stopped. Any time she saw Anubis being hurt by her mate, she would run over and break them up any way she could- even by force if it came down to that. One day, Anubis and her father were on top of a rocky cliff, trying to see if they could find some prey in the bushes to bring back to the den when a rustling noise from a bush caught both of their attentions. Anubis’s father went straight for the bush, going ahead to scare whatever it was towards Anubis so that she could finish hit off and finally prove herself. He barked as loud as he could over and over before jumping into the foliage, startling a small brown bunny out into the open and into Anubis’s paws. The young pup was quick to pin the terrified creature to the ground, ready to deliver the finishing blow. But when she looked it in the eyes, something made her freeze. The frightened and helpless look on the small animal’s face reminded Anubis of herself when her father beat her over something so stupid, and she found herself unable to make the kill. Her father’s outraged snarl made the keural pup jump into the air, giving the bunny the perfect opportunity to high tail it out of the current situation. That’s when Anubis did something that would change her life forever. Taking her focus off her father crawling out of the bushes, she watched the small brown animal bolt for a nearby bush and disappear. As soon as that bright cotton tail had vanished, a set of sharp jaws suddenly closed around Anubis’ throat, choking her as she was suddenly lifted into the air and slammed onto the ground. The wind in her lungs vanished, and she was left gasping in the cloud of dust, trying to shake the sudden daze that overtook her long enough to grasp what had happened. Before Anubis could do anything, however, another set of jaws- or it was the same set of jaws, she couldn’t tell- latched onto her back and started to shake her violently. After being throughout thrashed about, she was slammed onto the ground once more, yelping when a cracking noise and sudden pain flashed through her chest. Anubis tried to howl for help, but the pain mixed with her inability to catch her breath, she was unable to do such things and only managed to get a soft whine out. Just then, a large brown head shoved itself into Anubis’ face, and she recognized her father’s growly speech above the ringing in her ears. ”I told you that you better not fuck up this time or you would have a high price to pay.” A chill went down the already shaking pup’s spine, but she didn’t get a chance to react before her father grabbed her by the throat one last time, throwing her off the side of the cliff and into the rocky gorge below. Time seemed to slow down to a crawl while Anubis fell. She watched as birds flew through the sky and leaves rustled in the wind, and when she looked down to see where she was landing, she spotted a pile of discarded human weapons. Fear lit her eyes and time seemed to instantly speed up. Anubis was falling faster and faster until she finally hit the ground and pain flashed through her entire body and the world went black. Anubis doesn’t remember being impaled by the spear tip that was resting in the pile nor the vultures that came a few days later to pick at her remains. The only thing she remembers after the darkness consumed her was a flash of light, and a large thrax telling her that she did mean something, and that she was meant for something bigger than her mortal body could handle. She didn’t know what to think of what she was seeing, and although she doesn’t tell anyone this, she passed out again from fright and exaustion. Once she woke up again, she was in the realm of the Gods. She was confused at first as nothing looked like what her desert homeworld, and her body felt… weird. She didn’t hurt anymore, and in fact, she felt more powerful than she ever had. It took Anubis a while to adjust to her new body and her new role in life, but she eventually got used to it, though nowadays she tends to sulk in a corner and snap at those who ask too many questions.

Random facts:  Very skittish when it comes to loud noises/sudden yelling, loves to hoard shiny gold things and gems, loves stargazing, hates thunderstorms, secretly loves bunnies and cute things

Mutations: Melanism

God Trait: Plated Scales