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~And as the satisfied predator rubbed his stuffed, prey filled belly...a small, loosely bound little notebook with a tattered cardboard cover and the words "My Diary" written across the front caught his eye. Grinning, the happy predator picked the little book up and exited the small room, flipping open the front cover and beginning to read the first page as he strutted home with the book's author safely tucked away in his stomach.~
This is just an odd little idea for a story I was originally just going to write to better get into the head of my character, but I decided I might as well upload it too! ^^
I've wanted to give Izzy a diary for a while now but I had trouble imagining how he would write. Turns out that my worries were actually quite well founded for the most part - it /was/ very difficult to write as Izzy. I figured that he wouldn't really be a good writer but he's read a lot so there would be at least a little semblance of narrative and proper writing and he would be able to make some good analogies and everything, but would still be bound by his preyish illiteracy and inability to fully express himself in writing. He's just writing what's on his mind, as it pops in his mind, complete stream-of-consciousness. He probably doesn't even go back and reread anything - he just writes stuff down as it pop into his head. He repeats himself often and loses his train of thought and fails to go back and finish a point that got interrupted by something else.
Again, I wasn't going to upload this originally but I thought I might as well since I thought it turned out kind of interesting. ^^ It's sort of inspired by the journals and stuff I used to keep when I was really young - just one, long, loosely strung together stream of consciousness outpouring of thoughts without much order.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it! ^_^
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Posted by JacktheRabbit 13 years ago Report
That was rather interesting ^^ Enjoyed reading. I imagine if my snake character (Jaabir) read through such a book after eating a squrriel like Izzy, he'd feel bad about it. He might even send him back out before it's too late. Offer to be be his friend!
Good thing he doesn't have hands to turn pages, or the ability to read.
Posted by Izzy_Koji 13 years ago Report
Why, thank you! ^^ I'm glad you enjoyed it, as always!
Jaabir seems to have a good deal of compassion for a predator, especially a snake. Seems to have a habit of befriending prey! ;)
That may be a good thing for him, but certainly isn't good news for all the poor little squirrellies out there! ^^"
Posted by JacktheRabbit 13 years ago Report
Heh. Very much so ^^
The basic idea I had for Jaabir is that he'd be one to comfort his prey, and eats because he has absolutely no other choice (he can't substitute on fish or berries like other predators).
He met his mouse friend, Lichthia, shortly after I made him, so I don't have a basis of comparison before that point. With her around, at least, he defined his method of 'choosing who he frees' to be based on 'selflessness' (Lichthia likely helped shape this development). If he were to witness such a trait, he'd be more inclined to let a prey free.
In the current stories, this is starting to weigh on him. He usually wouldn't dwell on these thoughts too much, but part of the problem is by freeing catches, he goes longer without eating, and if he goes too long without eating. . . he won't have any control of himself. After a while, he'll become feral, only gaining his rationality when waking up with blood on his coils, a lump in his stomach, and scratch marks in the dirt: For one who likes to set select prey or at least be kind when he can't. . . this terrifies him.
'Lament' in the gallery shows this more. He almost kills an infant chipmunk (references an RP with Chipnard/Hawknard) due to being so hungry. He gets very upset over it.