Klaus

When you come to say hi, Klaus asks how his whiskers are looking today, they're so curly lately!

You hear some caterwauling. You stumble upon Klaus singing at the top of his lungs while your other pride mates laughed. Did he chew on fermented fruit again?

You thought Klaus was dutifully trying to catch fish for the pride, but it turned out he was just admiring his reflection. What a buttmunch.

You approach Klaus as he cleans his private parts with leg up high. He does not stop when he sees you and you feel awkward when he says your name with his tongue on THAT place.

When seeking Klaus to say hello, you noticed him playing with a dead warthog piglet.

You greet Klaus. He roars at you. He clearly likes you a lot.

You stumble upon Klaus alone in a secluded bushy area. He seemed to be in the middle of practicing cool poses. You stare at each other for a bit before you just...leave him to it.
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It was a on a raging stormy night that you found Klaus.

You had been coming back from checking the boarders when a sudden storm hit, soaking the land and your fur in seconds. You quickly take shelter in a dark cave to wait it out, the cave being empty save for a small family of Lesser Mouse-tailed Bats that were in the middle of sleeping while the sun was still out. You watch them for only a moment before a flash of lightning illuminated the cave and an earth shattering clap of thunder followed, startling you. You relax after several seconds and breathe in the scent from the air before sighing. The storm won't end for some time. You settle down in a comfortable spot and began to clean your fur, making sure that you're squeaky clean for when you get back home. Midnight has been on you about keeping the den clean. Females.

Something startles you awake deep into the night. You blink a few times to clear the sleep from your eyes and look around the cave, hearing the rain outside pelting the ground and the soft chirping from the bats as they still clung to the ceiling above your head. Another sound came from your left and you narrow your eyes as you move into a crouch, letting out a warning snarl before hearing some kind of sound, like a branch with dried leaves being dragged over rocks. More lightning and you spot the sound coming from a drenched cub in the corner, the poor thing trembling from the cold and hissing at you to keep you away. How amusing.

You convinced the cub that you weren't a threat and that you'd keep him safe. It took some time, but eventually he had warmed up to you enough for you to clean him up and keep him warm. He told you his name was Klaus. He told you that Hyenas had killed his pride before chasing him off into unknown territory. You feel for the cub. Hyenas are nasty things, and a cubs worst nightmare. You tell him to get some sleep. It will be a long night.

It has been a few weeks since you've brought the fuzzy maraca back to your pride and most of the females had been thrilled. Blitz and Princess took more time to get used to him, but eventually he became their favorite and Princess would happily get into trouble with him, Blitz spoiling him even for antagonizing the other cubs. Klaus preferred to spend most of his time lounging with your most deadly lady, and you don't know how well THAT will go over in the future. Princess could be the more reasonable of the two cubs on rare occasions, but Blitz is a pretty dominant presence.

During stalking training, Klaus needlessly killed every small animal he came across. Blitz and Princess are proud of him, praising him for each trophy he brought them. But you have your concerns. This cubs mischievous behavior has gotten out of hand. You begin to worry what this could mean for your pride. Hopefully the other lionesses will keep an eye on him before you have to step in with a firm paw. The other cubs are beginning to avoid him.

It's very peculiar. Never have you heard of a male liking other males. But Klaus isn't like other males that you have met before either. He did say he came from a far away place before. He flirts with any male cub just like any female would. You've watched as each of his love interests over the years would brush him off, thinking that he wasn't serious. Then they'd start getting uncomfortable, before finally attacking him to finally drive their point across. So sad, but Klaus would shrug it off and laugh each time. What a strange cub.

You were there when Klaus first saw Diego. You seen how his eyes locked on to this lone male that had come to ask your permission to hunt in your territory for a couple days before he made his way further south. You have no idea what is in the South for this young male, but you had a distinct feeling that if he left, Klaus would be going with him. Later on in the evening, while on patrol with Klaus, you ask him what he thinks of this new male. He plays it off like he always does. Just another conquest to pass the time, he says. But you knew better. You've seen that look before, and it's never for a plaything. Klaus continues to bluff his feelings for the rest of the patrol, and you decide to humor him. Whatever he wants to believe.

It had been over a year since then and Klaus has been glued to Diego from the very first day they had spent together on patrol. Klaus is still part of Blitz and Princess as much as they are part of him, but they include Diego. They tone down their heartless behaviours when he is around and even let him nap with them under their favorite rock cropping with the baobob tree growing on top. Not even you are welcomed to join them on the best of days, not even after you bare them gifts of food or shiney rocks. The audacity!

Klaus and Diego care for Princess and Blitz's cubs. You've noticed that Rusty is paying close attention to Klaus' every move, and hanging off his every word while Saiyan and Joy play with Diego. You have no idea how Klaus managed to attract such a kindhearted mate, but you're glad that he did, otherwise you feel you'd end up outnumbered by the fierce temperaments your blue ladies seem to produce. One day though, you're hoping to put an end to it.

You haven't seen Klaus in a while, and when you asked around your pride, your concern grows. None of your ladies or even your sub males have seen him or Diego for several days now. It's not like them to disappear without making an announcement, especially Klaus. You ask the cubs if they have seen them, because hardly anything slips past the youngsters unnoticed, and are rewarded! Joy happily tells you that Klaus has established a permanent den for him and Diego just outside of your pride's den site. You suppose it's been a long time coming now. Klaus has been wanting more privacy for himself and his mate.

It's only been a few days before Klaus' fourth birthday when Diego brought five cubs back with him from a hunt. He found them wandering lost and alone near croc infested waters, and had decided to bring them home with him. You witnessed the exchange he had with an irritated Klaus about taking them in, reasoning with him that they could raise them and finally have their own little family. Klaus thought about it carefully, still unsure, before Princess stepped in and told him that it would be wonderful if her best friend was able to finally have his own little family. And that settled it. They named the tiny fur balls and had Princess nurse them before letting her give them a long lesson on raising cubs as parents instead of the favorite uncles. You've never seen Klaus look so happy.

Klaus turns to you when he's at his wits end. It's been months since he's taken in the five little cubs as his own, and he's already wanting to toss them to the Hyenas. Tissaia, his eldest cub, is a defiant and brutal female who listens to no one. Renfri, his second eldest, isn't as bad temperament wise, but she's quiet in her rage and couldn't care less about anything other than fighting with her sisters. Vitani, his poor middle cub, was rendered blind during a forest fire, and still bares the trauma on her small body. Poor thing lashes out with fangs and claws first before asking questions later. She caught your flank a couple of times now.

Zeldras, Klaus and Diego's only son, seems to be the best tempered cub out of the bunch. He listens when spoken too and has yet to get in to trouble of any kind. Then theres Cricket, the youngest of the five. She has no interest in anything besides hunting and being by herself. She has proven time and again that she wants nothing to do with any of the pride, and barely wants anything to do with her own family. Klaus isn't used to being a father figure to cubs, but you can tell that he's trying his best. You give him the best advice you can for raising difficult cubs, and hope for a positive outcome, for both the cubs sakes AND for Klaus' mental state.