a bite worst than her bark

“Just because you are right, doesn't mean I am wrong, You just haven't seen life from my side.” Kiara Vaughn || Shapeshifter (Jaguar) || Medical Examiner

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sushkxr-khxtri‌:

“I’d sure hope so, or this would be a weird conversation to have with people every St. Patrick’s Day if this was the standard,” the oneiroi mused lightly before shaking their head. “You’ve already come this far. Let me take a look, with whatever your problem is.” They smacked the metal table lightly, gesturing for the other to sit up onto it. “Besides, if not the hospital, where else were you going to go anyways? Without running into more drunk people?”

Kiara resorted back to being silent, a trait that had ended up being a part of who she was. She was an observer at best. With a lot of listening and not much confiding. She tried to smile she really did but she barely managed a slight tilt of her lips as she plonked herself on the edge of the table. Her eyes diverting to the floor as she motioned to her arm removing her hand from it so it could get a better look. She was almost ashamed, but then, that would mean she was admitting to also being ashamed of who or rather what she was. “I just would’ve gone home.” Her voice was soft showing no signs of her lying, but then, why would she?

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august-quincey‌:

“Hey, Blondie,” Augustus commented, peeping his head around the door to the room where Kiara worked. “I know you’ve been dying to meet your new handsome coworker everyone’s been talking about, and I thought I’d end your suffering,” He commented whilst pulling himself up and sitting on one of the cool metal tables. “Sadly we don’t work in the same department so we need to have at least three work lunch dates a week.” @kindlykiara

The shifter had her head stuck in papers, files, and long written notes. Her eyes almost bugging out as the words seemed to merge into each other. A sign that she was overworking herself. Which wasn’t anything new at this point. She hummed hearing a familiar voice. Her head lifting to meet his frame. Kiara couldn’t stop the smile from forming on her lips if she tried. “August...” She breathed softly placing her pen down, the chair she was currently sat on making one of those awful metal again metal scraping sounds as she stood up. “Careful babe, what have I told you about your head and its possibility of exploding?” She didn’t waste another moment as she moved over to him and hugged him tightly. “I missed you.”

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giaivan·:

Gia paused and looked at the fumbling young woman. “There down the hall and to the left. Before the showers and after the sauna room,” she directed with much less bit in her voice than before. “If you don’t have a lock you can rent one from the front desk. It’s like three bucks for an hour or something.”

Kiara nodded along silently, “right.” She responded before following the other blonde’s instructions. Once everything was done and her bags were securely placed away in a locker she went back to the room. “So...”She coughed slightly. “When does the class start again?” She secretly hoped not many people showed up afraid of completely embarrassing herself. Then again, maybe her climbing skills would come somewhat in handy.

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sushkxr-khxtri‌:

“…So because you decided to have a little too much fun on St. Patrick’s Day and the hospital’s too far away or whatever, it’s my responsibility to take care of you? You know I’m a doctor for animals, right? Though by your actions, I might as well consider you one.”

“Well, actually it was a bit more complicated than that.” She frowned trying to fight back an awkward cough, cause after all she was part animal. She had gotten better, she really did. But someone looked eerily familiar, a person who looked like the man who tried to kill her. She got scared and shifted out of sight but when a few people saw a scared looking Jaguar one thing led to another and her Jaguar ended up hurt. The first place she thought of was here, but she was already beginning to regret it as she nursed her possibly bleeding arm. She hadn’t looked down at it yet too busy trying to ignore the pain. “I’m sorry, I can go elsewhere.” There was no way she was going to the hospital.

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giaivan·:

“Class starts in ten,” the instructor informed, wiping a pole clean with hydrogen peroxide. She wasn’t a germophobe but people’s literal genitalia had been rubbing all over these for the last hour. They need to be cleaned. “Go rent a locker, or place your bag against the wall. Just get out of the middle of my doorway.”

Never in her life had she done something like this before, but here she was figuring it was a good Idea to try. Even though she completely lacked in the dancing department in general so that was going to be fun. Looking around she jumped slightly hearing a voice. “Sorry, I uh didn’t know how early I was... Uhm -- where are the lockers?” She could feel her ears burning sightly as a blush formed over her cheeks, instantly she felt stupid for even asking but she really didn’t know where they were. 

[kindlykiara]

all your characters are so dynamic. you've done a wonderful job portraying them, so much so that everything feels so real with them

Sooooo, I love you a lot… I mean, a lot. Thank you so much.

[kindlykiara]

You are so freaking wonderful and your characters are amazing!! I do want to know what are some of your favorite little quirks that you've written for your characters?

eeppp thank you my love oh my god.  Kiara has a habit of breaking into facts which I love entirely. My smart little baby. Blaze has an eyebrow lift that he does when he isn’t impressed with something that makes me laugh. And Lisbeth is just a mother™ let’s be honest. She just mothers everyone without meaning to.

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everettupshall‌:

He took the backpack back, a smile of thanks eclipsing his sheepish look. “Are you sure? I’m really sorry again.” He felt like he couldn’t apologize enough for his mistake. “You’re very tough.” The sincerity was evident in his voice. “I can’t remember if I turned my stove off or not. At this point though, if something bad was going to happen, it probably already did.”

Kiara let out a gentle laugh nodding towards the male. “I’m sure, honestly, no need for apologies.” She could’ve snorted in response to his words but instead, she simply shrugged. “I don’t know if I’d go that far, but thank you.” She frowned wishing she could, in some way, help. “I’m sure you did turn it off, but if you’re really that worried I won’t keep you waiting any longer. Just... be careful yeah?”

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I'm sure I've seen someone mention this before, but how you portray both Kiara and Lisbeth as shapeshifters is brilliant. Despite them both being the same species you manage to portray them, and their connection to the animal they become, completely differently and right for them. I think the way you've opened Blaze up to certain people, whilst also keeping his unique, anti-social, Blazeness intact is awesome <3

Urgh, this means so much more than you probably think. Funnily enough, one of my main worries was Blaze changing if I were to open him up more. So it’s nice to know he’s still his usual self even though I’ve done that. And with my shifters that was also a worry that they’d be samey so thank you.

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elizabethxvance·:

Liz looked down at the picture, a bashful flush coloring her face at the praise, “Oh–well..thanks.” she replied before letting out a laugh, “Oh I’m sure you’re not that bad! Besides, I’m even more sure that you’re probably wonderful and super talented at something other than drawing that I’ll never have a chance in hell of learning to master.”

“Cute,” she commented with a light laugh. “You’re welcome. -- Pfft, let’s not have high expectations on that one.” She was good at a lot of things, art, not so much. “Well, I know sciencey stuff? Like, I know we get all the seasons because the Earth is tilted 23.3º on its axis? And that sunflowers use maths to maximise sunlight? If that counts. I wouldn’t really call that a talent though.”

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bladepristine·:

“Certainly,” she responded, raising her brow, “because if it turned out that my judgments are wrong I’m sure I would be able to handle myself.” She said, with the confidence of someone untouchable, though casual in her delivery. “Touché, unfortunately,” she responded before casually shrugging off the comment herself, and cordially offered, “would you care for me to buy you a drink?”

“I have no doubts that you would be able to handle yourself.” She agreed almost instantly. She let out a soft laugh before nodding slightly. “A drink would be nice right now. I’ll just have what you’re having.” She was never really picky when it came to drinks, more like the type to drink whatever was in front of her.

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kaia-knight·:

With a raised eyebrow Kaia let Kiara drag her onto the dance floor, she wasn’t sure what she had been expected Kiara to do, but it certainly hadn’t been this. Kaia hesitated briefly as Kiara wrapped her arms around her neck before nodding in agreement, wrapping her arms around the blonde’s waist. “Hopefully this will do the trick.” 

Kiara just hummed in response. “Hopefully. -- Otherwise, I’ll have to kiss you for him to get the hint.” She visibly cringed at her own words before frowning slightly. “Sorry, I don’t mean to make it awkward or anything.”

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everettupshall‌:

Everett was holding his backpack in front of him, open as he searched through it for his keys.  He knew that was a dangerous thing to do while walking, but he thought he left the stove on and was in a hurry to get home. He didn’t even realize his shoe was untied until he tripped over his shoe lace. He caught himself before he fell on his face, but in an effort to do so, he dropped his backpack on someone’s foot. He began apologizing profusely. “Are you okay? I’m so sorry. I did not mean to do that. Can you walk on that foot?” He rushed to pick his backpack up. 

Kiara let out a small squeak mixed with a yelp as she felt something land on her foot. She almost pouted before looking over to the male. Smiling gently she leaned down picking his bag up for him before holding it out to him before he could do it himself. “It’s okay. We’ve all been there, the bruise will heal. -- I’ve been through a lot worse, so I’m sure I can handle it. -- Though you seem to be in a bit of a rush, is everything okay? Not to, like, keep you from wherever you need to get to or anything.”

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heavenguara‌: 

For someone who complained about her job nonstop, some moments weren’t all that dull, to be honest. She liked when people walked in and were hit by the scents and colors of the place; she was so used to it by now it barely registered to her anymore, so it was fun to see people be so aware of it all. “Oh, who, me?” She joked at the girl, smiling. “There’s a batch of cookies just about to get out of the oven, I’d stick around, if I were you.”

The blonde let out a soft giggle at the other’s joke before pretending to sniff the air again. “Actually, you know what? I think it is you.” Laughing she shrugged simply and replied. “I think I will have to do just that. Should I just sit anywhere?” She asked rather awkwardly, it was almost as if she hadn’t been to a cafe before.

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elizabethxvance·:

While on her break at the bakery, Elizabeth could often be found sitting in a corner with her sketchbook, so when a shadow came over her and she heard the question she blushed but nodded, turning the book slightly so her sketch could be seen, “Oh, well this is nothing fancy, just sketching one of the flowers we have by the counters.” She explained, nodding towards the little vase by the cash registers, “But this book is mostly assignments from school. Others at home I have are more personal ones, and usually I just get bursts from day to day things. My day, or my friends, my family..just….everything.”

“Nothing fancy? Seriously? It’s amazing.” Kiara grinned tracing one of the lines with her finger. “You’re extremely talented. I wish I could draw like this, unfortunately, I have the talent of a fish so there’s that.”

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kaia-knight‌:

There was a quiet pause that seemed to drag on after Kaia pointed out the guy. She was waiting patiently for Kiara to respond, wondering if she had pushed her luck asked her ex for help. Kiara was a good person, her caring nature meant she was always willing to lend a hand, but perhaps the awkwardness between them meant it was too much even for her. An eyebrow quirked at the question, unable to stop the smile that formed. “You know how many stupid things that I’ve done have started with that question?” She replied with a chuckle before nodding. “Yes. Yes I trust you.” 

Kiara dragged her tongue back across her lips wondering if she should actually go through with her plan. “Good.” She breathed before taking Kaia’s hand and pulling her dance floor. Not before downing the rest of her drink of course. Once in a good spot, she turned to snake her arms around Kaia’s neck. “May he’ll get the message if you dance with me. If not I’m sure he’ll get the message with other things.”