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a wolf and animal rpg (role-playing game)

Canis is a writing community for play-by-post (forum-based), freeform roleplay set in a fictional dream world in the intrusion fantasy genre. Most characters on Canis are wolves; many play elements are focused around wolves and canids, but the world makes room for a large variety of other animal characters such as dogs, horses, cats, bears, deer, and many, many more.

Our community is focused on flexibility, creativity, and collaboration. That boils down to a few important features:

  • There is no set activity requirement to write
  • The setting and plot are member-created and staff-supported
  • The game is continuously improved to increase fun and decrease stress

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#1
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07-06-2022, 12:07 AM (This post was last modified: 07-06-2022, 12:08 AM by Vendrussel. Edited 1 time in total.)
before all the boar stuff


She sought for @Valtyr. Carefully keeping @"Rosal" over the water as Vendrussel crossed the pathway that led to the beach, to the isle. She couldn't just swim across with someone so small within her maw, and took the easier, more dry way. Although.. She was somewhat hoping a parent would come charging after, but when the dragoness looked back, there was none. Unfortunate, she thought.

But otherwise came to the isle to find the young medic, to see whether she was fine or not. Maybe a bit skinny from lack of meat, and a bit frightful, but she seemed overall fine. None of the tongues that she knew either, but maybe he knew.

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#2
07-26-2022, 07:05 PM
What. The. Hell.
 
Not only was this not home, but before the little cub could protest or say anything otherwise, she was unceremoniously shuffled across the waters in a way that felt downright irresponsible and danger. Mother would never!! Though the dragon-woman attempted to hold her high above the lapping waves, the cub still got salt in her eyes and it stung her pawpaws, which were sore from getting lost and looking for mother. Oh, how she mewled and cried, worried that she would be swept away by the cold-then-warm current of the channel.
 
The torture didn’t last forever, and eventually she was deposited upon the land, a shivering and sodden mess. Her head throbbed from crying, from dehydration, from hunger, from this apparent abuse! The amber-bright pup plopped her hindquarters down on the earth and huffed to relieve the tension she felt seizing across her tiny body. She looked up towards the anonymous woman desperately, a wail bubbling up in the pit of her round ribcage. “Olen nälkäinennnn!” she complained with a disapproving squeak. Toddling over to her savior-devil-woman, the pup began to root around with her nose in her pale belly-furs, looking for a nipple. She only drank milk soooometimes, but right now, she would eat anything. This was definitely one of those times.

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#3
08-05-2022, 06:05 PM (This post was last modified: 08-05-2022, 08:21 PM by Azriel. Edited 3 times in total.)
as coincidence would have it, valtyr had been patrolling the isle's sands; though they are quiet and the only intruders appear to be the little crabs skittering to and fro and the slimy, foaming froth caught on seaweed tangles. a good thing; the frost dragon assures himself.

it is the glimpse of vendrussel that draws valtyr's attention; forcing his steps to a stop to see his mother's newest — yet clearly abandoned cubs — betwixt her jaws. for a moment, valtyr is angry and it comes washing over him unexpectedly and unwanted like a hot bubble of magma. that in his plight to get away from his youngest half siblings ( that he had not wanted ), one would find their way ( unwittingly as it perhaps was ) to him anyway. and yet ...

he could not turn her away, nor ignore the fact that they were related. it was not her fault their mother had desired more, that she had not been satisified with any of them.

“vendrussel,” he breathes in greeting; glacial gaze darting down to his wailing sibling; unmistakable. ❝hush, rose-pedal.❞ croons the frost dragon. ❝she cannot supply you with mother's milk.❞ with this, he looks up to the dragon queen, brows furrowing and ears flickering back in contemplation. “she abandoned them?” in truth, he had been entirely selfish when he'd left, assuming — wrongly, present company proving — that she would take her youngest with her.

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— ❝the thing about gods is they're eternal
#4
08-05-2022, 07:05 PM
Vendrussel was surprised as she gently dropped the child onto the ground, who called out within an unknown tongue. Valtyr as diligent as he ever was came to, and yet seemed familiar with the child and hushed in whispers of comfort and rosen-tones. Although it didn't even seem she responded to, and wondered lightly if she knew of her name, for she did not give one, "You know of her?"

A gaze to the young, "I found her alone without anyone nearby in the mountains.. No parent around, nor any the chased after I brought her back." That brought to the wonder of who, was she? The reckless abandonment of one?

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#5
08-10-2022, 06:34 PM
Her nudging seemed to procure nothing; it was as if she was trying to feed upon her own father. With a intolerable huff, the cub backpedaled and made to look up at the woman, absolutely uncertain what else to do other than reply on the others around her; but in such a process, she glimpsed another trotting towards them, who looked familiar in pelage alone.

She barely knew him.

But in all of this, she immediately trusted him most. She stumbled towards the other wolf, pulled in by the words in a tone she recognized and delighted in. For a small second, hope bloomed across her face. This must mean mother was here, too! The wagging of her tail threatening to overtake her entire body, she demanded "Missä äiti on? Haluan äiti!", entirely unprepared for her world to be re-devastated when the harsh reality came crashing down upon her once more.

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#6
08-11-2022, 04:15 PM
vendrussel's surprise does not draw surprise from valtyr. they do not look like they might be siblings — though the same could be said of him and his littermates, in all fairness. “yes,” he rasps in reply. “she is my sister.” valtyr speaks with a soft look to rosal. “....our mother and her lover must've left her. i didn't realize.” but of course he didn't. he had stated that he had, had a fight with his mother and left. he had assumed that she had taken all her young children with her. to realize that she hadn't twists a rusty knife in his heart, made worse by the fact that rosal didn't really know him, nor he, her.

his feelings on his surprise to it go unsaid. at least in the presence of the rosechild.

"mother is gone and she may not be coming back." it was an ugly truth that he hated to give her, but felt she deserved to know all the same. he could not fathom to presume how her mind worked and thus did not want to make false promises on her behalf. "this is vendrussel. the dragon queen. it is you and me now." he tells her with a soft smile, wishing he could be what she wanted. at the very least, he would strive to be what she needs. “i will do my best to take care of her. unless...there is someone more fitting within the pack.” he would not fight. feels he has no right to since he'd abandoned her too, technically.

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fjordic · common
— ❝the thing about gods is they're eternal
#7
08-30-2022, 12:45 AM
At the very least she wasn't completely unknown, with the allowance someone understood her. Vendrussel shook her head, "she is related to you, and I do not think anyone else knows of her tongue." She believed Valtyr was best suited, but remembering the time he lightly scorned his mother.. The dragoness hoped this was not too much of a heavy burden on him, especially when she was an offspring of a man that his mother chose, and casted others of her blood away. But, she was innocent, rose-touched and needed somewhere.

"We'll provide all the help you need." Although she was not much of a babysitter!

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