Welcome to Canis Major

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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I'm left seeing red on my own


Sunset Snow
#1
Group Only
Misc Skill
Shiroshika
Formation
09-25-2022, 02:53 AM
The kitten had gotten so sick in the past few weeks. She had kept him with her at a distance from the weaning cubs, in his own bed lined with thick plush fur in the hopes that he would get better. Herbs, medicine, care, everything she could give him had not been enough. Perhaps it was his species, not knowing much about tigers and their illnesses - or perhaps it was simply his time to go and meet his mother again, one that he often cried for in the middle of the night. She simply could not be a stand-in for his mother and maybe the illness was that of a broken heart, the cub joining his mother in the stars just as the mother bear did to find her child.

This morning Kin's body was still warm in his bed as she came to visit. Curling her body around him as a form of comfort for the ailing child, in hopes to bring him back from whatever this was - but it was no good. His warmth faded and so did any movement. As the day went on, she didn't leave his side and left the caring of the puppies to their father as she spent the remaining time with the tiger cub left in her care.

She had failed him, but would stay by his side until the very end.

The sun had faded over the horizon, and the little cub's body was cold and turning stiff. It was a hard pill to swallow, the loss of a young one even if it wasn't hers. To carry the lifeless body where it would be laid to rest by the roots of the cherry blossoms. “Suggoku gomen ne.” She'd say while arranging his little body in a way that depicted the tiger cub as sleeping comfortably. Spending the evening plucking flowers to burry him in all the while whispering apologies and hopes he had finally found his mother again.

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#2
09-30-2022, 11:04 PM
 

 He didn't have to be called. He could sense the gloom hanging over the mountain; something had happened. There was something in the air that told him. Alexei floated along the Tsukiishi, looking for whatever seemed to call out. Along the grove, he found her. And she was not alone. Sorrow befell him, tangling in his bones and throughout his face, making it fall with a heavy weight, a frown forming in his maw. Snow fell over them, decorating the scene with a somber aura. His heart felt like an anchor, the same way his body felt when he was being tugged towards the bottom of the ocean, being beaten with each wave downwards to rock bottom. 

 It took the fisherman a minute to go to her side, to aid with comfort. When he found himself there, he leaned his head down and laid a few of the lone cherry blossom petals over the cub, then stepped back, sitting down at Reiko's side. He didn't say anything. Some things were better left silent. Maybe she'd just know what he felt, what he meant. The man leaned against her, providing his warmth, bare without the pelt that usually hung around his shoulders, and offered his own weight for her to collapse into. 

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