FLAMINGO ☆ introduction

[roan ;]

[align=center][div style="width: 45%; text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1px; font-family: times new roman;"]♡ — Sadness. For the briefest of moments, Roan found himself wanting to curl up into a little ball and block the world out from around him, just so that he wouldn't have to deal with any more hostility. His young mind immediately wanted to shut the whole little event down and just pack it all up so he could retreat to the place where he had always felt safest, inside with his mother. However, before the child could give any serious thought to the prospect – or at least as serious thoughts as a four month old could give it – his mother was already in action. He heard her soft words as she wrapped him up in her arms, pressing gentle kisses to his head and reassuring him. The child stayed quiet for a long moment, seemingly contemplating things, when Kal approached, letting out a soft hiss of alert. Raising his head, Roan blinked for a moment before smiling faintly, mumbling as he pressed into his mother's warm pelt, "Thank you, mama... I'm glad that I didn't do anything..." After another long moment of just remaining within her arms, the kit turned his attention back to the others.

Salem was of particular interest to the child, considering his especially unique appearance. However, that didn't mean that Keona wasn't of interest as well. She seemed nice, and she even used a greeting he hadn't actually heard before! Smiling brightly at both of them as he recovered from the interruption, Roan slipped from his mother's arms, moving over in front of Salem, "Hola, mister Salem... why do you have a big orange thing on your head? You don't look like most cats I know!" Of course, Roan's point of reference was pretty low, considering before now he had only known himself and his mother. Turning then to Keona, Roan offered her a bright smile, purring cheerfully, "Hola, Keona! It's nice to meet you... where's 'aloha' from?" He knew of dia dhuit and hola, but this was... new. He couldn't help but feel fascinated.

Lastly, Ahab is the next one to offer support. His words were very awkward and perhaps not the best emotional support in the world, but he was trying nonetheless, and Roan found he didn't like the frown on the male's face. Tumbling over, the kit pointed up at his face with his paws, saying cheerfully, "I'm okay mister Ahab! See? No tears." Once he had pointed that out, he glanced back to the massive paw that had been compared to his head, firmly shaking his head from side to side afterwards, "I'm not that small! Mama says I'm a big handsome boy. You must just be really big!" To some, being called big might've been an insult, but to Roan, he was very much complimenting the bear. Big meant strength, like Kal and Brunhild, or mama.