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THE KINGPIN

golden lung dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo & platinum silver fox. unknown age - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family/general. courting delilah evergarden & halo mercer. kingpin of alithís evgenis. demiromantic gray-asexual. parent of veris, arvin, leoku, erian, flos, kekhai, evarhi, and laeglin. elder brother of ramona and hope, uncle of quennel and cosette.

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wuyi's presence took their attention again, a tender smile on the jaguars face as they watched the cub fondly, protectively. he was not their own, but they would protect wuyi with their own life. the attention span of a youthful child had always been amusing to them, their eyes sparkling in good humor as the child bombarded number nine with multiple questions. chuckling softly, they chided tenderly, "let him speak, munchkin. too many questions give you fuddled answers", they smiled, no heat in their words, amusement present in their tone. the truth behind their sickness was not one they were willing to weigh the shoulders of others with. truth was, they had been sick months before and had nearly succumbed to it before their body recovered, and they were struck by another illness. how strange their body was reacting to its surroundings, though their own self care was lacking after a severe nose dive and spiral. shaking their head to chase away the thoughts, they returned their gaze to nine, curious of his unique pelt.

brutal the winter to come, the storms lashing their coasts proof enough of such a bitter fact, the forest keeping the worst of the winds from howling through. rumbling softly, the kingpin looked out to the sea, watching the whitecaps, "even leaders have need of times of rest. i am certainly not the only one to dread this coming winter, he has enough on his paws to worry about.", they chuckled warmly. if they were feeling the stress of their position, they feared much the same for the rust tom that lead this group in their allegiance. licking their lips to wet them, they smiled at the sight of nine covering tsekani with his wing the slightest bit, noting the parental air of concern there, much the same with the children they cared for and looked after. "wings are a great investment in times such as these", they chuckled, reminded of wuyi's carrying mother and how she refused to use her wings at any point in time to her own benefit. what a stubborn woman she had been, and even more stubborn her fiance, the two hard headed women they had no wish to tangle with. sad, though, that the smilodon had gone mad, a fact that they would leave to wuyi's other mother to tell her children of.

greeting rhinestonestar as he appeared with a deep seated purr, the kingpin gave him a smile, "the wider the hearth, the fuller the bellies and content the minds, rhine. good met, things progress as well as they can. more mouths, more stories, and more happiness.", they chuckled, happy to see him and share wind of their own affairs. adjusting their paws before their body, hunched below the shoulder of the boulder they took shelter against. "gods know we have enough hearths to share, and more than enough food. we would love to welcome any that come, bitter the trip may be.", they spoke softly, reminded of the empty rooms and halls of the inn. should they come to the inn, they must repair the cracks in the windows. gummy saps should do to fix such trivial matters, stuffing of fur and hide to lay against door jams to warm a cold room. blinking, they focused back in on the conversation, their face growing grim.

"the time of war closes in over our heads.", they began roughly, "winter comes, and with it many changes. we will take the fight to the bandits. they've taken too much from us this time, rhine. they've taken my daughter and nearly one of my sons. i cannot sit idly by as my family and friends fall under their teeth and claws. i ask your aid to join us, and as discussed in passing, we will offer what we can to you. kin of kin, blood or not, we come when you need us. i will lead the charge within the next month, when we raid the bandits for all that they have. i have let it carry on too far, worrying too much. on top of the request for your warriors to aid us, i ask that you take our children and shelter them until we have won ... or fallen. we will guard the border until our final breath. the children are our lifelines ... i cannot let any more of them be sacrificed to this bloody war between the bandits and us.", they spoke with the air of seriousness in their gaze, ears perked, eyes holding his own. "i will send for you when the time comes, and i wish to bring the young ones with. we have a wide enough land to battle as we must, to chase them out once and for all. this is all or nothing.", they murmured, "and gods know we have all lost enough to last us to eternity."