Find Your Love - Drake MIDI
The second single from Drake's Thank Me Later (2010) first album. At the time, I had been in transition from a couple RPs I was involved in on SL back then. This song for me was thematic of a sort of fantasy love story that was happening in one RP between a werewolf and a faery. For another, the song reminds me of the female neko in the pic, who was named Amara.
Between 2008 and 2013, we had been a part of a variety of RP stories together. The first was in Midian City, primarily with my cowboy tiger/tabby neko character named Luke. When we met, Luke was a part of The Pack - rag tag bunch that was the second major hybrid faction in the city. My other character, Iohannes (Ioh, as in 'Yo!' for short) was in the rival group called the Catwalkers at the time. After the RP dried up there for a while, I moved on to Chamber City around 2010, and convinced Amara to come along as well. towards the end of 2011, Her and Luke would have their roles to play in the last RP we were in together at Cranberry Cove, which lasted until 2013.
This particular scene in the pic happened some time after Ioh had become the Praetor of the mostly feline hybrid gang called the Custos Noctis. It was in the city park, and Amara was harvesting some herbs. No, this was not a CHAZ/CHOP sort of thing. For one, this RP was nearly a decade before it ever became a thing. Being Post Apocalyptic RP, it happened some time after a major world catastrophe left most cities to become an urban jungle or no man's land. People still inhabited them, but it was rough, since stores and restaurants were pretty much shut down, and everything became a free for all. The Custos Noctis itself took over an abandoned parking building as their headquarters. Another hybrid gang, the Misfits had taken over an abandoned skyscraper, and the only known official trade was through a mysterious Black Market that was said to be run by a demon.
Prior to becoming Praetor, Ioh and Amara both were disciples to the Bastet named Trinity. Amara was to become the head medic of the Custos Noctis, and Ioh, well, he, as a Son of Sekhmet was testing the Daughter of Bastet as much as she was testing him in a sort of mystical mating ritual to see if they were compatible. However Trinity had disappeared from the city, and was gone for long periods of time. Thus, the Custos Noctis became Ioh's responsibility. He took on the title of Praetor, opting not to push openly the more noble secret pure breed title of Son of Sekhmet. While Trinity may have preferred the old ways, such were difficult for many of the current line of cats to understand or appreciate in the new world. Praetor was still an old world title, but it distinguished Ioh more as a guardian than king or dictator.
At any rate, the RP from a decade ago was in some ways inspiration for a trilogy I'm still working on. The basic background I've had for Ioh was as coming from an ancient line of cats that were not the product of human science tinkering with nature. Instead, Ioh was a natural humanoid feline from a race that could live a very long time. It is believed that they originated on Mars before traveling to Earth. For most their lives, the Feles lived deep in forests and in dwelling spaces underground beyond the dark spaces few ever venture into. The idea was to stay away from humans and allow them to develop naturally. Hybrids started to appear due to human scientists managing to capture a village of feles and use their DNA to make the modern neko hybrids. Due to this, the Feles would intermingle with the new breed of cats and become acquainted to human society for all sorts of purposes, both good and bad. Ioh personally had always been a guardian centered sort of character, and so mostly patrolled territory and enforced the rules of the factions of the RPs he was in.
Find Your Love seems to be a good theme here, because of the sort of triangle Ioh had between Trinity and Amara. Trinity was the perfect partner that was rarely there. Their pure bred blood would always attract them, lead them to desire each other, but the fates were cruel when it came a full bond between the Son of Sekhmet and the Daughter of Bastet. Meanwhile, whereas the mystical relationship was up in the air, Amara was dependable and resourceful. Would Ioh continue to wait on the perfect love that often seemed so flighty and out of reach, or would he see the one cat that was always there, through thick and thin in a loyalty that also holds its own attraction? The question to that was left unanswered as Chamber City eventually went under and had to shut down the sim.
That ends the story, for now...
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