||| protective and brotherly |||

||| short-tempered and passionate |||

||| intense and determined |||

||| high-strung and stern |||

-- lenny is very good at following orders. he isn't very good at coming up with strategies or plans, but he knows how to execute them perfectly, which makes him a good soldier but lacking in leadership skills.

-- lenny is very fast and usually volunteers or is picked for scouting missions. his endurance allows him to run for long periods of time. these traits make him stand out as a soldier.

-- because of lenny's thin legs and lanky build, he isn't a very good combat fighter. he isn't very forceful or aggressive.

-- lenny has excellent hearing and can hear even the breath of another at a considerably long distance away.

-- despite lenny's non-aggressive behavior, he has very powerful jaws for his breed.

-- benidicta (bennie)
-- ibizan hound
-- caniformian soldier
-- dead [age - 6 years]

-- tobias
-- ibizan hound / greyhound
-- caniformian soldier
-- dead [age - 6 years]

lenny did/does have siblings, and they are open for rp if you want. two brothers of the same age.

there were two soldiers in caniformia. they had gone through the same training together and entered at the same age, being at the top of their class. benidicta, a female ibizan hound oftentimes called bennie, was well known for her quick attacks and powerful bite. tobias, a mix of an ibizan hound and a greyhound, was revered for his speed and cleverness. they seemed to click right away and you could rarely find one without the other. together, they were deadly. together, they were unbeatable.

the first year of their admittance as soldiers, bennie came up pregnant. the father, of course, was tobias. bennie took a short leave of absence, but soon she turned up with three young sons. they were predicted to be powerful and fabulous assets to the caniformia kingdom.

lennon was one of the sons. he took his father's blue coat, while his siblings took his mother's red. in nature, he was much like tobias. he was a natural fighter from the get-go. when wrestling his siblings and other pups, he usually ended up on top. this would change as he got older and other pups got stronger while he stayed thin, but there was still no doubt that he would become a soldier. his parents were loving and kind, and as he got older, they were supportive in his endeavors to become a soldier and fight for their alphas. they trained him to take advantage of his speed and lithe body and also how to make quick, constructive decisions. before he turned two years old, he was accepted as a soldier.

lenny's life was good. he worked with his parents and, because of their similar skill sets, was oftentimes put into patrols and missions with them. they were his best friends and his closest family.

when lenny was four, however, something changed. word arrived that ungulate had taken over the avian kingdom with ease. no one seemed worried; the avians were only messengers, and the ungulate seemed harmless. they had never shown aggression towards caniformia before. however, lenny urged his parents to talk to the general about reinforcing their defenses. the young soldier was scared that the ungulate would crave more power over seraithil and go after the canines next. bennie and tobias, however, brushed off his warnings. "if something happens, we'll be ready for it," tobias had assured him. lenny was skeptical, but decided to trust the judgement of his parents.

he should have listened to his guts. not long after, ungulate attacked. he and his parents were trapped in a crevice of the mountains, where a group of mountain goats and deer had blocked them in. the leader of that patrol, a large buck, taunted them for hours. bennie's paw was injured when she had slipped on a loose rock. they couldn't run, and they were vastly outnumbered. but after a while it became clear that the buck had no plans to let them leave peacefully. so she pulled her son down so she could whisper to him.

"lenny, i want you to fight tonight. fight like these mountains are about to collapse under your paws. fight like you need to survive. because you do."

so lenny fought. for the first time in his two years of being a soldier, he actually had to fight something serious. but lenny and his parents were built for speed, not power, and the mountain goats had skulls specifically for smashing.

tobias was the first to die. a mountain goat had crushed him against the side of the mountain. lenny heard his father's ribs crack before he crumpled to the ground, still alive and still trying to stand. the leader of the patrol trotted forward, helped tobias stand, then drove his sharpened antlers through the dog's neck. lenny had screamed.

his mother fell much easier. after killing tobias, the buck simply turned and charged bennie. her injured paw did not allow her to run, and soon there was a set of antlers piercing her chest. the buck dropped her limp body on top of tobias's, then turned to kill lenny, who was almost eager at this point to die.

but, damn her, a doe stepped between them. she told the buck that lenny was young and harmless, and would make an excellent soldier for arridir, the lead stallion. the buck was convinced, but still wanted to have his fun. he ordered one of the goats to knock lenny out, and the next thing the dog knew, he was laying next to the doctor, bandages wrapped around his bloodied body. there he cried for the death of his parents, then swore he would find that buck that killed them and rip him to shreds himself.

((i left out the history of his siblings so that if someone wants to take one of them, they have free reign on their portion of lenny's history))

none yet

i swear i will avenge you. i love you, and if i could have died along side you that day, i would have. i'm so sorry.

same as mother. i love you so much, you taught me well. now it's my turn to put my knowledge to the test. i'll kill that buck that murdered you. i swear i will.

whoever you are, you better watch yourself. i'm coming for you. i'll spend the rest of my life under the rule of the lead stallion if it means i could kill you. sick bastard.

Lenny didn't want to watch his parents die. It wasn't something he had been trained for. But here they were, trapped in the mountains, in their home, and there was nothing Lenny could do about it. He was exhausted, and there was a goat standing on top of him, holding him down, making him watch.

He knew what was coming next. He could see it in his father's eyes. The acceptance. No, Tobias, don't do this. Don't accept it. There's still a chance! He wanted to scream but was afraid that they'd get angry and kill them faster. If he was still alive, there was still a chance that they could survive.

"Fight like you need to survive."

Lenny's eyes found his mother. His broken and injured mother, trying to stand, tethered down by her crippled paw and thorough exhaustion. She wasn't going to stand. She couldn't fight anymore. I'm sorry, mother, Lenny thought, hoping that his mind would somehow connect with hers. I'm sorry, I can't fight to survive anymore. I'm so tired, Bennie. I'm sorry. I lost.

Before Lenny realized what was happening, there was a sickening crunch, and he looked up just in time to see his father's newly broken body crumple while a mountain goat backed up, his horns splattered with blood.

"Step away," the buck ordered, and the goat did as he was told. "Stand up, dog," he told Lenny's father, who just glared up at him. "I said stand up. How do you expect to be led by us when you can't even follow a simple order? STAND UP!!"

"Caniformia will never fall to the likes of you," Tobias spat back, wincing in pain from his apparently broken ribs.

"Then get up and fight me," the buck continued. "Get up and fight for your alpha."

After another deadly glare, Tobias struggled to his feet, panting out in pain at the movements of his body. It took forever, and Lenny never could recall a time when his father had looked so weak and pathetic. His usually neat fur was covered in blood, and his long limbs were almost visibly shaking in the moonlight. He was panting so hard. Lenny had never seen Tobias look so tired.

The next moments happened so fast. The buck lunged forward, his white antlers glinting, and stabbed Tobias straight through the neck.

Lenny screamed. He couldn't help it. The buck turned on his mother, who tried to stand to dodge or fight, Lenny would never know. But it didn't take long before her dead body was hanging from the buck's head. With a thump, he dropped Bennie's body on top of her mate's, where they would lay in Lenny's mind forever.

He turned to kill the young soldier. Lenny stared, and didn't even bother to brace himself. Death seemed like the next natural thing to happen in this sequence of events, and the young Ibizan hound was almost welcoming it. He didn't want to have to stare at his parent's bloodied bodies anymore. He didn't want to have to think about them anymore. He closed his wet eyes and waited for something to pierce his body.

But the sound of light hooves made him open his eyes. Another deer was standing between them. A doe.

"No, don't kill him," she told her leader. "Look at how strong he is. Do you think Arridir would appreciate you killing off every powerful asset we may have in the future? I doubt it."

Apparently, the buck didn't take much convincing. He grunted and nodded, then whispered something to the same mountain goat who had broken his father's ribs. The goat charged him head-on, and everything was black, and everything was pain.

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