Aside from being soot black all over, rather than sporting a lions normal golden fur, our Lion is also soft spirited in general. They cant go anywhere they wont be looked at like a curse. There may be a place, but at the least, the Lion doesnt know it. He dreams some times of waking up and getting greeted kindly by lions as he walks home holding vegetables, but the reality is that much of bunnies food has to be washed again when he shops because Lions dont eat veggies, and so they'll spit in the food saying "more nourishment for your slave, hah!" Itd probably because he tripped the person who did that that he got reported to begin with.

Lots of lions dont know what bunnies eat as well, they'll have poisonous things like avocado or choking hazards. Soot didnt know at first, Shes vomited or had to have vomit induced a couple times, and was scared of meals for 2 months at one point. Now he always listens if bunny says she doesnt like something and he picks unhealthy treats and dangerous foods out of every mulchy slave salad by hand.

It's better for her here than it will be elsewhere in some ways. As a slave, she won't be allowed to emote in public,but she'll share in some of his freedoms. They can travel together.

Many places that refuse the enslavement of prey still dont have real punishments for murdering them.

And if they go to prey territory… the rest of their life will be filled with violence. Even the weakest Lion can protect himself from a swarm of well armed prey, it's a matter of size and reflexes. He can react to a twitch of the finger and dash 40 yards before a rabbit can even raise a gun, if it came to that.

And it would. If our Lion goes to prey territory, he will inevitably have to kill, he will make his own home near town as he wont be able to fit in a half sized bunny home, he definitely wont be able to ask for construction from bunnies, and infact assassination attempts would happen at the least, bi weekly. Moving out of predator territory without actually instilling fear into your surroundings by being a predator is basically deciding never to sleep peacefully again.

But he could do it. He could turn her into a slave, go somewhere safe for her, and kill every day to survive from then on. But hes been dreading the moment that he has to explain, while standing over an assassins corpse, the depth of people's hatred and what it will mean to survive from now on.


Ooc break?

I wonder if I should be using world building stuff like this in the story or if this way of doing it is fine? I should definitely incorporate it into the story instead, but I kind of like answering questions, I also speak as the lion. I dont know anything that he doesn't.

This way of doing it is fun, I dont want to fill up the story with boring world building exposition.

I kind of like to imagine hes literally asking for advice from humans online. I'm even considering doubling down on it and role playing lion answering, but I kinda feel like that could hurt some people's fun.