<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=277179.msg13658034#msg13658034">Quote from: Galanthor on 08-11-2017, 13:37:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Had some time on my hands and wanted to write something silly...so here's a backstory for Benny the owl. Sorry, but...couldn't call him Jayne...just...I think he's not quite manly enough.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Benny Background</div><div class="spoiler_body">Benny's story starts deep within the owl kingdom. Now...you might imagine a little owl with a golden crown living in a floating castle, but that's far from how it was. Owls are really much to clever to bother with politics. What was there, was a big bully of an owl that figured out that owls were much easier to find and just a little harder to beat up then mice and thus he made <em>them</em> do the mice catching. Thus he invented extortion (or "hoot" in owlish), however flying over to each and every owl was waaay to much work and thus he made his next invention: Food delivery or as he called it "hoot". After combining those he named the result "hoot"...which roughly translates to "taxes".<br/><br/>Now this is were Benny came in, he was born into the second generation of the august reign of King Hoot I. Seeing how his parents had to feed their noble sovereign first, he didn't get to be quite as greedy as other infants when it came to luxuries such as food, but they managed. True...he never got all that big, but when they kicked him out of the nest he did manage to fly, so it was good parenting all things considered.<br/><br/>With Benny being on his own now, he got to feel King Hoot's iron claw like everyone else. At the start Benny actually tried to pay his taxes, but he could barely keep himself fed as it was and the King only ended up throwing them on a huge pile anyways. That was when the little owl gained the idea to just...not pay taxes and instead...steal. Since King Hoot, despite his great inventions wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed...it was surprisingly easy: take them while he looked away. At the start, the King didn't even notice.<br/><br/>That was when Benny got greedier. He started to steal some for his parents as well and then some for his friends, some for that sick old owl in the forest over there and some for the pretty one he normally admired from afar. Eventually...the King noticed and Benny had to start hiding, but that so bad. Then the King pressed his "Subjects" harder and...that was not what Benny wanted... Trying to sort things out he taught the other Owls his Hideouts. Eventually...the "taxes" ran dry.<br/><br/>The king grew madder with each night, soaring the forests with shriek that would freeze the blood. The humans even thought the area haunted, but the owls new better...eventually they'd be found by that shrieking demon. Before that would happen however. Benny was betrayed.<br/><br/>The big owl dragged him out of the little hole in the tree he hid in and dragged him to clearing. Pinned to the ground Benny realized that he was to serve as an example. Painfully slow, the big owl dragged a claw through his skin, severing his flesh little by little. Benny felt his strength sap out of him together with his blood. Slowly his big eyes closed.<br/><br/>"HOOT!"<br/><br/>Slightly opening eyes revealed glowing big eyes in the trees. Then another pair and another... Owls.<br/><br/>"Hoot." "HOOT." "Hoot!"<br/><br/>Every moment a new voice raised, every moment another stood up against the oppression. Benny saw his opponent back away and then...catch fire.<br/><br/>"Why did you do that?"<br/><br/>"You said you were hungry, Ganthir..also I think i just killed the Ghost we were send for."<br/><br/>"Ok...but...what about the other one though? We can't leave it to bleed out can we."<br/><br/>"Fine." A sigh. "You can keep it."<br/><br/>The next months, Benny was treated by a human named Ganthir. This was the first time the little owl ever had too much eat. The human was really nice but he had a habit of doing stupid things and since Benny wasn't ungrateful he started to warn him from those brightly glowing green flasks and kettles that emanate clouds that looked oddly like skulls. Eventually they became friends.</div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>*-insert slowclapping gif*<br/><br/>brilliant