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I was possessed (craving interaction) so yall get all 50 answers to both the lamb and Narinder ask game in one place. if anyone wants to know more about my au or versions of them 👀 send an ask etc

Narinder and Lamb 50 question answers under the cut lol

Lamb 50 questions and answers

Does your lamb go by any name other than The Lamb? If so, what?So my lamb does actually have another name, or i guess just a name, but they don't use it. They tend to view that that name, that person died when the axe fell, and they became The Lamb, the last lamb. Their role is now more important than what they used to go by. Almost no one knows it, no one calls them that, and it's what they prefer. But if you're wondering, their name was Bah. (Together their family was Bah, Bo and Bee)

How old was your lamb when they were sacrificed? 27

How long was your lamb held captive by heretics before their sacrifice? 3 days

Did your lamb kill anyone prior to their first death? If so, who? Yeah, I meantioned in a previous post but in my au the killing of sheep kind has been going on for a long while. By the time my lamb was an adult they already had a hand in directly and indirectly killing folks in order to protect themself and their siblings. Their little group honestly made a point to avoid people as much as possible because in the end of they had to decide between risking letting a stranger know they exist vs making sure they and their family were safe, that wasn't a very hard choice. They purposefully try to not think about it though, not because they regret it but because in the end it didn't even matter.

When your lamb mourns a dead loved one from their past.. who is it? Their siblings, but it’s been long enough they’ve started to forget their faces.

Who raised your lamb? My lamb was raised with their siblings with by their parents till they were about 6-7 after that they mostly traveled, staying with other groups and in villages for as long as they could without being caught/relying on the kindness of strangers till they were teenagers. After that it was just them and their siblings. My lamb doesn't really remember their parents.

Where was your lamb raised? A village? A prison? Constantly on the run? See above answer.

Did your lamb have any specific skills pre-sacrifice? Just survival related stuff, they got very good at living in the wilderness and supporting themself. Also melee and pickpocketing.

How or where was your lamb caught? It ended up being a freak accident that did them in.Their sister got hurt while foraging, and it slowed them down/stopped them for long enough they got spotted and captured. It was pure luck that my lamb was the last of the three to live, (their sister ended up dying while they were all being taken and their brother just happened to be executed first) and they had no idea they were some very last sheep left.

How did your lamb feel with their head on the pedestal? Afraid? Relieved? Angry? Resigned. when the axe finally fell it broke them a little Lot bit.

Does your lamb have any notable or unique features? Nothing that’s not just from being the type of sheep they are. And/or the red crown’s influence. They got red eyes now because of it

How tall is your lamb? They keep growing (at the time they and narinder get married their like 5’9-5’10 not counting the horns)

Is your lamb petite? Curvy? Fucking jacked? They got that ruminant bod. Endomorph they are strong and could take you out but they aren’t jacked. They’re just build like a tank.

Is your lamb’s wool pure white? No it’s an off white cream color.

How does your lamb prefer to keep their wool? Short and shorn neat? Wild and untrimmed? Be honest are there branches in that bitch? They have a negative association with being sheared, (the bishops robes and those of their highest followers/witnesses were made with and/lined with the wool from sheep they captured and sheared) so they kinda try to avoid it as much as possible/do half cuts with their wool so it's not nearly has usable for stuff as it should be. They do make a point to keep it as clean as possible though.

Do you base your lamb on any specific species of sheep? If so, which? My lamb is a Wensleydale sheep!

Do they use their own wool for anything? Nope. My lamb never had the opportunity to learn how to turn their wool into anything useful and even if they had, they honestly don't have the patience for fiber craft. .They Do need to be sheared though at least once a year and if the fiber is decent enough they'll give it to their own disciples to use.

On a scale of one to ten how floppy are their ears? Not really floppy, probably a 3 ? Wensleydale sheep don't have floppy ears lol

Do they bear any traits of forced domestication? Is their tail docked? Was their ear tagged? Do they have scars from being shorn (and nicked) against their will? Were they ever painted with or assigned a number rather than a name? Nah, they were shorn against their will before being sacrificed but they don’t really have any marks from that other than mental (blood and second cuts are bad for a fleece after all)

What do their horns look like? So wendsydale sheep are naturally pulled. So until they were about vessel they didn't have horns at all. Once they gain the red crown they gained a short set of horns that after ascending their horns started growing more. Eventually they may end up with a large set of curled horns or even multiple but they don't like to think about that.

Was your lamb born male, female, intersex, or do you have no opinion on their sex at birth? They’re amab

Does your lamb use pronouns other than they/them? If so, which ones! Nope only they/them

Are they capable of having children and would they want to have children? Complicated answer actually! So in theory yes, they physically could have children, however in my AU i'm going with the idea that cross mixing species lowers chances of conceiving considerable. Like it can and does still happen, but it's a lot harder and kids tend to take after the carrying parent! The only partner they even have they'd consider having children with is Narinder and so if they do want biological kids it's going to take effort. And leading into this, they have, Major hang-ups over children. The idea of having a child scares them A lot. (lack of control, the thought of losing them, something going wrong, not really having an example of a good parents themself or really having even been near a kid till after starting the cult etc) Part of them does long for that as an option, but even at their worst they're aware hey would not be able to handle being a parent/let alone a good parent. They need to grow and change before that. Getting with Narinder and kinda being slowly introduced to the idea of interacting with kids through his daughters does help.

If they were to be a parent or are, what epithet would they have their child use? Mom? Mama? Dad? Baba? Nony? Abba? Gonna be real they don’t want to think about this, whatever any hypothetical kids do end up calling them its fine.

Do they wear something other than the canon cloak? They only really worn my "version" of the Canon cloak when they first started crusading. Once they're a god they start indulging a lot LOT more in their appearance. Presentation is everything and they work very hard to look their part as the last god. When they go crusading to bring back the bishops they wear something similar to this piece, a lot more Armour etc. Also they do know how to dress down they just don't like being seen by any of their followers not fully decked out.

Does your lamb wear jewelry or makeup? They Love decorating their horns and ears and wearing makeup, they like being fancy. The world’s a stage and they have a role to fit.

Is your lamb flirtatious? No.

Did your lamb have any partners pre-sacrifice? Simple answer, but no, kinda too busy running for their life with their siblings for that to really be an option.

Did your lamb take any followers as a partner? Yes, pretty early on into the cult they took a couple partners because they expressed interest and my lamb was curious. They did break off most of the relationships if they started to want something more serious/as their devotion to TOWW grew even before freeing him. Once they became a god and brought Narinder in, it got a lot more complicated for them. we don’t talk about Poppy.

Who is your lamb’s second in command or closest follower? Thorarjul! He's probably the closest if I exclude Narinder. He's a good guy, one of the oldest followers, and joined before the lamb slayed leshy. He's pretty easy going and while it's not 100% clear how he actually views the lamb,(as in if he views them in a religious sense or just as a leader. Which is weird to think about since he is the loyalty enforcer) he does love the community and that's enough.

Is your lamb ever honest about their feelings or past? With who? they don’t even know how they feel 90% if the time, so as much as they can be? In general they are Not doing okay lol

Is your lamb merciful? Did they ever refuse to spare someone? If so, why? Is it a mercy to not allow one to ever pass on, to hold your folk in a gilded cage. To nuture with one hand and to control with the other. They are the one and only Lamb, the Shepherd of their flock and protector and guardian. Sent to keep all in their meadow hale and lively by their own grace. If anyone is to see the beast then they were never meant to see it’s light at all.

(Immortality cult were god had control issues and trauma and doesn’t know how to let go its their perfect paradise but at what cost)

Is your lamb trustworthy? ehhhhhh. I mean Kinda? They have their followers, and cult's best interests in mind but they aren't the type to actually talk about their own intentions or thoughts which leads to problems. And they have control issues. And they also tend to not view others as people, They are being forced to work on that and also communication, though. As long as your interests/goals align, yeah they're trustworthy. if they don't though it becomes a lot more complicated. They won't stab you in the back intentionally? But they might do it by mistake.

Is your lamb quick or slow to trust others? even they aren’t really sure.

If your lamb could pick a cult job other than leader what would it be? Don’t worry about it

Is your lamb a good cook? No not really.

Does your lamb let cult members cook or heal or do they restrict them from certain duties? No

What is your lamb’s favorite food or dish? Actual answer they stop eating once revived and refuse to actual eat. Everything tastes like ash and decay to them now.

Does your lamb eat meat/fish/eggs? Munch Munch we love some protein and calcium

What is your lamb’s stance on cannibalism? Some people’s only purpose is to serve others. And this is the best way to do so.

What about their stance on torture? It’s fine if I say it is and not if I don’t :)

Would your lamb ever kill a cult member? If they kill them then they weren’t a member to begin with. Only heretics deal with the beast.

How does your lamb deal with dissenters? Reeducation! But also we don’t have that problem here its paradise :) (meta answer is I’ve literally never had a dissenter in this save and also it’s kinda broken now because of the follower count that I don’t think the overall faith can fall under 100% lol)

What is your lamb’s favorite weapon? Their least favorite? They love the axe and don’t like they blunderbuss

Would they ever let a follower embrace their dark desire to eat poop? No.

What is your lamb’s favorite season? there aren’t seasons anymore, hypothetically spring though.

Is your lamb’s favorite color something other than red? It’s light blue.

How does your lamb really feel about death? They don't.

Does your lamb use substances? Are substance banned from cult grounds? Alchohol is allowed but nothing else. Followers are allowed to indulge but only when the lamb allows it.

Freebie! Tell us any headcanon you want! My lamb has a habit of kicking things when angry/frustrated, this started before their capture but has become significantly more common once they started crusading a way to burn off their negative emotions away from the cult. They tend to raze any area to the ground they're crusading in to get as many resources as possible, and to burn off steam.

Narinder 50 questions and answers!

When did your Narinder aquire the Red Crown? Was he born into the role or did the crown choose him for a particular reason? During narinder's childhood any potential crown bears were marked and then raise in their respective god's temples only interacting with those involved with the faith and other's marked. Once they came of age depending on the current state of their temple/god. They would be given secret trials related to the crowns' domain. If they passed but weren't chosen, they would be sworn to silence to become head disciples for the future god. If they were chosen they would ascend, If it isn't a trial season when they come of age, they are given the choice to become missionaries and leave their gods lands or be sacrificed. The crowns are sentient, so they have a major role in this. if they start tiring of their bearer, the crown bear is defeated by another god etc. a trial season would start, basically a show on its marked parts to see who is “worthy” The crown selects its bearer, if it doesn't like you will not gain its power. The bearer before him had died defeated by a pair of twin gods and death domain currently sat unoccupied. Death's trials were notoriously deadly and all the other candidates who were of age hadn't made it/weren't chosen by the crown. Narinder was actually a bit young (2 years off of becoming of age) when he began his trials, but they hadn't been going well, and he stepped forward. I'm not gonna go into it in detail since this is already getting long (and i want to do a comic about this at some point) but the scar Narinder has on his chest is from this time and related to how he was chosen as the new god of death.

Why does the red crown find him worthy as a bearer? Spoiler I wanna make a comic about this see the end of the last question

What did his childhood look like? Did he live with the other crown bearers? It was complicated. Narinder had a relatively humble life in the beginning, just his mom, aunt and little siblings. however at a young age around 7? he was marked as a potential crown bearer/priest and was taken into the temple's fold. He still had contact with his aunt since she was a lower level disciple of current god of the red crown but not the rest of his family and he doesn't really remember them much. He met kallamar a year later who was in a similar situation and a bit older and kinda latched onto him. He met Shamura some time after but they are significantly older than all the others so they kinda stepped more in as a mentor/guardian type position vs kallamar who was still a teen. eventually heket came into the picture when narinder was hitting preteen time and leshy is the family baby and came to the temple right before everything started kicking off as a literal infant (aka a war between gods, that eventually led to there only being them left)

Does the Red Crown give him any unique powers such as the power of rot (a la TROD AU)? As a god yes, he could see when people were “meant” to die (though stuff like accidents etc could change this) and could rot/age things. As a not god he’s mostly normal though he can still use his third eye if focusing to read followers minds and see their intended death (the cults whole immortality thing makes this a fucking mess)

How did he feel about Shamura pre-exile? They had more of a mentor/parental relationship to begin with since shamura is significantly older than the others. They were very close when narinder was young/when he was newly ascended and shit was a mess but drifted apart as they got older and their ideals started clashing. Shamura had an idea of who and what narinder should be and do and narinder kinda hated that a lot epessially since shamura would encourage him to experiment and then chastise him when he did it “wrong” of all of his siblings they drifted apart first/the most even before his exile but he never thought shamura would go as far as they did.

How about post exile? He feels pity for them, and grief but their relationship is cordial at most now. They don’t fight and he isn’t cruel but of all his siblings, I don’t think they ever really fix things since they kinda do just have conflicting personalities at the end of the day and don’t really understand each other.

Which sibiling was his favorite? Least favorite? Before exile, honestly Heket but in a detached way. They were similar people with similar ideals and also didn’t interact enough/have overlap in things for them to fight over it, so they mostly just got along when they do chat After its kallamar, after everything they have an understanding and he's the first that Narinder actually starts trying to fix things with. Mostly because kallamar both makes an effort and knows were and what to push on.

What weapon did he use prior to exile? He didn’t he mostly fights with magic and hand to hand, if he has to he would use a staff

Do you have headcanons about who his witnesses or ‘bosses’ would be pre-exile? If so, who are they? Not particularly i honestly think of Narinder having a different structure to his cult than his siblings and having witnesses as a defense wouldn't have been necessary or really wanted.

Did Narinder take any lovers before his exile? Yeah a few, nothing ever super serious though (kept in physical and casual) and generally people who weren't his own followers. He never liked the power dynamics and how they influenced his relationships.

How did Narinder feel about his priests, witnesses, and followers? Complicated, he tries to keep his distance. (Death god in the death cult during the old faith was not a very Open role to interactions) he wishes things were different even then.

Does he have a dedicated meow button? Narinder makes a Lot of weird sounds, but no dedicated meow button.

Does your Narinder have any unique features? other than the stuff that is just based on his species, see next question. He has a scar on his chest, on his lower legs and writes and is missing his left pinky and ring finger and all the claws except the thumb on that hand. Oh and he has marks on his face from where it can split.

Is he based on any particular breed of cat such as a puma or a British shorthair? He’s a jaguarundi, wild cat native to the Americas

Describe his fur. Is it unkempt? Well-groomed? Curly? Kept short? Short and tough? It just a thing with his species their fur is just like that he is well groomed though. He kinda hates feeling dirty after being trapped for so long. Fun fact jaguarundi are one of the few cats naturally occurring “ticked” coat pattern and also come in 2-3 main color morphs depending on Where they live (this is why Xotchil is tawny actually not because of whean lol)

Is, and I cannot stress this enough, his tail so, so fluffy? Hm not really but it is v long

How ears is he on a scale of 1-10? (This is not a typo) 2-3 he is not very ears

Was he born with his third eye or did he gain it later from the crown? Got it upon receiving the crown, it was the crown’s gift after proving himself to it.

Any notable scars post-exile other than around his wrists? Chest scar, and hand

Did your Narinder have any disabilities prior to his exile? No

Does he have any new disabilities upon being spared? He has limited mobility in one of his hands and chronic pain in his joints.

How does he pass the time in exile? Time moves very oddly in the veil and depending on many things can either seem longer or shorter. Narinder honestly spent most of them time fluctuating between sleeping, daydreaming doing his duties and dissociating. a part of him was still free "metaphorically" to help guide the dead to the afterlife which would involve walking them through their memories and sometimes he would take longer than necessary with that just to escape for a bit.

Are the kits, Aym and Baal, really his children? (biologically) Nope.

How does he feel towards Aym and Baal? Ambivalent? Caring? Annoyed? They came to him Young. They are is sons even if it's not by blood. He raised them and cares a lot about them. They're one of the things that helped narinder snap out of the headpsace he got in the veil and begin focusing. even if they are both adults by the time they get out of the veil, if they needed him he would be there immediately. He loves them.

Why does he wear the veil? Or does he forgo it entirely? He started wearing a veil as a bishop as part of his image as the god of death. He started doing this at first to help hide his emotions, keep himself seperate. Afterwards it became more of just a preference thing, he doesn't wear them often but sometimes he like the added protection for his eyes lol.

How and when was the prophecy that he would rebel against the others revealed? My guy was not really involved in that, there was already was distance forming between him and the others by that point so, my narinder found out about the prophecy when the other went to confront and imprisoned him. For when the others learned it varied, but for a couple years at least.

How did the others react to this prophecy before it happened? Badlhy

Did he feel doomed by the prophecy? Relieved? Offended? Vindicated? My guy did not really get time to process there even was a prophecy before shit went to hell so. Complicated my narinder really REALLy hates when people try to dictate what he should be and how he should act and that extends to stuff like this. He kind hates the idea of fate or people having a set path.

What exact rebellious act got him chained in the first place? He felt like life ended too soon for some people, he wanted to see if he could change that. See above but the way his cult working and the role it played in the old faith started to Grate on him. He didn’t like something even death was inevitable especially since he knew their were already exceptions to it (his siblings, the ducks, etc) he wasn’t even sure what he would do once he cracked resurrection but he wanted to prove he could. And he started drastically changing his cults teachings in a way that didn’t align with the others to go along with that.

What are some of the biggest emotions he feels about being chained? Anger. Hate. Bitterness. Grief.

Deep down.. does he agree that it was necessary? No.

Does he have any remorse for harming his sibilings? If so, does he ever show it? No. And if it happened again he would fight even harder. He thinks them acting on a fate and doing what they did was destructively pointless and everything in the end was their own fault. Their actions have consequences, and as gods they should have known better, and as a family…. No he does not feel remorse for it. Let the past die, he has to move on if he wants to move forward at all.

Does he care that an entire species and culture was ended because of him? Yes. Again he thinks the entire thing was dumb and pointless. It’s hard for him to fully conceptualize since 1. He was not a sheep nor was he raised/lived with them before 2. afterwards all he was able to learn was about their lives after they died while being trapped. Its the kinda loss that’s nearly impossible to comprehend but he does care

What was his first impression of the lamb? This thing is weird. Interesting but weird (they reacted oddly to dying/him lol)

When did he realize the lamb might turn against him? Was he blind to it until it happened or did he have a gut feeling long before then? He had no idea, he honestly thought they would be upfront with him. Their own behavior does not fix this

Does/Did he enjoy the lamb’s visits? It’s a break in the monotony and once the lamb starts opening up and acting more on their true self he does like him. He likes how honest they are, and enjoys their talks. It’s why he was willing to “marry” them before being freed.

How does he feel about the lamb after being spared? Confused. Their relationship is a hot mess. But mostly just confused and off if we’re focusing on just after spared period. It gets worse later! :)

Does he support or partake in cannibalism? Munch munch (this is a cannibal cult lol, they are all cats and waste not want not)

Does he take a lover other than the lamb after being spared? If so, describe them! WHEAN WHEAN MY BELOVED. Whean (he/him) started as friends with Narinder (he was involved with helping narinder's physical recovery and also is just a very hard to phase person so was able to deal with narinder's shit long enough to gain his trust) and became more during Narinders and the lamb's roughest period. He’s faithless and doesn’t have the same view of nairnder as most of the cult does and that helps a lot. He’s the biological father to the girls. It was a Hey, i've decided I want kids, would you be willing to be the other half in this equation if I tell you I want these kids to Just be mine.” Situation. and whean was down, he's not looking to be a dad personally, doesn't really like kids. But he loves narinder and was 100% willing to help with this. Win-win for both of them, narinder gets kittens without strings attached and whean gets to help his best friend.

What is his biggest struggle after being spared? Fitting in with the cult? Seeing the lamb’s face daily? Chronic pain? After being spared, he had a very long healing process. It took about 2 years for him to regain enough mobility and to become healthy enough (his immune system is very bad at first) to finally really integrate properly into the cult with duties and become more independent. Narinder is missing his pink finger, and part of his ring finger on his left paw. And his middle, and pointer on that hand are missing their claws. He has limited feeling and motion in that hand even after physical therapy.

Does your Nari use any pronouns besides he/him? If so, what ones? He simply does not care actually. Fine with anything but most comfortable with he/him just because of familiarity. He falls somewhere on the nonbinary spectrum but doesn't care for or about labels and just sticks to he/him pronouns. This cat does not care about you or how you perceive his gender or presentation, thank you.

Was he born male, female, intersex, or do you have no opinion on his sex? Intersex and has the ability to carry children.

Does he ever wear jewelry or makeup? Yeah started wearing jewlery as a way to express himself and makeup as a bonding thing with the lamb.

Has he ever used catnip? If so, what happened? Yeah but it doesn’t do much for him personally so he doesn’t bother.

Is identity kept a secret from the cult? If so, do any of the followers recognize who he really is? HAHAHA NO The lamb framed their ascension/defeat of narinder as an inevitable thing to the cult, but still spoke of narinder with a lot of respect and devotion as someone really important to the faith. They got getting "married" when Narinder was still a god as the lamb, giving themselves to him, and they very much did not make a secret of this. half the reason narinder was/is so confused because they do still seem to view him with a sort of religious devotion while also Not. And when narinder did join, they expected him to take a leadership role alongside them, even if their word in the end came first. And since literally everyone even from the start is there still are a lot of folks in the cult who treat Narinder with more than just respect he'd get if he was just a normal person. A lot of the folks in the cult have taken on the lambs weird view of Narinder as something different, special and deserving reverence. even if he's no longer a crown bearer. Doubly since Narinder takes his “job” very seriously and actually does try to act in a leadership role ( he acts more as the grounded one handling smaller things and interpersonal issues, talking and mediating since my lamb while excellent at appeasement really doesn't like handling people's “problems”)

Describe his personality. He's angry and proud and bitter but like a big thing to me is Narinder is patient, almost to a fatal degree imo. He's not fast to act and prefers to wait and watch before interacting. However he does have a bad habit of making assumptions about how the people he "know" will act preemptively and getting really thrown off when they do anything different that what he expected (his original betrayal, the lamb deciding to fight for their crown, the lamb banning him from leaving etc)

(i am going to fully admit i pull some of his character quirks and behavior from my own cat nugget, girl has… Issues but isn't aggressive unless really pushed she's just kinda a mess and I've decided my narinder deals with issues the same way) When he is thrown off he gets very defensive and kinda shuts down. Not violent but extremely guarded and not quick to trust again. Even if he knows he's "safe" he doesn't care. He's collected, he's put together, he's not even really rude but he will do the bare minimum for you if you've hurt him. He won't go down to your level and hurt you back but he makes sure you are Very aware he's not forgotten and at least for now he hasn't forgiven. If you do push his hand then be sure it’s not going to be something he ever regrets doing.

Is he shy about any topics? Does he enjoy talking about anything in particular? Once a book is closed on something. (Ei the prophecy and him being chained, injuring the others) it is closed. Don’t touch it, we move on. He likes talking about plants! He’s not great at growing them kinda average but knows a lot about what they can do, he know a lot about things that can harm you in general and kinda likes rambling about them lol

Does he ever rethink the concept of sacrificing followers now that he is one? My lamb isn’t even willing to let people die of old age, do you think they sacrifice people. If anything narinder’s gonna go up on the alter himself if that’s what it takes to have them get over it (this is a joke)

Is his favorite food anything other than fish? If so, what is it? Meat. He like rabbit.

Free headcanon space! He is so fucking fast.

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