Post by Ronno on May 21, 2019 23:15:43 GMT -5
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Introduce yourself
Hey, howdy, hey! The name's EbonyPatriot, and I wished upon a star from Whatsits Galore many moons ago (possibly linked from the old Disney Ever Notice Site?) My other imaginary friends include None yet. Ronno and I are so very eager to join the Worlds of Disney circle of life!
Character basics
Character name: Ronno
Age: Just turned 4 years old
Species: White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus borealis
Birthplace: Novus Forest, Maine, USA, 04/12/1937
Movie: Bambi (1942) Non-speaking antagonist (although he does speak in several of the book tie-ins).
Antagonist (with dialogue, yay!) in Bambi II (2006)
Custom title: Bambi's Rival
Why'd you pick this character? I've always loved pretty much all things Disney— especially the "critter movies.” Thanks to (I think it was) Leonard Maltin’s Disney Films, I wanted to read all of the source materials for the Disney films (not one of my better ideas, but I digress). Luckily my library had a copy of Felix Salten's Bambi: A Life in the Woods. I fell it love with Bambi and, thanks to the “Disney Ever Notice” site, its sequels. My love for Salten’s books rebounded into my love for the Disney Bambi.
Back in December of 2004, while I was listening to my then-new copy of Lion King on Broadway, I decided to do a flik (fan-based song parody) for “Madness of King Scar.” I had loved John Grant’s Encyclopedia of Disney Characters, so I knew that the buck Bambi fights was named Ronno (remember, this is before Bambi II). At the time, a search for Ronno on “fanfiction.net” came up empty, so I decided to call the flik “The Madness of Prince Ronno.” It was fun, figuring out how the Bambi world would work into and around the song, figuring out how to work in elements of Felix Salten’s books while bringing in real-life white-tailed deer behavior. It was so much fun that the one-shot grew to a 14 chapter tale, with at least one song worked into each chapter.
“The Madness of Prince Ronno” was completed before Bambi II came out. Though I never got around to my sequel, I've always wanted to run Ronno again— and I like the challenge of reconciling my version of Ronno to the official version in Bambi II.
Character appearance (try to get at least 2 or 3 sentences for each section)
Hair description: Hair? Why Ronno has fur, a thick coat covering all but rostral pinna (that is, the part of his ears closest to his nose), nose and hooves. Ronno's color is almost umber, darker (and he'd add, handsomer) then most of the herd. Like most of the deer, he has dark dorsal streak that run from nose to shoulders, then hips to tail— which serves as a nice background to his three-prong, curved antlers, if he does say so himself. The pale patches of his fur on his eyebrows, muzzle, throat, chest, and belly serve as nice contrast with becoming gaudy, thank you very much. Why, any Man would love to have his pelt! ...Wait a minute.
Facial description/mood/expressions: Ronno's muzzle is usually twisted in a smirk; his heavy brow makes even his lighter moods intense. The dark patches under his red-brown eyes and the notch in his right ear only serve to underscore this. When in a good mood, Ronno changes his over-the-top expressions like quicksilver; when not, his expressions are focused and subdued.
Clothing style: Clothing? Do you mean the velvet that covers Ronno’s growing antlers? You’d have to be idiot to not get it off right away— he bets Bambi doesn’t know that, hah!
Body build: Ronno’s build is strong and heavy— all muscle though, naturally! This cuts down on speed, but he’s totally not a coward anyway, so… win win! Ronno's swaggering stride show his arrogance and no-nonsense attitude, warning all bucks to get lost. From nose to tail, he’s got the kind of looks that makes does go bonkers.
Any unique traits (optional):
The notch in his right ear is really from Shah, the Game Warden’s Persian house cat, but shh— he’d rather everyone think it was from a puma)
If you stay still long enough, Ronno will tell you his other tale of woe.
There he was, out on the meadow, minding his own business, when BAM! A yearling Man (that is, a fourteen-year-old boy) shot him, right in the deltoid of the left shoulder!
With his bleeding leg held tight to his chest, staggering on three legs, Ronno knew he was a goner for sure! (Well actually the boy had left: he had been hunting spring turkeys, was horrified to realize he hit a deer, and had raced off to find the Game Warden; but really, how would Ronno know that?)
Then! The Great Prince swooped in, just as he had done many times before and since, to rescue him! The Great Prince walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Ronno, forcing him to walk in a circle until the bleeding stopped. The Great Prince then brought Ronno back to his mother, Ferox, who tended to his wound.
Ronno’s leg healed fine, with only a slight (barely noticeable, really) limp when it rains. To this day, Ronno does not realize how lucky he was: not only was he not crippled, his antlers were unaffected. (Often, when a buck is injured, the antler on his opposite side will regrow deformed).
Original character analysis (In your own words and please be thorough)
Personality:
Clever, stately, and rather a monomaniac, Ronno is not quite on speaking terms with reality. A bully who always gets his way, Ronno has convinced himself that he really does love Faline. If it weren't for that @!#$^&;% Bambi, Ronno has no doubt that Faline would return his love. And just think of how great the fawns would turn out! Ronno’s bitterness with Bambi is tempered by his respect and loyalty to the Great Prince. Ronno is vain and boasting when he's winning, cowering and sniveling when he's not.
Ronno honestly thinks of himself as a super nice guy; it’s everyone else who has a problem! Never mind that he rarely considers how anyone else feels. Never mind that he doesn’t (or rather, refuses to) realize that others can have valid reasons for thinking what they do.
That said, Ronno does have some moral boundaries. Ronno is no killer, especially of fawns. Ronno does not aim with antlers or hooves to seriously injure: he prefers to hurt others on the inside (that’s better, right?) And despite his actions, he knows he cannot force Faline to be his mate without her say-so (though you’d surprised how many ways there are of persuasion…)
History:
Ronno was born about 15 days before Bambi. Ronno’s dame Ferox was notorious for having, er, rather bratty fawns, including last year’s model, Karus. Ronno was no exception and, since her mate, Zingiber, had died the previous winter, Ferox spoiled Ronno especially rotten. As with all sire-less fawns, the Lead Stag, the Great Prince, acted as Ronno’s substitute sire. Ronno was proud to have the Great Prince as his “sire” and he, like many of the deer, admired the old stag.
Karus, now a yearling, would often romp with his little brother, inviting Ronno to run with the bucks. Tough and bold, racing with the bucks before his first birthday, with both Ferox and Karus fussing over him, the Lead Stag taking care of him: who wouldn’t want to be Ronno? Oh Karus warned him not to become too proud— the Great Prince had a fawn of his own, after all— but hey, Ronno had a great first year.
Around February, when Ronno was about ten months old, after enjoying a good prank on the Groundhog’s expense, he met two fawns: the beautiful and clever Faline…and that wimpy Bambi. New friends! So much for that great first year— he tries not to think about Bambi hogging the Great Prince’s already limited attention or a fight with Bambi ended with Mena in a trap. The worst however, was yet to come.
It was in May. Ronno was a yearling with a newfound (and healthy!) fear of turtles when he was shot. If it wasn’t for his brains (okay, well the Great Prince and Ferox helped some), he would have surely been a goner!
That second year, Ronno chased Bambi mercilessly whenever he could (Bambi spent most of his time with the Great Prince, learning all a Lead Stag must). Ronno didn’t see much of Faline that year: she stayed with her parents and the does. Ronno did hear about her: Faline was close with the older doe Rolla— so close that, like Ena and Lepus before them, they called each other “sister.” And Rolla had become Karus’s mate. The more Ronno heard about Faline, the more Ronno liked her: she was as clever as he, fast and strong. Faline was the perfect doe for him.
The following year, Ronno (who had come to think of himself as the Lead Stag with the Great Prince’s absence) asked Faline to choose him. Surely she would pick him— why, just that winter, Ronno had befriended the absent-minded Game Warden’s pack of hunting hounds. It was the shock of his life when she refused— that is until Bambi beat him in him in a fair fight.
Desperate, Ronno fought Bambi throughout the year. It was his idea that Gobo, Faline’s man-raised younger brother, speak with the Man, leading to Gobo’s death. It was Ronno who, in a last ditch effort, recommended that the runaway hounds drag down Bambi to appease their master.
All in vain. Recently, Ronno had to endure the birth of Faline and Bambi’s first fawns: Geno and Gurri. Twins! Twins are common in white-tails: but usually once the doe given birth several times. Even Karus and Rolla had their first twins, Boso and Lana, this year; their previous fawn had been a singleton, Até.
And Faline’s fawns would have been Ronno’s if it wasn’t for that @!#$^&;% Bambi!
Ambitions:
Ronno still dreams of winning Faline once and for all, to live happily with her and all of their future fawns. (As for Faline’s fawns, Geno and Gurri, well…he doesn’t really give them much thought).
Ronno wants to be a boss buck, something he surely deserves! Oh he supposes he may never to get to be the Lead Stag (a position Bambi’s line has held since the first Prince of the Forest, Qoheleth, ruled centuries prior). Still, Ronno deserves to be the best he can, right?
Oh and uhm, some acorns and salt licks would be nice. And no Men! (Okay, so maybe some of these are a little more obtainable than others…)
Strengths & abilities:
At 280 lbs and 38 inch tall at the withers, Ronno is larger and heavier than most of the herd. And he knows how to use every ounce of his weight to his advantage.
Ronno always regrows his antlers faster than most of the deer— and he was never a spike! (Which means he never had less than two tines on each antler). Razor sharp and curved, his three tine antlers, freshly regrown, are a weapon to be reckoned with! (Because of their altered life history— and unlike most [read, real-life] white-tails, the Novus Forest bucks shed their antlers in December and regrow them from February to April— much earlier and in half the time).
Unusually, Ronno has no fear of canids (members of the dog family). In fact, Ronno’s best friends include Amaritudo, the one-eyed red fox, and Tiberius, leader of the Game Warden’s pack of Trigg hounds. Cunning, Ronno can usually convince animals to do whatever he wants.
Flaws:
Well if you asked Ronno, while he could rattle off Bambi’s faults, he’d be rather at a lost to name anything wrong with him.
Which, of course, sums up his problems in a nutshell. Ronno honestly does not realize how off his perception is from reality. Ronno does not understand that Faline really does prefer her fawnhood friend to him; he really does not understand that Bambi has never wanted to fight, out of respect, not terror.
Likewise, he is unaware that despite his bravado, he’s a coward. Ronno doesn’t realize how lucky he is: the timber wolves, black bears, and pumas have been all but extirpated from his home, while the coywolves have not quite arrived. Because he rarely faces anything but the occasional poacher, Ronno is reckless and prone to ill-advised (and frankly, stupid) plots.
Likes:
Faline, that beautiful and perfect doe.
Whenever he can be in charge.
Racing and especially sparring.
Acorns, salt licks, lichens, and aquatic plants.
Dislikes:
House cats— er he means pumas! It was totally a puma, not that housecoat Shah, that tore his ear!
Bambi. ‘Nuff said.
Whenever things don’t go his way.
Bark and twigs.
Fears:
Man— just the scent is enough to send terror into his heart.
The sound of thunder: it never fails to remind of the thunderstick.
That Bambi really is better than him.
Turtles (hey Flower was right— they’re scary, ‘k?)
Anything to add?:
Ronno actually does have a good singing voice, surprisingly enough to everyone except him.
Despite wanting fawns, he really would make a nervous and uncertain sire.
RP SAMPLE:
PAST TENSE ONLY. MUST BE ABOUT THE CHARACTER FOR WHOM YOU ARE APPLYING.
Ronno staggered to his hooves on the spongy surface, shaking his numb mind to clear it. This was surely softest leaf-bed he had ever felt— much too soft, really. Why did it seem to be one humongous, red and white leaf on a springy moss-like surface? Why did he feel a slight rolling and pitching beneath his feet?
Ronno tried to leap down, only to land in a crumpled (and painful) heap on a stretch of short, soft grass that seemed to have earth hard as wood beneath it. The buck sniffed at the strange grass and took a tentative bite. Bleh! Ronno spat out the blades— since when was grass every this dry and bland?! Even bark tasted better.
Still sputtering, he sprang to his hooves and scanned the clearing, ears swiveling and nose quivering. The air seemed to be more stuffy further into this strange thicket, though nice and artificially cool… There! The freshest breeze seemed to be whistling very faintly there, where sunbeams illuminated the strange gray grass. Ronno loped towards the sunlight, wondering what why he didn’t feel the breeze when it looked so open.
A dizzying crash and loud clonk answered that question. More confused than ever, he shook his head, grateful to see that no tines had broken off. Ronno hesitantly stretched out his muzzle until it tapped a strange substance: clear as air, hard as stone. Even stranger: once his eyes adjusted to the dazzle of sunlight, he saw vast expanse of a sapphire water, far as a white-tail could see. This was the largest pond he ever seen, that was sure— and the faint breeze held the scent of salt.
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