Runt and Dash - art by fiszike

Here is an art made by amazing fiszike ([link]).

It is a picture of my characters from roleplay "Founders of the new warren" from forum called Fiver's Honeycomb ([link]).

In case you want to know more about Runt and Dash, here is information I gave to fiszike when I asked her to make this picture:



Name: Runt

Species: Wild Rabbit

Gender: Buck

Age: 1 year

Personality: Runt is not the friendliest rabbit you could imagine. He is egoistic, cynical and sometimes (or often) he acts like a jerk. He is usually perfectly willing to use what he has (including his ability as the seer rabbit) to get what he wants at low cost.

Appearance: He is a small rabbit and that’s where his name came from. He is not strong enough to be a warrior and not fast enough to be a scout. Because of that, he learned how to make himself hard to notice, both in a warren and in the wild. He has a gray fur. Runt never participated in any fights, but there are a few scars on his body. They were mostly caused by stronger rabbits that bullied him every once in a while.

Backstory: Since his birth, everybody was quite certain that Runt won’t go far in warren’s hierarchy, if he even manage to survive and live for year or two. He was the smallest in the litter and after few months he didn’t get much weight. Due to this fact, he was often picked on by bigger rabbits, which might have been a cause of his later behavior. Runt would had been almost of no use for the warren, if it wasn’t for his special skill. When there was a danger approaching (like fox hunting nearby), he could see it beforehand and warn the others. On one hand, he could use that ability to make himself more important, but on the other it set him even more apart from the rest. Some of the inhabitants of the warren started to suspect Runt of making bad things happen. Eventually, he was cast out of the warren and from that moment he has been traveling with Dash.

Although I initially wrote him as complete jerk, he has become a jerk who has a nice side to him and isn't totally uncaring towards other rabbits. Also there is much self-contempt going on in him.




Name: Dash

Species: Wild rabbit

Gender: Buck

Age: 1.5 year

Personality: Dash is sociable and rather joyful rabbit. He likes to be around other rabbits and to enjoy all the good things that life brings with itself. He usually acts very friendly and respectfully towards others, even strangers, but like everybody he can show less nice side of his personality from time to time.

Appearance: Medium-sized and while he isn’t a weakling, he is not exactly the type of fighter either. On the other hand, he is a very fast runner with great staying power. Due to this fact he use to joke, that one of his ancestors had to be a hare. His fur is brown. He is rather handsome by rabbits’ standards, which helped him to attract attention of females in his old warren.

Backstory: Dash lived in what you could call an average warren: not too militaristic, but where existed defined hierarchy. Dash lived a content life, while learning to be a storyteller, since telling tales (or listening to them) is one of the things he greatly enjoys. Unfortunately, because of other thing he enjoys, he needed to leave the warren. Lets just say that some bucks (few of them were members of Owsla) didn’t appreciate Dash’s wooing their does. Not a bit. Therefore, Dash has left the warren with other unwanted rabbit, Runt, and from that time they have been traveling together in search of a new home.