Who Is Maahes Selfish

Black Cat was born as Maahes, into a pride of vicious raiders. The pride had no mercy, even for their own, allowing the slaughter of their sick and wounded, so that their pelts and bones could be of some use to the pride. Maahes had two siblings, both of which were weak, and prone to illness - he fought continually to keep them safe from their own pridemates, and in doing so, earned the ire of many of the crueler lions around him. Each time the pride ran out of food, a raid would be led to attack and steal from another pride, and being that Maahes was such a skilled fighter (one does learn, after all, when in constant strife), he was always included in the raid party. However, prowling beside him were the very same lions he fought, and enraged, …show more content…
Disoriented, Maahes assumed he'd been pushed into one of his pridemates, and didn't think to defend himself from them - the other lion, however, was not on the same page, and racked their claws across his throat. Maahes fell to the ground, dead; the lion who'd shoved him already gone, never to know they'd been the …show more content…
He was hopelessly lost, and simply crawled under a bush to sleep, exhaustion washing over him. Maahes awoke to the sight of another lion's feet, directly in front of his face. He yelped, jerking backward, his spine slamming into the bush's branches - the other lion crowches down, face now exposed to Maahes, the orange-ish fur a stark contrast to the leaves of the bush. The other lion speaks, offering Maahes a place with his pride. Maahes agrees, hoping to escape his past. When asked for his name, Maahes freezes - he doesn't want this other lion (who introduces himself as Homesick) to know where he'd come from, and chooses to call himself "Black Cat" instead, thinking of his supposed "luck" in escaping