Owls Mowing Grass: The Storybook

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Owls mow grass. It's a fact of life that will never change.

Two old Vietnam war buddies live out the rest of their days somewhat peacefully on their quaint little farm with their pets. In fact, ever since they bought the place, it had been quiet--no disturbances, no blasted kids and their hip-hop and their inter-webs and their sideways hats...

...until the owls came along.

For a while, the owls roosted in the trees bordering the farm, gathering their numbers, waiting. And then, one fateful day, they fired up the John Deere and started to do what owls do best.

That doesn't sit well with the old 'Nam vets; they want to mow their own grass, garsh-dangit! So with the help of their dog and cat, they begin their battle to push back the owls.

Surprised at the farmers' blatant unhappiness with the state of their freshly mown lawn, the owls decide that there was only one thing to do.

Get rid of the farmers and take the land as their own. Thus, the assassination plot begins...

Will the owls get the right to mow the grass whenever they please? Or will they be eradicated?

This is where you come in.

Non-Owl Characters:
Farmer 1 (Darrel Mouton): Isha.
Farmer 2 (Johnny Vines): Baboon.
Dog (Bolt): Jagged.
Cat (Lilly): ScarlettFire.

Owls:
1. Larka (F): ScarlettFire
2. Jasmine (F): allmixedup
3. Phoenix (F): rebelinsilence
4. Ginny (F): Kaywiia
5. Myr (F): Chupatoasta
6. Chris Rock (M): AngerManagement
7. Ghoul (M): Chupatoasta
8. Doodles (M): Vanadis
9. Mike Hunt (M): Skins
10.

Snoink--has express permission to play a pig, who is on the owls' side. Snoinkers the Third.

Rules:
-Regular YWS rules apply

-No god-modding -- No all powerful characters.

-Mild cursing permitted (not every other sentence though)-- I have rated it 12+ 16+ for this.

-No sex scenes

-Post regularly

-No killing off characters without permission.

-**Remember** the owls cannot talk to the humans; the humans cannot talk to the owls. They don't understand each other. However, all the animals can speak to each other and understand.

-**Also:** If your owl is killed, you may make another one and have it fly in to join the resistance. However, you STILL must give PERMISSION for your owl to be killed. If you do not give permission, your owl will not be killed.

I'm not really big on all this new-fangled technology...how do I join?
You fill out one of these. Simple as that.

Name:

Species:

Age:

Gender:

Appearance: (You may have a picture if you like, or a description is fine, too.)

Personality Strengths:

Personality Weaknesses: (Make sure it's not something like "bad at drawing" (even though all owls are bad at drawing, sillies.) Make it something that's possibly going to affect them in everyday life!)

Likes:

Dislikes:

A Brief History: (Or a long one, doesn't matter.)

Up for love?: (Owly love? Sure, go for it, if you want...)

Other:

In. Cat and an owl. XD Profiles coming...

Cat:
Name: Lilly.

Species: Feline.

Age: 8.

Gender: Female.

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: She's smart, affectionate, loving, playful, mischievous, sneaky, loyal, friendly and curious, sometimes to a fault.

Personality Weaknesses: Lilly is hopeless at hunting.....mice and birds. She's also lazy, arrogant, snobby, easily irritated and/or annoyed, tends to hide from her grumpy owners and absolute loves to terrorize the dog. She also gets angry easily and loves sleeping, and tends to get stuck...up trees and can't work out how to get back down.

Likes: Chasing mice, cuddles, food, birds, sleeping, eating, climbing trees and sneaking around.

Dislikes: The owls, the dog, getting picked up/touched when she doesn't want to be, getting stuck up trees, water, 'bath time' and those darn noisy lawn mowers.

A Brief History: Lilly was born on the farm and grew up on the farm, chasing mice and birds. She loves the farm she grew up on. The dog has been a constant, and annoying, presence. She's had her issues and her glaring at the dog, but now those darn owls are here with their noisy lawn mowers and she's grumpy. They're up to something and she doesn't like it... What? She doesn't care, all she knows is that it can't be good.

Up for love? Yeah, sure.

Other: Her favourite spot to sleep in is on the porch railing or anywhere that's warmed up by a patch of sun.


Owl:
Name: Larka.

Species: Owl.

Age: 5.

Gender: Female.

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: Larka is smart, affectionate, loving, playful, mischievous, sneaky and loyal. A decent hunter and flyer but hopeless at pretty much everything else...but mowing lawn.

Personality Weaknesses: Clumsy, lazy, arrogant, snobby, easily irritated and/or annoyed, tends to hide from the other owls and absolute loves to terrorize the dog. She also gets angry easily and loves sleeping, even when she's meant to be doing something.

Likes: Mice, food, others birds/owls, sleeping, eating, trees, sneaking around and mowing grass.

Dislikes: The dog, the cat, getting picked up/touched when she doesn't want to be, water, daytime, the grumpy old men and messy/unmowed lawn.

A Brief History: Hatched and grew up in the oak tree on the grumpy old humans' farm. Watched the cat and dog fighting, the humans do whatever they do and the general goings ons at the farm until more owls turned up and decided to mow the lawn. And now look at the mess they've caused...

Up for love? Sure, why not.

Other: Always says Chicka, even if the owl she's talknig to is male...

I call a girl owl! May come back with a guy later ((Ill finish it as it comes to me))

Name:Jasmine (Sorry, I let my mom pick the name DX)

Species: Owl

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: good at listening and doing as told, strong flier, and a very caring person... er owl

Personality Weaknesses: Weak climber, easily persuaded, Kinda ditsy, not very intelligent

Likes: Flying, light rain, night time, mowing, freshly cut grass, the sound of a lawn mower

Dislikes: Dogs, cats, unappreciative humans, when lawn mowers don't want to work right

A Brief History: She was hatched from an egg, and lived near the humans place for quite some time now. Then one day they decided to do the humans a favor and mow their grass, look where it's got them...

Up for love?:YES!

Other:

Name: Bolt

Species: Dog

Age: 7

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: Loyal, protective and playful, if a tad grumpy. Obedient, focused and always willing to push himself a bit more when it's asked of him, devoted and loyal. Very affectionate and protective of his masters and his territory.

Personality Weaknesses: Sometimes a bit desperate for attention, especially when the cat is hogging all the affection. Accident-prone, overeager and careless, and not always serious enough. A bit paranoid on the edges, and not the brightest crayon in the box.

Likes: Food, being petted, long walks on the beach, hunting, playing.

Dislikes: Those stupid owls, being kicked out of the house, seeing the cat get the love attention.

A Brief History: Picked up as a puppy by the farmers, grew up in the farm, had his share of accidents and staredowns with the cat and waged war with the owls. They're planning something, he just knows it. What? No idea, but it's not happening on this dog's watch, no sir'ee.

Up for love?: Nah.

Other: Wears a talk-collar and hides under your porch because he loves you.

Name: Chris Rock

Species: Owl.

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: Chris is a peoples person, For some reason people seem to find him funny. He is good at working with people, He hardly gets angry. So generally he's a really chilled out Owl and he's good with the ladies.

Personality Weaknesses: Chris is a serial dater, He lies to get whatever he wants, He doesn't understand the basis of loyalty.

Likes: Owl-lettes, Gambling, Hanging out.

Dislikes: Getting caught, Overly sentimental people, People who don't get the quote "Don't hate the player, hate the game", Clingy Owl-lettes.

A Brief History: He was born on the west coast of America before he decided to travel the world. Well he was more like forced because he had dated every girl in his area and his parents kicked him out. He was the last person in his family to learn to fly.

Up for love?: Nope. He lives for the chase. Nothing more, nothing less.

Other: He loves Owl City.

Name: Johnny Vines. Army rank was removed.

Species: Human

Age: 65

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: Tactical thinker.

Personality Weaknesses: Paranoid, obsessive, jittery. Permanently suspicious of other people/animals/things. A lone wolf when it comes to plans.

Likes: Black ops missions, guns, experimental interrogation techniques, psychological warfare, the smell of napalm in the morning, the feeling of crushing and slicing grass beneath the power of his beloved lawnmower.

Dislikes: The sound of women talking, pacifism, the sound of knives scraping forks, Owls, people enjoying themselves.

A Brief History: Joined the army. Fought in Nam. Was dishonourably discharged from the army on suspicions of crimes against humanity which were never proven, I'll have you know.

Up for love?: No.

Other:


Will continue writing this later

Name: Phoenix xD

Species: Snowy Owl

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance: Quite small for age, specs of Black in tthe feathers, looks fat because she has so many feathers.

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Personality Strengths: Is soft round humans, friendly natured very good at mowing grass. She is quite a Hyperactive owl and the is the reason she cannot fly straight..shes crashed into two many trees

Personality weaknesses: Can't fly straight if down...really down ! tries two hard to fit in with the rest.

Likes: Barns, snow, Mice cute male owls

Dislikes: Mean Owls :*(, That stupid cat and the dog (the collar scares her)

A history: Her parents left her when born, so she got adopted by the Tawney owls

Up for love: Yes

Other: she used to get teased for her name


Please Let Me In!

Name: Darrel Mouton

Species: Human

Age: 69

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: He is very strong-willed and independant. He can be stubborn, which is good and bad. He's pretty good at fixing his own problems and is a loyal friend. He's courageous and loves adventure. A plus for him is that he remembers how to use a gun, and all of those other wonderful war-tactics.

Personality Weaknesses: He can be super grumpy and hates loud noises. He's hearing is going, and he isn't happy about it either. He's very tempermental, and enjoys yelling at people who make him mad. He's also got a bad leg and uses an epic lime green cane.

Likes: Quiet, his pets, mowing his own lawn, lime green, sweets and pastries, yelling at kids, owl stew

Dislikes: The fact that owls are mowing his lawn, kids, music, vegetables (especially the green ones) and when people won't listen

A Brief History: He fought in the war, and then he bought the farm. Breif as brief can get

Up for love?: Nope. He's too grumpy for love.

Other: When he gets her nervous, he eats like a horse.

Think Sharpay Evans in Owl form....

Name: Ginny

Species: Owl

Age: 16 (in owl years)

Gender: Female

Appearance: Among owls, she's considered a real beauty. Guy owls fall at her feet.

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Personality Strengths: She's confident, has a great self-esteem. Very bold, and good at pretending like she cares. She is sweet, and knows what she wants out of life.

Personality Weaknesses: She's stupid, (or, in owl terms, not the sharpest feather on the wing). She is mean to get what she wants, and thinks too much of herself. She knows she's pretty, and will use it to get what she wants. She has never done a speck of work in her life. She's a flirt.

Likes: mansions (she's high maintenance), hot guy owls, flirting, herself, grass, the color pink

Dislikes: the cat, smart owls (they make her feel dumb), long grass, mice (she's a vegetarian )

A Brief History: She was born in California, right near Hollywood. Her parents spoiled her rotten (as only owls can) and she grew up thinking she was the best thing that ever happened to the world. When she was 12, she ran away to the west with a guy owl. He left her soon after, but she moved on quickly. Now, she's living on the farm.

Up for love?: Sure

Name: Ghoul

Species: Owl

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: He's extrememly determined, and won't give up on anything. He'd been trying to help the farmers, but rather, became angry when they rebelled and hated what he and the others had done. Since then, Ghoul has kept his heart on the overrun of the humans, as well as their pets. For his mass size, he'd easily take one of the farmers' pets for a meal. He's also very protective of his kind.

Personality Weaknesses: Ghoul will trust practically anyone that says they'll help him. He's extremely trusting, and that has always been his downfall, even in the Owl War II five years ago, when he was the youngest general of the Owl Air Force. XD

Likes: Other owls, eating, fighting, mice, squirrel, and sometimes roe deer. (to eat)

Dislikes: Death, pain, hatred, and memories of war.

A Brief History: Born overseas, on a mountain face somewhere in Europe. He has a heavy Latin accent (yes owls can have accents) and he fought in Owl War II five years ago, and the mere age of ten. He's lived in the forest around the farm for three years now, as he came overseas only at age twelve. He met a female barn owl while in Europe when he was only nine, and now has a daughter, who is six.

Up for love?: Yess, I suppose

Other: Nada

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Name: Myr (Meer)

Species: Eagle owl/Barn owl

Age: 6

Gender: Female

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths:

Personality Weaknesses:

Likes: Her father, hunting, the farmers and the dog and cat

Dislikes: Fighting the farmers, mowing grass, this trivial fight

A Brief History: Born overseas, came to the farms with her father after her mother flew off

Up for love?: Yess

Other: Nada

**You guys realize that an average owl lifespan is twenty years, right? Just saying, your owls are all really old D:**

Mine is 16 in owl years....

Owl years is what to human years? >.< I'm not sure I follow

It doesn't particularly matter too much, guys. And, well, if we say a human life span is 100, give or take, and an owl one is 20 (though some can live to be nearly 30), then we have 1 owl year : 5 human years. So if an owl is 15 in owl years, it's about 3 actual years old. However, it's all right to have them be 15 in owl years, because the owls would most likely refer to each other in owl years.

^_^

Name: Doodles

Species: Eastern Owl

Age: 20 (owl years) = 4 (actual years)

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Personality Strengths: Being named "Doodles" has given this owl a sort of Boy-Named-Sue complex. He can resist any attempts at poking fun at him and ignore it like it never happened. It took him years to get to that point, and he's quite proud of it.

Doodles is kind-hearted and has a sense of humor.

He's good at tactics.

Personality Weaknesses: For one, his aforementioned sense of humor is extremely bad, and he'll tell awful jokes, not knowing when to stop.

Though a good tactician, he's a horrible leader. He couldn't lead a flock of seagulls to a French fry.

When his past torments him, he withdraws into himself. He still functions normally on the outside...until he starts talking.

Likes: The smell of lawnmower fumes at the crack of dawn. Owl-ettes that enjoy his bad sense of humor (or at least humor him by laughing at his jokes.) Tractors, for those overgrown areas.

Dislikes: Slingshots. The cat--he's too smart to worry about the dog. Though the dog's talk-collar does freak him out. The farmers. Weed-Whackers--lawnmowers are superior.

A Brief History: When he was a baby, Doodles was knocked out of a tree by a boy with a slingshot. Suffering a broken leg, he was taken to the boy's house to be put in the care of the boy's little sister Suzy, who christened him "Cheez Doodles," or "Doodles" for short.

Two years he waited, watching. Realizing that every time little Suzy went onto the lawn of her neighbors' (the old vets) farm, she was chased off immediately.

The first day of school, Suzy mistakenly left the window open before leaving, and Doodles broke free and fluttered onto the farm, where he lives today.

This is the beginning of his next battle for freedom.

Up for love?: Of course. Doodles dreams of having an Owl-ette of his own, and maybe a few adorable Owlets. Nah, he's probably gay.

Other: None.

Name: Mike Hunt

Species: Owl

Age: 18

Gender: Male (Although he has boobs because of a puberty problem)

Appearance: YES.

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Personality Strengths: Mike Hunt is a very attractive owl. He has pure white feathers and because of that, he is popular with the lady owls. This makes it easy for him to manipulate people to believe in what he wants them to believe in. When he is comfortable around someone, he is very happy and is great at cheering people up. When he wants to be, he can be funny, which is one of the things that helps him cheer people up.

Personality Weaknesses: Mike is very self conscious, mainly because of his moobs.As a young child (owl) he was bullied a lot by the other owls. He always tried to hide in his pure white feathers. Because he is so self conscious, he isn't the most sociable owl in the world. He also doesn't listen to what owls have to say. All he does is talk about crap, which can annoy other owls very easily if they are short tempered.

Likes: Hot owls, blades of grass, food, sleeping, singing.

Dislikes: Cocky owls, bullies, being dirty, making people cry.

A Brief History: Mike Hunt doesn't know who his parents are. His earliest memory is of him waking up in the middle of a field next to a pile of strawberry's. From then on, he was a bit of a wonderer. He didn't stick in one place for too long. Whenever he met other owls his age, they often bullied him for having boobs. The owl doctors think that it's simply a puberty problem and that he'll grow out of it, but Mike doesn't believe them.

Up for love?: You bet. He is the McLovin of the owl world and he likes it both ways. (Bisexual)

Other: He has a pet blade of grass named Napoleon.