Another Private RP with Adofo/Iri

[Iri]

"I'm sorry, Hamadou," Chaltuu said, keeping any emotion out of her voice, "but I can't give you what you want, even if it's your biggest lifetime dream. And breaking yourself out of wanting cubs by instead screaming about how awful they are is not going to make you 'not want cubs'. I'm sorry, but it just won't."

[Adofo]

Hamadou: .......I know. .......I just..........I've always wanted to father your cubs. ..............I was an idiot to think it could ever happen! ......A lifetime of hope............all for nothing...

[Iri]

Chaltuu sighed again. "You're not an idiot for having dreams. Quit saying that. And... you might be able to adopt..."

[Adofo]

Hamadou: .....It's not the same. ........And you'd probably wouldn't like them anyway.....so it'd just upset you.

[Iri]

"It wouldn't be the same? What do you mean?" Chaltuu demanded.

[Adofo]

Hamadou: .....It wouldn't be 'ours'. .......I was taught that having cubs....is the ultimate testament of love! If you do it right, then you do it for love! But if you do it wrong, then it practically meaningless. There are two ways to have a cub. If a male and female truly love each other.....then to them, the most beautiful thing in the whole world to them is for them to create another living being. Something that they made from their love that turned into a living creature! ......But any other way isn't for love. .....I always wanted for us to have cubs together...for us to look down at these beautiful things that we created to call our own. To know that our love took pieces of us, put them together....and made this beautiful living thing that will grow and live its own life! .........That's why......

[Iri]

[Wow... I don't know how to feel about that.]

"You're saying that just because a child is adopted, their adopted parents are unable to love them?" Chaltuu demanded, beginning to shake with anger. "My sister Ua was adopted, by Mbaya, remember? Mbaya is a much better mother than my parents combined could ever be!"

[Adofo]

Hamadou: No! No! I'm not saying that! It's just........if you could give birth to something beautiful.......then........maybe you'd be able to see how beautiful you really are.

[Iri]

"But adopting is the same," Chaltuu said.

[Adofo]

Hamadou: ......They why can't we do both if they are the same?