MYO Sido

With this MYO I wanted to try something different.
I remembered that Torimori will run away when abused, but what when their Owner dies?

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Sido was a happy Tori. Gifted with beautiful Wings and tail feathers to dazzle his Owner whenever she felt sad.
His Owner was a sweet old Lady who had lost many important people in her life.
This was nothing out of the ordinary when you thought about the fact that she was a proud 90 years and still going strong.

Whenever the thought of the people she lost got too much for her, Sido would be there to comfort her.
Sometimes he would just sit on her lap, giving her the silent comfort of someone being there, at other times he would spreed his feathers, fly around and dance for his beloved Owner.
He loved her so very dearly, as much as she had loved him. Her loyal companion and one of the very few friends she had left.

Some years went by and Sido saw how his Owners body seemed to catch on to her age. He was devastated when, one morning, she did not wake up anymore.
He stayed at her side as long as he was able to and when she was finally put to rest, Sido flew away from it all.

Nature can be cruel and Sido, the happy Tori that had loved to dance for his Owner, needed to adapt.
He had tried so hard to hold onto his cheery side, even when he needed to sleep in the rain or flee to not end up as food for one of the many predators of the woods.
Sido should have probably known better, but at one point he was just too exhausted to care. Way too tired to keep a look out for predators.
It was what nearly made him cat food.
The feline creature had snuck up to the unaware Tori and attacked, sure that it would get something tasty to eat.
If it was luck or destiny Sido will never know, but right as the cat attacked it stumbled over a stick, which broke loudly.

The little stick was what rescued him. He was able to evade his end, but not without the cat doing some damage.
With a badly ripped left ear and three claw marks on his right hindleg, Sido flew as fast as he could to leave the cat behind.
He only stopped when he was too exhausted to continue anymore. The Tori had been so out of it, that he had not even noticed how he had hurt himself at his left eye while fleeing.

Exhausted with no where to go, he just lowered himself to the ground. No matter how much he fought against it, sleep overtook him soon after.
It was only shortly after, that his new Owner found him. Lost and Hurt, lying on the cold ground.
They took the sleeping Tori home with them, where they bandaged him up and gave him the softest pillow they had to rest on.

No matter how hard his new Owner tried, Sido would not move from his spot. The Events had left him cautious and it seemed like he did not actually want to open up.
In this time, Sido became aware of a mirror that hung across the room. He was able to see himself in it and it showed how much he had changed.
His once vibrant colors seemed to have dulled and the scars on his body made him look a lot less nice then he knew he was.
If he did not know any better, he would have thought that he had aged drastically.

It took many weeks before Sido would start to leave the pillow and look around his new home. And it would take even more time for him to warm up to the person that had rescued him.

Slowly but surely the unlucky Torimori embraced his new life and Owner.
Even though he never returned to his former happy and vibrant self, he was happy to have a home again.
Happy to again have someone he dearly loves and wishes to see happy.
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I hope this was not too depressing to read, but I wanted a Tori with a backstory. A Tori with character as you may say

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