Saffy's Mother and Father

I decided to do the same with Saffy's Parents. Draw them out since I never really did, and considering that Saffy was born in a litter of Four cubs, I had to incorporate their markings from Saffy along with different ones so i can use on the sisters.

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Soraya (so RAY yah, meaning "The Pleiades") was the only cub to Alexei and his fourth mate, thus, a disappointment, as Alexei expected a male cub. Her father was long absent from his daughter's life, not until she entered the breeding program and became pregnant by a fellow Bengal tiger named Singh, he was the part of her that she felt was missing, he was perfect for her in every way and she fell deeply in love with him. When he left to be bred again, Soraya was deeply upset at not only at the fact that she could not be Singh's only one, but the fact that he would never see his cubs even when they are born. Knowing that her cubs need a father figure and wanting them to have the father she never had, she tried to get her own father to fill in the gap. She, however, underestimated her father's growing impatience with no male cubs to continue his legacy as well as his temper, earning herself with losing one eye and having her cubs traumatized by the incident. She is given to a local zoo in their area along with all but one of her four cubs. She is forever broken hearted that she had lost her mate, her father, and her daughter, but fellow tigers from her new home help her go through this dilemma, and she finds new love, though none can replacfe Singh, she still loves him her own way and has more cubs.

Singh (Sing, meaning "Lion") Singh was new to the breeding program, and his first breeding was with Soraya. He fell deeply for her as she had with him. Sadly, their newfound love for each other ended up with a quick breeding and much less time to spend with his chosen mate. Goodbye was the heardest thing he went through and though he promises to be loyal to Soraya, Singh knows he cannot. He breeds many females though none quite fit what Soraya was, and his sad and seemingly "unfixable" demeanor earns him many partners who wish to help him heal or become that "One" but Singh knows that he will not stay for long and while he does stay long enough to see his cubs born, his plight is never really cured of it's longing and sadness.

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Yeah. They both have sad stories, and sadly, Soraya is the only one with a happy ending. Singh had his chances but he decides to mope on the past instead of going forward. Tis the curse of many 3:

And I wanted for the Bengal tigers to differ from Siberian ones, so I made sort of true, sort of NOT true features. like the pelt color for Siberian's are supposed to be lighter in color but since Vitaly's is dark as heck, I had to make it the opposite instead of making it darker. It looked silly, but I also made the stripes are more brownish in color and their noses a pale pink... XD I also made their stripes more diverse and confusing since they live in forests and need more features to blend in more easily. And they are much smaller in stature, but I made Soraya's height similar to her mate, she does have some siberian blood in her, so it made sense... Sue me if I'm wrong, I know. XD

And I am not sure if most of you understand why they are not white, let me explain:

The white tiger gene is only found, or actually very common in bengal tigers and can only be possible if BOTH parents have the Leucism gene, they can have the gene but not LOOK white and Soraya may have had it from her mother's side and Singh from either of his parents but he has it as well. When they mated, the gene took over one of the cubs, not all of them as since it is FOUR different but same genetics, it is mixed. I hope that makes sense. And there IS a difference between "white" tigers and "Albino" tigers.

White tigers have blue eyes, white coat and brown stripes. Albino tigers have pink/red eyes and no stripes with a pale to white color coat.

Capiche?

And the reason that I had made Saffy's son, Vasily, white is just because I wanted to XD To be a Mary sue about it XD But, yes, it could happen and the odds are minimal but whatevs.

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Soraya and Singh © *Furattii