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🐾 Sarabi and Sarafina’s families moved to the Pridelands from the mountains and were betrothed to Mufasa and Scar respectively. All of the romantic relationships depicted here are brief affairs between friends or strangers, which is a common phenomenon between pride lions and nomadic lions.

Ajuza - Sarafina’s mother. Old and wise, but often paranoid. The only one alive who remembers when Mohatu ruled the Pridelands.

Zuberi - A strong old rogue and a friend to the mountain kingdom.

Kali - Sarafina’s big brother, killed in the war against Kiro’s white lions when he was only a teen.

Nakato - Sarafina’s big sister. Was never the same after her twin’s death.

Sarafina - An energetic and scatterbrained lioness. Once Scar was her best friend and betrothed, but they had a falling out as Scar became increasingly irresponsible and bitter. Mufasa pulled some strings and had her betroth her eldest daughter to his son Simba.

Yai - A mildmannered but tough lion with an overbite, he is a descendant of Kiros and was orphaned earlier than he can remember. Sarafina kept her friendship and relations with him a secret to escape her family’s ire. He was tragically killed when the older Pridelanders mistook him for Kiros and attacked.

Nala - The lioness, the myth, the legend.

Mitu - Nala’s little brother. Kindhearted with his mother’s ditziness. His white fur unsettled the pride’s older lions at first.

Hama - Mitu left the Pridelands during Scar’s reign and was briefly involved with this rogue. A few months later after he had returned, Hama dropped a newborn cub off at the Pridelands. “She’s your problem now.”

Sarabi and Scar were childhood friends who’d drifted apart. Their friendship began anew as they supported each other through their grief. As Scar threw the Pridelands into turmoil, Sarabi became desperate to change him, and their bond grew into a manipulative, painful relationship that flipped between desire and hatred. Each saw the other as a threat, and remained close in an attempt to regain control. By the end of his reign, any rekindled affection Sarabi had for Scar had been extinguished.

Little did she know that she was pregnant with his daughter. Urembo was born after Scar’s death, and she was a painful memory of Scar’s tyrannical legacy. But more than that, she was a hopeful sign that the next generation would grow beyond the mad king’s influence, and provided Sarabi a second chance at raising her cub in peace.

Urembo was a spunky, outspoken little girl, and lived in relative peace in the Pridelands. Although she was friends with Kiara and the other young cubs in Milele, her true best friend was Babu, a shy little cub from a traveling pride. When they got together, Urembo’s impulsiveness and Babu’s endless curiosity were bound to cause chaos amongst the greater ecological community, and so their families agreed that it was better to keep them apart.

But despite their parents’ best efforts, the pair only grew closer, and a childhood friendship evolved into love! She is now an adult raising a child in a pride of her own, but some things never change. Urembo still always says exactly what’s on her mind, and ever-easily-enticed Babu usually agrees.