- mozz

Hello!! I saw Timon tag me in the post, and was waiting for this ask/pos+excited!

So, my headcanons for the girls!:

I have always headcanoned Aanga (she/they) as a transfem demigirl who was already transitioned when she met and joined the Guard. I like to think that the only one who knew her before her transition was Beshte, since he was the one who suggested and introduced her to the Guard in the first place. Since Beshte is, well, Beshte, there is no way he would have outed her; and since she is so quiet and closed off I doubt she would tell any of them out of her own volition.

I think that the first member of the Guard to find out would be Ono, but this stems from my human AU, where Ono dresses super feminine. Aanga asked him if he was transfem too, and he was like "Oh, no, haheh, I just like to dress this way... WAIT YOUR TRANS????!!???!" and Aanga is just like. "Yep." I'm not sure how this situation would have come about when they're birds, but I still think Ono would be the first to "find out".

As for Kion (she/he, genderfluid I think), I don't think that he ever really had any thoughts about his gender until he started growing a mane. But even then he didn't even think about being trans, just that it felt wrong.

Then, as the Guard was on the journey to the Tree of Life, Kion mentions this feeling to Aanga, and tells her how he never really felt like a boy and wished he had been born a girl, and how he envies Kiara because of it. And Aanga just STARES. Because for one, she's Aanga, but also because right now might not be the greatest time to crack Kion's egg. Unfortunately, because Kion can't read her thoughts, Aanga's reaction makes Kion feel like he's STUPID for bringing it up.

Once they reach the Tree, Kion gets wicked jealous of Rani and Nirmala. He attributes this to the fact that the two of them are mentally stable and seem to have their lives sorted out, unlike him.

Then some time after the poison is gone, and Aanga and Kion are talking. Aanga mentions being transfem, trying to be casual. This is about the point that this-

-begins.

Spoiler

Though I really loved everything about the Finale if the TLG, I have to say that this is my favorite scene.

I mean, I loved to see Kion and Rani together, as well as Fuli and Azad, I think it was awesome and a genius move for then to take Vitani to lead the new Guard, but this scene... It was just amazing.

The Lion King 2 was always my favorite movie, since I first saw it when I was a child (20 years ago, more or less) and Kiara has always been my favorite Dinsey character, and, different as I see other saying, I love to see her in the series. We got to see her developing from the child that didn't want anything to do with the responsibilities of ruling a kingdom, to the teenager trying to find her way to life and who she really is, and to the brave and kind young adult that we see in the second movie.

And her interactions with Kion when they were little, was just great, even when they were fighting.

But Kiara realizing that her little brother wasn't very well, and going to talk to him, teasing him as he talked about the girl he met, and telling him that, if he really like her, he should leave to be with her, even if that meant to leave his home, and we can hear the sadness in her voice when she says that he should come back to the tree. And seeing her so happy for him, even when it hurts her to say goodbye, just made my hurt melt.