#diku

"Sit still for her!!", Dwala annoyingly scolded at Diku. Their parents had left them again, she overheard them ordering Sarabi, their sister but also their apparent second mother, to feed them all and make sure they're all cleaned up before going to bed. Right now she was trying to bathe Diku, their parents favorite of the litter. They demanded she make her look more masculine and show off the little bit of mane she had. Dwala was doing her best to help, trying to just make her sit still for Sarabi. They all knew the drill by now, even though Diku was as argumentative as always. I guess she can't blame her though, none of them were treated fairly, including Diku. It's just another day in paradise.

Are they canon here? If they are what are the headcanons for them

Diku, Dwala, and Naanda, according to my research. (Insert obligatory Dorothy Ann meme.)

Don't know much about them, so let's have some fun-

they adore Simba, obviously

Diku lives in Italy and runs a very successful restaurant there (I headcanon Sarabi's mother to be Italian, so). She comes to visit once or twice a year

Dwala is a travel photographer

TLK: Sarabi’s Sisters [Redesign]

I noticed it had been exactly a year (and one day oops) since I’ve drawn Sarabi’s Sisters and I thought I’d update their designs/bios a bit. This time, Diku and Dwala’s personalities have been swapped after reading about whatever little information they had in their bios in the TLK Wiki.

Naanda’s bio is the same as the last one, the second-born child who envies Sarabi and is kinda mad at Prince Mufasa for choosing her older sister over her good looks. She is self-admiring and concerned over her looks like say maybe Zuri, but she’s not totally ignorant like she is (not riffing on Zuri, in fact I think she’s pretty funny), and in fact is there for Sarabi whenever she’s upset.

After reading about how Dwala was meant to be portrayed as more of the childish one in the Wiki, I made her the more innocent one instead. She’s not foolish, just optimistic and easygoing. She’s still the third-born child and the mother of the baby cubs in An Unusual Choir.