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SIMBA - Simba - 06-15-2020
Text & character vision by Kieran
Character © The Walt Disney Co.
Images belong to their artists. I have their permission.
Player: Kieran
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by Spiritwollf
NAME | SPECIES
Simba | Lion
BIRTHDAY
February 18th 1994
AGE
8 months old in the beginning of the timeline.
(8 years old in human terms.)
RESIDENCE
Pride Lands, Pride Rock
APPEARANCE
Golden brown fur, brown eyes, and he looks a little bit like both parents - a little more like his father. Simba's the average size and weight for his age. The boy's entire paw is approximately the size of his father's toe as Mufasa is an unusually large lion and by far the largest male in the pride. Still Simba will reach only an average size as an adult. Considered a birthmark, one of the pads in Simba's right front paw is clearly lighter shade of brown than the rest. It is widely known about in the kingdom, being an easy way to identify him if needed. But Mufasa's pride and most other animals living within a few miles of Pride Rock know their prince's face. Animals living further away may not have seen him often enough if ever and thus would not recognize him by sight.
FAMILY
Father: Mufasa - the king - * April 2nd 1985 | Age: 9 yrs. (34 in human terms)
Mother: Sarabi - the queen - * April 2nd 1985 | Age 9 yrs. (34 in human terms)
Uncle: Jabali/Scar - Mufasa's little brother - * April 14th 1986 | Age 8 yrs. (30 in human terms)
Aunt: Zira - Scar's mate - * ? | Age ?
Betrothed: Nala - * Feb 14th 1994 | Age: 8 months (8 years in human terms)
- by Moolalingtons
PERSONALITY
Simba is a curious, spirited, playful, stubborn and mischievous little boy who likes to pretend to be tougher than he really is. He often lets his emotions take over his reasoning or isn't quite in touch with his emotions. All this can easily turn his adventures into very dangerous ones.
Due to his young age and genes he's inherited from his uncle, his attirude towards being a king is unpleasant; selfish and power-hungry. But he's also a total daddy's boy and looks up to his father moe than to anyone else, which in time will help. He respects his father and in the deepest wants to be just like him, but has trouble really listening whilst his wild nature may make him deliberately ignore orders. As a young child he easily slips into disrespect and selfishness when his parents aren't around, but mainly whenever someone is trying to stop him from doing whatever he wants to do. That is, by default he attempts to be polite and nice to anyone he thinks matters at all. Simba is his father's son, it just takes strict discipline and life lessons to bring it out in him.
Simba respects and loves his mother but is more likely to back-talk or even lie to her than to his father. He rarely openly disrespects either. He has a close relationship with both his parents, but due to gender roles and future role as his father's successor he has grown to be closer with his dad.
He is already just like his dad in that he is genuinely brave when it's truly necessary. For one, he attacked a starving adult hyena face on when one was about to eat his friend Nala, thus saving her by giving her a few seconds to run away. Sometimes though, his bravery becomes recklessness as he wants to keep up his tough image. It doesn't help that Nala - a girl - always pins him down in a play fight.
Simba is usually very blunt in his opinions and doesn't hesitate to speak them. He also tends to choose to lie if he thinks it helps himself, but also if he thinks it'll spare someone's feelings. That is, someone he loves or cares personally about.
He's learned valuable lessons about kingship and bravery but one thing Mufasa hasn't yet been able to weed out of him is hunger for power. Simba loves to boss others around just because he can. The boy tones it down in his parents' presence which is why Mufasa and Sarabi don't have the full picture of how rude their son can sometimes be.
Simba is very social little cub. Family and best friends are the most important thing to him next to being a prince, and he defends his loved ones at any time whatever it takes. At his core he's caring and big-hearted boy, which may show rarely but that much more when it does. He cares about the kingdom and sometimes helps animals in need, though occasionally needs reminders and discipline. Simba is easy to love if you just look beyond the surface.
These days he can be worse than ever but on the other hand be unusually calm and gloomy, due to fear and uncertainty after his family broke and he's been told to never ever approach uncle Scar again which he doesn't quite understand at a young age. Lack of understanding also makes him frustrated about the constant protective supervision he's put under whenever he's trying to enjoy life away from Pride Rock.
LIFE
On August 1st 1994 Mufasa saved both Simba and himself from a wildebeest stampede.
Mufasa pushed Simba to climb up a staircase-like path to safety after carefully placing the boy on a ledge, and then pulled himself up to follow him. He detected hyena scent in the air which he found as odd as the fact that the herd was on the move in the first place. After asking Simba what he'd been doing in the canyon all alone, the answer prompted another question; had Scar told him about the Elephant Graveyard?
It became apparent that Scar, his own brother, wanted Simba dead. This was a deep shock for family-centered Mufasa who loved his brother, and it took him until the next day to truly process it. Mufasa stayed in his family's private cave and kept his wife and son there too all night. He recalled Scar's attitude and words the day of Simba's presentation ceremony, and realized that little brother indeed wasn't challenging him but made a threat on Simba's life. He spent the night thinking back to their childhood and just how jealous his younger brother had been and in what ways it had manifested before. Still, a part of him refused to believe such a terrible thing.
At sunrise Mufasa told his family to saty in whilst he visited the Elephant Graveyard with several lion members of the Lion Guard. There Mufasa very easily gained the information he was looking for, as most trembled even from the mention of king Mufasa's name not to mention his presence whilst those who otherwise might have dared to try attack chose not to upon seeing that the king hadn't come alone.
With heavy heart, having learned the truth beyond any doubt, Mufasa returned to Pride Rock and on the way ordered a few members of the Lion Guard, some birds, to gather animals from all the species in the kingdom to witness a trial for a crime. That it would take place at noon. He didn't disclose to the birds who or what it was for, so that Scar wouldn't hear about it and escape. He assumed Scar would stay clear of hyenas that day and stick with the family to avoid any suspicion. The only ones who knew before the trial started, apart from the hyenas, were Rafiki, Sarabi, Zazu and one other lioness from the pride whom Mufasa asked to stay at Pride Rock and talk about it only in their family's private cave if they had to.
A couple of hours after sunrise, Sarabi and Mufasa had arranged that lioness to babysit Simba whom they felt was too young to be present in such a trial. At noon, a large number of his subjects had arrived at Pride Rock wondering what had happened. Mufasa brought Scar to a lower ledge of the Pride Rock where all the trials were held.
Scar did not confess. But with Mufasa letting him tell his side of the stroy, the Lion Guard's lion members as witnesses to the hyenas' confessions, and Mufasa repeating Simba's words and what happened the day of the presentation ceremony (to which Zazu had been a witness, plus Zazu told about how Scar had knocked him unconscious when he tried to go get help during the stampede), it was generally considered a fair trial and Mufasa's decision of Scar's guilt was accepted.
Mufasa sentenced Scar to life long exile under bane of death. The king's being and voice were determined and strong, but his eyes showed deep sorrow as he spoke those words and watched his little brother walk out of their childhood home and out of his life. The king moved up to the ceremony ledge so that he could see Scar for as long as possible, and sat there for hours after he was gone. He didn't allow even Sarabi or Rafiki to stay by his side, he wanted to be alone.
Later that day Sca'rs mate Zira, who was pregnant with his cubs, attacked Mufasa. Protesting Scar's sentence which she felt was based on too weak evidence and she felt upset and hurt that her mate had been exiled forever and under bane of death even. Naturally, Mufasa won quickly even thoug he held back due to her pregnant condition. Zira's trial was held that evening. Normally the sentence for such an attack would be death, but Zira was shown mercy because it was deemed her pregnancy greatly affected her judgment especially as Scar was her mate. Also, her repuattion was better than Scar's and she'd been a trusted member of the pride.
So she was given two less severe options; To stay in Pride Lands and be exiled only from the pride for an undetermined period of time. She would have been arranged a safe place far away from Pride Rock, to live in, with her cubs. She would have been allowed to hunt for herself and her cubs. She would have had a possibility to earn her way back into the pride eventually. But she refused to raise her cubs in Pride Lands without their father. So she took the second option; to leave into full and permanent exile with Scar. Though unlike Scar's, her exile is not be under bane of death.
Just before sunset every single member of the Lion Guard, from birds and voles to lions and whatever, were gathered at Pride Rock. The king ordered everyone of them from then on to prioritise keeping an eye on Simba whenever the boy is outside without him of Sarabi, and report to him immediately if Simba's life seemed to be in danger. They should always give Simba space and relative freedom to live as normally as possible, but always have at least three Guard lions near enough to protect him if something happened. It was now of the utmost importance and the Guard's absolute number one task to ensure no one dangerous gets close to Simba. Because it was now entirely possible that Scar had allies other than hyenas, too.
Keeping an eye out for Scar or hyenas in the kingdom and their doings, as well as to help animals in need, is the Guard's secondary task though somewhat tieing in with the first. Normal everyday peace keeping and law enforcement duties must come as third importance. Every time they'd let Simba go out Mufasa would assign three Guard lions to stick near the boy, as well as a bird or two, until he returned home. This is the way it would be until either Scar was found dead and no further threat to the throne was detected or until Simba was old enough and strong enough to defend himself.
But the very first thing most of the largest members of the Guard and some of the birds were assigned to do was to track down every single hyena and tell them they were no longer allowed to occupy even the Elephant Graveyard. That they were to leave the Graveyard immediately and never return, or be killed the moment they step within Pride Lands borders. That all of them have been found guilty of the attempted murder of prince Simba and conspiracy to take over the throne, either by literal attempt or by associaion. And thus, by order of king Mufasa, they have all been "exiled" under bane of death along with Scar. They would no longer be simply chased out if they would be seen in Pride Lands but killed at sight. By sunrise the next day the Lion Guard had managed to drive out most of the hyenas. Within a few days all of them were gone.
Simba's life was tough for a little child for the next three months, especially as it was also his first dry season. Until news of his uncle's likely death arrived in October, and November ushered in a new era with the heavy rains. He's allowed to play rather normally again without extreme supervision, but life will certainly never be the same again. Having lost his uncle, aunt and future cousins the little prince is struggling to understand and accept it all.
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