Post by Queen Kiara on Mar 24, 2015 5:08:16 GMT
Kiara a.k.a. Queen Kiara
African Lioness || Female || Adult Lioness
Pridelands [currently MIA, living in eastern lands]
Queen
Canon
✣ ✣ Appearance ✣ ✣
✣ Eyes: Reddish-Orange
✣ Hair: Just her fur. She has a darker creme colored fur. She has a mix of both Simba's and Nala's fur colors.
✣ Height: She stands about as tall as her mother Nala's shoulder and her father Simba's chest, Kovu is significantly taller than her.
✣ Weight: 330 pounds (going by realistic lion standards)
✣ Build: Less robust and stocky like her father but lithe and sleek like her mother.
✣ Distinguishing Marks: None
✣ Summary: Kiara may be the smallest lioness, if not the closest to being the smallest of those from the pridelands, but she agile and swift she has proven time and time again despite being small. Kiara has a cream colored pelt, that is tinted of gold obviously from her
father Simba. Her muzzle, paws, and her under side are a pale color of her
coat. Her tail tuft is a creamy brown in color. Her eyes are a reddish
orange in color, which seems to be a dominant trait that comes off of her
father's side of the family.
✣ ✣ Personality ✣ ✣
✣ Positive Traits:
- Good-hearted (1): She has a good sense of justice and is very friendly towards anyone, despite difference or not.
- Easily Excitable (2): Like a child, she gets easily excited by the thrill of things in life.
- Social Butterfly (3): She loves meeting new friends, for example when she met Kovu when they were cubs, or how she was willing to accept the outsiders so easily.
- Cheerful (4): She tends to have a positive outlook about life in general. Never seems to ever be negative, that she always tries to find the positive in it.
✣ Negative Traits:
✣ Summary: (This wikipedia written on her personality definitely says it a lot better than me so here)
As a cub, Kiara is curious and wild-hearted, constantly seeking new adventures and easily fraught at the sight of her safe nest back home in the Pride Lands. Her longing for adventure often leads her to outright rebellion, as she continuously disobeys her parents, purposefully ignoring their better judgment in order to explore the Outlands and get answers to her unresolved questions. This deliberate disobedience echoes her father's mistakes in the first film, though Kiara does not show as much remorse as Simba once did, instead insisting on disobedience, a trait which carries into her young adult life.
Perhaps because she is young, Kiara doesn't take criticism well, making a habit of justifying her own behavior to her parents and in particular her father. She is also shown to be impatient, wanting her way and willing to lie and scheme in order to get it. Around Timon and Pumbaa, her patience is especially tested, and she proves to be rather irritable when pushed over the edge. She can also be a bit bratty, proving to be stubborn and resistant when faced with constructive criticism.
Despite being so headstrong, Kiara is a good-hearted cub, easily excitable and open to meeting new friends, including an exiled Outsider named Kovu. She is also quick to pick up on the cultural differences between their prides, as it doesn't take her long to realize that Kovu has been raised in a different setting than she has. Being non-judgmental, she is willing to tweak her own behavior in order to make him feel more comfortable. This friendly approach makes quite the mark on Kovu, who begins to question his own role as an Outsider. Even Zira's dark training is pierced by the natural friendliness which Kiara radiates as a young cub.
Through all of Kiara's faults and childlike qualities, one question burns fervently in her mind: Who am I? As the daughter of Simba and Nala, she is the future queen of the Pride Lands, a role which she finds hard to accept as a young cub. Seeing only the dull responsibility in the position, Kiara would rather live a carefree life, devoid of accountability, than assume her father's kingly role. She often questions her own predetermined fate, wanting to choose a destiny of her own, and continually insists that she isn't just a princess, showing frequent annoyance when referred to by her title.
As a young adult, Kiara remains almost identical to her cub self in personality. Still wild at heart, she longs to escape her father's overprotective wing, proving herself to be even more determined than ever to gain independence. So strong is her yearning to be free that she's willing to run away from the Pride Lands and endanger her life in order to prove that she is capable and strong. In doing so, Kiara often rejects the truth, wanting to make herself seem as though everything is in her control. This can be clearly seen when she's around Kovu, who is much more arrogant than she is. Unbothered by his bloated ego, Kiara determines to prove herself just as capable as he is and shows herself willing to clash heads with him in order to sustain her pride. Kiara is also much calmer as a young adult, as shown when she is dealing with Kovu and her father late in the movie, especially when she stands up to him and manages to talk reason into him, indicating her determination to complete the task at hand.
Kiara is also very cheerful, always seeing the best in others and looking at the positive side of situations. She possesses a strong sense of justice, which is shown during her mate's trial, as she believed that Kovu was innocent and realized that the ambush was not his fault. She also possesses a fierce temper that she can usually keep under control, but in the event that she is seriously wronged or if there is a false accusation, she will let it out, as portrayed when she angrily condemns her father that he would never be her grandfather due to his arrogance. This in turn shows that she is willing to confront her own father in order to show her dedication to her values.
Despite yearning to seem mature, Kiara is a cub at heart, able to laugh at everything and make even Kovu's rough training into a game. Her outlook is a positive one, and she is one of Kovu's most loyal encouragers, seeing past his rough exterior to the kind character within. Unlike Simba, who is only able to see an Outsider's crimes, Kiara recognizes Kovu's individuality, accepting her enemies as being no different than she is. This intuitive acceptance of the Outsiders, an enemy pride, is most likely an evolution of her understanding as a cub for Kovu and his way of life. Even when young, Kiara saw no problem in making friends with an Outsider, and once grown, her bright outlook morphed into a mature understanding of how the prides should interact. Even Simba benefits from Kiara's teaching, recognizing his daughter for her recognition of a principle that he initially would not accept himself.
For a lioness so young, Kiara possesses a significant amount of bravery, as she jumps in front of a rage-driven Zira in order to prevent her from killing Simba. Her noble side shines through when she turns the other cheek and offers Zira help up the cliff side despite the risk that her enemy will pull her down into the river as a token of thanks. Once again, Simba is exposed to the mature teachings of his daughter, who is willing to endanger herself in order to bring her enemies to the light. Time and time again, Kiara proves herself to be selfless and almost unnaturally empathetic toward those who wish to do her harm. She also manages to convince her eventul mate Kovu to join her in reunifying the prides instead of running off as he'd proposed, showing that she would never abandon her family to fate, chance, or death.
Kiara proves herself to be incorruptible, for despite her feelings for Kovu and the temptation to be free of queenly duties, she chooses to return to her pride, thinking and putting the needs of both prides before her own goals. This shows that she is of pure thought, constantly putting the thoughts and safety of others above her own goals and her life, showing her selflessness. She does not give in to the temptation to leave her pride to fate, not caving to her inner demons unlike her own father, who gave in to his fears of losing everything. She forgave her mate and the Outsiders, offering them a chance to redeem themselves. She tries to save Zira, even after being threatened by her and her pride, and shows no intent to kill her or any of the Outsiders, no matter their acts of cruelty. She heroically and selflessly blocks Zira from killing her father and then attempts to save her, showing her dedication to mercy. Upon reunification, she asks for no reward whatsoever for her selfless actions. This proves that though she does not want to lead, she possesses the true personality, qualities, traits, and vision to be queen, giving her the characteristics of a true heroine.
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✣ ✣ History ✣ ✣
Kiara was born to both Queen Nala and King Simba, being the next in line for the throne, wasn't what Kiara wanted to be. Growing up she questioned who she was, why she couldn't simply choose her down destiny instead of fate. Which caused much of her childhood to be rebellious and a constant battle for her own choices and independence.
She met an outside cub named Kovu, but with a run in with his mother and her father they didn't see one another until she became a young adult when she went on her first hunt. He saved her from a fire, though it was caused by his siblings, at the time she had no idea though. After Kovu wanted acceptance into the pride she had spent a lot of time with him, of course Zira made things complicated with her schemes to take over pride rock through Kovu, which he wanted no part of. Kiara and Kovu had fallen in love. When Kovu was exiled she went after him. He suggested the run away and start a pride all on their own. But the two returned to stop the war between their families.
It worked they became one pride and eventually Kovu and Kiara came to lead the pridelands. All was good, until one day Kiara went out hunting and never returned. Because she had been trampled, she ended up catching a nasty case of amnesia. She had no idea who she was. Her name, her family, title, anything. Her memories were stripped from her. Kiara frequently moves around, not staying in one area too long. Basically living her life as a rogue lion, due to not having her memories. Because of her travels all around, has caused her yet not to go near the pridelands. Once she was passing close to the pridelands, because of her amnesia got major headaches from being to close, almost like her brain trying to force her to remember that she never step foot near there.
She has a good feeling Pride Rock, has something to do with her lost memories. But she'd rather not get her hopes up in case it was a fluke, like many times in the past few years thinking she found a hint of her past only to come to a dead end.
✣ ✣ Roleplay Sample ✣ ✣
The roaring waters of the waterfalls nearby, made the lioness's ears flicker a bit. It was kind of interesting, how this adult lion, was at the very place her father grew up in, but deeper into the jungle itself. She just wanted to get some sleep and water, she did. She yawned her eyes opened. Blinking a few times, she stood up, her reddish orange orbs peered at the roaring waters near her. Stretching she figured it was time to move on from this place.
Just maybe, she'd find some hint of her past. Her dreams always consisted of lions, but too disfigured for her to put a face on any of them. She only had recently learned her name from a dream. But otherwise, she knew nothing of her past. It really was frustrating, but she was trying to be postive. Hoping for the best that things would be better. That her memories would return to her, so she could go home. Wherever home was, she yearned for it. At the same time, her thrill for adventure kept her traveling.
✣ ✣ Extra Info ✣ ✣
✣ App'd By: Kiki or Kala
✣ Timezone: EST
✣ RP Experience: 7+ years
✣ Face Claim: Kiara
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