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I'll miss you

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Simba and Nala retire from their royal duties and go live in the jungle Simba grew up in, so they can die off off-screen and no-one needs to be sad. Although this is kind of sad too.

 

Sorry it looks a bit messy. I work 40 hours a week now and I don’t have much energy to draw anything more serious right now.

 

I used a reference for Kiara. Her face is weird. I can never get it right from memory.

I mean, her design is definitely more original than people give her credit for. She isn’t actually a Simba-clone. Her general facial arrangement closely resembles that of Sarafina, with Simba’s nose shape but flatter like Nala’s, and round fluffy ears and cheeks as original features. Her color-scheme is quite pleasant to the eyes if you adjust it to the original movie’s colors, and even in SP it’s the least blah compared to the other characters. Her personality on the other end… HOO BOY.

In SP Kiara is presented to us as kind, wise, beautiful, just, determined, brave and fun. Notice how none of these traits are negative. The only small, barely noticeable, thing that is actually written as a flaw is that Kiara breathes too loudly when she is excited. And even then, it’s made so that Kiara seems more endearing, meaning it’s not really a flaw at all. “Aww she tries to hunt but fails even though she tries really hard WHAT A RELATEBLE AND SYMPATHETIC ROLE-MODEL.” See what I mean?

That’s not to say that Kiara doesn’t have flaws. But these flaws are accidental and due to sloppy writing. Even Rafiki comments on how great Kiara is, and we are not to question his judgment, right? Well, remember when, during the upendi song, Kiara says “upendi, it means love doesn’t it?” YoU DOn’T SaY!! Is that why there is heart-imagery and smooching animals everywhere??? YOU ARE SO SMART KIARA. …You know, I get it. A five-year-old might not have been able to figure that out. But the first movie was able to explain the meaning of Hakuna Matata without making it so insulting and degrading to the audience. They could have tried to implement upendi’s meaning more obviously in the song if they thought the little kiddies weren’t smart enough. That wouldn’t’ve been hard and it would’ve made Kiara less infuriatingly stupid.

I’m sure if you’ve been around the TLK-fandom for a while, you have noticed people making fun of Kiara when she searches for Kovu after he’s been banished and she expects to find him UNDER A ROCK, or BEHIND A SMALL POLL OF GRASS.

The worst part is that none of the characters acknowledge Kiara’s non-breathing-related flaws. That makes everything even more frustrating. Simba argues with Kiara for trusting Kovu after he banished him. Simba is completely right from his point of view and what he has seen of Kovu. However, Kiara makes a much more compelling case even though she sounds really whiny. She even calls Simba out on trying too hard to be like Mufasa and runs off like she won the argument. Simba even glances back with a look of guilt and the lionesses look at Kiara like they feel really bad for her. No-one ever calls her naïve. Never mind that Simba was just attacked by the Outsiders who confirmed that Kovu was in on the plan because it doesn’t matter because KIARAS FEELINGS ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT AND SHE WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG SIMBA YOU POOPYFACE. …Seriously, how was Simba supposed to know that? And Nala just stands around silently agreeing with Kiara in every scene Nala’s in. She disappeared from the aforementioned scene for some reason but she should have been either consoling her daughter or being at her mate’s side. Or doing something usefull. They could’ve just swapped Nala for a really cheaply voiced background lioness and spend more time/money on fleshing the other characters out because Nala does NOTHING important.

The only character with a realistically balanced strength-flaw ratio is Kovu. And maybe Vitani, but it’s hard to tell because she does an awful lot of nothing too. I don’t dislike Vitani but what was her point?

I really appreciate how they have improved Kiara in the Lion Guard. She is much more interesting to watch now she has some flaws and her other traits are not written too badly.

However, now we have another role-model protagonist without meaningful flaws KION. But at least he is not an idiot and owns up to his mistakes.

 

Sorry if I sounded really angry but this was so much fun to write. I’m mostly impartial to Kiara. She’s just gets on my nerves sometimes.

 

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Miles4490's avatar

It's okay Kiara I'll always be here with you ❤️ 💕