Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 23:00:21 GMT -5
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Introduce yourself
Hey, howdy, hey! The name's Gatonom, and I wished upon a star from Neo. My other characters include Zira, Kronk, Zazu, Tito, Slinky. Kovu and I are so very eager to join the Worlds of Disney circle of life!
Character basics
Character name: Kovu
Age: 11 months
Species: Lion
Birthplace: Pridelands
Movie: The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
Custom title: Not One Of Us
Why'd you pick this character? Kovu is an interesting character, a lot of fun details but the movie barely explores them. Other than making being an Outsider look cool and fun, and being in love with Kiara. There is a lot to explore with Kovu in the time-skip/Lion Guard period of time, What he does, the specifics of what Zira was trying to do and change him. With how the Lion Guard expands on the Outlands, it brings a lot of ideas how the outsider lions interacted with these elements and the characters within. What becomes of Kovu with different influences? With the freedom from the plot, how does he shape up to be?
Character appearance (try to get at least 2 or 3 sentences for each section)
Hair description: Kovu has a coat of darker brown fur than other lions, similar to Scar. He has a short but fluffy mohawk-like mane of hair down the center of his head. As he grew the hair became more of a tuft than a mohawk.
Facial description/mood/expressions: Kovu is expressive as a child should be, but his eyes are surrounded by a dark shadow that gives his expressions a sinister quality. When he smiles it's usually of a smug, superior nature. His smile says a lot about why he is smiling. Love, excitement, victory, and so on.
Clothing style: Kovu wears his natural fur, of course. The Outlands give little room for expression, and an even smaller audience for it.
Body build: Kovu is of a stocky build for a cub, in contrast to his older brother he is well-fed since he takes less to eat, and his position as heir to the throne in Zira's eyes. A healthy mix of muscle and a little bit of fat.
Any unique traits (optional): N/A
Original character analysis (In your own words and please be thorough)
Personality:
At heart, and he has a lot of it, Kovu is a mischievous lion cub with a taste for danger and thrill. He loves to impress girls, especially Kiara, though he met her only briefly she became a defining part of his destiny given her position as Princess, cultivated by Zira to help in his training. His biggest quality is his heart, with his love for Kiara keeping him from falling to Zira's training fully. He cares a lot for his siblings, to the point of admitting guilt if they would be blamed for his actions. He is very much a lover, and not a fighter, but takes pride in the freedom of being an outlander and enjoys rough sparring.
History:
After Scar took over the Pridelands, he took in and named Kovu heir. Zira and her pride of lionesses were exiled and became outlanders, which included her cubs, Nuka, Vitani, and Kovu. As the chosen heir, he was raised to lead another coup, to avenge Scar, and become just like him. He has been yoinked into the parks before "The Battle for the Pridelands", leaving him knowing Kion as leader of the lion guard, Janja as leader of the hyenas.
The exiled lions kept themselves isolated from other outlanders in their attempts to attack the Pridelands; due to their exiled status and the Kovu Plan. Their information is spotty at best, with songs travelling further and more accurately to them than stories. Of Scar they knew not if the plan to resurrect him succeeded, dismissing the absurd descriptions that did reach them.
Kovu does like the songs a lot, especially Janja's! While he is lacking in personal meetings with the major players of the Outlands, he knows about them, and they have been incorporated into his training. This training to him was much like the lessons any other cub would have, Zira was more concerned in his formative years with making him selfish and bad, before really hammering in the hatred for Simba. He learned a warp tale of the events of Mufasa and Simba's rules, painting the Outlanders and rebels as an oppressed minority, playing to his natural sympathy.
Ambitions:
Kovu's is driven by his love of Kiara, daughter of Simba. He is about romance, bravery, and compassion generally. Although with reservations, he wants to become Kiara's mate and so wants to become heir to the throne.
Strengths & abilities:
Kovu's greatest strengths are his bravery and heart. He enjoys thrills and action, proud of what he can do in the Outlands, and the fun parts of "being bad". He is competent at dodging predators, gators, and danger in general from his various antics, and life in the Outlands. His heart is set on taking Kiara, one consistent force that keeps him from falling to evil.
He knows good and evil both, well enough to be adept at deceit. Exploiting good nature and compassion; or an apparent common goal, before stabbing someone in the back. He can exploit weaknesses of good morals, or of selfishness. He is however, still only an inexperienced cub, as crafty as he is.
Flaws:
Kovu is not keen on fighting or confrontation. He tries to make others happy and like him, with his status as an exile and heir to Scar getting in the way of his simple desires.
Kovu is tempted toward deciet, which makes it hard to make or keep allies and get help toward a normal mind-set.
Kovu was taught to be bad, when he becomes very emotional this becomes more difficult to resist. His sense of right and wrong is skewed, and he views himself as above what sense he does have.
His judgement is clouded, making difficult decisions very likely to fall toward evil, and hard decisions toward what helps him the most.
Likes:
Romance, Kovu loves girls and getting their attention Especially if her name is Kiara!
Thrill-seeking, stunts, showing-off; Kovu just loves to embrace being an outlander, a bad boy. He enjoys showing compassion, and being around friends and his siblings.
Dislikes:
Kovu hates to see others getting in trouble, and especially for his actions. He doesn't like seeing others getting hurt.
He dislikes Scar posthumously, because of what he has been set up to be, and Simba for what he has been taught, and his role in causing the issues Kovu now faces. From exile to grooming as Scar's Heir.
Kovu dislikes being called out on his behavior, whether justified or not. It's not that he dislikes help as such, but addressing it meets resistance. Nothing he does is wrong, right?
Fears:
Although becoming Scar is his destiny, it is his greatest fear to become him, especially as he learns more about him from sources other than Zira. He fears never getting Kiara, or not being himself when he does get her.
He fears himself, or others getting seriously hurt, other than hunting game for food. He loves a good outburst or fight, but he wouldn't want anyone to end up scarred...
Anything to add?:
Noted in History as well, but Kovu will know of the events of Lion Guard "through the grapevine", distorted by being passed along, with the songs travelling better than stories.
RP SAMPLE:
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SEE Zira
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