TLK: They Grow Up So Fast by Silver-Wolf-17 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Okay so this was gonna be a much bigger picture, it was going to be some parallel story akin to TLK 1 ½, but this time it was about Tiifu and Zuri’s whereabouts in TLK 2

There was going to be art of them being told by Nala that Kiara has decided that she wanted to do her first hunt alone, which disappoints Tiifu and Zuri as they’ve been looking forward to joining Kiara for several seasons, they would refuse to wish Kiara good luck before she starts hunting and silently watch her walk by, they snap out of their brooding when they hear Kiara went missing after Kovu’s exile, before they could try and find her, however, they realize the significance in Kiara’s choice to be independent, and they grow inspired to fight for themselves. Clearly the panel that made it to the final cut was the last part, where they charge into battle after their pride. They nearly lost their lives in the battle as they were not experienced fighters, thankfully Kiara and Kovu returned just in timeWhat made me scrap the earlier scenes is that I read somewhere that Tiifu and Zuri were said to have been some of the background lionesses that wished Kiara good luck by a writer of The Lion Guard, and I couldn’t forget those classic screenshot redraws I’ve seen online depicting these two as the two lionesses that blocked Kiara’s way during Kovu’s exile, I didn’t want to contradict those ideas. Another thing that REALLY got in the way of doing the other panels was failure to illustrate compositions that I liked. Balancing art time and school time along with this terrible seasonal headache were not making that any easier lol