REF - Kito by Tanzani on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

NAME: Kito
PRIDE: Tamandani
TITLE: Crown Prince (formerly), King
PARENTS: Ajali and Bahari
SIBLINGS : Dogo
MATE: Kaisa
OFFSPRING: Tufani and Malaika

PERSONALITY TRAITS: Honourable, loyal, dutiful, tender | Compliant, anxious, self-sacrificing, people pleaser
PERSONALITY ALIGNMENT: Neutral Good
PHYSICALITY TRAITS: Lean, strong

CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS: Matthew Crawley, Simon Basset, Jon Snow

BIOGRAPHY:

Kito is the first born son of King Bahari and Queen Ajali, and the Crown Prince of the Tamandani Pride.

As first in line to the throne, Kito grew up with the heavy expectations of his pride and family weighing on his shoulders. While his mother was caring and dutiful and did her best to steer Kito in the right direction, his father was cold and unforgiving, and didn't settle for anything less than perfection. Rather than growing up playing with the cubs in the pride, he spent his days waking up before dawn and accompanying his father until dusk. He was forbidden from mingling with the "other" cubs, and what little interaction he had was in passing them around the territory. He never knew what it truly meant to be a child, and grew up lonely and isolated.

It wasn't until his cousin Shani and his little brother Dogo came into the picture that he began to gain a little confidence. At the end of each day of sparring, drilling and patrolling, Kito would limp over to his mother and the rest of the lionesses and his little body would collapse into her arms as dusk begun to take over. Shani and Dogo would come over, all eyes and ears and wanting to play, while Kito would sniffle and hide amongst his mother's fur. After reassurance and encouragement from his mother, Kito slowly begun to come out of his shell and play a little. At first he was quiet - all nods and looks for reassurance to his mother, but he quickly caught on to Shani and Dogo's competitiveness and quick-fire banter.

It almost became a community effort to help and support Kito whenever the pride could. As soon as Bahari's back would turn, the lionesses would smuggle leftovers to Kito and give words of encouragement to the little prince. By the time his teenage years had come about, Kito had grown a strong sense of duty and honour to his pride, and sought their approval at every chance. As the years passed by however, the growing resentment towards King Bahari and his brutal ruling reached a breaking point. Kito could feel his loyalties being tested every day as the lionesses feared more and more for their prince.

It was during this difficult time in the Pride's history that Kito stumbled across two rogue lionesses at the territory border on his patrol. Two sisters - exhausted, starving, and at their wits end.

Little did he know he had met his future wife that fateful day.

**TRIVIA:**• Kito's favourite food is river fish
• When he was born, Kito had a stillborn sister who didn't make it.

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He FINALLY has a bio!! <333

Anyways, here's my gorgeous boy <3 Spending today drawing cause I haven't had a good drawing day in a while haha