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[SungazingLioness]

Character Name: Nakai

Character Age: Cub

Character Species: Lion

Character Sex: Male

Character Description: Nakai is an average height for a male lion cub but he has a little bit more muscle than your average cub. He has thin snow-white fur. He has a fur tuft on his head that’s light gray and is thicker than any average male’s mane. On the back of his head he has a thick tuft of fur although it hasn’t turned light gray yet. Nakai’s eye patches are orange at the top and cream at the bottom. His eyes are blue-gray and he has black dots that run in a curved line at the bottom of his left eye. He has a dark red Prideland style nose. His belly, muzzle, and toes are a lighter shade of cream than his eye patch. Nakai’s two most distinctive and noticeable features are that his top left tooth sticks out of his mouth and he has a very short tail.


Character History: Nakai was born in a small zoo in Africa. Where he came from they were trying to do a breeding program where they could get white lions. Nakai was one of the white lions they successfully bred but he had a few flaws they didn’t like (i.e. his light gray tail tuft and fur tuft, the dots under his eye, his overly short tail, and his tooth that hangs out). When he was old enough to leave his mother they shipped him to another zoo that was having money troubles. The owner of the other zoo thought that Nakai would bring in more people but he didn’t. It quickly went in debt and they were getting ready to ship the animals to another zoo.

Nakai had seen wild lions out in the savannah and he envied them. They could run around as long as they wanted and they could eat whenever they wanted too. He wanted that too. He asked his “friends” if it would be a good idea to try and escape the zoo. They laughed and told him his fur color would keep him from catching prey and he was too clumsy to get very far. All of what they said was true; he had been bred for looks not ability to survive in the wild. His fur was thin and it kept him cool in hot weather but it was white so his skin started to burn if it was noon as the sun was at it brightest then. Even if he was the best suited to live in the wild how could he even escape. Dejected, he went to sulk in a corner. That night when the humans left food in their pen he noticed that the lock to the door wasn’t all the way closed. Nakai easily opened the door but sat and thought before leaving. Would it be easier to leave or stay? He was given food, shelter, and a little space to run (not that he was good at it anyway on account of his tail being short) but here he was teased about how he looked, he had people and animals alike stare at him all the time, and he never felt like he truly belonged… In the end he decided to leave.

Once he left progress was slow. He could only travel from the afternoon to dawn, and whenever he tried to run he ended up tripping over his feet. Despite this, he never turned back or regretted leaving. For food he had to find leftovers and eventually he learned to follows vultures although he had to chase them away to get any leftovers. After a while of living on his own he was starting to learn how to run on his own four feet without tripping every second. One day while he was out scavenging he ran into a group of hyenas. It was a good thing that Nakai was learning how to run with his short tail or else he would have been caught. The hyenas chased him all the way to a river. Nakai was going to try and run away from it but he ended up tripping and falling head over tail into it. The hyenas thought the cub would die anyway so they left. Nakai however was far from dead. He found out that day that swimming was one of his strengths. The water didn’t drag down his thin fur and it cooled him down. His tail didn’t even hamper him here, so he decided swimming would be easiest to do from now on. One day it started storming while he was swimming but he stubbornly kept on. Soon waves were making it harder to keep going but by now it was impossible to swim to shore and he was at the mercy of the waves. Soon he was washed on shore unconscious at the watering hole. A patrol of pridelanders found him and took him back for care. Soon, he was back to normal. He was going to leave when he decided that staying in the pride was good for him, at least until he was old enough to take care of himself properly.

((Yeah, I know I got carried away with the history… I couldn’t help myself I was bored ))

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