Post by --` Kovu on Jul 4, 2009 21:35:36 GMT -5
Kovu
[/size][/color]Allegience:
Kovu is a Pridelander. Ever since he left the Outlands, he was never more happy. He is happy with Kiara, his Queen in his own heart. Of course, when Simba and Nala passed, he felt like he could've done better to be approved by Simba. However, now he wants to be a Great King. He continues to take advice from his Queen and sister, Vitani, and take council from the Great Kings before him. He wants to do the best that he can, and he's determined to do that.
Age:
Kovu is around five years of age. A fully grown adult lion reaches two years, and since three years have passed, he is now five. It's rather young, but he still is muscular and protective.
History:
[/center]Kovu is a cub in the part of Simba's pride that has been exiled to the Outlands due to their remaining loyalty to Scar. Zira (Kovu's mother) and her pride's loyalty to Scar do not actually make sense as in the first film, as when Simba returns from his life in the jungle, all the lionesses fight on his side and only the hyenas side with Scar. (Zira is non-existent in the first film as are Kovu, Nuka, Vitani and the lionesses who will make up her future pride.)
When he first appears in the film he is out with his brother Nuka (although later we find out he went off on his own and Nuka left him and went back home.) when Kiara tumbles down from a log and crashes into him. Kovu reacts aggressively at first but soon begins to tease Kiara for being "daddy's little girl". As the two wander to a body of water they are attacked by crocodiles. The cubs evade the crocodiles and began to play, but are interrupted by Zira and Simba. The two confront each other, before picking up their cubs and leaving.
Later, Zira yells at Kovu for being friendly towards a Pridelander. Kovu says that he thought that he and Kiara could become friends. Zira forms a plan to get Kovu into the Pride Lands and kill Simba when he has gained enough trust.
Zira trains and conditions Kovu until he is grown. She sends him out to kill Simba along with Vitani and Nuka, who start a fire while Kiara is out on her first hunt. When the fire has taken hold, Zira sends Kovu out into the fire to rescue Kiara. Kovu manages to save Kiara and is confronted by Simba again, who reluctantly allows Kovu to join the pride.
Kovu makes fun of Kiara's amateur hunting skills at first, but later agrees to help her.
That night, Kovu appears in Simba's climatic nightmare. Simba attempts to help Mufasa from the gorge in which he died in the first film. Scar appears on the ledge, mocking and cackling at Simba's inability to help his father. After Mufasa falls Scar morphs into Kovu and kills Simba, and Simba wakes. The next day, Kovu prepares to attack Simba while Simba is alone and drinking from the water hole, but Kiara interrupts him to begin the hunting lesson. The pair soon stumble upon Timon and Pumbaa who are trying to chase some birds away from their favourite feeding site. The two lions roar, scattering the birds. They all chase the birds until angering a crash of rhinoceroses. In escaping from the rhinos, Kovu and Kiara accidentally kiss.
That night Kovu and Kiara lie under stars and look at star formations. This leads them to offhandedly start talking about Kovu's past. Kiara starts to nuzzle him solacingly when he expresses his fear of becoming like Scar, but Kovu leaves when he is unable to tell her his true intentions. Rafiki intervenes and takes them to a place called Upendi, which means "love" in Swahili.
As they venture back to Pride Rock, Kovu has Simba on his own. Now seeing a better life with Kiara in the Pride Lands, he refuses to attack Kiara's father. Vitani waits for Kovu to attack, and reports back to an angry Zira when he doesn't.
The next morning, Kovu resolves to confess to Kiara his true reasons for coming to the Pride Lands and he has abandoned the plot. However, before Kovu can do so, Simba takes Kovu out for a walk through the fire-ravaged Pride Lands. As they walk, they discuss the true nature of Scar, but they are ambushed by Zira and the Outlanders. Zira congratulates Kovu, but Kovu panics as he realizes he inadvertently completed the plot he abandoned. Kovu attempts to save Simba, but one of the Outsiders knocks him into a rock, rendering him unconscious.
Simba is attacked and falls into a gorge where a log dam is holding back the river. Simba climbs the log dam to safety and Kovu has a chance to attack him, but doesn't. Nuka, wanting to impress Zira, climbs the log dam and manages to grab Simba's ankle, but is killed when some logs dislodge and crush him. Zira blames Nuka's death on Kovu and slashes him across the face, giving Kovu a scar resembling Scar's. As Zira demands to her son to admit his responsibility for killing his brother, Kovu's stands up to his mother for the first time and runs back to the Pride Lands, where he is promptly exiled by Simba.
Kiara, distraught, runs away to find Kovu. The two meet in the grasslands and proclaim their love that transcends their pride's rivalry. Kovu wishes to run away with Kiara to start their own pride. Kiara refuses, saying that they must return to try and unite their divided prides. They both run back to the Pride Lands, crossing the log dam that has now been weakened, only to find their prides both at war. Kovu and Kiara stop the fight, but Zira leaps at Simba. Kiara knocks her aside and the two tumble into a gorge where Zira refuses to take Kiara's paw and falls into the river and drowns(although in the original planning Zira lets go of the cliff and commits suicide, this idea was thrown out because the creators didn't think kids could handle the act of suicide).
The now united prides return to Pride Rock where Kovu and Kiara are married with him becoming her prince consort. With order restored, Simba, Nala, Kiara and Kovu roar out across the kingdom while the spirit of Mufasa praises his son for his wisdom.
Retrieved from Kovu's History
Personality:
[/color][/center][/b]At first, when he was a cub, Kovu didn't want to be evil. However, his mother brain-washed him, and taught him that Simba was the evil one. When Kovu grew up, he was kind of like Scar. He had only one thing on his mind: Kill Simba. When Zira made up that plan to get Kovu close to Simba's daughter, Kiara, and then kill Simba, Kovu was fine with it. He proceeded to do it. However, Kovu fell in love with Kiara, and the evil side of him slowly subsided. He became rather calm, and mysterious. Simba's wisdom and guidance rubbed off on him, giving him a more determined and wise personality. He is a fighter, only when he needs to be. He changed from the bad guy to the good guy, and now he is a loyal Pridelander. He would do only for his love Kiara, and his love for her remains strong.
He will protect his biological daughter, Riora, and his adoptive son, Valerius. He sees his daughter as the next Queen, not Valerius. This is because Riora is his blood, and some part of him doesn't trust Valerius. To Kovu, he seems a little... different. It reminds him much like himself when he was a cub, and this disturbs him greatly. He doesn't mention this to Kiara, however, who grew fond of him, and treats him like her own cub. All of this still makes him quite happy to be their father, and he loves them both.