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Downfall-Anew In reply to ??? [2019-09-17 22:57:41 +0000 UTC]

We don't even really know what their duties are in-universe. IRL monarchies, king and queen titles are functionally identical so long as they're seen as legitimate holders of the thrown and not king/queen-in-name-only-by-marriage. Since there wasn't any talk of Kiara needing to find a king, I assume their queen title is legitimate. In the case of IRL prides, all males really have to do that's different from females is beat the snot out of other males. Especially since I've seen enough documentaries with female-led prides for 'queens' to not be much of an exception and seem to act about the same as males (only real difference seems to be the lack of cubs and leading the group in beating the snot out of female in their territory. That's also not taking terrain into account, which can alter pride dynamics and general behavior by a surprising amount.)

I'm straying from the topic, but if you're interested in more details [or sharing what you know] I'm up for it!

Back to Sarabi! Yeah, the whole timeline of the lion king generally confuses me. Mainly because it wasn't fully thought through beyond making just enough coherent since in each respective installment. Before the Lion Guard I assumed Sarabi's death was somewhere around the time jump in SP when Kiara went on her first hunt. Mainly because it didn't make sense for a seemingly healthy lioness in a relatively peaceful environment to die within a few months, but 2 or 3 years later didn't feel like much of a stretch. Since LG took place before SP, I just slotted her in there for the timeline and ignored the series beyond the few things that caught my interest. Which I think would put her death somewhere before Kion's scar, for me.

All that aside, I do like Mufasa, I just wish Sarabi got her time to shine as much as he does. Or at least a confirmation on when she (and presumably Sarafina) died.

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NostalgicChills In reply to Downfall-Anew [2019-09-18 00:20:50 +0000 UTC]

You don't know though (no one does) but a bite from a venomous animal could take down a Lioness, or a sudden illness, an infection from the fight wounds, an accident of some kind - it doesn't have to be old age. She could have died at any point after Simba's roar, she wasn't even shown at the end scene of the first movie. 

I wish she got more screentime too, there's a guy on here that is upset that the Hyenas from the original got no screentime in TLG, he should be thankful he's not a die-hard Sarabi fan - because she is NOWHERE to be found in the follow up films! Not even in the midquel. 

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Downfall-Anew In reply to NostalgicChills [2019-09-30 00:43:42 +0000 UTC]

True, true. Which is also why I like your art of Sarabi and Rafiki in the clouds, feels like some kind of closure (even though it's about the voice actors.) that we'll canonically never get.

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Krissi2197 In reply to ??? [2019-09-17 12:20:32 +0000 UTC]

This is kinda how I thought of it.

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Keznen In reply to ??? [2019-09-17 12:01:27 +0000 UTC]

But what about when Simba was a cub and thought he had killed his own father?

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Krissi2197 In reply to Keznen [2019-09-17 12:21:27 +0000 UTC]

Simba forgot all about that life though. Even in the scene where Mufasa DID come to him, he accuses Simba of forgetting him. In TLG Mufasa doesn't appear to Kion unless he asks, and there was a period of time where Kion didn't call to Mufasa because he thought that he'd be hated for his scar. Young Simba never called upon his father because he was living that Hakuna Matata life.

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Keznen In reply to Krissi2197 [2019-09-17 12:33:27 +0000 UTC]

Even so, Mufasa didn't come to Simba because he called him.

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