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Important things not included in the ref:

- The name Kaluwa means “the forgotten one”. She is mostly called ‘Lou’ for short.

- Lou is a MASSIVE lioness. Built short legged and sturdy, she is stocky and covered in muscle, able to overpower even a male lion of comparable size. She gives Kuba a run for his money and only loses to Dabu because of his thick mane. Otherwise, she is far and above the strongest female in the entire pride and can take down even the largest animals when hunting. She can wrestle a male wildebeest to the ground by herself, she is incredibly strong, tough and resistant to damage. There’s some chance that she actually has a numbed sense of pain but there is no way to confirm this and is instead more of a rumor spread through the pride that Lou is some kind of freak of nature.

- Despite being an absolute unit, personality-wise Lou is actually really timid and soft-spoken. She apologizes way too much and tries too hard to please everyone, she is an absolute doormat. A follower more than a leader, she always obeys orders and rarely steps up in times of stress and morality, biting her tongue a lot of the time, afraid to share her opinion and always just trying to keep the peace. She avoids fights and conflicts as much as possible, to the point that she spends most of her time by herself. Other females dislike her for some reason and so, to avoid getting into a fight with other females in the pride, she keeps to herself reluctantly.

- She grew up in the Palefall Pride, born around the same time as Kipaji. She grew up with Kai and Kip and other cubs under the reign of King Kubaya. Her mother was a friend of Kivuli's and was one of the few lions that helped create the Palefall pride. However, she was older and was simply constantly sick for some reason. So when it came time to give birth, the event was too draining on her already frail health and she died shortly afterward, Lou never even got a chance to meet her own mother, which left a void in her heart and mind that needed to be filled by another female.

- She grew up with her dad, who was originally a rogue but, when news reached him that he had a cub who had no mother to take care of her, he tracked her down and took up the mantle of caring for her. He only really did the bare minimum, spending most of his time flirting with the other young lionesses in the pride (and when I say young, I mean YOUNG, too young). By the time Lou was a cub, her father had developed a bad reputation so, sometime in her pre-teen years, he was exiled for his behavior. Though Lou loved her dad the way that children always should, she was not terribly upset to see him go. What he did was disgusting and he really did not take the time to bond with her, it often seemed like he 'forgot' about her.

- During this time, she was inseparable from her best friend Thamani . She was the only cub that didn’t walk all over her, didn’t chase her away or tell her to leave them alone. The other cubs kept the somewhat “slow” lioness at a distance, finding her stupidity annoying and her gender a weakness. This opinion of her would change as she grew into an absolute beast, but it still had a deep affect on her self-confidence, growing up like that. This is why she thinks so little of herself and does not stand up for herself. She just thinks everyone hates her. Everyone except Thamani, who has never once complained about anything that Kaluwa did. As cubs, they were never apart.

- As adults they are also never apart. Once they hit their teenage years, they realized why the other cubs hated her so much- most of the males in the pride were gay. So instead of pursuing them which was pointless, the two females turned to each other, first simply deciding that they did not need a male, only to have that concept expand to not needing anyone but each other.

- It was funny when they announced their status as a couple to the pride. Lou had been nervous as heck, expecting everyone to be judgmental or disgusted or just.... something. But no, everyone just laughed. The two lionesses had been gay since day one and they were the only ones who didn’t notice. The rest of the pride thought that it was about time they made it official.

- Lou and Thamani spend their days napping in the sun and watching other creatures in the Pale Lands and making up stories about them. You know, "people watching" but without the people. They have a similar sense of humor, Lou thinks Thamani is hilarious, but they have different duties in the pride. Thamani is the Lion Guard's keenest of sight, so she often must go on missions with the guard, leaving Lou behind to help hunt for the pride, as her incredible strength is hella valuable. Sometimes they are away from each other for days and Lou, being a little clingy, hates this. Sometimes they fight about it, but it's less of a fight and more of them just venting some frustrations to each other.

- Lou is the emotional one and cries at the drop of a hat. Thamani hates to see Lou upset and will find any reason to pound someone into pulp if they make her girlfriend cry, even though she knows damn well that Lou cries about almost anything. So some animals don't deserve Thamani's wrath but she gives it anyway because they love each other so much.

- Because her mother was a friend of Kivuli's, Lou and Kivu have a really good relationship. She looks up to the older lion and goes to him when she needs advice. She is notorious for being extremely impaired mentally- she is just "slow", she has poor short term memory, it takes serious repetition to get her to remember things, she slurs her speech, and as a cub she was always missing milestones, it took forever for her to learn to talk. So Kivu pities her to a certain degree and is probably her main support system when Thamani is unavailable for any reason.

- Sometime in her adulthood, she is cornered by a male and is violated by him and his cohorts. She falls pregnant because of this and though it is a challenging pregnancy due to her already ridiculous emotions, she successfully carries and gives birth to four cubs, whom she and Thamani raise with the pride. They call Kivuli "grandpa" even though he is not actually related to them. But he doesn't mind, if anything he is flattered.

- She probably has a handful of siblings, as her mom was an older lioness, she probably had many litters before Lou came along so, feel free to hit me up if you'd like to create and play one of her siblings in this story I've got going on here.

- It's important to know that her eyes are heterochromatic- purple at the top, fading to blue at the bottom of the iris. Her eyes are also hooded and droopy, she kind of always looks like she needs a nap.

- Claws are always exposed okay, you know the drill.

- She has a Pridelander's facial construction though, with a short straight muzzle and a round pinkish nose. She's hella scruffy though, everything from her elbows to her ears is just unruly and wild. Even her eyebrows are scruffy.

- Her design was made by HekimaTheWhiteLion . She was adopted from this set of adoptables. So shout out to them and their incredible adoptables.

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MOAR LIONS MOAR

This gal was actually originally designed and drawn to be part of the Lion King RPG group that I mentioned earlier, but since I have left the group, I repurposed her unfinished application to fit this particular narrative. So the drawings of her are kind of old but it works out.

Shout out to my very good friend JinGinGen for jumping aboard this crazy train and making a very awesome lioness for the Lion Guard and for Kaluwa here. I want to draw them together every minute of every day, they are adorable.

Thamani (c) JinGinGen
The Lion King universe and style (c) Disney
Artwork, character and story are mine.
Please do not steal these ref sheets to be used for your own purposes. These are my characters not yours, please respect that.

Description

Important things not included in the ref:

- The name Kaluwa means “the forgotten one”. She is mostly called ‘Lou’ for short.

- Lou is a MASSIVE lioness. Built short legged and sturdy, she is stocky and covered in muscle, able to overpower even a male lion of comparable size. She gives Kuba a run for his money and only loses to Dabu because of his thick mane. Otherwise, she is far and above the strongest female in the entire pride and can take down even the largest animals when hunting. She can wrestle a male wildebeest to the ground by herself, she is incredibly strong, tough and resistant to damage. There’s some chance that she actually has a numbed sense of pain but there is no way to confirm this and is instead more of a rumor spread through the pride that Lou is some kind of freak of nature.

- Despite being an absolute unit, personality-wise Lou is actually really timid and soft-spoken. She apologizes way too much and tries too hard to please everyone, she is an absolute doormat. A follower more than a leader, she always obeys orders and rarely steps up in times of stress and morality, biting her tongue a lot of the time, afraid to share her opinion and always just trying to keep the peace. She avoids fights and conflicts as much as possible, to the point that she spends most of her time by herself. Other females dislike her for some reason and so, to avoid getting into a fight with other females in the pride, she keeps to herself reluctantly.

- She grew up in the Palefall Pride, born around the same time as Kipaji. She grew up with Kai and Kip and other cubs under the reign of King Kubaya. Her mother was a friend of Kivuli's and was one of the few lions that helped create the Palefall pride. However, she was older and was simply constantly sick for some reason. So when it came time to give birth, the event was too draining on her already frail health and she died shortly afterward, Lou never even got a chance to meet her own mother, which left a void in her heart and mind that needed to be filled by another female.

- She grew up with her dad, who was originally a rogue but, when news reached him that he had a cub who had no mother to take care of her, he tracked her down and took up the mantle of caring for her. He only really did the bare minimum, spending most of his time flirting with the other young lionesses in the pride (and when I say young, I mean YOUNG, too young). By the time Lou was a cub, her father had developed a bad reputation so, sometime in her pre-teen years, he was exiled for his behavior. Though Lou loved her dad the way that children always should, she was not terribly upset to see him go. What he did was disgusting and he really did not take the time to bond with her, it often seemed like he 'forgot' about her.

- During this time, she was inseparable from her best friend Thamani . She was the only cub that didn’t walk all over her, didn’t chase her away or tell her to leave them alone. The other cubs kept the somewhat “slow” lioness at a distance, finding her stupidity annoying and her gender a weakness. This opinion of her would change as she grew into an absolute beast, but it still had a deep affect on her self-confidence, growing up like that. This is why she thinks so little of herself and does not stand up for herself. She just thinks everyone hates her. Everyone except Thamani, who has never once complained about anything that Kaluwa did. As cubs, they were never apart.

- As adults they are also never apart. Once they hit their teenage years, they realized why the other cubs hated her so much- most of the males in the pride were gay. So instead of pursuing them which was pointless, the two females turned to each other, first simply deciding that they did not need a male, only to have that concept expand to not needing anyone but each other.

- It was funny when they announced their status as a couple to the pride. Lou had been nervous as heck, expecting everyone to be judgmental or disgusted or just.... something. But no, everyone just laughed. The two lionesses had been gay since day one and they were the only ones who didn’t notice. The rest of the pride thought that it was about time they made it official.

- Lou and Thamani spend their days napping in the sun and watching other creatures in the Pale Lands and making up stories about them. You know, "people watching" but without the people. They have a similar sense of humor, Lou thinks Thamani is hilarious, but they have different duties in the pride. Thamani is the Lion Guard's keenest of sight, so she often must go on missions with the guard, leaving Lou behind to help hunt for the pride, as her incredible strength is hella valuable. Sometimes they are away from each other for days and Lou, being a little clingy, hates this. Sometimes they fight about it, but it's less of a fight and more of them just venting some frustrations to each other.

- Lou is the emotional one and cries at the drop of a hat. Thamani hates to see Lou upset and will find any reason to pound someone into pulp if they make her girlfriend cry, even though she knows damn well that Lou cries about almost anything. So some animals don't deserve Thamani's wrath but she gives it anyway because they love each other so much.

- Because her mother was a friend of Kivuli's, Lou and Kivu have a really good relationship. She looks up to the older lion and goes to him when she needs advice. She is notorious for being extremely impaired mentally- she is just "slow", she has poor short term memory, it takes serious repetition to get her to remember things, she slurs her speech, and as a cub she was always missing milestones, it took forever for her to learn to talk. So Kivu pities her to a certain degree and is probably her main support system when Thamani is unavailable for any reason.

- Sometime in her adulthood, she is cornered by a male and is violated by him and his cohorts. She falls pregnant because of this and though it is a challenging pregnancy due to her already ridiculous emotions, she successfully carries and gives birth to four cubs, whom she and Thamani raise with the pride. They call Kivuli "grandpa" even though he is not actually related to them. But he doesn't mind, if anything he is flattered.

- She probably has a handful of siblings, as her mom was an older lioness, she probably had many litters before Lou came along so, feel free to hit me up if you'd like to create and play one of her siblings in this story I've got going on here.

- It's important to know that her eyes are heterochromatic- purple at the top, fading to blue at the bottom of the iris. Her eyes are also hooded and droopy, she kind of always looks like she needs a nap.

- Claws are always exposed okay, you know the drill.

- She has a Pridelander's facial construction though, with a short straight muzzle and a round pinkish nose. She's hella scruffy though, everything from her elbows to her ears is just unruly and wild. Even her eyebrows are scruffy.

- Her design was made by HekimaTheWhiteLion . She was adopted from this set of adoptables. So shout out to them and their incredible adoptables.

_________________________________________________________________________________________

MOAR LIONS MOAR

This gal was actually originally designed and drawn to be part of the Lion King RPG group that I mentioned earlier, but since I have left the group, I repurposed her unfinished application to fit this particular narrative. So the drawings of her are kind of old but it works out.

Shout out to my very good friend JinGinGen for jumping aboard this crazy train and making a very awesome lioness for the Lion Guard and for Kaluwa here. I want to draw them together every minute of every day, they are adorable.

Thamani (c) JinGinGen
The Lion King universe and style (c) Disney
Artwork, character and story are mine.
Please do not steal these ref sheets to be used for your own purposes. These are my characters not yours, please respect that.