Limau

Limau was a male lion who was born in Tanglemane's pride and later lived in the Pride Lands. He was the only child of Tanglemane and Kahawa, the mate of Sarafina, and the father of Nala and Mheetu.
==Appearance==
Limau had a light golden pelt. His ear rims, upper eye rims, eyelids, nose bridge, and paws were more saturated in color, while he had very light—almost white—fur on his lower eye rims, inner ears, muzzle, and underbelly. His eyes were light blue with light yellow sclerae, and his eyebrows were dark brown. He had a burnt orange mane and tail tuft, with streaks of lighter orange. His nose was light pink, and he had four whiskers on each side of his muzzle. He had spiky fur on his elbow joints that curved upwards.
==Personality==
Limau deeply cared for his family and friends. As a cub, he was adventurous and impulsive, and had a tendency to put himself in danger. This changed after a particular incident where he fell from a tree branch and had to be saved by the Lion Guard; he vowed to be more mindful for the sake of his frightened parents. As an adult, he remained brave and confident, but not reckless like in his youth. He was also a firm believer in the Circle of Life ideology and had a strong sense of justice.
==Family==
*Father: Tanglemane
*Mother: Kahawa
*Mate: Sarafina
*Daughter: Nala
*Son: Mheetu
*Son-in-Law: Simba
*Granddaughters: Kiara and Tiifu
*Grandsons: Kion, Mbili, and Kopa
*Great-Grandsons: Upendo, Rashe, and Kiran
*Great-Granddaughters: Kali and Aasha
==Voice claims==
*Adult: Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic the Hedgehog) - Dave B. Mitchell: 
==Trivia==
===Design===
*Some elements of Limau's design, such as his ear rims and paws, are based on a cave painting of Nala's father shown in The Lion Guard.
*His coloration is inspired by a miscolored Simba sprite featured in the PC game Disney's Active Play: The Lion King II: Simba's Pride; Ashael noticed that the eye rims were yellow, similar to the cave painting of Nala's father.
===Development===
*In an earlier iteration of Ashael's fanon from March 2024, Nala's father was named Hatari (meaning "danger, risk") and he was the leader of an illegitimate Lion Guard that was formed after Scar's Lion Guard was killed off, similar to Vitani forming her own Lion Guard while the real Lion Guard was away. His design at the time was also more strictly based on the cave painting. This storyline was ultimately scrapped, and Nala's father would be renamed and redesigned.
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Category:Males
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Category:Pride Landers