Kiara

### Personality

Kiara is curious and wild-hearted as a cub, constantly seeking new adventures and easily fraught at the sight of her safe nest back home in the Pride Lands. Her hunger for adventure often leads her to outright rebellion, as she ignores her father's better judgment in order to explore the Outlands and get answers to her unresolved questions. Kiara inherits her parents' curiosity, and her curiosity in her surroundings gets her into real trouble.

Kiara is also very strong-willed, and she possesses a strong desire for independence and self-sufficiency. As a result, she can escape and sneak out at times to reach her goal. She also displays frequent annoyance when addressed by her title, preferring to be known for herself rather than who her family is.

Later in her cubhood, Kiara becomes more accepting of her destiny as the future queen and takes her royal duties seriously. Unfortunately, sometimes her duties lead her to rub it on her younger brother Kion's face, which leads to sibling rivalry, though they still care for each other.

Kiara is still a cub at heart and can laugh at everything and make even Kovu's rough training into a game. However, her outlook is a positive one, and she is one of Kovu's most loyal encouragers, seeing past his rough exterior to the kind character within. She also shows a strong amount of charisma as she convinces both prides that they are better united than against each other. She also cares for her enemies, as shown when she tries to rescue Zira from falling down the cliff despite trying to attack Simba a few minutes earlier.

Like her father, Kiara sometimes doesn't get the advice and criticism she is given by her friends and family right away. Not to mention, she has to find out the hard way. But, in addition, Kiara does get what her friends and family meant when she hears or sees it for herself, shown when Kovu shows her their reflection in the water and saying that they are one, which helps her see the truth in her father's words when she was a cub. Kiara then uses the same advice she was given to help her family, shown with her father and the outsiders.

### Physical appearance

Kiara is small, soft-featured, and less robust and stocky than her father but just as lithe and sleek as her mother. Kiara's color scheme is more of a peach tone like that of her father's, but it is tempered by the creamy hues of her mother. As a result, she doesn't carry as rich gold as her father's or grandfather's. Her muzzle, paws, and underbelly are cream-colored, and her tail tuft is creamy brown. Not only that, but her eyes are reddish-brown.

Kiara remains the same light shade from her cubhood and not darkening with age as her parents do, but this could be attributed to her not being a full-grown adult yet.

## Appearances

### *The Lion King*

An infant Kiara makes a cameo at the end of *The Lion King*. Many years later after Simba defeats Scar and becomes King, the Pride Lands are restored and the Pride Landers return to the Pride Lands for the presentation of Simba and Nala's newborn cub; Kiara who is presented to the Pride Lands by Rafiki in the same fashion as Simba's presentation.

### *The Lion King II: Simba's Pride*

An infant Kiara appears at the beginning of *The Lion King II: Simba's Pride*, during her presentation to the animals. Timon and Pumbaa comment on how great it will be to relive old times with the cub, whom they believe to be a boy, only to be understandably shocked when Rafiki reveals that Simba and Nala's new cub is a girl.

Kiara grows into a playful cub and her next appearance takes place as she is going out to play. Before she can leave, Simba, who becomes seriously overprotective, begins going through an extensive list of warnings about the safety of the Pride Lands. Annoyed, Kiara is able to repeat them from memory, suggesting that she has heard them many times before and grows irritated. Simba's final warning is to stay away from the Outlands which is home to the Outsiders, because he says, "You can't turn your back on them." Kiara doesn't understand why, but Simba simply tells her that she will understand one day and sends her off. As she leaves, she is followed by Timon and Pumbaa, whom the king has sent to her.

When the two get into a disagreement over grubs, Kiara is able to slip away. She enters the Outlands where she meets Kovu, a cub who is one of the Outsiders as well as Scar's chosen heir. Remembering Simba's words about Outsiders, she takes them literally and continually positions herself so that her back is not to Kovu. The two cubs are forced to work together to escape some crocodiles and become friends as a result. She plays with him, but the two are forcibly separated by Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, and some of the lionesses and Kovu's mother Zira, Scar's follower who was banished from the Pride Lands.

After that, Simba takes his daughter home where he gently scolds her for putting herself in danger, noting that as future queen, she needs to be careful. When Kiara expresses her reluctance at becoming queen, Simba explains how they are connected by singing We Are One. Once again, the concept goes over Kiara's head, and Simba simply tells her she will understand someday.

Sometime after while at his tree, Rafiki notes to Mufasa's spirit that Kiara is growing into a great future queen, but he worries about Kovu, who Zira is training to be vicious. Mufasa is able to communicate a plan to Rafiki using a broken gourd as an example. If Kiara and Kovu are brought together, then the feud between the two prides can end. At first, Rafiki doubts the plan, but agrees to trust Mufasa after some convincing.

Next, Kiara has grown into an adolescent and is preparing for her first hunt. She expresses her desire to hunt alone and with prodding from Nala, Simba agrees. However, he breaks his promise immediately and sends Timon and Pumbaa to watch her. Kiara discovers them (and they tried to lie about it by saying they are shopping, to no avail) and is angered that her father lied to her. She runs away to hunt on her own, away from the Pride Lands, and ends up in the midst of a wildfire set by Kovu's siblings, Vitani and Nuka. Kiara tries to escape, but is knocked out by smoke and is then saved by Kovu. When she regains consciousness, Kiara does not recognize him at first, only to realize his identity when he asks, "What're you doing?" in a reference to their first meeting as cubs.

Simba and Nala arrive at their daughter's aid as they had seen the smoke from the fire. Kovu asks to join the pride, but an angry Simba refuses. Rafiki appears and reveals that Kovu has saved Kiara's life by sarcastically saying, "How dare you save the king's daughter?". This knowledge is not enough to affect Simba's decision initially, but he allows Kovu to join on a trial basis after both Nala and Zazu remind him that by the Pride Lands' law states, they owe Kovu his debt for saving Kiara, though Zazu says that in *this* case, Simba might want to make an exception. Kovu is allowed to return to Pride Rock temporarily, pending a final judgment of character by Simba. Simba distrusts Kovu and forces him to sleep outside. At Pride Rock, Kiara thanks Kovu for saving her life, but he points out that Kiara's hunting skills are rather lackluster (which they are) and that she could not survive on her own for 3 days (in his claim). In response, Kiara convinces Kovu to teach her to hunt, to which he says that he looks forward to it.

The next day, Kiara accidentally and unknowingly interrupts Kovu's attempt to ambush Simba. She and Kovu spend the day together as Kiara learns to hunt, and later, the two are seen stargazing. With some subtle prodding from Rafiki, the two begin to fall in love. Kovu later tells Kiara about his place in Zira's plot and his reluctance to assume his role to take over the Pride Lands, but is stopped by Simba, who wishes to speak with Kovu alone.

She later sees her father injured from an ambush set up by the Outsiders, as she sends Zazu for help. Kiara disbelieves that Kovu was involved when Simba accuses him of being in on it. Despite this, Kiara helps her father get back to Pride Rock with Timon and Pumbaa, who are with her. Kiara wants to see Kovu when he comes back, but is stopped by Simba, who confronts him for coming back to the Pride Lands. Knowing that the ambush wasn't his fault, Kiara pleads with her father to listen to Kovu, but he silences her and exiles him. Kiara tries to protest against her father's decision, only to be stopped by the lionesses. Once Kovu's gone, Rafiki, who was watching the event, sighs sadly, feeling that Simba has completely defied his father's goals and is too intoxicated with hate to notice Kovu for who he really is, disrupting the Circle of Life and Mufasa's intentions to bring peace between the two prides.

After that's over, Kiara approaches Simba and asks him to reconsider, but he forbids her to leave Pride Rock without an escort, intending to keep her away from Kovu, and they get into a heated argument. Despite Simba telling Kiara that Kovu used her to get to him, Kiara tells her father that Kovu loves her for who she is. Simba, however, believes that Kovu loves her for being his daughter. Infuriated, Kiara tells her father that he doesn't know Kovu as she does. When Simba says that Kovu is following Scar's paw prints and that he must follow his father's, Kiara, fed up with her father's stubbornness, insults him by declaring, “You will never be Mufasa!” This horrifies him, and before he can make a rebuttal to it, Kiara runs to Pride Rock in tears as the lionesses watch her sadly.

Kiara manages to break out of Pride Rock and reunites with Kovu. Though Kovu considers running away to form their own pride, Kiara understands her father's words from when she was a cub when she sees her and Kovu's reflections merge in the water. She convinces Kovu to return so that they may try to reunite their divided prides. Kovu agrees, and the two return to find that the Pridelanders and Outsiders are at war.

Kiara and Kovu break up a fight between Simba and Zira, who tell them to step aside. Kiara persuades her pride and the Outsiders that their prides are no different from each other and convinces the majority to end the feud because it's pointless and as lions, they are one. Simba comes to his senses after hearing that and makes amends with Kiara, and Vitani, having understood the message herself, defects to Simba's side, with the rest of the lionesses joining her when Zira threatens to kill her as well for treason, disgusting them. However, Zira refuses to budge or let go of her hatred and attempts to attack Simba. Kiara leaps to defend him and the two lionesses fall off a cliff. Kiara is able to land on a safe ledge and tries to save Zira who is clinging to the side of the cliff, but Zira slips off and drops to her death, drowning in the flash flood of the river.

Simba then leads Kiara back up the ledge and allows Kovu and the Outsiders to return to Pride Rock. Not to mention, Rafiki blesses Kiara and Kovu's wedding and they roar on top of Pride Rock with Simba and Nala.

### *Kingdom Hearts II*

During the Pridelands segment of the end credits of *Kingdom Hearts II*, the infant Kiara is seen being presented by Rafiki to the newly restored Pridelands while Simba and Nala look on.

### *The Lion Guard*

Kiara appears in the Disney Junior TV film *The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar* and series *The Lion Guard*, which sees her having a younger brother named Kion (whom she appears to have a sibling rivalry with), who serves as the protagonist. The series serves as a midquel to *Simba's Pride*, taking place after Kiara's first encounter with Kovu and before her next encounter with him as an adolescent. She also seems slightly older than her cub self in *Simba's Pride* as she reaches Simba's shoulder, implying that several months have passed since her encounter with Kovu and Zira. Kiara is a bit more arrogant but yet kind compared to her gentle behavior in the sequel, and Simba doesn't seem to be overly protective of her as he is in the sequel. It's also shown another difference where Kiara is alright with wanting to become the future Queen, while in *Simba's Pride* Kiara is not sure of her future. It's likely that she matured over the months and Simba became less overbearing with this.

Kiara first appears in the series' prequel, *The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar* at Pride Rock being taught about being Queen by Simba, only to be disrupted by Kion who is playing Baobab Ball with Bunga. The two siblings have a short squabble before being separated by Simba, who sends Kion and Bunga away to play their game away elsewhere.

She is later seen with her friends Tiifu and Zuri with the latter getting her claws stuck in a log (due to constantly sharpening them), though she is later helped out. After hearing from Bunga that Kion is setting up the Lion Guard and has made Bunga the first member, Kiara questions Kion on if Simba knows about this, to which Kion replies that it was Simba who told him to pick members. She, Kion, Tiifu, Zuri, Timon, and Pumbaa then join in with Bunga singing "Zuka Zama".

Later, Kiara tells Simba about Kion picking Bunga to join The Lion Guard and proves it when Zazu finds Kion and Bunga with Fuli, Beshte, and Ono (whom Kion had also picked to join the Lion Guard). Simba thanks Kiara, before sending her and Tiifu to track gazelles while he has a word with Kion.

### TLKFT

She gives birth to Kito (1st) and Inja but unfortuneatly Kito dosen't want to be King so he is banned by his father, and Inja will rule in his stead. She passed away of a few months after her Daughter got her title.