Joka

Ajabu (Brother)

Iweala (Sister)

Maunin (Half Sister)

Tacari (Grandfather)

Likiza (Grandmother)

Fahari (Step Grandmother)

Safura (Aunt)

Niboga (Uncle)

Mohatu (Half Uncle)

Nyanda (Half Aunt)

Umqhakazo (Half Aunt)

Changa (Cousin)

Mzuri (Cousin)

Uru (Cousin)

Jamila (Cousin)

Shupaza (Cousin)

Zinyakaze (Semi-Mate)

Tarajia (Semi-Mate)

Hafzah (Ex-Sister-In-Law)

Hadiya (Ex-Sister-In-Law)

Teremka (Daughter)

Kutumikia (Daughter)

Jororo (Son)

Kilele (Half Niece)

Sarabi (Niece)

Naanda (Niece)

Zira (Niece)

Bianca (Niece)

Nova (mate/half-sister)

Kiros (half-nephew/son with Nova)

Uri (mistress/niece)

Opa (great-niece/daughter with Uri)

Jamal I (great-nephew/son with uri; Died)

Jamal II (great-nephew/son with uri)

**Joka** was the son of Choyo and Bia. He was the brother to Ajabu and Iweala and the half brother to Maunin. He was the semi mate to Zinyakaze and Tarajia. With Zinyakaze, he fathered Teremka. With Tarajia, he fathered Kutmikia and Jororo.

He was a false prince of the Out Lands and a prince of the Pride Lands.

## Appearance

Joka is disheveled and scruffy, Joka has a golden-brown pelt while his chest, muzzle, and paws are tan. His mane and tail tuft are brown while he has golden brown eyes. He has two unusual features: a freckled muzzle and frontward mane hairs that curl forward.

## Personality

Joka was a lazy and irresponsible lion, and he hated any sort of work. Joka liked to spend his days waiting for things to be served to him and not having to move too much. Joka also was a wanderer, not saying in one place for too long and not talking to much other animals, only if he had too.

## History

Joka was born in the Out Lands to ‘King’ Choyo and ‘Queen’ Bia, alongside his siblings Ajabu and Iweala. Growing up, Joka is more skinny and smaller than his siblings, and as such are bullied by his family (expect for his mother) for this. Choyo doesn’t see Joka as a suitable heir, despite him looking more like him than his brother. When Joka was a young adult, one of his accidents in hunting ends up killing his sister, and he decides to live the life of a rogue.

Joka likes travelling, seeing new lands and not settling in one place for too long. There is just one problem: No lioness wants to have cubs with him. Every lioness he approaches and asked if they want cubs, they reject him. Probably due to his features. He would get jealous when later on in the day, he would see a more handsome rogue lion approach the lionesses and make them laugh. He thought that no lion would like a scrawny lion like himself.

When Joka was a older lion, he finds the Sun Lands. While originally stunned by it, he can see he is not welcome. He asks a lioness - Zinyakaze - what is going on and she explains that two twins are both pregnant by the same male, and the two don’t know who to make their heir. Joka decides he doesn’t want to get involved. When he is about to leave, he is stopped by the same Zinyakaze and her cousin/half niece, Tarajia. They ask him to give them cubs, as they want their cubs to marry whatever heir comes to the throne. Joka agrees.

Soon after helping them out, Joka leaves the Sun Lands, not knowing his two daughters would end up becoming the mother to the kings who split the lands. Joka would travel to the Pride Lands, where he would meet his cousin’s grandson, Simba.

## Trivia

* Joka’s name translates to ‘To be able’ in Sanskrit.
* He never met his children, and didn’t know what became of them.
* He died not long after he left the Pride Lands from an illness.