Your personal canon

[Kieran]

What characters does your personal canon include? I mean, from the entity of the official The Lion King Universe, not your possible original characters. And what do you do with them when you add them?

My personal canon is basically the story the two films tell, as in to me the cub at the end of the first film is Kiara, and Simba's first child like they officially mean it to be. The fact that Simba's first child is different gender from him and also quite stubborn child, is very fascinating to me seeing to how lost and uncertain Simba is to begin with, when it comes to playing the role of a parent not to mention an adult at all.

If I added Mheetu I'd let him live. I see no reason to, nor fascination in, brutally murdering him just because he never made it to the movie universe. I like more imagining that Nala would've had a little brother to play and grow up with during Scar's reign/after losing her best friend. And that cub Simba and Nala would've had a much younger boy trying to tag along in their adventures. Oh yeah, so I also imagine Mheetu to be slightly older than the film makers intended him to be.

And though it's obvious he was not intended to be, I imagine Mheetu as Scar's son. I find it fascinating that a son of Scar would be so closely related to Simba in other ways too than just blood ties. He would not have the heart to exile his lover's half-brother/his own cousin even though he's related to Scar. Whereas he would likely have trust-issues and hard time looking at Mheetu without thinking of Scar. For a time. Because he didn't grow up with Mheetu. As for where was Mheetu during the final battle in TLK? I don't know yet. He could've joined the final battle later because we don't really see everyone on-screen at that point anyway. During SP's events? I don't know yet. Out of town, alive, able and intending to come back. Nuka could still truthfully say he was the oldest. He could've been talking about being the oldest of the Chosen One candidates.

Because of whose child I imagine Mheetu is, I don't actually include him into my personal canon. It would affect the characters too much. So I just like to imagine, but shut it out from my fanfics.

Anyway, I do add and write about the cubs and adult males...(there had to be more adult males if there were that many cubs)...from the comic because they don't affect the main storyline and I always thought the pride should have more cubs in it to be realistic, plus because some of the cubs from the comics are interesting personalities and because it's more fun if there aren't just Simba and Nala. I imagine that Scar drove all the oteher males of the pride away, (even the youngest cubs), to minimize potential threats.

Actually, I add generally taken some of the stories from the comics into my personal canon because those adventures are just so much fun and so cute and I love imagening that they happened in Simba's childhood. Like the "Shooting Star", "Simba's New Brother" and the one wherein Simba has a nightmare of giant ants because Mufasa scolded him for bullying ants...Just to mention a few.

As for the book universe, there's nothing interesting enough for me, so I leave all of it out of my personal canon.

[queen]

I agree with you on the first 2 films. Personally I'd add Kion in the section film. Remove that BS roar and tatoo and LG concept.
Kion would be Kiara's younger brother and in the personal canon, Kion would be like Mheetu. A tag along. He would view Kovu as a big brother and convince Simba to accept him. During the ambush, Kion attenmts to save Simba, but in the process dies after failing to kill Nuka, and is killed by Kovu in defense. This adds onto Simba's character, since he lost his son at the hands of Scar's adoptive son, much like how he lost his father at the hands of his uncle, thus adding onto his emotional wounds. This also raises tension between the Pridelanders and the Outsiders since the deaths of a loved one create more hatred, which makes Simba no more hesitant to start a war.

[Kieran]

How does the war end in that scenario? I can't imagine him forgiving Kovu so soon, even if he did turn against Zira in that war?

The original post is from 2011, before TLG was even announced, so I need to update my personal canon. Everything still the same as then but I too would add Kion as the second-born. Also without the ridiculous roar and tattoo. But I would have the concept of the Lion Guard because it makes sense that the strongest of the lions would be tasked with helping the ruler protect the land and that it would be organized. One individual can do only so much alone, especially as as a ruler he or she has many duties. Whether Kion should be the leader of that Guard, I'm not sure yet. It's quite risky for a prince to take on such a job. Kion does have some important job in the pride but not before he's a mature teenager or young adult. Before that he takes part in Kiara's lessons because naturally also the second-in-line for the crown needs to learn and know the same stuff, in case something happens to the first-born. He definitely is not allowed to play with his friends when it's time for a lesson about ruling the kingdom.

[queen]

Remember Kovu throught of Kion like a little brother, so he had to suck a lot of it up to kill him because he was defending his real Brother. Kovu would probably explain to Simba and Kiara about this. I assume Simba would understand since he fought Scar to avenge Mufasa. But either way, Kiara knew the real Kovu, who was different.
That is a nice idea. I guess a Lion Guard does make sense. Just remove the stupid tatoo and roar and Scar's phoned in backstory. In the show, there is mention of a lion named Askari, who was the original leader. They could've given him a backstory in the pilot instead of giving the background to Scar. And consisting it of Lions from the pride would make sense. The way I's write the show is that Kiara would be designed older, since Kion wasn't borm at the start of SP. The way I would end (and the way I expect the actual show to end) is Kion disbanding the Guard and lraving his family to become a rougr lion and find his own Destiny.

[tlkfan420]

My personal canon involves all the events of both movies happening the same way they did. With the exception of the battle at the end of the lion king 2 my personal canon kinda involved the inconsistent number of lioness on both sides.
Basically since the Pridelanders were mostly shown to be losing, and to be outnumbered, The Outsiders were starving, and the fact that Simba was being swarmed by a bunch of them. In my head canon the Outsider killed or in the case of the two outnumbered Pridelanders ate half the pride, and intended to eat all of the enemy lionesses after they killed Simba.