Just an older piece I still really like of Simba & Nala w/ all of their semi-canon friends. ❤️

Here's the three older versions of this piece!

You know, the more I realise that a bird ensuring the safety of young predators instead of the fullgrown adult predators themselves just doesn't make sense, the more I short circuit in the cortex. But HEY! 'TIS A CARTOON DUMMEHS AGAGAGAG

To those who are not very involved within the Lion King fandom and are like "WHO TF ARE THESE OTHER CUBS I KEEP SEEING EVERYWHERE ARE THEY SELF-INSERT O-SEES????66???? LOL DATS SO GAY", those cubs are in fact "semi-canon characters", thus characters from Disney-approved pieces of media like comics and books. So I'm gonna nerd this stuff out here because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

Three of the cubs are from German comics, the first one with the blue baby birds being Tojo, who appears in The Orphaned Birds. The other about to pounce is Tama, who appears in Snakes In Paradise, and lastly, the one with the black mane tufts is Malka, who appears in Simba's New Brother.

The two brown ones are Chumvi & Kula, both appearing in one of the books from published fanfic series called The Lion King: Six New Adventures, specifically one titled Nala's Dare.

The last two behind the rock are nameless cubs who appear in one illustration from a more recent TLK book.

That's about it, see ya.