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Kiara Headcanon

This is a headcanon that I came up with a while ago and I know it sounds a bit far fetched but hear me out.

I think Kiara has some form of lung issue.

First off people both within the movie and in the fandom comment on how loud her breathing is. Also she gets out of breath quite easily when trying to hunt (before the fire). Actually, speaking of the fire, this is weird but Kiara is the only TLK character to ever faint as a result of a fire. No other character is ever affected by a fire for more than two seconds not even when Simba is fighting against Scar (and that fire went on for ages) so the fact that Kiara actually fainted as a result of the fire shows that there is clearly something wrong with her lungs to begin with.

So on with the headcanon!!!

So when Kiara was born, she was born with a lung issue that made it difficult for her to breathe. The symptoms of this condition are shortness of breath, difficulty breathing (Which is why she breaths quite heavily) and a tendency to pass out if she overexerts herself. As a result Simba became overprotective over her. Simba is super anxious about Kiara's condition and he often takes her to Rafiki for checkups even when she doesn't need it at the time (Like say they're just vibing in Pride Rock and Kiara just clears her throat or something). He sends Timon and Pumbaa after her to monitor her condition at all times when he can't do that himself. Kiara doesn't want to be pitied or seen as weak because of her illness so she tries to prove herself to her dad and show that she is just as capable as Kion (Simba isn't protective over Kion because he's perfectly healthy). The reason why the cub at the end of the first movie looks different to Kiara is because for a brief moment Simba was considering skipping over Kiara and making Kion the King instead as he was worried about her health. Nala, Sarabi, Sarafina and the rest of the pride disagreed with this decision which caused Simba to change his mind and Kiara had her presentation from the movie weeks later. Also her lion asthma (I ran out of words, okay) is also the reason why she's so bad at hunting. Her heavy breathing makes it difficult for her to be stealthy when tracking animals (Kovu even acknowledges this at one point). Due to the sheer amount of fires this poor girl has been in, Kiara's lung condition actually kind of worsens by the time her first hunt rolls around which is why she was better at hunting in TLG and not TLK2.

And that's the headcanon!

(So I was joking about that whole 'lion asthma' thing but I googled it and apparently there really is a feline asthma that exists, its super rare in lions and only three lions in the world have that condition, so uuuuhhh.... Poor Kiara).

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