#janja I love you so much

[wintertidewater]

Janja Garnbret, Olympic Champion in Boulder and Lead Climbing.

[kaythefloppa]

CRASHES IN WINDOW LIKE A LUNATIC:

Janja x Makucha

CRASHES OUT WINDOW LIKE A LUNATIC:

[devilsrecreation]

I’ve had this in my mind for a while so now I give you

Outlander Pirate AU (feat. Makuu)

-This is definitely one of the Zootopia-esque au’s because who doesn’t love animal pirates?

-The hyenas and vultures are part of one big crew, with Janja as the Captain and Mzingo as his first mate

-Jasiri and Reirei both defied gender roles by being Captains of their crew. Reirei met Goigoi while captured on another ship and she rose to the top. She married Goigoi and her crew grew from there

-Jasiri is actually a privateer who works under newly crowned King Kion. She eventually convinces Janja’s crew to merge with hers and is known as “The Pirate Queen” by everyone else.

Janja agreed cuz he maaay or may not have a repressed crush on Jasiri but he’ll obviously take that to his watery grave

-Captain Kiburi formed a new pirate crew after he started a mutiny against his former captain, Makuu. Makuu, however, had seen it coming and was able to fend off Kiburi and his followers. His crew isn’t as big as the other pirate captains, but holy shit can they fight. They’ve killed more animals than the rest combined

-Kenge was found as a stowaway on Kiburi’s ship, with him against the world and turning to piracy for survival. The crocs wanted to kill him on sight, but Kenge had something they didn’t: venom. So when Tamka tried to attack after calling him “little”, he ferociously bit him and held him at knifepoint. It was then when Kiburi had a better idea: Why not put that anger and those fighting skills to good use? He’s now one of the crocs, being Kiburi’s new friend and best fighter. Everyone thinks they should be scared of the crocodiles when it’s really him you gotta worry about. Kiburi likes to use him as a threat. Either give them all the loot or they’ll sick Kenge on you

-Sumu is an interesting story. Kiburi’s crew found him while exploring a desert island. It’s unknown how he got there in the first place (he doesn’t like to talk about it), but he ultimately joins the crew as a cabin boy among Kenge’s suggestion. Kiburi thought nothing of it until he saw Sumu in action. Turns out he can fatally stab people so that’s fun.

-Ushari was once a great pirate, but after too many near death experiences, he decided to become a grumpy innkeeper with Shupavu and Njano as his employees. They usually act as bartenders who serve drinks to the guests.

-After Makuu started a mutiny against him, Pua stepped down from captain of his crew and resides at the inn, telling all kinds of stories to anyone who would listen

-Hodari is a cabin boy in Makuu’s float. It was always his dream to be a pirate and he was able to prove himself when he helped Makuu steal from Kiburi (after Kiburi stole from him first lol)

-All the captains act like mortal enemies at sea, but put them next to each other in a tavern or Ushari’s inn and they’re acting like they’ve been friends for years

-Out of all the crews, Kiburi’s curses the most. They’ve even done it in the inn when they visited for the night. Ushari had to threaten to bite them on the spot if they didn’t stop driving his customers away. The skinks didn’t do much to help, as Shupavu was too busy laughing and Njano was encouraging them

-Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed are also retired pirates, giving their ship to Janja’s crew once they put the life behind them. They own a tavern, which is another popular hangout spot for pirates

-Njano once snuck onto Kiburi’s ship on his day off. It was a disaster

Kiburi’s realization went like this

[jiminy-crickets]

you are SO RIGHT, manifesting an Ai top tomorrow and Saturday!!!!

AI MOTHER FUCKING MORIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOPS THE ROUTE, WINS THE GOLD, THATS MY (second) WIFEEEE!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that climb was electric!!!!

[spinnysocks]

janja & kiburi duo moments because i love them so much

these are the faces of "We're so evil and we're gonna fuck shit up" LMAO

honestly i love Pride Landers Unite for the outlanders content in it. scar told them to go beat up makuu, kiburi's like "Hell yeah" and janja's got his back the whole time, pretty fun (not for makuu, but ya know, to get cool evil duo moments you gotta beat a guy up)

i love how janja's laughing and kiburi's just "That worked?-"

although i'm 100% sure in canon kiburi was just surprised by scar's power, i'd like to think he was also thinking "Tf did you just do to my new friend??"

listen i KNOW kiburi betrays him BUT i'd like to think eventually they became genuine friends outside of scar's no longer existent army

also have this funny shot. i'm pretty sure chungu and cheezi were trying to count all of scar's army which is hilarious

[tired-lamb]

final thoughts on battle for the pridelands

my liveblogging was… chaotic, to say the least, but I wanted to really gather my thoughts on this episode because its a big, big one. figuratively AND literally lol.

first things first the new designs straight up shook me in a /neu way, it’s not that I don’t like them but I just wasn’t ready to let go of the old designs yet, y’know? I kind of dislike how Fuli’s design feels like a completely different character, but otherwise it’s eh. I think seeing the guard grow up just made me emotional, haha. I wish Janja, Cheezi, Chungu and Jasiri got new designs tho, since I hc them to be roughly around the same age as the rest of the guard. I understand that making new designs for a whole bunch of characters (characters that wouldn’t be appearing much later, too) would be a lot of work but it just felt kind of odd to see Jasiri unchanged next to Teen Kion or whatever. Maybe at least change some tiny details, if not the entire design.

I like that they delved more into Kion worrying this time. it really puts into perspective that.. yea, these guys are child soldiers. thats. gonna come with a lot of emotional load. seeing Fuli and the others worry about Kion was a nice touch too, honestly. definitely opens up for thoughts about just HOW much these guys are affected by the whole child soldier thing. hearing all five of them sing again was wonderful <3 especially Ono, since he doesn’t get to sing a lot.

Scar’s betrayal of Janja was expected, lol. I actually REALLY like the way the show carried out Janja’s redemption, and WOW his song slaps. the guard + Janja’s clan getting stuck in the Lair while it was on fire was also really interesting to me, and I wish they hadn’t taken the route of them just.. escaping through Beshte’s pool. it was like.. what was the point of putting them there then? I’ll probably put more stakes in my maybe-going-to-exist rewrite, but lets see how I go with that.

*COUGH* why does Kiara basically look the same *COUGH* Kion looks older than her at this point *COUGH COUGH*

oookay, the stuff that went down at the volcano was WHEW. Scar’s song with this Strange Lion guy was like wow ok so . introducing new lore to explain why you’ll give Kion his scar and then completely forget abt it (or at least I think they do, I still haven’t watched the rest of the season), nice! buuut also creative, dare I say. song’s not bad!

ANGST. Scar singing the song Sisi Ni Sawa, the show’s most popular song, to Kion and LITERALLY MEANING IT. this is one of the few(?) times the show outright parallels Scar and Kion, and god I actually loved it. the fanfic writer side of me is leaning forward in my chair because there is no way Kion’s not going to forget that thought. Scar’s last words to Kion were literally “Sisi Ni Sawa”. Kion is the Direct Successor of Scar in terms of Lion Guard leader. THE POTENTIAL. THE ANGST. (cough) okay, but apart from that yahoo more delving into Kion’s character.

Bunga diving in to save Kion from Ushari and then promptly falling into the lava gave me a fricking heart attack. call me dramatic but started getting emotional on the spot. ONO FLYING INTO THE LAVA TO SAVE HIM did NOT help, and someone save my poor boy I feel so bad for him agh 😭

The outlanders reaction to Scar being gone felt kind of bland, but then again I’m not really sure what else it COULD have been. I’m sure some of you do, though, so feel free to share your thoughts:].

I am Absolutely Unwell over the fact that Ono has technically lost his vision and as a person who ships bunga x ono AND bunga x ono x beshte you better expect me to write something about it. Lion Guard writers I am coming for your kneecaps (or whatever the saying is now, idk).

there’s.. a lot of things I would have changed, but thats because I dislike how childish the show can get sometimes. call me out, I deserve it, the show is meant for kids, but it has potential!!! I’m not outright hating how kiddy it is, heck I’m like. mega fan of kid’s shows, but all I say is that it has the potential to turn into something less for kids, more maybe for pre-teens and above.

again, not sure if I’ll rewrite the episode since I’ll have to do a lot of thinking, but it is definitely something I’ll consider! shoutout to my mutuals for being with me till here, and for supporting me in my very much chaotic liveblogs. love you guys dearly /p /gen

*raises glass of fruit juice dramatically* to season three!!!!

[heretherebedork]

Curious to know your feels about the 1000 Years Old finale. You didn't post much about it. Maybe that's a commentary in and of itself LOL.

Part of the answer is that I struggle with watching things out of my usual schedule and had a very busy weekend so I'm just getting around to actually watching the finale episode after knowing all kinds of spoilers. I am actively writing this response as I watch the episode. So enjoy my live thoughts on your ask.

And, so far, my entire reaction is that they crammed way too much here in the end. They needed to spread this out more than they did and I get parts of it, I like having the soulmates reveal only at the very end...

But there's a lot of plot and seriousness that they just didn't touch on enough and that I think including in the rest of the show would have improved it greatly as well as helping with the pacing struggling most people had.

If more of the Janja plot had been genuinely spread through the show and more of these serious moments and the understanding of their agreement and relationship had started earlier I might care more about this. But I don't care about Janja at all! I just don't! I wasn't given reasons to care until the very end and that's not enough for me.

Also, having Yoh not fight for any of it really did disappoint me but the director of this show, as seen in multiple other shows they've done, seems to have a thing for one very passive character in the main relationship who will just Allow Things To Happen To Them without ever fighting back. And I never like that, frankly.

Yes, they dropped a few hints here and there but it just isn't enough to tie it all together in this show itself.

It's not a bad finale, it's not the worst, but the end of the show feels so rushed compared to the rest and us not getting all the fluffy times together only to be shown a single scene at the end of a long happy life instead of the time together that I want to see.

I like domesticity, not the end of domesticity.

I get why people liked this ending. I see how people who rewatch things, especially, will enjoy the recontextualization of the show.

But for me? It made everything feel rushed and the rest of the show feel almost empty and slightly worse in comparison. Either we needed more plot or less episodes for this to work.

(Every time I see Somchai I am sad we did not get Somchai and Shin. Every single time. Come on. You crammed this much into the final episode, you could have given me more of them somewhere else!)

Also, I love his random bodyguards, whoever they are. Love them.

Also, this year long time skip is stupid.

Seriously, I am deeply frustrated by Yoh literally finding out they're soulmates and then just... completely abandoning Pun and leaving entirely. It's not interesting to see him just give up and it makes him the most passive character ever. Which we also had in I Will Knock You and, frankly, in 2gether. That's just The Style.

JANJA LITERALLY TOLD YOH SHE WAS GIVING HIM PUN BECAUSE PUN WILL NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE. Whatever, at least the confession and whole thing is done and now they can be soulmates together.

9 minutes of happy ending is not enough. Absolutely not enough. Yes, it was cute. Yes, it was a happy ending. But it's just not enough and it leaves me wanting more and wishing that the show were paced differently.

(Still sad we couldn't get any more Somchai and Shin, we deserved more.)

Edit Okay, I didn't mention this originally but I actually hate that the soulmate/reincarnation line takes away the power of Yoh's gift to Pun being his first birthday present. It really bothers me because that moment was one of the my favorite moments and the finale just made it not matter at all and turned it into something much less important and takes away a lot of the importance away of Pun wearing the cross and it BOTHERS ME A LOT.

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

Hi Sleepy! I was stumble upon your arts in Pinterest and now I can't stop to looking for more!!! I really love Ghost X Jade dynamic. Say, how much Jade can bench press? Can she lift Ghost? lol

Hello Anon! Thank you so much for the love! ╰(*°▽°*)╯

About how much Jade can bench press, let's have the talk shall we.

Have an old art of her that I made a year ago 👀 (Already posted but to answer this question why not right) (Probably gonna do a redraw later).

First and foremost, she's more to the speed, silence, and effective type, rather than the strong and brawny type.

Second, she's been trained to be the perfect agent since she was 8 years old. I'd imagine that she has an athlete's body, as they're usually trained to shape their bodies to suit the requirement of their respective sports.

Jade's overall design is in fact inspired by athletes. Like her combat shirt is inspired by football players' drill top, her hairstyle is common for gymnastics', while her body type is that of a sports climber (Search up Janja Garnbret 👀).

Jade's height is 164 cm/5'4" while her weight is 58 kg/127 lbs.

I think she can lift up to around 85 kg/187 lbs or around 1.5x her weight!

Also, I deffo don't think she can lift Ghost up LMFAOO. I fucking believe with my heart and soul that Simon's around 95-100 kg with that build.

(Even more reason to bridal style carry her, am I right Ghost)

[transkiara]

you will listen to my lion king ship ratings.

mufasa + rafiki + sarabi: this one came to me in a vision the other day and i can't stop thinking about them. 100000/10. what's the throuple version of a rarepair

kovu + kiara: 10/10 i love them so much

kiara + vitani: 11/10 no one gets them like i do

kovu + kion: gay people i don't respect. 7/10

kion + fuli or any of the lionesses idr their names and his wife too: 0/10 he is a homosexual

kion + jasiri: ok this is the only m/f pair with kion that i think is cute 5/10

jasiri + janja: only if they're lesbians 7/10

simba + nala: 9/10 of course i just wish we actually Saw more of them

dilf/milf hunter kovu: this one's really funny to me i keep picturing kovu being the distracted boyfriend looking at simba and nala like damn... "kiara your dad is gnc as fuck" "YOURE INSANE" etc etc. this one's just a joke though

scar + zira: She's a very kinky girl The kind you don't take home to mother She will never let your spirits down Once you get her off the street, ow, girl She likes the boys in the band She says that I'm her all-time favorite When I make my move to her room, it's the right time She's never hard to please, oh, no That girl is pretty wild now (the girl's a super freak) The kind of girl you read about (in new-wave magazines) That girl is pretty kinky (the girl's a super freak) I really love to taste her (every time we meet) 1000/10

scar + sarabi: don't care for them together but i like the drama of it. 5/10

scar + sarafina: as long as nala isn't their cub 4/10

sarabi + zira: intriguing. 6/10

i finally remembered their names tiifu + zuri: they're cute 6/10

[spottedmischief]

Shenzi and Cheezi are bittersweet to me. Because he genuinely does not feel the same attachment or connection he has like with Banzai or Ed because she wasn't around much and even on the rare occassion when she was cubsitting Cheezi was like...."okay, she is nice but I want my dad. Why's uncle not here." so Shenzi had to more or less distract him from his thoughts because due to her not being around much, cub Cheezi also did not know her as well and he just liked familiarity.

So even when they reunite, that connection just is not there because the scent is not as strong to him, she is the hardest to remember for him because she was not as much around

Cheezi had to distance himself from her after finding out the truth about Scar and getting asked to join a different clan for safety. He already wanted to pull a Janja there because he is just: "You guys have three hundred hyenas living elsewhere. You went there after the fire. NONE of you came to ask to join for safety when we needed you the most. Why now??? Why now when the damage is done???" and then also thought since she said safety in numbers that dad likely will return to that clan too because just three hyenas so they are probably gonna be seperated again

Shenzi herself doesn't understand why he distanced himself, she just thinks he does not like her. Which, honestly valid because Cheezi never voiced any of his concerns. He was subtle in his approach, still needed to process everything, was too upset over suddenly getting asked to join a different clan out of nowhere that he just wanted to be away. He did not want to pull a Janja - he knows Shenzi is hurting over what happened with Scar. He doesn't want to be angry at her, in fact, he is not angry at her - he is upset how the whole situation turned out and that nobody told them the truth or helped them and that for years he was seperated from the hyena he loved the most

They are both a mess of communication issues and I love it

[handfulofmuses]

They have the same motivation during the zebra mastermind but it’s also different and I love it:

Cheezi & Chungu: we want to be smart so we can be at the meeting with Janja and Scar so we are trying to impress Scar. He’s our main motivator, not Janja we just want to be with him.

Tamka: Nduli listen if we do this and hand the guard over to Scar, we will be the ones who get to go to the big meeting next time.

Goigoi: I am actually in relief that I was not invited because it allows me a chance to nap but I have to prove my mate wrong who thinks I‘m good for nothing

The hyenas wanted to impress Scar so they can be with Janja and not feel left out because they usually do everything together, the crocodiles wanted to be the ones who get to go instead of Kiburi and Goigoi doesn’t care for Scar it’s for his mate instead why try to impress a lion that you don’t know much about

[huwezii]

You know I'll never understand why the lion guard set up the romance of Kion and Jarsiri and then just axed it (I mean I can guess why, sort of).

But fuck, I wished they'd allowed her to join the guard when going to the tree of line.

yeah i find that really weird too. like by all accounts they hinted at it from the first episode they introduced her. but then ive also heard that ford riley had rani planned all along... so then what was that playful nudge at the end of the s1 episode? kion and jasiri dancing in a heart spotlight in janja's song? i love the show and i love rani - i think she gets WAY too much hate - but the way it all wrapped up with the endgame ships was a big letdown for me. even worse than kion/rani was putting jasiri with janja at the end... like, i love the guy, but he tried to kill her REPEATEDLY. not sending a great message by getting them together. .... i probably sound really bitter LOL but like, i have felt Some Type Of Way about this since it happened. ah well, that's what AUs are for

[devilsrecreation]

we've talked about this before, but i wondered if you had any ideas of what would happen if the outlanders went on a roadtrip in a zootopia/human au? :3

OHMYGODDDDDD SPINNY HI :3

Tbh I honestly can’t remember when we talked about an Outlander road trip but I DO have ideas!

I’m guessing it all depends on which Outlanders are going. It’s chaotic every way tho fjfhfh

The destination: The Tree of Life

Jasiri would obviously be the one driving while Reirei rides shotgun

Janja, Kiburi, and Mzingo are riding in the back….that’s gonna be fun. Janja DEFINITELY isn’t gonna annoy the fuck out of everyone hfhfhf

Shupavu and Njano are there too cuz they don’t take up much space (if it’s the Zootopia AU, if it’s a human au then they have the third row to themselves)

Kenge drives the skinks and Sumu on their road trip. It’s fine until some asshole cuts him off and he gets road rage

Kiburi’s mostly keeping himself busy by looking out the window or listening to rap music

When the car runs low on gas, everyone plays rock, paper, scissors to determine who gets to fill the car up (nobody wants to do it). Reirei loses and she has to witness the boys either being smug (Mzingo) or laughing and flipping her off (Janja and Kiburi)

Janja’s fun doesn’t last long since Jasiri tells him to buy everyone snacks. It’s mostly candy and beef jerky for Kiburi. Shupavu and Njano only get one measly pack of gum and nothing else

At some point, the skinks take an interesting picture of Janja sleeping on Kiburi’s lap like a pillow

For a croc road trip, Tamka and Neema are the one in a weird position. You could mistake them for a sleeping couple hfgfvfgf

Nduli and Cheezi are in their own world while everyone else is arguing. They’re just happy to be here

At the most inconvenient time, Njano has to pee. Same goes for Chungu, Goigoi, and Tamka 😭

Mzingo’s phone has the GPS plus he knows a couple shortcuts here and there so he’s very useful

Unfortunately they forget him at a gas station and it takes them like an hour to realize it. Dw they go back for him

On a hyena road trip, Janja “accidentally” forgets Nne and Tano at the gas station. With the crocs, they almost forget Neema. Jackals? It’s poor Goigoi. The skinks THINK they forgot either Nyeusi or Sumu but it turns out they just moved to the trunk lol

Lots of arguing happening no matter which Outlanders are on the trip

When everything’s quiet, Janja turns around out of curiosity and catches Shupavu and Njano making out (nothing NSFW just kissing)

Jasiri’s eyes start to droop a bit but is woken up by death metal on max volume (thanks, Janja lmao. Reirei was just gonna yell but that works too)

If it’s just Janja, Reirei, and Kiburi on the trip, then it’s like this

Constant fighting over music. Jasiri plays pop music, but Janja changes it to a rock and roll station, which is changed to country by Reirei, then classical/opera(?) by Mzingo, then rap/hip hop by Kiburi. In the end they all jam to “What is Love” along with the head bopping thing lmaoooo

Thank god the trip is a win and everyone has a good time!….until the ride home where everyone starts arguing again

[outoftheirdifferences]

(For the mun questions meme! Have you ever written a canon muse that you first thought of ‘meh’ when they appeared in their canon show/movie/book? Who is your favorite OC? Have you ever developed a ship based on writing with a certain other character / mun?)

Questions for the mun.

Have you ever written a canon muse that you first thought of ‘meh’ when they appeared in their canon show/movie/book?

Hm. I want to say definitely, I'm sure I remember doing that... but it took me a while to actually place any characters who match that definition. I think a couple of main examples would have to be, firstly, Janja (Lion Guard), who I played on one site for a little bit; I hadn't found him a compelling character at all when I'd watched the show, but decided to try him there for whatever reason and found him surprisingly fun to write as.

The other would probably be Flutt.ershy (ML.P). I mean, granted, I kinda first thought "meh" about the entire show when I first learned about it and only started watching it because someone told me that I was most like Twilight out of the cast so I got curious; but I know Flutt.ershy took me longer to warm up to than any of the others. Then at some point she abruptly grew on me (was it because of a certain episode that made me like her more? I honestly don't remember) and - after previously only having written her Discord-corrupted mean version as a joke character once - I played as her on several sites in rapid succession because of that!

Who is your favorite OC?

Of my own OCs... I think I know who everyone's probably expecting me to say, since Lauren's the only OC I have on this blog. But honestly I think the answer has to be Cinnamon, from my doggie characters story idea. Cutie little mail delivery puppy who's super serious about her job but also a big sweetheart, I just love her so much :D

Have you ever developed a ship based on writing with a certain other character / mun?

Oh, for sure. I know for just one example, Margo / Antonio (Desp.icable Me) was one. I started Margo's blog absolutely convinced that I was never going to play any such relationship between the two after the way he ditched her in canon... and yet, interacting with this one Antonio roleplayer, bouncing them off each other, I just really came to love the dynamic we were building; and by the time she reached the point of forgiving him when he was genuinely regretful, I was fully on board shipping it! (Albeit only with that one mun; writing with anyone else who portrayed the character would definitely have had to start from step one all over again.)

I mean, come to think of it, that was where my absolute OTP Patch/Angel ship came from too! I'd never even considered the characters together before they began bouncing off each other with Patch's first player on that one site; but even though I was still VERY much a RPing newbie at the time, and I would cringe to look back at those posts now, every interaction the two of them had made me fall in love with them as a pair. Thirteen-and-a-half years later I'm still shipping them, so you could say it definitely left an impression on me! xD

[spinnysocks]

random lion guard outlanders hc's! :3

under the cut because Long Post time :D

after the defeat of scar and jasiri becoming queen, she reformed and reconstructed the volcano. her clan (but mostly her) remade it into a more positive space where the outlanders could meet. jasiri makes everyone go to a mandatory summit there lmao

while she's working on it she tells all of the outlanders they can go there anytime to talk to her, but everyone's either too full of pride or don't know her well enough at that point to do so lol. eventually some of them suck it up. no matter the past, jasiri strives to become friends with all of them, not just their queen. she's sweet

i feel like after janja's clan joins jasiri's, janja might still want an important role, but boy does everyone know it's not gonna be lead hunter or anything lmao. i actually feel like he'd be a real good caretaker/pupsitter while most of the clan is out hunting, but he does enjoy patrolling around their territory and the outlands every now and then despite basically being banned from hunting lmao

i saw from a hc from a post once (can't find it atm) that mzingo joins jasiri and janja in hunting! i think that's cute because it's like a 'raven helping wolf for the benefit of both' dynamic. i love jasiri and mzingo's alliance/friendship so much. i'd even go as far to say what mzingo is to jasiri is a bit like what zazu is to simba, except mzingo still has his parliament to care for so he's not always around. but still

this one may be a tiny bit ooc... but i think it'd be so funny if jasiri forced the henchmen & goigoi to make a 'Sorry For Plotting To Eat You' party for thurston. it's funny bc he's still completely oblivious like, "but you DIDN'T eat me, right?" and they just choose not to remind him that the guard had to save him from them 💀 even funnier that it's barely a party and more of a formal apology yet he still has a good time

the skinks, ushari, sumu and kenge are their own friend group. they all say they hate one another, but they care about each other more than anyone :)

each of them used to live in different spots all over the outlands but then they all ended up living the cave(?) equivalent of Right Next Door, likely after scar was destroyed and the outlands reformed. njano is the sorta guy to walk into any of their homes uninvited in the middle of the night and ask if they're awake bc shupavu ain't gonna put up with her roommate's late night questions/antics lmao

since the crocs are... not the best at showing their true feelings, every month or so kiburi and his float bring a big catch to the other outlanders as a sign of their alliance... and also to show off a bit. for the hyenas, jackals and vultures who live primarily off of small things, it's like the equivalent of a massive turkey dinner. the crocs used to just Straight Up Leave as soon as they gave the food, but they're learning to stick around

in fact staying for those 'dinners' was how tamka came up with the idea to get something out of his passion for acting. he notices madoa, reirei and goigoi struggling with wema, tunu, dogo and kijana. he's like, "hey, wait... if we're bringin' them food for bein' nice... maybe i can get somethin' in return for entertaining the little ones!" and thus, from that day on, he became a pup sitter!

and you know what? he's actually really good at it! the pups can't tell/don't really care whether he's "acting" or not, cause tamka is the best climbing frame they've ever had in their LIFE. credit to @devilsrecreation once again for inspiring this, especially of tamka giving piggyback rides! i imagine nduli kinda gets in on the fun of entertaining the kiddos too while kiburi and neema glance at each other from the sidelines wondering how they got to this point of their float playing with pups 😭

i imagine at some point a river that runs the small amount of water that goes into the outlands suddenly stops, and jasiri brings like everyone with her to go find out what happened. most of them are pretty reluctant to leave the outlands at all, but they can't survive without the water for long, especially the crocs. so they're all forced on this big trip for their survival. i guess this would be the outlanders version of 'the journey to the tree of life'

in reference to this au, nduli leads the way as shenzi is guiding him! i like the idea that because the outlands are all kinds of animals- especially with a hyena in reign- he has the ability to see and talk to other species that are ghosts, or whatever mufasa is lol. ghost shenzi just shows up whenever she wants instead of nduli 'summoning' her and gives the most vague directions ever before she peaces out again. it drives nduli and jasiri into complete confusion and frustration about where the heck they're going lmao

also they're like halfway through the journey before janja even realises nduli is literally talking to his mom. it's probably a pretty bittersweet moment when nduli successfully summons shenzi so that she can talk to janja and the hyenas. banzai and ed greet them too :)

despite everyone's grumbles they get the water back, with many of them having to save one another from various perilous things, cuz bonding lol. i imagine they all get to put their skills to use too. also we all know the skinks would have to be saved the most cuz they're tiny little instigators

expect more of these. every time i think i'm done with all my ideas another one pops into my head lol

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trick or theat >:3

allow me to share some concepts for a baobabfruit wedding/union, much aided by @pizacat72 :D

the wedding/union takes place when the guard are all young adults. I like to think it happens in the more foresty side of the pridelands, maybe somewhere around hakuna matata falls but not quite, either. rafiki has been given the honour of uniting the three animals and boy is it an honour to him <3. the royal family attends as does looooads of pridelanders courtesy of beshte and how many animals and birds he knows x].

ok I spent too much time thinking abt who is whose best man, maid of honour, etc etc. but my point is: the entire guard gives speeches dedicated to baobabfruit. if any of you have ideas for who’d be whose best man maid of honour etc etc feel free to share!! I honestly just want anga, kion, fuli and makini to give a speech cause darnit their best friends are finally getting married :]. makini gets everybody all pretty and nice and formal and elegant.

janja is invited to the union because I am a sucker for his and bunga’s friendship. if janja is invited then so is jasiri, and if jasiri’s invited then so is the entire population of outlanders so you see the whole gang there too folks!! maybe not ALL of them, but those who’ve come close to the guard or baobabfruit in general. but janja and jasiri are definitely there.

timon and pumbaa, basi, and kulinda all have front row seats. theyre all teary-eyed, especially timon and pumbaa, to the point that kulinda has to politely ask basi if he can sit in between them bcoz frankly kulinda might as well get soaked /silly /j. very important note!!!! mtoto is the ring boy and is so so proud of his role <3. gem hcs he’d be beshte’s best man which is an hc I love too!! ona is flower girl and you bet she’s the prettiest one ever.

it’s overall a very sweet, sentimental— just kidding it’s absolute chaos but its a good kind of chaos. I think. point is the baobabfruit are united as one :3!!! the events that follow after that include but are not limited to: bunga falling down pride rock and still surviving (#honeybadger /J /J), ono choking on some piece of fruit, the outlanders that have come not knowing exactly who is getting married/united, beshte spending each and every second of the event in the companionship of everybody EXCEPT his partners because of course he needs to thank every single animal for coming to his union what do you take him for??, kion and bunga taking shots in a human au, makini tearing up, technically an event before the union but fuli ends up grabbing ono and running across the entire savannah because DANG IT ONO WHY CANT YOU FLY FASTER, aaaaand several spirits of the past looking down very, very concerned haha.

I love them all your honour :’]