#handsomethrowrug

[fledercanons]

@handsomethrowrug

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It hadn't been long since the family had joined within the Pridelands. Ahadi and Uru had graciously welcomed them, though Hadiya seemed rather skeptical of the whole ordeal. She kept to herself, hardly glancing at the other lionesses, nor her cubs.

Sarabi's siblings were adjusting well. Dwala felt like the star of the show, and was already telling wild, fantastical tales ─ Her specialty.

"So, there Mrukaji was. Back against the rocks. He knew he had nowhere to go... The crocodiles had him right where they wanted him. So, he looked up, took a deep breath, prayed to the kings above, and he jumped ─"

Sarabi was listening from a good distance away, her head on her paws glumly. She wasn't so sure about the whole 'moving' thing, especially so soon after her father's absence. It felt... wrong, being around so many new lions. She felt out of place, and this time not just within her kin family.

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[keepmovinjunior]

i seriously am loling at the concept of scar and meg hanging out bc it'd just be like

scar: life's not fair, is it?

meg: nah, not even remotely.

scar:

meg:

scar:

meg: and what do we do when life isn't fair?

scar: kill mufasa

meg: no

scar: *SNARLS*

[musemelodies]

A cub approaches Timon. One might be forgiven for thinking it was Simba, given the size, but the vastly different pelt colour, along with a black tuft on the top of the head, were enough to give the meerkat a clue. "Hi... I'm sorry that others are being rude to you today but... I think you're pretty neat, even if I don't know you very well."

Hold on a second. That healing scar on the cub's eye looked familiar. Surely it wasn't - nah. That wasn't possible. (handsomethrowrug, who is fashionably late with April Fools stuff)

Timon didn't answer the cub at first, he'd been getting some water--all that crying had taken a lot out of him and he needed to rehydrate. Not to mention, he looked like an absolute wreck and he scrunched up his nose at his reflection before splashing it away and glancing over at--

Who was this kid again? Obviously, he wasn't Simba but maybe he was a new pal of his? Hmm, he figured the cub would've mentioned him at some point. There was something strangely familiar about him, though.

"Thanks, kid. ...Guess you're not a big April Fool's Day fan, huh? I WAS but now...oy..."

[spottedmischief]

@handsomethrowrug

“Uhm - I guess?”

Hurt? More like stinging. Maybe even worse. He has gotten hurt before - whatever this kind of hurt is hits different. Although everything about the sentence he just said was confusing.

Run from his past? Learn from it?

How does that even work when it is in the past?

A lot of it was forgotten up until recently. He wasn’t sure what’s worse: that he forgot in the first place or that some things decided to come back now. Would it have been better if he didn’t remember? Maybe then he wouldn’t have to deal with all these confusing things inside him. What if he forgot it - them for a reason? It didn’t hurt when the memories were gone - something was missing but he didn’t bother thinking about it. You can’t miss something you never had to begin wiith. Or...that's what he thought.

Not … like he would tell Scar about any of that. Telling him about the reunion after what Shenzi and Banzai told him? Scar would likely want to get rid of them. Just like with Jasiri, right? In general, the bow legged hyena had been vague with what he was saying.

Too much information wasn’t good. He had to be careful about it. Banzai said he can’t be trusted. Dad was not happy. Shenzi… told him things he didn’t know before. Talking to him on his own was already risky.

But maybe he is missing something here. Scar was known as a legend, that’s what Janja said. He doesn’t remember much - did he even heard about Scar as a cub? Cheezi doesn’t even really remember a lot of the old clan to begin with - unlike the others around here. Maybe this conversation was a mistake. But maybe he could also try to find his own answers?

He is the wrong hyena for this complicated, deep stuff.

“Why? If It’s in the past, ya can’t learn from it: Or run. Wouldn’t it make more sense…to forget it all?”

[cxnscience]

@handsomethrowrug sent 🏰 ( DISNEY QUOTES MEME )

"This is you, and this is your badness level. It’s unusually high for someone your size."

[cunning-matriarch]

🏰 (handsomethrowrug. You gotta do it to him)

"First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault."

@handsomethrowrug

[worldclassmenageriie]

@handsomethrowrug from here

The little cub looked almost offended when the lion's tail swayed just out of reach of her paws. Ears flattening to her head and scrunching close to the ground to further stalk Tacari's tail before attempting to get it a second time.

Other cubs around her age, were pulling on his mane, ears and one was currently trying to attack his feet.

[dreamlightmagicgarden]

Scar's just watching Danielle running back and forth in a frenzy. He's not going to help. The chaos was fun to see. (handsomethrowrug, who is a rather unhelpful Valley resident)

@dreamingofmuses | @handsomethrowrug

She stopped once she noticed that Scar was there. Perfect! She was in need of some help anyway, even if Scar could be.... trying.

"Goooooooooood morning Scar! How are you? Slept well?" Danielle asked. "So I have a couple residents coming to the Valley and was wondering if you would like to help me set a place for them. One of them is a cat like you."

[musemelodies]

🐺

"Well, I don't know 'bout you, Slick, but I don't care what them clowns think. Never have, never will. I'm gonna keep doin' what I want an' if they don't like it? Boo. Stinkin'. Hoo. Ain't like they're all saints neither!"

He gave a harsh laugh in return, finishing off another rib and tossing it into the growing pile of bones nearby.

"Why don't they try to fix themselves instead o' us?"

[dreamswideawake]

Sorry, had the Poet been writing?

He's not anymore. When he looked away for just a moment, a brown lion cub had snatched the page off the desk and scampered with it. At least the little scarred lion hadn't gone too far. But was this an act of mischief or an act for attention? (Scar, handsomethrowrug, because the Poet deserves a little silly. :3)

@handsomethrowrug

He must have been tired. One moment, he had been scribbling down the framework of a poem and the next...the page had disappeared. He checked under the desk, under some other papers and on his chair but the page seemed to have completely vanished. There had to be some mischief afoot here!

"Esteri?" He called out over his shoulder. "Where are you, darling?"

Before he received an answer, he turned around towards the door and caught the culprit red handed...or, red pawed. A slow grin spread across his lips.

"My, my...so, here's the little poem thief!" He got to his feet, carefully approaching the little lion cub. "And here you were, about to have me blame my little Essi!" He knelt before him, grinning, and gently stroked his head. "I'm afraid words aren't particularly tasty, leijona."

[liistenwellallofyou]

❛  do i need to change?  ❜

A brief moment passed. Scar blinked, looking up at Maleficent. "Of course I don't. I'm not sure where that ludicrous thought came from." (handsomethrowrug. Have a lion experiencing a brief moment of rational thought xD )

🐝  *  ―  𝑬𝑷𝑰𝑪: 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑳 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺. @dreamingofmuses | @handsomethrowrug

"That's a rather... human thought."

"Cease that at once."

[cxnscience]

@handsomethrowrug said ; "This is what I get for trying to strike up conversation..."

Yeah, admittedly Jiminy was a little surprised by that, too. Avoiding striking up a conversation with the conscience at all costs isn't even a quirk that's exclusive to the more antisocial valley residents— Jiminy is prone to ramble. And lecture, from time to time. And—

Well, he could provide a whole host of synonyms. Really, he carries a dictionary around all the time.

Still, they're all stuck living in the same tiny place, all been encouraged to play nice ( stars know Jiminy's had to make some affordances already; he struck up a conversation with Donald the other day ), so maybe he shouldn't have been so surprised the lion deigned to speak with him. He's entirely unsurprised that he tries to back out of it so quickly, though.

"Wait, wait, I'm sorry! I'm sure whatever you've got to say is very insightful." He hops along after him, not quite falling into step but keeping up surprisingly well. "I'll quit interrupting. Honest. You just caught me off guard, is all! You were sayin something about, uh..." he trails off, having not fully parsed it outside of interpreting Scar's very presence as a threat and overreacting appropriately.

[trustedhearts]

‘ you don’t have to be scared of me. i won’t hurt you. ’ (handsomethrowrug, maybe for Duchess? Scar could be in the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes as a captured lion?)

@handsomethrowrug

Ever since O'Malley had joined the family, trips to explore more of the world outside of their home had become more common - usually done at night whilst Madame was fast asleep. This time, the former alley cat had led them to the Ménagerie, to take a look around now that the human visitors had all gone home.

Whilst he took the kittens to look at the elephants, Duchess had found herself distracted by the dark figure laying within the enclosure to her right - the lion enclosure, as she would come to find upon approaching. She must have seemed timid in her curiosity, as it wasn't long until the larger feline spoke up. With an apologetic smile, the cat leaps up onto the fence surrounding the gap between the viewing platform and the cage.

❝ Oh, please forgive me. I did not mean to stare. ❞ Fluffy tail wraps neatly around her paws. ❝ I have only ever seen lions in Madame's books - to see one with my own eyes is rather fascinating. Do you have a name, Monsieur? ❞

[cunning-matriarch]

❝See, no harm done.  Just try to be a little more careful.❞ (handsomethrowrug)

"Do you see this? Does that look like no harm to you?" Shenzi griped, having paused in licking her wounds after the fight with Mufasa. Banzai was worse off, having gotten more claws than she had, but it still hurt! Ed was the only one who got off really uninjured.

She had some sizable claw marks in her shoulder which she'd been licking at and some scrapes from being thrown by the powerful lion.

"Careful ain't got nothing to do with it---fighting Mufasa wasnt part'a what we talked about." She huffed, clearly rather grumpy over the whole ordeal. "Those cubs were supposed to be alone"

[wisemandrill]

“You’re completely mad. I can see why he likes you.“ (handsomethrowrug. The 'he' would be Mufasa)

@handsomethrowrug

“Mad? No, I wouldn’t say I’m mad at all. Eccentric, yes, but who wouldn’t be, when they can read the signs all the Great Kings of the Past and the spirits of nature send us?” Rafiki shrugged. It didn’t matter to her whether Tacari thought her mad or not. She was who she was, and the way she acted and interpreted the signs was a product of her travels and all she’d seen.

“And your brother likes me because he got to know me. Perhaps you might as well if you take the time to do the same.”

[ihatedangling]

The hyenas must be some sort of immortal beings that we have underestimated... 🤔 (handsomethrowrug)

Or the animators are just too lazy to come up with a different design for the trio

The hyenas are so often just an afterthought. It would be cool to see them as teens (though I suppose the design wouldn't be that different). Idk. Maybe eventually I'll come up with some meta way to think about why the hyenas look the same.

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