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Character Name: Simba
Series:The Lion King
Timeline: A few months after Mufasa's death
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Character History:

Simba is a lion cub, born to Mufasa and Sarabi, and the prince of the Pridelands. As a newborn, a ceremony was held to celebrate the new prince, in which every animal in the kingdom traveled to attend. The only exception being Mufasa's brother, Scar, angered that he lost his right to the throne the moment Simba was born.

The more Simba grows into an active and adventurous cub, the more his enthusiasm grows for his role as the future king of the Pridelands. One particular morning, he wakes up before the rest of his pride and forces his father awake as well, as his father was supposed to show him the entire kingdom. A sleepy Mufasa finally agrees as Simba excitedly runs off. From Pride Rock, Mufasa tells Simba that everything the light touches will one day be Simba's kingdom. Simba is in awe, but asks about a shadowy place out of reach from the sun. Mufasa explains it's not part of their kingdom and Simba must not go there. The lesson between father and son continues, with Mufasa telling Simba about the circle of life and how every living thing exists in a balance. The lesson is interrupted when Zazu appears and tells Mufasa that hyenas have entered the Pridelands.

After Mufasa leaves, Simba returns home and visits with Scar. He brags about one day being king, and that he was just shown the whole kingdom. Scar asks Simba if his father showed him what's beyond the northern border, and Simba sulks while telling him that Mufasa told him he can't go there. Scar admits that he's right and only the bravest lions go there, to which Simba protests that he's brave too. After badgering his uncle to tell him what's out there, his uncle "accidentally" reveals it's an elephant graveyard. Scar makes Simba promise not to go, which Simba does, but immediately rushes home to find his friend, Nala, and take her there. He tries to trick his mom by saying they're going to the watering hole, but his mother sends Zazu with them as a babysitter.

As Simba and Nala scheme about how to ditch Zazu and go to the elephant graveyard, Zazu comments on how one day they'll be married. Simba and Nala are both disgusted and shoot down the idea. Zazu says they have no choice, and Simba argues with him saying that will be the first rule to go once he's king. He then sings about how great he'll be as king and how he won't have to follow any rules or do what anyone says. The song turns out to be a distraction, and they manage to lose Zazu during their antics. Simba and Nala play wrestle for a while, with Simba trying to take credit for Nala's plan. Their playing ends up leading them right to the elephant graveyard.

As they see a giant elephant skull, Simba is eager to take a look inside and see if it still has its brains inside. Zazu catches up with them, fearfully trying to hurry them both home. Simba brushes Zazu off, saying that he isn't scared of anything and laughs in the face of danger. The trio is immediately ambushed by three hyenas, who threaten to eat them. While Simba holds his ground, thinking they're nothing but dumb hyenas, Zazu tries to disarm the situation so they can escape. While the hyenas get distracted by making jokes about their dinner, Simba and Nala make a break for it and run deeper into the graveyard while Zazu gets captured.

While fleeing, Nala slips down a pile of bones and towards the hyenas chasing them. To save her, Simba rushes past her and slashes one of the hyenas across the cheek so Nala can escape. They end up cornered, in which Simba tries his best to roar to scare the hyenas away. After his attempts fail, Mufasa comes to the rescue and chases them away.

Zazu takes Nala home, but an infuriated Mufasa takes Simba aside to scold him for disobeying. Simba tearfully pleads that he just wanted to be brave like his dad, and Mufasa tells him that bravery doesn't mean looking for trouble. After Simba protests that he's not scared of anything, Mufasa tells him that he was scared of losing him. The two of them make up, playfully wrestling with each other before Simba asks his dad if they'll always be together. Mufasa doesn't answer, but looks up at the sky and explains that the stars represent the kings of the past, and that they'll always be there to guide Simba, and so will he.

The following day, Scar takes Simba into the gorge because his father supposedly has a surprise for him. Simba tries to get Scar to tell him what the surprise is, but Scar tells him to stay put and work on his little roar. As Scar leaves to put his plan of getting rid of Mufasa and Simba into place, an insulted Simba practices roaring at a lizard for a while. He's pleased when he finally manages a decent roar, but at the same time the ground starts shaking. When he looks up, he sees a stampede of wildebeest heading towards him. Unknown to Simba, the stampede is started by the three hyenas who tried to eat him, Nala, and Zazu the day before, and they're carrying out a plot by Scar to kill off Mufasa and Simba so that he can inherit the throne.

A terrified Simba tries to run, but the herd is too fast for him. He climbs up a tree to avoid being trampled, just as Mufasa and Scar arrive to save him. Mufasa plunges into the herd of wildebeest, right as the branch Simba is clinging to breaks. Mufasa saves Simba, carrying him to a ledge and dropping him right before the herd knocks Mufasa right back into the path of the stampede. A frightened and worried Simba keeps watching the stampede for his father, and much to his relief sees him leap onto the side of a cliff. As Mufasa tries to climb up, he pleads to Scar to help him. Scar grabs his paws, and with a final "long live the king", he flings him off the cliff's edge and to his death as Simba screams.

Simba rushes down into the gorge after the wildebeest leave, and finds an unmoving Mufasa. He pleads with his dad to get up and come home with him, but after several attempts, he realizes Mufasa is dead. He starts to cry while huddling next to him. Scar interrupts Simba's moment of grief, asking him what he's done. Simba desperately tries to defend himself, saying it was an accident and he didn't mean for his father to die. Scar comforts him, before telling him that Mufasa would still be alive if it weren't for him. When Simba asks what he should do, Scar tells him to leave and never return. A devastated Simba runs, chased by the Scar's hyenas who plan to finish him off. Simba escapes by falling into bramble and running off into the desert before the hyenas can catch him.

Simba eventually collapses from exhaustion and dehydration, but is rescued by Timon and Pumbaa, a meerkat and warthog duo. They give him water and Simba thanks them before trying to walk off into the desert again. They ask him where he's from and what he did to end up as an outcast, before Simba responds with "something terrible" and leaving it at that. Timon and Pumbaa then introduce Simba to their motto of "Hakuna Matata", in which Simba can leave his guilty past behind and live a carefree lifestyle with no rules or worries. With nowhere to go and no one else to turn to, Simba decides to live out his life with his new friends, burying away the guilt and grief for his father's death and throwing away his dreams of becoming king.

Abilities/Special Powers: Other than being able to talk, Simba is a normal lion cub.
Third-Person Sample:

Even though it's been weeks since Simba started living with Timon and Pumbaa, he still thought about his dad.

He didn't want to, and he's tried everything not to, but it still sometimes happened. No matter how much fun he was having with his new friends, it'd always creep up on him when he least expected. It was unfair, how often it happened. How he'd be slurping down a slimy bug, and he'd suddenly think about his father telling him that a king shouldn't be so loud and messy when eating. How he'd look at the stars with Timon and Pumbaa, and turn his head suddenly because he swore he could feel his father laying right next to him.

But the worst part was the dreams. His father always seemed to be in his dreams, and a lot of them were unhappy ones. Dreams of watching his father desperately trying to climb up a cliff, begging Simba to help him as he helplessly watches him fall. There were nicer dreams too, where he and his father would be playing under a night sky, and then he'd wake up expecting his father to be right there with him. Those dreams, he thinks, are worse. They trick him, make him believe that he didn't kill his father and that he was still home with him.

It was always hard to tell these feelings to Timon and Pumbaa, who seemed so happy and carefree all the time. It wasn't that they never listened, it was that Simba could never work up the courage to tell them. If he did, that carefree, happy life that Timon and Pumbaa promised him would be shattered forever. Simba doesn't want that, he just... wants it to be as easy as Timon and Pumbaa makes it seem.

At least for now, he had them. Maybe they couldn't make the dreams of his father go away, but at least he knew that they were always there for him. And that made it a little easier.

First-Person Sample:

What is this thing?

[Simba's just recently discovered his phone - or a phone, at least. But everything from the stairs, the carpeting, to even this tiny digital device is unfamiliar to this little lion cub. He's batted it around, partially for fun and partially to see if it'll do anything else. After all, he can sometimes hear voices coming from it.]

It's like a weird-looking rock, but it talks? Hello? Heeeelloooooo?

[If it doesn't get an answer right away, he does the only logical thing he can think of: picking it up in his mouth and biting it.]

Say! Something! Already!