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ok as you get from my title you know what this will be about,the old battle of the sons of simba. ok,im trying to get this straight here,Tanabi came from a popular fanfic,Chaka was going to be used in sp and Kopa came from tlk6NA,a bookseries[translated:the Lionking;six new adventures].My whole point on this topic is to tell all who wonder about the mysterious cub at the end of the tlk movie if it was kiara or not,and all of you woh know simba had a son i was telling you that chaka and kopa were the only OFFICIAL exsisters that had anything to do with Disney.

. . . No one knows really.

To tell you the truth, the cub at the end of the original TLK looks nothing like Kiara as a baby. So I think Kopa was the original plan for Simba's heir (although he hadn't appeared in any other things except for 6NA); Kiara probably just came into existence when someone thought it would be better to see a female heir instead of a Simba clone.

And I've never heard of Chaka before . . . (I'm curious now . . . how'd you hear of Chaka?)

Kiara was supposed to have a brother named Tanabi,and Nala's little brother was gonna be named Mheetu

I thought so. No offense, but I think Kopa was killed or exiled or something. He wasn't mentioned at all in TLK2, so maybe they were trying to move on and protect Kiara (hence Simba;s overprotectiveness).

Chaka = Nala's little brother? Hmm. That would be a very minor character with he were in the first film. I know there were other lions in 6NA, but I don't remember any names though.

I think I heard about the thing with Kiara's brother (Possibly Kopa? Doubt it.).

Well, it's unknown how much time has passed since the first film (probably a couple of years), so who knows. But it was probably for a long time (remember the grieving of Mufasa by the lionesses before Scar called himself king?) since it was Simba and Nala's first cub.

Hmm, got a point there.

Maybe he's hiding it? I dunno. Well then, if he didn't die as a cub, maybe Kopa grew up, and passed his crown to his little sister. (because usually there is only one dominant male in a pride; male offspring are usually run out of the pride, away from theirs to start their own prides) Who knows?

Well, they're doing a good job of hiding it.

In the books (6NA), Kopa seemed to be very curious and liked to run off (because his royal father was so busy, they didn't get to hang out as much as Kopa wanted them to) . . . so running away or getting cub-napped sounds like a good theory.

Tanabi is a fan fic name,he never exsisted and kiara was supposed to have a older brother called chaka[supposedly]and nala was supposed to have a little brother called mehutoo or however you spell it.And in TLK2,Kiaras tail tuft falls on top of her head and makes her look like Kopa,thats suspicious to me.

Ooh, what if the secret is revealed that Kiara has a brother?

Which means Kiara isn't the direct heir (at first); Kopa becomes king first, then if something happens to him, Kiara and Kovu get the throne.

That makes sense, right? (besides in the beginning, Kiara didn't want to be Queen in the first place . . . . she was just born into that society.)