Fira: 'Poisonous snake' (Swahili)
(FEAR-uh)

Pride Affiliation: Ni's Pride
Age: Mfalme's generation

Father: Tai
Mother: Leganata

Brothers: Ondoka, Kipepeo
Sisters: None

Paternal Grandparents: Tamaa and Ithata
Maternal Grandparents: Unknown

Uncles: None
Aunties: Tasa

Nephews: Unknown
Nieces: Unknown

Mate: Hofu
Cubs: None yet

Likes: Walking along the river, taking charge, hunting
Dislikes: Being unable to get her way

Personality: Fira is very headstrong and confident, often to the point where she will accomplish what other lions would not even dare to attempt. She has a softer side, however, but this is often reserved for Hofu and for her brothers.

Bio:

Firstborn of Tai and Leganata, and the only female among two males, Fira knows she will have to be confident and take charge if she is ever going to earn respect from her brothers. Kipepeo the younger, is demure and shy and allows her to boss him around, but Ondoka is wild and untamable, and Fira often lets him do what he wants.

Fira spends most of her time with Kipepeo, or Kip, as she likes to call him. He enjoys her company and the two are inseparable. Ondoka, however, likes to play with a rough gang of older cubs, and Fira knows that he will get into a lot of trouble for his loyalties.

Fira spends a lot of time in the company of her great-uncle, Ni. He is elderly by the time she is an older cub, but that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy her company. She learns much from him, and he is happy to teach.

When she is a teen, Ni passes on, and Fira must come to terms with his death. Leganata is there to comfort her, but she feels the loss deeply and it takes her a while to recover. When she does, she is back to her adventurous self and is willing to explore beyond the borders of Ni's Pride's homeland. On one of her journeys, she meets Hofu, who is younger than herself. He is timid and explains that he is lost, and Fira helps him return to his homeland.

A while after, Kipepeo comes to her with the news that his interests do not lie with females. No, a male has caught his eye, a rough-tough warrior from Ondoka's gang. He obviously turned Kip down, and Fira is astonished. She does not turn her brother away though, and consoles him as he pours out his sorrows.

A while later, a lion is spotted on the borders, and Fira is sent to investigate. It is Hofu, and he has returned to join Ni's Pride. Fira smiles as she recognises him, and the two embrace and go on to bonding with one another.

Fira later takes him as her mate, and the two are happy together. 

Relation to TLK: Ni's great-niece, lives in his pride, and maintains a strong relationship with him.

Bases (c) Wolfgirl50 and Sixnewadventures