Name: Mpenda

Name meaning: Lover

Age: Depends on use

Age reference: Same age as Uru

Gender: Male

Generation: Mohatu's reign

Parents: Pridelander lioness + Fujo

Siblings: Mabaya

Crush: Adia, Nubia

Mate: Adia (deceased), Nubia (current)

Cubs: Sarabi, Naanda, Dwala and Diku

Relation to TLK: Father of Sarabi and her sisters, Brother to Zira's father

Pelt: Light greyish brown

Eyes: Turquoise

Mane: Dark brown almsot black

Body built: Mpenda has only Pridelander traits expect for his nose

Personality: Mpenda is kind, very romantic, charming, friendly, funny, protective, sleepy, strong and brave, severe and angry when needed

Likes: His family, flirt with lionesses, play, hunt, sleep, watch the stars, good jokes

Dislikes: Hyenas, blood, death, suffer, his brother

History: One day a Pridelander lioness met a lion in his pride, she got pregnant from him but she returned for the Pridelands and never saw the lion again. After that, the lioness gave birth to 2 cubs, 2 males that she called Mpenda and Mabaya. Mpenda was a strong cub while Mabaya wasn't much, the two brothers never liked eachother and instead of fight everytime they just didn't talked to eachother so much, Mpenda always had a charm to attract girls, but some of them thought that he was just a showoff dumb, he's life was good in the Pridelands and he loved it.

One day, Mpenda's mother died in the hunting and the cubs had no one to take care of them, Mohatu called the cubs's father by sending him a message by his majordomo. The father of Mpenda and Mabaya was Kujo, he was king of the Borderlands, his pride was allied with the Pridelands and they lived close to plateaus and also close to the Pridelands. Kujo went to the Pridelands and to take his sons to his pride and take care of them, at first Mpenda liked his father, he made him forget about his mother death and made him happy, however Mpenda would always had the pain of seeing the death of his mother. In Kujo's pride Mpenda's life wasn't so different from what he lived in the Pridelands, there was the cubs to play, lionesses, safe territories for them to rest and play, it was pretty nice. The only thing that Mpenda didn't liked was the fact that his father was always busy, he neverr had time for him and Mabaya or for his wife Taila. 

Also, as a cub Mpenda never actually understood marriage, dating a lioness or anything, even if he was a charming, flirtatious and girls would constantly fall for him, he hadn't all the notion from what he was doing. And he never accepted that his father had a wife that wasn't his biological mother, Taila never had cubs with Kujo, even if they loved each other, he never wanted to have cubs with her. During the first days, Talia was jealous from Mpenda and Mabaya but then she became more friendly and wanted the cubs to call her mother, Mabaya was the only one who accepted, while Mpenda never really liked her. Time went on and on, Mpenda was growing into a charming and strong lion his brother as always was never better than him. During teenagehood Mpenda dated many lionesses but always breaked up with them, and still had the attention from most females. During teenagehood, Kujo choosed Mpenda to be king after him, this only led Mabaya to hate his brother more but Mpenda don't even cared, Mabaya wasn't like Scar, he hated his brother but he never did any harm to him.

Growing up more and becoming more responsible and mature, Mpenda found the love of his life, Adia, they were close friends when cubs and always liked each other, Mpenda dated Adia easily just using his natural charms, and they dated for a long period of time. When Kujo passed away, Mpenda became king, he was responsible with his duties and had enough time for his wife. Soon, he had his first cub, a girl cub that he called Naanda, he was very happy for the cub and loved after 2 years Adia had more 3 cubs, all of them were girls, Sarabi, Diku and Dwala, in the beggining Naanda didn't accepted her sisters but she learned to love them as time went on. The family was complete and happy, Mabaya also had a daugther that was called Zira, when Mabaya had his daugther he and Mpenda became more close.

However, after some years, when Mpenda's daugthers were happy and playful already full young cubs, Adia died, she was biten by a snake while she defended her daugthers from it. Mpenda became depressive and angry he don't even looked at his daugthers, he didn't cared about anything. Anything made him angry, he just wanted to stay in a cave, he barely eated, even his daugthers couldn't help him. But one day, one of the lioness called Nubia decided to talk with him and try to help, after months talking and spending much time together Mpenda fell in love for Nubia and she became the new queen. Sarabi and her sisters accepted Nubia well, but Naanda hated her more than anything, when she heard that Nubia was her father's new wife she went out of control, she argued with her father a lot because she wanted Nubia out of her family, Mpenda tried to control Naanda but she was stubborn and would never listen. While, Mpenda tried to make Nubia confortable in his family Naanda wanted to destroy her, while Sarabi and the other sisters were nice and friendly. Time went on and Sarabi and her sister grew up, Naanda still hated Nubia but she was trying to get better after her father advices. Time went on, Sarabi and Zira moved to the Pridelands as teenagers and deicided to live there forever. Mpenda stayed in the Borderlands with his wife and his 3 daugthers.

After some years, Nubia had a male cub, Mpenda decided that if none of his daugthers get married until the cub was a teengaer then he would be king, otherwise one of his daugthers would become queen. Mpenda just continued his life taking care of his family and living much as he could

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