☆ Kwanza

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When Nyeupe first noticed that her one cub had a bobbed tail, she could immediately sense something awry with this kitten. It squirmed under her soft tongue as she licked it clean, exposing its abundance of dirt tinted fur. Its canines jutted down from its little muzzle, and its claws grew back stronger and larger as soon as they were sanded down by the scratching and scrambling about that it began to indulge in.
On the other hand, the cub’s father was beyond delighted. He showed off his new daughter to whoever would listen to his ramblings, declaring that she was the future of the pride. After some hushed discussion, Nyeupe and Feri I decided to name their daughter ‘Kwanza’, meaning ‘first’ to celebrate the milestone this kitten represented in the growing pride.
At 5 months old, Kwanza started sneaking out of the nursery cave to visit her animal friends. Rats, bees, deer and even foxes followed the cub around as she talked to them, showing off the scar that was etched into the flesh on her back, which she claimed was delivered by a hyena on a trip out of the cave with her father once, though it really came from another cub that had hit her a little too hard when playfighting.
As she grew older, more and more animals started to appear, to the point that Feri I had to ban her from bringing more of them into the cave.
At 1 year old, Kwanza became a little grumpier. She’d started lashing out at her parents and spending more time away from camp to start her own animal nursery. It was clear to her that her dream would one day be to raise her animals friends away from danger, to protect them from the outside world. The other lions admitted that this was a rather odd goal, as her sharp teeth and blood-red eyes suggested to them that she’d be a complete killer, not a pacifist.
At 1 year and 6 months, Kwanza welcomed her half sister Alfajiri’s leopard cub pet Ziwa into the animal nursery. The two lionesses started spending more time together, bonding over jokes about how overbearing their father was.
At 2 years old, Kwanza looked truly intimidating: her lynx-like ears, overgrown fangs and bobbed tail made her appearance seem similar to that of another species. She was a lot larger than her pridemates. Unfortunately, this evolution in appearance scared away all but one of her animal friends; an adorable nyala calf that she named Mirah.

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This lion was born to https://www.lioden.com/lion.php?mid=490738 and https://www.lioden.com/lion.php?id=794228018474 on 24/9/24 using an instant birth feather. She is the first felis primal I have owned, and the first mutation I’ve bred. No breeding items aside from the instant birth feather were used.