☆ Kᴏʀᴀ

her name means "empty". she was named rather spitefully by her mother, a rogue lioness who stopped in the pride for a moon to give birth and left without her cub. the lioness claimed that the cub's abnormal mutated coloration would make it more difficult for it to hide and hunt in the vast open savanna, and that she "didn't have time to look after a cub that would just make her own life harder". the hardened mindset was looked down upon but begrudgingly accepted by the pride because it was likely true: the cub had a much better chance of survival in a group than alone or even in a pair. and so, kora was left behind by her mother and given to one of the pride's lionesses who had had a litter around the same time as kora had been born.
kora was assigned the role of broodmother for similar reasons as why her mother had left her behind: in a hunt, she would be unhelpful at best, and at worst, she would make catching prey harder because of her distinct coat. she was okay with this, though: she never really liked the idea of having to kill other animals anyway. and so, she was content to spend her time talking with grandpaw vitani and playing with the broodmothers and the other cubs.