JUST A QUICK IDEA! if you like it reply and ill add on!

The rat-chelor..born on [enter date here]. has always had a strong connection with the smaller animals, and always refuses to eat them, taking more of a big-animal-only diet. she can send her rat friends to go spy on other lions, gather information for her. she has always been gentle with the rats, and the members of her pride. but hey, its always good to have backup right?

DECIDED TO ADD ON! (more lore-y format) [i suck at writing lore TwT]

The rat-chelor. the dwarfness that was born within amnesias pride, her mother being Nessa and her father being none other then a fellow lion with dwarfism, Kelpie'song. the first thing The rat-chelor remembers is the scent of dead rat carcasses scattered along the floor of her den..at that age she enjoyed the taste of rats..her mother always said it reminded her of a..squirrel? whats a squirrel..maybe one she she would find out. one day she was out and about with one of her fellow pridemates, when she saw it, a huge rat.it was about her size at this young age.. her pridemate crouched down to kill the rat, but something in the young cubs heart thought it wrong, stopping them and walking over to the rat in a attempt to play, but the rat ran. she kept having little encounters with rats and eventually began to speak to them about her days in the pride. as she grew more attached to the rodents she completely cut them from her diet. thinking it was wrong to eat her friends. as she grew older she started sending the rats out to other dens to gather secrets about her clanmates, mainly just because she was bored..but soon she started to become paranoid trhat her clan thought she was weird..that they didnt like her because she liked the rats..the rats..the rats, they were her key..they would help her..no matter the cost.

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She was taken by rats while the others were hunting. She was brought to a cave with another lion pride. They took her in once she was older she went to hunt and saw her real parents. But she dint remember them but they remembered her the ran towards her. She attacked them she had killed her own parents. She then had a faint memory stuck in her mind but never got that memory right...

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@Sam
Love that concept! Feel like it needs to be more lore-y looking though

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The rat-chelor
Waking sleepily, the young dwarf looked around the wasteland, eyes slowly adjusting to the sun glaring down on her.
A wave of fear swept over her as she realized her mother was nowhere to be found… she cried out for her, again and again, to no answer.
Distressed and crying, the bean scurried to the nearest rock formation to hide under the shade.
As the day went on, the sun slowly began to set. The bean’s lonely cries slowly turned to hoarse little squeaks as her voice began to weaken. “Mommy, mommy…”
Absolutely exhausted, the bean fell into a deep sleep.
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*scritch scritch*
The bean moved in her sleep
*scritch scritch scritch*
The bean started to wake
A pair of two beady black eyes stared down at her.
A giant rat hovered over her. The bean was frozen in fear.
The rat sniffed her, and sneezed a small gust of wind onto her face, scurrying away.
“Wait!”
The bean quickly picked herself up and followed the rat.
After some trotting, the pair arrived to a small cave opening. The rat squeezed inside, and the bean followed. Her fluffy body baaarely made it through.
The rat scuttled into an opening in the cave, where hundreds of pairs of beady little rat eyes stared at the two of them.
To the bean’s surprise, the rats seemed to take to her well. Sniffing her and touching her fur with their lil rat claws.
As time passes the bean seemed to miss her mother less, and become more comfortable around her rat friends. She got into the routine of coming with them at night hunting for bugs, and cuddling in a giant pile at night. As the bean got “bigger” (not by much lol) she became the head of the rats, in a way their protector. She grew accustomed to the harsh nature of the desert, and having to fight for food, but she was still fulfilled. Her coat grew darker under the beating sun through the years.
On cold dark nights, she still thought about her mother. Mixed emotions of sadness and madness filled her, but she had gotten used to this life now. Even if her mother came back, she didn’t know if she would even recognize her, or want to. The little rodents had become her family.

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@ursa
I love that! Also love her continuously being referred to as bean

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Mona was so proud when her little baby was born. It was only her first heat and she delivered exactly what her king wanted. She ran to tell him not thinking of the consequences of leaving her poor little cub all alone. A mother rat had recently lost her pups. When she heard the little baby crying out she approached. It didn’t look like a lion. And it was so small. She grabbed her taking her down into her burrow. When her mother got back with the king her precious cub was gone. They looked everywhere but she was gone. Her king consoled her… she had plenty of heats left. It may not have been the same but she was given some cubs to foster. Meanwhile the rat mom was happy again. She had a child to take care of and she was all hers. As the little cub grew the mother realized she needed to take her out of the small burrow. She dragged the baby out. She couldn’t take care of her on her own anymore. She’d had heard of gorillas taking care of cubs. No knowing what to do she brought her there. The gorillas guided the mother rat. They helped her take care of her odd little baby and soon enough she was healthy enough to live with her mother. The gorillas still paid visits. She was forever small afterall

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The dwarf's mother went out hunting, leaving her alone in the den. Many lionesses left for hunting and the main male took the heir out on patrol/tour of the territory. Of course the dwarf saw some rats sniffing for food. The dwarf playfully pounced towards them and playfully nipped at them, wanting to play. Some looked at her in awe and some looked at her in fear. The rats assumed she was one of them due to her smallness and their stupidness. The rats ushered her towards their rat lair, "accidentally" kidnapping her, or in this case, shall I say... cub-napping her. *Dramatic music in every action movie dun dun duuuunnn*

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