the lion guard was so fucking funny. disney jr show that confirmed “can you feel the love tonight” was a sex scene in episode one. simba spent so long angsting over his dead dad and kion can just call him up for a pep talk whenever the fuck he wants. timon and pumbaa adopted a whole-ass second child in case you were wondering if they were still gay. lion king 2 is still canon it just happened during like the week kion was out. the episodes are written for 5yos and then like a season in the villains necromance scar to traumatize the main kid and permanently blind a main character. zira was a lion supremecist
The point of the lion guard to me is the diversity of the team and I thought it would be interesting to flip this on its head a bit, as in making Kion an adopted prey animal. It forces the royal family to acknowledge a double standard in how prey animals are treated in the pridelands. Kion knows what happened to his parents but he’s a member of the royal family and thus cannot connect with other zebras. It creates a very complicated dynamic between Kion and his adopted family
Disney would NEVER but it’s a good thing I’m not Disney 😀
fun lion guard au: a royal mjuzi for the outlands.
now hear me out, i think it'd be SO cool to see an animal in the outlands chosen to help jasiri with her duties. i know in canon mjuzis are chosen at birth... but if you go with the presumable concept that no animal communicates with the lions of the past besides mjuzis, then it could've easily been a missed vision, especially as it seems mjuzis are usually mandrills and they seem to focus mainly on the lion royal family. besides, if rafiki got a vision that an outlander was chosen to be a mjuzi, he'd probably be in such disbelief that he'd play it off as mufasa pranking him lol
also you could argue that ushari got a vision opposed to just wanting revenge against the lion guard, and that's he's the royal mjuzi of resurrected!scar. he's by his side advising him. he doesn't necessarily do everything a mjuzi of the pridelands would because... you know... he's working for scar?... but it could also be room for a redeemed ushari au :D
but all in all, any outlander as jasiri's royal mjuzi would be fun and interesting!
i wanna like to add who i personally think would be funniest :3
this guy. yes, nduli. partly because i love him BUT i do have some reasons behind my choice for this specific au! including:
he's a crocodile
he tried to kill king simba. just imagine it, a mjuzi- who are typically aligned with royalty- who attempted assassination of the king of the pridelands
he was banished to the outlands, which makes him being the outlands' mjuzi even more funny seeing as he's originally a pridelander
he was involved in fights with jasiri multiple times, and now he's her royal mjuzi. i mean, come on, that's hilarious
to add on to that, kiburi's float are listed as neutral allegiance after scar was defeated. they don't have any alliances, or at least kiburi wouldn't care to, but then his float member has to, or even willingly, becomes mjuzi LMAO
have i mentioned that he's a crocodile? there's likely a reason mandrills are royal mjuzis, because of they can use their hands and feet effectively. but a crocodile? man's only got his mouth and maybee his tail
the reason i picked him over others is because, as with @devilsrecreation's great headcanons, i think he's the youngest of the crocodiles and one of the youngest in the outlands too. because of that i like to think he's pretty optimistic towards any situation, to the point where he's naïve. just imagine it. jasiri comes up to kiburi's float like, "hey, uhm... nduli's supposed to be royal mjuzi... :|" and while kiburi is confused af, nduli's just goes "oh, okay!" because he's a bit of a follower. no shame on him tho i think it sells the whole thing more lmao
someone posted this on tiktok and it fucked me UPPPPP
i have seen both movies literally hundreds of times and didn’t notice this parallel. really drives home how much trauma still lives in simba’s head. poor fella
this is not my tiktok, but i do encourage you to check out @/ tlktlg on that platform as they have amazing content.