Gender: Female
Age: Three [human years]
Mate: N/a
Personality wrote:Nanelia is very outspoken and just a bit vain. She likes making others laugh and cheering up those who are upset, but can just as easily crush someone in a good mood. She doesn't come across as the wisest lioness, but if you come to her with questions you'll leave with answers and advice. She loves cubs, and loves to manipulate them into doing stuff like wrestling a rock even more.
History wrote:Nanelia was born into a group of prideless lions and lionesses. The leader of them, who's mate had been killed by a pride's leader years before, refused to call their group a pride, so they were simply a group. There weren't any rules in the group, which meant the lions and lionesses could do as they pleased. This also allowed them to kill. Nanelia's mother was killed over a zebra she and another lioness had caught while hunting. Since she had no siblings and her father wasn't around, Nanelia was alone in the group. The leader insisted that only lions who could contribute could remain in the group, and because she was so small and still a cub, she was forced to leave. A pride found her and allowed her to stay for awhile, but they too kicked her out eventually. The young cub felt so rejected that she decided to live in the forest away from all the prides and lone lions.
In the forest, her day-to-day life was basically the same. Hunt, go to the river for water, eat, fight off the occasional attacker- which was easy because they were typically old/weak lions, and run from the hunters that ventured to close to her den. As she grew bigger, she learned how to defend herself from the hunters and, even better, how to hide from them. She considered herself pretty cool for surviving on her own so long, with hunters basically living by her. She didn't think she needed anyone, not friends nor family.
One day, she was tracking a group of hunters. They'd been venturing close to her den and she wanted to see where they were camped. But they never reached their campsite. A lone lion had made the mistake of running out in front of the hunters, and they gave chase, and so did she. They cornered the lion against some boulders and began to advance. When she was sure that the lion couldn't defend himself, as he wasn't making an effort to attack or flee, she pounced. She jumped onto a hunter's back to stun him, and while the others recovered from their shock, she escaped with the lone lion. She took pity on the lion named Killian, because he was alone and strangely small as she was. She allowed him to stay at her den and taught him how to defend himself against other lions and hunters, as well as how to hunt because he failed at it.
One day, the lion asked her about her past. Nanelia gave some vague info, telling him that her mother died and she just had to fend for herself because she couldn't find a pride. Killian seemed to be satisfied with the answer, so she decided to ask him about his past. He told her everything, from forming their own pride to falling in love to leaving his pride. She was furious that he could leave his only family behind and live in the forest without a second thought. She was so angry at the idea that his family meant so little to him that he could leave, she began to yell. She screamed about how he was being stupid for ditching his brother to lead his pride, how he should have stayed. Since she was alone, the thought of having family and leaving them was unheard of. Killian eventually broke down and said he'd go back, and Nanelia insisted that she come along. After Killian living with her, she realized that she really wanted a friend.
The two searched the reserve and soon found Killian's brother, Coffin, and his mate Silver Sky living in a make-shift den at the edge of the reserve. She and Killian hunted for them so that they could rebuild their strength, then the four went to reclaim the brothers' pride. She was excited to fight the new leader- but Killian crushed her excitement when he and Coffin said that they had to do it alone. So while the brothers fought, she and Silver Sky waited around. The only thing Nanelia remembers about that is how boring it was. After the brothers sorted out leadership and who was loyal to them, Killian asked Nanelia if she would stay with them. She said she would, and has been there ever since.
