Tojo

GENERATION: 8

SOURCE: Semi-Canon Character; based on "Tojo" from the TLK comic 'The Orphaned Baby Birds'.

RESIDENCE: Pride Lands (formerly) | Dawn Lands (formerly) | Skybreeze Tribe

PRIDE: Ndona (formerly) | Alfajiri (formerly)

SIBLINGS:  Jelani

HALF-SIBLINGS: Mufasa | Shari

OFFSPRING: Canard

PERSONALITY: TBA

PHYSICALITY: Large | Stocky | Muscular

BIO:

Tojo is the son of the elderly former Prince Consort Ahadi and Sade of the Pride Lands. Tojo is very young when his father dies, and so is left to his widowed mother and elder brother to raise. He's a happy youth, albeit a bit shy and bashful compared to his peers in his age group. Tojo was well known for being clumsy and uncoordinated compared to the other cubs, and often managed to injure himself in some way. Eventually this comes to a head, and he has an accident as a cub that results in a broken rear leg, rendering him unable to use it properly for the rest of his life. Tojo is depressed for many months after this occurs, resentful that he must rest and try to heal while all his friends could still run around and play. Even though his leg manages to heal itself to some extent, it is never the same again, and he has to be extremely careful in case it ever became broken again.

Tojo becomes lost after this. He could no longer keep up with his friends, and his mother was a ball of fretful nerves whenever he so much as stumbled.  His friends try their best to cheer him up, to play games at Tojo's pace, but even this could not cheer the young lion up. He ends up staying home more and more often, thinking there wasn't any point in going outside if he can't do anything he wanted to anymore. He feels broken, and worries he will not be able to contribute to the pride as he grows, and knows his chances of making it on the Lion Guard were slim.

Happiness comes in the form of six orphaned baby falcons, who Tojo ends up adopting. Looking after the young chicks brings him out of his shell once more, and it feels good to be taking care of someone else for once. From then on Tojo is not seen without his birds, and even after being exiled from the Pride Lands by Scar the young lion takes them with him.

Tojo settles into Malka's pride along with his peers, with King Davu welcoming them to stay until they were all fully grown and ready to survive on their own. The blue eyed male thrives despite his injured leg, and is able to join in on hunts and border patrols, albeit at his own pace. He finds his true calling as a healer, and trains under the pride's shaman to be able to help those who are injured like he was. The pride however get constantly frustrated with Tojo coming home with all sorts of misfits and lost creatures, from orphaned servals to injured zebras. After a while, Tojo leaves, deciding that he wanted to help others throughout the lands, not just here in the Dawn Pride's territory.

He forms his own 'pride' called the Skybreeze Tribe, which welcomes any and all creatures into it's fold. It's a place for the young and the old, the injured or the lost, no matter the species, his own Tree of Life. his mate, Desta, comes with him, and the two have a single cub named Canard.

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Tojo is based on a cub of the same name from the TLK comic 'The Orphaned Baby Birds'.