Thinking about how What Is This Feeling? from Wicked fits Spotted Lion Polycule because all 3 ships that make it up have hated each other at some point in the past.
"Every little trait, however small/ Makes my very flesh begin to crawl"
Kion: "Why...you're a hyena!"
Jasiri: "Why yes. I am."
"Why would you help me?! You're a hyena!" "You lions really do think all hyenas are bad."
Kion and Jasiri (mostly Kion) hated eachother when they first met each other. Kion's racism/prejudice towards hyenas makes him just see Jasiri as a threat overall, and doesn't listen to her when she gives him directions to leave the outlands/her territory. Jasiri gives the attitude back to him and let's him lead himself into a thornbush.
Then he sprains his paw and is surprised when Jasiri helps him out, but he still doesn't trust her fully. Then when he ignorantly assumes she doesn't know about the Circle of Life and tries to teach it to her, she teaches him Sisi Ni Sawa. And then later in the episode, he helps her fight off Janja and his clan, and they become friends (and more).
Kion gives Jasiri someone she can trust outside of her clan and herself, helping save her clan's watering hole from Zira and later the Outlands as a whole. Jasiri helps Kion defend the Pridelands against Scar's army, and later goes back to him to warn him about Zira's pride (parallels/full circle moment).
"For your face, your voice, your clothing! Let's just say...I loathe it all"
"Hyenas should be rotten/ Hyenas should be mean/ But then you've got Jasiri/ She's like nothing that you've seen!"
We don't know when these two starting hating each other, but we know from Never Judge a Hyena by its Spots, they're both established enemies to each other by that point. Janja hates Jasiri because she respects the Circle of Life, basically the opposite of what the negative stereotype of hyenas stand for - and being ally to Kion, the Lion Guard, and the Pridelands.
Jasiri hates, or atleast doesn't like Janja because of the opposite. Attacking her on his territory, forcing him out of her own, attacking her family and friends, etc. She still sees the good in him, even if he doesn't see it himself, and saves him from falling into lava during the Hyena Resistance, and tells him he doesn't have to side with Scar anymore.
And then while he lashes out physically, Jasiri's offer stays with him mentally throughout the rest of the war. He questions whether the war is worth it for him and is clan, and it isn't until he and his clan betrayed by Scar, and he changes For Good (get it?) because of her.
Plus, I'm gonna be honest: this song very The Worst Hyena We Know coded.
"Though I do admit it came on fast/ Still I do believe that it can last"
"Leave Janja to me!" "I told you to stay out of the Pridelands/Did ya? Must have forgot!"
These two have hated eachother since they were KIDS lmao. The Lake of Reflection basically shows us that Janja and Kion became enemies on sight after Kion and the rest of the soon to be Lion Guard saw Janja, Cheezi, and Chungu stealing baby Ono's egg. The way they personally seek eachother out during fights (mostly Kion, AGAIN, mind you) is so funny because what do you mean you've had a heated rivalry with eachother since you were 5, and now your 12 and still fighting him, and now you're 16 and still fighting the going for the same guy specifically.
Okay jokes aside, Janja hates Kion because he always messes up his plans and ruining his chances to literally just eat (minus overhunting). Kion hates Janja because he overhunts and attacks him family and friends.
And then during Battle For the Pridelands, when Janja, Cheezi, and Chungu distract the Lion Guard while Scar's army traps them in a fire in Priderock, Kion says "I respect all parts of the Circle of Life, even the lives of those who don't" (or something similar).
Honestly, I don't know what to put for them :/. But I do think that Janja was surprised that Kion and Jasiri were able to forgive him so easily after everything. Plus with Jasiri teaching Kion Sisi ni Sawa, Kion's mindset towards Janja probably changed too. Yes, he's still his enemy, but I think he had a sliver of hope things would change for him too. And they both played a part in summoning Scar as well, as well as living under his shadow/watch too.
"And I will be loathing, for forever loathing/ Truly, deeply loathing you/ My whole life long"
Shout out to @dawn-sunlight and her posts about these three and inspiration.
