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[valentinbelleyh505]

i was bored lol

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TLG: Final 10 Episodes Sketch Dump

September 2nd once again fell on a Labor Day, like it once did when the final 10 episodes of TLG dropped on WatchTLG (due to its early release on the old DisneyNOW app). The alignment of the exact day, month, and holiday five years later put me in the spirit to sketch away as I rewatched these episodes.

I was there when the countdown on the WatchTLG site had about an hour left. I hadn't seen a full episode of TLG until that point because I at the time thought I wouldn't be into it. I saw the synopses for these episodes leaked somewhere online and was doubtful yet VERY hopeful that the one with Vitani's Lion Guard was going to be a real episode simply because I wanted to see her in new content, regardless of my familiarity with the show.

When I binge-watched these final episodes with a friend, my relationship with the show improved as I went to watch the rest of the show over the next few months. I was so grateful to see so much content and worldbuilding for the TLK universe

Sketch descriptions under the cut:

1. Friends to the End

I've said this before in a review of this episode, but whether or not the writers intended this, their portrayal of irritability brought on by an anxiety attack is astounding. Kion's anxiety is piled up more and more when he's in a hurry to find a cure at the Tree of Life, Bunga repeatedly tells him he's becoming like Scar, and the rest of the group just "blind leading the blind"-in their journey SO badly because they're a bunch of unsupervised freshman-aged kids who are in their "Well I wouldn't go THAT far" or "Can I be the devil's advocate" phase.

This situation of fearing becoming like a shitty family member and being told you are by people when you're already in a vulnerable state is just SO vile and unfortunately so real. I found myself relating hard to this episode due to Kion's valid af anger in this episode, which is why I had to draw Kion claiming his "Don't you just wanna go apeshit??" era.

Kion is basically me throughout this episode and the entire first half of Season 3. It is SO HARD to get through this season sometimes when these same couple of lines keep coming at least once per episode. As soon as I hear Fuli saying "Uhh... Kion?" or "KION!!" I know exactly what's coming.

2. The Tree of Life:

Since we never get to see Sahasi and Ananda's color palettes they had in life, I took what I could make out from their spirit forms as well as some creative liberties, and came up with what they may have looked like on Earth.

Ananda is where Baliyo gets his freckles and dull, dark pelt, and where Rani gets her purple pupils, red nose, and dark tail. Sahasi is where Rani gets her richer pelt and where Baliyo gets his nose gradient, multicolored mane, and lighter tail color.

Fun Fact: According to some email responses from a member of the team who worked on TLG, they said that Sahasi was meant to be Janna's son, which for me, puts an end to a debate I had in my head where I was stuck between either him or Ananda being Janna's child: On one hand, I liked the idea of Sahasi and Surak being the foils of Mufasa and Scar, but also liked the idea of Ananda as Janna's daughter and heir since they looked so alike, as well as it solidifying the martriarchy headcanon I have for the Night Pride. Though the team member didn't straight-up provide Sahasi's relation to Janna and Surak as an absolute fact, rather it was simply the gist they got from the creation of Sahasi's character, it's an answer from a team member at all, which I can absolutely settle with. I decided to give him a similar fur color to Surak because of that.

3. The River of Patience:

I just HAD to doodle eepy Kion. It's like the one part of this episode that sticks with me outside the wholesome therapy dynamics and Kion heroically holding the flower between his teeth. This is basically him but if he fully succumbed to falling asleep waiting for the log.

4. Little Old Ginterbong:

Can I just say that I fucking LOVE Mama Binturong's character?? She's absolutely insane and constantly looks like an addict that needs her fix. She makes me nostalgic for some reason, and I think it's gotta do with her Mama Gunda vibes (which is odd because I wasn't even that young when I saw Tarzan II). I had to draw her doing the thing lol

5. Poa the Destroyer:

All I could think about throughout this episode besides the rare Evil Beshte is how insufferable Pinguino is. I mean it in kind of a good way, his personality is so ridiculous that he's made me laugh a few times.

6. Long Live the Queen:

Surprisingly, the sketch regarding this episode is probably the least expected subject matter out of anything I could've put here: An idea that's been forming in my head for a bit now was the idea of Bunga and Binga continuing the fostering/babysitting business of Bunga's "uncles". Bunga is shown to be a natural with young animals in a few episodes, and it continues in the subplot of this episode where he watches over Varya's cubs.

7. The Lake of Reflection:

The one thing that viscerally stuck with me in this episode was the unbelievably cute design they gave bby Cheezi. Had to sketch him.

8. Triumph of the Roar:

Obligatory Askari sketch because I actually love drawing him and making headcanons of his era. Looking back... he kinda looks like he's looking down at the events of the bottom drawing in slight disappointment.

9. Journey to the Pride Lands:

Drew Azaad (for what I think might be the first time) with the only thing he seemed to be doing throughout this episode -- taking any opportunity he can to comment about how much better cheetahs are at basically everything. He's fun to draw and I'd like to do more art of him one day.

10. Return to the Pride Lands

This is a sketch of what I deadass thought was gonna happen during this scene the first time I saw this episode lmao. At the time, the previous two episodes were fresh on my mind so I thought Kion was once again going to spam his tornado ability, but with Vitani as his subject for his demonstration. She already knew so little of the Roar as it was, given her absence throughout most of TLG's storyline, but could you imagine what she must've been thinking seeing how much Kion's Roar evolved?

[leopardsealz]

sort of a screenshot redraw of my versions of bunga and binga (aka binti) <3 background is a screenshot from the show

[tlg-confessions]

I would love to see more people explore the love interests introduced in season 3 (Azaad, Rani, Binga) outside of being love interests for their respective ships. (Of course Azaad and Fuli's technically not being fully canon)

Like I do completely understand if you do not like them as love interests but I would loveeeee to see more content exploring Binga and Azaad for example.

Binga would need a little...fixing...she...she's not the best written character, but I would like to see people just sorta explore her. What's her family like? Does she have a family at the tree of life? Was she born at the tree? What is her relationship with Baliyo? I will forever love the bear Binga headcanons (She's an asian black bear in my universe) so maybe explore the bear side of the world through her. Explore her relationship with the other guard members, and the other animals.

Or Azaad. What is his relationship with Rani and Baliyo? (I like to think Baliyo always tried to make friends with everyone when he was young, so he and Azaad were friends and thus Rani was included in that group sometimes) Is there a larger reason as to why he has his own territory despite he was probably meant to be a similar age to the lion guard? What is his relationship with other characters?

You don't have to like their ships at all, I completely understand it, but I would honestly kill for more exploration of the characters. Although I guess that goes for most of the minor characters in the lion guard. (the gorillas are my roman empire don't get me started. I know Majinuni and Hafifu are one-off joke characters and I don't know much about Dan and Phil but they seem like they'd be so interesting to me...Like, them learning to slowly become better princes, them growing out of childish tendencies, still keeping their silliness or whatever but growing into kings/princes, maybe still every so often fearing because they think they need to make King Sokwe proud...maybe it's just my daddy issues showing though. Also like what is their relationship with Shujaa? Never explored and I grieve for that every day...but seriously I think the fact they're another "kingdom" of animals is under-utilized by this fandom and franchise)

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[kaythefloppa]

Nobody's Better Than You

Commissioned from @mantykukka for $70 (there was a delay so this was finished now when the commission was intitiated back in December, but it's here now, and she did an amazing job on it!) Give them a follow!

Bunga and Binga's first kiss following their reunion at the Tree of Life.

In my fanon, Binga's a sloth bear. To keep it brief, I do not like Binga. I found it lazy how they just decided to have Bunga's girlfriend be a cisbend of him. Out of all of the ships in Season 3 (both canon and implied), this is my least favorite because of how both characters are wasted in it.

So in my version, she's a sloth bear, keeping the theme of Bunga's girlfriend being a fellow insect predator, as well as also further establishing the "India" setting at the Tree of Life. It added the bonus of having Bunga be the small one in a height difference relationship.

Instead of being clones of each other, they are polar opposites. Binga being more shy and reserved, while Bunga is more wreckless with crackhead energy. They get to know each other and despite their differences, they get along well, to the point where their traits rub off on each other; Bunga finds ways of having fun that don't involve putting himself at risk, whilst Binga learns to take risks and make the most of what she's got. It wasn't until Bunga left after the final battle with Makucha did the two realize how much they enjoyed each other's company and how they didn't want it to end.

When the Lion Guard head back to the Tree of Life, Bunga and Binga get the chance to meet each other again, and are ecstatic to see their respective childhood friends (Kion and Rani) get married and crowned. That night, they meet up with each other to have a proper reunion, to catch each other up on anything and in the moment, confess that the most fun that they've ever had was each other. Aaand cue their first kiss.

[tired-lamb]

happy birthday @valentinbelleyh505 !!!

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[worldssillyestanimal]

what about Binga from The Lion Guard and Lammy from Happy Tree Friends? they have basically the same colors 😭

also Amethyst from Steven Universe-

i am bingas 1 hater sorry

[funnypal-22]

Can you tell which one is the girl