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There are a few rules that come with this cub, as noted below.

1. Her name must be in Zulu and it must be something positive or resilient. Her sister's name means 'has come up victorious in what was a hopeless, dreadful, precarious situation', for example.
2. She must stay in the Bonelands until adolescence.
3. If you wish you can have her be born ill as her mother was, but it's not mandatory.
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Name: Melokuhle
Meaning: One who represents good things.
Personality: Melokuhle is a bit rough around the edges. Highly competitive and sometime brash in the way she talks, she'll get in your face if you say something she doesn't like and isn't afraid to be critical towards someone's actions. This, obviously, gets her into a few scrapes, but she's a tough one and can usually stand her ground. She's really not a mean person though. She's got a soft spot towards her sister, just about the only person she'll really show her softer side to, and enjoys a good game or joke.
Melo is also perhaps not the cleanest lioness around. She would much rather roll around in dirt and have mud dripping from her fur than spend what she views as "wasted time" cleaning over and over again. What's the point if she's just going to get dirty again later? As an adult, she'll usually have to be persuaded into bathing. As a cub? Well, the other lionesses are going to have to get good at chasing her down.
As a side note, knowing it was her mothers health that failed her, Melokuhle will always hold a fear that it could eventually pass on to either her, her sister or any cubs she might have.
How does she react to growing up without a biological 'mother'? Through cubhood and adolescence, I imagine her being rather confused and angry over it. While she knows what happened, and she's grateful to her pridemates for raising her and her sister, she'll still get defensive when the topic comes up. There will be times where she will leave to be by herself, with her sister being the only person she'll really tolerate following her. Others run the risk of getting their heads bitten off for trying.
As she goes into adulthood, she'll eventually cool off and accept that what happened, happened, and there's no point in getting sad about it now. Instead, Melo will decide to experience as much of life as she can, seeing as her mother couldn't. She will start really trying to get close to others, in turn becoming much more approachable, and will sometimes go on little explorations around the pride lands. That being said, there will still be times where she'll just disappear for a few hours to be by herself, and it's usually best to leave her be in those cases.

Name: Jabulile
Meaning: "Be cheerful, be happy"
Personality: Adventurous and unintentionally mischievous, Jabulile just cannot sit still. Everyday leaves her eager to search out a new excitement and, due to her lack of reservations, she has no problem tailing after various members in the pride to find the thrill of the day. Contrary to her dear late mother, Jabulile's energy seems bottomless. She could often be seen dashing around the land or not so sneakily trailing after her daily target.
How does she react to growing up without a biological 'mother'? Jabulile does not necessarily feel sadness or anger towards her late mother. In fact, for a while, she had been fully convinced that she had multiple mothers and believed that it was completely and utterly normal. When she finally grew to realize that her biological mother had passed, enough time had passed to where there was not an emptiness but rather a curiosity. How could she miss someone that she didn't know she once had? Instead of mourning over a death long past, Jabulile launched into a full scale barrage of questions, interrogating anyone she could get her paws on about just how her mother lived or how she looked. Including her own sister originally, excitement and curiosity too large to remember that her litter mate couldn't possibly have the answers she is looking for.

Name: Ntokozo
Meaning: Happiness or joy
Personality: Little Kozo is a curious and friendly type who loves to be involved with the greater workings of the pride. She doesn't really care how hard a job is, as long as she can be social with the lionesses she grew up to love. However, she can also be anxious. Even the slightest scratch can give her a reason to worry and she will fret about injury and illness too much.
How does she react to growing up without a biological 'mother'? Ntokozo didn't feel any different from the other cubs in the pride for a long time. The other cubs were cared for by multiple lionesses, so it didn't really strike her as unusual until she was old enough to understand more about families and mothers, and even after that, she was grateful to her mother for giving her the chance to live and vowed to never forget her. Her more troubling thoughts only started when she discovered that her mother was sickly and that she had lost siblings, too. Even though Ntokozo seems perfectly healthy, she is convinced that she is unusually fragile and that worry extends to her littermate sister. She tends to worry over the other lionesses too, in case one of her friends ends up sickly with cubs like her mother. In the future, she will be afraid to have cubs of her own.

Eeee! Thank you~! ;u; Suuuuper excited to role play her.