Kipenzi-Reference

As a cub, Kipenzi is boisterous and loves taking on challenges, often getting her in trouble. Her manipulative attitude towards friends has always been there from the beginning, daring her friends to do dangerous tasks and using guilt and friendship as a way of persuasion. 
Despite this, she means well as a cub and befriends Amirah, who she idolizes and manages to put up with her snotty, uptight attitude. After befriending Amirah, her other friends branched off away from her, which ended up with Amirah as her only friend. 

As she grew, she became more bitter and hateful towards her pride, for shunning her and making her an outcast. Despite this she became closer and closer to Amirah until the two were inseparable.

Unfortunately for her, she turned out to be a maned lioness. As a teen, her mane began to grow and she became extremely grouchy and sensitive towards the subject, hating herself for it and feeling ashamed about it. 

Eventually, as a young adult she decided to leave the pride and become a rogue, dragging Amirah with her. She began to love life as a rogue and the freedom that came with it.
However, she will not let Amirah go, and becomes more possessive of her when she begins mentioning the possibility of searching for a mate to start a pride.
As Amirah becomes more serious about finding a mate, Kipenzi becomes more bitter towards her, and although they would never split from each other, their relationship becomes more and more weak. 

Amirah:


Edit: for those wondering about maned lionesses, they do exist! newswatch.nationalgeographic.c…