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Okay so after a discussion in Discord, we figured that Nuka was probably originally going to be Scar's heir, but Nuka would have trouble listening and get easily distracted during royal lessons, which displeased Scar and made it clear that attention deficiency was not at all king-material in his eyes. Nuka's curious, playful, and rather clueless and immature nature reminded him all too much of his nephew. Scar was going to have to find a new heir if he and Zira could not make one themselves.

So the Pridelands aren't quite as dry and barren as they were at the climax of the movie, I headcanon Nuka was born around the time where the Pridelands were just starting to lose life. At this stage there would at least be a bit of water and healthy trees left, but not for long.

As for Nuka's design, he's not as disheveled and emaciated as he is in the movie because he hadn't yet become unhealthy from neglect and living in the Outlands. Before his eye-rims became baggy and heart-shaped as they appear in the movie, they used to be like Scar's.

Also, instead of the sun being in front of Scar and Nuka like it was with Mufasa and Simba, the sun is behind them. I did that to sorta symbolize how backwards/upside down the world became when Scar came into rule.

The butterfly Nuka is chasing is an African Leaf Butterfly, when its wings are folded up, it looks like a dead, fallen leaf, thus giving it its namesake.

Description
Okay so after a discussion in Discord, we figured that Nuka was probably originally going to be Scar's heir, but Nuka would have trouble listening and get easily distracted during royal lessons, which displeased Scar and made it clear that attention deficiency was not at all king-material in his eyes. Nuka's curious, playful, and rather clueless and immature nature reminded him all too much of his nephew. Scar was going to have to find a new heir if he and Zira could not make one themselves.

So the Pridelands aren't quite as dry and barren as they were at the climax of the movie, I headcanon Nuka was born around the time where the Pridelands were just starting to lose life. At this stage there would at least be a bit of water and healthy trees left, but not for long.

As for Nuka's design, he's not as disheveled and emaciated as he is in the movie because he hadn't yet become unhealthy from neglect and living in the Outlands. Before his eye-rims became baggy and heart-shaped as they appear in the movie, they used to be like Scar's.

Also, instead of the sun being in front of Scar and Nuka like it was with Mufasa and Simba, the sun is behind them. I did that to sorta symbolize how backwards/upside down the world became when Scar came into rule.

The butterfly Nuka is chasing is an African Leaf Butterfly, when its wings are folded up, it looks like a dead, fallen leaf, thus giving it its namesake.