Name: Zuri (African for 'beautiful')

Sex: Female

Parents: Judas and Baako

Siblings: Ayodele (full); Kayode, Ari, Kesi, Jiro, Jalena, Gwandoya, Lindiwe, Kayin, Erevu, Duni (half)

Mate: N/A

Cubs: N/A

Theme Song: "Master of Puppets" by Metallica

Personality: Originally just a rude and selfish cub who wanted to win her father's love, Zuri's moralty quickly fell off its hinges with her deranged and warped idea of superiority over all others. If she couldn't be happy, well then no one could be happy. Zuri had an unreasonable hatred for Kayode, believing that he took all of Judas's love for himself, and that was why their father never gave Zuri the time of day (which is untrue - Judas loved all his cubs, but Zuri's feelings of neglect distorted her own thoughts so she felt that she was unloved). With now being a ghost, Zuri intends to wreck havoc for the sheer hilarity of it.

History: Not long after Kayode's celebrated birth, the pride had yet another cub born, this time it was Baako's. Zuri was another pleasant surprise for the pride, especially after the failed attempts to bear cubs between the two favorite females. Baako was very happy to bear a live cub and spoiled Zuri, but not to the point where Zuri became a spoiled cub. Baako was too laidback to spoil her own cub to that extent. But it didn't work and Zuri grew up feeling more important than her other siblings.

She had some jealously towards Kayode because she was convinced (and believed) that Kayode was the favorite son. She tried to do things to impress her father, and while he did give her attention, Zuri was still convinced he loved Kayode more. That's when she began acting out, bullying the other cubs who were born, just to get her father's attention. All she usually gets is a firm scolding from her mother.

When Ikeena and Reno came across Judas's pride, Zuri became interested in them and decided to join them in hopes that she would become stronger. She was a favorite for Reno and he taught her all he knew. Zuri grew up into a beautiful but evil lioness who began losing what trace of sanity she had left in her head. Her new ambition was to kill Kayode. In her mind she believed that if she did this, her father would reward her.

The first thing she did as soon as she and her adopted 'siblings' Chari and Adwin left Reno and Ikeena's safety was turn on the both of them. Chari earned his scars from Zuri's attack after Adwin stood up to her. After that, Zuri went to find Kayode.

She eventually found him and killed him. Feeling quite accomplished with herself, Zuri returned to the pride where she announced to them that she had killed Kayode. Her siblings turned against her, and Jiro and a lioness named Nyako returned in time to save Jiro's sister Jalena from ending up as Zuri's next victim. A great battle was fought, and in the end Zuri was killed by Ari.

However, Zuri's mischief did not end in her death. Now haunting the afterlife (since she was rejected from entering The King's Court), Zuri decided to set her eyes upon a young cub named Abel, who was unknowingly her cousin. She began to brainwash him, telling him that she had been wrongly killed by her pride. This set up Abel's ambition to become king and take out her family pride. For the most part Zuri watched the events unfold in amusement.

When her plan with Abel fell through, Zuri left him to find another target. It took more years of waiting until Zuri found another host, a cub who suffered insecurity from her 'mother's' neglect named Nkiru. Zuri began to manipulate Nkiru's heart for her own doings.

Family History:

Great-Great Grandparents: Mohatu and Thema

Great-Grandparents: Ahadi and Uru/Olric and Sia

Grandparents: Mufasa and Sarabi/Ari and Quanna

Great-Aunts: Nomusa, Sassia

Aunts: Enu, Jira, Tamu

Relation to TLK: Daughter of Judas who is the son of Mufasa and Sarabi