by Kallo » August 13th, 2017, 8:58 pm
TLK2 in itself is pretty weird, cause Simba doesn't really seem to age at all during what is supposedly 15-18 years. Neither does Zira, or really any other character apart from Kiara, Kovu and Vitani. Even Nuka stays the exact same. In the original Lion King, every character felt older towards the end of the film. But going by TLK2, if we were to transfer their growing to human years, it's like they grow from cubs to teenagers in like a year or two, but after that they age like in normal human years. Meaning that Simba probably ruled for a few years (from, say, age 20 to 23) before having Kiara, after which around another 2 years passed until Kiara had reached about age 14 or so. Then probably some more years passed during which Kiara would've turned about 15-18. So Simba at the start of TLK2 would've been about 23, and at the end somewhere between 26-30. While Kiara at the start would've been around 7, but at the end about 15-18. I dunno, it's all very confusing, but that's the way I always imagined it.