Karabi

"'You weren't born to serve a purpose, you were born to live a life! There's always a choice! What do you want your life to be? Not Lite, or your kingdom. You.' —Karabi to Kyoga about ruling the Moon Kingdom and making alliance with the Sun Kingdom in Episode 8: Rain."

Karabi, or Karabi the Terrible, was an African lioness, and an ancient chosen leader of the Storm Kingdom. She was the last leader of the Storm Kingdom before it fell.

Karabi was the chosen lioness of Cansu to lead the Storm Kingdom. While deemed responsible for Kyoga's abduction and supposedly starting a war between the three kingdoms, she and the chosen lioness for the Moon Kingdom, Kyoga, fell in love, and the two ran away. Lite, refusing to believe that his soon to be mate would run away on the day the Sun and Moon kingdom come together to finally make peace, started the war between the Sun Kingdom and Storm Kingdom.

He accused Karabi of kidnapping Kyoga, and carnage ensued. Karabi agrees to meet Lite with Kyoga at the highest point in the Emerald Valley, where she harshly tells him to stay back and that they just came there to talk. When Lite stepped too close, Karabi reacted defensively and pinned him to the ground. Although she intended to kill Lite, citing that she and Kyoga would never find peace with him around, she was ultimately stopped by Kyoga. However, Lite lunged at her throat and killed her after being let go, fearing she would've kill him some time later. This act causes Kyoga to place an everlasting curse on Lite, she and Karabi soon disappeared afterwards.

When Lite recounted the tale of the transpiring events, she villainized by him. Known as “Karabi the Terrible”, she was painted as a cruel and jealous lioness who kidnapped and later murdered Kyoga in cold blood. Lite then said he and Karabi had an intense battle which lasted days, but that Lite ultimately persevered due to the ‘power of love’ on his side. To this day, prides believe her to be one of the most heinous lionesses in history, responsible for the broken kingdoms and the instillation of Pride Law.

Personality
Karabi was portrayed by the legends to be a cruel and vain lioness, but in reality, she was kind and caring. Karabi did occasionally tease Kyoga, but it came from a good heart. She is rather bold in her opinions and is quick to act. Her kindness and willingness to not hurt Lite ended up being her downfall.

Color Palette

 * Coming soon!

Adult

 * Karabi was a purple-gray lioness with bright green eyes and a gray underbelly, paws, and muzzle. She also has gray under both her eyes along with swirl-shaped markings. She had dark purple-brown tufted, pointy ears, a tuft of hair on top of her head. She is also shown with a snaggletooth, along with a dark purple-brown tail-tip and eyelids.

Voice Actor

 * Emily Goeman

Episode One: No-Mane

 * Sharptongue tells the story of Lite and Kyoga to her three grandchildren. She tells them that Lite and Kyoga eagerly awaited their bonding day, but Kyoga was kidnapped by Karabi just before the ceremony. Later, Nothing continues telling the story to her father, and says that Karabi had killed Kyoga and about how Karabi and Lite battled for days, but Lite won with the power love, killing the lioness and creating prides and pride law.

Episode Eight: Rain

 * Karabi has been revealed to be Kyoga's mate and convinced her that she doesn't have to be married to Lite. The two run away together and when Lite gets to know about this, he believes that Karabi kidnapped Kyoga and he wages war between the Sun Kingdom and the Storm Kingdom. To end the violence, Kyoga and Karabi agree to meet Lite. Ignoring Karabi's warning that he shouldn't get close, Lite got too close to try talking to Kyoga, prompting Karabi to pounce on him and was about to kill him until Kyoga stopped her. When Lite got up, he ended up slicing Karabi's throat with his claws which caused her death. Kyoga threw a curse at Lite and vanished with her mate's corpse.

Kyoga

 * Kyoga was Karabi’s mate, and they were deeply in love. Karabi was willing to protect Kyoga from Lite with her life, and she couldn’t stand seeing Kyoga upset when she attacked her friend. She ended up dying beside Kyoga, leaving her mate devastated.

Lite

 * It is unknown about their former relationship since they didn’t interact with each other a lot, however once he found out about them, Lite started killing lions to find Kyoga, causing Karabi to believe he was insane. Karabi tried to kill him, but Lite ended up killing her after she spared his life.

Family Members

 * Partner: Kyoga
 * Sisters: Unnamed cream colored cub, Unnamed purple-gray colored cub

Trivia

 * Her relationship with Kyoga was the true reason behind Lite's decision to make homosexual partnerships forbidden among prides as he was jealous of Kyoga's relationship with Karabi.
 * It is not confirmed if Karabi was also reincarnated alongside Kyoga and Lite.