Proudmane

"'How is it that I've captured an entire Pride of heretics? Go and chase your ghost! You're all replaceable!' —Proudmane lashing out at Hover, Farleap, and Powerstrike in Episode 7: Hover."

Proudmane is an African barbary lion, and the current Mane of the Sisters Steppe.

Proudmane was a former member of a bachelor group. As Fire brought Feather and Nothing to the bachelor group to visit, Feather brought up the fact that Quickmane, his father, is half-blind. This sparked Proud's interest, and he formed a plan to attack the Mane and take over his Pride.

Proud eventually found Quickmane in a thunderstorm, and went at him from his blind side, killing him. He then encountered Nothing, and demanded to know where the rest of her Pride was. She reluctantly told him that the other lionesses were at the Sisters Steppe with the cubs. Proud then planned to kill her, but she stopped him. She warned him not to hurt her, telling him that Quickmane had tried to, but was killed. Although not believing her, Proud eventually gave in and exiled Nothing, telling the Pride that he killed her as he took over.

Seasons later, Longrun and Farleap confronted Proudmane, as they had found out that Nothing is alive, and wonder why Proudmane would lie. After a big arguement, Powerstrike, Farleap, and Longrun all decided to leave the Sisters Steppe, leaving Proudmane behind with Waterhunter, Silentstalk and his cubs.

Personality

 * Proudmane cares a lot about loyalty and his friendships. He is dedicated to survival, and shows sympathy to Nothing as he reveals the true purpose of killing Quickmane. Proudmane is also shown to be cunning, using Feather as a tool and using his information to his advantage.


 * He is strongly devoted to Pride Law, indirectly making him homophobic in the process, due the law forbidding relationships between lionesses. He has an orthodox and conservative way of thinking when it comes to Pride Law, as he didn't accept Longrun's relationship with Nothing and shows no leniency. He is shown to have a short temper when he tries to attack Hover after she insulted him.

Color Palette
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Adult

 * Proudmane is a light brown barbary lion with a pale brown muzzle, belly, paws, and pale around the bottom edges of his eyes. He has a large chocolate brown mane and strands of his mane draping down the sides of his face and spike up in several places. He often wears a calm and stoic look on his face, unless provoked. He is very muscular and tall with orange eyes.

Voice Actor

 * Chris O'Bray

Episode Four: Outsider

 * While Fire is introducing the members of his bachelor group, Proud is seen eating a wildebeest leg that his subordinates had hunted. When Nothing introduces herself alongside Feather, he starts talking about her name being Nothing, stating that it fits and that names must reflect on traits, and believes that she must be good at nothing if she was named that.


 * Fire excuses this as Proud having a glip sense of humour, but Tangle disagrees and interrupts Proud. After Tangle introduces himself, Feather talks about the story of Quickmane's scar. Proud is surprised and talks about her courage to have done this to a No-Mane, and hints deviousness when he finds out Quickmane's weakness from Feather rambling on how easy it was to spook him on his blind side.

Episode Five: Escape

 * As Nothing calls out after Fire, Proud is revealed as the killer of Quickmane. He threatens Nothing not to move, and demands to know where the rest of her Pride is, to which Nothing hesitantly tells him are at the Sisters Steppe with the cubs.


 * As Proud intends to kill Nothing, believing that she wouldn't be useful in his newly obtained Pride, Nothing reveals that she is under the protection of the Goddesses, and that he shouldn't kill her, otherwise the Goddesses would punish him. Despite the fact that Proudmane doesn't believe her, he lets her go, with the intention of telling the Pride that he killed her. As Nothing leaves, he lets her know that it was nothing personal, and that it is crucial for the survival of a No-Mane.

Episode Six: Prideless

 * When Feather finds out that Quickmane is dead, he begs Nothing to tell him which No-Mane killed him. Nothing reluctingly tells him that it was Proud, and Feather echoes his name angrily.

Episode Seven: Hover

 * In several flashbacks, Proudmane is seen to be the new Mane of the Sisters Steppe, also being the father of Waterhunter's cubs.


 * After Longrun discovers through Rain that Nothing is alive, Farleap points out that Proudmane told the Pride that he killed her. This only pushes Longrun to wonder why he would lie however, and she goes to confront him. Going back to the Sisters Steppe, Longrun approaches Powerstrike and asks where he is. Powerstrike lets them know that he doesn't wish to be disturbed, but Longrun finds him walking with Silentstalk, and decides to walk up to them.


 * When questioned by Longrun about Nothing, he insists on his lie and states that he killed her. However, when he learns about Longrun's relationship with Nothing, he reminds her that lioness relationships are against Pride Law, and dangerously warns her she could be killed for this. Despite this, Powerstrike comes to Longrun's defense and reveals that her and Quickmane knew about their relationship, yet allowed her to stay in the Pride anyways, and asks Proudmane to honour that decision.


 * However, Proudmane refuses, reminding them that he is not Quickmane, adding that in his Pride, all ancient laws are enforced. He then attempts to strike a deal with Longrun, telling her that if she pledges her life to him and her Pride, then he will forget about it. Angered, Longrun refuses and openly disrespects him, causing Proudmane to get furious and raise his claws to hit Longrun, but he ends up hitting Farleap as she covers for Longrun, who gets a wound on her back. Proudmane later gets furious and tells Longrun, Farleap, and Powerstrike to go find Nothing if they cared so much, declaring that they're all replaceable. When Silentstalk tries to stop Farleap from leaving, he tells her that Longrun has infected the Pride, and the two later walk away together.

Episode Nine: Fire

 * When Fire and Nothing reunite, Fire asks Nothing what she's doing on the Prideless Stretch, to which Nothing tells him that Proud forced her to leave. During a flashback sequence told by Fire, Proud is seen fighting Quickmane. Proud is told to have ambushed Quickmane from his blind side, and continued to fight him as he let Fire and Tangle escape.

Episode Ten: Pride Law

 * While Fire and Nothing are fighting, Fire screams at Nothing that Proud let her live because of him, and that she owes Fire everything because of it.

Nothing

 * Proudmane has been shown to be cold towards Nothing. When he meets Nothing and learns of her name, he agrees that if she is not good at anything, it follows that her name should be what it is. Despite his stoic exterior, he shows sympathy towards the lioness after he exiles her, saying that it is not a personal decision, but something a Mane has to do in order to survive. Nothing seems to not care, but she is mad about it inside herself.

Feather

 * Proudmane didn't have much of an interest in Feather, until the cub reveals that his father, Quickmane, is half-blind. He later uses this information to kill Quickmane by attacking his weak side, and mentions that he needs to thank 'the little red one' for the tip, as it had come in very useful.

Fire

 * Proudmane treats him as he would a close friend, and goes so far as to tell Nothing when she is exiled to let Fire know that taking over his home Pride was not personal, and something that a Mane needed to do to survive.

Hover

 * Proudmane is shown to detest Hover due to her romantic relationship with Nothing, as he is strongly homophobic due to his beliefs. He is also shown getting annoyed at her multiple times before the reveal, showing his more bitter and hostile personality.

Killed victims
Below is a list of all known victims that Proudmane has killed.


 * Quickmane
 * Sister 1
 * Sister 2

Family Members

 * Mates: Waterhunter, Silentstalk
 * Son: Unnamed son
 * Daughter: Nameless daughter

Trivia

 * In the book of My Pride, Proudmane was unable to feel sympathy and was extremely cruel.
 * However, this is shown not to be the case in episode 5, where he tells Nothing that taking over the Sisters Steppe was nothing personal.
 * Proudmane was responsible for exiling Nothing in the book after he took over, as he had little to no interest in Nothing as a Pride member. In episode 5 of the series, Proudmane planned to kill her due to her uselessness. He let her go after Nothing told him she's protected by the Goddesses.
 * Proud's old design appears in the trailer, he was a lion slightly smaller than now and less muscular than the current Proudmane. He had a darker mane, different colors, and light yellowish brown eyes.
 * Proudmane is the first character in the show to display forms of homophobia.
 * In the book, Hover was one of his mates, though they had a toxic relationship as Proudmane forced Hover to have his cubs, and kill them soon after.