Kyoga

"'Asra may take me, but you will never win. For the peace you have denied us, your soul will know no peace. Not in this life or the next. Every life you live upon this Earth will be marred with suffering, and I will be your death in each and every one of them. So says Asra, the Goddess of Death, you are and will always be cursed, Lite of the Sun Kingdom.' —Kyoga to Lite in Episode 8: Rain."

Kyoga was an African lioness, and an ancient chosen leader of the Moon Kingdom. She was the last known leader of the Moon Kingdom before it fell.

Personality
Kyoga was a kindhearted but somewhat anxious lioness, much like her reincarnation, Nothing. She appears somewhat insecure about herself, as she doubts in her ability to lead and is reluctant to confess the truth about her relationship with Karabi to Lite. Her loyalty to her kingdom runs deep, as she was reluctantly willing to marry Lite if it secured an alliance with the Sun Kingdom in return. She was forgiving and fiercely protective over those she loves, placing an eternal curse on Lite after he murders Karabi.

Appearance
Kyoga was a pale gray-cream lioness with a lighter shade on her muzzle, underbelly, inner-ears, eyelids, and paws. She also has a diamond shaped marking on her forehead, and a single dot near the corner of each of her yellow-amber eyes. She also has a brown tail tip.

History
Kyoga was born in the Emerald Valley into the Moon Kingdom. She was divinely chosen by Asra, the Goddess of Death, as the Moon Kingdom's future leader. At a young age, she was betrothed to Lite to unite the Sun and Moon kingdoms in an alliance.

Although she and Lite were close, Kyoga developed feelings for Cansu's chosen leaded of the Storm Kingdom, Karabi. They kept their relationship a secret, as Kyoga didn’t want Lite to know about them.

On the night before her joining day with Lite, Kyoga expresses her reservations about the arrangement to him. She explains that she’s never left the Emerald Valley and entered the wider territories and doesn’t feel like she’s ready to lead, although most of her anxiety likely stems from the fact that joining with Lite means she and Karabi can no longer be together. Lite attempts to reassure her before going to sleep, where Karabi arrives shortly after.

Karabi asks what Kyoga is going to do on the latter and Lite's joining day, to which she maintains that she will go through with it as it is important to their kingdoms that she and Lite lead together. However, Karabi implores Kyoga to do what would make her happy and not just what would make her kingdom and Lite happy. This leads to the two of them eloping and leaving in the middle of the night.

The following morning, Lite is searching furiously for Kyoga when Precisecharge, a lioness belonging to the Sun Kingdom, informs him that Kyoga and Karabi have left together. Unwilling to accept this outcome, Lite insists that Kyoga was kidnapped and sets off to find her.

In his rage, Lite starts a war with the Storm Kingdom which results in carnage on both sides. Desperate to end the violence, Kyoga and Karabi agreed to meet Lite at the highest point in the Emerald Valley to discuss a truce.

Lite is dejected at Kyoga’s abandonment of him, but she calmly asserts that she can’t give him what he wants and that she fled their engagement to pursue happiness. Karabi, wanting to put an end to Lite's dogged pursuit of them, pins him to the ground and attempts to kill him. However, she is talked out of doing so by Kyoga.

Shortly after Karabi lets Lite up, he attacks her in a rage and slits her throat, causing her to rapidly bleed to death. Extremely angered and grief-stricken by this action, Kyoga becomes possessed by Asra and places an everlasting curse on Lite.

This is Kyoga’s last appearance before she disappears with Karabi, leaving only Lite behind to tell the tale. Lite warps the story of the events that proceeded into the idyllic love story he wished it to be - one where Kyoga reciprocated his affections and was kidnapped and killed by a jealous Karabi. He builds Pride Law after the kingdoms fell, out of his hatred and fear, imposing a law which forbids homosexual relationships between lionesses in Prides.

Kyoga’s curse states that she must find and kill the reincarnation of Lite in every lifetime that they live — but doing such continues to perpetuate Pride Law and deepen the divide between Asra and Sunce. Nothing exists as Kyoga’s current reincarnation, while the precise reincarnation of Lite remains unknown.

Lite
The two seemed to have a close relationship at first glance, as they had planned on having an arranged marriage in order to bring peace among their two kingdoms. Lite was in love with her, though she did not feel the same, only loving him like that of a sibling. She kept her secret affair with Karabi from him and left the day before Lite's and Kyoga's marriage, leading Lite into believing that Karabi had kidnapped her. He is angered and heartbroken upon learning that Kyoga never loved him as a mate, and killed Karabi out of paranoia after the lioness tried doing the same to him. Angered and grief-stricken by her mate's sudden death, Kyoga curses Lite and disappears with Karabi's body. Lite would return to the kingdoms and lies to everyone, saying that Karabi killed Kyoga and that he killed Karabi in turn.

Karabi
Kyoga loved Karabi dearly, and chose to run away with her love and leave her Kingdom as well as Lite behind for her. When Karabi is fatally wounded by Lite for attacking him, she became furious with Lite for killing her partner, getting possessed by Asra in the process. She swore to curse him in each life he lives, before disappearing with Karabi's lifeless body.

Voice Actor

 * Hillary Taylor
 * Pixel sparrow (Possessed)

Family Members

 * Mate: Karabi †
 * Unnamed mother †
 * Unnamed father †

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 tells him about how Karabi and Lite battled for days, but Lite won with the power love, and created Prides as well as Pride Law.

Episode Eight: Rain
Kyoga is a cub, the betrothed of Lite. When she is an adult, it is revealed that she is in love with Karabi, and only loves Lite as a friend. This troubles her, as she wants the best for the kingdoms. She eventually runs away with her though, to Lite's fury, and he starts a war trying to find her, believing that Karabi had kidnapped her. When Lite finds Kyoga, she stops Karabi from murdering him, only for Lite to kill Karabi. Furious, Kyoga curses Lite, and tells him that in every lifetime he’ll be in, she will kill him. Kyoga then vanishes with Karabi's dead body. It is then told by Rain that Kyoga is currently reincarnated as Nothing.

Trivia

 * She is revealed to have been reincarnated as Nothing.
 * In her original design, she had a colored muzzle. This was changed before Episode 8 was finalized.
 * When she is possessed by Asra, you can hear a background voice as she speaks. This voice is PixelSparrow, who was the original voice of Waterhunter before the lines were cut.