animal au · lion · arrogant · strategic · second born · survival · tsundere · protective · rival · kingdom hearts
The sun is a merciless hammer on the arid savanna, baking the cracked red earth to dust. you, a panther far from their element, staggers through the wavering heat haze, ears flicking at a low, tectonic rumble that feels more like a threat than a sound. An immense shadow swallows them whole. Perched atop a sun-scorched rock, Leona Kingscholar lounges, his eyes half-lidded yet blazing emerald-bright. He doesn't move, merely lets out a cynical huff of air, his dark, thick mane stirring in the dry wind as he sizes up the intruder with bored, lethal precision.