Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5488183-20180904181719/@comment-4241330-20181006005134

SimbasGuard wrote: Lord O&#039; Darkness wrote: That's where the theory really kicks in. We all know Kovu and Kiara will end up together in the Pridelands. Bringing Kion and Rani together would be a parallel.

I assume Kion and the rest of the guard will be leaving the Pridelands at some point in the show. They'll meet Rani during their adventure and she explains that she lost her brother when they were very young cubs. Neither she or anyone else knows it is Kovu, but once she and Kion eventually return to Pride Rock for a royal visit, Rani and Kovu will recognize each other and it will make for a double reunion. That sounds very neat, but it would take some creative writing. I doubt Kovu remembers if Zira was not his birth mother. Being that he always refers to Zira as Mother. Even when Kion had Roared the Other Outsiders away. Kovu in reference to Zira still yelled Mom, Mom wait for me. I could imagine Rani knowing she had lost a brother due to her parents having told her at some point, I just doubt that Vitani would even know if Kovu was not her brother by blood. Let alone Kovu himself. It's been stated several times in the movie that Scar wasn't Kovu's father and he was only adopted. Zira, Vitani and Nuka are his adoptive family, and he has little to no memory of his true heritage. Rani would have small memories of her brother (unnamed at the time) before they were separated as cubs. I'm assuming Scar or Zira kidnapped him and brought him to Pride Rock as the future heir because Nuka didn't fit the qualifications.