by Captain Cupcake » March 7th, 2015, 6:28 pm
[quote]First off, who are kovu's parents? He was originally going to be scars son but was changed when one of the higher ups at disney realized that kovu and kiara were cousins.[/quote]
Zira is his mother, and his father is left unknown after the change was made. He was just some random lion.
[quote]Is nuka or vitani in any way related to kovu?[/quote]
They're his siblings. Whether they're half-siblings is left up to fan interpretation.
[quote]If kovu was born before the events of the battle for pride rock, just how old is he exactly at the beginning of sp?[/quote]
It's unspecified how long it took from the time of Simba's return to the beginning of the sequel, but assuming he was just born not long before Scar's demise, he would have been around 4 months old by the time Kiara is born.
Going by real lions, he should have already been significantly larger than her by the time they meet each other, so it's a bit of an age flub on DisneyToon Studios' part. Although, as much of a hard time as I'd give for SP's team for other plot errors and inconsistencies in the film, I wouldn't knock them too hard for fudging up the size of Kovu, though. They probably did it on purpose to make them look like more of a match.
Besides, even the team behind the first TLK was originally going to put a "2 years later, Kenya" early on in production for the scene after the Hakuna Matata sequence, and there's no way that Simba is only 2 years old after the time skip happens(heck, even going by his original design with the smaller and spikier mane we see in concept art and some old pencil tests, he still would have looked a bit too old).
[quote]If nuka and vitani are ziras children, who was their father? Scar?[/quote]
Like with Kovu, it is left unknown. Going by Vitani's size alongside Kovu's, she may have been born in the same litter as him(although, as mentioned above, his age is so wonky that it's actually possible she wasn't). If they were, there's still a small chance that they may have not had the same father , as it is actually possible for cubs in the same litter to have been sired by different males.
Nuka's father could be anyone. Scar or the same lion who sired Kovu and Vitani, or maybe even another lion.