What Does She Mean?

[SummerSnowLeopard]

I think she meant for him to leave her alone.

[xLilacVixenx]

An interesting question that has gotton me puzzling from the first day of watching it. (Ok, maybe not literal, but recently.)

I think Kovu meant that Kiara didn't have anything under control because she (Obviously) didn't escape the fire successfully. It was probably just a "cool" line to make Kovu seem more evil but to get the point across. Kiara meant that if he didn't think she had everything under control then he should switch places so it did seem like it. Probably just a com-back to Kovu's statement.

[FlipMode]

The phrase "move downwind" originates from sailing funnily enough (at least that is what we were told when I tried it before) and in that sense, it means to move away from the direction the wind is blowing. The derived version of it in public use basically means "Step aside and stay behind me".
In short then: Kiara feels that she had or would have had everything under control without Kovu saving her from the fire, it is an ignorant line of dialogue, as clearly she did not. And so she is basically saying that if he "stayed downwind" then she would have had everything under control if he stayed away from her.

[SummerSnowLeopard]

Yeah. She means for him to go away somewhere else.

[Eli_Ayase]

That would mean hell "downwind"

[SummerSnowLeopard]

lol, downwind is where the wind blows south I think

[Eli_Ayase]

Nah it means hell, disney wouldnt put a word like hell.

[SummerSnowLeopard]

lolz. I've never knew it meant that
I read Warriors and in the books and the phrase downwind means to fall where the wind is blowing.

[QueenRalexia]

This is just my opinion I think she was upset that her father didn't trust her and wanted to prove she could do things on her own
but then Kovu saved her and she didn't really want to be saved. So she told Kovu " I had everything under control "
because she was angry that no one thought she could take care of herself.

[SummerSnowLeopard]

I suppose. So, she basically told him to go hunt someone else in hunter's terms.