The Madness Of King Scar
My two favourite Disney/Marvel characters to write about are obviously, Loki & Scar. Today I would like to share a few parts of the scene The Madness of King Scar, which comes from my fan fiction story called: Scar‘s Reign.
Note that this isn‘t the whole scene, I‘ve picked some parts out. You can find the whole chapter here:
Ao3 c7 TMOKS Scar‘s Reign (FF.net & Wattpad link posted at the end of this post).
Scar's mind is chaos, unpredictable and the drama-'queen'(king) has a huge personality which I wanted to be fully shown in The Madness of King Scar.. This chapter is a mix of the one particular scene from the film with Scar, Zazu and the hyenas in his cave + the deleted scene and the equally titled scene from the musical. Added: My own imagination.
Italic: Character thoughts.
Bold: Character sings.
Small warning: Scar‘s words aren‘t all even (women) friendly..
"I'm the king! But why am I not satisfied?" Did
I think that out loud? Scar sunk too deep in his thoughts and had
reached the point of not knowing whether he spoke aloud or in his mind. Terrific,
he assumed he thought.. Scar sighed himself down at his rock.
"Sire, what's with the long face?"
Zazu, the bird Scar kept behind bars dragged him out of his thoughts.
"Zazu? Why am I not... loved?" Scar
decided to directly cut to the chase. The lionesses, why don't they
like me? With my black manes, I must be irresistible! And I'm a king! What more
could they possibly want?
"Well, why do you think you are not loved?"
The hornbill spoke, to Scar's annoyance, with a wise tone.
According to Scar the bird sounded just like
his father, or like Mufasa. He didn't wanted to be reminded of them over and over
again. They had everything when they were kings while at Scar's reign
everything got black, literally.. Scar figured he wasn't in the mood after all
so he made a gesture towards Zazu, signing the bird to leave him and his mind
alone.
--
"Hey, boss! Talking to the silly bird
again?" Banzai called out to the lion, when he, Shenzi and Ed hopped in.
Ah, my friends! Well, 'friends'.. Since when
is calling a friend 'boss' a common thing? Every now
and then, Scar wouldn't mind getting rid of them. He narrowed his eyes at the
three of them. Shenzi, the female leader, who according to him, at least owned
a little brain. In Scar's opinion Banzai was nothing more than a cubbish piece
of junk and the last one, Ed, who besides laughing and nodding lacked any
manner of communication, he thought was completely beyond redemption. He rolled
his eyes as he surveyed everyone around him. "I'm surrounded by
idiots again.."
When Shenzi immediately responded, there was
no need for Scar to hesitate whether that was just a thought or not.
"Well, thank you! What's wrong with ya lately? You are not the only one
who's forced to skip breakfast!" she commented without hiding that she
felt slightly offended. "Was he like this all day, Zazu?"
"Oh, he just needs a mate!" Even
Zazu surprised himself by speaking this sentence. Well for this particular
moment, it did gain him a little popularity among the hyenas. Leastwise that
surely counted for the two male hyenas, who both had fallen into a giant
laughter caused by Zazu's comment.
"Stop that! You fools!" Scar tried
using his voice to overshadow their laughter, which he rated as highly
annoying.
--
"Can't you not even have a little
sympathy for me?" Scar acted like his pride got touched. "Don't
mistake the colour of this small beating thing here inside of me with the
colour of my manes," he gushed, almost in a singing tone. Dramatically,
Scar held his paw on his chest, right at the place of his heart.
"Here we go again.." Shenzi mumbled,
not amused.
"Tell me I'm adored! Please, tell me I'm
adored!" Scar sung.
Banzai was close to bursting into laughter
again. "A door?"
Scar took a deep breath. He stated to be
burdened with the wrong public. Scar covered up his eyes in the hope of when he
lowered his paw again, all these 'odd surrounding objects' were gone. His
current view isn't quite the one that he visualized and thought he signed
himself up for all those years ago.
--
"And I thought we had bad under Mufasa.."
Banzai sighed.
Immediately Scar jumped in front of the
hyena. "What did you say!?" he growled.
"I said..-"
Quickly Shenzi elbowed him again. Preventing
Banzai from repeating names from Scar's forbidden name list seemed to be her
full-time job nowadays.
"I said, uh... Que pasa?" Banzai
eventually answered the black maned lion.
Scar heard enough and turned his back on the
hyenas. "Good, and now get out.."
Staring to the cave's wall, Scar
frowned. They're still behind me, aren't they?
"But we still have no food!" Banzai
confirmed Scar's thought.
"I said get out!!" Scar roared.
Luckily this time, the hyenas had taken the hint. With a grin, Scar peeked
backwards and saw a last glimpse of them running out.
"Zazu, where were we before those three
beggars came in?" The hyenas had spoiled his mood. Scar figured continuing
his little game with Zazu could restore it a bit.
--
Ever since that Scar had made Nala the lead
huntress, he hoped that it eventually led her to his cave. Within himself, Scar
already had plotted how he would succeed in sailing the ship off to another
course. "Yes, but there's.." Like a predator sneaks up on his prey,
Scar started to walk around her. "Nala.. my, how've you grown!"
Quickly he cleared his throat. "There's one little title upgrade required
for you to receive from me before we can make this plan work. And there's more
to it! I'm brightening up both yours and little Mheetu's future!" Seductively he let his tail slide below Nala's chin.
Nala blinked. "And what's that title?" All though that with mentioning her younger brother, Scar had awakened Nala's curiosity, still she wasn't naive. She knew that somewhere in this story there was a catch. Because involving this particular lion, there always was a catch!
Nala blinked. "And what's that title?" All though that with mentioning her younger brother, Scar had awakened Nala's curiosity, still she wasn't naive. She knew that somewhere in this story there was a catch. Because involving this particular lion, there always was a catch!
Suddenly Scar's energy-meter filled itself to
the max. "I shall tell you, but first let me deliberate it with myself a
bit," he spoke rather mysterious while he still moved himself around her.
--
"I'm not following you!" Riddle
after riddle, why can't he just be straight to the point?-, Nala
wondered.
"My cylinders are firing with fervor.
And you, my sweet thing, fit.. the part.." With pressing his head against Nala‘s neck, Scar softly pushed the lioness a bit.
"Oh Sire, you are not supposed to say
those kind of things out loud!" Zazu, the bird Scar already had forgotten
about, snarled.
Did I? Scar used his paw to cover up his mouth.
--
From the inside, Scar's blood was still
flowing through his veins like flashes of energy. And so it did outside. A
heavy, dark thunderstorm was overshadowing the already sad looking Pride Lands.
Scar's enthusiasm only grew bigger when a lightning stroke had caught his
attention. Perfect! He stormed outside and stopped when he
stood on top of the Pride Rock. He looked up, let the rain soak him. His long
black gleaming manes, flattened by the rain and sticking to his skin. Scar felt
no fear for the lightning at all. From afar he saw a few of the lionesses,
including Nala. Of course a lot of hyenas were present too. He saw fear in some
of the eyes of his subjects. Scar grimed, he imagined how frightened the sight
of him must look with the lightning and the terrifying sounds of the thunder
right behind him. There he felt what he desired. Power!
All eyes were still pointing at him. This
moment required a speech, as Scar himself stated. Somehow Scar never lacked in
finding his words, not that they always helped him. Anyhow, if there was one
thing Scar kept in his mind it was to always be prepared!
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I‘m also writing a Lion King/ Loki & Thor crossover. (more info later) While watching The Lion King Thor & Loki were sent into the film due a portal (obviously as lions..). It needs some work but these two genius minds together.. Really fun to write!
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If you‘re interested in reading the whole scene, I like to refer you the fanfiction websites I've shared it on. (All rights to The Lion King belongs to Disney, but be kind enough not to copy my work.)
Other links:
Fanfiction.net TMOKS Scar‘s Reign
Wattpad c7 TMOKS Scar‘s Reign. (On here I also just posted the newest chapter called: Scar‘s Be Prepared '2.0' in which he‘s giving the hyenas an exclusive performance of so as he sees it, his improved version of Be Prepared..
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| Thanks to Pridelands.eu for the screenshots. Really worth the look, these are taken second by second. Scar is looking really odd in some shots.. |
