The reason I want to make kopa canon is because he was in the '6 new adventures' books as tge 1st born child of Simba and future king of the pridelands but in TLK 2 it is Kiara! What's going on there! Its stupid do now it is time to take kopa and put him In the franchise where he should be, future king of the pridelands, but first what is canon? Canon is a word stating rgat a character is in the actual plot, not just fanfiction, if a lion king 4 movie does come out or a season 4 of the lion guard, kopa should be in it, it would be agreat way to explain why simba was so protective of Kiara in TLK2.

Background:kopa is the future king of the pridelands and his mate is vitani his parents are simba and nala and hes the older brother to Kiara and Kion

Story: i said int the first paragraph i mentioned kopa would be a great explanation for why simba was so protective of Kiara in TLK2 here's his story,

When Kopa was a cub he was usually hanging out with vitani, an outsider and ziras daughter, Zira was still sad over scars death and vowed to get revenge and she knew of kopa and vitani together, so when simba let kopa go to the outlands zira spotted kopa and vitani, she brought vitani way and it was just kopa and Zira, Zira attacked kooa until he was dead, simba came he heard the shouting and saw a lifeless kopa he was distraught he thought it was his fault

So they thought kopa was dead until kopa woke but no one was there so he went away from the pridelands for the fear of Zira until one day kion was patrolling in the pridelands where he came across this strange lion, it was kopa but kion didnt know, there was a standoff, everyone from the pridelands came, Kiara came and she stopped it she recognised kopa and then simba was having flashbacks of kopas death, so when kopa heard tgat Zira died kopa came back to pride rock and when vitani heard she went to kopa and they  had 3 cubs and stayed at pride Rock and became king and queen