Tezuka’s Jungle Kingdom: Characters

The Characters of Tezuka’s Jungle Kingdom 

Robin Kildare: Green eyed blonde Robin Robert Kildare saw his unlucky parents getting killed by an extensive scandal when he was about seven. Even before that, he lived with a bunch of former bandits. One of the ex-bandits taught him to become an errand, thus he travels through the eastern and southern African subcontinents. A surly beast man found him in a rut, but had trouble writing his first and middle names, thus he called him by the Sir like title Ki-GOR (pronounced Kai-Goor) instead. 

Robin has a very uneasy relationship with people from other ethnic groups, although he remains a snarky antihero who protects both his friends and most of the animals around them when necessary. He has a dagger, a spear and a shield amongst his many belongings. He is definitely a beardless British Isles Expy of Kaspa Stark from the Lion’s Way series. 

Helene Ann Vaughn Kildare: Ann Vaughn is Rupert’s auburn haired girlfriend and later wife, who crashed into the tropical forest and was rescued by Ki-Gor himself. Although he understood consent, she hesitated in dating him as a final option, just until her boss, a food magnate who messed over his own highly underpaid workers, assaulted them and got away with kicking them out into her birthplace. As a result, both had to marry each other and lived there for a while, only to return once they’re reminded that the unlucky village where he once lived was destroyed by its mobsters.

Rue Kildare: Since Robin’s a jewel to his wife, it’s possible that Ann has a son and a daughter. The younger one is a dark blonde called Rue. 

Chris Kildare: Rue’s twin brother, who himself an adventurer in his own right. 

Ann’s friends

George Spelling: George Spelling is a lanky Black guy from Chicago in Illinois. 

Kamazila: A Zulu girl who joined Christopher and Luna in their South African adventures. Being adventurous, her alias means ‘off the paths’ in Zulu, a rather well known Bantu language spoken further southwards in South Africa. 

The Kildare family  

Barry Kildare: Barry was Orla’s husband and Robin’s father. He and Orla were killed off by an extensive corruption-addled scandal in the jungle when Ryan was young. 

Orla Gough: Of Ki-Gor’s birth family, it was poor Orla who was the last to die. Her husband was Barry and her surviving son is Robin aka Ki-Gor. 

The Gough-O’Connors 

Jasper Gough: Orla and Erma’s chauvinist of a father. 

Erma Gough O’Connor: Tralee born Erma is Colin’s childhood friend and wife, whose chauvinistic parents left her behind in Kenya, so she had to ride on a boat into what would become modern day Uganda. 

Colin O’Connor: Colin is one of the two stand outs of the Jungle Kingdom prequel to Jungle Agents For Hire. 

The Healy family 

Ginger ‘Ginny’ Smithson Healy: Orla’s dissatisfied old friend, Ginger Healy, was the mother of Hugh, Colm and Lucy Healy with her husband Robert. 

Lucy Healy: She is Robin’s long lost brunette friend, raised by the then-newlyweds Colin and Erma since she was about nine when Robert died. Her mother was Ginger Smithson Healy, one of Orla’s friends. 

Robert Healy: Colm, Hugh and Lucy’s well meant but rather chauvinistic father from Ennis in County Clare. Unlike his more stubborn wife Ginny, he was a raven haired missionary with blue eyes. 

Colm Healy:

Hugh Healy: 

The named animals

Ms Marmalade: Aka Marmo for short, she is a bush elephant whom Ki Gor finally befriended when he was looking out for illegal loggers. 

The Kibale Gang: a chimpanzee gang, which roams through the semi deciduous jungles of Kibale. 

Other uneasy allies 

The Silver White Witch: The Silver White Witch is herself an Irish castaway who has been enslaved in this variant. 

The anti villains 

The Glitter Ghost: A tragic ghost covered in glitter. 

Sam Slater: