André- Paris (as for the face claim, imagine Richard Madden as Ashley Greenwick in Sirens)
Roshaun- Cameroon
"Hmm… what should I name you? I think I'm going to call you… Elsa." The little lion cub swished her tail, too busy drinking from the bottle to care. André smiled as he brushed the little forehead markings that all lion cubs had, making little suckling sounds to encourage it to drink. A newborn, the little cub was still blind and helpless, barely the size of a pencil case.
When the milk was gone, she let go and made little premature roars, wanting more.
"Shh…" he brushed her little fuzzy head with his thumb. "You've had your fill, chérie. I need to give your brothers some, too!"
"This guy is a wedge-tailed eagle. He's one of the largest eagles on the planet!" André raised his head and peered through the lion nursery's glass window. Outside the new raptor guy, (Gilbert, was it?) with said eagle perched on a training glove, rambled on about the eagle to a crowd of kids. The man seemed to be albino, with his marble white skin and his silver hair, so even with his back against André, he could tell it was him.
Gilbert turned his head around, allowing André to see a huge grin. Well, good to see other zookeepers loving their jobs at least.
After he finished feeding her brothers Kovu and Lionel Messi (blame Roshaun, he's crazy about soccer), André placed the cubs into their incubators, making sure to cover them with towels as one side faced the window. He turned around to see Elsa one last time.
But Gilbert was crouching down to Elsa's incubator. As he glanced up, André shivered. Those pinkish red eyes were unnerving.
As a joke, André squinted his eyes before pointing at both his eyes before redirecting back to the new guy. I'm watching you.
The new guy Gilbert blinked before he grinned and winked. André raised his eyebrows and rolled his eyes.
What kind of idiot winks with both eyes?
André knew judging someone by the cover was immature, but with how that new raptor guy looked, he decided it was wise to keep an eye out for him. Turning around, he closed the lion nursery's door and left. It should be Roshaun's shift soon, so Elsa should be fine.
What kind of idiot takes that so seriously?
Gilbert blinked as the brunet lion keeper left with a frown, confused at what had happened. The guy was doing a humorous gesture, so he thought they were joking around, but in the end, he left with some sort of glare. Gilbert scoffed. Yeah, as he winked meaning he would do something to a lion.
To be fair, the little cub was quite cute and helpless, maybe his keeper instincts were full blown or something like that. Fritz tapped his beak onto the glass, causing the lion cub to stir.
"Hey-! Fritz, no." Fritz pulled back at the command. Soon, another zookeeper came in and went to prepare the milk. The dark skinned man glanced up at him and Gilbert stood up. Probably time to leave.
Elsa's the name of a famous lioness from the 60s, she had a movie made about her. Kovu's name is from the character from Lion king: Simba's pride. As for Lionel Messi… well, André ain't LION when he said that Roshaun liked soccer ;)
