My boyfriend had never seen Avatar, so I finally made him watch the series with me. It was fun watching it again, and it made me want to do some fanart, so here’s Katara!
(I wanted to draw something cute)
(…but yes we actually filled it to max capacity with trail rations. It’s actually been very situationally useful on more than one occasion.)
What in Davy Jones’ locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I’ll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I’ve led numerous raids on fishing villages, and killed over 300 wenches. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o’ swag. I’ll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o’ pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o’ monsoon that’ll wipe ye off the map. You’re sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o’er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o’ the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I’ll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o’ the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn’t, ye didn’t, and now ye’ll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I’ll shit fury all over ye and ye’ll drown in the depths o’ it. You’re fish food now.
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“QUEEN” [Artist: Amir Zand]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e1f507f270368d180f65b2f373653611/tumblr_mmxprfPjRb1rdy3s5o1_500.jpg)
paraphrasing the production team for ff7:av as i think it applies here:
sure they could make it realistic. but in a fantasy world, who cares about realism?
i mean if you are going to pick faults with her armor then lets also take note of the fact that she works for a goddess, lives in valhalla, lived in an age where all of this armor was totally redundant, has a sister who travelled through time and of course, turned to stone - something that final fantasy characters have done on a number of occasions.
sure they could make it realistic. but in a fantasy world, who cares about realism?
Apparently the designer of this armor, because certain parts of it are very realistic.
What do fantasy plot tropes and magical powers have to do with the fact that her armor, which is clearly made out of materials that exist in the real world, would not articulate properly and is also poorly designed?
If it’s Magic Steel That Bends So She Can Walk, why does it look like ordinary steel? And if it looks like ordinary steel but is actually magic, then why does it have a pivot at the knee like ordinary steel would?
You can come up with any reason to justify any design decision but it has to have a consistent justification. Even in fantasy, where the rules are made up, everything inside the fantasy universe follows the made-up rules. And often, because characters tend to be human (so the audience can relate to them), the rules closely resemble the way reality works, especially when it comes to costume design.
A little post to celebrate the release of “Agito Cosmos” Volume 2.
French comic-book illustrated by Fabien Mense (who also works for animation industry - see previous posts about his designs on Hotel Transylvania).
Story by Olivier Milhaud.
