I thought this one would be more of a challenge, but it felt pretty good to do this!
This Larmina redesign is from a while back, and I never made a proper sketch page to practice drawing her in it
But it looks pretty solid in edit form! We can actually see her undercut here, and I gave her a bit of muscle which to me didn't translate well because I have no idea how muscles work lol
Also, Lance is here again like I said he'd be, heavily judging Larmina's miscreant abilities
Original screenshot is from episode 26 Black and is under the cut!
Open images for better quality <3
So I made friends with another VF fan today, and they gave me the best goddamn idea
@cxrsedboo I know you're seeing this ilysm you're so great for this lol
Taking place during Five Forged (episode 19), I'm focusing on Pidge (as always) being electrocuted and what comes from it
Specifics under the cut because I can't not rant about my favorite boy ever <3
I've never really paid attention to Pidge getting electrocuted, mostly because I thought of it as the writers nerfing Pidge to prove the cadets were actually important, HOWEVER it was pointed out that Pidge shouldn't have recovered so quickly and from there everything spiraled
My idea is that this is when Pidge's transition to not being a lion pilot anymore starts
Being electrocuted to the point of UNCONSCIOUSNESS isn't fucking good and in researching he'd be so fucked up
Unconsciousness is already a symptom of electrocution, but other things could happen like burns, seizures, an irregular heartbeat, breathing problems, and muscle spasms to name a few
Even if Pidge woke up as fast as he did canonically, he'd be unfocused and weak, so he probably doesn't hit as many or any of the weird disk things that are shooting him after he gets back up
Not to mention the next room is the room that blocks their voltcoms and if he was unfocused before then the team can't rely on him to figure out the tech at all
It'd make them figure out that they gotta get through it by pure will power faster than in canon (fuck the humanity aspect, 3 of them aren't human and another 2 are half human out of a team of 8)
The team would have to take care of Pidge the entire time they were in the death temple and since that energy was mystical in general it'd probably react with the ghost mechanic they meet outside, making Pidge seize
Before he just drops to the floor, Keith grabs him by the collar and soon some healers on Arial care for him before the team rushes him back to Arus
This is where my idea starts kicking off, med bay won't let Pidge fly, especially since he has muscle weakness and has seized before meaning he runs the chance of having epilepsy or seizing again which isn't good either
So he's going to be monitored for a while and now the team is thinking Oh Great, Who's Gonna Fly Green?
In comes the cadets to check in on Pidge, and he tosses his key to Larmina, telling her that he hates not being in the fight but hates thinking green would be mistreated if he wasn't there
Pidge trained Larmina himself, as they're both ninjas, so he trusts her A LOT and knows she can put up a good fight with the team out there while taking care of herself and green, he specifically tells her that she's the only one he trusts to do well in his lion since he can't be there himself (which may or may not hurt Vince)
After that he's relegated to castle control, which he isn't fond of, but he can watch Larmina become a better pilot and still give her advice since she's going to be in real fights with a lion instead of a sim which she doesn't try at much anyway
At the end of the show, we get told that Pidge has a hobby with upgrading the castle controls, so being kept on castle arrest is where it would start
Feeling useless, he decides to upgrade anything he can get his hands on, including castle defenses, eventually becoming a hobby like in the show, and before he knows it he's back in green
Though he will step down, and he knows it, so as he thinks about who'd take over, it's only Larmina who comes into mind for being the best replacement for him, he just hopes she'll still be available to take up his mantle as green lion when the time comes
Started using my sketchbook after a while again and asked for some references of Larmina in the vf server for this!
It’s been a long time coming and it’s definitely not like the pilots pages but Larminas sketch page is finally done and I think I’ve improved a lot
Also new skill learned! I can now color in my pencil sketches digitally! Easier than I thought it’d be but also a bit tedious if not using a scanner lol
Not sure about the rest of you but for me it feels like it’s been A WHILE since I posted, partly because I was (and still am) on vacation!
Getting stealing ideas from @cxrsedboo I decided to draw out a meme with Anya again! This is her after Inside The Music (ep 14) because my god was Larmina insufferable for half of that episode
Nobody insults Pidge and actively makes him uncomfortable on Anya’s watch, she keeps a closer eye on her after that
I also got a timelapse of my process again so that will be under the cut!
Larmina, walking into the hanger: Hey—uh, Hunk!? Can we talk?
Hunk, appearing out of nowhere: Are you hurt?? Did you kill somebody?? Did you comment arson again?? Or tax fraud?? For Arus’s sake- I don’t know how much longer we can keep paying for your bail—
Larmina, voice cracking: I JuSt WaNtEd tO KnOw iF yOu wAnTED PoPcOrN.
Hunk, who’s genuinely upset at the stupid shit Larmina just pulled: “What were you thinking!? You could have gotten yourself killed! Larmina, think of your aunt, she wouldn’t know what to do with herself if you got hurt. I just don’t think I’ve ever been this disappointed in you.”