KIRIMA DESIGN !! my first out of a series where i design characters that hasnt gotten a canon design from rise of kyoshi. (shadow of kyoshi will be done later. theres a lot to unpack) i'll be doing lek after this!
Kirima's design notes / headcanons:
if daofei bad why pretty
her only indication really is the "wolf like fetures" and the earth kingodm tunic things,, there arent many official leads on how she looks like SO i implied a bunch of my own headcanons here
first of all, her hair. i love the idea of wolfcut kirima, but i just know that wolfcuts especially long ones aren't very practical in battle so i made her have wolfcut bangs + a braid.
now why does she have a braid? she has water tribe ancestry, spesifically from southern water tribe's wolf cove (where katara and sokka are from) however she's not 100% water tribe, i'd say around 25-50%
i headcanon when she was young, the water tribe side of her family would teach her things about their culture, mostly the hair and the fighting style. Her parents are probably also criminals, thats why she became a daofei, even after going off-contact from her blood relatives and joining jesa and hark, she still kept the hairstyle and accepted her heritage to be a part of herself.
The face paint is slightly inspired by Sokka's though i couldnt incorporate that too much because it doesnt work well in red
i dont know why i gave her blue eyeliner, it really gives her the menacing vibe to contrast her elegant teasing-ish personality, also she is a criminal so she has to apphear scary.
she definitely has siren eyes.
she is known to have a presice bending style. precision over power type of thing, her fighting style looks a lot more "sharp" and agile compared to the typical flowy movements of a waterbender
Just saw a post where someone described how they choose to pronounce the names in the Kyoshi novels and I'm pissed off now. THE most American interpretation I've ever seen
NOT CRAZY AT ALL. MAKES PERFECT SENSE. because whyyy was she baiting Rangi so hard and teasing her and Rangi was getting all flustered by her despite getting annoyed with her in the FIRST place because she was jealous of her spending time with Kyoshi....
Kirima could have the craziest threesome on Earth on her hands if she wanted to put the effort into making it happen but frankly I think Rangi and/or Kyoshi WOULD be a bit much for her (see: annoying)
Here's Kirima from The Rise of Kyoshi <3 I tried adding...more? Idk I feel like I'm missing something, but it's cool. Her facepaint is based on @mostly-mundane-atla's design (check them out, they're pretty cool) And it was the whole reason I made this in the first place
Mmmmm thinking about how Kyoshi and the flying opera company kept in touch after the events from the second book
Because she didn't reach out to them until the finale, I think that'd change later or at least for a while, then she'll get busy and it's gonna be just the same as in the second book until one day they somehow reunite again
(But I'm too tired speak with sense, anyone has any headcanons for them?🙏)
Theese designs r not final just messy sketches of my image of them in my head
(shh i know lek has a head wrap instead of just a headband and also more earth kingdom looking outfit but like i said theese r sketches dont judge me 😭)
headcanons
And shit in my head that influenced my designs
I wanted kirima to have a wolfcut because of the "wolf-like features" thing but that isnt exactly possible. Despite living mostly in the earth kingdom, I still do beleive how she does her hair is heavkly influenced by the water tribes
lek's head cover is supposed to look like si-wing tribes type of thing. I didnt plan on making HIS WHOLE OUTFIT based kn si wong but like... i'll make em more earthy in the future i swear-
[ID: A digital painting made to look similar to a poster. There’s a shining blue portal shown with Kyoshi and Rangi at the very front, looking upwards and nervous. Behind them on the left, Kirima and Wong are holding brooms as if a weapon. Behind Kyoshi and Rangi on the right, Lek also brandishes a broom. They’re all illuminated from above by a blue light. At the very bottom of the painting, Yun is outside the portal holding his head as if pained. A title is written below Rangi and Kyoshi and above Yun, which says, “Faults.” End ID]
the art i made for the @kyoshinovelsbigbang to be a companion for @heartofmara’s lovely fic Faults! the link to the fic’s tumblr post is here as well. thank you and beta reader @jhcl56, this was so fun to work on because of both of you! :D