Kuvira and Chi

Chi's escaped

@zhenyilani

Oh wow, I think this is the first ask to ever grace this page. :'D

I literally got up just then, saw this and scribbled a response in under 10 mins.

Sure! I won't be super responsive due to my busy schedule, but I'd love to join!

only if I'm allowed to bring my OC shenanigans in now and then tho

have a button from my Amino

I got a new drawing thingy

it's meant to just be a portable way to draw so it isn't that great

Younger selves

Starting 2019 with a revisit to the two's '3 years ago' versions

I forgot what the heck shading was when doing this, nothing was clicking. Ahhhh...

Thanks for all the support in 2018

(´ω｀)

Stay tuned to see their fates~ (゜o゜)

BG by Lane Garrison

This post wouldn't load for ages and I had a lot of trouble uploading it. (so the formatting is a bit compromised)

Got us some more dramaz.

Spirit vines have gone erratic and begun trapping people in pod like prisons. No matter what is done, they cannot be freed and are frozen in sleep.

Kuvira has begun to meditate alone into the Spirit World to seek help.

On one of these days, Suyin confronts her about her choices. Kuvira realises through the argument how she feels towards Chihiro.

Opal overhears and sees Kuvira's true emotions.

I've decided to redeem at least one of the two characters I started to really dislike from Book 4.

I am chihibun on deviantART

and Chi-chan on the ATLA and LOK Amino

With Toph’s help, Kuvira locates the sky bison they rode on to get here, and eventually Ikki as well.

Ikki tells her before, when they were separated, she saw a few people dressed in uniforms similar to Kuvira wandering about the swamp. 

Kuvira insists she has no idea what they might be doing here, since they should be back in the Earth Kingdom assisting the airbenders with food delivery and village aid. 

They eventually leave the swamp, still unable to sense Korra’s whereabouts. Toph offers to look for the Avatar and will send word to them if she does find her. 

In this AU, Korra did not turn away from her initial return to Republic City, so this is her first disappearence. The news of their lost daughter reach Tonraq and Senna.

I’m running into some difficulties expressing the story through still images but am not skilled enough to animate ahaha :’D. 

Their current appearances in the story~

I think Kuvira went through at least 3 hair style alterations until I settled on this one. (^o^;

I needed a reference for their current selves too for future panels in the story so this drawing happened.

Been pumping out lineart for KuvChi and was itching for a simple solo shot with some colour. (๑•̀ㅁ•́๑)✧

I’m pretty happy with Kuvira’s expression. (๑´ڡ`๑) and yep, no gloves anymore~ (the cold never bothered her anyw- gets bricked)

Introducing my second LOK OC, the antagonist of the story.

I had a lot of ideas being tossed around after I had the finale figured out. The actual villain theme of it was difficult, I didn’t want to do a copy of Book 2 with corrupt spirits... so I am not going with spirits anymore. ;)

More details will be revealed later but hey, here’s a glimpse of our villain. c:

In my headcanon, Toph would have visited Zaofu in the past and helped teach Kuvira metalbending, so they have some history together. (Which is why that scene in the original book 4 hurt me so much.)

Ikki has woken up in a random location in the swamp and needs to somehow get back with the group.

And Korra....we don’t know where Korra is.

A look into the second half of the story. - v -

On another search trip to locate Chihiro, Ikki, Korra and Kuvira pass by the notorious swamp. They get dragged down by an unexpected rush of energy and are separated.

In the swamp, Kuvira wanders aimlessly and begins to see visions of her suppressed past. She bumps into a younger version of herself which leads her to her parents. But as the haze clears,it reveals two large boulders. 

(I wanted to reference the same thing that happened to Katara with her mother and the rock structure thing).

Thinking she’s truly alone and torn down by all the stress and anxiety of recent events, Kuvira weeps... and is soon found by a cranky old Earthbender. ;)

I hope you like this hairstyle for her that I’ve settled on for now. (Sorry it kept changing xD every original thing I come up with is always so hard to draw since it lacks references from the show)

A Kuvira and Chihiro Promo Poster

I tried really hard with this one. (°w°〃)

Thank you so much for everyone on here who expressed interest in this series. Even if you just tapped into it to look at one of the pics, thanks, I’m very grateful!

Background credits to William Nanqing Niu and Lauren Zurcher

The lighting seems to be really different across my phone to my computer so I apologise if the colour looks wrong (especially the skin tone), I tried everything I could but it seems to be lighter than usual.

After a few weeks, there’s still no sign of Chihiro. A frustrated Kuvira reveals her insecurities to Ikki during a fruitless search.

A few posts back, I said that I wanted to do a little bit more than just “oh, here’s a girl who I see a younger me in, let me take care of her.” for their relationship.

I’ve attempted to do this with Kuvira desiring to project the ideal image of a mother; something that she doesn’t feel she ever received onto a convenient daughter figure. She’s trying to satisfy her own past trauma through someone else.

You could say that at this stage, she still isn’t sure if she actually genuinely cares about Chihiro as an individual, rather, she’s just using her to fulfill a purpose.

Experimenting with a slightly different hairstyle for Kuv as well. c:

Kuvira rushes back to find Chihiro lost in a deep, restless sleep. She has her under watch on Air Temple Island and struggles to think of something that could help.

On the fourth day, Ikki rushes over in a panic and says Chihiro’s disappeared overnight.

In a trance-like state, Chihiro wanders into unknown grounds.

I had a really hard time trying to figure out how to convey this part of the story.