The shield can store on Nuparu's back, but more importantly, to go along with the Mask of Flight, it becomes a huge pair of wings, to really drive home the Stealth Bomber inspiration used in the original Nuparu Mahri design.

Albeit with these proportions, actually flying looks a little bit silly. Hopefully I can make it look better on the big titan-moc version, somehow. Also thinking the shoulder-mounted cordak launcher on any version, while great on the ground and as a nod to Nuparu Inika, may need to have someplace to relocate to for flying so it doesn't risk getting in the way.

As a bonus, here's an alternate version of the legs I did, which I wound up leaving off because they were still way too detailed even relative to my not-quite-canister-ready final design. Still for what they are, as a halfway point between the enforced minimalism I was going for, and the nutty scale of my plans for the proper big versions, this gives a slightly more comprehensive idea of what I wanna do with this.