#Leorina the Sky Pirate

[starlitskvaderart]

Midori One Day One Page 39 - Lolo and Leorina!

I just really like the contrast between them…

[sweetness-pop]

Imagine watching a familiar cutscene where Leorina hugs Guntz like THIS:

[t4tklonoa]

It's rll weird to me how some ppl ship Lolo and Leorina... like I think it was pretty clearly implied Leorina was supposed to be older than the trio and all? Idk like. Ig there's not alot of evidence that she is indeed older but there's some stuff there.

Like the memories of the high priestess of Leorina being in black and white, the different hairstyle she had back then, she only being known bc of being a sky pirate, I think Leorina called at least one member of the group little or a kid, she's taller than Klonoa and co. Like do you see... am I just looking too much into it.

[unlimitedgolden]

leorina trans headcanon

OK SO. When I was replaying Klonoa 2 I took notice of when the High Priestess was talking about Leorina (The cutscene after finishing Noxious La-Lakoosha). Now maybe I'm reaching a little but the way they talk about Leorina to me mirrored a bit of a trans experience.

First, when the High Priestess says "she calls herself Leorina" and how they knew her by "Leo" (Which is a traditionally masculine name), then Lolo following with "Priest... ess?" not "Priestess" as if she was also pondering the name. It made me think that maybe Leorina is trans.

Then afterwards I know this is how Leorina is impatient with the temple and religion and the Gods, but I also feel it still mirrors a trans experience. How long must she wait before she is recognised? How often has she been told she can't hurry these things? Sure this is literally about religion, but being trans myself I've heard similar reasonings with my transition. Because you can't always transition fast, hell I've been waiting since 2018 to begin any sort of medical transition and I know other trans people who are experiencing the same agonising wait to be recognised.

I don't blame Leorina for dipping and going "I'll do it myself". And maybe it's a silly coincidence that there's some kind of trans allegory here, but I've held onto it for a long time. I don't think I've ever spoken about it either? Until now!! BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE.

I mean think here of when you actually beat her??? Like she's beating herself up so bad. And then I thought: "man. she really caved into the sorrow she felt about not being able to become a priestess", like how a lot of trans people cave into the sorrow that dysphoria brings. She turned to sorrow, let it consume her, till it eventually hurt her. It just mirrors the experience further with the depression that dysphoria can bring. It's why I'm glad at the end she realises how much she's really cared for despite everything, that she has made some bad choices but she's still Leorina. She gets the happy ending she deserves.

But yeah, I think Leorina is trans. Transgender sky pirate.

[at7outof10]

Leorina fanart for pride month, if you have to ask go play Lunatea’s Veil.

I really like them, but I gotta say, Japan will call someone a Bounty Hunter or Sky Pirate and literally not know what that means. lol

[transmorolians]

klonoa 2 is funny. our anti-hero antagonist is grown woman who can’t do her own housechores. she’s a sky pirate-turned gentlewoman thief who rebuilds a whole nation. she’s chaotic neutral. she’s a shadow of one of the main protagonists. she commits numerous acts of terrorism. her sidekick is a plural catgirl who’s like if spamton was a femme fatale. leorina is so funny

[patchdotexe]

if for some reason none of the priestess nor the apprentices can take care of the baby king of sorrow, the sky pirates are the last resort. which makes me imagine like

leorina's in the middle of a mugging or something and gets a call on her cellphone (her ringtone is three days grace's "animal i have become") and she hands tat the gun and is like "excuse me i have to take this".

tat doesn't have fingers to pull the trigger with and it's like super awkward as leorina takes the call and then leorina sighs and is like, "okay tat we need to finish this up". insert criminal actions here. they leave and go perform babysitting

GHZDFGKJHDKLJGHXDF leorina with her back to everybody very seriously talking into the phone while tat fumbles with the gun the entire time and the person being mugged isnt sure if they should take the opportunity to walk away or not

[cocokoalatea]

Here's the other three.

[sweetness-pop]

The best upcoming plot twist for future Klonoa games could be:

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that Leorina the Sky Pirate is secretly the HOTTEST girl of Lunatea! 💋❤☠🔫🔥💍

If you know what I mean😏

Had a crush on her a loooooooong time ago when I first played Klonoa 2 <0<

Leorina the sky pirate~

[teamcinas]

Stuff I've forgotten to show here (+ Klonoa Adventure #2 Reveal!)

Hello there, all! Unlike the other day, I have a SLIGHTLY more substantiated update regarding Klonoa Adventure.

Firstly, I may be doing tinier posts here and there addressing certain characters and their roles in this story. It'll also show any additional outfits and whatnot, much like this one.

Today, I'll bring up one of my favorite characters, Leorina. Making her debut in Klonoa 2: Door to Phantomile, she and her partner Tat are sky pirates who steal stuff and deal Yakuza-style "justice" to bad around the world their way. Slight spoiler, maybe, but more obscure characters will be featured, albeit under cover, if you will. Here, she and Tat start up a fake gym where only the toughest and roughest of brutes go... like Balue! Also, Chipple's there for some reason. Even though he's not pictured here, Leorina's decided to take in a younger Sorrow as part of her crew.

...that is to say she shoves him in layers of sweaters and panics if he glances at a socket while happening to hold a fork.

Okay, now for the actual SUBSTANTIAL BIT.

Check out, for the first time, the cover to Klonos Adventure #2: Episode Huepow!

God. Why does this getup look so familiar...?

[sweetness-pop]

Imagine in future Klonoa games, Guntz & Leorina will develop romantic feelings for each other......

[t4tklonoa]

I am Leorina's #1 fan Ilov her sm... sky pirate

[excaliburangelstudios]

Look who's finally finished! Leroina and Tat! From the ps2 game "Klonoa 2" in 2001. Together they are sky pirates who seek to discover the bell of sorrow in order to gain ultimate power! I played klonoa 2 with my little brother so much as a kid and the game still holds up. Leorina was always an iconic design to me and i am so glad i got to make her for @thestockbox2 #tpavideogamecollab This one was one of my hardest projects not just from this being my first painted mh body but my first custom shoppie. IM NEVER CUSTOMIZING A SHOPPIE AGAIN but it was a unique experience. I had alot of fun with Leorinas hair and outfit and she came out so much better than i could have imagined! These are just pics i took from my phone, but ill be heading out for a real photoshoot later. Leorina even has her own theme song thats pretty ear-wormy. The entire klonoa 2 soundtrack is on youtube and its one of the best ost's in my opinion. Go check out her themesong! Ill also be uploading a youtube video of making her later this month! #dolls #custom #customizing #leorina #klonoa2 #tat #skypirates #videogames #ps2 #artist https://www.instagram.com/p/BvtlqvRj7d9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a3chabm0w2ig

[mainlyterrestrial]

Haha, hey, look what i found in my drafts! I forgot all about this.  I’m surprised I took this kind of time to ramble.  Well, far be it from me to thwart past me’s rampant enthusiasm. Sorry for unleashing this, all!

“Aaaa, I'm deep in the grip of Klonoa fanaticism again.  ._.

I was thinking about Lunatea's Goddess Claire - her relevance, how Klonoa is like her, and the connection both Claire and Klonoa have to the King of Sorrow.

Claire has two forms: the Mother Goddess, which is her modern incarnation, and Claire the Ancient, which is the person she once was before her deification.

The statue of Claire the Ancient is said to be all that was left of Claire "after she was purged of all evil."  Presumably it depicts her the way she was as a mortal.  Here's a picture, courtesy of the Klonoa wiki:

The statue of Mother Goddess Claire is supposed to be a modernized depiction of the individual.  Here's a picture.  (I took this one, so it's kind of shoddy.)

I want to throw a couple of close-ups in here, too, so lemme do that.

At one point in the game, Popka, one of your companions, asks, "Doesn't Klonoa remind ya, just a little, of the Goddess Claire?"  Lolo, your other companion, agrees that he does.  And I agree with both of them - and I also think that the game's final antagonist, the King of Sorrow, has some of the same traits as well.  I think they all have a lot in common with each other.

For the sake of comparison, please also accept these pictures of Klonoa and the King of Sorrow:

So, there are some design elements that pull the three of them together.  First, there are their rings.  In her Ancient form, Claire's hands are bound by a ring of some sort. She also has a curling pattern on her forehead which, when paired with the (often upside-down) triangle that seems to be her symbol, is reminiscent of Klonoa's Wind Ring.  The King's collar is his ring, and it sports a braided pattern which also appears on Claire in both of her incarnations.  (Klonoa also sported an outsized collar when he appeared in his first game, Door to Phantomile, which ties them together further.)

Second, those ears!  Klonoa and the King both have large, outlandish ears, a huge part of their designs.  Both of Claire's incarnations have something similar going on in the head region, and while it could ostensibly be hair in her Goddess form, I have to say I think she might share the crazy ear thing with both of the other characters.  The two structures on her Ancient form are so flat and clearly divided I can't read them any other way, either.  You could even say that the separated shapes in her Ancient form evokes Klonoa’s design and the consolidated sheet-like shapes in her Goddess form evoke the King of Sorrow’s design.

But, y'know, there are story things that pull them together, too.

We don't know much about Claire, honestly:

Thanks to Popka, we know she ascended to Goddesshood after being purged of evil.

Therefore, we can infer that her Goddess form is free of evil.

We know that one of her roles is to forgive people for their sins, as Lolo prays to her for forgiveness when she finds out Popka has stolen something.

Aside from the comparison Popka makes between her and Klonoa, those are the only two times she's even mentioned in the game.  But we can tell from the pictures that Ancient Claire was unhappy.  She's bound at the hands and frowning. Compare this to Goddess Claire, who is, if not happy, at least neutral and unbound (and apparently possessed of some amount of power if the sphere she’s holding is like Klonoa’s “wind bullets” or like the elements that reside in Lunatea’s bells).

I think - and I think it's pretty obvious - that the entirety of Lunatea is the story of Klonoa coming to terms with his sadness about the tragedy of Phantomile.  Especially in Luntea's final levels, I think there are details alluding to it everywhere.  Leading up to the fight with the King for example, you travel through the "Kingdom of Sorrow," also called "Hyuponia" - totally a nod to Huepow/Hewpoe from Phantomile.  The music in this level is like a radio station with terrible reception, but through the static you can hear snippets of songs from both games - Lolo's theme and also Grandpa's theme, the Windmill Song, and the Song of Rebirth.  It's very bittersweet.

Lunatea is also the story of historical events done all over again, but better - kinder.  Lolo, a clumsy outcast acolyte, is a counterpart of Leorina, a powerful priestess-in-training turned rogue sky pirate. Klonoa, the dream traveler who has had everything torn from him, is a counterpart of the King of Sorrow, who has no place in the world he once occupied after his kingdom and his very self are forgotten by people who don’t want to remember sadness. Leorina and the King are from an older time where each felt outcast and acted on their pain, and each wrought only further unhappiness and destruction. Klonoa and Lolo are from a newer time. They have no place that they can see on their own, but they have each other and come to move past the unhappiness that holds them back.  They forgive their circumstances - and when their old-world counterparts follow their example, they in turn begin to rebuild the things they destroyed.

In Klonoa’s case, when he moves past his pain - when he literally defeats [the King of] Sadness (and forgives the King for what he has done) - he becomes whole and clean. His actions have, directly or indirectly, resulted in a sort of “rebirth” as the kingdoms are being connected once more.  When he moves on from the world he helped, he does so not against his will (as in Phantomile) but with confidence and purpose, having really come into his own.

In the King’s case, when his overwhelming sadness is defeated and the terror beneath it is confronted, when he is forgiven, he is literally reborn: his body fades away into points of light and the pictures in the credits of the game show an infant  who could only be a baby King in the care of the High Priestess.  He is, so to speak, “cleansed of evil” and able to begin anew in an innocent form.

But anyway that’s a lot of words. Tl;dr - I love Klonoa, like, unceasingly and I hope it brings me this much joy for all of my days.  I want to figure out everything and see all the details and delight in how nice it is to love something so much.”

[transmorolians]

i find it funny the leorina and tat's genders are mysteries to a lot of the klonoa fandom.

their formal introduction includes tat saying "she's leorina the sky pirate, and i'm tat, her cutie sidekick! don't you forget it!" and then the next thing people do is forget it

and then in one of the next few cutscenes with tat, she outright flirts with klonoa and indirectly refers to herself as a girl.

And Yet For Some Reason I See People Having No Idea What Their Genders Are? Somehow?

[cirrates]

list of sky pirates:

leorina

tat

propeller knight

jet

wave

storm