#leorina and tat

[epicfreak]

My cat and me ^_^

[eternal-shine]

Masked Strength

[cozenveil]

My contribution to @PicofKlonoa's 1000th day collaboration over on Twitter! I had loads of fun drawing Tat & Leorina, hehehe

[zizirobinson]

The mark of my sorrow shall scar thy DNA

[ganbaria-art]

Not sure how to exactly caption this, but the idea's been stuck in my head for months at this rate.

Based on this, maybe I’ll make an animatic version sometime as well

[not ship]

[galaspar]

Happy Birthday to @transmorolians !!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[blackpearlblast]

the post about the describing a female character saw trap made me mentally launch into a full length rant/analysis about leorina's character but idk if any klonoa 2 fans even follow me and also i'm shy >___< So it's staying in the vault

[psycochomp]

Casual Leorina and Tat.

I liked making Leo buff. :)

[dakotabone1213]

Current work in progress (I haven't colored it yet.)

[transmorolians]

klonoa is interesting because he is generally peaceful and easygoing; a spontaneous and spunky kid even after being isekai'd at the ripe old age of nine years old, and still so after being isekai'd some more. he Clearly has some issues from being lied to and betrayed and witnessing a death though—and his thoughts related to his emotional wounds are only made clear through his actions and encouraging words said to others.

lolo is interesting because she doesn't fit in with the rest of her people. in the past, she has been constantly bullied and discouraged by her peers from achieving her goals of becoming a priestess; she is stated to be weak, she demonstrates her clumsiness in numerous cutscenes (tripping in the title screen easter egg, tripping when jumping for joy, accidentally bonking popka on the head, saying something about klonoa that can be interpreted as romantic without meaning to, and in her beach volleyball ending having to get klonoa to carry her recent purchases because she'd drop them).

and despite her big heart (going on an adventure to—as others claim—save the world, fishing klonoa out of the sea, risking her life to save volk from mass destruction, encouraging klonoa to help the king of sorrow, and—as shown in popka's beach volleyball ending—having given a stubborn and neglected popka a scarf to protect him from freezing in the cold) she makes some unideal choices:

getting klonoa to pass her priestess test for her, not giving him much of an idea as to what he's getting into, letting him fight for her (and a world that isn't his!) alone, using him as a tool for success and taking credit for his actions in order to prove herself to her peers.

unlike huepow, who has made similar (but way, way worse choices), lolo actually gets a moment to say "sorry" to klonoa for using him, and is told off by popka for her prior choices. she admits full responsibility and gets to reconcile on-screen with klonoa (or, well, as on-screen as easygoing, no-comment klonoa himself is gonna get) and he forgives her. he is able to understand her actions and her reasons for doing them.

and if her crying into klonoa's shoulder and wailing his name wasn't enough to show her sorrow at his leaving lunatea:

in dream traveller of noctis sol, lolo has a nightmare in which she's trapped in a bubble, in a forest, being taunted by a doppelgänger of klonoa who threatens to abandon her—and even outright claims that klonoa has abandoned her. after the real klonoa saves her, she's heartbroken at the revelation that klonoa is actually not with her—that it's all a dream, and she's been shirking her responsibilities by taking a nap.

her story contrasts huepow's a lot, as huepow doesn't (get to) apologise for his actions—and said actions and their consequences aren't further addressed at all.

[jeyrolami]

Commission for @rcs709 on Twitter. I'll be honest, not a fan of this piece.

[ganbaria-art]

Klonoa characters and food!

‼️ Do not tag as ship, thanks in advance ‼️

[sweetness-pop]

Ya know, it'd be funny & very cute if Guntz were to tease Leorina by always calling her "baby girl".

Leorina would get flustered, but annoyed when the Golden Killer nicknames her like that....

But in her mind, the Sky Pirate extremely loves it when the damn, most handsome & hottest wolf bounty hunter calls her "baby girl"....

& She prefers only HIM to call her "BABY GIRL"!

Guntz: Better luck next time, baby girl.

Leorina: SHUT THE HELL UP YOU DAMN WOLF! AND STOP CALLING ME THAT OR I'LL SMASH YOUR ASS!

......As soon as she watches him leave, driving the red clan away as far away from....

Leorina: That's right.....ONLY I'M HIS BABY GIRL! DAMN, I LOVE IT WHEN HE CALLS ME THAT! NOT TO MENTION HE'S EVEN HOTTER EVERYTIME HE SAYS "BABY GIRL" TO ME AND ONLY ME! YES ONLY I'M HIS BABY GIRL AND NOBODY ELSE'S! OH GODDESS GLAIRE I AM SO THE GOLDEN KILLER GUNTZ'S BABY GIRL FOR ETERNITY! *Sighs* If only I could make it even hotter by calling him daddy....

Tat: Um...Leo...you do realize that not only I'm floating next to you, without you noticing btw, but that you also said pretty much MOST of that loud enough for anyone around this area could hear you?

Leorina:

Tat:

Leorina: AAAAAHHHH!!! TAT! LET'S GO! TO THE CRIMSON IRIS RIGHT NOW!!!

Tat: *sighs* Swear to Goddess Claire this girl.

[steppingwindblog]

Incorrect quote time!

Tat: I'm tired. Leorina: You slept for three hours last night! Why are you surprised?! Tat: I'm not surprised. I just wanted to complain about it.

[blackpearlblast]

OK yes we all agree klonoa 1's ending with klonoa crying for huepow while being sucked out of the dream of phantomile as the world revitalizes itself is sad as fuck but what about klonoa 2. where lolo decides to start back over her priestess training because helping save the world doesn't make her "qualified" enough. And when she gets shown her worst memory it's literally being in priestess training. like these intense feelings of unworthiness instilled in her will get better by her going back to the place and situation that instilled them in her in the first place. Can we talk about that

[bigy-bigley]

klonoa is a trojan horse video game. it decieves you by showing you all these cute characters then BAM!!!! trauma

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.