Kai'sa redesign fan art I found out
astrodart on Twitter
I just found this amazing thing by astrodart and I felt it needed to be shared here. And this is how a Void corrupt should look like.
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The entire point of Kai’Sa is that she isn’t a monster girl.
I made the example in a reply to that tweet that Kai’Sa is Black Suit Spider-Man, not Venom.
You look at her and see she’s clearly something else, not quite right, but she’s not some kind of monster. She doesn’t have a giant tooth filled maw or bestial shape, she still looks mostly human.
Kai’Sa’s design is specifically made a certain way.
1st: They wanted her to be human above all else. That’s what makes her, her. She’s not a monster girl, she’s not a void beast. She’s human
2nd: She is a huntress, and above that, a master at it. She is in peak physical condition, and not as like a weight lifter, where they just get bulky. No, she has to be flexible, maneuverable, stealthy light-footed. Strong yes, but that’s not all she needs.
3rd: She was a survivor, yes, but not in the sense of “just hanging on”, no, she already got past that. She’s thriving in that environment, she made the Void fear her, she made the terrifying destroyers of reality her bitch, she became the thing that goes bump in the night.
You can’t have those thing with the different takes people always say. “Oh, she should be thin and sickly, because she’s in a hostile environment”, which contradicts point 3. “She should be monster-like, or just straight up a void beast”, contradicts the first. And my personal most hated one : “in real life she shouldn’t be that curvy, she should be big and bulky like woman weight lifters”....like..what?
Yeah, sure, she’s a bit idealized. But why the hell are you looking at weight lifters as if they are the only depiction of fit woman? That’s not what she is at all.
Ignoring any one of those 3 core points of her story does a massive disservice to what she is supposed to be.
So this is what people wanted out of Kai'Sa?
Glad you're not in charge.
Dark Star Kai'Sa would be dope. I hope Kai'Sa skins in the future look more into the dark and monstrous parts of her character, rather than just making her sexy.
Call me back when you start rooting for Aatrox and Kayn redesign to make them look more like disfigured Darkins instead of male models.