Just read it!
Willa should definitely be bigger than Lion-O (Nayda can be closer to his size, but would probably be younger than him anyway). No more of these dainty little Warrior Maidens from the OS, I want big honkin’ amazons. The kind of women who can make Panthro sweat.
Maybe they can give him a love interest! But I don’t want another love triangle. I’ve heard the Thundertank gets pretty jealous…
Would having humans as inhabitants on earth be weird. All the races they have met were animals. Wonder if we would see savage cave woman type humanoids or upright humanoids. I recall that in the old comics the story was after the Pharohs time period so I wonder if that’s what they have planned for this series.
They could be human-esque like the Duelist, but then it just raises the question of how a one-gender society could even work, it’s the same problem DC has faced over and over with the Amazons. They’ve tried to just had-wave it away by saying “Oh, they’re immortal” but it doesn’t explain their constantly fluctuating population from a handful on a single island to enough legions to invade the United States.
EDIT: Have some more sketches with a little color thrown in for fun.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d89/SirSapphire/Thundercats/willa2.jpg
I like the darker skintone on this one.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d89/SirSapphire/Thundercats/nayda.jpg
Nayda
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d89/SirSapphire/Thundercats/wraith.jpg
Nice to see your design of the wraith, and to see Willa and Nayda in color.
I really liked the pictures. From just images alone, it looks like Nayda would be a better fir for Lion-O.
It seems like it. ^^
Me totally gusta!!
See, now if it were up to me and Pumyra is well and truly out of the game I would probably pair him off with Willa since she possesses more of the qualities that attracted him to Pumyra (not that she’s just a substitute, that’s just what he likes in a woman). As a queen Willa can also truly be his equal so while loyal to him she’s not limited in any way due to any sort of authority he may have. Plus it’s just funny that his girlfriend can physically pick him up and have her way with him, it’s the same reason I loved Mister Miracle/Big Barda. They were able to turn a lot of the common romantic tropes and stereotypes on their head because she was bigger than him.
First of all, just for the record, this thread was not created for SirSapphire to gloat about his fanfic (that seems to be the subject everyone is talking about)
Second of all: I repeat
It just occurred to me, if Lion-O does fall for a Warrior Maiden, wouldn’t Nayda be a better choice than Willa?
Both she and Lion-O are the youngest in a litter of two
Both have most likely had to live with their older siblings gloating about their accomplishments
and both have likely had to live with the fact that their own people favored their older sibling over them
Just a thought
Thirdly, If Lion-O and Willa actually do meet and form a romance, maybe a problem they both could have is them both questioning whether or not being a King/Queen is worth all the trouble it brings. Only for them both to come to the realization that what they do is for their people, and that’s what makes all the pain and drudgery worthwhile
Maybe in the series, the Third Earth would be an earth in an entirely different universe…The 3rd Universe. And the Warrior Maidens could be inhabitants of the First Earth of the 1st Universe, who were transported here by either an enemy or a certain Cave full of forbidden magic that will serve as a portal from 1st Earth to 3rd Earth, if the Cats and Maidens ever need each other’s help.
I always thought 3rd Earth was reference to Earth being the 3rd planet in the solar system, never thought about alternate universe. Either way i hope to see how they incorporate humans, because they gotta be thinking “where the hell did all these humanoid animals come from”. But im not sure how many generations have passed since Leo caused the pyramid to land on Earth. Id have to say atleast 5 or 6.
Just a thought, what if it turns out that Willa and her people are worshipers of Mumm-Rana?
They built their village nearby her dwelling and hailed her as a goddess
Just a thought
I see them as tree dwelling Amazonian women. As to how they reproduce, I have story where they raid villages, especially among a group of only males, and use such males to produce children. The boys are either discarded or sent to the fathers, the girls stay with them. I even have a bit of violent rivalry between them and the Brotherhood of the Axe, because most of their number, the Brotherhood, are used as slave labor.
Humans are very suspicious of any animals, but especially the cats, after the crash of the pyramid and the decline of most humans on Third Earth. So neither Warrior Maidens, nor Brotherhood of the Axe like the cats, anymore than they do each other. (hench the xenophobia seen in the OS, being brought into the NS)
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That is a pretty good thought. It would bring a nice addition in that we would finally see her as well.
Or…they were conquered by Mumm-Ra and taken from another destroyed planet ages ago and cursed by the ASOE to be infertile and immortal forever, as punishment for not obeying them.
I like yalls ideas, def a more adult twist. Non of that fairytale like way of portraying them
Thanks:) Yours are good as well. I do try to put in as many ideas that fit the overall TC atmosphere. We all do.
I just had a thought regarding the episode (if there is one) that the Warrior Maidens appear in (if they even do).
I think a good title idea would be “Warrior Spirit” or “Maidens of the Trees”
What do ya think?
In regard to the Lion-O/Willa ship possibility, as many of you have already pointed out, Lion-O and Willa would both likely get called out by their followers for the mere fact that they have feelings for a creature outside their species.
I forsee Tygra saying something like “Lion-O, look at her, she’s not our kind”. But whatever the comment, i also forsee both Lion-O and Willa telling their subordinates that their love lives are none of their business
Maybe the Petalars could make a comeback of sorts in such an episode.