Katarina Du Couteau - Tumblr Posts
Katarina comic rant despite the comic coming out a while ago.
I’m just going to come out and say that I have *very* mixed feelings on the Katarina comic, on one hand the art looks really at times and I love how it fleshed Katarina out to be this person who loves Noxus and can be very cruel at times bc of her job but can also show mercy in some ways such as how she allowed the general (I think it was a general) she was sent to kill the opportunity to fight her because he had served Noxus well for years or how she helped Lux escape because she saw Lux fight for her life.
It’s a really nice thing to add to her character yet doesn’t feel out of character. Overall I think it did really good stuff for her character and shows where she is in the current lore, working for Swain as his top assassin.
WHAT I DONT LIKE-is how it massacred Talons character by not only making his lore redundant but also just what they did to him as a character.
Like, the entire point of Talons character since the very beginning, and I mean the very beginning, like back to the old lore journals of Justice beginning, Talons entire mission was to find his father. And in the comic, not only has Talon know where this man was the entire time, but he was also helping him because he wanted to be the heir to the house. Not only does this choice, make his entire goal redundant but it’s also completely out of character. Talon has never given a shit about being the heir to the family house or having any sort of power for that matter, he’s only ever cared about killing and achieving “the edge” while doing so. Plus, him knowing brings up the question as to what he and Marcus have been doing for the past three years? We can assume Marcus vanished in the first place because of Le Blanc nabbing him so she can manipulate, or whatever it was she was doing, Marcus into killing Swain and thinking he was a threat to Noxus, but how long was that? If it wasn’t a long time then why did he break so easily? Is Le Blanc just that good, or something or did he not like Swain that much in the first place? This just brings up more questions.
Like don’t get me wrong I’m not against talon working with his father and finding him again but they could have done that so much cooler. They could have had Marcus come to talon a few months prior to this and tell him that he needs *his* help because he is the best assassin he knows, the only person he can trust to help him take down Swain and talon agrees bc the only person he is shown to be loyal to, the one who saved his life and trained him since he was a child is asking for his help because he believes in his abilities. But no, instead we have Talon knowing his dad is alive before hand and helping out because he wants *power* for some dumb reason, Nevermind the fact that this boy doesn’t like people at all and, again, has never given a shit about power or the social manipulation that goes along with being an aristocrat in Noxus.
So yea, blatant character assassinations aside, because that wasn’t enough, they know have it to where at this point in the lore, so like currently in lol, Talon is in Sharima for some reason!?? Like, no. I know they tried to say he’s there healing but like, no. This boy lived on the streets, his family is full of assassins, surely he has some other place to live inside the city or in the country side he can lay low at. There’s no reason for him to be in another fucking continent to heal. Also Kat didn’t even hit him that hard, they had him crying in the corner over a scar over his eye, despite the fact that he did the same thing to Kat when they were children, and she walked her ass home and went on to murder people.
Talon is just as good as an assassin as she is, why is he not getting up to stop Katarina? Like I get they needed him out of the fight but still, have him lose his goddam eye, have kat throw him out he window and talk about how if she fails at least their father won’t be able to take it out on Talon with tears in her eyes. Have talon actually be down for the fight and unable to fight, don’t make him a goddam crybaby because he got stabbed got a scar over his eye (WHICH HE CAN STILL SEE OUT OF BTW). Like, again I’m not opposed to this happening, I’m not opposed to these two fighting it out and Kat having to basically maim her own brother whom she loves to death and is the only family she has in order to protect her country. I’m not opposed to that, that’s a really interesting position to put her in because they established that she loves both, the she cares for her family but now has to kill possible both her father and brother to protect Noxus. Thats awesome. Just don’t make talon a fucking wuss to do it and then ship him off to another country to “heal up”.
So yea, art wise I think this comic is really cool, talon looks nice despite his changing eye colors and I do wish Kat looked a bit older. I don’t really like the roundness to her face, I wish she had slightly sharper features like she has in her icon. But she looks nice and the backgrounds are wonderful. Not only that but I love what they did for Katarina as a character. I just can’t get over how dirty it did talon. Like, why? Just why.
League of Legends: Noxus
We are the city that resembles our inhabitants - dark and sinister.