This drawing really got away from me, but it’s finally DONE. I knew that I didn’t have it in me to draw Namor in all of his Mesoamerican finery, so I cheated and got creative with Photoshop magic. I also thought that Shuri’s outfit should be minimalist to provide a fun contrast, but of course, she’s wearing the jade jewelry that Namor had given her in Talokan.
And in a nod to Wakandan modesty, Namor actually put on some clothes a tunic. It is his wedding day, after all.
Letitia: you don't have to talk about me let's give others a chance
Tenoch: anyway, I loved working with you so much. Our characters mirror each other, they share the same grief and the same wound and working with you helped me understand my character better
I know Namor making that mural was either to memorialize the battle or because he greatly respects and maybe admires Shuri. But this scenario was too funny for me not share:
Namor: *making a giant mural of him and Shuri like a teenager puts names in hearts*
Namor: *patiently waiting for Wakanda to call him*
Namor: *putting on his best outfit for a meeting with Wakanda's council so he'll look good in front of Shuri*
Namor: *dramatically walks out of the water of Wakanda's river*
M'Baku: fish-man! Welcome. I am King M'Baku of Wakanda-
Namor, who's literally counted down the days till he could meet Shuri again: wait what
Rip to princess shuri but I'm different. If Namor had walked onto my shores, smiled at me like that, and asked me for an alliance, I would have simply married him and ruled the world together. I don't like kids but after he says "I bought the sun to my people" I would have had his water babies right then and there. I don't know how this girl ain't even gonna think about it for a minute smh.
i love when stories incorporate a variety of religions and religious expressions into the mix & wakanda forever opened with shuri saying “bast if you let me save my brother i will never doubt you again,” showed namor being cursed by a spanish friar as a “child without love” when he was there to bury his mother out of love for her and her love for the surface world, let both shuri and namor’s grief and vengeance blind them to the everlasting presence of their mothers in their lives… and i really LOVED that seeing their mothers in what could have been their last moments doesn’t shift their entire worldview, just tells them that the people we loved never truly leave us, and that there are more important things than getting even, and sometimes it’s possible to know and be known by person so well that they live on inside us whether we like it or understand it or not