Hello and welcome to the CHIARA ZONE.
“If I wasn’t me, I’d copy me too.”
I was originally gonna hold off on posting her until a little later, but other people are making ones like her and i’d rather not have people compare me to other stuff relentlessly!! I’ve been working on her for like, most of this month, and posted mostly about it in the r/bioniclelego discord.
Colors:
I started working on this when I got a mostly completely Technic Super Battle Droid, which then resulted in me building her arms, which then evolved into just, the rest of her, i guess. I think metal blue is a dope fit for her, it’s shiny (lightning is shiny too, i am VERY smart as you can see) and also gives her parity with the other YesterQuester toa, who both already are confirmed to have metallic colors. It is kinda hard to make stuff with this scheme, and I still need one liftarm on her leg in metal blue.
Weapon:
Weapon is a big stick. I call it the Lightning Lance, it’s meant to kinda be a lightning rod of sorts, I guess. In all honesty, I really don’t care about weapons here (especially since most of the time these characters appear, they don’t have weapons), but I did try to give her something that can be dynamically posable.
Mask:
I’m going with set volitak. If they allow for the air filter chin tumor thing to be chopped off, I’ll chop it off in a heartbeat. @vootcaboot made some renders of her in studio that helped me decide on the mask color, and I liked white the most for sure. The paint-job here isn’t the best, but hey, it’ll do for now.
Proportions:
I gave Chiara a mainly triangular shape language, as triangles are a heavily dynamic and energetic shape to use for characters. For height, she’s a little taller than the average Inika build, with her torso being 1L longer and her legs being 2Ls longer. Honestly, I’m fine with this, it’s not too overbearing IMO, and her skinnier frame doesn’t make her look too massive in comparison to other toa. Uhhh I guess lighting IS pretty tall too, so yeah, it’s intentional now.
So yeah that’s it I guess. A lot of people have said they really like her, and I’m really happy that people enjoy how she turned out, cus I sure as hell do as well. If you hate her, awesome! Cool!
Anyway, thanks for looking at the murder lightning woman (with large stick)