Tag: okoye

beanclam:

I’m gonna be at WonderCon in a few weeks (artist alley table B4), and I’m scrambling to prep stuff…. working on this new print of Okoye.

You guys I really liked Black Panther *_* I mean, Shuri was clearly the best character in the movie, but I’ve had this image in my mind since I walked out of the theatre… like, car chase through the neon streets of South Korea I must draw this thing. So Okoye print first. I’m gonna try to get a Shuri one done before con… I’ll draw the titular character eventually ^^;

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musicalluna:

nobunyaaga:

sevi007:

rootbeergoddess:

nobunyaaga:

Consider. 

T’challa at age 5: Baba, when I am older, I will join the Dora Milaje and protect the throne and our country!! 

Thor at age 5: FATHER WHEN I GROW UP, I’M GONNA BE A VALKYRIE AND RIDE A WINGED HORSE AND HIT THINGS WITH MY SWORRRRRDDDD 

This totally happened

But since this likely DID happen – can you imagine how amazed Thor will be once he hears about the Dora Milaje?

the real story here tho 

Valkyrie meeting the Dora Milaje, these beautiful strong warrior women who fight as one. Okoye, who looks at her with cool and assessing eyes and nods, a slight incline of her head as regal as any queen. 

“Sister,” Okoye calls her, and leads her to the armoury because while they can all fight alone, none should have to. 

;^;

christel-thoughts:

Black Panther made it very clear that white Hollywood just doesn’t know how to write a female warrior in love.

Okoye loved a man too, but her story wasn’t ABOUT him.

  • He didn’t have to teach her a damn thing
  • She didn’t give anything up for him.
  • She didn’t go evil for a quick second and go on a rampage, losing herself, because she lost him.
  • She didn’t entertain, for even a miliisecond, compromising herself for him
  • She wasn’t crying over him
  • Their relationship wasn’t shoehorned in for no reason other than “there has to be a romance”
  • Most of her scenes had nothing to do with him

Except for the last point, all of that applies to Nakia too… but in addition

  • When he interrupted her work, she was angry and allowed to say something along the lines of “you ruined my mission!” unapologetically
  • She continued to do her job
  • She continued to thrive separate from him
  • Love for a single man didn’t outweigh her love for humanity and it wasn’t something she had to agonize over. It was a simple decision that wasn’t considered a real conflict for her.

In general, love didn’t make these heroes and warriors weak. It didn’t make these women vulnerable in a way that didn’t fit their personalities or compromise their duties.

In fact, we only saw love do that twice – when T’Challa saw Nakia and when T’Challa watched Zuri die.