Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says “Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don’t expect it because I don’t think of District 12 as a place that cares about me” girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you’re a pillar of the community.
in an artblock* of sorts so I just resort to the oldest trick in the book. voidweaver handholding wahoo
all in all i don’t necessairily think there’s a big size diff between their hands - maybe I like to imagine taliyah’s to be a liiitle bit bigger what with her being. 5'9 was it?** - but kai'sa’s carapace adds substantial volume + I like giving her that grinch/nosferatu-style clawed distal phalanx realness. if you can’t see shit it’s because i got carried away thinking the symbiote should be quite dark and not reflect much light for stealth purposes. you see the fanart is purposefully bad because of the lore. right
*it’s not an artblock I just deeply dislike anything I make atm
**im taking the wiki at face value when it comes to vanilla kai'sas height being the same as kda kai'sa aka 5'6 as opposed to star guardian kai'sas 5'11 even though the linked source does not confirm that all. id rather she was big and tall for…. reasons, but with the symbiote’s added mass i can make it work. of course if she was 5'11 shed have two paddles and could make taliyah’s hand disappear in her closed fist. shouldnt I be spouting about all this in my kai'sa headcanons masterpost instead?
Young Ahrilynn origins (Jennifer’s body reference)
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/gzdraw.bsky.social/post/3li634jv6r22d