I guess slight trigger warning for the catholic imagery? Shrugs.
Anyways my birthday is coming up and @sethmacfarlanedeathpose’s blog is giving me too many fucking ideas about kurt wagner, so i decided to make something incredibly self indulgent, sooooo time to explain.
A joke started on their blog about how nightcrawler has the weirdest biology of the X-Men canonically like they keep quoting him as that so it’s entirely possible he could just randomly get pregnant from parthenogenesis or something. It’s escalated sense but the fact that he’s a Catholic priest makes me want to compare it to the immaculate conception as it would for all intents and purposes be a virgin birth, by arguably the most holy member of the x men cast…. So this happened.
I can get away with this cause im still catholic somehow. Anyways. Heres the art piece i based this on. Instead of crushing the devil hes crushing Mr sinister cause he’s basically the devil
Gambit ♥️♠️♦️♣️ for the official Marvel Tarot Deck and Guidebook - another of my childhood favourites (crush) that I had the honour to draw officially!
If you look closely at the circular pattern (halo) and background you can see the symbols and creatures from the traditional Wheel of Fortune tarot card design.
Also if you haven't already heard X-Men '97 is amazing!
Maurice Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869–1942)
Chauves-souris et pavots, tenture (Bats and poppies, hanging)
From Plate 33 of L'animal dans la Décoration, 1897