#Calmèque

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Calmèque again but this time I tried to make him look more like in the series.

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E36

They taste like bald chicken

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Zia and the Amazon Queen are already taken for other cards, along with:

Esteban

Tao

All three kids as a unit

Mendoza

Omuro

Pizarro

Sancho and Pedro

The Golden Condor

Gaspar

Viracocha

Papacamayo

The Medallions

Kuruga

The Wandering Prophet

The City of Gold

Gomez

Menator

Calmèque

I'm trying to do the whole deck to draw later and Temperance is the one card I can't figure out...

(Edit: Also I try to have a person/object/place that fits both the upright and reverse meaning of the card in some way, but I'm really stumped on that one)

very important question: who or what, in the first season of The Mysterious Cities of Gold, fits the Temperance tarot card?

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AU where Calmèque survived the destruction of the base along with Ménator, and other Olmecs (among which the Olmec lieutenant who wears the green cape, medics, the little guy in charge of maintaining the drainage tank, and other Olmec soldiers).

Ramblings about this AU below:

My headcanon is that Olmecs are sensitive to light (which is why they move or attack once night has fallen).

That's why they opted to build their new base in the heart of another mountain. There, they explored the most powerful energy source of all: nuclear fusion. In this way, they were able to reproduce on Earth the reactions that take place inside the sun, creating their own “sun”. I see Calmèque as one of the Olmecs with a more developed scientific mind and curiosity. While Ménator focuses on cellular biology to extend the Olmec's lifespan, Calmèque focuses on the study and understanding of high-temperature plasmas and their confinement by magnetic and electric fields.

A century later, the Olmecs created the first nuclear fusion reactor, generating colossal amounts of energy that satisfy their energy needs. Thanks to this, Ménator is able to electrically stimulate the fusion of two previously atrophied and dysfunctional Olmec reproductive cells (I headcanon the Olmecs as hermaphrodites, in which both reproductive systems progressively atrophied over time, hence the Olmecs are sterile). This way, they are able to ensure their descendants (although the embryos develop in incubating machines) and secretly become the most developed civilization on Earth :)

PS: to make Calmèque's outfit I was inspired by the clothes worn by the Olmecs in one of the new seasons (which I've never seen, but anyway).

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Artbook des Mystérieuses Cités d'or (x)

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A compilation of sketches of Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or I did out of nostalgia.

I tried to imagine what Esteban, Zia and Tao would look like in their twenties.

I always liked Calmèque a lot.

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Really sorry for the Calmèque drawing spam, but as long as I have the inspiration to draw him, I'll do it.

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E38

Antiques Roadhouse is gonna love this one

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More than ten years later, here I am again, giving Calmèque and Ménator the love they deserve.

Some things never change...

I can't help thinking that Ménator died in Calmèque's arms, who, without noticing his death, kept desperately asking Ménator to give him the orders to remedy the irremediable.

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E37

The Tao and Calmèque Show

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E38

The Tao-on-a-rope strategy reveals its flaws

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E35

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

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I listened to A Final Sacrifice (by Luke Richards) on loop while drawing this.

Colored version below the cut

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Some sketches about my mcog AU :p

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This is how my brain works. It was actually so funny I chose not to translate anything.

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E29

“Olmec Base”