#esteban zia

[indianaclems]

Sanctuary of Asklepios, Delphes, Greece

(the explanations will arrive)

It's my 1st aquarel

[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E25

He flourished his cape, there's no going back

[condor-solaris]

[lidensword]

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.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Zia, Esteban, and Tao from The Mysterious Cities of Gold- Panromantic Transgender Girl, Biromantic Transgender Boy, and Unlabeled Nonbinary respectively

Requested by @walk1nghe3rt

Status: Alive, Polycule

[marypioneer]

ESTEBAN & ZIA | Les mystérieuses cités d'or (1982) • 01x03

L'Effroyable Tornade

[autumnspumpkinsandtea]

Back to my old hiperfixation

[crazydreamercycle]

Tried to draw the kids as adults. Not super happy with Zia, but I think Esteban and Tao look pretty good

[miaqc1]

Esteban Zia Sun Medallion in cartoon style by shhrutirustagi. A drawing I ordered.

The color is close to seasons 2-4’s gold.

[lescitesdorytb]

Voter tous Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or, le Spectacle Musical pour le trophées du public !

Attention 1 vote par personne, et par adresse mail ! Vous avez jusqu'à ce vendredi 3 MAI 12h00.

[comicbookfanzevad]

IT CAME FROM EBAY!

The Mysterious Cities Of Gold

[lucian-evander]

Look at them they're so blorbo shaped !

[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S02E02

Family found

[condor-solaris]

Mmm, chocolate fountain 😋

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 55: Mendoza vs. Soundwave

Submitted kids:

Mendoza: Esteban, Zia and Tao

Soundwave: Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Ravage, Ratbat, Garboil, Enemy, Wingthing, Beastbox, Squalktalk, Glit, Howlback, Slugfest, Overkill, Sundor, and Autoscout but there's bound to be more I'm forgetting.

Propaganda under the cut!

Mendoza:

1. “Mendoza did not exactly *begin* as father material, what with him being a character with a very grey morality at first and both a help to the children and someone they couldn't trust fully, but his entire arc in the first season is him becoming a better person. None of the kids are biologically his but he just went and unofficially adopted all three of them. Their story is inextricably bound up with the show's story.

He first met Esteban when Esteban was a baby and was handed to him in the middle of a storm at sea (then Esteban's father seemingly died in said storm), but because Mendoza was young and interested in gold he let a local (?) church raise the child. He then met Esteban again twelve years later, on the same day he would be kidnapping Zia (for money, because Zia knows how to read quipus that the Spanish hope will tell the way to the Inca's gold) (the show takes place in the early 16th century). So he begins by kidnapping a child and manipulating another to hide in a ship and cross an ocean. They all meet Tao later, and this one is wary of him too at first, but he ends up winning their trust while bettering himself.

He's the only parental figure these kids have: Esteban's father was lost at sea after his mother was killed, Zia spends most of the first season looking for her father only for him to get killed an episode or two after their reunion, and Tao lost both his parents years ago. In the beginning of the show he's completely using them to find a legendary city of gold, and even admits it, but as the story goes he's caring more and more for them and puts himself in mortal danger just to help them, when just running away would have been much more beneficial to him. In later seasons this pattern keeps up and he's not even a grey character anymore, he's just their dad who's scheming and plotting sometimes. With the cities of gold having been revealed to be monetarily worthless he wouldn't have any reason to still accompany them, but he loves them so he stays with them. He's much more of a dad than Esteban's birth father (who miraculously reappears but keeps getting pushed out of the way by the plot), he's teaching them stuff and protecting them and cheering them on and worrying about them and helping them every step of the way. He makes dad jokes. When random people ask if Zia is his daughter he says yes, and he would say the same for Tao (and for Esteban too but he's hung up about Esteban's "real" father being alive and a nice guy).”

2. “He took Esteban on his journey because he needed his medallion, Zia because his commander requested it, and Tao because he was useful. But then he fought so much at their side that he pretty much betrayed the Spanish army and everything else to protect those kids. They didn't like him much at first, but eventually grew to love him in return, especially in later seasons.”

3. “Sly Spaniard looking for some gold in the New World accidentally adopts the three children he more or less uses to find the Mysterious Cities of Gold, but he also cares about them and accidentally starts caring about them so much that by the end of the first season he realises how much he would miss them if they weren't there.”

Soundwave:

1. “This is a dude who stores smaller dudes in his boob and he usually launches them out at high speeds to commit crimes. Fandom loves to headcanon them as a dad and his horde of kids and pets.”

2. “Forgot buzzsaw (yellow bird) lol

Bro really do be adopting”

3. “#he literally is a single mother of like 18 and they all live inside of his chest #and the only time he gets close to showing emotion is when something happens to one of them”

[marypioneer]

LES MYSTERIEUSES CITES D'OR (1982) | 01x05

L'île au bout du monde